Although Kraftwerk’s original version of “The Model” (lyrics in English or German) is very good as well, my take is that The Balanescu Quartet (finally they’ve got a nice website: congrats!)
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Shatner’s Rocket Man
The song of the weekend is John and Taupin’s great “Rocket Man“. And although I like a lot Kate Bush’s version as well, nothing can ever compare to Bill Shatner’s theatrical rendition of this masterpiece (superb youtube old videoclip, with an introduction by Bernie Taupin).
→ Read more A well deserved Pulitzer and pearls before lunch…
I must be the most ignorant person ever: I’ve only found out today (via Terry Tao) that this superb article by Gene Weingarten, “Pearls before breakfast“, likely the best I’ve ever read in the Washington Post, won a well deserved Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing about a month ago.
→ Read more Song of the day: “Non-convex desires”, by John DiNardo
Today’s song is by an amateur musician and professional (academic) economist (a winning combination anytime!), John DiNardo. You can listen to “Non-convex desires” here (in .mp3 format) and you can read an approximation of its lyrics here (compared to the audio version linked above, you will notice some permutation in the early verses, some slightly changed words and the last verse left entirely for future research :-)).
→ Read more Paul Anka and Frank Sinatra can get you in a book nowadays. Plus the song of the day
I traveled each and every highway…
Here: I am even doing publicity for their tour :-). If you don’t know what this is all about, check this previous post of mine. → Read more