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It seems it's a video end-of-the-week trend, this time with an unusual music video.

I have no idea how much preparation went into the production, but it looks to me like they spent a lot of time considering the amount of set up required and the unusual means they used to make their music. If nothing else it's quite clever.


Very cool.

We've all heard of savants before, generally being people with amazing abilities that are otherwise mentally disabled. Dustin Hoffman played one in the movie Rainman. Their extraordinary abilities span a wide range, covering everything from mathematics to music.

In this case, 60 Minutes brought us the story of Derek Paravicini, a blind autistic man with the ability to play piano like no one I've ever seen before.

Rather than describing what makes him so incredible, better that you watch for yourself.


I have to say I liked the part where he transformed Beethoven's Fur Elise, making it sound as if Mozart had written it instead.

I'm listening to a live broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera. Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.  I had wanted to go to the Music Hall in Portsmouth to watch it live, but family duties conflicted.

I have to put my priorities front and center.

But reading about the MET, which I dearly want to visit and watch a performance some day, I read this review. Ashtrays in each bathroom stall? I love it.

I like good mash-ups (the mixing of two different songs into one).

I saw this one over at Rachel Lucas's and knew I had to post it.


I always knew Roger Waters was a BeeGees fan....

An amateur's simply amazing performance of U2's "With or Without You" on youtube. Way to go, Ralqh!

I'll never tire of Joshua Tree and its great songs. This recent rendition, however, may be the cleanest and crispest I've heard from an amateur, one who does it for the love. Like bloggers.

I watched it without the sound. Stunning. Rock 'n roll to me is Bryan Adams. Pappa Haydn is my man.


HT: J.A. Carruthers