Jack White is to be applauded for the way the he's handling his "I-can-do-whatever-the-fuck-I-want" status atop the contemporary rocker scene. The three bands, the conservationist record label, James Bond themes, high-art ultraviolent videos. And now, best of all, he's releasing as a 7-inch single the audio track of "A Glorious Dawn"-the odd, and oddly affecting, Youtube hit from composer John Boswell that mixes autotuned clips from Carl Sagan's 1980 PBS special Cosmos (plus special guest MC Stephen Hawking) over chillout-room trance beats. Pitchfork's report on the matter also informs us that White recently refused to sing vocals on a collaboration with former Guns n' Roses guitarist Slash. Which seems slightly less important than Carl Sagan's uncanny resemblance to Michael Dukakis.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
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Is it just me or does auto-tune Carl Sagan sound like Kermit the Frog?
A rainbow connection!
It is not just you.
In which we discover again that Culture, like the Cosmos that spawned it, is a crazy quilt collision of happy accidents.
Almost too cosmic for any one morning.
Too bad this wasn't on Horehound, rather than "I Cut Like a Buffalo".
This lit up my nerd pleasure centers in a way nothing has since I heard "Popcorn" in the late 60's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_(instrumental)
bah, link fail
is going home to watch my 9 DVD-set of Cosmos a legitimate reason to leave work early and call in sick tomorrow?
Brilliant
Helluva beatbox on Sagan.
Looks like Dukakis, *sounds* like Obama.