Oh Bret and Jermaine, say it isn’t so!

I’m still reeling from the news posted on the Flight of the Conchords site yesterday that there will be no season 3, no more episodes, no more Flight of the Conchords. It was our family’s favorite show. Ouch. At least we still have the music. If I could just get my kids to stop singing “Mutha’uckas” at school…

Found via What’s Alan Watching?.

I love this video that cousin Bree sent me. My friend Sam and I were recently discussing the short memories of those who were mean to us in high school. We know who you are and you should too, dammit!

I’m not a big fan of choral music, but I just discovered the Langley Schools Music Project and I’m really enjoying it. They were a 60-voice choir of rural school children from western Canada that performed pop hits in the mid-70s, and the passion of these young singers shines through the low-fidelity recordings (made in a school gymnasium and pressed onto two 12-inch LPs made for the students and their parents!). Their itinerant music teacher, Hans Fenger, was obviously inspired as he leads the kids through rousing versions of standards by the likes of the Beach Boys, the Beatles and David Bowie, all accented with gamelean chimes. You can buy a package that includes the reissued LPs called Innocence & Despair and a 16-page color booklet chronicling the development of the recordings.