Seriously folks - I am loving Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester even when they aren’t doing amazing covers of pop songs. 

elevatorghost:

bombulum:

What does English sound like to foreign ears?

We’ve all heard examples of fake Chinese or German from speakers who lack familiarity with either language. While typically cringe-worthy, these examples do raise interesting questions regarding our own language. What does English sound like to non-English speakers? After more than 40 years, Adriano Celentano’s “Prisencolinensinainciusol” remains one of the most illuminating examples. 

The entire song is nonsense verse, neither English nor Italian, but the sounds are meant to resemble English. Linguist Mark Liberman wrote an interesting post about this sort of thing over at Language Log discussing yaourter, the French word for an attempt to speak or sing in a foreign language that one doesn’t know all that well. This often involves trying to sing a foreign song with nonsense or random words filling in the blanks. Liberman shares this wonderful quote from a random Internet user:

Just for the story, in France, when we don’t speak English and we want to imitate the sound, we call it “yaourter”(to yoghourt), the imitation sounds like a very nasal language, kind of like a baby crying. It mostly imitates the “cowboy” accent.

OH SHIT YEAH 

I love this song. Friends will be riding in my car when this comes on my playlist and they tend to have a moment or two of confusion hearing it. 

(Source: blogs.howstuffworks.com, via stellaphilia)

Another music video for Halloween. I’ll probably stop these after Halloween and go back to our regularly scheduled stupid.

This one might be a bit NSFW - and trigger-y for folks who sat through human centipede.

…midnight!

When the gondolas are in mourning
and the dead’s lament resounds
horror is breathing down your neck

When the clock starts striking
cold thick fog
is touching you gently
…midnight!

On candy stripe legs the Spiderman comes

Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed

Lullaby - The Cure

Keelhauled by Alestorm

My friends, I stand before you

To tell a truth most dire

There lurks a traitor in our midst

Who hath invoked the captain’s ire

He don’t deserve no mercy

We ought to shoot him with a gun

But I am not an evil man

So first let’s have a little fun

So its Talk Like a Pirate Day. A holiday that is normally very near and dear to my heart. In honor of that lets have some Alestorm.

Larry and His Flask - Call It What You Will 

The stores are boarding up their windows
as the shopping malls cave in
everything in chaos now,someone screaming tell me how we can spend our money my friend

Figured it had been a while since a music post. So have a fun track I ran into. 

My current music ear worm.  Discovered this band when I cleared out my bookmark folder and found I had bookmarked a channel of them and had forgotten about them. 

marriedinspace:

Blue Caravan, an Amy/Eleven, Amy/Rory season five fanvid.

My true love is a man who never existed at all.

Oh wow. I have had a minor obsession for this particular song for a while, but always debated about what exactly it was about. Or what it meant. 

This though…holy crap guys, you made the song make sense! 

(via stellaphilia)