Here’s a month’s accumulation of video timewasters.
One of my Christmas gifts was Eight Days a Week, an account of the early years of that band from Liverpool. It reminded me of the story of a certain other band. Bonus: Neil Innes vs. the Beatles.
A biography of one of the great British eccentrics. (Here’s an uninterrupted performance of one of the musical numbers.)
For those with certain, um, unusual tastes, here’s a documentary on the Shmenge Brothers.
It looks like Batman Ninja will be, at the very least, a good-looking movie, but what interests me is the writer, one Kazuki Nakashima.
And now for some high culture:
And finally, the only version I can tolerate of a certain overly-popular baroque piece, performed by the idiosyncratic Jun Togawa.1
I had no idea “Cookie Monster Voice” translated into Japanese (and was sung by women as well as men…)