Everything that comes out of Dossy, from the strange to the banal.
Oh, the weird and wacky things people find and post links to. Stumbled upon this one today and it’s given me a new found respect for Amazon.com. And it’s only $9.95, act fast before it’s all gone! :-)
Update: It seems that previous link is no longer valid (Amazon.com must have discontinued the product), but here’s another one that’s available for $11.95.
I yoinked this from some guy’s blog … I’m just going to shamelessly quote his entry (fair use, etc., etc.) since he did a great job:
The hottest thing in German music right now is a 4-year-old girl’s made-up song about a crocodile.
Joy Gruttman’s song, “Snappy the Little Crocodile” (“Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil”), is the No. 1 song on the German charts. Her family posted the song on a Web site as a joke, but a radio station in Cologne, Germany, got hold of it and made it a hit.
Gruttman is the youngest recording artist to make it to the German Top 10, let alone No. 1. “Snappy” beat out songs by Kylie Minogue and Linkin Park. The song is even appearing as remixes in German dance clubs.
Download the MP3 now. It’s better than badgers and Kenya (mirror).
EDIT: Looks like here’s the official site.
Update, March 2005: The original site and MP3 download links have been down for a while. If you still want to download the music, you can get the .torrent file from mininova and download it with a BitTorrent client. Personally, I use Azureus.
Update, March 21, 2005: The BitTorrent link is no longer working. Rather than continuing to update this old entry, I’ve posted a new one with a eDonkey2000 download link for the “Schnappi das kleine Krokodil MP3”.
Saw this on epiclevelregina and coyotegrrrl‘s journals, figured I’d give it a try. Of course, my iTunes MP3 collection is only a small fraction of my music (too lazy to rip all my CDs), but it’s still enough. I created the playlist in iTunes creating a new Smart Playlist with “limit to 10 songs selected by random”.
I don’t know how long I should wait before posting this regarding the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami of December 2004 (in order to not unnecessarily rattle too many soft squishy liberal people’s cages), but here is a snippet of lyrics from a song called Origin of Love from the movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch (IMDb):
and osiris, and the gods of the nile
gathered up a big storm
to blow a hurricane
to scatter us away
a flood of wind and rain, a sea of tidal waves
to wash us all away
and if we don’t behave they’ll cut us down again
and we’ll be hopping ’round on one foot
looking through one eye
Perhaps the quote is taken out of context of its original intent, but, after hearing about the billions (yes, billions) of dollars pledged in relief aid, it starts to make this misanthropic pessimist wonder if the apparent outpour of generosity is just the rich finding a new venue for a tax write-off and good PR, or if this really is an instance of the origin of love.
OK, so in the past several years there’s been an explosion of blogging and online community sites. As I come across them, I can’t help resist joining up if for no other reason than to make sure nobody else gets the highly coveted “dossy” username.
So, here’s a list I’ll periodically update with links to all the various sites and my profile on each:
I’ll edit/update this list periodically, so check back once in a while. I’ll try to add new entries at the bottom of the list, but at some point I might get motivated to reorganize the list (into “sites I use often” and “the rest”).
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