Random Top Ten Cover Tracks of Ever

So, last night I caught part of VH-1's Some Number of Greatest Cover Tracks. I missed the end, so I don't know if they failed to acknowledge the proper winner or not. I had a look on teh internets, and found that the always-reliable retroCRUSH has a list of their own, which includes a few that I know in funny places and a lot that I don't, so it got me thinking, and I decided I ought to produce a list of my own.

I've decided to avoid noting more than one cover of the same song, since otherwise this list would consist of five covers each of two songs. I have also in some cases allowed cultural importance trump my personal preference.

10. The Boys of Summer, DJ Sammy covering Don Henley (The Ataris nearly take this one, though, because they included those nifty guitar seagulls)
9. Ol' 55, The Eagles covering Tom Waits
8. Blue, Sarah McLachlan covering Joni Mitchell
7. Because the Night, 10,000 Maniacs covering Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen
6. Layla, Eric Claption covering Derrek and the Dominoes (Yeah, I know, it's cheating. But still)
5. Love Me I'm A Liberal, Barenaked Ladies (ripping off Mojo Nixon) covering Phil Ochs
4. Along Comes Mary, The Bloodhound Gang covering The Association
3. When the Stars Go Blue The Corrs and Bono covering Ryan Adams
2. Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley covering Leonard Cohen
1. All Along the Watchtower, Jimmi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan

Shallow Thoughts/Music

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IT52 Pickup

Tallest-Man / Tallest-Man / Goes where only a -- Hey! Get your arm out of there!

Inappropriate Thoughts

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IT's a Wonderful Life

This Christmas season, I've decided to offer you a holiday twofer. And since I'm going to be out of town on Sunday, you're going to get it today.

I tried to come up with a good Komodo Dragon Virgin Birth joke, but they all seemed a little two obvious (except for "It's a Woodland Critter Christmas/Hail satan," but that's been done). So instead, here's something different.

(Via Google News)

Man, that isa downer.

And now, I unveil my new Christmas Carol:

Rudy, the blind old hunter,
Had a very shiny gun,
And since he lives in Texas,
He's allowed to have some fun.
All of the other hunters,
Quickly ducked behind a tree,
They thought that Rudy's laser,
Was going to cause a killing spree.
Then one snowy Christmas eve,
Santa came to say:
"Rudy, with your laser here,
Won't you lead my hunt for deer?"
But when the police found him,
They had to let Rudy go free:
Because the late ol' Santa,
Had also invited Dick Cheney

Happy Holidays. God Bless Us, Everyone.

Inappropriate Thoughts

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You can call me anything you like, but my name is Veronica

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=94511

After 60-someodd years of looking like they were supposed to, the Archie comics are getting a facelift in order to look more hip, cool, and, well, crappy.

And another bastion of distinctiveness hits the dust.

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Announce: GWindows 1.0

As a followup to the release of Moments out of TIme (Adventure Type), I'm proud to announce the release of GWindows 1.0, the Screen Management Framework I used to design the look-and-feel of the game.

This new version of the screen management framework for Glulx Inform
(6) adds a variety of features, including:

Fixes to several minor bugs
GForm: a widget for building forms containing features like radio buttons, checkboxes, and the like
GRTS: A system for scheduling real-time events in Glulx

And what I think is the most exciting development of all: the GLoader Gallery. The GLoader Gallery is a collection of templates for GWindows user interfaces that you can slot into your games with very little effort.

Included is the gltemplate program, which acts both as a skeleton
template for writing GWindows code that uses UIs from the Gloader
Gallery and as a demo of the gallery itself.

The new home of GWindows and the GLoader Gallery is:
http://gwindows.trenchcoatsoft.com

Personal Thoughts/Projects

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IT L-1: Fortunately, my powers will protect me

Yadda google news yadda.

Man. I knew they'd pad the plot arc out, but am I really going to have to wait 23 years for the season finale of Heroes?

Inappropriate Thoughts

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IT48: I do retort the 'solus' in thy bowels;For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up

No, you perverts. It's Shakespeare. Henry V, II.i

This one's early, because I've stockpiled a bunch of stuff that I want to use while it's still timely. This is not one of those things, but I think it's really funny and want to share it.

Anyway, snapped a picture of this magazine ad, and, despite the fact that it's sure to attract referrer spam like I wouldn't believe, I'm posting it:

In the event that, as I grow older, I ever find myself suffering from erectile dysfunction, I do not think I will buy one of these. Because whatever it adds to the performance will be totally negated by the fact that I won't be able to open it without saying, "The secret compartment of my ring I fill with an Underdog Super Energy Pill!"

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