Foolish Sage | March 5, 2010
Image by Plutor via Flickr
Are they geeks who are rock stars or rock stars who moonlight as geeks? Whichever is the chicken or the egg, the members of the rock band OK Go got their geek on once again and produced the most talked about music video since…well, since their last homemade music video, the [...]
Foolish Sage | March 3, 2010
In this Year in Which I Kick My Cancer’s Ass, I’ve finally found my theme song (lyrics below video):
UPDATE: I wouldn’t have thought the wonderfulness of the video above could be surpassed, but OK GO has just issued the “official” video for this song, which may feature the greatest Rube Goldberg machine of all time:
This [...]
Foolish Sage | August 26, 2009
I listen to a lot of podcasts, but over the past six months only one has consistently rated “must-never-ever-miss-an-episode”: WNYC’s RadioLab. Here’s the show’s self-description:
Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Big questions are investigated, tinkered with, and [...]
Foolish Sage | July 3, 2009
The definition of a “first” is that it never happens again. Was thankful today for iPhone 3GS video to capture one. (My granddaughter Maggie)
She balked once (got all the way up then came back down the ladder). Then a pep talk from her dad–including the promise we’d send mom, off shopping, a video right away–and [...]
Foolish Sage | May 11, 2009
…really just an excuse to try out a new tool I’m using called Animoto:
That’s some of our grandkids on the recent Piedmont Farm Tour here in central North Carolina. Music fromWe Shall All Be Healed by The Mountain Goats.
Foolish Sage | April 14, 2009
“Don’t judge a book by its cover” goes the old saw. Last week three cynical judges and a huge audience at auditions for the UK’s Britain’s Got Talent TV series got a variation on that dictum: don’t judge talent by the body it comes in. Better: Don’t assume that personal worth and physical beauty are [...]
Foolish Sage | April 5, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Flying Club Cup Videos by Beirut»
I’m blogging through the series of videos made to accompany the album Flying Club Cup by Beirut (aka Zach Condon and band). Song #7 is “Forks and Knives (La Fete)”. Here’s the video:
The game room of a Brooklyn bar is the [...]
Foolish Sage | March 16, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Flying Club Cup Videos by Beirut»
I’m blogging through the series of videos made to accompany the album Flying Club Cup by Beirut (aka Zach Condon and band). Song #6 is The Penalty. Here’s the video:
These Flying Club Cup videos have been a journey through a mythic [...]
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of resurrections and that which is already (but not yet). Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and currently freelances as an Internet marketer.
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