Martin's Moths
A blog about various types of moths that's been going for over 15 years and is still active! It's specifically about moths that the blog proprietor spots and takes photos of around where he lives in England, which is pretty fantastic. It's always great to see someone so committed to sharing their passions like this.
Cats - Home Page
Amazing old school British website about cats, updated as recently as 2021. Contains a lot of random information and news stories about cats doing funny things. I'm so charmed by the retro aesthetic of this page. Be sure to check out all the various pages linked on the left-hand sidebar as well.
Elton John Lennon - And Your Song Can Sing
Steve Cruickshank does some really interesting music projects on his YouTube channel. This one is part of a series he did mashing up various Elton John songs with John Lennon / Beatles songs, I assume just based on the fact they both have "John" in the name? I think this is my favorite one, it's Your Song/And Your Bird Can Sing.
His channel is more well-known for making "negative harmony" covers of songs which flip the harmony "upside down"; I think his negative harmony cover of "Don't Speak" by No Doubt is probably my favorite of those.
His channel is more well-known for making "negative harmony" covers of songs which flip the harmony "upside down"; I think his negative harmony cover of "Don't Speak" by No Doubt is probably my favorite of those.
Is The Video for “Bittersweet Symphony” Mocking Itself?
A blog post from 2012 that discusses the irony that comes across in the music videos for a couple Britpop songs from the ’90s.
But what I really like about Song 2 and Bittersweet Symphony is that the irony is genuinely funny. That's something I think a lot of people miss about irony, and it's part of why I'm getting more and more weary of people tossing the term Hipster around like it's some sort of critical argument in and of itself. I mean, I like the video for Smells Like Teen Spirit, but that thing is just begging to be lampooned, and Blur manages to pull it off simply through the ironic juxtaposition of Nirvana-like overblown, set-wrecking nihilism sung by guys that look kinda like the people I play Magic: The Gathering with.
