Music + Science = Sexy!*

[changeling]

You can tell I'm feeling slightly chirpier, as I'm dressed. I look like a member of a pasty-faced British indie-pop band, like Franz Ferdinand, or Blur. I have pinstripe trousers, a sort of blue-turtleneckless-skivvy under a white-with-thin-blue-stripes collared shirt, and a brown corduroy tailored jacket. I think it looks surprisingly nifty. I'm even wearing sandals because I don't think walking barefooted through the city streets would go down particularly well.

I'm not sure if Steph will applaud my fashionistic genius (shutup, I couldn't think of the right word), or tell me that I'm a travesty. Somehow I suspect it'll be the former latter (aha, I'm an idiot). And yet I'm cheerful.

*Because I wouldn't be me if I didn't footnote this. Questionable Content.

Comments

[barrington.livejournal.com]

In honour of your post title, I would like to list some of my favourite songs about science:

* New Physics Rant, by Julian Lennon (perhaps only about the idea of science, but still good)
* The Math Song, by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (the lyrics are mathematical equations, though they don't mean anything; the chorus is "You've got a brain, and nobody really needs another love song")
* The First and Second Law, by Flanders and Swann (about thermodynamics)
* Photosynthesis, The Mitosis Waltz and Entropy by Moxy Früvous (all highly educational and awesome)
* Why Does the Sun Shine?, popularly covered by They Might Be Giants (rockin')
* Superstrings by Steve Burns (ex-host of Blues Clues turned rock star)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Flanders & Swann's Thermodynamics law has always been one of my favourites of theirs.

What, no "Boffin' Boffins" by Tripod? ;) And didn't Tom Lehrer do one about the Periodic Table?

I shall look into these!

[barrington.livejournal.com]

I don't know "Boffin' Boffins" but by the sound of it I should make it my theme song. And yes, Tom did the song you describe - it's called "The Elements" and it's a stirling example of "doing what it says on the tin" as it's basically a list of all the elements (or at least those known at the time) set to the tune of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General".

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Boffin' Boffins

I thought I had a copy of the Lehrer tune, but no dice. Ah, well.