Gnarls Barkley: Crazy 
Hi dear readers. Here is a nice little singalong for the shower or wherever…I give you, from 2006, Gnarls Barkley – “Crazy”. The song was Rolling Stone magazine’s #1 song of the 2000s. How the hell did I miss it then? Musta been crazy or something.
Here’s the best version, with lyrics onscreen. We can lose ourselves in it or jive along to our little hearts’ content. It topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand and other countries on release that year, having already been leaked in 2005. Records for Songs Charting tumbled almost everywhere.
The only thing I don’t love about it is that it’s too short, and there is no more of that groove. It was a one-off musical collaboration, created by DJs CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse, who decided to write the best pop song ever, for the 5 times Grammy Award-nominated album St Elsewhere. And they’ve pretty much nailed it. Now I need to link the song to one of my non-music-related posts. Perhaps a post from the Abbottoir? Perfect. Just who is craziest anyway? The residents of Bedlam or the lunatics running the show?
“You are the best. You are the worst. You are average. Your love is a part of you. You try to give it away because you cannot bear its radiance, but you cannot separate it from yourself. To understand your fellow humans, you must understand why you give them your love. You must realize that hate is but a crime-ridden subdivision of love. You must reclaim what you never lost. You must take leave of your sanity, and yet be fully responsible for your actions.” -Gnarls Barkley, in a letter to the legendary rock critic Lester Bangs
What’s your favourite song for the 2000s? And is your government really out to get you, or are you just crazy? These are big questions. Take your time if you must but please feel free to comment when you are ready. Meantime, life is short so be sure to have fun. Love is free, so love freely. That’s my only advice.
e Donington Music Festival in England in 1991, and can’t think of a better sound with which to launch my blog (see the About this blog post for further details about my site). The concert is part of
ch Nietzsche that life has meaning if it is read as a text. In exploring it this way, we can write the narrative of our own true selves, and let go of the script received from others. Through the prism of art and culture is a great way to do this. What’s your passion?
decidedly sinister downturn and many must be feeling a sense of hopelessness. David Holmes, editor of wide-ranging blog The Conversation, examines these questions in “Four Hiroshima bombs a second” and “Two degrees” both subtitled “how we imagine climate change”.
s more languid than any of these; people’s experiences are blunted by the lifespan creep of it, and insulated because 90% of the energy is absorbed by the ocean and ice which, even at the current rate of acceleration, with energy the equivalent of four Hiroshima bombs a second hitting the Earth, will take decades to warm. Its effects are still a long way from where most people live. Further, it’s a complex picture; some effects could result in cooling at specific global locations.
aily fluctuations in temperatures. The problem is that this is an average global temperature and this amount of warming is sufficient to cause extreme weather and ocean rising which will affect the entire population of the globe. It is also a point at which the damage will be irreversible. There will not be another Ice Age. And make no mistake, it is set to be grim in many of our lifetimes. The 2 degree threshold is likely to be reached by 2060.
Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds” 1969 
Notes on Being 