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Radio: My favorite discovery of 2012 is "Radio Lab", a story telling show reminiscent of another favorite, 'This American Life', but with a much more sophisticated sound design. All episodes are available for free in the podcast section of iTunes.

Music: I fell in love with the New Orleans second line scene after Issy and I paid a visit to the crescent city this year. We saw the 'Rebirth Brass Band' live and had a great time. We also had a mini-meetup at the show with @dotdude. New Orleans music culture is like no other.

Music: Louis Cole & Genevieve Artadi: Highly unique and energetic electro-acoustic music. Hard to explain.

Music: Austin Texas band 'The Black Angels' - Dark, bluesy rock obviously influenced by the Doors. To be honest, I'm not crazy about blues rock or the Doors, but 'The Black Angels' manage to meld these influences into something I really dig.

Music: UK band, 'Metronomy'. Their sound is eclectic, hooky and heavily influenced by all the cool British 80's bands I loved as a kid. Goes down easy. Works in the background as well as the fore.

Movies: Django and Looper were the two films that captivated me from start to finish. Both films by gifted auteurs, one at the top of his game, the other on the rise. Great writing. Great Directing. Great performances.

Horror movies: The Cabin in the Woods (A clever and absurd meta-horror mashup) and the The Lady in Black (A classic, classy ghost story) both satisfied. It's nice that there were a couple of diamonds in sea of Paranormal-Activity-esque-found-footage detritus.

TV: same stuff that everyone else likes - BB, GoT, DoAb and Sherlock. I also got into Always Sunny in Philadelphia this year - very dark, very funny.

Books: Started a bunch, finished very few. Nothing to recommend. "Checklist Manifesto" is pretty interesting so far - it's about how the brain functions (or fails to function) in the information-dense present.

Games: 'Xcom' was a worthy update of the original. Loved all the detailed micro/macro strategy. 'Journey' was beautiful and fairly moving for a videogame.

I felt the same way at first...but they one me back with the ending. I felt overall it was sift worthy...but agree the 1 min dixieland version could have been left out. From what I understand all the numbers performed by these guys are done with the idea of having fun with the piece and with a sense of humor.>> ^jqpublick:

Here are my thoughts for the first 6 minutes and three seconds of this video:
"Wow, this is actually pretty good, the band's not bad... a few flubs but not too bad, but it's a difficult piece... hey nice! soprano sax... now the band's all here, are they -- oh God, no oh shit no, nonononononono... "
So. No upvote from me, unless I can colour it hubris.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Brass Band, Joy To The World, Student, Freak Out' to 'Brass Band, Joy To The World, Student, Freak Out, christmas' - edited by bareboards2

No brass band but maybe a rusty trombone.

That made me LOL.

In reply to this comment by Xax:
This will change how burning monks perform music on Segways. Kinda cool.

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The list contains following clips:
1. Speech by Frank Oz.
2. When The River Meets The Sea (song), sung by Jerry Nelson and Louise Gold.
3. Bein’ Green (song), sung by Big Bird.
4. Speech by Bernie Brillstein.
5. Fearless Leader (a poem) read by Jerry Nelson (as Floyd Pepper).
6. Bring Him Home (song from "Les Miserables") sung by Louise Gold.
7. Introductory speech and Jim Henson’s letters read, by His wife Jane Henson and children Cheryl and Brian respectively.
8. Speech by Richard Hunt.
9. Muppet Songs pt. 1
10. Muppet Songs pt. 2
11. Just One Person (song), sung by sixteen puppeteers (each with one of their famous characters).
12. When The Saints Go Marching In (song), played by "The Dirty Dozen Brass Band".


For further clips concerning this, have a look at:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Jim-Hensons-death-on-Entertainment-Tonight-ET-May-1990

Also, one part of this playlist contains the singing of Big Bird which Arvana sifted a while ago, so make sure to look it up at:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Big-Bird-singing-at-Jim-Hensons-funeral