Although completely unexpected, Mairead's playing nearly brought a tear to my eye. Definitely a beautiful performance!

There's good music to find in any genre. Your comment about unexpected twists is perfectly illustrated in the classic Beatle's tune "Penny Lane" that starts in the key of A major, bridges to the chorus in A minor, and then, (the only pop tune that I know that does this), modulates down a whole tone to G major for the chorus. All these changes are completely unexpected to our ears, and that's what makes it an enduring tune. It sounds simple, but it's anything but.

omg. you had to re-queue this, atara?

oh, and mushroom? i'll paypal ya' ten bucks to either: 1) say one nice thing. 2) go away forever.

interesting CH you've got there, btw. apparently, you don't think much of black people. how fascinating, and completely unexpected from you.

you have a real happy new year, though.

"Well... this oughta be different."

Great, great, completely unexpected line that totally humanizes a minor character. I was laughing so loudly when I first watched it that I had to back up the ol' TiVo to catch what I'd missed.

From Laura Hillenbrand's "Seabiscuit":

He told Woolf to gun to the lead but to keep him in check on the backstretch. When jockey Kurtsinger launched War Admiral in his final drive for the wire, Pollard said, do something completely unexpected and probably unprecedented: Let him catch up. ...

Pollard was sure that if Woolf let War Admiral challenge him, Seabiscuit would run faster and try harder than if Woolf tried to hold the lead alone. "Seabiscuit is the gamer horse. I know that." From there on in, the instructions were simple. Once War Admiral hooked Seabiscuit, "race him into the ground". ...

[The race]: For thirty yards, the two horse hurried down the homestretch side by side ... War Admiral, straining with all he had, was losing ground. ... After a sixteenth of a mile, Seabiscuit was half a length ahead. ... Kurtsinger made a new game plan. He would let Seabiscuit exhaust himself on the lead, then run him down. ...

Seabiscuit cruised into the backstretch on a one-length lead ... [Woolf] called back to Kurtsinger: "Hey, get on up here with me! We're supposed to have a horse race here!" ... War Admiral swooped up alongside him, his head pressing Seabiscuit's shoulder. Kurtsinger thought: I'm going to win it. ...

Woolf loosened his fingers and let an inch or two of the reins slide through. ... Pollard's startegy, Woolf's cunning and Smith's training had given Seabiscuit a chance in a race he otherwise could not have won. ...

... well, the humor for me was in the COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED AMOUNT OF DESTRUCTION!

but I suppose I first saw it while it was in the queue, and others might now be expecting action due to its 1st place ranking.

Remembering my first viewing;

drunk A "hah hah, we put a small firework in the cabinet!"
drunk B "hah hah, this will be silly fun!"
cabinet "KAABOOOOM!!!"
drunks "...(cough)... splinters... in eyeballs... hah hah..."