#tom music

[myjetpack]

My latest @guardian books cartoon.

[chungledown-bimothy]

I cannot overstate how much I love Tom Lehrer's story. It sounds so fake but is entirely real.

He's a goddamn genius- he started studying mathematics at Harvard when he was 15 and graduated magna cum laude. He worked at Los Alamos for a few years before being drafted and working for the NSA, where he claims to have invented jello shots to get around alcohol bans.

He then went back to Harvard for a couple years before starting to teach political science at MIT.

Through all of that, he was writing and performing both some of the funniest shit you'll ever hear (Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Masochism Tango) and absolutely scathing political satire (Who's Next, Wernher von Braun, Send the Marines). Until the mid/late 60s counterculture gained momentum. He didn't like their aesthetic, so he stopped making music.

Shortly after, he moved to California and started teaching math and musical theater history at UC Santa Cruz for the next 30 years.

I don't know if non-Californians understand just how goddamn funny that is. It's where stoners and math (and now computer science) kids who couldn't get into Berkeley go. Leaving Harvard/MIT for UCSC is peak academic phoning it in. And by all accounts he had a blast.

Plus the whole putting all of his music in the public domain thing. That fucked.

[vmpyrgal]

Animal crossing cds and dvds ~ 🤍

[writernotwaiting]

Fearing such hits as “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” “National Brotherhood Week,” “The Masochism Tango,” “The Element Song,” “Be Prepared,” and “Lobachevsky”

[mind-lost-in-the-stars]

I just make memes now, it’s what I do

[fittingxivsongs]

Tom Scott Introducing Places in FFXIV

[amtrak-official]

When I say gay people in my phone, I am not referring to tumblr, I am referring to these guys

[falloutboy]

I thought about this song a lot when I was younger. All these important people and events- some that disappeared into the sands of time- others that changed the world forever. So much has happened in the span of the last 34 years- we felt like a little system update might be fun. Hope you like our take on it…

We Didn’t Start The Fire is out everywhere now. Pre-order the 7” (limited to 5000 copies).

[isogenderskitty]

[toasterfroggy]

happy father's day to darrel curtis and darrel curtis only

[kakecomics]

DJ Hell x Tom of Finland – I Want U (Gigolo Records, 2016) animation & editing: Xaver Xylophon video/concept/production: DJ Hell artwork: Tom of Finland

[youareinlovetv]

The Tortured Poets Department, Amazon Music Track By Track Audios

here's clara bow. tumblr wouldn't let me upload it bc of the limit

[n7crophiliac]

metal on cassettes ⚔️.

bathory - bathory (1984)

slayer - hell awaits (1985)

megadeth - so far, so good…so what! (1988)

anthrax - fistful of metal (1984)

death - scream bloody gore (1987)

sepultura - morbid visions / bestial devastation (1986)

metal church - metal church (1984)

iron angel - hellish crossfire (1985)

dark angel - darkness descends (1986)

venom - black metal (1980)

[retrogamingblog2]

[tamamita]

Super Mario RPG Remake - Slope

[demigods-posts]

being a pjo fan means consuming every piece of media you can get your grimy little hands on. and scrounging around at the bottom of the barrel like a raccoon. and trying to find two characters that mirror the percabeth dynamic. it's in the contract.