For those who read this journal for the fic and peek at this, this is mostly filler. I'm still trying to keep up daily posts of content, because I haven't managed to keep a proper journal in ten years, and I figured I might as well give it another shot. Sharing random songs seems to be working well for me.
(But I'll totally have a chapter or two of something up in the next few days, so...anyway...)
I first heard Bo Burnham on Comedy Central. However, apparently his original rise to fame was much like that of He-Who-Inspires-Harry-Potter-Allusions. Which is to say, he rose from the fiery bowels of YouTube. However, unlike the majority of content on that site (proving time and time again that Theodore Sturgeon was an optimist...), his songs actually manage to be both funny and intelligent.
...and absurd. And a little pretentious. And a lot politically incorrect. And blasphemous. And vulgar. I supposed that all has to be warned about... You won't find many people who can make shameless dirty jokes about Classical Greek literature and Nickelodeon cartoons in the same song...
But, hell, what's a little inflammatory language between net-friends?
Here are a few of my personal favorites of his:
I swear every time I listen to his songs I pick up on something I missed the first sixty times...
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