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Mary Poppins said it: "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down".

In the case of tasks where I need to zone out either because they need my undivided attention or are repetitive, like this journal, music is a choice "spoonful of sugar".
The thing is that my musical selection, try as I may to stray far and wide, ends up being... off-color and as such limited.  Let's go over the examples, in rough order of importance, though I should warn you that most of these aren't at all safe for work.

:bulletblue: Tom Lehrer. Who would think people had a sense of humor during the McCarthy era? It still amazes me how current this man is in his satire despite his short run as an entertainer.
   :bulletgreen: We Will All Go Together When We Go. Celebrating our tendencies toward civilizational self-destruction.
   :bulletgreen: Smut. Like art is in the eye of the beholder...
:bulletblue: Roy Zimmerman. The next iteration of the satirical singer-songwriter... Which is by no means a disparaging statement: his work is up there with Lehrer's.
   :bulletgreen: Limbaugh (How Low Can You Go?). Still current...
   :bulletgreen: Summer of Loving. Just plain awesome.
:bulletblue: Tim Minchin. He is God!
   :bulletgreen: Storm. I could quote sections of this beat poem to explain scientific skepticism.
   :bulletgreen: Lullaby. This one had me laughing my ass off the first time I heard it.
:bulletblue: "Weird Al" Yankovic. I only found about this guy some six months ago. Well, I did watch the Spy Hard opening aeons ago.
   :bulletgreen: The Saga Begins. I'll take the opportunity to be polemic and state that I don't hate Jar Jar Binks. I even find him moderately funny.
   :bulletgreen: Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me. Just the thing to send in reply to those pesky spammers that get past the filters.
:bulletblue: Jon Lajoie. An interesting mix of silliness and biting genre satire.
   :bulletgreen: Alone in the Universe. Not so alone...
   :bulletgreen: Pop Song. The reason why this list of artists I listen to regularly is relatively off the beaten track.
:bulletblue: The Bloodhound Gang.  My most recent find. As their TVTropes page says they are fairly all-over-the-place but enjoyable anyway.
   :bulletgreen: Hell Yeah. My kinda metal.
   :bulletgreen: Fire Water Burn. True I had already heard "Bad Touch" but this was the one that caught my attention.
:bulletblue: Daft Punk. The odd man out: I listened to their music on the radio (cool) but after hearing their live performances I'm a fan. They make for an awesome working groove.
   :bulletgreen: Technologic. I first heard this one on a car commercial IIRC.   
   :bulletgreen: Dezzered. However I haven't watched Tron: Legacy yet.

As you can see there is some focus on Lyrical Dissonance, so I couldn't but become fond of these two from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise which I watched in full recently (except for the Rebuild films):
:bulletred: The full opening.  
:bulletred: Komm, Süsser Tod. Listen to the lyrics.

So thoughts, suggestions, etc. are very welcome. I wonder:
- Did I paint myself into a corner with my guilty pleasures?
- Except for pertinent Portuguese bands, is this all there is that manages to appeal even moderately to my intelligence?
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  • Listening to: Youtube Playlists
  • Reading: Twitter Feed
  • Watching: Youtube Videos
  • Playing: Magic: The Gathering
  • Eating: Meals
  • Drinking: Water

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Renato Filipe Vidal Santos
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Portugal

I am a skeptically inquiring secular humanist of a materialist and modernist bent with a lapsed Roman Catholic upbringing. Thus, for all intents and purposes, I'm a pragmatic atheist.

I tend to have a life, namely as a Geology research assistant, and, to my chagrin, I am a procrastinator. The former hopefully won't be fixed in the next 100 years, though the latter is something I'm working on.

Finally, I am always interested in artistic advice and if you want use my artwork here's the rules.

These are my contacts:

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Dracontes(at)gmail(dot)com, Dracontes(at)hotmail(dot)com, rfvs1983(at)yahoo(dot)com
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~WanderingAlbatross Mar 31, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Thank you for the watch!!!:)
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~dracontes Apr 4, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
No problem :) Just keep up with the great wildlife art, prehistoric or otherwise.

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~SpikedHead Mar 31, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
thank you for joining my group :thanks:

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I find dinosaurs amusing and lovable; don't you? ;)
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~dracontes Mar 31, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
No problem! Thank you very much for the pair of favourites :)
Also kudos for providing a space for the whole spectrum of paleontology-themed art, serious to not-so-serious :w00t:

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~SpikedHead Apr 2, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
thanks! :lol:
was a idea between me and my co-founder :D

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I find dinosaurs amusing and lovable; don't you? ;)
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~dracontes Apr 4, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
You're welcome :)

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~RoFlo-Felorez Mar 25, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
thanks for the :llama: dude :D
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~dracontes Mar 26, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
No problem :)

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Thanks for the llama badge.
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~dracontes Mar 25, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
No problem :)

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