Jeremy Bent

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  • “Diamond Head” Week on FYSR

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    After running into a number of fun covers of the Ventures’ instrumental “Diamond Head,” I decided to do a week dedicated to the song on Fuck Yeah Surf Rock. Each day I’ll be posting a new version of “Diamond Head,” starting with today’s post of the Ventures performing the original track. Diamond Head, in addition…

  • Where you can find me on the Internet, other than here.

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    Hi all. It’s come to my attention that many of you still visit this website, and yet, you may not be aware of my other web projects. These projects are all updated more frequently than this blog, but I’m working on that as well. But why not take a moment for all of you who…

  • Honky Tonk Badonkadonk: A Cultural Train Wreck

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    I’ve been listening to a lot of good/bad music recently for my blog, Good Songs Bad Lyrics. On GSBL, I comment on songs from the last 50 years that are lyrically sloppy or weak, or videos that are notably ridiculous. I’m always hunting for “Worst Lyrics of All Time!” lists, and seeing what people have…

  • Talent Wanted

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    I’ve been itching to start a band for about five years now. This is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the same amount of time I’ve owned my bass guitar. But something now is telling me it’s time. It is time to call my allies to my side and form a truly righteous band. As a bass player, I…

  • Troubling to say the least

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    I worked with many smart, talented improvisers during my time with The Spin, a political improv show I was part of last year. One of them, a particularly incisive and well-informed gentleman, produced a documentary about the origins and consequences of global poverty entitled The End of Poverty?. It was a selection at the Cannes…

  • Battlestar-struck

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    I spent the majority of my time at home last month watching, experiencing the entire run of Battlestar Galactica. I saw the miniseries on January 2nd, and somehow I was able to watch 60+ episodes and a tv movie by the end of the month. I was aided in this by not having my normal…

  • My Great-Grandfather Is Smiling In Heaven

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    I come from a family of notorious tinkerers. My great-grandfather, Mort Mason, was a lover of all things mechanical; my dad spent part of his inheritance in 1983 on a computer that’s outstripped by most modern calculators; and my brother has probably broken more computers than many people will ever own. Messing with things is…

  • Dirty Cheater

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    I’ve got a pretty long-standing love affair with video games. Although I liked playing them as much as most kids of the 80s, I think I can trace the obsession back to the fall of 1993. I was in sixth grade, and my friend Cliff bought Final Fantasy (the orig) for the NES at a…

  • Late to the Party

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    I saw a couple of minutes of Dr. Horrible a few months ago, but I finally got around to watching the whole thing on Monday. Surprise! It’s great (as everyone besides me has known for months). It’s great in its execution, polish, and general sense of fun. I watched it on Hulu, which should be…