Freegal at the Movies: “Jurassic Park Theme” by John Williams

Jurassic Park sport utility vehicle  Image Credit

I’ve just been reading the book Frankenstein’s Cat by Emily Anthes, a book about how scientists are bioengineering animals. It can make a person disturbed and hopeful at the same time.

There’s creepy but noble: changing the genes in pig hearts so they can fill in for the shortage of human hearts available for transplant.

There’s creepy but cool: aquarium fish that glow bright colors because they have some jellyfish DNA.

Then there’s creepy and disturbing: a home kit that sells for $99.99 and allows any home enthusiast to take a living cockroach, thread silver wires down its antennae and make a do-it-yourself remote-control cockroach.

On a little more hopeful note, she points out that it’s still too difficult to clone dinosaur DNA because it degrades over time. So for now, at least, Jurassic Park is still science fiction.

This year is the 20^th anniversary, and Speilberg’s dinosaurs-gone-amok film is coming out in 3D IMAx, if you like your dinos that big and loud.

You can get the music from the soundtrack as a free download from Freegal. John Williams himself conducts the orchestra. There are also some nice piano renditions by Dan Redfeld.

And if you want to go the creepy-but-cool route, you can download the track of Weird Al Yankovic singing his song “Jurassic Park” to the tune of the uber-dramatic “MacArthur Park.”

“Just eat it” –A Song for Thanksgiving Leftovers: “Eat It” by Weird Al Yankovic

On your third day of turkey?

Had it baked boiled, fricasseed, fried, tetrazzini, a la mode?

You might be in the mood for Weird Al Yankovic’s parody of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.”

Reportedly, Yankovic wasn’t sure what kind of reaction he’d get from the King of Pop when he submitted the lyrics.

Jackson thought it was funny, and let him proceed. Makes me think a little better of him, somehow.

“Eat It” is available for free download on Freegal. And so is Michael Jackson’s song, “Beat It.”

White and Nerdy by Weird Al Yankovic



Photo: Paul Ittoop



He's weird. He's Al. He's done some of the best song parodies. And he has a whole lot of songs available for free and legal downloads from Freegal.

Weird Al Yankovich credits his success to a "warped outlook" caused by accordion lessons. He recorded his first big hit in the college radio stations bathroom, a parody of "My Sharona" called "My Bologna."

Weird Al is still putting out the hits, but what happened to The Knack?

Only a true geek could write something like "White and Nerdy." Segways, Klingon, the Renaissance Fair, Kirk and Picard: it’s all here.

Donny Osmond always seemed like white bread bland, but I have to say he really laid it on the line for this video. This take is as funny as Yankovic’s finished product.