Longtime readers of the ol’ raincoaster blog are familiar (perhaps too familiar) with my adoration of Banksy, the Birmingham Bristol street artist who is #1 on my list of “men whom I have no idea what they look like but, whatever, they could have me anyway. in daylight. on Sunday.”
And they are equally familiar with my fondness for mashups and radical YouTubeification, so the fact that I’m posting the following video, which combines all of the above, should come as no surprise to anyone but nOObs, and they should just hang out and read and watch what I tell them, dammit!
Truly has the great prophet of old, Tom Lehrer, said that the reason most folk songs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people. Yet, verily, we have found one which transcends the acoustic mire to stand proudly alone, foremost or perhaps in this case hindmost among them all. Please join me in giving a warm welcome to Jonathan Coulton, performing his acoustic version of Baby Got Back: