Friday is Dancing With Seafood
This is Colossal is a most interesting site, and the other day I found this there, which is amazing, and seeing as it is music-related I thought I might share.
Microphones convert sound to an electrical signal, and apparently those electrical impulses can actually be applied to living animal tissue. The video above comes from the team over at Backyard Brains that did some tests at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole in the States, where a squid was hooked up to an iPod playing Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Brain. Basically, it sounds a bit like they riddled a squid with electrical charge just to see what happened, but umm… well, this is SCIENCE, people, stop being so bloody squeamish! From the YouTube blurb:
“The video is a view thttp://songbytoad.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=14363&action=edithrough an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the caudal fin of the squid. We used a suction electrode to stimulate the fin nerve. Chromatophores are pigmeted cells that come in 3 colors: Brown, Red, and Yellow. Each chromatophore is lined with up to 16 muscles that contract to reveal their color.”
So there you go. There are people out there who use their time even more frivolously than we do, which is sort of reassuring and sort of depressing at the same time.
So, in the interests of using our time in a more worthy fashion, I urge everyone to meet me at Sneaky Pete’s tonight for PAWS and Eagulls. Both are absolutely awesome live bands, and I highly recommend them. Until then, however, lets just piss about on the internet for no better reason than that we can.
1. Something highly worthy you enjoy doing.
2. Total waste of time from which you nevertheless derive great satisfaction.
3. If you were to electrocute an animal, which would it be?
4. And if you were dancing with a squid, which song would you play?
5. Favourite sciencey thing.
1. I work for a charity darling, everyday is a worthy day for moi!
2. see above
3. slugs
4. Witness Blues by A.A. Bondy
5. creationism
fucking yaldi
1. I’ve actually been enjoying going to the gym regularly again. Or, to be more precise, I don’t exactly enjoy going as much as I enjoy having been.
2. The internet? My entire presence and everything I have ever written on the internet. Pointless, but fun.
3. Shit little yappy dogs.
4. The Seafood Song, by The Divine Comedy.
5. The fact that whilst acupuncture clearly has an effect on people, it makes no difference if it’s proper Chinese acupuncture or just randomly sticking needles in someone. So much for ancient wisdom.
Oh dear. Beaten to it. Again.
1. Playing games with my daughter, especially as she’s shit at all of them meaning I always win.
2. Playing an outdated version of Pro Evolution Soccer on my outdated PS2.
3. Fuckin wasps. The neds of the insect world.
4. Something by Ozric Tentacles?
5. Genetic mutations. Like in the X Men and stuff. That’s real, right?
GRANDADDY!!!!
1. Hmm, probably the gym too.
2. Basically the rest of my life?
3. Geese.
4. Octopus’ Garden.
5. Lasers. Or plasma balls but they’re a bit 80s.
“Fuckin wasps. The neds of the insect world.”
They are radgey little fuckers aren’t they.
Plasma balls are still pretty awesome.
Stu, I have you well beat: I’m currently obsessed with playing Gameboy Tetris on my phone. To the point where I bought a bluetooth controller as the touchscreen was not responsive enough. I’ve even started on Tetris 2 but it’s really hard…
You’re playing Tetris on your phone with a specially-purchased, custom-made controller? One made just for Tetris? Don’t you have a job? And a girlfriend?
It’s not just made for Tetris, I can also play other early 90s console games. And do. Regarding the rest, I’m only just holding down a job and my girlfriend has been away since early June.
1. Running Olive Grove (does that count?)
2. Running Olive Grove
3. Gotta be a cat.
4. This Is Not An Exit by Seafood
5. The Big Bang Theory (the TV show)
Steve – Ah, hence the need for Tetris. Either that or constant, frequent and probably damaging levels of masturbation.
Peenko – Your label is worthy? Do you give free albums away to the homeless or something?
Peenko, if you give me your albums for free that is the same as giving them to the homeless (tho we call them homeless people as they are a self contained group of people) or some other bullshit
1. I don’t think I do anything worthy. Does no longer smoking count? I’m very proud of myself for stopping and enjoy visiting the pub as a non-smoker now. HONESTLY.
2. Quell
3. Baby seals. Puppies. Dolphins. Kittens.
4. B-52’s Rock Lobster..
5. Space in general blows my mind. Man.
1. Nothing I do is worthy.
2. Everything I do.
3. An eel. Just a regular one. It can see what it’s like being an electric eel.
4. Put Your Hands Up For Detroit
5. The girl from Mythbusters.
Flora, I think not smoking counts.
Jim, nothing worthy at all? You’re a pretentious cunt, according to Twitter, so I think that definitely counts.
Oh, good point! New answer:
1. Annoying bands on the internet.
There’ll be no talk of electrocuting cats here.
No, I don’t think I approve of this either.
I third that emotion.
But it’s good enough for geese, eels, baby seals, puppies and dolphins? You heartless bastards.
1. It’s an election year, so I’ve resumed my news junkie ways. I like to make informed decisions – call me old fashioned.
2. Everything I do on the internet.
3. Seagulls. No, pitbulls.
4. Dancing in the Dark.
5. Bill Nye
Geese are evil, that’s a scientific fact. Therefore eradicating them is just good manners whether it’s with electric or just an oven and a knife and fork.
Can you buy those glow in the dark cats yet?
No, but if we want to eradicate the goose population of the world by using a knife and fork (and lots of red cabbage and caraway seeds) then I am all in.
Meat is murder. Tasty, tasty murder.
1. My job’s quite worthy – saving our historical past for future generations – even if it is by digging it up and taking photos and writing the results down so all future generations can do is read about it.
2. Watching bands in shitty little venues
3. Yappy little dogs
4. Swordfishtrombone – Tom Waits
5. I think you know what my favorite sciency thing is !!
Wilf – FILTH!
1. I love to bake for friends and make them mixtapes.
2. Playing Mafia Wars.
3. Mice. Every last little bugger. HATE them to the end of the planet.
4. Mambo Italiano because my favorite squids are calamari.
5. The human body and brain function fascinate me.
1. Cooking
2. Playing Angry Birds.
3. bedbugs.
4. Weird Al Yankovic’s Bohemian Polka
5. Astrophysics.
1. Something highly worthy you enjoy doing.
duh. listening to music. makking mixes. and fixing up my home (or i just used to enjoy doing).
2. Total waste of time from which you nevertheless derive great satisfaction.
i used to play some silly hog games. now i’m just watching series.
3. If you were to electrocute an animal, which would it be?
there is only one answer to that. cockroaches. seriously now people, dogs??
4. And if you were dancing with a squid, which song would you play?
something by Deer Tick.
5. Favourite sciencey thing.
always liked anything that had to do with pc’s. used to be intoall kinds of tech gadgets.
(lots of “used to” today. not in a very active period these days, sorry)
hm. now that i think about it maybe the last answer isn’t so rellevant. ah well.
I think it’s now time to put down the laptop and go see Paws oh yeah
Peenko – Your label is worthy? Do you give free albums away to the homeless or something?
Not quite, I don’t take any money at all. Does that not count?
I am currently entertaining a conversation with someone who sent me the most inappropriate music imaginable. And actually, he seems like a decent guy. So umm… who woulda thunk it.