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Ok, so out comes Microsoft with Songsmith. It's got the world's worst commercial, but give it a break already because the YouTubes are out. of. control. A brief 101: The program allows you to sing a track before it creates backing instrumental and percussion tracks. You can tweak the styles and such but...for real, all that is not the point. The point is that people have already isolated the vocal tracks for well-known songs and synced up new backing tracks thanks to Songsmith. And it's amazing. These are some of my favorites so see for yourself:
"Eye of the Tiger"

"Enter Sandman"

"Tom Sawyer"

"Hurt"

and, of course, "Running With the Devil"

Enjoy.

How Sweet They Look

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Must try. Must try. Nom. Nom.

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I lamented the death of the age-appropriate temper tantrum long ago. I remember the sheer, unadulterated release of energy from screaming, crying and flailing various limbs until that first yawn. After that there was no possible way to keep up the physicality of the tantrum, nor the wailing. Then, I'd just (usually) drift off to a solid sleep and awake with nary a care the next morning save for puffy eyes and the occasional sore foot or fist from beating the mattress. Then at age 7 or 8, that got inappropriate. And that totally sucked.

Now, it seems my young mind knew more about relieving stress than my adult one. It is actually beneficial to have a tantrum? Yes! Well, not so much with the pounding fists or the face-in-pillow action, but with short bursts of shouting. I'm all about this.

And if you see me in my car with my mouth shouting loud enough to hear outside, but otherwise looking normal and not in danger, please carry on.

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I encourage you to watch all of it. Repeatedly. Thanks to George over at Uncorrected Personality Traits for finding the video. I'd searched for way to long. We concur that "Fat Country Baby" and "Sweet Corn Memories" are gems.
Also of note on UPT for Doctor Who fans: Doctor Mew. I'm pretty sure the black cat is Christopher Eccleston.