BtVS: The Soundtrack

nobody@vox.com(Paxton) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:23:16 -0700

Nerd alert.

Strix and I have been talking for some time about going through and trying to find all of the music that plays at the Bronze and at parties and just incidentally in the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We just like the music.

So, how do you find a list of all of the music ever featured in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the TV series? You type "Buffy music" in Google and go straight to it. Damn, I never thought it would be that easy.

So, Episode 1 is Welcome to the Hellmouth. The first song featured is as follows:

Saturated

Sprung Monkey

Plays as Buffy tries on different outfits.

The first episode features four songs by Sprung Monkey, all of which are available on iTunes, but then has a song called "Losing Ground" by Mindtribe and "David Aragon" by "No Heroes," presuming that's not the other way around. Does anyone know where I can get these?

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Austin - Friday Aug 10th

nobody@vox.com(Paxton) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:52:33 -0600

Tales from National Poetry Slam 2007, continued:

Friday afternoon was the Nerd Slam. This is similar to Jedimaster Slam, except it was not specific to Star Wars. It was extremely entertaining, with pieces about everything nerdish. I didn't have any pieces to perform, so I just watched, but I wish I could have participated. To even get to read, you had to win a trivia contest against another potential reader. You got to choose the topic, so long as it was nerdy, and they had a panel of nerd experts to ask the questions, regardless of what topic you chose.

One guy picked Buffy the Vamire Slayer as his topic, and so didn't know anything about Buffy. I think the only question he got right was, "What did the mayor turn into at the end of season three?" If you don't know that one, you've never even watched the damn show. Among the questions he missed:

1. What was the name of the fake watcher that came to Sunnydale after Faith arrived, and what was she looking for?

2. Sing a couple of lines from the musical episode.

Answers:

1. Gwendolyn Post and the Glove of Mynhegon.

2. I can sing "Rest in Peace" in its entirity.

Buffy Musical - 09 - RestInPeace

That night, I went to the indie poet finals. Here's how it works: Each team performs in two preliminary bouts. Each poet can only go up once during a bout, for a total possible of 30 points, which means that each poet can earn a total possible of 60 points during the preliminaries. The top ten poets by score from the preliminaries, independent of team, go to the indie finals. There's also a single-digit scoring system that goes along with it that I will have to ask about, because I don't know how it works, but there wasn't a single poet with a score combined prelim score below 57.0 in the indies. Which means they had to average a score of 9.5 from the three middle judges in both bouts, which is extremely impressive.

And once they started, it was easy to see why they were the top ten out of about four hundred poets. They were all amazing. I applauded, hooped, stomped my feet, and generally had a great time. The rest of the audience was right there with me.

Paramount Ceiling

The finals were held in the Paramount Theater, a renovated and very, very cool old theater. It holds probably three or four hundred people, and I can't even imagine being on that stage with nothing between me and the audience but a microphone.

They started with all ten poets, then brought back up the top seven, the the top four. That final round would have determined the winner, except the last two poets in the final round both got all 10.0 scores from their middle three judges, so they were brought up for one final round, with the judges voting for one poet or the other instead of giving a score.

One more thing to note about these poets: each poem they performed was unique to that bout. During the tournament, you could only use a piece once. That meant that these poets had to perform a two separate pieces for the prelim bouts, then three more for the indie finals, and one more for the sudden-death round, without repeating one.

The indie finals winner was Danny Sherrard of Seattle, who actually ranked eighth in the preliminaries. I agreed wholeheartedly with the judges on that one - all of the poets were good, but Danny blew them away.

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BtVS: The Soundtrack

Austin - Friday Aug 10th