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Back That Thang Up

Backups are important. But usually it takes a crash and a critical data loss to make people realize that. This is a song about that.

What's Up, Spock? (2024 Version)

When Luke Ski performed "What's Up, Spock?" at MarsCon 2022 he ended it by joking that he was going to add a new verse about Star Trek: Discovery, then said "No, I can't make that song any longer." Well, I can! So here is an updated version of "What's Up, Spock?" that includes verses for Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds.

This song is featured on my album of cover songs which is called Cover Up. It features over a dozen cover songs I've recorded and performed over the years, plus three new ones. It includes "It's All About the Pentiums" by "Weird Al" Yankovic using a chiptunes version of the original music, "Tortuga" by Alestorm featuring pirate rapper Captain Dan, and this updated version of "What's Up, Spock?"

NOTE: This song has been updated to fix some mispronunciations in the first version.

Dinky McDiddlyboots

In September of 2015 Tim Crist, aka Shoebox of Worm Quartet, posted the following to my wall on Facebook:

Your name is now Dinky McDiddlyboots. I apologize for any inconvenience.

What followed was a brief discussion about the possibilities of rhymes for my new name and what could be done in a song. This is what I ultimately came up with.

I Am The Doctor

I've been a Doctor Who fan since I was about 10. I love the classic series and I love the new series. I have my favorite Doctors and monsters and companions and I've met many of them at various conventions. And here, for you other Doctor Who fans who may have wandered in here, is a song about the new series. I kept it mostly focussed on Matt Smith's run as The Doctor since he's the current one, but there are a few references to Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant's episodes.

Background singing by Chris Mezzolesta of Power Salad and Shoebox of Worm Quartet. The part of British Woman was played by Kim Crist.

In The 80s

Every generation complains about the one that follows. They lament how things were better back in "their day", be it the 1930s, 1950s, or in my case, the 1980s. The 80s were my time, to quote The Goonies. Back when women had huge hair and wore ankle socks, which, for the record, I still find sexy. So now it's my turn to complain about how much better things were back then. Except I'm not sure I really believe it.

Snack Bar

This song is a parody of "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore, but of course you already knew that because Ian's song is further down the page. And yes, I'm using the same instrumental Ian did. No reason not to. But my song features Chris Mezzolesta of Power Salad and a special cameo by my son Jeremy.

Spider Verses

Into the Spider Verse is an amazing movie and if you haven't seen it you really need to rethink some of your life's choices. Also, you won't really understand this song. This is a huge, epic group jam about the film featuring Creative Mind Frame (aka 1-UP), Insane Ian, Bonnie Gordon, TV's Kyle, LEX the Lexicon Artists, and the great Luke Ski where we each take a verse as a character from the movie.