"Chinese Giant Salamander," by Michael Hearst

[Video Link] A fine song, from the album Songs for Unusual Creatures, by Michael Hearst. He has another music video, called "Jesus Christ Lizard," which was recorded on a glass armonica.

By remarkable coincidence, in October Chronicle Books will release Michael's book titled Unusual Creatures.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

totally80s

It’s fun to watch people playing the theremin – they always look like they’re sprinkling Parmesan cheese on a plate of spaghetti! – on a different “note” I think Michael needs to work a little bit on his stage presence. He appears to be either very unhappy because he got dumped by his girlfriend or angry at his mom for tossing out his vintage Lawrence Welk LPs. Regardless, this would be fun music to roller skate drunk to. It seems like Michael put a lot of thought and effort into it!
http://www.facebook.com/sean.sakamoto1 Sean Sakamoto

I took a video of my son and his friends catching a giant Japanese salamander, in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu Prefecture. It’s not a Chinese salamander, but, let’s be honest, they all look the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNic4FdZcX8
http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli

“Chinese Giant Salamander” I think I saw that movie. Godzilla wins in the end…
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

The cat was like, “I’m glad the fuck that’s over!”