YouTube: "This Old House"

Songs called "This Old House" (or "Ole" or "Ol'").

• Stuart Hamblen (1954 - I just know the Shakin' Stevens cover)
  
• Neil Young (Farm Aid, 1987)
  
• Madrugada (Norwegian band, 1999, check out their other videos)
  
• Madeline (1993 - some French indie chick, I think)
  
• Acoustic Dad - nice strumming. Annoyingly, reminds me of another song I can't quite identify.
  

Sports: Coach Facial Expressions

Shells adds the scowl of an old college basketball coach, Eddie Sutton.

YouTube: "Whole Wide World"

This is a little gem: Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby live in Dallas playing his biggest song, "Whole Wide World", as seen in "Stranger Than Fiction".

The original - how young he was when he was young!

Cover by Irish singer Gemma Hayes - "Ah, shite!"

Cover by the Monkees - is that Mickey singing?

Cover by the Proclaimers, proving (despite what Mike Myers might say) that something can be Scottish AND crap.

Cover by Laptop - at least he's trying to do something different with it.

Guitar lesson - only two chords!

Sports: NFL Coach Facial Expressions

Sure, Bill Cowher's scowl was disturbing, the way the down-turned corners of his mouth appeared to go all the way to the edge of his face, like a pissed off Beaker.

And Tampa Bay's Jon Gruden has a really scary angry face.

But the one that gives me the willies is Saints coach Sean Payton when he sucks in his cheeks and purses his lips. (Yeah, he does look like Kenny Chesney. And I guess the look might be stolen from Zoolander.)

YouTube: Local 80s Acts

Hey, remember the '80s? Doctor Proctor, Kansas City, MO band on local TV, circa 1984. Worth it just to see the lead singer. Wonder whatever happened to the bass player?

Here's a more sophisticated Connecticut band, Disturbance, from 1983.

Maryland, 1985, and Butch Willis and the Rocks - you have to see the back-up singer's technique. This may be the best song I've heard today.

In a different league is this Atlanta band, The Raves - good McCartney impression!

Essays: Innovation

New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell on the subject of innovation.

YouTube: Dutch Music

Music from the Netherlands.

• The Tielman Brothers, "Rollin' Rock" (1960) (Dutch-Indonesian rockabilly - amazing!)
  
• Golden Earrings, "Daddy Buy Me A Girl" (1966) (love the dancing chick!)
  
• Golden Earring, "Radar Love" (1973) (they dropped the "S" - video with Spongebob)
  
• Gruppo Sportivo, "Disco Really Made It" (1979)
  
• Nits, "In The Dutch Mountains" (1987)
  
• Bettie Serveert, "Palomine" (1992)
  
• Bettie Serveert, "Under The Surface" (1992)
  
• Carol van Dyk, "Silent Spring" (1998) (with John Cale)
  
• Bettie Serveert, "Lover I Don't Have To Love" (Bright Eyes cover)
  
• Chitlin Fooks, "The Battle" (2001) (Carol's country side-project)
  
• Rock 4, "Paranoid Android" (a capella cover)
  

Bonus: Frank Black pays tribute to Herman Brood.