Song-a-day man commemorates 1,000th song with album, video
Jonathan sez, "I've been writing a song and posting it on YouTube every day since January 1, 2009. On September 28, 2011, I will be commemorating my 1000th song by releasing an album. The first single...
View ArticlePizza is a Vegetable, a jaunty ditty about Congressional scientific illiteracy
Attentive readers will recall Congress's reclassification of pizza as a vegetable for the purpose of mandated healthy school lunches. Jonathan Mann's composed a jaunty ditty to correct the record....
View ArticleThe song about the song of the Jurassic cricket
Last week, we learned that scientists had reconstructed the song of a Jurassic-era cricket. This week, song-a-day impresario Jonathan Mann has written a ballad to that lonely insect and its ancient...
View ArticleBallad of the Virginia mandatory transvaginal ultrasound
Jonathan Mann has devoted today's song-a-day entry to the notorious Virginia transvaginal ultrasound. He notes, "As I was writing this song, the Virginia house passed a bill which still mandates...
View ArticleVideo: Kittens in Space, by Jonathan "Song A Day" Mann
[Video Link]. I'm recovering from yesterday's chemo infusion (my fifth!), and feeling kind of lousy. Jonathan Mann asked me this morning if he could write a song for me as his daily song project, and...
View ArticleMusical comment on TSA pornoscanners
Jonathan Mann sez, "I saw Cory's post about the TSA accepting comments on the full body scanners and decided I'd give them a piece of my mind - in song." My Comment To The TSA (Song A Day #1573)...
View ArticleYou're vs Your song
Jonathan Mann sez, "The internet abounds with people misusing Your and You're. I wanted to write a simple catchy tune to help them remember which is which!" Your doing important work, sir. Your vs....
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Super Mario Rock Opera, by Song a Day guy Jonathan Mann, debuts in NYC Aug 17
Singer-songwriter Jonathan Mann, best known as the Song a Day YouTube star, has a cool new project that those of you in New York can enjoy. "My Super Mario Rock Opera goes up at Joe's Pub this...
View Article'Fukushima, Syria and Miley Cyrus' Tongue,' Jonathan Mann's Song A Day
Video Link. A new masterpiece by Jonathan "Song-A-Day" Mann. Looks like we're going to war again Looks like we're going to war Looks like we're going to war again Syria here come the bombs You don't...
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New Disruptors 51: I Am Super Mann, And I Can Sing Anything With Jonathan Mann
Since January 2009, Jonathan Mann has posted a song every day. Not five days a week: seven days a week. There is no rest for the wickedly productive. While he makes his living by writing and...
View Article'The Digital Prophet Song,' by Jonathan Mann
Friends! Have you heard the good news? A prophet walks among us! He's The Digital Prophet. Video Link. Editor's note: Just so we're all clear here, I think Shingy's cool.
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A chat with Henry Smith, Spaceteam Game Designer (New Disruptors 72)
Henry Smith is a games app developer, and the evil genius behind the addictive multi-player app Spaceteam. Spaceteam won oodles of awards, and it has the added benefit (or problem) of being free....
View ArticleA musical letter to the FCC by Jonathan Mann: 'Don't Blow up the Internet'
By Jonathan Mann: "Don't Blow Up The Internet | Song A Day #1939." Don't set us up the bomb, FCC. [Video Link] Contact the FCC commissioners if you're concerned that the new proposed internet rules...
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Talking CASH Music with Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom (New Disruptors...
Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom are the co-executive directors of CASH Music (Coalition of Artists and Stakeholders) a non-profit organization that brings an open-source approach to music distribution...
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A Talk with Threes App Designer Greg Wohlwend (New Disruptors 74)
Greg Wohlwend developed the popular game Threes with his colleague Asher Vollmer. Greg is a games illustrator and designer who was part of teams that made Hundreds, Gasketball, Solipskier, and...
View Article'The Cat Says The Lid Stays Closed,' from Jonathan Mann's 'Animals' album
[Video Link] "The Cat Says The Lid Stays Closed," an animated ditty from the Album "Animals" by Jonathan "Song A Day" Mann. Give him some dough if you like his work.
View ArticleHow the clothes you wear change your perceptions
The answers depend on the symbolic power the particular item of clothing has in the mind of the particular wearer, but the answer to each question is never “not at all.” Up until now, most...
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Jonathan Mann's 2000th song of 2000 songs in 2000 days
The 2000th song in Jonathan Mann's Song A Day series is a retrospective that contains every single video from the last 1,999 days. The Kittens in Space video Jonathan so kindly made in my honor,...
View ArticleThe Ferguson Army: A song by Jonathan 'Song a Day' Mann
Why’s a small town in Missouri Need a great big fucking army? They’re not enemy combatants They live there, that’s their home When you’re holding an assault rifle Every human looks like an enemy When...
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