Folk music, viral weirdness, and the Ballad of Steven Slater. Josh Millard, known to all and sundry here as cortex, analyses how The Ballad of Steven Slater written by Max Sparber, a.k.a. Astro Zombie, which cortex set to music and performed, went viral. How viral? Wolf Blitzer viral.
posted by Kattullus on Aug 11, 2010 - 124 comments

As he's currently holding 4 of the 5 coveted "Most Favorited Tracks in the past 7 days", a staggering 86 (and counting!) favorites for his latest MeFi-related (and sidebarred!) tune, is it perhaps time to consider changing that heading for MeFi Music to "rock and/or cortex"? Well, anyway, congratulations, cortex!
posted by flapjax at midnite on Feb 16, 2007 - 46 comments

The greatest mefi song ever to date. Dios mio, cortex.
posted by mathowie on Feb 14, 2007 - 91 comments

Has anybody actually received the mefi compilation cd? I paypalled for mine on Nov 28, but haven't gotten diddly. I emailed the meficomp people on Dec 19 and haven't heard back. Anybody gotten anything?
posted by rbs on Dec 25, 2006 - 17 comments

Cortex, Artifice_Eternity, and all the MeFi compers are totally awesome. That's right: last night New Yorkers gathered to listen & I was mighty impressed. Good work all of you.
posted by dame on Dec 4, 2006 - 32 comments

Bumpedy bump. cortex comes through for the community again.
posted by Effigy2000 on Sep 3, 2006 - 109 comments

Bump.

cortex comes through, again.
posted by yhbc on Aug 30, 2006 - 90 comments

Followup / second call: record a cover of Elliott Smith's Waltz #2 [mp3]for a wedding gift for my friend. [original thread].
posted by cortex on Aug 25, 2006 - 16 comments

Metafilter Compliation Album:
Phase one: call for submissions.
[everything of substance inside]
posted by cortex on Apr 17, 2006 - 85 comments