"Even my henchmen think I'm crazy!"

I blame Brenda Dayne (the former pride of Portland) and her blasted good musical taste. I was spinning today--more on that later--and listening to Cast On when she played a song. She warned us. She said it was an "ear worm." What she didn't say is that:

A. It's about a B movie-style mad scientist--my favorite kind!--and

B. It's by the same guy who did the hilarious and strangely tuneful bluegrass version of Baby Got Back that I blogged a while ago, Jonathan Coulton.

It's called Skullcrusher Mountain:

Welcome to my secret lair on Skullcrusher Mountain
I hope that you’ve enjoyed your stay so far
I see you’ve met my assistant Scarface
His appearance is quite disturbing
But I assure you he’s harmless enough
He’s a sweetheart, calls me master
And he has a way of finding pretty things and bringing them to me

CHORUS:
I’m so into you
But I’m way too smart for you
Even my henchmen think I’m crazy
I’m not surprised that you agree
If you could find some way to be
A little bit less afraid of me
You’d see the voices that control me from inside my head
Say I shouldn’t kill you yet

And it gets better from there! And it's a rockin' tune! And you can download it free except that I paid the $1 because it's an awesome rockin' tune! And he's going to be in Portland on the 23rd and I'm seriously thinking about going even though I never go anywhere! He's that awesome.