Inspired by Boing Boing’s Classic Arcade Game Deaths video set to Mad World – and thanks to the availability of video projection at the Whitefire – I want to add some visuals to the proceedings during my residency shows. Submit your video, and it might make the show and/or win a prize. Head over to Boing Boing for details and instructions.
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It's A Mad Halargian World
With Mad World‘s again-resurgent popularity, I’m getting asked more frequently about the last line on the album version from “The Hurting,” a line which I occasionally also sing in concert.
The actual line is: “Halargian world.”
(Not “illogical world”, “raunchy young world”(!), “enlarging your world”, or a number of other interesting if not amusing guesses.)
The real story: Halarge was an imaginary planet invented by either Chris Hughes or Ross Cullum during the recording of The Hurting. I added it as a joke during the lead vocal session, and we kept it.
And there you have it 
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