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Strange Charm

work · in 14 videos (2010–2013)

Mentions by year: 2010: 5 · 2011: 5 · 2012: 3 · 2013: 1

What the videos say

2010

  • 2010-07-14 · Top 10 VIDCON MOMENTS — John's number one is seeing Hank sing about particle physics in front of a thousand people who loved every second of it. (00:02:49)
  • 2010-10-21 · Strange Charm: A Song about Quarks — Hank introduces a song he wrote about quarks, called 'Strange Charm'. (00:00:00)
  • 2010-10-21 · Strange Charm: A Song about Quarks — Hank says the song is at dft.ba/quarks, made possible by his friends Sam and Alan, who created dft.ba, a URL shortener that reminds people not to forget to be awesome. (00:01:48)
  • 2010-10-22 · Making Adorable Music — John calls Hank's Wednesday song brilliant, the best song ever written about particle physics, and almost intimidatingly good. (00:00:00)
  • 2010-10-22 · Making Adorable Music — John asks what keeps Hank from being the next a private person: he has lyrics, guitar and a nerdy look, and his quark song shows he writes about subjects that matter. (00:01:09)
  • 2010-10-30 · Hank Has Questions — Hank jokes that in the worst case, in 20 years John writes vampire novels and Hank plays an afternoon Vegas lounge show, singing his quark song to five people who don't know him. (00:00:58)
  • 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — John says Hank's song about quarks is wonderful and helps him understand some things about quarks, but doesn't give the context needed to understand particle physics. (00:02:16)

2011

  • 2011-05-05 · IT'S HANKO DE MAYO!! — Hank wrote songs about making babies, Phineas Gage and 'the fundamental constituent of matter observed in 1968 through deep electric scatter', John says. (00:01:51)
  • 2011-06-09 · Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies — Hank has been working on his long-overdue album Ellen Hardcastle, with older songs (Strange Charm, What Would Captain Picard Do?, Phineas Gage) and new ones (Shake a Booty, My Phone). (00:03:03)
  • 2011-07-13 · ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video — John touts the album's songs: Phineas Gage, Strange Charm (best song ever about quarks), Shake a Booty (one of his favourites) and, from Katherine, Fermi Paradox. (00:02:11)
  • 2011-08-05 · Vidcon: Thoughts from Places — John says that whenever anyone whines about teenagers' intellectually disengaged tastes he will play them 3,000 people singing a song about quarks, which makes him hopeful about the world. (00:01:13)

2012

  • 2012-02-01 · How It Felt — John says the three weeks were like the internet became IRL: fun, clever, crowded, good to be a nerd, with talk of Sherlock and Doctor Who and singing of songs about particle physics. (00:00:01)
  • 2012-07-03 · The Physics of Book Clubs and Vidcon — John says what blew his mind most was several thousand people joining Hank in singing a song about particle physics. (00:01:07)
  • 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank lists his songs about quarks, ponies, Harry Potter and Helen Hunt, notes Helen Hunt tweeted him about hers, and recalls inventing 2D glasses and turning Pride and Prejudice into a video blog. (00:01:36)

2013