For quite some time now, I haven’t really been listening to music. I have a ton of it, I just hadn’t listened. No idea why, really. The gift of a shiny new Nano kicked me back into it. I’ve been using Amarok to organize my music, but damned if the ipod library it depends on [...]
“Culture is impossible without a rich cultural domain.” -Judge Alex Kozinski, Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
A Fascinating look at 6 seconds of drum beat from 1969 that appears in everything from Jeep commercials, to songs by NWA. Really, once you hear it, you start hearing it everywhere. It’s all the more fascinating that the [...]
For all the squawking the recording industry does about copyright infringement, it’s interesting that Sony doesn’t seem to care unless it’s their copyright. Looks like they’re using an LGPL bit of software for which they’ve not abided by the copyright. It’s this kind of hypocrisy that makes my head hurt. Oh, and the rootkit uninstaller [...]
Maybe my iTunes-fu is weak, but I can’t find anything in the store by Tool. Not that I don’t have everything already, but Jesus tap-dancing Christ that seems like a glaring omission.
Some kinda weird, repetitive “pffft…pffft…pffft” noise in the following tracks:
Van Halen : OU812 : “Apolotical Blues”
Van Halen : Right Here, Right Now [LIVE] : “Panama”
Van Halen : OU812 : “Black and Blue”
Matthew Sweet : Altered Beast : “In Too Deep”
Live : Unwired & Wired : “Operation Spirit (Tyranny Of Tradition)”
Live : Death Of A [...]
The Last Starfighter: The Musical! Sadly, there are only 2 more weeks left and I’m no where near New York City. There’s a great review of it here.
O the joy of my spirit! it is uncaged! it darts like lightning!
Great flash of Radiohead’s “Creep”. There’s just an undercurrent of dark in the animation that fits the alienation theme of the song perfectly.