May 29th, 2008 by schiing in MP3, Music and entertainment
Update:
The archive.org servers appear to be a little unsteady, so I’m sending the links to my last.fm page instead.
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I just had a wonderful experience. Yesterday I was aimlessly surfing on the internet, kind of restless and feeling very unproductive.
Then I came over this project entitled Album-A-Day (applied crap art). It’s been running […]
May 26th, 2008 by schiing in Blogs and Social Networking, General, Technology
Robert Scoble is the kid up the street with all the answers. You know, the kid with ALL the Commodore 64 games, a gigantic Lego model railroad in the basement and whose father apparently owns a flying Citroen CX? I’m pretty sure that’s him.
Well, this kid is all grown-up now, and he’s on the […]
The New York Times has a wonderful blog called "Measure for Measure" where Andrew Bird, Darrell Brown, Rosanne Cash and Suzanne Vega share their thoughts on songwriting and tell some great stories about some of their songs.
I highly recommend this Rosanne Cash post, where she writes about "truth" vs. "facts" in songwriting and how she, […]
May 21st, 2008 by schiing in Music, Music and entertainment, Personal
Dear God. Here I am, sitting unsuspectingly in my garden enjoying the evening sun when all of a sudden I’m hearing "Animal" booming from a massive soundstage somewhere downtown in this sleepy, little village on the west coast of Norway.
I’m rushing in to grab my computer and find out what the hell is going […]
Good morning, good people. Welcome to the column you never asked for: The Smooth Side - an unforgettable ride through the dubious pleasures of smooth and non-confrontational music in the last 35 years. It may be Mellow Gold, yacht rock or marina rock, it may be soul, jazz-pop or rock (sort of) - it […]
…but me and my kids have the best time running around and dancing like maniacs to it all over the house every night. It’s probably our favorite song at the moment. Great fun!
Today I’m buying a new car! I bet you 10 bucks it’s is the only station wagon I’ll ever buy. Three kids in child seats and a stroller in the trunk - I had to give in. But next time we’re definitely buying a sports car (or a minivan, more likely…)
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