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Panflute Flowchart - 07 Jun 2008
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Read Full Post »I’m Entering The Ear Of Madness Tomorrow - 05 Jun 2008
Visit Popdose, one of my favorite places on the internet, on Thursday and find out what’s happening!
Read Full Post »I’m Gonna Write Robert Scoble A Song - 26 May 2008
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 […]
How To Write A Song? - 24 May 2008
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, […]
Quasi-Theory Time: The Music Revolutions According to Schiing, the Music Professor - 12 Apr 2008
My big head has been working overtime lately (for no apparent reason, as usual), and it’s time to share my new pet theory:
My claim is that over the past hundred years or so, the development of Anglo- and African-American popular music can be divided into highly predictable cycles.
You see, I figure that roughly, […]
Socrates or Charles the Twelfth? - 15 Feb 2008
I just started reading a new novel, and it opened with this quote from Samuel Johnson, an English writer in the 17th century:
“Were Socrates and Charles the Twelfth of Sweden both present in any company, and Socrates to say, ‘Follow me, and hear a lecture on philosophy;’ and Charles, laying his hand on his […]
Stephen Fry on Apple and digital devices - 03 Nov 2007
Stephen Fry on Apple and digital devices. I couldn’t agree more, even though I’m a XP user (for now) - but that’s just because I can’t afford 10 PC’s with XP, Vista, Linux and God knows what, like Stephen can:
“Apple gets plenty of small things wrong, but one big thing it gets right: when you […]
Damn Near Righteous - 26 Sep 2007
Damn Near Righteous - Bill Medley (2007)In Tune Productions / TuneCore
I must admit that I know very little about Bill Medley’s career. I know that he and Bobby Hatfield were the Righteous Brothers, and that he had a huge hit duet with Jennifer Warnes in 1987. Everyone knows that.
I didn’t expect much when I sat down […]
YMCA - The Finnish Way - 24 Aug 2007
I nicked this link from Boing Boing. The singers and dancers are obviously doing a parody (er, hopefully), but what I really, really love about this video are the subtle gestures of the keyboard player during the first 10 seconds of the song - he’s so freaking hilarious. I’m definitely stealing his routine.
Read Full Post »Particls.com: A Better Way To Read the News - 02 Aug 2007
Just wanted to put in a good word for Particls, a brilliant free, open standards based app I discovered recently that instantly tracks your favorite sites and topics. It’s kind of like a filtered feed reader.
It’s very easy to set up. Install it, enter a few keywords to indicate your fields of interest and you’re ready […]