2.06.2014
1.23.2014
1.22.2014
12.16.2013
Flexi Disc
I have been wanting to make a paper phonograph like this. But I also want to do the recording onto the vinyl or other medium somehow...
11.26.2013
11.16.2013
Songs Our Daddy Taught Us
Incredile - Green Day singer and Norah Jones doing a tribute to the Everly borhters by redoing one of my favourite of their albums? Icredibly they do an amazing job
11.10.2013
Memphis music
One of the best sleeper album of the 90s is the Grifters' Ain't My Lookout
It takes a while to grow on you but then it is under your skin. Listening to it again I think about Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers and maybe I am not so off.
It takes a while to grow on you but then it is under your skin. Listening to it again I think about Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers and maybe I am not so off.
10.23.2013
photoshopped danny
Microphone check uses this picture of Danny Brown - it is disconcerting that in the original someone has drawn white lines around his cheek and ears.
10.21.2013
new charter better not be wishy washy
we want to ban clothing that was brought about by religious modesty for women - ban it in the public service domain that is - to not set a "bad" example?
women (in cultures throughout the world including the new world) were forced to cover their torsos by both christian and muslim modesty. these conventions of "decency" are pretty recent and brought about by religion. by the logic above, any public servant position that is shirtless for a man should also be shirtless for a woman, in order to ban religious conventions of female modesty. never mind that it is *now* the cultural norm for women to cover the upper body and not think of it as a religious convention but as a personal choice - that's just getting used to something - at the heart of it it is religion that forced women to cover up. can a law cherry-pick which religious clothing conventions it deems as sexist....if so doesn't that law become racist in how it decides cultural norms? i think this would mean (if the charter passes) that a women holding such a public service position would be *forced* to expose her torso or lose her job. are their life guard positions that are public service? maybe daycare workers that take kids swimming?
women (in cultures throughout the world including the new world) were forced to cover their torsos by both christian and muslim modesty. these conventions of "decency" are pretty recent and brought about by religion. by the logic above, any public servant position that is shirtless for a man should also be shirtless for a woman, in order to ban religious conventions of female modesty. never mind that it is *now* the cultural norm for women to cover the upper body and not think of it as a religious convention but as a personal choice - that's just getting used to something - at the heart of it it is religion that forced women to cover up. can a law cherry-pick which religious clothing conventions it deems as sexist....if so doesn't that law become racist in how it decides cultural norms? i think this would mean (if the charter passes) that a women holding such a public service position would be *forced* to expose her torso or lose her job. are their life guard positions that are public service? maybe daycare workers that take kids swimming?
9.26.2013
Digital music files are worth nothing - or so says a judge
Because a digital file has been ruled (in the states) to have no resale value I have stopped buying digital downloads. It makes no sense to buy something that instantly loses value as soon as you posses it. I had decided to stop buying CDs and buy digital downloads instead and of course keep buying vinyl. Now I think I will only buy vinyl and "rent music" from one of these streaming sites like RDIO. I am trying out their free trial right now. I guess it is like an expensive membership to a huge library - and the cost covers ease of service? Interesting to see how this will all pan out.
9.13.2013
8.29.2013
8.04.2013
4.17.2013
4.06.2013
Artificial Retina - Bionic Eye
A fundamental flaw with the design of the artificial retina system - the camera is headfixed. It should have a servo that mimics eye movements accounting for both saccades, the VOR, pursuit etc. I'm sure the subjects would have an easier time orienting - the are now learning a completely erroneous (re evolutionary normal) sensory signal that is incongruous with the active gaze.
Evolution as a Black Swan
It occurred to me that perhaps trying to explain the highly improbably case of our existence (owing to the confluence of improbable events that natural selection deals with) might be an unnecessary task. Unnecessary in the sense that the only reason we are trying to figure it out is because we exist - and we exist because we happen to be the outlier in the distribution of events in the universe. Aren't we just the lottery winner wondering "how could we be so lucky?" when in the end someone had to win the lottery...or rather - if someone won the lottery that someone would inevitably wonder about how lucky they are? I need to see if academics in the field discuss existence in this manner. I would assume Nassim Taleb does...but I haven't found it online. After all - the term "Black Swan" itself comes from an evolutionary example! People address Black Swans in evolution - but I'm not sure if they talk about it in terms of the sequence of all the evolutionary events leading to the present. Hmm - maybe I should actually see if people talk about it in terms of the primordial soup and the event of the first self-replicating substance being a Black Swan. I'm sure someone must.
3.23.2013
3.22.2013
3.21.2013
3.20.2013
3.18.2013
2.07.2013
Homely wives
My addition to the definition of "homely" in the wiktionary still going strong after almost 7 years
Maybe I should have said South Asian rather than Indian....Just changed it to Southern Asia (as per UN definition)
Maybe I should have said South Asian rather than Indian....Just changed it to Southern Asia (as per UN definition)
1.29.2013
Carole Kaye
Carole Kaye - her bass-work with the Beach Boys - directly affecting Paul's bass lines with the Beatles. But as she says below - it was still Brian Wilson's bass lines.
1.28.2013
12.03.2012
11.22.2012
11.12.2012
The who at isle of wight
I wish they would release a version with all the fake foley stuff taken out
11.09.2012
10.31.2012
10.23.2012
10.08.2012
9.27.2012
8.13.2012
8.03.2012
8.01.2012
My theory on dogs
people have more empathy for dogs because of their ability to move each eyebrow individually. we project emotions on them and assume their motives are transparent while thinking the cat is plotting something....
7.13.2012
7.06.2012
7.01.2012
5.31.2012
fish highway
i first had this idea as a kid (using hamster highways as building blocks) - but figured i'd have to hook up a toilet like "flush" system to flush the fish into the highway - more elegant solution from the person who actually built it.
5.15.2012
4.25.2012
4.24.2012
4.04.2012
4.03.2012
3.31.2012
3.30.2012
Eminem and the Louvin Brothers
Some Louvin Brothers lyrics (considering the time) make Eminem look like a children's artist
3.29.2012
3.27.2012
3.21.2012
Ed Sullivan and the Beatles
Notes on first two appearances (Ed Sullivan Theatre and Miami Beach):
- really feels like John is in the background compared to other three - although he is amused
- seems like Paul sings lead on *every* song until second song (This Boy) in their second performance in Miami
- Lots of crowd reactions to Ringo closeups
- Great guitar work (and harmonizing) by George
- Never knew Davy Jones appeared as a kid on first episode
- In second show, although he pronounces it right in first show, Ed keeps referring to Miami as Miama
- Mitzi Gaynor absoutely KILLS in her appearance on the second show. She is like a 1964 Madonna (attire, dancing, appeal, etc, except with a much stronger voice).
3.19.2012
3.18.2012
3.12.2012
2.15.2012
Lennon humour
Anthology version of A Day in the Life
It seems it's only me who realizes he is saying "sugarbum fairy"
2.08.2012
2.07.2012
1.21.2012
1.05.2012
12.13.2011
David Comes to Life
Been meaning to get it
Saw them at Osheaga with the drummer from Death from Above 1979 and Pink Eyes crowd surfing and singing a show closer.
12.01.2011
guitar man
jerry reed and tom jones
and baby what you want me to do which is cool when tom switches to high harmony
and baby what you want me to do which is cool when tom switches to high harmony
11.29.2011
Elliott Smith
I was at this in store performance - C and I decided to stick around until the end even though we were late for a Buffalo Tom show at the Bowery Ballroom. When we finally got to the Bowery - we left after a few songs anyways. Still haven't found a live recording of the Dec 31, 1999 New Year's eve show we attended - Elliott rang in 2000. It exists as it is listed on trade sites.
11.28.2011
finger stylin' dylan
some musings on who plays guitar on don't think twice. i assume same person for moonshiner
11.23.2011
11.22.2011
Major email hack?
Two people have sent emails with links ending in
11.02.2011
I'm Straight
I just realized in the Modern Lover's song Jonathan rhymes the word "place" over and over with itself....sometimes with "straight".
10.25.2011
10.24.2011
10.11.2011
10.06.2011
9.27.2011
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