Mystifies Me

Didn't realize this *Son Volt tune* is actually Ronnie Wood's

Pet Food Politics

Might read this book

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

As a kid - saw both Gandalf and Captain Picard on stage in the UK without knowing who they were.

For Multimedia systems GLIS 633-6

Little Scream- sound




Closeup Reactions




180 degree Rule




Music examples

The 78 Project

I am very keen on this. I have been wanting to build my own wax cylinder recording device but one that doesn't use electricity for amplification. Maybe buying/building a Presto machine will have more sonically pleasing results.

I just discovered the Milk Carton Kids

Great Antonio

Didn't know about his historical stint in Japan

Sala - solo

Playing some solo guitar at Sala Rossa next week. Benefit for the Awan family.

The Everly Brothers met Buddy Holly in Montreal

....touring with Sam Cooke amongst others

Ike showed Merle Travis some fingerpicking

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...

How a T-shirt is made

Excellent interactive documentary

More from Foreverly

Smokey on Sesame

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

WHat I didn't know about the octupus