Jason Cosper

Author: Jason Cosper

  • Archival Gomi: 10 Questions With Eric Kleptone

    You know, I realized the other day that I’d managed to lose a few pretty decent posts when I decided to stop doing Gomi No Sensei as my day to day blog. Furthermore completely shutting off the archives from the outside world probably wasn’t the best move — even if it did get rid of a few moments and posts that I wasn’t exactly proud of.

    So in the interest of preservation, I’ve decided to go ahead and dust off a few of those 1334 old posts and run them here. This first one is an interview with Eric Kleptone — who as part of The Kleptones has released two albums and three limited release EPs since — from almost 2 years ago to the day. Enjoy!

    Originally Published: September 28th, 2004

    Move over “Grey Album”, The Kleptones “A Night At The Hip-Hopera” seems to be gathering plenty of buzz with the cool kids in intarwebland. I was lucky enough to exchange some mail with Eric Kleptone who agreed to answer a handful of my amateurish questions.

    The answers he returned to me were as extensive and well thought out as the mix he contributed to. With his permission, I’ve gone ahead and reproduced our impromptu Q and A below. I hope you enjoy it.

    Okay, seriously. Why Queen?

    Erm…why not? It was a combination of things — we chanced on some really good source material to start with, and we’re already huge fans anyway — I’ve been listening to Queen since I was knee-high. They made so much excellent and varied music during their existance that we knew we could do something that had a good range to it — it wouldn’t get boring after a couple of tracks.

    Also it was light years away from The Lips…and we wanted something that had stuff on it that people could get down with, and that we could take out and DJ.

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  • Links for 2006-09-29

  • Subway Ride

    I’ve been doing a little noodling with iMovie lately and I managed to turn an old quiet .mpg into a nice little clip. I’m nowhere close to becoming one of those dorky vloggers, but becoming familiar with the tools may inspire me to post a little more than just photos and text here. *shrug*

  • Phone Etiquette

    Dear Unidentified Caller,

    If you’re gonna call me more than half a dozen times from an unlisted number over the course of 10 minutes, please have the dignity to leave a fucking message. If you really wanted to talk to me, you would have the common decency to do that at the very least.

    KTHXBYE,
    Jason

  • Nibbles The Goat

    Sarah tried to make friends with a goat over the weekend. The goat had other ideas tho…

  • Fresh Episodes

    So, Gilmore Girls is back — and after watching the season opener, I’ve gotta say that I’m mildly pleased with the show under its new management. The Rory/Lorelai interplay is still mostly there, and that’s one of the things that keeps me coming back. Some of their conversations missed a little of that Amy-Sherman Palladino sparkle and pop, but I enjoyed pretty much every scene that they shared.

    Rory: How can you not have ice?
    Lorelai: You know I don’t cook!

    With that being said, the show’s going to need to work a bit harder to keep me watching. I don’t care how much of the hots I have for Lauren Graham — or how clever I think the writing can be — I seriously can’t take much more of this broody Lorelai crap.

    I’ve invested enough time in this show that I honestly hope that they can keep me watching. If they don’t, it’s quite possible that they’ll end up losing me to House.

  • Web 2.0

    Here’s a crazy, awesome stop motion advert for UK based online magazine The First Post.

  • Ben Folds Covers Such Great Heights

    This isn’t the best cover of my second favorite Postal Service track, but Ben gets lots of points for inventiveness. Dropping an s-bomb where there wasn’t one before sort of amuses me too…

  • The Upcoming A.V. Club

    Leonard just tipped me off to a couple of really awesome new features on Upcoming:

    • Any link to an mp3 now embeds an audio player — the nifty, lightweight 1 Pixel Out Flash player — into the page. [example]
    • Links to YouTube videos embed the video into the page. The site does all the heavy lifting for you. [example]

    Great work guys! I hope I didn’t steal anyone’s thunder by posting this here tho…

  • Links for 2006-09-21