So I’m letting the much buzzed Tangerine scan thru my Powerbook’s iTunes library (Don’t judge the Beyonce or Timberlake, okay?) so I can see how well it works at automagically building playlists based on BPM and beat intensity. From what I’ve read about it so far, it sounds promising — but we’ll see how well it works once I’ve had the chance to road test it by loading up the Shuffle for my evening walks.
Yesterday, the (almost) unthinkable happened, as Lady Sovereign’s video for “Love Me or Hate Me” vaulted to number one on MTV’s “Total Request Live” countdown. Yes, more people voted for Lady Sovereign being chased by a ghost hamster than Justin Timberlake and T.I. in “My Love”.
News like this is almost enough to get me watching MTV again. Almost.
This is a great skit from last week’s SNL featuring Fred Armisen and Amy Poehler as Lou Reed and Patti Smith riffing on the demise of CBGB. Since it’s on YouTube, I’m sure NBC will smack it down pretty quickly — so watch it while you can…
If you don’t have anything nice to say, let a YouTube video of a monkey drinking its own urine do it for you. [via]
While Songbird is straight up crashtastic on both my Dual G5 at work and my Powerbook at home, it really shows a lot of promise as far as media players go. Do yourself a favor and check out the screencast if you have a few minutes.
I’m looking forward to seeing this mature and not be so crashy. Hopefully that day will come sooner rather than later…
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.
(more…)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…
Brendon Lloyd has done a scathingly funny letter from the RIAA to an alleged illegal downloader for McSweeney’s that’s really worth reading. Check it out:
This is your notice that you will be sued for one of the following:
- Downloading a song from the Internet.
- Singing the “Happy Birthday” song.
- Other.
- None of the above.
If you would prefer not to be stripped of your home and dignity, please send us $3,750 in the return envelope. If your toddler has been named in this lawsuit, explain to them that the fruits of their labor as an adult will go to pay a debt that will ultimately lead to their death at a young age due to their inability to afford medical insurance. Toddlers never understand that, but they’ll get the point if you make them cry. If your household pet has been named in this lawsuit, it will be euthanized.
As always, YouTube picks up the slack to show me the bits of TV I wish I hadn’t missed. While it’s nice to see Meg and Jack doing a clever little cameo, I can’t help but think this feels a little too much like a Family Guy style tangent for me to call it genius. *shrug* Whatev.
*swoon* “Jesus The Mexican Boy” is one of my all time favorite Iron & Wine songs — right behind “Naked As We Came” and “The Trapeze Swinger”. And while you can’t download legal, free versions of the other two tracks Sub Pop was nice enough to offer up “Jesus…” for free.
If you’ve never heard it — or of Iron & Wine for that matter — I suggest you give it a listen. Well, you know, so long as you’re into beautifully quiet acoustic indie stuff… [mp3]