Monday, October 1
sacrilicious!
Thursday, July 26
i ♥ turd
Tuesday, July 24
oh, you too?
I’m a fan of U2’s Achtung Baby; I think it’s so great that I even bought it again when they renamed it How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
Well, it turns out U2’s not the only band to have re-made the album! A band called “Add” has also covered Achtung Baby, with harmonicas, accordions, organs, and casiotones. (copycommaright)
Well, it turns out U2’s not the only band to have re-made the album! A band called “Add” has also covered Achtung Baby, with harmonicas, accordions, organs, and casiotones. (copycommaright)
Labels: music
Monday, July 23
here’s hoping the napkin doodles aren't actively protected
Copyright as described via simple napkin doodle. (boingboing)
On 10/19/05, the daughter of one of my MIT friends shadowed me for a day at work as part of a school project. One of the good things about spending time with children is that it forces you to explain things in simple terms. That day, I drew lots of drawings.
Wednesday, July 18
god speed you! black emperor
Seeqpod is a search amalgamation tool; put in the band you like, or song title, and it searches the web for publically available sources, scrobbles together a list of those songs, and lets you put together a playlist. The playlist can be saved for later reference. The songs' URLs are also shown, but appear to need to be hand-copied because the Flash interface doesn't permit right-clicking to copy, and the URL itself doesn't launch a new window, copy the URL, or do anything at all apparently. (minor gripe)
There's also an autodetected iPhone specific interface if accessed through the iPhone's Safari browser.
And I still miss Pandora.
Edit: I love it when people respond to inquiries - I wrote:
I'm curious: The URL of each MP3 found is displayed with each found track,Emma at SeeqPod wrote back:
but there's no apparent way to copy it to the clipboard or launch a new
browser window or tab. Why is there no easy link to the URLs of the MP3s
that Seeqpod finds?
Thanks for visiting SeeqPod. We've disabled those links because of legal issues related to downloading and because of the overall unreliability of the links themselves. We may improve and reintroduce that feature in the future.
If you have an iPhone, be sure to check out http://seeqpod.com/iphone - and let your friends know about SeeqPod!
Friday, July 13
cover your radio head
stereogum presents...OK X: A Tribute to OK Computer:
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer we’ve asked some of our favorite musicians to participate in a song-by-song covers compilation. Indicative of the album’s continued importance, each invitee jumped at the chance; the results are personal, intense, tellingly various. Slow down, dig in, enjoy. But note: we did this all legal and everything, so we can’t keep these up forever...get ’em before someone else does. Ambition makes you look pretty. (thanks, the other michael)
Labels: music
Wednesday, July 4
Beyond Awesome: Finnish Power Metal CG Squirrels - and a pinecone golem
Friday, June 1
two-decade-old Mac kicks AMD Dual Core’s silicon ass
Bloat. If you think that Americans are getting fatter, take one good look at the operating system (OS) your computer is running right now. It gets larger and more weighed down with every update. We are in the third decade of global personal computing, and have we really progressed that far?Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff that’s not considered thoroughly here, like just how much more crazy stuff you can do on computers. Try running any 3D application on a Mac Plus, and see how far you’ll get. Or play an MP3 or open a JPG; uncompressing data takes cycles, and today's machines will play a dozen compressed songs and movies simultaneously while you edit your MS Word documents. But the point the author is trying to make is valid - is software so advanced “under the hood” from 20 years ago that we should tolerate it operating at the same or worse speed as twenty years ago?
Let’s go back to the dawn of personal computing and grab an old sentimental favorite, the Apple Macintosh Plus. The Mac Plus is an icon of the ’80s along with padded shoulders, big hair and Devo. It seems that we all had a little Mac, either in our college dorm room, in the upstairs bedroom, or on our office desk at some time. With its tiny 9-inch black & white screen and all-in-one packaging, the Mac Plus is a computing relic in the days of widescreen LCD monitors and dual- and quad-core systems. (full article) (tokyopia)
Labels: music
Wednesday, May 30
jack black covers “kiss from a rose”
...while wearing a ”Kochamara!” Psychonauts shirt! I own this shirt, too! (Thanks, Caroline!) (The International House of Mojo)
Monday, April 2
get your bootleg on...
Bootie NYC - New York City's all-mashup bootleg party
Get your bootleg/mashups on with Bootie in NYC, or just scope the top ten mashies, available as MP3 download at the site! (Thanks, Sean!)
Labels: music
Friday, March 2
two great tastes that taste great together
Dylan Hears a Who! - a collection of faux Bob Dylan tracks, singing classic Dr. Seuss works. Not quite a mashup, it reminds me of Louis Armstrong’s “original” version of Oops, I Did It Again! and Matthew’s Celebrity Pixies Covers. (thanks, the other michael)
Labels: music
Tuesday, February 20
attack of the medleys
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Ten Albums in Ten Minutes is part mashup, part medley, part genius, and part sacrilege. In particularl, Nirvana’s Nevermind occupies a place in my heart that defies simplification on this magnitude. (thanks, el otro miguel)
Labels: music
Wednesday, February 14
“I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.”
—Naguib Mahfouz
Eric Prydz vs Pink Floyd - Proper Education (thanks, weezie)
Eric Prydz vs Pink Floyd - Proper Education (thanks, weezie)
Labels: mashup, music, quote, video
Monday, January 15
peter murphy and reznor doing covers and making my day
Peter Murphy and NIN collaborative live tracks; some stunning covers (zenarchery):
Nightclubbing
Warm Leatherette
Nightclubbing
Warm Leatherette
Thursday, December 14
see link title for backstory
Figment Of Blogger’s Irked Imagination Becomes Living, Breathing Song - Idolator. Go. Listen. Love it.
Labels: music
Sunday, October 8
from the mayor of coverville
A mess of cool covers of songs you know by bands you don’t over at TheSquareLife.com. I used my real name and email to access the download page, but that doesn’t mean you have to. (coverville)
Labels: music
Wednesday, August 30
where no homer has gone before
Sunday, July 30
wakka wakka, gene, get your tongue out of that girl
My cousin, Marcus, reads this blog so I naturally thought of him when I ran into this massive collection of KISS covers from KISS Army Sweden. When Marcus was into KISS, it was about the point where I was enjoying The Muppet Movie and other Henson-created projects; so I was happy, and baffled to simultaneously find this collection of Muppet Albums at Copy, Right.
Labels: music
Sunday, June 4
covers will tear us apart
My Old Kentucky Blog: Love Will Tear Us Apart (the other michæl)
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Stairways to Heaven, Stairways to Hell
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Stairways to Heaven, Stairways to Hell
Labels: music
Thursday, April 6
music
Arif, who covers some Smiths and Tears for Fears songs, along with his original work. (copy, right)
What the fuck? Is this German? Austrian music hoaxes at WMFU (the other michael)
What the fuck? Is this German? Austrian music hoaxes at WMFU (the other michael)
Labels: music
Friday, March 31
a song for you civ addicts out there
Sunday, February 26
history of the ur-mashup
Before they became The KLF, they were The JAMs, and they managed to get into quite a bit of trouble. So much so that they had to withdraw their album What the Fuck’s Going On? from sale, and destroyed all but five of the copies after failing to meet with ABBA and arrange a detante. Luckily, despite its near-complete destruction, it can be downloaded, and may now achieve ubiquitous appreciation.
Labels: music
Friday, February 24
request: glassbreaks
Does anyone know where to get the Glassbreaks mashup collection anymore? I only managed to download two very impressive songs before it got cease-and-desisted into oblivion. A web location or even a drop at yousendit.com or dropload.com would be just swell. Swollen, in fact.It looks like the masher is still at it; I’ll be looking for The Beastles next...
Update: Got it! Rather, both of them. Thanks!
Labels: music
Thursday, February 23
rapture riders
As Go Home Productions’ Rapture Riders has become popular enough to remove from free circulation and into paid, it is worth noting that 99X’s mashup page still has it (and many others) for free download.
Labels: music
Sunday, February 12
real-world, real-time mashup
Gorillaz’ Feel Good, Inc., and whatever Madonna is doing (her legs are too distracting for me to parse her music) were performed at the Grammy award ceremony. This is particularly impressive when the fact that the Gorillaz are a virtual band of cartoons that appear onstage with the arguably real Madonna. Check out Madonna vs. Gorillaz.
Wednesday, February 1
a flood of they might be giants videos
They Might Be Giants Multimedia: Many videos from the career of one of my all-time favorite bands. Does anyone else thing there should be a warning before links directly to RealMedia files? (theynow)
Monday, January 16
videos
Dark: Kompressor covers Girl from Ipanema, nicely redefining the tone of “each one she passes says, ‘Ah...’”
Light: Kidz Pop covers Since You Been Gone, a pop phenomenon with which I had been previously unacquainted. I think I shall hide the presence of this from my children.
Funny: Kill Bill with Super Mario sounds included.
Not funny: thought-provoking Greenpeace advertisement
(all via KDBryan)
Kompressor at Google Video:
Light: Kidz Pop covers Since You Been Gone, a pop phenomenon with which I had been previously unacquainted. I think I shall hide the presence of this from my children.
Funny: Kill Bill with Super Mario sounds included.
Not funny: thought-provoking Greenpeace advertisement
(all via KDBryan)
Kompressor at Google Video:
Friday, October 14
fellow expat blog
In Japan covers some How To elements of existing in Japan. Getting drunk and being able to navigate the train system to get home seem key.
Labels: music
Tuesday, October 11
music, community
somesongs [list songs]:
welcome to somesongs.
this is a community-based site for sharing homemade music. it works pretty simply: a person makes a song and posts the mp3 on his/her website and then posts the link here. then the users of somesongs rate the song (good, okay, or bad) so that other users will have an easier time of finding songs they'll enjoy.
Labels: music
Wednesday, September 28
The Unnamed Channels
Get your old time radio nice and pulpy with Spaceship Radio (with podcasts) or another station that manages it through shoutcasting (.pls - will open in iTunes or Llamasoft's thingy, or other apps that stream MP3 - I'm sleepy.) (boingboing)
Labels: music
Monday, August 29
beeping and booping
If you enjoyed the style of soundtrack in This Spartan Life, you could do worse than to check out YMCK and goto80 (Warning: both the beeping and the booping commence immediately).
Labels: music
Sunday, July 24
pop, you bastid
MeFi got links to 99X FM’s Mandatory Mashup page with excellent cutups (at least check out Benny Hill vs. Fifty Cent), and other MeFi-ers posted some of their favorites in response, including the news that Dsico That No-Talent Hack is producing again! Also, if you like Philip Glass’ music but always felt it could use some contemporary lyrical assistance, there is Glassbreaks. (thanks, El Otro Miguel)
Labels: music
Friday, July 22
when pigs fly
Don Ho covers Peter Gabriel's Shock the Monkey (MP3), and a few other atrocities of LOVE by other artists. Get it fast; it will go away. Or you can buy the CD like me! (chad underkoffler)
Update: Copy, Right is the blog-of-the-week here at my.bicycle. Yes, this is the first time I have declared a blog-of-the-week. So?
Update: Copy, Right is the blog-of-the-week here at my.bicycle. Yes, this is the first time I have declared a blog-of-the-week. So?
Labels: music
Thursday, July 14
mashuptown
Mashup Town has a live365 streaming radio, as well as current individual entries via podcast (XML) and some very cool tracks in a number of genre by various cutup mixheads. (thanks, steven kaye)
Labels: music
Saturday, July 2
mashup boot camp
Wish you could hear a bit of bastard pop that hasn’t yet been done? You could always learn how to make your own.
Labels: music
Tuesday, June 14
“criticizing these reporters is like booing at the special olympics”
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog covers the coverage and Michael Jackson supporters at the courthouse. (.mov)
Wednesday, May 25
might as well jump. c’mon and jump
Thursday, April 21
hack jobs
Here is incontrovertible proof why remakes are generally a complete waste of everyone’s time and money: Hitchock’s Psycho overlaid on Gus Van Sant’s remake (.mov) (jwz) It reminds me of the Nickleback song that cropped up with one hit running in one channel, and the other in the right, and it turns out that they’re really the same song (.mp3).
Labels: music
Wednesday, April 13
star trek
Does Banned on Vulcan count as “filk”? “The USS Make-Shit-Up” (.mp3) is a rollicking tribute to Trek’s willingness to technobabble their way into a deus ex machina in nearly every episode. Now if Voltaire would only do the opposite, and say why the transporters won’t work...
Labels: music
Wednesday, April 6
i’d really like to see a video for this
Lionel Vinyl’s Owner of a Lovely Butt (.mp3) mashes Yes and Sir Mix-a-lot with groovy results. (thanks, The Other Michael)
Labels: music
Wednesday, March 30
music: mashy goodness
More robust, no-rap bastard pop: Boulevard of Broken Songs (.mp3) from Party Ben mashes Green Day and Oasis, as well as some Travis, and Eminem, and a tickling of Aerosmith. Teh hawt. (del.icio.us)
Labels: music
Sunday, January 30
acoustic bliss, cognitive dissonance
Nina Gordon covers N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton (.mp3) with all the charm of an angel, and all the irony of a Fallen One. Check out the other songs on her site, if you’d like to hear Phil Collins’ One More Night redeemed. (via waxy)
Labels: music
Friday, January 21
go home (productions)
Sunday, January 16
“oh, you touch my tra la la”
Along the lines of Zlad! (Elektronik, Supersonik) comes Günther’s Ding Dong Song. Go to the Video section, but don’t forget to check out the About section, and score yerself a champagne-tastic, glamorous wallpaper while you’re there. (thanks, Hedr)
Update: Nokia owners can get it as a ringtone (.mp3) [popup warning]. Actually, Günthernet has a bit on ringtones, but I can’t read the crazy moon language on that section... I think they’re charging in “kr” which is either “krona” or “Klingon Regnum.” Your pick.
Update:
Yeah. I bought it. I'm a nerd. So what?
Update: Nokia owners can get it as a ringtone (.mp3) [popup warning]. Actually, Günthernet has a bit on ringtones, but I can’t read the crazy moon language on that section... I think they’re charging in “kr” which is either “krona” or “Klingon Regnum.” Your pick.
Update:
Yeah. I bought it. I'm a nerd. So what?
Labels: music
Friday, December 31
mashy
Boing Boing is covering an “Incredible Beatles mashup (that) mixes 40 different tracks.” Vader sez, “Impressive.” (via del.icio.us’ mashup tag)
Labels: music
Sunday, November 28
bush junior rocks out
Reading an interesting bastard pop article at WorldChanging, I found the Shrub covering Imagine in Imagine This (.mp3). Combined with my previous find of him covering Sunday, Bloody Sunday, it seems like he really gets his bootleg on.
From the same article, LenLowLand Music offers some interesting Bastard Pop ditties. Enlow’s blog says he'll be at Bootie in San Francisco!
Favorite tangential find from trawling the links: Miss Frenchie’s Funky Cold Milkshake.
From the same article, LenLowLand Music offers some interesting Bastard Pop ditties. Enlow’s blog says he'll be at Bootie in San Francisco!
Favorite tangential find from trawling the links: Miss Frenchie’s Funky Cold Milkshake.
Labels: music
Wednesday, November 17
gybo
If you need even more bastardpoppybits, check DJ Riko’s offerings. Riko gets a bit more oldschool than most mixes; right now I'm enjoying bits of Leave It mixed with heavy scratching. (.mp3) (via waxy)
Thursday, November 11
this pocari’s for you, male-playing-female cosplayer
Real Otaku Heroes’ tribute to the thankfully rare male-playing-female cosplayer breed. (.mp3)
Labels: music
Friday, October 22
fear and loathing in equal portions
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson covers the current election in Rolling Stone Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004. (via boingboing)
Things haven't changed all that much where George W. Bush comes from. Houston is a cruel and crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.
Labels: music
Tuesday, October 12
bad audio dynamite
Bad voiceover work from videogames: Winback (mp3), Megaman 8 (mp3), Resident Evil (mp3), Shenmue (mp3), Star Ocean 2 (mp3), Last Alert (mp3)
Labels: music
Monday, September 13
tomatopocalypse
I was really worried about Resident Evil: Apocalypse’s 24% on rottentomatoes.com, until I saw that the original only scored 35%. Which means I will probably be happy to go and see it, if all I want is Milla firing guns at zombies. Which I do. Oh, how I do. The MPAA warning is enough of a review for me:
Update: Milla Jovovich released a alternative-folksy-pop The Divine Comedy in 1994, “(i)nspired by a love of "elves and magic trees", Milla penned the lyrics at 15, recorded it when she was 16, and released it when she was 18(...)” Like many people, I was stunned at its quality, and have long hoped for a follow-up album. In an MTV interview regarding Resident Evil: Apocalypse, they asked about her music; she revealed that her personal site has downloads of demo tracks on which she has since worked, as well as links to other music project on which she has collaborated.
NON-STOP VIOLENCE, LANGUAGE, AND SOME NUDITYAnyone else want to make Resident Evel with me? It would be a fan movie about an indestructible zombie motorcycle rider with a penchant for flashy jumpsuits.
Update: Milla Jovovich released a alternative-folksy-pop The Divine Comedy in 1994, “(i)nspired by a love of "elves and magic trees", Milla penned the lyrics at 15, recorded it when she was 16, and released it when she was 18(...)” Like many people, I was stunned at its quality, and have long hoped for a follow-up album. In an MTV interview regarding Resident Evil: Apocalypse, they asked about her music; she revealed that her personal site has downloads of demo tracks on which she has since worked, as well as links to other music project on which she has collaborated.
Labels: music
Monday, September 6
irony so thick, it chokes on itself
Soulwax’ new album Any Minute Now is released on a copy-protected CD. Soulwax got its start as 2 Many DJ’s, a clubmixing, bastard-popping, mashup crew who created new songs using other people’s music as a foundation. O, irony! Though I’d love to have the new album, I bought a non-CP’d album of 2 Many DJ’s previous mixes instead (as heard on radio soulwax pt. 2, which is really good) , which will actually rip to iTunes, and it won’t kill my Mac.
By doing this, I am merely one hit on a statistic that says, “yeah, these guys are good,” but does not support copy-protection of CDs. I can't believe Soulwax thought it was a good idea to CP their record; it doesn't piss me off so much as shake my head in disbelief. What does make me angry is the RIAA claiming that CD sales have dropped 7% (arguable) and then go on to blame it on CD-copying and ’net piracy. Personally I refuse to buy any CD that I can't back up (we have a lot of scratched-up CD-R's, thanks to my five-year-old’s filing system) include in my iTunes library and listen to with the rest of my music.
To the RIAA: Don't offer damaged goods, then complain if no-one buys them.
Update: Several good ideas for record labels to address their problems (not just piracy, not just sales).
By doing this, I am merely one hit on a statistic that says, “yeah, these guys are good,” but does not support copy-protection of CDs. I can't believe Soulwax thought it was a good idea to CP their record; it doesn't piss me off so much as shake my head in disbelief. What does make me angry is the RIAA claiming that CD sales have dropped 7% (arguable) and then go on to blame it on CD-copying and ’net piracy. Personally I refuse to buy any CD that I can't back up (we have a lot of scratched-up CD-R's, thanks to my five-year-old’s filing system) include in my iTunes library and listen to with the rest of my music.
To the RIAA: Don't offer damaged goods, then complain if no-one buys them.
Update: Several good ideas for record labels to address their problems (not just piracy, not just sales).
Labels: music
Friday, August 20
to the beat of a nine-inch-nailgun
Tweaker, music project by ex-NIN member Chris Vrenna, has downloads. There are some sassy remixes for Rob Zombie tracks, as well as work done for American McGee's Alice, Eidos' Mad Dash -- though I can't find the tracks for Doom3, which were supposedly available through their MySpace page. (via music for robots)
Labels: music
Saturday, August 14
bootie goes punk
London Booted, the Clash mashup album, is available for download. As the site says, don't forget to visit a donation site, especially one of Joe Strummer's favorites, Future Forests. (thanks, The Other Michæl, who thinks you should listen it to an iPod in a Post-Cool case.)
Labels: music
Wednesday, August 11
bizarriaa
Now Warner Bros. is recruiting help from an MP3 blog in spreading the word about The Secret Machines, granting permission to distribute music. Weird. Good, but weird.
Labels: music
Wednesday, July 28
net.radio
Japanese radio broadcast radio sucks. 10 years ago I brought an American CD-radio-casette deck over, and didn't care that the frequencies didn't match Japanese commercial radio wavelenghts. Radio is just halfhearted and lame. Cable radio, with a broader range as well as the ability to select exclusively within a given genre, was all the rage 10 years ago. It's still in use extensively for background music in shops and restaurants throughout Japan.
At my desk at work, however, it's a different story. I've previously posted a number of interesting websites carrying free, alternative, indie, or mashup MP3's, but have neglected internet radio. Here are two picks of which I only learned today (via tokyopia forum):
At my desk at work, however, it's a different story. I've previously posted a number of interesting websites carrying free, alternative, indie, or mashup MP3's, but have neglected internet radio. Here are two picks of which I only learned today (via tokyopia forum):
- KCRW (MP3 stream-link)
- Netmusique Radio (MP3 stream-link), nicely provides meta-info for bands in the stream, so if you like what you hear, you can look it up pretty easily. Which makes things a little simpler than, say, trying to find out whence the Penis Song came.
Labels: music
Friday, July 2
micropayments for big music
Warren Ellis' [BAD SIGNAL] mail list today mentioned mp3ria, an artist-centric music download service that operates on the BitPass micropayment system. I bought my first BitPass to pick up Joshua Ellis' Love Songs for Bastards, for US$3.5, a whole album with a good range of styles. The files they offer are MP3's (as the site's name would imply), no DRM, and up for use on virtually all playback devices, and as many devices as you'd like (unlike iTunes). Since then I've picked up some Deathboy stuff, and other tracks that were part of a promotional campaign, and a single from Joshua Ellis' upcoming album, Redwood City Station. You can check out most tracks as a streaming MP3 or in a little Flash player.
Labels: music
Tuesday, June 29
"hey, baby! wake up from your asleep; we have arrived onto the future."
Elektronik Supersonik (Thanks, Chuji!)
Warning(s):
Warning(s):
- New wave rawk
- Synth guitars
- Orchestra strikes
- 80's production values
- Mullets
- Questionable accents
Labels: music
Friday, June 25
music (a soundtrack)
Mystery and Misery: Soundtrack
19 Song Soundtrack To A Movie About A Boy And A Girl Riding In A Car With The Top Down Through The Countryside And Small Town Main Streets While Looking For Places To Stop To Take Photographs And To Lay In Soft Tall Grass While Looking At The Clouds And Crawling With The Crickets But End Up Taking A Wrong Turn Only To Get Lost And Find Ways To Narrowly Escape Death And Fall In Love But Not With Eachother.I posted about Misery and Mystery before, but I've enjoyed Bethany Curve's 4AD-ish I'm Tired Gone (mp3) enough to clarify.
Labels: music
poxy boggards new album
My friends Bill and Stu are in Poxy Boggards, "a drinking group with a singing problem." They've just released their new album, Liver, Let Die, through CD Baby. It will make you want to roleplay or go to a Renaissance Faire. Or drink beer. If you already want to drink beer, it's probably unsafe to listen to it. It's probably unsafe to listen to Hey Nonny Nonny (low bitrate mp3) no matter what, though.
Labels: music
Wednesday, June 2
desperado
Wednesday, May 5
rebel never gets old
Killer Bowie mash-up (iTunes Music store link) by Go Home Productions, available "legitimately" through iTMS.
Plus: Reset Music, another mashup site. (via Thousand-faced Moon)
Update: Wired article on bootleg backlash against bowie's co-opting of the form for self-promotion. (via futurismic)
Plus: Reset Music, another mashup site. (via Thousand-faced Moon)
Update: Wired article on bootleg backlash against bowie's co-opting of the form for self-promotion. (via futurismic)
Monday, April 12
(re)mixed up
- A Nickleback song remixed by placing an old one in the left channel, and a new one in the right (link goes directly to MP3). This should be considered less "pirate art" than a wake-up call about the state of the industry.
- Bush's joke about not being able to find the Weapons of Mass Destruction during a dinner speech has been remixed into a laff-riot. (via boingboing)
- BannedMusic.org is distributing illegal art albums via BitTorrent.
- I am still waiting for a Spinal Tap and JayZ mashup album to show up; call it the "JäyZ: Smell the Bläck Älbüm"
- Blue Jam
Labels: music
Wednesday, March 17
marrying you
My friend kristen directed the bitchun kewl video for "Marrying You" (by Green & Root). Warning: folk music, renfaire clothes, and instances of utterly compelling and charming same-sex love and romance are heavily evidenced. Boo ya. In other news, two more Oregon counties have affirmed freedom to the right to marriage, regardless of sex.
Thursday, March 11
feed me
"RSS Rocks" - a PC Magazine article on the basics of RSS, and why it is teh awesome.
Here is RocketInfo a free, browser-based, crossplatform RSS aggregator (Atom compatible, too). I don't like the interface, but I assume it will change as needed. I'm really spoiled by NetNewsWire Lite on OS X.
BottomFeederis a self-contained executable (no installation procedure was needed, the current version has one, but doesn't write to the Windows Registry as far as I can tell) BUT it doesn't like being run from a keychain disk. My dreams of keeping my RSS lists on me at all times, and not seeing previously read articles appear as unread were dashed as I tried it on home and then work, then home machines. In fact, it would just vaporize off to Nowheresville, and not show up except as a couple of processes in the Task Manager. In order to get it to run, I'd delete the .ini files, and the .bfrunning file, and then it would open fine, and restore from the last-saved backup automatically. It made the feeds list transportable, but couldn't keep the per-article information.
Lastly, Tribe.net has just added RSS support for every one of the 13,000+ tribe/discussion boards it hosts. ¡Soy muy feliz!
Update: Lockergnome and antville links galore to MP3 blog feeds.
Update: I must now sheepishly admit that the version of Bottomfeeder I was using was a couple months old, and that some of the niggling issues I had with it have been addressed. I used the in-app update feature and it no longer crashes when run from my keychain disk. It takes longer to start up than the old version, but this is ameliorated by it, you know, not crashing. Joy!
Here is RocketInfo a free, browser-based, crossplatform RSS aggregator (Atom compatible, too). I don't like the interface, but I assume it will change as needed. I'm really spoiled by NetNewsWire Lite on OS X.
BottomFeederis a self-contained executable (no installation procedure was needed, the current version has one, but doesn't write to the Windows Registry as far as I can tell) BUT it doesn't like being run from a keychain disk. My dreams of keeping my RSS lists on me at all times, and not seeing previously read articles appear as unread were dashed as I tried it on home and then work, then home machines. In fact, it would just vaporize off to Nowheresville, and not show up except as a couple of processes in the Task Manager. In order to get it to run, I'd delete the .ini files, and the .bfrunning file, and then it would open fine, and restore from the last-saved backup automatically. It made the feeds list transportable, but couldn't keep the per-article information.
Lastly, Tribe.net has just added RSS support for every one of the 13,000+ tribe/discussion boards it hosts. ¡Soy muy feliz!
Update: Lockergnome and antville links galore to MP3 blog feeds.
Update: I must now sheepishly admit that the version of Bottomfeeder I was using was a couple months old, and that some of the niggling issues I had with it have been addressed. I used the in-app update feature and it no longer crashes when run from my keychain disk. It takes longer to start up than the old version, but this is ameliorated by it, you know, not crashing. Joy!
Labels: music
Wednesday, February 18
bootie: psa
Bastard Pop is the mixing of two or more songs with each other, and/or adding new content to the mix. This is still just catching on in the US, from what I hear, as opposed to Europe where it is old news. The recent, oppressive activities on the part of copyright industry are likely to blame. Or maybe there are just so many versions of Missy Elliot's "Work It" that the average human can hear on the road to finding gems like Freelance Hellraiser's "Just Can't Get Enough Pills," Dsico's "Block Rockin' Woman," or the anonymous, joyful Eminem vs. Magnum P.I. mashup "Without Magnum." To those humans, I feel their pain, but say unto them keep digging long enough, and you will find gold.
Friends in San Francisco have been able to attend BOOTIE! (photos, photos, photos) - a club event championing this outlaw music form. The last one was on Feb. 10th, and the next one will be Wednesday, March 10, Cherry Bar & Lounge. There's also a new club thing starting (from the maillist): "And for those of you looking for a little mash-up fix before our next BOOTIE party on , be sure to come to the GRAND OPENING of our new club, GUILTY. GUILTY is happening this FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 -- and every Friday after that -- at the STUD, at 9th & Harrison in San Francisco. It's being presented by ourselves, along with Suppositori Spelling, and it's gonna be a "bastard pop rock electro hiphop whatever" party. Mr. Anthony from Glama-Rama will also be spinning. Adrian and the Mysterious D will be sure to throw quite a few mash-ups into their sets!"
I'd go if I could, but I'm not even on the right continent. (thanks, astra)
Friends in San Francisco have been able to attend BOOTIE! (photos, photos, photos) - a club event championing this outlaw music form. The last one was on Feb. 10th, and the next one will be Wednesday, March 10, Cherry Bar & Lounge. There's also a new club thing starting (from the maillist): "And for those of you looking for a little mash-up fix before our next BOOTIE party on , be sure to come to the GRAND OPENING of our new club, GUILTY. GUILTY is happening this FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 -- and every Friday after that -- at the STUD, at 9th & Harrison in San Francisco. It's being presented by ourselves, along with Suppositori Spelling, and it's gonna be a "bastard pop rock electro hiphop whatever" party. Mr. Anthony from Glama-Rama will also be spinning. Adrian and the Mysterious D will be sure to throw quite a few mash-ups into their sets!"
I'd go if I could, but I'm not even on the right continent. (thanks, astra)