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Our talk about the Beatles in two of last week’s posts (here and here) reminded me of a favorite Frank Black song, “Freedom Rock” from Black’s second solo record, Teenager of the Year. My name is Chip And I’m different I don’t conform I wear a different uniform I’m out of the blue [...] I meant to write about this last week, but I’ve grown so accustomed to not wanting to write anything that I completely forgot about it. I’ll preface this by saying that I didn’t go to the “We Are One” concert in DC just before the inauguration because it would have been cost prohibitive, but [...] I was going to write about Mamma Mia, just to follow up on Lost His Way’s Jukebox Musical post from yesterday, but Abba is going to have to wait. For now here is some current news: Just when you think music technology can’t get any worse, here comes Microsoft with a new gadget so [...] I won’t spend a whole lot of time on this since mrshl’s last post (which I neglected to say was nicely written and enjoyable) covered most of the ground that needs covering. But I cannot pass up a cosmic gift. When Tricia showed me what she had selected to stream from the Internet last [...] I feel like Mrs. Tiggle Winkle has come and given me a visit and had tea this morning before I romped around the city using my time machine via books. Ah yes, life is good! The air is clean and the meadow is wide and open. Sure it’s the same old crap raining down, [...] Apologies all around. —–Hi Conor – here’s something (from cherry blossom)… One of my colleagues at the media lab and his friend built a robotic music machine called Quartet (sponsored by Absolut vodka). A human user enters a short musical theme on the internet, and the machine creates a three minute piece based on [...] I overdid it last week. It started with an early flight from Boston to DC Saturday morning and didn’t seem to let up until today. I have finally gotten around to uploading my inauguration concert photodocuments from last Sunday for you. I put them in their rightful chronological place and I apologize profusely for [...] So a blog called JamsBio ranked all 185 of the Beatles songs, and compiled relatively lengthy essays (by Internet standards) for each track. I’m not one to vigorously debate or criticize such lists, because, you know, who cares? That there is an innate subjectivity in this kind of thing goes without saying. I am, [...] This week’s post is all about YouTube, if you couldn’t gather that from the title. Some of you may remember the hilariously funny video I made comparing songs from Wilco’s then new album Sky Blue Sky with various influences. Well, sometime yesterday I got a message from YouTube saying that it was flagged [...] Billy Bragg. Saw him live the Saturday before election. I generally steer away from overtly political music, but he was just incredible, by himself, with a little help from a small crew, he had my undivided attention for two and half hours. Funny, serious, inspiring. The kind of person I wish i would run [...] |
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