Involuntary Associations

I’m finding it a bit disturbing that I can’t get this out of my head after the troubles in Japan:

Also disturbingly, can’t get the word “labradoodle” out of my head. Actually, I did, but listening to “Ring of Fire” brought it back again…

Anyway, reminds me of the 2005 London bombings, when [...]

Those were different times

Sorry, I’ll try to rile up FITA a bit more next week…

My Country, ‘Tis of Thee

It’s probably different in Texas, but countless times I’d hear people say, “I like all kinds of music… well, of course, except country and rap”. I hardly listened to any country music growing up, at least intentionally. In some establishments it couldn’t be avoided, though. And then of course there were all those commercials [...]

Hi-Fi

According to this rumor post, Apple is looking into offering 24-bit music files on iTunes. The post references a CNN article…

Apple and other digital music retailers are in discussions with record labels to improve the quality of the song files they sell, executives involved in the talks say.

As a result, online music [...]

Sweet Thing

Thought Van the Man’s classic might be a good thing to share for VD. The Waterboys do a great version on their eternally classic album Fisherman’s Blues. Here’s a nice live take, with lead WB Mike Scott being stranger than I’d expected.

Due to non-embed lameness, you must click your mouse on a link [...]

Christmas in February

Courtesy of The Big Picture: “A detailed picture of the Christmas tree on Capibaribe River, in the city of Recife, Brazil. The tree is made of pirated CDs confiscated in police operations against piracy. (© Américo Nunes)”

Form is Inevitable

This week’s guest post comes to you courtesy of Jorge Boehringer/Core of the Coalman. Thanks, Jorge!

“Calm down, what happens, happens mostly without you.“ Josef Albers

As much as something can be said to exist it can be said to posses form.

Form may be determined by the internal component structures of a body, [...]

Gangsta Rap Roundup

This gangsta rap roundup comes to you courtesy of former KTRU DJ Amar Pai. Thanks, Amar! He originally had the information laid out in columns in a spreadsheet, which made it all the more informative (and amusing), but unfortunately such a layout wasn’t very 565-friendly, so I’ve made each row into a paragraph below.

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A, B, E’s in the Meantime

I got lots to do. I gotta get on it. So my nappage may suffer a bit more than it usually suffers. Some guest posters will intercede on my behalf, at least on 1/24 & 1/31, so you have that to look forward to. In the meantime, a few vids resulting from tube searches [...]

Acetone New Year

It’s funny how life goes. Time fades away. Where does the time go? How did it come to be Twenty Eleven already? (And can we please stop with the “two thousand” stuff already? It would’ve been totally cool to be all Twenty Ten last year, but noooo…)

Rolling back the years… Some of my [...]