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Yet Another Missing Vowel |
| dplex (12/23/07 19:36:54) Tag: MIscellany |
| Tumblr seems a handy method for publishing scraps of media i don't want to necessarily clutter this blog with. I have started a tumblelog that I will use to post informal stuff like snapshots and song sketches. Warning: two of the initial test images are cat photos. |
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Malaysia |
| dplex (12/07/07 23:29:22) Tag: Humanity |
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Linolumixa is from Kuala Lumpur and she takes richly-colored urban photos for her notebook on Vox. We chatted on IM for a while on Sunday afternoon soon after I had updated my blog. She said she liked “Walking Warren Lake� and I admired her photojournalistic blogging style. We also talked about Macs and Leopard for a bit before she logged off to sleep (conflicting time zones are the hobgoblin of international friendships). It was a lesson in the value of finishing songs and updating the blog. Produce stuff and you will meet interesting people. I'm trying... |
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Player One, Are You Ready? |
| dplex (12/02/07 08:16:14) Tag: Excursions |
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Saw Count Zero at Church on Thursday. CZ was great as always (guess they are gaining some notoriety from their Guitar Hero songs), and the sound system was nice...clearest vocals I've heard at a club show maybe ever. New drummer Hari Hassin seems a good fit. Some laughs from Peter and Izzy stage banter. Next show at TT's in January. Friday I went to the Collision 12 opening. Somehow I always lose my way around MIT, but I eventually made it to the angular jumble of the Strata Center and had a good time with some old friends who were exhibiting. Lots of video screens and blinking lights. Decent food spread. Tagged along with a group afterwards to Legal Seafoods and ate different clam permutations and Boston cream pie. Still feeling the effects. |
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Return of the Gadfly |
| dplex (06/03/07 23:19:18) Tag: default |
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The only Count Zero live video I've seen on YouTube, from Friday's show at the Middle East Upstairs. CZ shows have been rare lately as Peter has been touring with Blue Man Group. This is not their best performance ("Gadfly" was their first song; they subsequently warmed up and played a very good set). I was standing a little to the left of the camera's POV. Count Zero performs "This Gadfly." |
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Ukreepulele |
| dplex (06/03/07 23:12:34) Tag: default |
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I was standing near the Middle East Downstairs stage when across the room Amanda Palmer, from the top of the bar, began strumming a ukulele. While I got to hear her performance of "Creep," I caught only glimpses of her strolling through the crowd, so it's cool to have this video from May 27th to fill in the blanks. Amanda Palmer performs "Creep." |
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The Power of Advertising |
| dplex (05/18/07 14:03:16) Tag: default |
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They've been pimping the new Rufus Wainwright CD on TV (I think during the Daily Show/Colbert Report block) and though I'm not too familiar with him I immediately liked the featured song "Going to Town." My standard procedure in such cases is to check eMusic to see if they have the album for download. In some cases this pays off, as it did with the swell new Dinosaur Jr. release. The Rufus disk is too major label for eMusic I guess, so I went to iTunes where it was available for $9.99. Before shelling out for the DRM I looked it up on Amazon...same price. Given the choice between immediate gratification and audio quality/physical object, I went for the latter. Amazon's insidious "Better Together" feature prompted me to spring for Björk's new disk as well. Wainwright is more bombastic than I expected. It'll take a few listens to assimilate all of the orchestral swells and form an opinion. The Björk CD has gimmicky packaging, you have to peel away a sticker to get at the tender disk meat inside. People are saying Volta is a bit of a return to the beats of her first two CDs, and I guess that's true to an extent. It does retain much of her recent "experimental" sound though. Both CDs have prominent anti-piracy warnings on the packaging. Very helpful. According to a slip of paper inside the Release the Stars CD case I can get Rufus Wainwright ringtones. Do they sell a lot of those? I don't think either CD is as good as the aforementioned Dinosaur Jr. CD Beyond. |
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