Big Fat Tyres and Everything
The Seventies. That ancient lost era, that musical wasteland, the decade everyone (who doesn't know music) likes to rag on, continues to supply Madison Avenue with new and exciting fodder.
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The Booger Waltz
Walking to the train this morning I saw a woman who was a dead ringer for Sara Carter, wife of A.P. Carter, whose leaving to marry A.P.'s cousin Coy torpedoed the famous Carter Family.
Swoosh and Whir
The fax machine is singing its song. Beep bloop beep bloop bleep beep beep. And bloop. It goes on and on. Kristina feeds the machine and the machine eats, requests for verification on pricing and availability of amps and speakers, tonearms and cartridges, accessories and racks and so much more. "Recommended Components" is singing its song. Swoosh and whir.
Painting the Weather
An exhibit organized around the schtick of making the paintings about the atmospheric conditions portrayed within them. Works anyway.
Classical Gas
I've been checking out the Creative Commons–licensed MP3s at <I>Musikethos</I>. If you dig classical music, you'll find a lot to admire there.
Frank Portman, King Dork
As anyone who has talked me me even briefly over the last month knows, I loved reading <I>King Dork</I>. It's a young adult novel that's one-half rant against <I>Catcher In the Rye</I>, one-half spoof of <I>The Da Vinci Code</I>, and one-half Encyclopedia Brown in the 21<SUP>st</SUP> Century. Yeah, I know that adds up to more than one, but that's how good it is. It's also very knowing about rock trivia and absolutely spot-on about what it feels like to be an "uncool" teen.
Rearrange
"Don't stay too late," JA says, on his way out of the office.
Seat of Female Libido Revealed
Good news: It's in the ventromedial nucleus (VMN) in the hypothalamus.<BR>Bad news: As an audiophile, I emanate vibes that shut it down.
Be a Happier Pig
My fellow blogger <A HREF="http://blog.hometheatermag.com/markfleischmann/">Mark Fleischmann</A> has taken his <I>Happy Pig's Hot 100 New York Restaurants</I> online. The listings are available by neighborhood, alphabetically, or by type of cuisine.
A Visit To Sonos
"I don't get why some audiophiles still think that saving data using a lossless compression scheme like FLAC or Apple Lossless sounds any different than an uncompressed CD file," says <A HREF="http://www.sonos.com">Sonos</A> founder and VP of Sales and Marketing Thomas S. Cullen between bites of white fish shish kebab. "It's just mathematics, and the results are sonically identical, but you save half the space on your hard drive."