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Wes Phillips
Heinlein in Hollywood
Wes Phillips  |  Apr 18, 2007  |  0 comments
The Space Review has published an interesting look at Heinlein's collaborations with filmmakers. You've got to love an article that contains lines like this: "To the extent that such an awful piece of filmmaking can actually have a message, Rocketship X-M has a shallow and not terribly original message that nuclear war is bad for children and other living things. The universe is hostile, God hates us, and we’re all doomed. Have a nice day."
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Wes Phillips
I Want to Buy a Grammophone
Wes Phillips  |  Apr 17, 2007  |  0 comments
Rowan Atkinson demonstrates what happened to the hi-fi industry.
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Wes Phillips
Validating Newton's Second Law
Wes Phillips  |  Apr 17, 2007  |  0 comments
Apparently, Newton, not those modifiers, was right all along. F=ma totally rules!
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Say What?
Wes Phillips  |  Apr 17, 2007  |  0 comments
The Fraunhofer Institute is working on an active soundproof window that's "particularly effective at frequencies of 50–1000Hz." I want one now—but it'll be four years before they make it to market.
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Ornette Coleman Wins a Pulitzer
Wes Phillips  |  Apr 17, 2007  |  0 comments
We'd say we told you Sound Grammar was a winner, but we were really just echoing what Fred Kaplan said. His essay on the record is worth reading again—or for the first time, if you didn't take our word for it the first time around.
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Stephen Mejias
Listening to Music on the Hi-Fi
Stephen Mejias  |  Apr 16, 2007  |  7 comments
Walking to the office on this sloppy Monday morning, through April's cold rain, with a mind full of dreams and promises of warmer, brighter things, I got the feeling that it might as well be last Friday all over again. What the hell?
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How much do you spend on live performances in a year?
Joe Hartmann  |  Apr 16, 2007  |  24 comments

After last week's question about money spent on recorded music each year, reader Joe Hartmann wants to know how much do you spend on live performances in a year?

How much do you spend on live performances in a year?
$0 to $100
17% (11 votes)
$100 to $500
43% (28 votes)
$500 to $1000
26% (17 votes)
$1000 to $2500
8% (5 votes)
$2500 to $5000
5% (3 votes)
$5000 to $10,000
2% (1 vote)
$10,000 to $20,000
0% (0 votes)
Over $20,000
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 65
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Wes Phillips
I Wasn't Expecting That
Wes Phillips  |  Apr 16, 2007  |  0 comments
Not that I had any idea what Sigur Ros' "Hoppipolla" was about (actually, I never know what any Sigur Ros song is about), but this video wouldn't have even made the top 20 possibilities.

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Get Your Morris On!
Wes Phillips  |  Apr 16, 2007  |  0 comments
Four Tet has done something I would have thought impossible: produce an entertaining Morris dance video.
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Jacques Brel Is Not Alive or Well
Wes Phillips  |  Apr 16, 2007  |  0 comments
But he's still amazing, as this subdued (for him) performance of "Le Moribond" proves amply. Leave it to Brel to put this much life into a song about dying. Forget "Seasons of the Sun," this was the original and still the greatest.

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