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Come See "The Handless Organist"
Let's continue the musical theme this week with "Worst Album Covers Of All Time." No one is allowed to make the obvious "anal bum cover" comment either. (via)
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Rock and Roll
If you properly mix (1) many glass bottles containing small amounts of water (2) a pair of rollerblades (3) hinged heel-mounted mallets (4) ski poles (5) a road, and (6) time, you can get (7) music.
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Cymatics
Anyone who wants to get a visual idea of what string theory is (kinda) needs to watch this fascinating video. If you're a huge dork like me, the 28 minute time investment will fly by. I'm ashamed that...
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Ben Folds Innovative Music
Ben Folds cover of "Such Great Heights" with a piano, an ashtray, a wine glass, cardboard box, wooden spoon, ringtone that plays Macarena and, of course, furious skills. (via: waxy)
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Don't sell out
Another reason not to be a creative sell out -- David Bowie may write an extemporaneous song with the lyrics, "He's banal and facile. He's a fat waste of space." Sorry I've posted so many YouTube...
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1987 was a very good year
I don't know if it's nostalgia, or what... But I've said it before--video games are embedded in our culture. You hear that music enough times (at seven years old), and you're never forgetting it.
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Shuffle
The beauty of having your MP3 player on shuffle while driving into work is every once in a while a little old school LL Cool J comes on and sets you in the right mode for the day.
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The smooth grooves of this song alone will make it to at least #2
I didn't realize there are ten episodes of "Yacht Rock" until DFIG reminded me today. Incase you've never seen this before, "Yacht rock is a variation of popular soft rock that peaked between the years...
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Inventory: 15 Pop Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Cool concept, but I certainly don't agree with all the selections. For one thing, more than one Tarantino movie/song should have made the list.
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O-R-A-N-G-E, INC.
This was playing a little while ago at OC's World HQ in honor of us changing from an LLC to an S Corp. Also, a little known fact (at least to us) Fergie from the Black Eye Peas is one of the kids.
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The Zen Stone
I love my Creative Zen Micro (6gb). It's durable, reliable and has played every file format I've thrown at it... And it's not an iPod. Well, Creative just released a new addition to the Zen family: the...
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Mixing mediums is almost always cool
"We then degraded the images and printed out each frame sequentially (all 4133 of them). We then nailed each "shot" of 50-100 posters to various structures"This is a very creative video -- especially...
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BLT: A Tradition Unlike Any Other
well at least this week compete in Wii bowling.Madeleine won in bowling. We are all now convinced the Wii is sexist. I still give her all the praise in the world as this is the second time she has...
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Where's Duff?
An interesting article on how Duff from G N R fame went back to school and started treating rock and roll as a business.
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The Hello Experiment
I always say if you are looking for inspiration, bad '80's Lionel Richie videos are the first place to go. (via Waxy)
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The Music of July
Chelsea Dagger by the Fratellis from the album Costello MusicHang Me Up to Dry by the Cold War Kid from the album Robbers and CowardsDanger! High Voltage by Electric Six from the album FirePut Your...
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Alcohol August: A CD Release
The play list:Crown Victoria- Robbers on High StreetBack in Your Head- Tegan and SaraHappy Together- The TurtlesPut A Penny in the Slot- Fionn ReganTake My Heart- SokoMy Third House- Kings of...
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In Bloom v. Business Time
So if you watch Nirvana's In Bloom video then watch Flight of the Conchords's Business Time there's an interesting parallel.
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Guilt Trip Pricing
Lots of blogs are touting another free download, record label free album being released. This one from Trent Reznor and Saul Williams. What they aren't mentioning is the guilt trip that would make any...
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Hank Dylan
Bob Dylan is heading up a project to have several artists write music and record some of Hank Williams' final lyrics. (via The 9513)
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The Dude abides... And blogs about this song
"Launch party, nicely dressed - what's the point - sausage fest!" describing the Web 2.0 bubble set to the tune of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire. Points for lyrical creativity, but come on,...
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We Sure Are Hot For Two Cold People; There's a Fire in My Snow Pants
Just because it is 2008 doesn't mean you can't enjoy Chipper Demon's December 2007 CD mix. Now, if we can just get a proper CD cover designed.
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Rap Steroids
Jeez, even our hip hop artist are using steroids. Next thing you are going to tell me they are smoking pot.
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Tool's Lateralus Filtered Through Fibonacci
Tool always impregnates their art with depth and intrigue. And that's why I like them. I don't do enough syllable counting in lyrics, so if anyone can point to other examples of Fibonacci patterns in...
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Doug Jones Everybody, Doug Jones
Run-in with a local music studRun-in with a local music studSo, this guy I'd never heard of shows up at a random late night after-party, he grabs a guitar, and starts playing a couple of his unrecorded...
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