This weekend I bought a melodica which is totally awesome but also makes me appreciate the lack of saliva involved with playing the guitar. Seriously, iew. Another thing I learned is that I have almost zero understanding of some really basic musical concepts like, oh I don’t know… Keys and Octaves. I hope my neighbors enjoy hearing me repeatedly mangle some scales for awhile. Also I learned that Lemony Snicket’s real name is Daniel Handler, and that he’s written this awesome book called Adverbs, which sports a nice Daniel Clowes cover and it’s a little wanky and confusing at parts, since a lot of the characters have the same name, but there’s actually a point to this and it’s totally worth it and I recommend it… highly!
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But I think you’ll agree that this site is better than TEN SUPERBOWLS!!!
Make *absolutely* sure you click on the “Mountain of the Tapping Dwarves” link, and check out the “Jam” section located therein. But please, also to be appreciating the other awesome little touches on the site, like the sweet ass integrated tuner at top-right.
(via Bleep Insider)
It used to seem like maybe England had a statistically improbable number of great musicians, but nowadays I’m even more impressed with what’s going on even further north in Europe. Kings of Convenience, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Sigur Ros, etc., etc., etc… And then there’s this guy, Norway’s Sondre Lerche. His prior stuff has been sort of pop/rock/folk/jazz-y, but this time around it’s all jazz (#5 best-selling Contemporary Jazz Album in the US, as of right now) and it’s all awesome. Here are just a few samples:
Myhusbandsnuts.com OMG! LOL! WTF? HAXXX0R1!
…so I e-mailed Andy at his work and asked him, “Why did your wife just ask me if I’d ever tried your nuts?” He immediately knew what she had been talking about and replied to me, “LOL!!! You should try my wife’s cherries!!!” My reply was, “Excuse me?” He then went on to explain to me about your product and we had a good laugh over the whole thing. He also said that on a recent trip up north they had been shopping and Maria had found some wonderful cherry preserves that she was now hooked on….A few days later, Maria walks into my office carrying a jar of cherries and looking very perplexed. She asked me, “I’m not sure what’s going on here, but my husband asked me to bring you a jar of my cherries.” I burst out laughing and then stopped long enough to explain to her all that had happened since her initial, innocent question to me about My Husband’s Nuts©. Needless to say, we ended up in tears we were laughing so hard. She felt terrible that I hadn’t heard of your product before and understood the unease and concern her question had caused me.
It’s like rain on your wedding day……. Beeeee-yotch! =P
Here’s an interesting title for Nintendo’s forthcoming Revolution console:
Sadness is a gothic horror title that is being kept under wraps as a confidential project for now. It will be a game for adult players only and will feature themes of paranoid schizophrenia, narcolepsy and nyctophobia (the fear of darkness and the night).
Also:
Sounds like they’re doing some interesting things with the controller. Using it as a knife or piece of glass to slit a throat, a lasso part of a rope to hook and scale a wall and as a torch to scare away rats. The whole game is said to be in B&W.
Still a good read though:
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions – everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.-Ted Nelson, hypertext prophet
(via scripting.com)
Here is some music for you eight legged freaks:
Jeremy Jay – Escape to Aspen (live)
Jeremy Jay – Till We Meet Again (live)
Nice Peter – The George Bush Song, Part II (Lick My Balls)
Nice Peter – I Quit, You Fat Motherfucker
The Jeremy Jay tracks were recorded at San Francisco’s Edinburgh Castle Pub last Friday with my tiny-ass iAudio F1 MP3 device and the Nice Peter (no, not Nice Pete!) songs were brought to my attention by Brook who went to high school with him, but who doesn’t have a web page as far as I know so there’s nothing to link to except maybe some vaguely embarassing pictures of her from college, but I’m a nice guy so I won’t do that… =P He’s based in Chicago, so all you Chicago people should go see him in Chicago sometime! Tell him that Brook told Eric to tell you to go see him! (in Chicago)
So there’s this place along Highway 1 that keeps having landslides and getting shut down for like, months at at time. It just happened again recently. According to Wikipedia, there has been a century long debate on whether building a tunnel or a bypass might be a good idea, but thanks to “environmental” and “budget” concerns, nothing has been accomplished. The funny thing though is that (according to the Wikipedia article) there already *was* a railroad tunnel constructed in 1908 that might have been usable, but it was “destroyed during Prohibition, to keep it from being used by alcohol smugglers.”
I love the drug war.
