I’m starting a new category here on books I’ve read, mostly to keep track of what I’ve read and what I thought about it.
I’ll start with Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. I read about this in Wired and maybe somewhere else on the web also. I even posted about it before [...]
The First Mortgage
I’m Quite All Right, Thank You
Scientists Removing Flowers from Horse
Dry All My Tears
Unicyclist Turf War
Stringing You Along
Man Trips and Falls In His Own Country
Man Ponders Kicking Friend in Head
Oversized Man Entertains The City
An Elusive Dream
Bear Experiencing Jealousy
A Painful Reminder
Women and Cats Do as They Please
These titles belong to these paintings by Mike Stilkey. I [...]
In yet another wonderful turn on the intellectual rights front, here’s a note from Moby:
hi,
i’ll keep this brief.
this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.
to use the site you log in(or on?) and are [...]
Readers of this blog will know that one of the first things I started doing here were mixtapes. I only got two done, and then I didn’t get around to posting more. Today I learned about Muxtape. Raul mentioned it, you shouldn’t miss his first online mixtape. I found this one pretty interesting. Notice that you can subscribe to [...]
This is a present for all my good friends whose birthdays are the month of January. The idea of digging this dog out of its grave is Lorenzo’s (now in Milan), but I am have a feeling that Nella (Madrid), Eric (Atlanta), and Francisco (San José) will also enjoy this.
Listening to the 17 year-old version [...]
From Wikipedia’s article on the Velvet Undergound:
Although never commercially successful during their time, the Velvet Underground have been regarded as one of the most important and influential groups of their era. A famous remark, often attributed to British musician Brian Eno, is that while only a few thousand people bought the first Velvet Underground record [...]
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