Tuesday, May 31, 2005
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Thursday, May 19, 2005
ArtLung Blog - Passing the musical baton
Joe Crawford has passed me the music baton:Total size of music files on my computer:
25Mb on my work computer. I'm down to 10Gb on my home computer. Building a media machine to connect to the TV. It's got 160Gb dedicated. Hopefully I can max that out soon.
The last CD I bought was:
Two discs for steph. L.A.M.B. from Gwen Stefani. And Franz Ferdinand, the self-titled number.
Song playing right now:
Silence. I like coming in to work early and not hearing a dang thing. I listen to the iPod on my walk to work. But this morning I called my parents instead. Dad was getting ready to play some golf. Mom had just finished walking Al. We talked all the way through downtown, from Little Italy to the East Village.
Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
This is a tough one. You're asking for my desert island songs, which is a lot tougher than my desert island albums. Put my feet to the fire will you? Ok, here they are:
Portishead - Sour Times
Beck - Cold Brains
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Evil Bro 93 Album has an excellent Live version of this song)
Neil Young - Old Man
The Smiths - This Charming Man
A note on This Carming Man. It was the first Alternative song I fell in love with. One of my dad's students gave my dad a mized tape with this song on it. The playlist also included The Petenders, The The, Ebn Ozn, and Depeche Mode. When I got a walkman for Christmas early in the 80's this was the first tape I put in. Everythign else we had was vinyl, Hence the Neil Young affinity. I think I listened to that tape for about 4 hours a day the entire winter vacation. I used to also listen to it travelling to soccer games. I was a weird kid.
Five people to whom I’m passing the baton:
Stephanie Abbott
Noel Abbott
Eric Ancker
Scott Dunn
Johan Almenberg
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Pac Man celebrates his 25th birthday - May. 10, 2005
"So go ahead and be impressed as you hear about sales numbers for the next 'Grand Theft Auto' or see anxious gamers camping overnight to be the first to get their hands on next generation consoles. But weigh that frenzy to the one Pac Man sparked when it was originally released in Japan. The game proved so popular that it incited a shortage of yen coins in the country."BAGnewsNotes: Baghdad Freestyle
More on Baghdad Soldier documentaries over at Gunnar Palace. See the trailer at Yahoo.Baghdad Rap
This was the only article I could find about the new documentary film "Baghdad Rap." The only reason I know it exists is that DJ Spooky mentioned it in his recent interview at Wired Magazine.Monday, May 09, 2005
get your war on
"The Continuation of Art by Other Means"Wired News: Judging a Book by Its Contents
File under reverse taxonomy. Not your average folksonomy.The McKinsey Quarterly: US pension funds: Mind the gap
It's not all about the rising cost of health care. Nor is it all about the ever-increasing life-expectancy. But it mostly is. Nevertheless, the one lesson for the Gov to learn is that pension systems based wholly on playing the markets have a 90% failure rate.Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Intramural Missive
Bear with me, brother. The ministry is yet in its grassroots stages. One day this valley will be a forest and we the treetop dwellers. We'll feast on antelope from the neighboring grasslands. We'll drink wine from the hillside vineyards. The berries are plump, sweet and a regional symbol of rebellion.
