Music

Extreme Christmas Lights

December 31st, 2008  |  Published in Music, Videos

This must have taken a very long time to create. Weird but impressive:

Balalaika Player

December 22nd, 2008  |  Published in Music, Videos

Incredible. Only three strings:

(via)

Till there was you

July 7th, 2008  |  Published in Music, Videos

Amazon MP3 Deals

June 30th, 2008  |  Published in Business, Internet, Links, Music

Amazon MP3’s daily deal twitter is fantastic. It’s a great use of twitter. Customers get deals, and Amazon gets permission to put themselves in front of users every day.

(via Gruber)

I saw her standing there

June 9th, 2008  |  Published in Music, Videos

Start your Monday off with a little Beatles:

The inexplicable anguish of Italian Opera (Lamb)

October 14th, 2007  |  Published in Music, Quotes

I have sat through an Italian Opera, till, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded streets, to solace myself with sounds, which I was not obliged to follow, and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!

–Charles Lamb (1775–1834), “A Chapter on Ears,” in The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate (1994), p. 167

Escaping Protestant guitars (Dillard)

April 19th, 2007  |  Published in Music, Quotes, Religion

I have overcome a fiercely anti-Catholic upbringing in order to attend Mass simply and solely to escape Protestant guitars.

–Anne Dillard, β€œAn Expedition to the Pole,” in Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (1983), 30

Steve Jobs and DRM

March 15th, 2007  |  Published in Current Events, Music, Technology, Thoughts

If Steve Jobs wants DRM-free music (and we all do, I hope), why doesn’t the iTunes Store let musicians offer their music without DRM? That seems like a good first step.