Extreme Christmas Lights
December 31st, 2008 | Published in Music, Videos
This must have taken a very long time to create. Weird but impressive:
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Balalaika Player
December 22nd, 2008 | Published in Music, Videos
Incredible. Only three strings:
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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, “An 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.