Holiday movies to see:
Category: Legacy
Last week, photomatt commented on the death of flexible width designs, all kinds of ruckus, blah blah blah. Clagnut follows up with more on fixed widths.
I was just reading the Pitchfork Top 50, and it definitely had me thinking back to some of the music I really enjoyed this year (not all mope).
- Exploding Hearts – Sleeping Aides And Razorblades [3.6MiB] – poprocks at its best; RIP
- Manitoba – Crayon [3.7MiB] – IDM, now w/ 100% less pretension, 200% more warmth
- Explosions in the Sky – Your Hand in Mine [12.0 MiB] – missed ’em live, hopefully they’ll be back
- Non-Prophets – Damage [7.0MiB] – rhymes that just won’t quit
- Prefuse 73 – The Color of Tempo [4.6MiB] – hard to decide whether the original or the outtakes are better
- Benny Benassi – Don’t Touch Too Much [6.0MiB] – remember the power tools video? the rest of the album is as good
- Basement Jaxx – Lucky Star (Jaxx Klub Remix) [64kbps MP3, 1.5MiB] – still kicks ass, still looking for a HQ version 🙂
Other fav albums this year: M83, Broken Social Scene, Weakerthans, Decemberists…
Albums I forgot came out this year but shouldn’t have considering how much I listened to them: Rilo Kiley – Execution of All Things, Cursive – The Ugly Organ, Four Tet – Rounds, The Postal Service (of course)
Yesterday, my Saddle Creek and CDBaby orders both arrived, so I’m swimming in new albums (also, reminded me to drop by EasyNews). It’s been a while since I’ve inflicted the web with my taste in music, and tis the season, right? (no 12yr old lawsuits funded by these albums, 100% RIAA free)
- Menomena – Cough Coughing [4.1MiB MP3] (Official Site, Buy/Listen @ CDBaby, (Pitchfork rave) – these guys are amazingly fun glitch/hip/indie-pop
- Park Avenue – Lachrymose Obsequious Vehement Elated [5.6MiB MP3] – lo-fi indie pop
- The Good Life – The Beaten Path [4.5MiB MP3] – ok, I’ve had this for a while, but thought I’d post it anyway, since it’s *so* good
Some other music links:
- What a Crappy Present – a Downhill Battle PSA; what to do if you get a crappy RIAA CD for a present this season;
The company that makes this sued my friend
- Pitchfork –
2003: The Year in Music News - Pitchfork – Top 50 Singles of 2003
- Plea for Peace Tour, April-June 2004 – Cursive, Mike Park,
Desaparecidos - Have you bought your RIAA warning stickers yet? (finally got around to ordering yesterday)
- Apple Pro/Filme: John D. Lowry – using PowerMacs and proprietary software algorithms for film restoration
I’m done w/ school, which means I’m now catching up on work work, freelance work, project work, cc competition work, oh, and catching on stuff like cleaning/paying bills and all the other stuff I’ve been putting off.
For those looking for things to read while I try to be productive, sites with better link lists than mine:
- ‘Humanised’ organs can be grown in animals
- LiveJournal.com stats – looks like all those 15yo LJer’s are now 18
- jtunes4 – java itunes clone, with rendezvous support
- Clay Shirky: RIAA Succeeds Where Cypherpunks Fail – most of the /. discussion is inane, but a few worthwhile comments
- Knoppix Hard Disk Installation HOWTO – CD to Debian testing in 20 minutes
- Cephalon Inc (CEPH) – makers of Provigil
- Salman Rushdie interview Terry Gilliam
- Lars von Trier/Paul Thomas Anderson interview
- Tony Kushner, Radical Pragmatist – interview in Mother Jones
- Metadazzle overfizzle – jko comments on meta-data (meta)
- Apple Store Japan: Longest Line [mov] – how many city blocks is that? and in the rain too
Someone was asking about WinAMP -> web plugins. Here’s what I found in a quick search:
- Do Something
- Currently Hearing
- now playing
- AMIP – IRC, local app integration
- What’s Playing (WA3)
Black Isle (and Fallout 3) has been canned. Too bad, looks like it was shaping up.
Winamp 5.0 is out now, and it kicks much ass. It’s everything WinAMP 3 should have been. I’m really digging their media library. Does everything you’d think it should, and leaves the goddamn playlist alone. So, where’s the rendezvous enabled mac version?
WA2 core + Wasabi skin support, media library. Also, has global hot keys, which kick butt; WA3 is shelved, but Wasabi development continues. Hmm, here’s an iPod plugin, apparently…