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How the RIAA is always wrong
I’m pretty sure that in previous posts I’ve mentioned that the RIAA has always been wrong about what technological disruptions do to their business. They wanted to kill LPs because they thought no one would go see live performances. They wanted to quash AM radio for fear no one would by LPs. They wanted to…
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Clean Conscious
A parody I made a few years ago for church along with Kyle, Mauricio, Jared, Julia, and Gene. Clean Conscious on Vimeo
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Fight the Machine!
The Inquirer.net reports a boy who is counter-suing the RIAA! Why? for defamation, violating anti-trust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats. Awesome! It’s about time someone fought back! They have demanded a jury trial and filing a counterclaim against the companies for allegedly damaging the boy’s reputation, distracting him from school…
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Timbaland Illegally Samples music from obscure file format
Well, I’m not sure if Timbaland did it purposely or if he was under the impression that he had permission, but he took music for Nelly Furtado’s song “Do It”. The sampled song is in the MOD format, popular in the early 1990s electronic BBS music scene. Currently it has a pretty decent underground following,…
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Busy!
I’ve been too busy to write recently; even though I have so much to write about. It’s quite annoying. There’s a lip dubbing challenge going on at Vimeo.com. I would have called it a fan video – basically people are making music videos to their favorite songs and, instead of attacking us with their horrible…
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Roper is dead…..
“What happened to Roper? Is it dead? – Yes. Roper was a project put together by 5minutewalk records. We had a falling out with them, and are too lazy to start over again. Everyone has real jobs now, and although we miss seeing you all, we are just going to let it die. Unless you…
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a brief aside….
if anyone can tell me the name of a group and album in which one of the tracks is simply a female who keeps repeating “eight foot fiberglass penguin”, let me know. I’ve searched google and everywhere else and can’t find it. Thanks! (I heard it on NPR, if it helps….)
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Songbird takes flight…and other lame puns
As I read my Linuxtoday.com RSS feed today, I discovered a new piece of software. Songbird aims to be, in their words, “the Firefox of media players.” They seem to be on the right track. First of all, it works on all majors operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux (and by extention BSD). Second, it…
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last.fm facelift
last.fm has had a facelift! It looks quite a bit more sleek! The biggest change seems to be adding artist and album pictures near all of the stats. Check out my last.fm page.
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Last.fm
Thanks to Danny, I am now a member of the yet another addictive internet site. Last.fm, which works with the Linux music player amaroK will collect all the songs you listen to. It will then display it on a webpage such as this one. If this was all it did, it would be mildly fun,…
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Jewish Reggae
Christian Rock/Pop music has been around since the 1970s when Larry Norman pioneered the genre. Since then it has become a HUGE market encompassing all areas of music from rock to ska to punk to rap. There is a large popuplation of Jews in the US, so why wouldn’t there be Jewish music? Finally, our…
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The Freshmen by The Verve Pipe
Ever since I heard this song on the radio in Ithaca because my computer was broken and I had to listen to the radio to get some music, I’ve wondered what the heck the lyrics were about. I finally decided to google it and here’s what the singer, himself has to say about it. In…
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King Chango – Venezuelan in New York
Thought this song was pretty interesting – I had it on my computer, but hadn’t heard it in a long time. Pretty relevant to the current news stories. lyrics: No tomo te, tomo cafe mi amor Yo como arepa y pabellon Con mi sumbao machuco el English when I talk Im Venezuelan in New York…
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A great song
“Dance, Dance, Christa Paffgen” She’s got the time says she got time on her side Running the rule Commanding the late boys eyes She runs around, knows all the streets by name So mysterious, shadows meet James Dean She’s intoxicating, soon your favorite drink Your black dress in disarray Only dance floor prayers can save…
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a brief interlude because I haven’t had time to write that darned post yet…..
Galaxy Song – Monty Python Whenever life get you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough. And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you’ve had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff! Just – re-member that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour, It’s orbiting at 19…