Music & Sound
Break recipe
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- Wednesday 23rd May 2007
The Kitchen Beatbox. Excellent.
“The Electro Ffffffunk Daddy Superstar Break.”…
Thoughts on Life
The Wall, y’all
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- Tuesday 22nd May 2007
I just played at Bohannon, a great club in Berlin. The party was live, the guys who booked me were excellent people, and the house DJ (DJ Resoul) was intimidating.
They put me up in a hotel in the former Eastern Sector, right across the street from a stretch of the Berlin Wall that’s still standing, and covered with intense artwork. For once, I’d remembered to bring my camera, so I woke up…
Politics
The President of the U.S. wrote a book – about George W. Bush
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- Monday 21st May 2007
Thanks to Mr. Flip and Chris H for the help in posting this like a grownup.
May 22, 2007
Books of The Times
The Assault on Reason
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
In “The Assault on Reason†Al Gore excoriates George W. Bush, asserting that the president is “out of touch with reality,†that his administration is so incompetent that it “can’t manage its own way…
Copyright
Fair use, in a Disney stylee
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- Monday 21st May 2007
With a big thanks to Loughlin, who got the goods.
Pay close attention; it’s your ass and your right of free speech on the…
Copyright
The single most important book on creativity and copyright
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- Monday 21st May 2007
Before I read Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture, I agreed with the general view of copyright and intellectual property; an idea has the same property characteristics as a car or a table. Copying the idea is theft, even if you copy only a small part for any reason, and even if you don’t sell it. It’s the view put forth by the media, the RIAA, the MPAA, and various other corporate trade…
Music & Sound
Could you make it a little bit more like the demo tape?
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- Tuesday 8th May 2007
The Jackson 5 audition for Motown.
And I don’t care that the sound is beat, and that everyone else in the world has probably seen this already.
(thanks to bernardo for the…
Copyright
Which is harder? Buying a gun, or buying a used CD?
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- Tuesday 8th May 2007
Is that your final answer?…
Politics
It’s not the massage, stupid
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- Tuesday 8th May 2007
Consider the reporting about Randall Tobias, the first guy nabbed in the “massage” handjob hooker scandal now spreading through Washington.
What is it that we hear about Randall Tobias? We’re told that he’s a somewhat unfortunate, horny guy who’s just resigned as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (with the rank of Ambassador). That, for the most part, is the end…
Thoughts on Life
I’ll bet you thought there was nothing worse than a marketing call on a Sunday morning
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- Sunday 6th May 2007
But some pudgy VP of marketing at a movie studio had a brilliant…
Music & Sound
Back by popular demand
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- Sunday 6th May 2007
My previous Sam Ulano post, the tale of Little Red Rhumbahood, received some positive feedback, so I offer here one of the master’s lesser known gems.
From a rare instructional LP on the art of show drumming – accompanying and punctuating a live variety show with drum kit and various sound effects – Mr. Ulano expounds, sings, whistles… and drums.
Sam Ulano/The Art Of Show…
