What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Feb­ru­ary 16th through March 9th:

Neil Dawson’s Hori­zons « We got more bounce in Columbus. –

Car­toons invade the third dimen­sion. This sculp­ture makes delight­ful games out of reality.

My City vs. Your City –

Com­pare music lis­ten­ing habits by city. See how your […]

Two Thousand and Fine: Download This

READ THIS:  Impor­tant instruc­tions on get­ting PRESENTS

You lucky, lucky peo­ple!  You don’t even know.

Merry every­thing to every­one, and i truly mean that.

Because i am feel­ing so gen­er­ous i’ve gone ahead and made presents for EVERYONE I KNOW (and even some folks i don’t know, i’m sure)!

To claim your own gift simply […]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from Decem­ber 7th through December 16th:

Dive Into HTML5

Great ref­er­ence mate­r­ial on HTML5. If you’re into that sort of thing.

WhoSam­pled — Dis­cover and Dis­cuss Music Sam­ples and Cover Songs –

This is actu­ally a really cool music-nerd web­site. Search songs, find the samples, […]

XKCD “music video” pays homage to one of the greats

This makes incred­i­bly nerdy blog post no. 2 for today.  But i am a big fan of XKCD, and this lit­tle musi­cal video does a nice job ani­mat­ing some of the themes of the strip.

The music is by Olga Nunes, the film is based on this par­tic­u­lar strip.

Enjoy.

The last musical instrument you will ever buy

alpha-bigFrom what i can gather, the Eigen­harp is the future.  In all it’s Franken-instrument glory.

Not that i real­is­ti­cally expect to start see­ing these things around Thom Yorke’s neck any­time soon, but this cutting-edge instru­ment is truly bridg­ing the gap between dig­i­tal and ana­log music per­for­mance.  I […]

Music that inspires: Rocketboy saves the day!

Last Thurs­day i went to The Way­post in N. Port­land to sup­port my friends who were giv­ing a poetry read­ing there.  That was, of course, great!  The rea­son for this post though is not to hype my friends, or their lit­er­ary jour­nals, or their recently pub­lished chap­books, but to […]

This just keeps getting better: Danger Mouse to release blank CD

dark night of the soulI can’t help but remain opti­mistic and joy­ful when i read sto­ries like this one.  Already released in it’s entirety online (NPR)—boast­ing such col­lab­o­ra­tors as Sparkle­horse, Iggy Pop, mem­bers of The Pix­ies and The Stroke, with appro­pri­ately spooky […]