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Another kickstarter comes through

Don — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:13:09 +0000

Another one of the kickstarter projects has gotten their cover song done.

Sad sad world

Don — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:05:58 +0000

It’s a sad sad world, when “Good news, Pogo is being prepared for deportation” really is good news.

Free Pogo

Don — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:32:47 +0000

Amazing video-music artist Pogo is sitting in an American jail, thanks to an incompetent booking agent for his U.S. tour.

bummer

WTF George Lucas?!?

Don — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:21:25 +0000

Back when I worked at the music company, I got access to the Star Wars music box set and was annoyed by how it was missing Yub Nub. Today on random, I discover that they did include an all new song, Jedi Rocks.

Really? I can’t get my cuteness-overload of Ewok celebration, but I can get a cheesetastic 80′s rock revisioning?

Similar Voices, Different Choices

Don — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:36:11 +0000

I happened to catch the end credits of some flick yesterday, and hearing the voice, I thought it must be an artist I’m already aware of. Somewhere on the clear yet nasal scale, around the same location as the lead singers of Lightning Seeds, Lincoln, and Size 14, but I’m not quite able to say for certain which one it is.
Off I go in search of the truth, and when I get to Amazon’s page for the soundtrack album, the song with the right title is first track, but at first glance, it looks like they screwed up the artist name, and are giving some in-movie-band-name. See the flick was “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole“, and the artist for the track is listed as “Owl City“. You can understand my assumption and hopefully forgive my surprise when I find out the guy has been around long enough to get some net-hate. He turns out to be a decent enough modern balladeer in the twee-electro-pop style that some of the kids like these days.

So far, none of his regular work has quite the catch-me-quality of To The Sky, at least for me.

Ceann – Blame The Viking

Don — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:58:38 +0000

Who left the car in neutral, before it rolled away?
You blame me, and I blame the viking…

Dave Richmond – Movin’ Along

Don — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:31:23 +0000

Another never-knew-I-had-it-random-find, Dave Richmond – Movin’ Along.
A little 70′s folk-rock-synth-y bit of joy, if you aren’t whistling the chorus, you might as well go back to bed, you’re just too depressed for the rest of the world.

Goliath Awaits (MR)

Don — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:42:36 +0000

I love the internet, most of the time.

Like when it can supply me with not just the name of a half-remembered tv-miniseries, but the entirety of it. Mark Harmon has had a long career, even if I don’t realize it sometimes.

The film is just as over-the-top-silly as I remembered it. Caricature villains, a rigid social structure under autocratic rule offered up as a impossible utopia to the messiness of a real world under democracy, doomed by the frailties of human ego.

And yet, it still manages to age remarkable well. It helps that 90% of their time is spent on a liner built during WW2.

Most annoying plot hole is the whole “it’ll never work” rigmarole over the heat exchanger. What exactly did the script writer think the difference was between a heat exchanger based on lava, and a scotch boiler based on oil? Pointing out that simply generating more oxygen doesn’t remove carbon-dioxide would have been more believable. Whatever.

open iPad, insert video

Don — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:14:25 +0000

Someone came up with a decent xvid/divx player for the iPad, and it’s even free. CineXPlayer seems to totally rock, in my limited testing so far. It lets you load movies via the iTunes file sharing system, doesn’t require pre-conversion, supports seeking forward without losing audio sync, resumes from where you left off. Once I get home, I’ll have to thrown some more unusual avi’s at it, see what it makes of them.

Mac Hurricane

Don — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:24:52 +0000

Running the WoW client with video recording at max resolution got my new iMac’s CPU fan to kick into overdrive. At first I thought something had gone crazy with the Ventrilo client, and it was just generating static, but when I muted sound and it kept making noise, I realized what I was actually hearing.

On the plus side, it means this iMac won’t burn out essential parts like the last one did, cause it’s fan refuses to ever turn on, much less go into overdrive. On the down side, once the new iMac’s fan turns on, the only way to get it to stop is to put the box to sleep. Even when all the temp indicators had gone down to well below where it usually idles just fine, the fan just kept on screaming.

Yeah, apple hardware is so much better than the PC world. [HAMBURGER]

Oh, and Comcast is being all flakey when I try to upload the 808MB video from stormwind, to youtube, so still waiting on that one.