As a post-election gift to America? Thanks, Thom.
did i fall or was i pushed?
in celebration of nov 5th
jonnys burthday
amid bonfire and fireworks in the UK
and the dawn of a new era in politics in the USA
i humbly donate a remix of harrowdown hill that was finished ages ago during the band webcasts,
a small reminder of the dark days of Bush’s….
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http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?c=443#
wtb: entire disc of remix (edit: here it comes!
Thom and Jonny backstage at a concert in St. Louis earlier this year.
From the movie Rachel Getting Married, starring Anne Hathaway, and Tunde Adebimpe, of TV on the Radio fame.
(thanks, Pitchfork)
James Howard Kunstler’s TED talk about the tragedy of suburbia. He’s a bit angry, but funny, and makes a lot of sense.
Reminds me of Malvina Reynolds’ song “Little Boxes”, classically covered here by Pete Seeger.
Malvina Reynolds’ original was featured as the opening song to Showtime’s “Weeds” program in its first season. Hear that here.
Seasons 2 and 3 of Weeds featured a different artist covering the song each week. Here are Death Cab and Shins versions.
Let me plug two things:
#1: Hulu.com. Don’t have cable? Watch TV online, free. For instance they feature last night’s presidential debate right on their front page today. Or you could just drudge it up on the youtube.
#2:
So a couple months ago I undertook the task of going through my CD collection of ~500 and ripping the ones which were not already in my iTunes library. This amounted to about half of them. I choose to rip at 160kbps. This seems like a good compromise between size, for the iPhone, and quality, for the hi-fi if I were to play them thusly. Oh and make sure you rip as MP3, you don’t want any DRM in case you decide to port your stuff somewhere else.
My dvd-rom drive ripped through them at about 42x, so each one only took 1-2 minutes. I also went through and attached album cover art for the ones which iTunes wasn’t able to find on its own.
This process was somewhat laborious, yet satisfying. I was going to pursue one of the apparently many software solutions for accomplishing the cover art attachment, but I ended up just doing it manually. Let me offer some tips.
1. iTunes is able to conjure and adhere a large number of covers for you on its own, assuming you’ve utilized the CDDB for naming. So your first move is have it pour through your collection via the following option. It should apply album art for any albums you’ve ripped which happen to be purchasable in the iTunes store:
2. Moving forward, you’ll want iTunes to be attaching album art for you as you rip new CDs, when possible. Set that up via this option. (Note this setting is on the General tab in versions prior to 8.0):
3. Now the meat of your task. You’ve got to go through your coverflow basically, and see which albums don’t have art attached. Then you’ve got to obtain it. I choose Amazon.com. You find the album there, then click “See larger image”. Sometimes there are a few versions of it, find your favorite, some are worse/smaller than others. Save the image in a folder on your desktop. Now to attach the image.
Align your iTunes window on the left of your screen. Align your folder with the artwork on the right, and display it as thumbnails. Highlight all the songs of the album. Right click your selected songs and select “Get Info”. Drag the icon into the artwork box. Press ok. Done!
I don’t want to be your friend. I just want to be your lover.
House of Cards^^
More about how it was made, and how you can manipulate it a bit for yourself.
Jigsaw (webcast)^^
I’ll let you pick your own adjectives, I’ve got mine internally formulized.
Here’s her myspace. Nice list of influences.
Well not really an application, but sort of. Here’s howto:
Done.. Just tap this new link on your home screen and it will load that search box where you can search on lyrics to an album/song you’re listening to.
SomaFM.com’s famous Groove Salad can be streamed right to your iPhone, wherever you go. The nice thing I discovered about this is that you can still do anything else on the phone while it plays, except for use the browser. I didn’t think apps were allowed to “run” in the background, but apparently SomaFM’s implementation gets around that. Pandora has that limitation, which I’m sure it will be freed of in the future when Apple relaxes the SDK.
Steps:
While you’re at it, if you’ve got some extra change, throw a few into their coffers, it looks as though they could use it.
I don’t really know who Ryan Leslie is, but I came across this rather amusing video. The song isn’t bad, but what really takes the cake is his animation/yelping starting around the 1:15 position. I love it.
And this was shot back in 1994. lol nerd alert! good on him, though.
And he sure as hell don’t play Alliance.
Hilarious imagining of Pearl Jam’s Yellow Ledbetter lyrics. But it also comes off as a tribute to the band, and song. Bravo!
I wish the ball had a slight springy effect. Purple power! The music kind of reminds me of the background tunes in the classic game Gabriel Knight 2.
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