Sean Hannity has no soul
This just in from Tom Tomorrow.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Levon Helm
Former vocalist and drummer for the Band, Levon Helm has a new album out and it's called Dirt Farmer. It is just amazing. His voice has aged well and the band he has surrounded himself with is just stellar and it has an old timey feel to it that is mesmerizing. You can read about the album on Helm's website here. You can listen to a cut called The Mountain just below. It's a Steve Earle song.
Former vocalist and drummer for the Band, Levon Helm has a new album out and it's called Dirt Farmer. It is just amazing. His voice has aged well and the band he has surrounded himself with is just stellar and it has an old timey feel to it that is mesmerizing. You can read about the album on Helm's website here. You can listen to a cut called The Mountain just below. It's a Steve Earle song.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Hard Drive Parties
I had never heard of hard drive parties before but it is such a cool idea. Cory Doctorow has a nice paragraph about them here:
"Will this stop kids from trading infringing files? Kids are time-rich and cash-poor and have an infinite supply of ingenuity and impecuniousness to apply to the job of getting music for free. Last year, my freshman university students in Los Angeles regaled me with stories of "hard-drive parties" where everyone would gather with guitars, beers and whopping great hard drives that cost less than either the guitars or the beers. While the students jammed, sang and danced, they simply synchronised their drives using whatever laptops were lying around, transferring hundreds of gigabytes' worth of music while composing and recording songs of their own."
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Die, music industry, die!"
I had never heard of hard drive parties before but it is such a cool idea. Cory Doctorow has a nice paragraph about them here:
"Will this stop kids from trading infringing files? Kids are time-rich and cash-poor and have an infinite supply of ingenuity and impecuniousness to apply to the job of getting music for free. Last year, my freshman university students in Los Angeles regaled me with stories of "hard-drive parties" where everyone would gather with guitars, beers and whopping great hard drives that cost less than either the guitars or the beers. While the students jammed, sang and danced, they simply synchronised their drives using whatever laptops were lying around, transferring hundreds of gigabytes' worth of music while composing and recording songs of their own."
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Die, music industry, die!"
Warren Ellis is funny
Warren Ellis thought of the day. I'd like to Frank Millerize Rio Bravo. Sorry about the horrible Photoshopping. I was using Gimp and didn't have time to do a good job. I think you get the idea.
Warren Ellis thought of the day. I'd like to Frank Millerize Rio Bravo. Sorry about the horrible Photoshopping. I was using Gimp and didn't have time to do a good job. I think you get the idea.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Fox + News = Ass
You can't make up stuff this retarded. Do people still watch TV news? I can't remember exactly when I stopped watching but it's been several years.
Wow, the video below of paparazzi is priceless.
Paparazzi at The Ivy in Los Angeles from Mark Frauenfelder on Vimeo.
Both of these items were found at Boingboing.
You can't make up stuff this retarded. Do people still watch TV news? I can't remember exactly when I stopped watching but it's been several years.
Wow, the video below of paparazzi is priceless.
Paparazzi at The Ivy in Los Angeles from Mark Frauenfelder on Vimeo.
Both of these items were found at Boingboing.
Tiger Stadium Demolition
I knew this day was coming but I wasn't ready for it. What a terrible sight. At least they should blow it up so we don't have to see pictures of it slowly crumbling away while cranes and bulldozers nibble at it like the skeeters on my back porch.
I knew this day was coming but I wasn't ready for it. What a terrible sight. At least they should blow it up so we don't have to see pictures of it slowly crumbling away while cranes and bulldozers nibble at it like the skeeters on my back porch.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The Raconteurs
Last night while hanging out on the back porch with Mel and the guys I played a good chunk of the new album by Jack White's other band, The Raconteurs. It's called Consolers of the Lonely and it's been an almost guaranteed group "okey dokey" whenever I play it. I'm enjoying it but I still have a hard time really loving Jack's non White Stripes band. I do really like the title track which you can play below.
Last night while hanging out on the back porch with Mel and the guys I played a good chunk of the new album by Jack White's other band, The Raconteurs. It's called Consolers of the Lonely and it's been an almost guaranteed group "okey dokey" whenever I play it. I'm enjoying it but I still have a hard time really loving Jack's non White Stripes band. I do really like the title track which you can play below.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The Biggest Loser
You know who is the biggest baseball-related loser of the steroid era? Ken Griffey Jr.. If the steroid-ridden monsters of the horrible era of baseball had played fairly Ken Griffey Jr. would be regarded as the greatest power hitter of this generation. Not Sammy Sosa. Not Barry Bonds and certainly not Mark McGuire.
Think about it, right now Ken Griffey is number 6 on the all-time career home run list. If you don't count Sosa and Bonds (which I don't) then he is number 4 all time and the first natural player to hit 600 home runs since Hank Aaron. In fact, Griffey has entered a pretty amazing place. Before he broke the 600 threshold recently only three other non-juiced players had ever done that. That should be the home run story of the last 20 years. All that attention that Mcguire, Sosa and Bonds received over the years was taken directly from Ken Griffey. They stole a lot of glory from him.
What is really sad to me is that a natural Barry Bonds would probably have hit 500 home runs. Plenty enough dingers to get you into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. Good enough to be counted among the immortals of the game. He would have been considered one of the greats. Now he'll never get in. If things work out the way they should and Griffey retires in a couple of years then five years after that he will be the last man standing. Then the baseball world will have to acknowledge that Ken Griffey was the best slugger of his generation.
You know who is the biggest baseball-related loser of the steroid era? Ken Griffey Jr.. If the steroid-ridden monsters of the horrible era of baseball had played fairly Ken Griffey Jr. would be regarded as the greatest power hitter of this generation. Not Sammy Sosa. Not Barry Bonds and certainly not Mark McGuire.
Think about it, right now Ken Griffey is number 6 on the all-time career home run list. If you don't count Sosa and Bonds (which I don't) then he is number 4 all time and the first natural player to hit 600 home runs since Hank Aaron. In fact, Griffey has entered a pretty amazing place. Before he broke the 600 threshold recently only three other non-juiced players had ever done that. That should be the home run story of the last 20 years. All that attention that Mcguire, Sosa and Bonds received over the years was taken directly from Ken Griffey. They stole a lot of glory from him.
What is really sad to me is that a natural Barry Bonds would probably have hit 500 home runs. Plenty enough dingers to get you into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. Good enough to be counted among the immortals of the game. He would have been considered one of the greats. Now he'll never get in. If things work out the way they should and Griffey retires in a couple of years then five years after that he will be the last man standing. Then the baseball world will have to acknowledge that Ken Griffey was the best slugger of his generation.
Friday, July 18, 2008
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