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Olympic stuff

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

How much do I love Shawn Johnson for using the August Rush soundtrack (“August’s Rhapsody”) for her floor exercise music? Lots and lots and lots.

And then they had to spend ten minutes on Bush. Who can’t even pronounce the names of the world leaders he’s been talking to, much less “Ossetia.” Melanie Rawn fans [...]

Listen to this

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Jane Vain and the Dark Matter, C’mon Baby Say Bang Bang. (Also on MySpace, if you prefer.)

Oscar music

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Once! I tuned in too late to see the song performed, but just in time to see it win. I just sent the DVD back to Netflix. The mini-review I left said something like, “Ho-hum plot and dialogue, transcendent music.” (I’m too lazy to go look it up.) Quite pleased that the song won — [...]

Local(ish) music note

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

If you’re going to be in Austin on Tuesday night, you could check out Michael’s cousin at Emo’s.

Podrunner!

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

Wow. Podrunner really does make workouts not suck.

Excuse me while I fall over; my legs are now limp noodles.

Assorted notes

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

I am very sad that I learned of woxy.com only because someone recently mentioned its imminent demise. It’s a lovely station.

I’m busy this weekend putting together the new design for the business site. I wasn’t happy with the first one, and (if all goes well) the domain without the hyphen will be ours on Tuesday. [...]

Music recommendations again

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

To everyone who liked Anna Nalick: try KT Tunstall, Tina Dico, and Over the Rhine. Excellent stuff, if you go for altos-with-guitars (and of course I do). Anything else in that vein I should check out? I’m always on the hunt for things I can sing to on the way to work.

Anna Nalick has a [...]

A brief note from a busy work day…

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

(Yes, I have to work today.) Pandora is the coolest thing EVER. I’m looking for a few last-minute gifts, so I typed in an artist [a certain person] enjoys, and Pandora’s steadily spitting out CDs I can go look for. And rather than just give you a list, it plays a track from each in [...]

iMix

Friday, May 28th, 2004

Because I just couldn’t deal with the wedding anymore.

Buffy and Angel music Girly rock Insanely happy songs

There’s some crossover. My playlists are terribly inbred.

Good music

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

Bought two CDs on a whim last night: Dar Williams (”Beauty of the Rain”) and Kirsty MacColl (”Tropical Brainstorm”). Lovely, lovely stuff. Check out the lyrics to Kirsty’s ”England 2, Columbia 0.” Funny even without the music. (If you’re reading them, it should be noted that she was English, and the ”0” is pronounced ”nil.”)

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Radio Sunnydale

Friday, October 3rd, 2003

I picked up the new Buffy soundtrack yesterday. Turns out all the online stores have the wrong track listing. Here’s the real one, for when you go to rip it and find that it’s not in the CDDB yet:

1. Buffy Main Title Theme – The Breeders

2. Stop Thinking About It – Joey Ramone

3. Bohemian Like [...]

Taking money from children

Thursday, September 11th, 2003

It has come to pass that the RIAA has levied a $2000 fine against a 12-year-old girl from what appears to be an underpriveleged household, without ever having been required to prove its claims to anyone, least of all the U.S. legal system.

This is a practice colloquially known as extortion.

Update: The artists think so too. [...]

New music too….

Thursday, September 4th, 2003

New Sarah McLachlan album, ”Afterglow,” to be released Nov. 4. I snagged about 2/3 of the ”Fallen” mp3 before Nettwerk yanked it (idiots), and it’s vaguely disappointing in that there’s nothing really new about it, but it’s very nice to hear her sing something other than the same damn fifteen songs after all this time.

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Grab Bag

Monday, July 28th, 2003

Dido has a new album coming out in September (at last!) and evidently David Boreanaz stars in the first video. Spiff. (via Whedonesque)

Another long-overdue event: Verisign can now be held accountable for their dumb mistakes. It is to be hoped that they will now be sued out of existence.

Anil Dash on Windows dialog boxes: ”You’ve [...]

Weekend project

Monday, June 23rd, 2003

... from a couple of weekends ago, now fixed up and more or less ready for prime time.

Buffy Music

Angel Music

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Talking Points Caribou Barbie — rape kit sold separately.

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Being the Book Lady — this made my day.

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A fanfic writer goes to Clarion. “...all the sandcastle skills you learned over in Sandbox Someone Else’s Canon are a lot harder to use when you’re not given sand to start with.” Great post.

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Tina Fey and Sarah Palin Side by Side on CNN. “That was the first time I’ve ever heard the parody on SNL actually use exactly what was said…”

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The Texas voter registration deadline is October 6. See if you’re registered. If not, find your county registrar to fix it.

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Have you created your 5 Second Test? — a nifty little test for web designers.

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Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet — How much do I love Maureen Dowd right now? LOTS and LOTS.

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Download ‘Boojum,’ by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette — in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day.

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TwitterKeys — “TwitterKeys is a browser bookmarket that pulls up expressive characters for easy copy & paste of all those crazy unicode symbols that people love to include in their emails and blog posts.” Very handy. See also: ⌘C ⌘V Character.

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The great Before & After Magazine talks about designing business cards for arts and crafts sales, including tips on photographing the items.

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If you have not yet seen Firefly (infidel!), it’s now streaming for free on IMDB, via Hulu. The episodes are out of order, though, so you might want to refer to the Firefly wiki’s episode list rather than IMDB or TV.com, both of which list the massively incorrect original airing order.

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