Popeye’s!

March 9, 2008 at 10:16 pm · Filed under Audio, Personal, Projects

There’s a great post that I picked up from Waxy.org from Clapclap.org, with the title of “It Doesn’t Matter Which You Heard”: the Curious Cultural Journey of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”. I remember hearing John Cale’s version back in ‘96 when I saw “Basquiat”, and it struck me pretty hard then. It’s an incredibly emotional song. You can listen to even more covers over on My Old Kentucky Blog. Apparently this song is a cultural phenomenon.

This brings me round about to Hype Machine. Hype Machine has been my dirty secret for a pretty long time, it’s fairly popular now I think, but I’ve been using since right after it’s launch in December of ‘06 for finding new and remixed stuff. I highly recommend it.

So I’m working on this project for our PR company, to automatically read email to you in your car. I’m using Quartz Composer to build the interface, and a little bit of programming in Xcode. It’s shaping up nicely. I got the first proof of concept done in about 5 hours using QC, with some help from the super nice guys at Kineme.net. They develop some pretty awesome patches, filling in parts where QC is lacking. Anyways, I’ll post some development screenshots soon, but unfortunately I don’t think I can post the source. /shrug

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the goggles! they do nothing!

December 22, 2007 at 12:34 am · Filed under Audio, General Tech, Projects, Uncategorized

I’m having a hard time coming up with random titles for my posts. I’ll have to think of a creative way to generate new ones.

I’m working on a sort kludgy hack project thing. The basic gist of it is taking an old Toshiba E330 pda I found in a box, loading Apache on it (which in itself is a fun project), and then I’m going to hardwire the docking port to an external usb hard drive enclosure. I was sort of inspired by an imaginary product I saw on some design blog where some had mocked up an enclosure with an OLED screen, showing a WinDirStat sort of view of the drives contents. So, I figured that was pretty easy, until I discovered there’s no native PPC 2002 software for something like this. Hence the mention of Apache. I’m hoping I’ll be able to find a perl script, possibly something built in Javascript that does something similar. We’ll see. It doesn’t have any real purpose other than to just see if I can do it.

Here’s some stuff I stumbled across on the webs.

and listen to this stuff:

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Multifaceted Posting

December 13, 2007 at 10:11 pm · Filed under Audio, Geek Squad, General Tech, Personal, Projects

First up I’ve got some kickin’ vintage footage of the B-52’s in 1978 performing “Rock Lobster”. Thanks to Boing Boing for posting this. I’d embed it, but unfortunately it’s been disabled. You can see it here. Makes me miss playing music. They’ve got quite a few other videos of the B-52’s on there if you’re interested. I also dug up a great collection of other vintage stuff, like The Buzzcocks:

some Wall of Voodoo

and Joey Ramone covering “What a Wonderful World”

Egads, links abound. Just for the hell of it, read the Wikipedia article on CBGB’s

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