Morning Links - 3 years? For throwing a shoe?

Social Notworking

3 years for throwing a shoe... Seriously? Seriously!

Unemployment Graph by State - Painful



Times Are Tough on Wall Street and Wisteria Lane - No Escapism for you!

Kanye performs on American Idol? Can this show be canceled now? Please!

It's not all doom & gloom though...

Music you should hear: Kutiman - Thru You

So John sent me this link the other day of a guy named Kutiman who grabbed You Tube clips of people playing instruments or singing and chopped both the video and audio of these clips into new songs and video's. When john sent me the link the original site was already down. I thought nothing of it, then John sent me a new link this morning. After watching all 7 videos I'm truly inspired. It's pretty amazing that Kutiman was able to make such interesting songs out of all these random bits of music. Using You Tube as your source material is a pretty savvy move as well. I'm immediately reminded of DJ Shadow & EBN, creating music solely of samples. It's refreshing and well worth a listen or two.


Related Links:
Thru-You

Unofficial Mirror Site

Other Links of Interest:

Once Banned, Monty Python Flick Returns To Town

Music you should hear: Circle Square "Dancers"

Other Links of Interest:

Solar Socialists

Only in India although I'll bet many other places looked similar when they 1st got power.

Direction

Bad Direction: "This Sucks, Try Something Else."

Good Direction: "When you add parts to it think orchestral arrangement. Some things come in briefly and then don't repeat. Imagine the song is a soundtrack to a montage of cars driving."

Thanks John!

-Joe

Making Music is Good

Just finished working on one of John's songs called Almost Better. I added some atmospheric layers to it, a handful of synths and tweaked the drums a bit. Think NIN's hurt meets The Cure's Lullaby. I think it's going to turn out really nice.

This makes 9 songs so far that are arranged and nearing completion that have been started in the month of February. This RPM Challenge is turning our to be pretty cool. We're under the gun now to finish these up and get them mixed be by the 28th. The pressure is on. Woo-Hoo!

-Joe

My New Cylon Hood

I just finished installing my new Cylon looking Range Hood in the kitchen. Yes, I know the economy blows and the world is falling a part but the Appliances I had were over 20 years old, falling apart, oozing grease and at times making chirping noises that would wake us up in the middle of the night. It was time to take the plunge. So we went to Sears and picked up some nice looking Kenmore Appliances. Hopefully they'll last another 20 years.


Old Hood:

Hood & Range:

New Fridge:

The Whole Set:

It's funny to think that less than 2 years ago I would of hired someone else to do this job. Now I install these things my self. Proof in the power of the internet for research and some Patience!

Ok, now it's time to go make some music!

-Joe

Morning Links: Something Is Squeezing my Skull... err Stomach

It's Tuesday, I've a server class to attend this morning, a wireless network to set up this afternoon, several customers to call back and my stomach is being quite grumpy. Grrr! Here's some morning reading:

Smart Cars, Smart Grid

New Music from Morrissey, Lilly Allen and Sufjan Stevens on NPR's All songs

DVD Sales on the Slide along with everything else!

TV on the Radio remix Nat King Cole This sounds really cool actually! Nice Dark and Dubby Number!

Billboard recaps NIN & Jane's Addiction Tour and Album news

Pep Talk

New Simpsons Intro

Jason Snell does a review and video onDropbox for Mac World

Enjoy!

Joe