Music Posts

  • 04.12.08 But First, This Brief Message About The End Of The World (Me, Music)

    Speaking of my projects, here’s a different one that’s actually finished: a new mix entitled The Fall Of The Towers.
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  • 02.26.08 Over 2^32 Sold! (Nearly) (Humor, Music, Computers)
    CUPERTINO, California—February 26, 2008—Apple® today announced that iTunes® (www.itunes.com) is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group*. Apple also announced that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers. iTunes has sold over four billion songs, …

    I really hope they thought ahead and used a 64-bit int for the number_of_songs_sold variable, otherwise some Bad Stuff might happen in the … MORE

  • 02.24.08 Shiver 2 - A new mix CD (Music)


    I’ve just finished a new mix CD. As the name “Shiver 2” implies, it’s a sort-of sequel to my 2003 mix Shiver, with more plucked guitars, tremolo, and glitchy electronics … but where the first was a summer mix, this is music for winter, when no matter how many logs crackle on the fire, rain and wind wait patiently outside.… MORE

  • 05.26.07 “Cut The Lights” (Music)

    This is a mix of post-punk (old and new). I made it about a month and a half ago, but hadn’t put together a cover until today. Now it’s ready…

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  • 02.18.07 Music (Prologue) (Music)

    The problem with writing about something I dislike is that, after the momentary pleasure of getting it off your chest, there’s not a lot of motivation to read people’s responses (especially the argumentative ones.) Better to pick as a topic something that I do like very much … such as music.

    I can’t claim to be an expert on music: I can only barely play an instrument, my dj skills are wack, the theory hurts my brain, and my knowledge is encyclopedic only in a few micro-genres. But I’m rabidly enthusiastic about it; and fortunately, music nowadays is tightly entangled with computer technology, which (like any engineer) I can easily sound like an expert on.

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  • 05.19.04 Cocteau Twins interview (November 1985) (Music)

    This is one of my favorite interviews ever, and it reminds me of a long-gone era when the Cocteau Twins mattered, mattered really deeply, and were making music I could barely believe possible. Music I was not the only one to find wholly impossible to describe…

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  • 08.24.95 Jens The Consumer (Ideas, Me, Music)
    The problem of leisure
    What to do for pleasure
    Ideal love a new purchase
    A market of the senses—Gang Of Four, “Natural’s Not In It”
    “He realizes everything he does is second-hand, a waking dream, a dream someone else has dreamed for him—when he walks into a pub and greets friends with a line he’s half-consciously lifted from last night’s sit-com, he’s an advertisement. He hears himself and he feels tricked, … MORE