Entertainment
Possibly the best dog song ever.
Not sure the 101 Dalmations montage works, but this is a great song. Â My dog totally could have written this song.
YouTube - Your Adorable Beast.
Top Tunes, 2009
My friend Tim’s effort to guilt all his friends into providing him new music to listen to — otherwise known as his annual “Top Tunes” email, has finally made it online on his new blog. Of course, this is a mutual benefit society and everybody in the loop finds some great new tunes this [...]
2008 Music Review
Inspired by my buddy Tim’s annual email, I’ve posted some of the musical highlights of my year. Â Unlike Tim, I am unable to summarize my musically year based on items released that year, so excuse the random assortment of new and old…but here’s what I’ve been listening to this year, in no particular order.
Deer Tick, [...]
Fat Frank on TV
My Uncle Robert, aka “Fat Frank” of Fat Frank and the Plank Spankers, is going to appear on this week’s installment of the Antique Roadshow on PBS. He’ll be the one with the Ukelele. If you can’t catch that, you can always just watch him on YouTube.
Radio Free JP
My long-time friend and fellow music freak John “JP” Palmer is now working the 4-6am free-form programming slot on Tampa’s WMNF 88.5 Community Radio. This probably provides him a bit more satisfying creative outlet than his day job as a Bank Vice-President…at least, I assume it must to make the hours worth it.
Luckily, the [...]
Magnetic ribbons
The Asylum Street Spankers’ tribute to magnetic ribbons is brilliant. Love these guys. Watch some of their other ones while you’re there.
Masters of Science Fiction
ABC’s come up with something to look forward to in summer fill-in programming.
That call center guy
I’m really tired of seeing this guy:
He’s everywhere. I see him on website support pages all over. I see him on printed documentation. I guess he’s “Support Guy #1″ in some stock photo collection or something…but I don’t really care to see him anymore!
Noble creatures
The Gourds are back with a new record and fancy new website. I’m a sucker for their obtuse mashup of traditional American music and obtuse lyrics. You gotta love a record that starts out: “Jammin’ on the old cartoons with the swagger of the immune, Sleeping like a fat racoon – diabetic on [...]
Equalize your cheese
Having now viewed disk 1 of season 1 of Land of the Lost, I truly realize that it’s important to equalize your cheese. If your content is cheesy, your introduction to it should be as well.
The modern, relatively slick, DVD menus — while not extreme — are overdone and only generate a let down [...]
Reproducing your childhood
The persistence and availability of media creates interesting challenges for today’s parent. Yes, you’ve got to ask interesting questions about yourself, your parenting style and your goals for your children when you find yourself considering adding the entire first season of Land of the Lost to your NetFlix queue.
Such is the position I found [...]
Man, Elvis is cool!
Elvis is so drippingly cool that I really found myself enjoying the superficially catastrophic pairing of his archive footage with Celine Dion on American Idol last night. Wow.
iGrill
OK, the iGrill is one of the funniest new products I’ve seen in quite a while. It’s an iPod-ready George Foreman grill with built in speakers and USB connection.
Free acoustic guitar ringtones
I’ve intended to do this for a while, but tonight I actual sat down for a few minutes and did it. Here for your listening pleasure, are a couple of quickie acoustic guitar ringtones. I gated them down and mixed them for looping. They probably don’t sound spectacular on a good speaker, [...]