So, I stopped using my iPod touch a few months ago because the battery life was getting depressingly short. As it turns out, I was just constantly adding battery sapping apps to the list of currently open apps. I'm sure you savy kool-aid folks know about this already but I discovered how to shut down a running app today, thereby saving precious battery life.
ONE PART Magnum P.I. (may replace "Private Investigator" with "Politically Incorrect" - either will work for this recipe)
ONE PART Enter the Ninja
Shake sparingly.
RESULT: a WTF'tacular taste sensation.
...a romantic comedy I actually want to see:
No really, you should watch the trailer. All of it.
The incomparable Macho Man has died. Apparently he suffered a heart attack while driving and crashed into a tree.
I died a little inside after watching this video:
Good thing "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," unless of course there's a cell phone with a video camera nearby...
"When was the last time you actually finished a game of Monopoly?"
The Sacramento State Jazz Singers perform Jimi Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower, as arranged by Bear McCleary in Battlestar Galactica. Better to listen to than actually watch, but really neat none-the-less!
This made me tear up, godam advertising.
Found this fun little video on Gizmodo this morning and it made me laugh.
It also made me want a box of six foot balloons, a slo-mo camera and a cunning plan to drop said balloons onto passerby's. Hopefully without killing and/or maiming them.
About 17 years ago, or so, I did a bunch of music journalism for newspapers in Calgary and here at the U of S and I was given some minor insights into the modern music industry. One of the things that has stuck with me is the record label's insistence on a band being pretty and marketable first, and then being good musicians second. I think Ben Folds nailed it when he sang in Rockin the Suburbs, "Some producer with computers fixes all my shitty tracks."
This all came leaping to my mind when I came across the following old video from waaaaay back in the 70's, where the very ugly and obviously stoned/drunk boys from Dr. Hook do a live set on Shel Silverstein's houseboat. These guys are glued, and at points I'm not sure that anything other than dumb luck and sheer willpower are keeping them upright, yet they stay on their feet, and more importantly they nail the live take!
Wouldn't it be nice if we could get back to the music first, and the brand second, or third, or not-much-at-all?
This is all of the Royal Wedding that I saw. And it's also the best Royal Wedding video you will see!
"Y'all right geezer?" LOL
Ever wonder how they get that 'swing' sound into music?
How do those external MIDI keyboards work with a modern DAW like Presonus Studio One?