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I missed the battle
Well, crap. I missed the Colbert Report tonight, so I guess I have to wait ’til the Colbert vs. Decemberists battle appears on the Comedy Central web site (or YouTube). Can’t wait to see who won (heh, heh).
Things might be slow around MF for a few days — I’ve got a full schedule over the [...]
Posted: December 20th, 2006 under music, pop culture.
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Norwegian becomes stop-motion pop sensation
Here’s a composition tool I hadn’t considered: stop-motion video. Apparently that, and Fruity Loops, was how 22-year old Norwegian Lasse Gjertsen created the catchy tune that’s featured in Amateur, a viral-video hit — 1,707,174 hits and counting, in fact — on YouTube. And according to Gjertsen, he can’t play a note. Well, okay, he can [...]
Posted: December 12th, 2006 under music, pop culture.
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Are you tone deaf?
Well, take the Tone Deaf Test and find out! It seemed more like a game of “musical memory” than a test for tone deafness, but then again, unlike the guy who designed it, I’m not a med student. And for the record, I scored 83.3%. (I might have done better, had my dog not asked [...]
Posted: December 11th, 2006 under music, tech.
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Colbert vs. The Decemberists in guitar duel
This should be good. Stephen Colbert is going to battle it out with Decemberists multi-instrumentalist Chris Funk in a guitar solo duel on December 20. Now that’s a show I gotta see!
Complete story here.
Video of the challenge on the Colbert Report here. (Ad precedes video.)
Posted: December 8th, 2006 under music, pop culture.
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“Stocking stuffer for minimalists”
Maybe I was living under a rock when this thing debuted last year, but this is the first I’ve heard of the Buddha Machine, a small playback device that generates ambient loops for your listening — or ignoring — pleasure. Developed by China-based electronic artists FM3, the unit plays one of nine selected loops over [...]
Posted: December 2nd, 2006 under music, tech.
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