Image via CrunchBase Seth Godin suggests that all these unemployed college grads put themselves to good purpose this year and spend some time really enriching themselves (ht to @johndcook for the link). The laundry list of to-do items includes: Spend twenty hours a week running a project for a non-profit. Teach yourself Java, HTML, Flash, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘music’
Alternative Grad School
Posted: 9 June 2009 in UncategorizedTags: grad school, inspiration, life choices, music, seth godin, twitter
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Up Up Down Down…
Posted: 18 June 2008 in UncategorizedTags: cheat codes, juno, kimya dawson, lyrics, moldy peaches, movies, music, netflix, rants, thundercats
This post is spoiler free. I finally got to see Juno tonight. It’s been sitting at the top of my Netflix queue for nearly two months with a long wait. What a great movie! One of my favorite parts was the soundtrack. There were several great songs by Kimya Dawson (of the Moldy Peaches) and [...]
Is that all there is?
Posted: 19 May 2008 in UncategorizedTags: movies, music, pandora, peggy lee, revolver, the nines, youtube
My taste in music is definitely in flux. Five years ago I would have found this intolerable, but now I can’t stop listening to it. I blame Pandora. The musical journeys it takes you on can be transformational. Unfortunately the video stops before the song is over, but YouTube offers several full length suggestions immediately [...]
Late Night Spektor
Posted: 29 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: computational linguistics, lyrics, music, nlp, pandora, regina spektor, romanticism, stars
NLP app idea: construct random songs by scraping lyrics websites and stringing together common phrases. It’s a Pandora night for me and here were a couple lyrics that struck me as particularly meaningful. Both by Regina Spektor, introduced to me by Pandora before she became (semi-)famous. And then you take that love you made And [...]
I’d like a thorazine shake with that please
Posted: 18 April 2008 in UncategorizedTags: cacophany, madness, music
At first, I found it annoying. But gradually, it grew on me. And now I like it. A friend said that I’d likely be sipping thorazine shakes at my local asylum tomorrow. The Most Unwanted Song
That dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard
Posted: 1 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: ballad of jesse james, beowulf, jesse james, movies, music, pete seeger, robert ford, westerns
No spoiler review. Last night I watched Beowulf, the recent Robert Zemeckis version. My review can be summed up simply: it blew. Hardcore. Before it was over, I wanted to tear my eyes out. And sadly, it is true that what is seen, cannot be unseen. Tonight, Donna and I watched The Assassination of Jesse [...]
Running the World
Posted: 9 January 2008 in UncategorizedTags: academy awards, ampas, beauty, children of men, jarvis cocker, mad world, movies, music, nsfw, running the world, sadness, songs
Taking me completely by surprise, “Running the World” by Jarvis Cocker is one of the coolest songs I’ve heard in a very long time. I’ll leave it to you to figure out exactly what he’s saying (it’s NSFW). The lyrics are just plain awesome. This kind of song grabs a hold of the part of [...]
Slumber Party Christmas Album
Posted: 27 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: christmas, christmas music, doom rock, music, slumber party
So I’ve mentioned Slumber Party before. They are a detroit girl band (femme doom rock) and are freakin awesome. Seriously, I can’t get enough. They are just brilliant to me. So anyhow, I saw they had a Christmas album with 2 unnamed songs. According to the website, it’s a limited edition of 50 hand made [...]
The problem with Pandora
Posted: 7 November 2007 in UncategorizedTags: complaints, doom rock, music, pandora, slumber party
Sometimes I just open Pandora to find out the name of a song or artist I heard and want to buy from iTunes (or whatever). But then it automatically starts playing and it’s a really cool song and so I have to wait for the song to finish (since there’s no guarantee I’ll hear it [...]
