¶ 2:41 PM

  listening assignment for my students this week covering the intersection of popular forms of music w/ experimental electronic techniques:
1. LCD Soundsystem remix of Le Tigre: Deceptacon
2. DJ Koala: Basin Street Blues
3. Khonnor: Man From The Anthill
4. Four Tet: As Serious As Your Life
5. Dsico: Gettin Ziggy At Da Party
6. Los Sampler's: Mambo Brillante
7. Girl Talk: Can't Stop
8. Aphex Twin: Flim
9. The Grassy Knoll: In The Light  ¶ 10:24 AM

 
Who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp?
Who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?
Who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp?
Who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?  ¶ 5:35 PM

  Anthony Storr from Music and the Mind: "It will never be possible to establish the origin of human music with any certainty; however, it seems probable that music developed from the prosodic exchanges between mother and infant which foster the bond between them."  ¶ 3:43 PM

    ¶ 8:30 PM

  here is the text from WalmartWatch.com's NY Times ad yesterday:
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We’ll be mailing draft legislation to every state legislator in the country – showing them how they can pass laws to put the brakes on Wal-Mart and the Wal-Mart Tax once and for all. This is only the beginning. Wal-Mart may not realize it yet, but this fight will be different.  ¶ 8:14 PM

 
my friend Pol seems to be exhibiting quite a bit in Japan. i always loved his sensibility.  ¶ 10:22 AM

  reviews of P. Miles and Hot Troche in Vital Weekly. some slight criticism for the lengths... but overall pretty positive.  ¶ 4:42 PM

 
that's my car. it now goes backwards.  ¶ 11:31 PM

  this is what often happens when we send out promo discs *!*. they end up in a pile of other garbage labels are sending out. you can see our upcoming release by Oh Astro at the top of this writers pile. he seems more excited about getting stuff than actually listening to it. i know how it is. it took me four years to end my addiction of countless promos landing in my mailbox. i converted over to running a label instead... which is its own time consuming & mind numbing addiction.  ¶ 5:31 PM

  oddly enough a bill was passed by the Idaho House of Representatives to give praises to the movie Napolean Dynamite. the bill even goes so far as to call any "Nay" voters "FREAKIN' IDIOTS!". obviously they have some time on their hands in Idaho.  ¶ 11:31 AM

  springtails  ¶ 3:35 PM

    ¶ 4:48 PM

  you know things are spinning out of control when we start reading tv show forums late at night.:
"Jack’s 'Chloe?!' when she answered his call was so cute. She’s his number two love (after Soulpatch, obvio). Speaking of Jack lovers, new hairsyle for Audrey! She must have brought lots of hair care products with her when she was kidnapped! At least she still looks haggard."  ¶ 5:51 PM

  "...a musical Glasnost has demolished the long straining walls between genres, with millions of music fans on each side of the sonic bloc embracing each other for the first time in decades. This newfound intermingling of once segregated sounds is best illustrated by the new iPod shuffle and its stunning social ramifications. Its official, the market now demands, not the increased specialty programming that has dominated major media for the past generation, but rather the absolute randomness of the mix." – Joshua Glazer from Urb  ¶ 4:24 PM

 
Bloc Party  ¶ 3:21 PM

  "The first person to use amplification was Adolph Hitler. Public address systems were developed by the Nazis and are essentially fascist in nature." Mixmaster Morris  ¶ 3:03 PM

  Frederick Dorian's The Musical Workshop (1947) in reference to classical (pre-romantic) music: "The point of procedure was given frequently on the basis of an already existing music. The composer borrowed, adopted or copied. Melodic loans were made from anywhere and everywhere. To borrow the music of another artist seemed natural. ...Such procedure had no odor of plagiarism, but was the generally accepted state of affairs. ...It may seem baffling to the modern mind that the invention of melodies was not considered a criterion for the greatness of the composer."  ¶ 4:47 PM