Tuesday, March 30, 2004

RPMedia

Surprisingly,

I'm still holding forth at spots #2 and 4 at The Recording Project Media Services, despite two months on the chart and virtually no spamming on my part:

Top Downloads
M.Brane War Inside Play (192kbps) Download (5.94MB) 139
Dafduc Song 130 Play (128kbps) Download (3.35MB) 102
PapillonIrl My First Wife Left Me Play (96kbps) Download (3.59MB) 82
Dafduc Beautiful Still Play (192kbps) Download (6.62MB) 74
dispelled_myths Put that away Play (128kbps) Download (3.98MB) 71


Stop by, give my stuff a listen. Let's see if we can run those numbers up!!! ;)

Yahoo! News

Study: File-Sharing No Threat to Music Sales

The Harvard-UNC study is not the first to take aim at the assertion that online music piracy is the leading factor hurting music sales. In two studies conducted in 1999 and 2002, Jupiter Research analyst Aram Sinnreich found that persons who downloaded music illegally from the Internet were also active purchasers of music from legitimate sources.

"While some people seemed to buy less after file sharing, more people seemed to buy more," Sinnreich said. "It was more likely to increase somebody's purchasing habits."

The 2002 Jupiter study showed that people who traded files for more than six months were 75 percent more likely than average online music fans to spend more money on music.


RIAA spokesmonkeys, of course, disagree. But for a number of us, these studies just confirm what we already know - CD sales are down because the new releases suck ass.

BOYCOTT RIAA!!!

Friday, March 26, 2004

A public response to Racheloni's Spongebob Post
Only because of the 1000-character limit at HaloScan...

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This is timely! The guys over at my home studio board have spent all week arguing at length about whether Obi-Wan Kenobi or Gandalf had better powers. It goes something like this:

guy 1: My imaginary geezer can beat up your imaginary geezer.

guy 2: No, my imaginary geezer can beat up YOUR imaginary geezer.

guy 1: No way. That light saber is way cooler than those crappy spells. And what's up with that staff? Puh-leaze.

guy 2: Ha. My guy beat a damn Balrog. Your guy would be pissing himself if he ever had to do that. Except, um, oh yeah. YOUR GUY IS DEAD ALREADY. What kinda lame-ass superpower DIES? Especially in a fight with fat old James Earl Jones? Loser.


It continues like that:
battlegeezer thread

Then somebody wrote a song about it:
song for the imaginary geezers

And we had some spin-off threads - Gollum vs. Jar Jar, Ginger vs. Maryann. I borrowed your Elijah Wood link at one point. Thanks.

And yeah, most of us are getting paid for this. Hee hee. ;)

Jay
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In other news, I've also "borrowed" Racheloni's Brains / Joy of Cooking entry. Racheloni Rocks!

And I usually don't.

As you were...

Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Rock And Roll Confidential - The Hall of Douchebags



HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!

*gasp*

HA HA HA HA!

*snort*

heehee. Click the pic. Funny, funny stuff. OMG, I hope my old band pics aren't in there.

April Fools 1986

Warning: Musician Humor, circa 1986

Ringotrongics Thumper 2000: Tired of drum machines with no personality? You'll change your tune after a session with Thumper 2000, the digital drum machine that not only sounds like a real drummer but acts like one too. The research dept at Ringotronics has gone beyond mere "human feel" to capture the drummer's disposition on a chip, thanks to a breakthrough in artificial intelligence (the only kind of intelligence real drummers possess). Thumper 2000 won't function at all until twenty minutes after the rest of the band has started rehearsal, and once it has started it stops constantly during the following 10 minutes to adjust pedals and stands and retune its snare. It also speeds up in proportion to the number of women in the audience and always uses more cymbals than the song calls for. A built-in voice module allows Thumper 2000 to express its desire to sing, without actually giving it the capability to actually do so.

Monday, March 22, 2004

MEng project: lil2

MIDI Hamster Control

Why didn't **I** think of that?

Next time I get songwriter's block, I'm buying some hamsters.

Levon Helms sez:

article: Diamond Teeth Mary

Our favorite act was 'The Lady with the Million Dollar Smile,' F. S. Walcott's big featured singer, who'd come on in the third quarter of the show. She was an armful. She wore bright dresses and had all her teeth filled with diamonds! She sang on all those real get-down songs like 'Shake a Hand'."

From Levon Helm's "This Wheel's On Fire"

Sunday, March 21, 2004

Rode thinks of everything.

Another thing to like about the Rode NTK: a double-duty shockmount!



Thanks to Emeric for the pic...

Friday, March 19, 2004

Magic Bag

Magic Bag:

March 20
THE DIRTBOMBS & DETROIT COBRAS
wsg The Come-Ons
Doors 8 p.m.
$10.00 adv.


Come on down!!! Not sure I'll be there, though - sis-in-law is moving in for a little while (it BETTER be a little while), that's moving day. Blue Sunrays guitarist Brian (uh, uh, ... crap! Forgot his last name) is in the Come-ons, some RP friends are supposed to be there. I'll be there if I can.

Thursday, March 18, 2004

UnQualified User - index page - Free MP3 downloads, CDs, Bio Info, Tour Dates, Lyrics and More!"

IUMA: UnQualified User

Check out my pal Paul's music - Paul encouraged me a lot very early in my home recording career, and gave me great amounts of vital information back when I couldn't buy a clue. He even listened to some of my really early stuff, which I now realize took great courage, and even greater restraint. We had a very chummy private Yahoo club, about 6 of us, back in the day (clubs are now merged with groups), that suddenly imploded and left us all wondering what the hell just happened. Still a warm place in my heart for those guys though, Paul especially.

Give him a listen, tell him Daf sent you. He'll remember.

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

97.5 FM Today's Hit Music

Vote for Jaime!!!

Well, you should really listen to all four of them, then vote for the best. Which would be Jaime. Great voice, especially for a teenager! Daughter of an (extremely talented) friend. Didn't fall far from the tree, it seems...

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Yahoo! Groups : 1alesis_qs_series

Yahoo! Groups : 1alesis_qs_series

Apparently you gotta join if you wanna browse - sorry. Alesis QS's are a great value - good sound and feel, for about 1/3 the price of a Triton or Motif. Love my QS-8.1!!!

Group's still active. I've belonged for years, but don't really participate. Still, good to know they're still going strong.

Monday, March 15, 2004

Piltdown Man

I hate Creed, and I've put it to music.

Bwahahahahaha!!!!

"How does a daytime-drama-type become a rock lead singer?
Good god, it's like some evil force has resurrected Winger...


Piltdown Man is a twisted genius - give him a listen. This ain't just funny, it sounds great!!!!

Friday, March 12, 2004

Added a Gear Lust box up top. Hubba hubba...

Thursday, March 11, 2004

Welcome to Music Maker Publications

Dave Moulton Lectures --- Playback Platinum Series

Over my head financially for now, and perhaps sonically as well, but still potential value. Way cheaper than one of those hands-on recording schools, too, though I'm sure they have their advantages.

More Flash

Flash training CDRom

Linked from a timely little piece of semi-spam. Price is a bit higher than I'm willing to fork over in these economic times - pay cuts and uncertain future at work - but man, if this was two years ago, I'd be all over it.

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Huh - Blogger lost half my template AGAIN...

So I rebuilt, a little different - what WERE those links I had off to the right? Backed it up this time, though. Fool me twice, shame on me.

This is actually about #4. But who's counting?

Found a blog...

Guitar Talk

Ah, serendipity...

If'n he keeps posting wavs instead of mp3s, good bet I won't be able to listen. Dial-up only here in the beanfields, can't even get DSL. Satellite, I s'pose, but I don't see bang for the buck.

Saturday, March 06, 2004

Ha Ha Ha

Hee Hee

...snort

bjork bjork bjork!
bjork bjork bjork!

Friday, March 05, 2004

Taking the plunge again

Here comes a new template, this time from blogskins.com. If the site's all hosed for a while, you'll know why. Unless it's hosed so badly you don't see this post...

Thursday, March 04, 2004

Ear Infection - Treatment and Information

When All Else Fails...

...go see what the health-food bunch says.

Hear's what the ear surgeon said:

My best bet up front would have been a high level of steroids. But (1) I waited 10 days, (2) the steroid pack they prescribed in ER wasn't strong enough, and (c) I discontinued the steroids after they were completed. My internist actually suggested that the steroids were just a sign they were throwing the "kitchen sink" at my ear troubles.

NOW, he (ear surgeon) has me on 60 mg of prednisone for the next 7 days, but it may well be too late. There's also a VERY good chance that this wouldn't have worked up front either, but since I was treated with steroids and did recover my high frequencies (only), there's some evidence that I'm in the part of the population for which the steroids are effective. Sadly, the longer the waiting in applying the treatment, the more they lose their efficacy. So the steroids NOW are kind of a Hail Mary thing.

Stay tuned...

Monday, March 01, 2004

OddTodd Interviews Sauron

Lord of the Rings

This is great! What a riot:

Sauron: ...But who would have ever thought someone would actually want to destroy the ring!? I didn't see that coming. That ring is so cool!

Me (Todd): Totally! I probably but have been sporting it around town first day all blinging!

Sauron: Uh huh.


It goes on like that. Funny stuff.