Every week (or so), The Perfect Five features five songs – one Hyped, one Covered, one Classic, one Remixed and one Loved. A great place to discover new music.
A great Sask-a-zydeco song – Happy Song by Crooked Creek – which is sort of the theme song for one of the best hippie fests around (or at least I think it was when I used to go to this festival every year. Things are a bit hazy! ;-)) While you’re on that requisite ugly […]
Joseph Gordon Levitt, child star of “3rd Rock From the Son” and blossoming movie star ranging from indy-hits like “(500) Days of Summer” to this summer’s cerebral blockbuster, “Inception” is also apparently a big Web 2.0, open-source, open-collaboration advocate. Five years ago, he formed an online studio called HitRECord.org where anyone can contribute, remix and […]
Any time I spend time at our farm with my dad and Pace as I did this past weekend… …I think of this song. One reason the lyrics resonate is because I literally was that nervous boy getting onto the school bus for the first time. (Of course I managed to come home with a […]
Welcome to my new blog. Hope you enjoy the party!
It's my dyslexic birthday today (I was born in '73 and am turning 37) and I know they didn't do it for me but what a great gift to stumble across a clip of a quasi-Beatles reunion as Sir Paul recently took to the stage to celebrate his old bandmate at the conclusion of an […]
I'm about as far from a Pitchfork following, Fleet Iver Weekend-listening hipster as you'll find. But I do have friends who fit that category and a recent visit to Vancouver where I got to catch up with one of those friends also introduced me to a new singer-songwriter who I think is probably very much […]
“The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half. It has quite a magical effect.”The Swinger(via MetaFilter)
Former Golden Girl and definitely not-the-typical Saturday Night Live host, Betty White actually *was* the host of last night's show, mainly because of an Internet campaign that started on Facebook. Here's an article that details some other examples of Internet campaigns affecting pop culture.
