My first marriage in a single song
You lusted after so many I laid here with only one Is this what you wanted? To live in a house that is haunted By the ghosts of you and me? —Leonard Cohen
The moon
Archive.org has the entirety of the Apollo 10 mission audio available. I freakin’ love the internet!
Blue light orchestra
I’m way more excited about this than I should be. KMart Muzak Recordings at Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/@davismv#uploads-title
Better than anticipated
Back in the day I’d digitize stuff by taking audio off my receiver and run it into the audio-in on my computer. I was lazy the other day and decided I wanted to try to pull sound directly off the sound card. And that’s how I found Audio-Recorder [1]. It’s easy enough to install and…
Surprise! It’s your past!
So I there I was, looking for some esoteric track for a mix I’m kind of puttering with, when I came across a blast from the past. Buried in a tarball in a directory in the dark corners of my filesystem was a soundboard recording I made back when I was a DJ at WFHB.…
The Dude Sings
Sleeping Tapes by Jeff Bridges. [1] squee [1] http://www.dreamingwithjeff.com/#music-section
The most unwanted song
Vicki [1], of Do-or-DIY [2] fame, filled in for a show on WFMU [3] over Christmas Eve. I’ve been subscribed to the Do-or-DIY podcast feed [4] since I was a wee lad. And now I’ve finally caught up to Christmas in my podcast listening. All of this to say that about halfway through the show…
Another sign of kids needing to get off my lawn post-haste
The goa mix [1] is 20 years old. I was more ska/jazz/CMJ at the time but this mix was my gateway into the world of electronica. It was a seed that didn’t really sprout for another decade but that fact left me in a place where I could follow the trajectory backward and also launch…
Judgement Night
When this album [1] hits it, it hits it real good. When it misses, it is obvious. It’s the musical equivalent of middle-late 80s Steve Balboni [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_FhUOpXz-c&list=PLZ2HwSs4ohWUyNLfezod0DKo2R_8G8mFR [2] http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/balbost01.shtml
I love cake
The infamous cake episode of the Millionaire’s Holiday. [Two hours of MP3 coming your way for those with bandwidth considerations]