Archive for March, 2004

Yaaarrrgggh!

Tuesday, March 30th, 2004

Last night I turned on my computer and the mini-stereo it’s attached to, only to find no sound coming out of the speakers. Volume? All the way up. Headphones? Not plugged in. Speakers? Connected. Audio source on the computer? Not muted. The CD and radio aren’t making any noise through the speakers either. Oddly enough, [...]

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Where’s that Jay-Z Construction Set?

Friday, March 26th, 2004

In the vein of DJ Dangermouse’s Grey Album and the various Metallica/Jay-Z Black album mashups floating around the net (I know of at least two), I’d like to propose a new Jay-Z remix for the Contemporary Christian market:
Jay Z vs. Audio A - Leaving 99 Problems
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Sing it, Billy!

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

This past Christmas, Carla gave me a Page-A-Day calendar called “‘Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy,” which gives you a different mis-heard song lyric a day. There have been some good ones, but today’s really struck me for some reason.
From Smashing Pumpkins’ “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”

Wrong Lyric: The spider marines, Siam’s steel-chested rabbit [...]

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Scott Andrew on “creating demand”

Friday, March 12th, 2004

One of the things that gets talked about a lot over at Indieheaven, one of my online stomping grounds, is that as independent musicians, we need to “create demand” for what we do - to make people care when we release a CD or play a concert. I just read this post over at Scott [...]

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Itunes

Friday, March 12th, 2004

So…yeah. Anyone who read the previous posting re: Itunes has probably guessed that I’m no longer a “luddite” holding on to old operating systems. Yes, it’s true - I installed a new 80GB Seagate Barracuda drive in my computer a few weeks ago, and installed a brand-spankin’ new Windows 2000 partition on it in anticipation [...]

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