Archive for June, 2004

A haul of “new” CDs…

Wednesday, June 30th, 2004

It must be catch-up time for older music you’ve some­how missed out on.
Thanks to a used CD blowout at Straw­ber­ries (it appears that they got a bunch of used over­stock from Where­house, as all the CDs on sale had Where­house stick­ers), I now own the following:

Three albums by Elvis Costello: Impe­r­ial Bed­room, Spike, and […]

A case of “Macarena” singles, anyone?

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004

Hav­ing worked at a library before, I found this arti­cle on an unex­pected out­come of the RIAA price fix­ing set­tle­ment really, sadly humor­ous.
There’s even some feed­back from one of the libraries where I used to work:
The pub­lic library in Worces­ter, Mass., with a main library and two branches, received 150 copies of “Nastradamus,” a 1999 album […]

Collaborative filtering gone amuck!

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004

As seen in the Itunes Music Store when you call up our album:
Lis­ten­ers also bought:

Nor­man Brown
Count­ing Crows
Dave Koz
Switch­foot
Liz Phair
Cather­ine Wheel
The Orb
Gen­e­sis
Sarah McLach­lan
Prince

I guess our music is truly a lit­tle some­thing for everyone…either that or we just appeal to peo­ple with schiz­o­phrenic tastes.

Ask and you shall receive…

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004

After see­ing Super Size Me, Carla men­tioned that she thought it would be an impor­tant film to show kids at school (if they did some edits to get rid of some minor “objec­tion­able” con­tent). Looks like that’s exactly what Mor­gan Spur­lock is plan­ning to do:
In the after­noon I went to Sound One and watched the mix […]

Days of small things

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004

Zech 4:6–10
This is a favorite verse of Keith over at Indieheaven, which he uses to say some­thing to the effect of “Don’t be frus­trated with where God has planted you, even if it’s not where you want to be.” I don’t know if that’s a pre­cise and care­ful exe­ge­sis of what the text really says, […]

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