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In “Selling the Computer Revolution“, the Computer History Museum has an excellent archive of computer marketing materials. Some of these would make excellent gig posters, I do say. (Some more than others, natch.)

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We Don’t Regret The Error

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Tito

Bogus quote entered into wikipedia.
“Journalists” around the globe cut-n-paste.
Wikipedia fixes error.
Newspapers, not so much.

So far, The Guardian is the only publication to make a public mea culpa, while others have eliminated or amended their online obituaries without any reference to the original version — or in a few cases, still are citing Fitzgerald’s florid prose weeks after he pointed out its true origin.

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Memo from the Sigh-I’m-Getting-Old Department

Posted on April 28, 2009 by David

Co-signed by the Wasted-Opportunity Sub-committee.

WFMU’s youngest DJ was introduced to PJ Harvey, Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers–in the womb. Says the sixteen-year-old (source NY Mag):

I’ve loved music since I was in my mom’s tummy, dancing to Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, and PJ Harvey. As a kid, I had such a tight obsession with certain songs my dad made a two-song tape: “Ain’t Nuthin’ But a She Thing,” by Salt-N-Pepa, and “Baby It’s You,” by the Shirelles. I would sit there and be like, “Again! Again!”

My friends growing up were doing stuff in this new DIY all-ages scene. I e-mailed WFMU off-the-cuff with an idea for a show about that, and after a listener hour and two auditions, they gave me a Sunday-Monday overnight slot.

I would spend the whole weekend preparing—asking bands to send their music, making the playlist, preparing everything I wanted to say. Then I would go to sleep at 6 p.m. and wake up at 1, so I wouldn’t be a zombie. The show would end at 6 a.m., and I’d go straight to school.

Now I’m on Sunday mornings, three to six. There’s something so awesome about being up that late. It’s morning in Europe, and my biggest audience is there. Once during a listener fund-raising marathon I got a $3,000 pledge over the Internet from this guy Frederic from France. He said, “One night I asked you how you came to be who you are and you said, ‘I was raised by atheist punks.’ That comment made me love you. I set my alarm to listen to your show, and I haven’t set my alarm since before you were born.” How awesome is that!

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Your Mileage May Vary

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Tito

The Gray Lady covers a kerfuffle surrounding the Russian film Taras Bulba, adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s novel.

“Ultranationalist” politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky apparently likes what he sees: “Everyone who sees the film will understand that Russians and Ukrainians are one people — and that the enemy is from the West.”

Meanwhile, “The premiere inspired viewers in Krasnodar to shave their heads into Cossack haircuts, and early this month Russian Fashion Week devoted an afternoon to a collection called Cossacks in the City.”

Everybody now!
April 1 is Gogol’s 200th birthday
now we drink Cosmos when we’re thirstay

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15 Years Ago

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Tito

Kurt Cobain found dead 15 years ago today. MTV News reporting archive.

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Monica Is Funky Enough

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Tito

Funky Enough, originally uploaded by bigoteetoe.

My first foray into the world of sleeve facing. This one was quick and dirty. I expect better work in the future.

The D.O.C. – It’s Funky Enough [blip.fm]

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searching for the perfect beat

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Tito

This bootleg got a lot of rotation in my Mazda when I drove around the greater KC area in the fall of 1998. I especially like the sample work provided by the then newly added DJ Mix Master Mike. The build up/lead into “Time To Get Ill” is a highlight for me, along with my favorite instrumental song “Ricky’s Theme”. What these tracks lack in fidelity, they make up for in awesome. Seems to capture the Beastie Boys concert experience pretty accurately. Now if I could just track down a copy of my long-ago stolen “Rabid” bootleg from the KTS line…

Beastie Boys
Live At Lorely
June 20, 1998

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Presumably the iTunes numbers for “Margaritaville” downloads aren’t in yet

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Tito

New York Times: “When Economy Sours, Tootsie Rolls Soothe Souls”

I guess we all need our escapes. Mayday – Rock and Roll Can’t Save Your Life

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Variations on a theme

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Tito

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you don’t say

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Tito

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NP: Harvest Moon

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stimulation ideas

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Tito

If you got money, then show it and throw at these:

A.L. Kennedy’s Day out in paperback today.
20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers ($13 w/ free shipping). It includes all your favorites. For Real.
$10 super-fantastic cassette tote bag {via – who always has the best leads}

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things that make me think of other things

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Tito

Comcast – Commercial

The Faint – Agenda Suicide

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Why would you like Elvis if you had the real stuff?

Posted on March 6, 2009 by David

Raised on classic rock radio, I never thought much of Van Morrison. Moondance was a pretty decent track, but not worth paying for was how I viewed it.

That all changed when someone gave me Astral Weeks on vinyl. It was akin to hearing Rod Stewart and the Faces do “Stay with Me” as in, wow, this guy used to be amazing!

Of course not amazing enough to want to pay 300 bones to hear him perform the album live this week, but certainly enough to repost this fantastic Talk of the Town piece of his reflections on one of my favorite juke boxes in New York:

When someone grouped Donegan with other practitioners of “pre-Beatles rock and roll,” Morrison pulled up short.

“That’s a cliché,” he said, adjusting his sunglasses. “I don’t think ‘pre-Beatles’ means anything, because there was stuff before them. Over here, you have a different slant. You measure things in terms of the Beatles. We don’t think music started there. Rolling Stone magazine does, because it’s their mythology. The Beatles were peripheral. If you had more knowledge about music, it didn’t really mean anything. To me, it was meaningless.”

(source)

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unpaid advert

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Tito

Quick shout out for TagScanner, which I should have downloaded a long time ago. After a quick run through, it appears to meet all my MP3 tagging/file renaming needs — mostly for songs I get from archive.org.

I recommend this batch for starters if you’re looking: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists at Brownies (NYC) July 4, 2002.

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Born Again

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Tito

Feelin’ nostalgic.

Mercy Rule – Spark MP3

Tell Tomorrow video

Now: Domestica

Blink-N-Blog

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Tito

Looks like my blogging habits will be forever changed/damaged/cured by twitter…..LET’S SEE!

There are so many nooks & crannies on the internet filled with dopeness. It is always a pleasure to fall into another.

(Watering Hole by Amy Stein) {via}

And you say, Goddamn
This is the dope jam

I started Gravity’s Rainbow this weekend. So far, I am loving it — I hope that I am able to finish it. My track record for fiinishing “long” books isn’t the best, even for books I love. (I’m looking at you, Infinite Jest & The Recognitions). Hopefully, public shaming of myself on the internet will help. Also consider this to be an invitation to be my goodreads friend.

Tell your friends, to get with my friends
And we can be friends

Speaking of Infinite Jest, I hear that David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel may be teetering towards publication. Without knowing all the facts, this doesn’t sit well with me. Well…no reason my hangups should be yours, too.

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Just For The Funk of It

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Tito

I’m a sucker for the Universal Newsreels youtube channel. Always amusing to get my daily dose of propoganda 50+ years ex post facto. So it’s with a smidgen of curmudgeonly delight that I revel in viewing this recitation of the pledge of allegiance in 1941 before the “under God” clause was added¹ in 1954. Which is, of course, apparently a big deal to not include nowadays (to some people at least).

Note: the audio is a little garbled at the beginning.

¹ Apparently at the behest of the Knights of Columbus, who you may recognize from their recent support of Prop 8 in California.

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