Mark Dougherty says:
Cal Schenkel, who did so many great Zappa/Mothers album covers, and some Beefheart as well, is giving away lots of his artwork. Just send him a dollar to cover the shipping and he'll send you...who knows what? Here is his link: http://ralf.com/
I have little in common with Messrs. Keitel and Schwarzenegger — except that we’re all an exact number of thousands of days old today. So that means I’m still messing around with the 1000 Day Birthday Calculator concept. I scraped Wikipedia’s dates entries, did some classy modulo arithmetic, and (give or take some Julian/Gregorian calendar changes, which I didn’t) it’s also the following folks’ birthdays: Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Ottavio Piccolomini (1599), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), Christian Goldbach (1690), Theophilus Cibber (1703), Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy (1725), Gilbert Stuart (1755), Mirza Ghalib (1796), Peter Ernst von Lasaulx (1805), Albéric Magnard (1865), Carl Nielsen (1865), Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon (1870), Lee DeForest (1873), Maximilian von Weichs (1881), Olev Siinmaa (1881), Sara Teasdale (1884), Geoffrey Fisher (1887), León de Greiff (1895), Walter O’Malley (1903), Arsenio Lacson (1911), Jean Ritchie (1922), Lucian Freud (1922), Bengt Lindström (1925), Hank Thompson (music) (1925), Shoista Mullodzhanova (1925), Agnès Varda (1928), Pro Hart (1928), Dominic Chianese (1931), Harvey Keitel (1939), Hildrun Claus (1939), James Loewen (1942), Sarah Brady (1942), Keith Emerson (1944), Patrice Chéreau (1944), Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), Jonathan Mann (1947), William Atherton (1947), Peter Jurasik (1950), Steve Ferrone (1950), Desi Arnaz, Jr. (1953), Linda Hayden (1953), Richard Legendre (1953), Tonya Lee Williams (1958), Pascal Olmeta (1961), Thurl Bailey (1961), Pernell Whitaker (1964), Ginger Fish (1966), Maria Canals Barrera (1966), Puri Jagannadh (1966), Sissel Kyrkjebø (1969), Alexander Kapranos (1972), Matt Belisle (1980), Ashley Hansen (1983), Chris Roberson (American football) (1983), Sarah Poewe (1983), Alison Pill (1985), Klara Ósk Elíasdóttir (1985) and Mara Lopez (1991).
If I’d had any free time, I would’ve had a web app for you to work out who shares a 1000 day birthday with you. But if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a whole day to be 15000 …
This is what NBC sounds like in Canada. I guess it’s okay to have a message, but no need to get all Yankee Hotel Foxtrot about it. I snipped off the obnoxious taco ads; NBC is so ad-infested that they have to wedge them in their videos.
I was trying to watch a Molly Lewis video, but it failed. Guess they forgot the WW in the web …
(original: Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff holds up cheese for photographers … – Yahoo! Canada News Photos)
The PointyURL for this site is http://⇘⥮.⇒.ws.
(thanks, Rob)
I thought the highlighter was a nice touch:
Seen on University Ave on a moped parked blocking a bike ring.
On Canada Day, I rigged up my bicycle with a camera set to take a picture every 20 seconds, and a GPS to track my location. I had no control over when the camera would fire as I rode round the neighbourhood. Out of the 150+ photos it took, this one from Jack Goodlad park came out quite well:
The rest of the pictures are here: My Neighbourhood, Canada Day 2010 « Numpty’s Progress
Here’s a happy 4th, made for the US Bicentennial:
I really, really don’t know what my iPod was thinking when it rendered a perfectly good mono MP3 of Mississippi John Hurt like this:
Mississippi John Hurt – Frankie (accidental robot mix)
Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie (accidental robot mix)Robyn Hitchcock Live at Dancebase on 2001-08-22 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive.
Robyn Hitchcock
Dancebase, Edinburgh
2001-08-22
Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Andy Kershaw show, 2001-08-24
FM-Radio > SB-16 > WAV > CD-R
CD-R > XLD > FLAC-16
Sound is occasionally slightly buzzy, but generally pretty clear.
Setlist:
1 Gene Hackman
2 Cheese Alarm
3 Arms Of Love
4 Surgery
5 I Often Dream Of Trains
6 Autumn Is Your Last Chance
7 Freeze
8 (Interview with Andy Kershaw)
Support was The Bhundu Boys.
Recorded and transferred by Stewart C. Russell - scruss.com
(who also has a mono AUD on minidisc of this - enquire if interested)
Robyn Hitchcock
The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
2001-08-05
AUD
AUD > lapel mic > Sharp MD-SR50 MD (mono mode)
MD-SR60 > Marantz PMD-620 > Audacity > FLAC
(analogue connection from MD to PMD-620)
Note: recording is *MONO*, and is 24-bit FLAC.
Partial set - had to leave to catch last train home ... but this was
the last night of a great three gig series, and Robyn was on top form.
Setlist:
1 talk: "he went elsewhere"
2 Mexican God
3 talk: "meat ... meat ..."
4 The Devil's Coachman
5 talk: "when you die" (*** truncated)
6 When I Was Dead (*** mostly)
7 Raining Twilight Coast
8 talk: "god came along, and the mars bar was ashamed"
9 1974
10 talk: "pumpkin A and pumpkin A"
11 Chinese Bones
12 talk: "frank recorded this"
13 My Wife And My Dead Wife
14 talk: "intro to your feelings are the last thing to die"
15 Your Feelings Are the Last Thing To Die
16 She Doesn't Exist Any More
17 talk: "special strings made for him by a halibut"
18 I Feel Beautiful
19 talk: "madonner of the bees"
20 Madonna Of The Wasps
21 talk: "see how much of it I can remember"
22 La Cherité
No encore recorded, though one was likely played.
Tracks marked '***' have MD dropouts from faulty Maxell XL-II 74
MD.
Audience recording by Stewart C. Russell, http://scruss.com/
I’d hoped to have a working demo in here, but WordPress doesn’t like the <canvas> element, so here are a couple of static screendumps:
I wrote a routine in JavaScript that recursively rewrites strings of instructions, then interprets them as a simple turtle-like language to draw on the canvas. In my copious free time, I’ll release it as a simple web app that you can play with these L-systems. But you can do some fun stuff here until I get it written.
(for more details, see Appendix C of H. Peitgen and D. Saupe, Eds. The Science of Fractal Images, New York: Springer, 1988.)
Robyn Hitchcock
The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
2001-08-04
AUD
AUD > lapel mic > Sharp MD-SR50 MD (mono mode)
MD-SR60 > Marantz PMD-620 > Audacity > FLAC
(analogue connection from MD to PMD-620)
Note: recording is *MONO*, and is 24-bit FLAC.
Setlist:
1 talk: "not horribly caramelized or mellow"
2 Surgery
3 talk: "clint eastwood, for it is he"
4 A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations, Briggs
5 talk: "exciting and miserable time"
6 Wax Doll
7 talk: "a totem of misery"
8 The Veins Of The Queen
9 talk: "watch out for igor the dragon"
10 Viva! Sea-Tac
11 Glass Hotel
12 talk: "the only reason we can have, um, courtney cox"
13 Queen Elvis
14 I Am Not Me
15 Raymond Chandler Evening
16 talk: "good news: charles knocked out"
17 Sally Was A Legend
18 talk: "that amp contained a dybbuk"
19 Only The Stones Remain
20 Nightfall
Encore:
21 encore intro: "got another half hour"
22 Gene Hackman
23 The Ghost In You
24 talk: "already preparing to go somewhere else"
25 Think For Yourself
Audience recording by Stewart C. Russell, http://scruss.com/
I finally got around to transferring the first of the Robyn Hitchcock shows I recorded back in 2001 in Edinburgh: Robyn Hitchcock Live at The Assembly Rooms on 2001-08-03 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive.
There are three more. Two of them (plus the one I just uploaded) have dropouts from dodgy Maxell MD media.
I did transfer these back in 2001, and distribute them on CD to several people. Audacity and a solid-state recorder makes this a lot easier. My old workflow was:
A review of The Smiths written for fegmaniax:
So then, The Smiths. Or rather, mostly Benny, who is so closely linked to the sound of The Smiths for me that I can’t hear Morrissey without picturing Benny.
I knew Benny from the first day of primary school. Within the year, we knew he was a creative kid. He made weekly comics for all his friends, comics scrawled on offcuts from his dad’s stationery shop. Each comic was different, with different characters and careful story arcs (in my case, mostly fart gags) for each friend. We’d forgive Benny’s at best phonetic spelling, ‘cos we were each of us six at the time.
A few years passed, and Benny and I went to different schools. At age 12, tho’, we ended up in the same secondary school. A bit taller, fractionally better at spelling, he was one of the weird kids of the year. He was one of the first indie kids on my radar, and his frantic indie cool kept him from being picked on.
It was easy to be indie in the UK in the 1980s; you still listened to BBC radio, but you tuned to John Peel at night, just like everyone else. If you wanted to be identified as indie, you talked about what John Peel played. There was only one alternative. We’d only just got a fourth TV channel, and we needed alternatives so badly in the Age of Thatch that we’d even wait eagerly for Richard Whiteley to come on …
So there was Benny on the school bus; the clapped-out, clearly illegal motor coach with the brutish owner-driver Spamheid crashing gears and smoking furiously. Benny would be waving his arms about “Woa-hay … Morrissey … This Charming Man … he’s great, woa-hay”, then fall into the smokers at the back as Spamheid took the roundabout at Pollokshaws too fast.
So dedicated to the Smiths was Benny that he’d bring his albums into school. Not that there was any place to play them, it was just the awe of the medium, and his reverence for the sounds that they represented. 12″ was a lot of real estate in a teen bag, especially on transit.
And those sounds … the album starts with an impossible 80′s drum track, but Reel Around the Fountain is so lush and lengthy you can forgive that. You’ve got to have a tolerance for warble and jangle to even get a handle on this album, but the next two tracks kind of lead you away. “Pretty Girls Make Graves” is a surprisingly sweet fourth, “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle” does almost nothing, and then there’s the album’s stormer, “This Charming Man”, so short it’s almost over by the time you’ve sat up to take notice. You had to live in the now back then. Blink and you’d miss it.
TCM is the first of a run of four epic tracks, with “Still Ill” being the handbook of eighties indie disaffection, “Hand in Glove” adding the bit of depth to the proceedings (I remember seeing Benny’s notes on the song, and what he thought it all meant. I suspect it’s still classified). And then, “What Difference Does it Make?”, the whirling anthem of the album – where the re-enactment of Morrissey’s stage antics got the only marginally-coordinated Benny pitched into the fag pit again as Spamheid gunned the beat-up Plaxton up the Ayr Road.
Last two tracks? Who cares? If you’re not spent and reclining by the end of WDDIM?, you weren’t listening to the same album.
Wonder why the G20 fence takes a bend around the RBC at Bay & Wellington?
Okay, so what’s this, just given its content warnings:
You must be at least 17 years old to download this game.
Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor
Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity
Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes
Frequent/Intense Simulated Gambling
Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Frequent/Intense Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence
Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes
?
Sounds pretty nasty, eh? Definitely not something for the kids.
Wrong; it’s an ebook reader (specifically i2Reader). Just ‘cos Apple can’t control the content that you read on it, it slaps warnings all over it and makes you feel like a pariah just for looking at it.
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