Again with the MJ

Daily Swarm has become the Jackson Swarm. Tonnes of good stuff there.

More from the Jackson file

Watch the moves, unbelievable. Great horn break too. The female object of desire is the ostensible "Dancing Machine", but the song may as well be referring to Michael.

Win!

The End of Fail

from this article:

How the Web Survived Michael Jackson’s Death

Too soon?

Neverland Ranch Investigators Discover Corpse Of Real Michael Jackson

Surely, by now you've heard? The King is dead.

Sad, yes, but the guy was a ghost for the past 15 years anyway. This quote from George Carlin (also RIP) pretty much sums the legal side of Jackson:

Song of the year?

World's oldest instrument

35,000-year-old Flute Is First Instrument Ever [Gizmodo]

Funniest video ever?

"The Making of Buzz Aldrin's Rocket Experience", I think this picture says it all:

Making of Buzz Aldrin's Rocket Experience w/ Snoop Dogg and Talib Kweli from Buzz Aldrin

Some classic house

Loving this one lately:

Making Twitter useful

Top music Twitterererers:

http://wefollow.com/twitter/music

Oh, and there's me:

http://twitter.com/phatmat

Pictures of people with no life whatsoever, apparently

Why In Hell Are People Camping Out For the iPhone 3GS?

RIAA = jerks

My dad sent me these couple of articles about the another ruling against Jammie Thomas:

Jury rules against Minn. woman in download case

Analysis: $1.92M fine in music piracy case could hurt RIAA

Just goes to show that these evil fucks are willing run their entire business model into the ground, and take innocent people with them...

Mention of a book that Bjork describes as "Incredibly Nourishing"

I'm reading "The Rest Is Noise", a history of 20th century classical music by Alex Ross. Amazing book, I thought about going paperback on this one but I just had to go for the hardcover. Not great for travel or subway, but this isn't that type of book. This is a book you enjoy in an armchair with a large cup of tea and an excellent stereo system.

Let's just say that a clear line is being drawn from early avant garde through Steve Reich and on to Timbaland. That, basically, is what makes this book awesome.

The audio guide on the website is also awesome. Some of the compositions are mind blowing.

Always time for ragtime!

Classic 80’s Hits Done As Ragtime Piano

Pirates = Purchasers

BitTorrent users spend money, too

" * They buy 34% more movie tickets, purchase 34% more DVDs and rent 24% more movies than the average Internet user.
* They tend to have more and better equipment for consuming media, including home theaters and expensive computers with large screens.
* They spend less time watching TV, more online, and far more watching downloaded or streaming video.
* They're not only early adopters, they're more likely to share their opinions online, and with more people."

Bye, bye, media

Theme Music for the Death of the Media

Pretty funny, epic parody set to the tune of Don McLean's "American Pie".

*tear

TV on the Radio tomorrow night

No NIN finale tour for me, out with the old in with the new, I say. Besides, I heard NIN is opening for Jane's Addiction. I'm all for supporting your influences, like Reznor did with Bowie back in the 90s, but this is a little ridiculous.

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Here's TV on the Radio's "Dear Science,", which I think will go down as one of the great albums of this decade.

I wonder what the rest of the title could be. The album could easily be titled "Dear Science, I love you, but you're bringing me down". A positive work overall, really putting together everything they've been refining over the past couple albums.


Dear Science

Love in this Pizza Club

This video never fails to crack me up, especially when the parrot takes the Young Jeezy verse!

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