You know...rarely--rarely--do I find music that I actually hate. Seriously. Even the crappiest records sometime have a moment or two of fun or interest to them. I mean, even Vanilla Ice's To The Extreme has its moments.

But The Fiery Furnaces' Blueberry Boat album is just, truly, the worst fucking thing I've ever heard ( Read more... )

Weird Al Yankovic's new album, Straight Outta Lynwood, is absolutely hysterical. You know...after, what, nearly thirty years of basically doing the same thing with every album, you'd think Weird Al's schtick would get old--BUT YOU WOULD BE WRONG, GANGSTA. Weird Al only seems to get better with every album. And this album is a silly masterpiece, ( Read more... )

Check out the new article on The Spacing Guild Guide to Good Music concerning Camouflage's superb new album, Relocated, and Junior Boys' 8-bit depression-fest, So This Is Goodbye. Good sounds for you!

laerm, be sure you check this shit out, as I'd love to hear your comments....

Check it out, folks: Subpop Records, one of my favorite indie labels on earth (Iron and Wine! The Postal Service!) has teamed up with BitTorrent to offer a number of new songs, videos, and so forth via BitTorrent! Get 'em here!This is a ballsy move for a record company to take, but...man, it only makes sense that Subpop would do it. They represent ( Read more... )

Artificial hearts don't have to "beat" in order to workI mean...it only makes sense: as long as the blood keeps circulating, it does not need to keep circulating in "pulses" the way it does when pushed through our bloodstreams by an annoying clenching muscle ( Read more... )

The C64 Orchestra is just what it sounds like it is: an orchestra performing classical renditions of classi Commodore 64 games!

I just had a nerdgasm.

Cisco Systems' chief tech officer Bob Gleichauf calls Windows Vista "scary".

Why?

"Parts of Vista scare me," Gleichauf said at the Gartner Security Summit here on Monday. "Anything with that level of systems complexity will have new threats, as well as bringing new solutions. It's always a struggle in security, trying to build for what you don't ( Read more... )

OK...the new Scissor Sisters album, Ta-Dah!, wasn't exactly impressing me until I got to track three, "I Can't Decide". The lyrics are just awesome ( Read more... )

Goddamnit. Ahab has shuffled off this mortal coil. Here's the details as taken from the Herald-Standard via lyssabard's LJ:

Ronald L. Forsythe, 71, of California, Pa., died Saturday, September 16, 2006, in Uniontown Hospital.

He was born February 19, 1935, in West Brownsville, Pa., the youngest child of the late James and Bessie (Snyder) Forsythe.

Alife-long ( Read more... )

Here's how to handle 'em.

And you'd better believe I've thought of doing this before.