The game's on tonight. I love taking three or four hours to watch baseball -- the pace of it, the grace and the subtlety. I am having so much fun watching The Rockies' brand of baseball - it's young and hardworking and fun, and it's all coming together for them into a very very likely World Series run (becoming more likely after that 4th inning tonight)! It's a fun time to live in Colorado. They need to win one more against the Diamondbacks to go to the Series, and this Giants fan is cheering for them without qualms. [...]

Thom Yorke, Binaural Recording ? if you're a music fan, by now, you probably have a feeling that you can't get away from all of the radiohead news and up to the minute, literally in some cases, feelings and conjecture on 'in rainbows'. i don't know how people are anointing it the greatest album ever, or even the greatest radiohead album only after a few listens. i find that my favorite, or my greatest albums of all time come about after time. 6 months to a year, at least. also, after all of these [...]

Camber Sands, Sussex, is a grim, grim place in December. Its grey, cold, and marshy. The holiday homes are shuttered up. On a Friday night the fullest bar will host a pitbull terrier or two, a paunchy wreck playing a casio keyboard and a few tattooed baldies in England shirts wheezing 'the way to Amarillo' (and thats just the ladies folks, bad-um tchhh!!!). The cultural hub of camber sands is called pontins, which to those of you who don't know it, is a place that achieves the impossible by being a bleaker version of Butlins. Pontins in [...]
Song obsessions are those songs that we listen to on repeat. I noticed that my obsessions are often a week long. I also thought that other people might have similar obsessions. I've collected a panel of a few like-minded individuals and gotten their "song obsessions of the week." Quite often it's easy to explain why the song is good; it's much hard to explain why we're obsessed. Maybe you'll become obsessed with one of these. - Adrian ( me ): Andy Samberg and Adam Levine (and Richard James) - Iran [...]
This past Saturday's "Iran So Far" digital short featuring Andy Samberg, Maroon 5's Adam Levine and Fred Armisen received a ton of great press shortly after its premiere, but slowly creeping behind the acclaim was a word of caution: "The best part about the SNL short is that the song is directly lifted from an Aphex Twin tune." Those words of dissent came from a commenter on Stereogum 's post late Sunday night and after refreshing my memory with a link posted to the song it became unfortunately clear that the similarities between the two weren't coincidental. [...]
Get The Curse, c'est, avant tout, la volonté d'assurer un important transit de réseaux savoir-information d'une base de ressources partenaires fantômes à une micro-niche pluripotentiaire de recherche en mieux-danser. Nos outils ? Un fort profil technique déclinable sur un vaste panel de présentations-tableau référencées speedcore et gabber progressive, et une optimisation des solutions de [...]

Aphex Twin: "Tha," from the Selected Ambient Works 85-92 LP (Apollo, 1992)

Dans la rue, des enfants s'amusent souvent sur le trottoir, devant la boutique de l'antiquaire. C'est très curieux de passer à côté d'eux régulièrement : un môme, ça te bricole un univers plus rapidement que Warner Bros. un nouveau film Harry Potter - à l'échelle, entendons-nous. Ils ont la tête dans les nuages, les pieds dans le vague, et bonne dose de délicieuse inconscience. C'est chiant, de plus avoir l'âge de faire pareil. Telefon Tel Aviv - Life is About Taking Things in and Putting... (mp3) Aphex Twin - Lichen (mp3) [...]

Photo graciously borrowed from New York Magazine I am not at all ashamed to say that I have given my last two weeks over to reading the first 6 Harry Potter books. I am nearly finished with The Half-Blood Prince and almost ready to take on the final tome, The Deathly Hallows . (Needless, perhaps, to say, I waited in line outside Barnes & Noble to get it at midnight on Saturday.) When I say "not at all ashamed," it is for one reason and one [...]

Aphex Twin: "Xtal," from the Selected Ambient Works 85-92 LP (Apollo, 1992)

(Foto: Velvet Ant von kathycsus ) Gerade las ich, der alte Indie Recke Phillip Boa veröffentliche im August ein neues Album. Beim Stöbern auf der offiziellen Boa-Website fand ich dann dies: Eine der absolut besten Remix-Arbeiten von Richard D. James von 1995. Phillip Boa - Deep in Velvet (Aphex Twin Remix) aphex twin , mp3 , Phillip Boa

(Foto: basheem ) Früher TM waren es noch Spatzen, die pfiffen, heute hacken es die Blogger in ihre Tastaturen: Richard D. James hat sich aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach mal wieder neu erfunden. Seine neueste Inkarnation hört auf den Namen The Tuss . Warum man sich sicher ist, dass es wirklich der Meister aus Cornwall selbst ist? Zum einen klingt der Sound verdammt nach Aphex Twin, zum anderen soll "Tuss" im kornischen Slang soviel wie Ständer - also im Sinne von Errektion - bedeuten. Na damit sollte ja wohl der [...]

. " Sound Balance " 01. Aphex Twin - jynweythek ylow DrukQs (2001) 02. Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in F-sharp minor K.25 17 sonate per pianoforte/Vladimir Horowitz (1995) 03. Tchaikovsky - The Seasons, Selection June, Barcarolle (Sviatoslav Richter, 1983) 04. Raison D'Etre - Metamorphyses Phase V Metamorphyses (2006) 05. Joanna Newsom - [...]

It's May, and the all-instrumental extravaganza continues. . . "Return of the Birdland" by LINK WRAY I would be remiss if I did a series of posts on great instrumentals and failed to mention Link Wray. More important to the electric guitar and perhaps rock itself than Jimi Hendrix, Wray has not yet been inducted in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. What the fuck?! "Bongolia" by MICHAEL VINER'S INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND The Incredible Bongo Band were most well known for their hit (and oft-sampled) version of The Shadows' [...]

Love is central. It drives all that I do, in all its forms. I love to paint and it is my 'one love'...among many. .sylvia ji. Here is a current playlist that I'm listening to: " The Specialist " by Interpol " Ceremony " by New Order [...]

Aphex Twin: "Rhubarb," from the Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II LP (Warp, 1994)

Fast perfekte Bilder von fast perfekten Landschaften. Tolle Sache. Die Sache hat bei Sonja Braas einen kleinen Haken. Sie inszeniert ihre fast wuchtigen Oden an die Natur. Vor diesem Hintergrund bekommen sie dann nochmal eine andere Wendung. Interessant. Foto Sonja Braas - Forces #1, (Forces, 2000) // see more at the tanit gallery . Musik Aphes Twin - Polynomial-C (Xylem Tube EP, 1992) // virtual [...]

On this day in 1978, the first ever computer bulletin board system (or CBBS in geek speak) was established right here in Chicago by local computer hobbyist Ward Christensen. According to Wikipedia lore, the idea had been floating around for some time amongst Christiensen and his fellow colleagues, but it wasn't until they got snowed in from a record setting blizzard early that year that they had the time to hunker down and crunch out all the code for the project. So, in honor of this truly geek-tastic moment in computer history, we present this week's [...]