The English garden at Hampton Court Palace. What on earth could that have to do with David Gilmour, Jimmy Page and Keith Richards? This is precisely what I propose to discover.
I propose study and research.
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The MS150 – we totally freakin ROCKT it!!
Two days, 150 miles (actually about 156) on that little bike seat. We start at Woodcrest PATCO station, ride to Ocean City, NJ for Mack ‘n’ Manco’s Pizza and Johnson’s caramel popcorn, and then we wake up at dawn and bring that sucker home! All to raise money to fight Multiple Sclerosis. It was our first time doing the ride since cancer, and that, plus good weather, good, friends and an amazing cause, made it the best one yet!
Temper, temper, Mr. Eno!
Brian Eno – 2 Forms Of Anger (taken from Small Craft On A Milk Sea) by Warp Records
Some pounding guitars invade this preview of the new Eno/Warp collaboration just after the two minute mark. Just wonderful stuff! Can’t wait for the full release on November 2, 2010. Here’s the Warp link, and a tip of the hat to Synthtopia for bringing this delicious clip to my plate.
A dark and dangerous collection of books? A young a precocious child? Oh, that will be just fine!
From QuietEarth, here is a trailer for something mysterious, dangerous and wonderful:
Mrs Peppercorn’s Magical Reading Room – Trailer from Black Lake Films on Vimeo.
Even the title is just right: Mrs. Peppercorn’s Magical Reading Room.
SBB’s Blue Trance will be here 12/7
Not much more than that to report, but the album cover looks great:
Beyond that, not much to add. News of the release and the cover art come from the invaluable resource “Progarchives“. Not sure where we’d be without them. Here’s the same info from SBB’s home label, Metal Mind.
Sounds to me like Gail will NEVER permit Frank Zappa music to be distributed via iTunes
Strong language from a strong woman:
I am not a fan of iTunes. I am not a fan of their growth through their overbearing means by which they have a reduced value of music. First, they taught everyone how to steal it and then they said,” Oops, sorry here’s how you can pay for it really cheap!” So you know, I’m not a fan of that and I’m not a fan of price-fixing, which is something they do. You don’t have a lot of choice in what you can offer and how you can offer it. I mean they just have rules and I understand that it is probably just a by-product of some of their programming issues but there should be other choices. I believe that the future is that there will be other choices and they will be on every artists own fan site or a conglomerate consortium of artists’ fan sites that’s not controlled by an outside party that does not respect artist’s rights.
This is from a recent interview that was linked by the fantastic Kill Ugly Radio blog. Go there for more quotes and a link to the whole. Gail rocks!
Fire up the Fucking Wave Motion Gun!! – Part 2
Thanks to the amazing Live For Films blog, we have two more trailers for the upcoming Battleship Yamoto. This is epic space opera at its finest!
For more on Star Blazers (the English language version of the Japanimation upon which this material is based), check out this beautiful site.
Morning strum while fasting, featuring @thelucydog
Eventually, I have to give up all the dreams of being a superstar DJ and running Ableton Live with Reason 5, controlled on an iPad. I mean, I’m sure I’ll keep dabbling, but eventually, I just have to go back to doing what I do. And, in this case, it had been so long that I was a bit worried my fingers wouldn’t cooperate, but after all these years, they still remember. This is just something, a bit sloppy, that Lucy and I made up on the spot.
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Playlist from last night’s run
I wouldn’t exactly call it eclectic, but I liked how it’s all over the map.
- Andy (Zappa Plays Zappa, from the “Return of the Son of …” 2010)
- Carnavalito (Joe Zawinul from Stuttgart bootleg 1997)
- Slaggie Maggie (Percy Jones, Scott McGill & Ritchie DeCarlo, from “Debut” 2007)
- Mantra The Lawn (Paul Gilbert from “Fuzz Universe” 2010)
- Death Head (Kaki King from “Junior” 2010)
- Unquiet Slumber of the Sleepers (Genesis from Wind & Wuthering 1977)
- Woke Up (Marillion from Happiness is the Road – Essence 2008)
- Vacuum Part 1 (The Watch from “Vacuum” 2004)
That sequence from Paul Gilbert to Kaki King to Genesis was highly motivational. I was a little perturbed when I had to stop at a red light during the most dramatic part of Woke Up, but those are the breaks of running on public roads. This wasn’t shuffle, but something I threw together quickly a few hours before the run. In fact, I had forgotten what I selected, so that only added to the delight. I don’t know if I’ll use this again for running, but I’ll probably just listen it again on some other occasion because it all killer, no filler.
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Winter Is Coming
Game of Thrones. HBO. 2011.