Florian Schneider from Kraftwerk on the bass. Klaus Schulze from Tangerine Dream at the keyboards. And, to top it off, Marian Gold from Alphaville on lead vocals. Does it get any cheesier than this? Nothing like watching synthpop gods from one’s youth in their middle age.
Now all we need is a mashup of Kraftwerk’s “Computer World” album with Alphaville’s “Forever Young” album.
“Phantom Limb” – The Shins
Actually, the whole new album is great.
“Intervention” – Arcade Fire
Can’t wait til this is officially released. Here’s a youtube clip with the audio.
“Dashboard” – Modest Mouse
I’m so out of the loop as I just found the other day that Johnny Marr joined them. Not often that 43 year old alternative gods join en fuego indie bands.
“Sleepwalk” – Santo & Johnny
Top 10 Instrumental.
“One of These Mornings” – Moby
The version off the Miami Vice Soundtrack, not the one off Moby’s album 18. 46 seconds longer and a better arrangement. The vocals are just as repetitive, but the tempo and key are way better in the Miami Vice version.
“Silent Places” – Baby Dayliner
I really wasn’t sure what to think about this dude for the longest time, but now I know that this song is actually pretty kick ass. I can’t find the lyrics on the ‘net, I’ll have to fix that. (Adrian Grenier “Vincent Chase” of Entourage is in that video, fyi.)
“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” – Gil Scott-Heron (youtube link)
“There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay.”
“You Get What You Give” – New Radicals (youtube video)
” Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they’re multiplying”
“Feeling Good” – Nina Simone
I love the horns and strings in this song. The only thing that’s better is Nina’s voice. That last fadeout Feelin Gooooooooooooooooooood… So awesome…
(no clue what this video is about, but here it is.)
“Somewhere Across Forever” – stellastarr
“Blue eyes, blue hair, not going to leave here without you
Blew my chances, chances, chances…”
“Goodbye Horses” – Q Lazzarus
Such an awesome song. Too bad it’s sorta ruined by the Buffalo Bill treatment.
“Just Like Heaven” (acoustic) – The Cure
A great song, totally stripped down. Anybody know when it was recorded? Sounds like it was the same sessions as the original, but I”m not sure.
Extra bonus song for Valentine’s Day: Not the best quality, but a great song nonetheless, Valentine by The Replacements sung by Paul Westerberg.
This guy is sooooo lucky.
World exclusive skydiver video… watch the incredible footage here! | the Daily Mail
I love it when his friend asks “Are you ok?” and he replies “No.”
“What happened?”
“Lots happened, you landed in a good place!”
and
“Oh shit, I’m gonna die. Bye!”
Awesome.
Some thoughts on Acclaimed Music:
Surprises:
Roxy Music at 41th overall for artists really surprised me as I only really knew them from Love is the Drug and More than This. I guess they more critical acclaim than I had realized. Kraftwerk, who I love, at 59th surprises me as well.
Highest ranked Album, Song and Artist I’ve never consciously experienced:
Can’t say I’ve really listened to: Album #32 . Massive Attack’s Blue Lines
Song, I hate to say it, but it would probably be:
#67 Elvis Presley “That’s All Right (Mama).” (I see now it was the first single he ever released, which is probably a big reason it’s on there.)
For artists, it would have to be: #85 Primal Scream
Can’t say I’ve ever heard a tune by them.
And maybe you’re wondering how the lists have been compiles?
This is really not simple to explain. Please do not despair if you do not fully understand…I have written a program which computes the lists. The basic idea is that I match all records against each other in pairs. In a match, each critics list is weighted depending on
* the number of lists I have from different parts of world (USA, UK or the rest of the world)
** when the list was presented (newer lists are weighted more heavily)
*** how many matches the list is a part of (a list which only embraces a few years is not part of many matches and is therefore weighted heavily in the matches where it is included).
Over on one of my favorite film blogs, Matthew is watching every film in the Criterion Collection. Every film. In numerical spine order. And his reviews aren’t pithy. Or dull. He’s up to number 65 so far and only has 318 to go (I think.) Check it out.
Just for the record, here are the ones in that group of 65 that I’ve seen. (in unidimensional order of awesomeness* from most to least.)
44. The Red Shoes, My 30 word review is here.
61. Monty Python’s The Life of Brian
*what is “awesomeness”? Well, it’s hard to say, it’s a multifactorial trait that combines how much I liked it (i.e. would I watch it again if I had to), how much I appreciated it (i.e. good production/filmmaking/screenwriting etc.) and that je ne sais quoi (that lets me cop out if anybody complains about my rankings.)
The War Room Report goes live:
NFL, College Football, and Mock Draft Source!
The Dark-ful Lodger has problems with a package
Nice collection of Boingboing.net Stats
Indexed has a bunch of funny drawings on index cards
And, Voronya Cave is the deepest cave in the world. And makes for some very wild spelunking.
And here’s a random picture for fun: 
Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning
Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town. On January 26, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. The photogenic comet was so bright that it even remained visible though the din of Earthly flashes. Comet McNaught continues to move out from the Sun and dim, but should remain visible in southern skies with binoculars through the end of this month. The above image is actually a three photograph panorama digitally processed to reduce red reflections from the exploding firework.
Pic by Antti Kemppainen
So, over at Engadget, they blogged about Martin Frey’s Just in Time watch
“Looking at a conventional watch very often a “mental dialogue” happens:
* What time is it right now?
* When is my next appointment?
* Where does the appointment take place and how long does it take to get there from here?
* Thus, when should I leave?
* How much time is left till then? Should I leave now? Am I already too late?These “on-the-fly” considerations and calculations are not only cumbersome but often very unprecise as well:
E.g. the necessary amount of time to cover the distance is estimated too optimistically or depends on irregular, external factors like timetable or traffic situation.”
I wanna tell you something, (’bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat? nah, that’s for later*) this “mental dialogue” that Martin refers to, well, it’s called thinking. It’s fun and I really enjoy it. Does that make me crazy?
* It comes out of the Virginia swamps, cool and slow with plenty of precision, with a back beat narrow and hard to master.
I was perusing a list of some recent articles and when I first saw the title of this one I thought it was mistake. But no, the authors are cleverer than that.
HT06, tagging paper, taxonomy, Flickr, academic article, to read
In recent years, tagging systems have become increasingly popular. These systems enable users to add keywords (i.e., “tags”) to Internet resources (e.g., web pages, images, videos) without relying on a controlled vocabulary. Tagging systems have the potential to improve search, spam detection, reputation systems, and personal organization while introducing new modalities of social communication and opportunities for data mining. This potential is largely due to the social structure that underlies many of the current systems.Despite the rapid expansion of applications that support tagging of resources, tagging systems are still not well studied or understood. In this paper, we provide a short description of the academic related work to date. We offer a model of tagging systems, specifically in the context of web-based systems, to help us illustrate the possible benefits of these tools. Since many such systems already exist, we provide a taxonomy of tagging systems to help inform their analysis and design, and thus enable researchers to frame and compare evidence for the sustainability of such systems. We also provide a simple taxonomy of incentives and contribution models to inform potential evaluative frameworks. While this work does not present comprehensive empirical results, we present a preliminary study of the photo-sharing and tagging system Flickr to demonstrate our model and explore some of the issues in one sample system. This analysis helps us outline and motivate possible future directions of research in tagging systems.
