Day 2 on the Alien Planet
Some interesting things from around the horn:
One of the posters over at OkayPlayer came up with this hilarious concept for a Snakes on a Plane comic strip. If you're not familiar with SoaP... then you need to spend more time on the internet. Seriously? Snakes on a Plane? It can only be described as the greatest movie of next year. All you really need to know is that it involves Samuel L Jackson, snakes, and a plane. How can this movie not make money?
Pandora vs. Last.fm Picked up on this via Waxy. I did a bit of my own testing but it's still in the preliminary stages. I will say that I like Pandora's business model better than Last's. And by business model I mean that I don't have to download any software from Pandora like you do with Last. That's a big plus in my book. It's also a plus with my over-the-hill laptop (4+ years old). The biggest thing that Last has going for it is that you're almost assured to find someone who is familiar with an artist you're looking for. When I typed in 'Breakage' on Last.fm I got a nice list of drum n bass producers who have a similar sound. Makes sense because dnb is a rather small scene so if someone listens to Breakage they're also bound to listen to Fracture + Neptune, Paradox, Pieter K, Seba, etc. However, when I tried Pandora... well they just gave me the gas face. Or at least the search engine equivalent of the gas face. Pandora's one limit right now is the amount of music it can realistically license and categorize. I was pleasantly surprised when I added Diplo, RJD2, and DJ Shadow to my 'favorite artists' and ended up with tracks ranging from Plaid to Squarepusher to Cex to Funki Porcini and about a dozen artists I had never heard of. And that's the whole point of these two websites: to help you find more music. Now whether that's just blissful altruism for those of us who can't get enough music or a good business model (Here's a new artist and here's a link to their album on Amazon. No the RIAA had nothing to do with this. Look here's a Prefuse 73 song to keep you happy.) is the topic of another post. In any case, I'm going to keep testing out Pandora so expect some further updates.
On the movie front, I'm really intersted to see Bubble. It's gotten some relatively favorable reviews from well known critics (not that it should mean anything... but it does) and it's Steven Soderbergh. He always manages to bring something interesting to the table. Not something I'd rush out and buy though since there's going to be at least 5 more volumes in this experiment, all in the same vein: shot on HDV on locations around the US with amateur casts. I like the six volume idea if only for the fact that it leaves room for improvement each time around. On the bright side that should ensure at least two more Ocean films. Hey the man's gotta make a living somehow.
And to music. Now if I had the ability (I have no idea where these audiobloggers find these digital dubplates), money (for webspace), and time (blahblahmedicalschoolblahblah) I'd love to be the one lacing the internet with the newest newness that's out there. But I'm not. So for now I'll resort to yousendit, rapidshare, and megaupload and 'borrowing' songs from other bloggers. Not without full credit of course.
This one shouldn't be such a surprise to me: Diplo remixing the Yeah Yeah Yeahs new single. Who would have thought Diplo likes toying around with New Yorkers and their guitars? If you said everyone who had ever heard one of his Hollertronix mixes you would be absolutely correct. But it's not the pairing here that's news. It's the quality of the final product. I've been a big Diplo fan for a year now and I'm always suprised at his ear for layering musical styles together that have as much in common as pork tenderloin does to olive loaf. But there was no mash-up here, just a straightforward remix. And the man absolutely smashes it. I think it's his best work to date, but don't take my word for it (c) Lamar Burton.
Chris over at Lemon-Red continues his amazing monthly mix series, this time with the Rub boys. And not just one but three mixes: reggae from Eleven (nothing better to help you forget it's the middle of winter), old school jams from Ayres, and Cosmo Baker's remix-a-thon. It's like Christmas but in February. And with mp3s instead of real, tangible presents. I'd say more but everything you need to know is over at Lemon-Red.
Think that's it for this evening. Tomorrow I've got a focused physical exam workshop to look forward to and an arena football game with the oddest mish mash of people to ever pay money for a sporting event: the fiancee, the roommate, the Spainard, the 28 year old M1 with her MPH, her friend, and some other assorted M1s. Basically you have a truckload of med students (some of whom don't even like football) and some crazy people who agreed to go to said game with med students. Clearly I no longer value my sanity.
One of the posters over at OkayPlayer came up with this hilarious concept for a Snakes on a Plane comic strip. If you're not familiar with SoaP... then you need to spend more time on the internet. Seriously? Snakes on a Plane? It can only be described as the greatest movie of next year. All you really need to know is that it involves Samuel L Jackson, snakes, and a plane. How can this movie not make money?
Pandora vs. Last.fm Picked up on this via Waxy. I did a bit of my own testing but it's still in the preliminary stages. I will say that I like Pandora's business model better than Last's. And by business model I mean that I don't have to download any software from Pandora like you do with Last. That's a big plus in my book. It's also a plus with my over-the-hill laptop (4+ years old). The biggest thing that Last has going for it is that you're almost assured to find someone who is familiar with an artist you're looking for. When I typed in 'Breakage' on Last.fm I got a nice list of drum n bass producers who have a similar sound. Makes sense because dnb is a rather small scene so if someone listens to Breakage they're also bound to listen to Fracture + Neptune, Paradox, Pieter K, Seba, etc. However, when I tried Pandora... well they just gave me the gas face. Or at least the search engine equivalent of the gas face. Pandora's one limit right now is the amount of music it can realistically license and categorize. I was pleasantly surprised when I added Diplo, RJD2, and DJ Shadow to my 'favorite artists' and ended up with tracks ranging from Plaid to Squarepusher to Cex to Funki Porcini and about a dozen artists I had never heard of. And that's the whole point of these two websites: to help you find more music. Now whether that's just blissful altruism for those of us who can't get enough music or a good business model (Here's a new artist and here's a link to their album on Amazon. No the RIAA had nothing to do with this. Look here's a Prefuse 73 song to keep you happy.) is the topic of another post. In any case, I'm going to keep testing out Pandora so expect some further updates.
On the movie front, I'm really intersted to see Bubble. It's gotten some relatively favorable reviews from well known critics (not that it should mean anything... but it does) and it's Steven Soderbergh. He always manages to bring something interesting to the table. Not something I'd rush out and buy though since there's going to be at least 5 more volumes in this experiment, all in the same vein: shot on HDV on locations around the US with amateur casts. I like the six volume idea if only for the fact that it leaves room for improvement each time around. On the bright side that should ensure at least two more Ocean films. Hey the man's gotta make a living somehow.
And to music. Now if I had the ability (I have no idea where these audiobloggers find these digital dubplates), money (for webspace), and time (blahblahmedicalschoolblahblah) I'd love to be the one lacing the internet with the newest newness that's out there. But I'm not. So for now I'll resort to yousendit, rapidshare, and megaupload and 'borrowing' songs from other bloggers. Not without full credit of course.
This one shouldn't be such a surprise to me: Diplo remixing the Yeah Yeah Yeahs new single. Who would have thought Diplo likes toying around with New Yorkers and their guitars? If you said everyone who had ever heard one of his Hollertronix mixes you would be absolutely correct. But it's not the pairing here that's news. It's the quality of the final product. I've been a big Diplo fan for a year now and I'm always suprised at his ear for layering musical styles together that have as much in common as pork tenderloin does to olive loaf. But there was no mash-up here, just a straightforward remix. And the man absolutely smashes it. I think it's his best work to date, but don't take my word for it (c) Lamar Burton.
Chris over at Lemon-Red continues his amazing monthly mix series, this time with the Rub boys. And not just one but three mixes: reggae from Eleven (nothing better to help you forget it's the middle of winter), old school jams from Ayres, and Cosmo Baker's remix-a-thon. It's like Christmas but in February. And with mp3s instead of real, tangible presents. I'd say more but everything you need to know is over at Lemon-Red.
Think that's it for this evening. Tomorrow I've got a focused physical exam workshop to look forward to and an arena football game with the oddest mish mash of people to ever pay money for a sporting event: the fiancee, the roommate, the Spainard, the 28 year old M1 with her MPH, her friend, and some other assorted M1s. Basically you have a truckload of med students (some of whom don't even like football) and some crazy people who agreed to go to said game with med students. Clearly I no longer value my sanity.
posted by Matt at 11:34 PM
3 Comments:
And then I took the RTD, to the LSD, and plugged in another TLA before I found the actual PSD and finally had to convert it to the SG3....yeah, so now I know why chris was the one who was supposed to read this...Cannot follow, therefore cannot support.
Thankfully I didn't quit reading too early and saw the debacle of an Arena football game that you'll be attending...let me know how that works out and how important not missing the superbowl will be after that.
We still wanna see the ROCK! Oh, and if you can't tell, "studying for the boards" means "IM stalking like I'm a freshman in college." 10 days to go!
Ha. Except that I used all of two abbreviations and not a ONE was about medicine. So I don't want to hear anything from you. The military is the all time record holder for abbreviations. Plus I mentioned Snakes on a Plane. You could have commented on that.
@Julie: Rock pictures are forthcoming. Bother Alex about them. She's the one with them all on her laptop.
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