It is very upsetting to find out that last night, comedian of over 50 years, George Carlin passed away due to heart failure. George, 71, died in the Santa Monica Health Center at approximately 6 p.m. For more information regarding his passing visit The Chicago Tribune website.
Monday, June 23, 2008
R.I.P. George Carlin
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Start The Machine
In the new Angels & Airwaves documentary, Tom Delonge goes into more detail regarding the break up of Blink-182. For anyone who is considering buying the dvd based upon the Blink-182 content I wouldn't bother as this is the only scene where Blink is really even mentioned.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)
"Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In Rainbows" This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's pretty difficult to seamlessly mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.
This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest.
Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition to find out how people would approach such a challenging task.
I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.
Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.
It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to.
I missed the contest deadline, so I'm offering it here for you to enjoy.
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX "
Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
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