Give me a jaunty tune…

CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo

Although highly informative (and entertaining?) I was hoping for more of a jaunty tune. The LHC could give us an incredible opportunity to better understand our place in the Universe. A rap just doesn't cut it. Other suggestions anyone? Maybe this? A little obvious, but certainly a classic...

I’ll buy it for $0.00

The new Radiohead album: I want it on Vimeo

I found the above post through Mark Hurst's post on the Good Experience Blog. Although I didn't have nearly the same issues that Jakob did when trying to purchase the new Radiohead album (which can be purchased here: http://www.inrainbows.com/), it is really disappointing to see how disjointed Radiohead's main site is...and by watching the video (see my VodPod) very misleading too.

So, I'm really curious: as this new album is breaking ground on the you-decide-the-price sales model, how many people are choosing to pay $0.00 because the experience of getting to the download was so painful? I personally anted up 5.00 pounds...but like I said, I found the direct link and the process was fairly straightforward.

Let me know if you paid something for the album, chose $0.00 or gave up on the process...and if you gave up and still want the album, let me know. I'll package it up and send it to you.

One year of eMusic

eMusic

I signed up last year for an eMusic subscription. Actually, it was through a promotion I found in Paste Magazine...something like 50 free tracks as a test of the service. One year later and I have downloaded music from 76 artists, nearing 800 individual tracks. I don't think I have ever consumed so much music, not even during my angst ridden teen years. The result?

• In addition to the rest of my music collection, I now have 3429 track representing 13.54 GB of music in iTunes
• I am much more aware of newer music trends across an array of genres
• Sometimes I find myself consuming to consume...mostly due to eMusic's subscription model and my desire to get what I paid for
• I had the realization that I really dig DRM free music
• I wish that Last.FM worked with eMusic because the former is a much better tool for getting music recommendations than the latter

Here is the list of artists and albums I have become acquainted with over the past year (if we ever share a wifi connection, give these things a listen):

A Girl Named Eddy - A Girl Named Eddy
Andrew Bird - Listen - Armchair Apocrypha
Archer Prewitt - Archer Prewitt Live at Schubas 08/14/2004
Bad Religion - Suffer
Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast
Bebel Gilberto - Bebel Gilberto
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Big Ass Truck - Who Let You In Here?
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Capital Records Rehearsal 1973
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene - Live at Radio Aligre FM in Paris
Califone - Roots & Crowns
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
Cat Power - The Greatest
Charles Mingus - Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
Cold Play - Brothers and Sisters
Colin Hay - Man @ Work
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle Volume One
Damien Jurado - On My Way To Absence
Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself
Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
Field Music - Tones Of Town
Gomez - How We Operate
Half-Handed Cloud - Thy Is A Word And Feet Need Lamps
Iron And Wine / Calexico - In The Reins
Ivy - Guestroom
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Global A Go-Go
John Coltrane - Lush Life (Remastered)
John Coltrane - Fearless Leader
Johnny Cash - The Complete Sun Singles, vol. 1
Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
Marian McPartland / Elvis Costello - Piano Jazz
Mates Of State - Team Boo
Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (Remastered)
Moby - Hotel
Modern Skirts - Catalogue of Generous Men
Modest Mouse - The Fruit That Ate Itself
Moonbabies - Moonbabies At The Ballroom
My Morning Jacket - The Tennessee Fire
Nancy Sinatra - Boots
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Neko Case - Blacklisted
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane, Over The Sea
Ornette Coleman - The Music Of Ornette Coleman: Something Else!!!
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses
Robbie Fulks - Georgia Hard
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Sergio Mendes - Timeless
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Spoon - Telephono/Soft Effects
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Spoon - Sister Jack
Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State
Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas
Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities
The Broken West - I Can't Go On I'll Go On
The Chameleons - Live at The Academy Vol. 2
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
The Decemberists - Picaresque
The Kinks - Come Dancing With The Kinks
The Mountain Goats - The sunset Tree
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa / Come On Pilgrim
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
The Rakes - Ten New Messages
The Twilight Singers - She Loves You
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes - Elephant
Thelonious Monk - Riverside Profiles
Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy
TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Ursula 1000 - Kinda' Kinky
Dressed In Black: A Tribute To Johnny Cash
The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered (Disc 1 : The Covers)
Independent Music Awards Winners 2007
Monterey International Pop Festival
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland Soundtrack
Voxtrot - Raised By Wolves EP
Voxtrot - Your Biggest Fan
Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Zuco 103 - Tales Of High Fever

TED — Day Three - Tracy Chapman

Don't you know
They're talkin' bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
 
Tracy Chapman

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TED — Day One — Raul Midon

Everybody

PICTURE YOURSELF IN WORLD WHERE THERE'S NO ONE ELSE.
NOBODY ANYWHERE.
A MOMENT AGO THERE WERE VOICES AND FACES TO LOOK UPON,
CAN'T SEE THEM ANYWHERE.
NOTHING MORE TO SAY AND NO ONE LEFT TO SAY IT TO ANYWAY.
PLEASE LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY.

EVERYBODY CAN BE SOMEBODY.
EVERYBODY IS FREE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
EVERYBODY CAN BE SOMEBODY.
EVERYBODY IS FREE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS WORLD.

PICTURE A WORLD WHERE THE PEOPLE ALL FEEL THERE WORTH.
CHILDREN ARE EVERYWHERE.
THERE IS A REASON FOR EVERYONE'S TIME ON EARTH.
WONDERING WHY YOU SHOULD CARE.
NOTHING MORE TO SAY.
AND ONLY LOVE CAN SEE US THROUGH ANYWAY.
PLEASE LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY.

EVERYBODY CAN BE SOMEBODY.
EVERYBODY IS FREE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
EVERYBODY CAN BE SOMEBODY.
EVERYBODY IS FREE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A BIG CELEBRITY.
TO FEEL THE POWER, THE POWER IN YOUR SOUL
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A BIG STAR ON MTV
TO REALIZE THAT IN YOUR EYES THERE'S A VIEW
THAT ONLY YOU CAN SEE.

EVERYBODY CAN BE SOMEBODY.
EVERYBODY IS FREE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
EVERYBODY CAN BE SOMEBODY.
EVERYBODY IS FREE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS WORLD.

Raul Midon

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