Multipost 9-24-06
Haven’t done one of these in a while, so here goes:
Here is some commentary I liked about the world of Cars, a Pixar movie I rather enjoyed. I also wondered “so… what does it look like on the other side of the windshield?”
Not exactly fresh news, but one of my favorite Guitar Tabs sites is under attack by the copyright thugs.
Weird Al has a new album out, and you can download – for free – his new song Don’t Download This Song.
Speaking of not downloading songs, I’ve found this new service on the web called BlogMusik. It works well, is very useful and seems to be just what I’ve been looking for. This of course means the RIAA jackels will be tearing it apart in short order.
In other news, I’m also fond of Pandora. Also nice for music and expanding your genre knowledge.
TRUE BELIEVERS! Stan Lee does The Watchmen.
Microsoft has graced us with their iPod killer the Zune (now available in turd brown). It needs some work, but it does contain one new innovation – Viral DRM. Nice! So, even if you own the copyright to the music you have on your Zune, you can’t share it openly. Thanks, Microsoft. Thanks again.
Speaking of copyright, here is an interesting article by Michael Crichton that is, well, illegal.
Here is a little story that makes me glad I resisted all of those “fantastic mortgage deals” that they kept advertising here in California. I often wondered how people were affording $750,000 houses on their salaries – the answer is… they weren’t.
Finally, I don’t know how this guy did it but he managed to find a way to leave comments on eBay for auctions that he never participated in… and they are hilarious, but the truly funny part is the feedback comments that come with his insanity.
September 25th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Al’s new album is, like all his other albums, hit-or-miss. Mostly the latter, although I’m only on track 9. The polka mix gets less and less funny with each new album as I grow more and more disconnected from mainstream pop radio, and this album’s “Polkamania!” is no exception.
“White and Nerdy” is hilarious, in the same way “All About the Benjamins” is hilarious-I understand what he’s talking about. I’ve never heard the original songs, so the parody aspect is lost on me.
I’m still trying to figure out whether “Trapped in the Drive-Thru” is the greatest thing he’s ever done, or the dumbest. Nearly eleven minutes long, it’s a bizarre recitation of a man and his wife going to the drive-thru for a burger. It’s tedious, and yet like a car wreck, it’s impossible to look away.
September 26th, 2006 at 11:59 am
As it turns out “Trapped in the Drive-Thru” is a parody of R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet”. Is it funny because of that? No. I didn’t really think it was that funny in and of itself, either, though there were some funny bits here and there.
Download it if you can or buy it used, but don’t waste your money buying it new.