Archive for the 'MySpace' Category
On Band Camp
BandCamp does for musicians what WordPress does for writers. We’ve had MySpace for a few years now, but MySpace is nasty, ugly, chock full o’ shite and owned by News Corporation.
BandCamp, as you can tell from their introductory video, was created by Mac users: people who know good interface design instinctively, and appreciate the importance [...]
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Tags: bandcamp
Closing down for the summer
My niece was complaining yesterday that she’s working hard at her summer job (at the same place her dad works), and after a hard morning walked into the main office to find the place almost silent, with everyone hunched over their desks. She thought for a moment they were all actually being productive, but then [...]
Filed under: Flickr, MySpace, Time-Wasters, autobiography, media studies, narcissism, omens and portents | 2 Comments
Tags: blogging, blogs, hiatus, intermission
Photo by Jason Bechtel.
Occasionally when I go to a gig, there’s an issue with the sound. Sometimes it’s just plain bad (Dylan at the NEC); sometimes it’s too loud (any local band in any local venue); sometimes the acoustics are wrong. You’d think that a venue like the Radcliffe Centre (it’s a church, basically) would [...]
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Tags: concert, gig, live review, review
Allison Moorer – Mockingbird
Is it a coincidence that, moments after the new Shelby Lynne drops into my iTunes library, her sister Allison Moorer also squeezes out a new record? Probably.
Is it a coincidence that Shelby Lynne releases an album of covers (under the theme of “Dusty Springfield”) and moments later her sister Allison Moorer releases an album of [...]
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Tags: allison moorer, cover versions
Wish Me Away
A while ago, I was on Chely Wright’s MySpace and noticed a new song on her playlist, “Wish Me Away”, which comes from a compo CD called The Other Side: Music from East Nashville. This is a double CD showcasing songwriters, and can be purchyased from CD Baby for just 15 dorrar.
It’s a [...]
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Disabled by Request
“I’ll see him in anything, so I’ll stand in line.”
It seems to me that if the BBC are going to take advantage of innernet trends like YouTube, then they should play by the same rules as everyone else. But their video version of Kermode’s film reviews has embedding disabled by request, so all I can [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, BBC, Culture, Downloads, Education, Entertainment, Movies, MySpace, Radio, anxiety, arts, film, media studies, weasels | 3 Comments
Tags: Tarantino, violence, YouTube
I have it on good authority that nobody reads this blog (or any blog?) at the weekend, so I can safely post up a link to my ropy old secret myspace page and the three new recordings I thrashed out in snatched free time during the recent summer holiday.
Now that term has started again, my [...]
Filed under: Music, MySpace, being chippy, happiness | 2 Comments
MySpace or YourPlace?
Marking coursework last night, I had cause to visit a fictional MySpace band page that one of my students had produced. I then amused myself for half an hour clicking through the links to see some of the personal pages set up by others that I teach. Quite a few of them are savvy enough [...]
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Joy
Several things have given me joy this week. The weather, obviously. Driving to work in the morning in the sunshine makes such a difference, doesn’t it? We’ve had so much rain this winter (more since August than records began, so they say, though the records probably began last August) and these last few days have [...]
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Spaced
I have cancelled my account on myspace. Unfortunately, some of the students were displaying an interest in my music on there. I didn’t really mind, and didn’t have anything on there that embarrassed me, and I’d removed links to my blog etc., but it just struck me that – if this interest grew or spread, [...]
Filed under: Conspiracy Theories, Culture, Education, Family, Middle Age, Music, MySpace, Nostalgia, Perception, Travel, ambitions, ambitions in life, anxiety, autobiography, countryside, happiness, narcissism, omens and portents, paranoia | 5 Comments
