Whee! My latest reviews are up at The Chickenfish Speaks. I feel truly sorry for the lashing I gave one new age composer. The rest I’m pretty proud of.
You should check out The Chickenfish Speaks. It’s a great site with lots of cool stuff!
(I’m jeremy mutant, BTW.)
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You can get The Cocker Spaniels‘ absolutely brilliant (and brilliantly named) album Withstand the Whatnot for free on their website! I urge you to listen and to donate (not only does the artist get 100% of the profits, but it will help him to finance the production of his next CD)! This is one of [...]
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Here’s one thing that I actually miss about vinyl records: you could actually look at the record itself and know instantly* which tracks were the interludes and which were the opuses. When will files on a computer be able to do that?
* yes, I know you can see it on CD, but you have to [...]
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Having CSS issues with IE (even IE7). Still trying to figure out why. So far, Big Urgent Wish works absolutely perfectly in Firefox and Opera, but in IE7 there’s irrational whitespace to the right (about the width of one of the sidebars), causing a horizontal scrollbar, while IE6 isn’t applying the opacity filter to the [...]
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I think I’m getting carpal tunnel syndrome. Nevertheless, I’ve been doing a lot of typing lately. I just submitted my first batch of CD reviews for the Chickenfish Speaks, a terrific local entertainment zine run by Grog, the former bass player for local rock legends the ¡Oxymorons!.
Also, I’m still hard at work on Big Urgent [...]
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I’ve been filling up my hard drive with all of my favorite CDs lately. I’m up to about 33 straight days’ worth, ~60GB, over 10,000 songs. I’ll post a list of the albums in about a week. It’s a hell of a job, and i thought i’d burnt out my DVD drive until the nice [...]
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Last 100 songs played on my iTunes, with album covers and extended info. Cover and album title link to product page on Amazon. Courtesy of iTunesSpy (plugin for WordPress), hacked by yours truly.
(Current track still on sidebar - i’ve reduced it from last 5 songs because i felt it was TMI.)
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The classic David Byrne(rss)/Brian Eno(fansite) album has been remastered, and will soon have 2 songs’ entire multitrack content available for remixing under the Creative Commons license.
More info available on the album’s official site, which also includes a rare video for the song “Mea Culpa”.
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My LiveJournal friend Sean Padilla, of masterful freakpop one-man band The Cocker Spaniels, rocks out (in front) to former Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard’s set at SXSW.
Sean seriously fucking rocks. Get The Cocker Spaniel’s latest CD you fools.
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Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk
Interesting article about hypocrisy and “pro-life”
V for Vendetta: fucking completely awesome. They did it right, and they did it well indeed. We need V here in the Former United States.
Prince’s new album is so good, it’s scary.
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x jeremy jarratt is a blogger, musician, artist, poet, web developer/designer, armchair philosophizer, teller of tales, and roustabout. Also, something he calls a “behavioral artist.” (Not sure.) This is his latest home on teh internets - where he stores his swear words, when he’s not hurling them at the sun in vain.
