Thursday, September 18, 2008
That’d be a great name for a band…
You know the urge is there. Make up a fake name for your band that will never take off (or maybe would, in the right musical hands). I’ve been compiling my list for a long time, and it will never be complete.
Here are some of the best ones I’ve come up with.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Whoo-ooh-ooh, whoo-ooh-ooh…
AMC’s new show Breaking Bad has a variety of teaser promo trailers. One of them has a truly tenacious earworm in the form of a wordless song and a very simple, insidious melody. “Whoo-ooh-ooh, whoo-ooh-ooh…”
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Ryan Gosling = Kurt Cobain?
Courtney Love wants the guy from The Notebook to play Kurt Cobain in a new movie based on Heavier Than Heaven, the Love-endorsed Cobain biography by Charles Cross. Maybe my inability to see Ryan Gosling playing anyone but Noah Calhoun has colored my initial reaction: what the hell.
After further review, I guess I could see [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
All-time Top 10 Albums, Books, and Films
This is always tough, but I shall try. And a disclaimer: these are subject to change at any moment. Tastes are subjective and highly mutable…
The planets sing to one another
Here is the sound of Saturn, frequency shifted down by a factor of 44 to make it audible to human ears. Seventy-three seconds in the recording corresponds to twenty-seven minutes of Saturn’s opera.
Radio waves are emitted by Saturn’s auroras at its northern and southern poles. Earth’s would sound similar. As it turns out, they sound [...]
