Thanks, Peter, for keeping me company at 1:30 a.m. while I worked on the Veer catalog. Good morning Malmo, goodnight Calgary.
Posted at 12:52 AM  Eternalink

Speaking of 'vast musical deserts'... I am digging the droning, trippy, freak jazz of the Strange Attractors label lately. Check out an audio sample of We Are For The Dark by Acid Mothers Temple offshoot Rebel Powers. Or read my gushing review of the Surface of Eceyon album.
Posted at 8:29 PM  Eternalink

iWeekend?

iSniffle.
iCough.
iSick.

iHome.

iBored.

iBasement,
iOrganize
iPhoto.

iBurn
iDVD.

iImpressed!

iDig
iG5.

iKnow,
iLucky.
Posted at 1:37 PM  Eternalink

"Some of us feel a deep need to go out into a vast musical desert where we can commune with a sound or a process or a tuning and really get into it, and we don't want the route cluttered up with convenience stores and shopping malls."

Kyle Gann at PostClassic, on the plundering of serious modern music by the less serious - like remixers.
Posted at 10:48 AM  Eternalink

The best thing about spam

As inspired by Craptastic, here are some recent 'people' who have sent me spam.

• Graza Casassa


• Midgley Quashie


• Divalerio Stagman


• Prasomsack Kringas


• Komoh Kamara

What beautiful nonsense. From now on I'll be signing guestbooks 'Midgley Quashie'.
Posted at 12:50 PM  Eternalink

For his birthday, I finally got around to making Jeff a web site, Carabid.com. I'd been domain-squatting on this puppy (buggy?) for about five years. The only problem was I didn't use actual carabids for the header image. (See, all carabids are beetles but not all beetles are carabids. Who knew?)

I've been giving Jeff a primer on blogging. "Who reads these things?" asks Jeff. So feel free to e-mail him and welcome the newest entomologist to the blogosphere. Be sure to check out his 'insect sounds.'
Posted at 9:37 AM  Eternalink