Just so you know, I’ve been nerding out pretty hard this past week. Last Monday, I picked up a very used Roland D-50 keyboard at the pawn shop. Although it was manufactured in 1987, it still output audio and the MIDI still works, but the poor thing has problems (I should’ve talked them down on …
Tag Archives: music
Dead Man, a MDA Ed.
It took a few viewings, but now I understand that “Dead Man” (1995) is a palindrome in structure. The movie begins with the protagonist William Blake riding the train in, and ends with him riding a canoe out. Begins with him stumbling through the muddy streets of Machine with the butchers, hunters, mothers, morticians and …
The Chills Are Alive
♫ Futurepop, Ambient, Chillout, and Dream / These are a few of my favorite streams! ♫ Digitally-Imported: DI has a wide-ranging selection of electronic music streams, but the free versions get lower bitrate and jarring advertisement drops. Chillout: “Ambient psy chillout, check out our trippy flavors!” Ambient Trance Blue Mars: These streams are the love …
Diss Order
This question goes out to all you librarians and taxonomists in my readership. I have a large music collection, and I make every effort to keep all of my file tags as clean, correct and complete as possible. This allows me to easily search my collection and drill down to the artist, album, and song …
Noise and Fury
So how you guys doing? Good? You folks comfy enough? Grab a chair, pull up some floor. Me, I’m doing swell. Just dandy. Got a short story from last year I’m retouching, chapter by chapter. Also reviving some old songs for posting at my Glass Door site. To do that, I revived my old desktop …