In a post last week, I mentioned that I sometimes remove entire sections from song when putting a mix together. A few people emailed asking for examples of songs I removed parts from. I usually do this because I…

     I somehow stumbled across a bit of questionable trivia regarding NBC’s audio “logo” – that the three familiar notes are “G-E-C”, in honor of the initials of NBC’s one-time parent corporation, General Electric Company. I also found a mention of…

     A year or so ago my girlfriend Sarah asked me to ‘acquire’ some songs for her with the aid of the internet. One of these songs was ‘Stagger Lee’ by Lloyd Price (mp3). When I heard the song I…

     The Weezer DVD: Video Capture Device was released on Tuesday, and having watched all three hours or so of footage over the past two days I can wholeheartedly recommend it. Weezer has always been a big deal to…

     When I make a mix CD, it’s always a ridiculous production, which is probably why I’m so behind on CD’s owed. In addition to agonizing over the selection of enough songs to completely fill an 80 minute CD, sequencing them…

     I recently started reading ‘Playback: From the Victrola to Mp3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money‘ by Mark Coleman. As the title implies, it covers the innovations that have allowed us to record and playback sound over…

     One REALLY COOL trend in the video game world right now is to record yourself completing a game in the fastest time possible and then post the resultant video file on the internet. The best sites to visit to truly…

     The ‘Vinyl Data‘ post got linked over at slashdot and boingboing, so useful information is coming out of the woodwork. Most significantly, a few people have pointed out Joey Headen’s site. Headen…

     On March 20th, The Charles M. Schulz Museum will be unveiling its newest exhibit: ‘Mad about Peanuts,’ showing some of the many Mad Magazine parodies of Schulz’s work that were published over the years. I just…

     Somehow, I managed to not see any advertising for MTV’s ‘I Want a Famous Face‘ and just accidentally stumbled into watching the first episode last night, without any idea what I was about to see. I was flabbergasted.…

     While researching hidden code in commercially released music, I ended up turning up tons of references to albums containing morse code. For some reason, this didn’t seem ridiculous enough for me – it seemed too obvious. I’ve since looked…

     Enter: 40-ish man who looks like a suburban high school teacher. Not dorky enough for math or science, possibly social studies. Also: Could play ‘The Father’ on a prime-time drama. He quickly gathers a stack of ‘dance’ vinyl and asks…

1.) Absolutely Insane Japanese Television Show

     ….which is about as redundant as an ‘orange orange,’ but I digress. I found this link last summer and misplaced it until now, so it might be old news. It’s a great site

     One strategy that major record companies have been employing lately to deter downloading is adding bonus computer content to new CD releases. I recently discovered that this technique is not unique to CD’s, but had in fact been practiced in…

     Do you by chance remember that game where you make your thumb and pointer finger into a sort of pseudo-circle and hold your hand below waist level, and if someone looks, you get to sock them in the arm? I…

     For awhile there, no one was making pinball machines. Thankfully, Stern has once again started cranking ‘em out. For their (relatively) recent ‘Monopoly’ machine (as seen at the Lager House in Detroit), they contracted Pat Lawlor, famous…

     Response to the vinyl manufacturing saga thus far, from Sarah:

“Get a room, man! ENOUGH’S ENOUGH.”

With that in mind, I present yet another installment.

     Another fun trick that can be employed while cutting the…

     I’ve been collecting these little wind-up automatic instrument-player guys called ‘Knockman Family’ since I recieved two of them as christmas gifts. From left to right in the photo above…

     I got my hair cut awhile back. The person who cut my hair was using english in the ‘I barely know what I’m saying, my inflection is all off’ sort of way. Which is fine. Three highlights from my haircutter…

     I’ve had the same alarm clock since I was 14, so I’m in the bad habit of ignoring the alarm completely. My first solution was to have the radio turn on at full volume when the alarm went off, but…

     I’ve been writing about interesting vinyl manufacturing anomolies for the past few days. Tuesday I covered Flexo Records and flexidiscs, and yesterday I wrote about parallel grooves. Today’s bit is about ‘Lock grooves:’ grooves that feed back into…