Category: Hobbies and Projects

Doing this a bit differently today and embedding a YouTube clip. Jose Amnesia gives us a straightahead trancer that isn’t ditzy or tiring. It’s simple and ongoing, not “song”-y or “track”-y as Mr. Pencil has come to lament about my recent picks. Genre: Trance Progressiveness: Debatable. I think so, but might be something to argue [...]

Five Myths About Drinking Water : NPR I always knew the OMG-everyone-is-chronically-dehydrated blowhards were full of it. (tags: health npr water) There Were Orders to Follow – New York Times Well, I’m depressed. (tags: bush torture editorial)

Essay About Love and Literary Taste – Books – Review – New York Times Humorous or snotty? I can’t decide. You decide. (tags: books reading NYT essay)

If you’ve been around me and heard me talk about music in the last several weeks, I probably have mentioned Morgan Page’s “Longest Road” (feat. Lissie), especially the essentially perfect remix by Deadmau5. Turns out the guy is diverse. Today I’m feeling not so super, so the single “Fuck was I” is perfect. Sort of [...]

Non-tech readers can ignore this. Continuing to proselytize the JQuery JavaScript framework; getting a lot done with it. Approaching a brown belt in WordPress customizations and cetera. Just tapping the surface of Drupal Getting my fingers wet on a little iPhone Web app; a bit wary but excited about the SDK Hoping to get the [...]

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online Quick direct link to my reviews on LibraryThing. (tags: books reading reviews) utube « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures – I Can Has Cheezburger? Particularly amusing LOL* (tags: funny lolcat hedgehog)

Now for something at least almost completely different: a very non-subtle electro house rework of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Cities in Dust” by Junkie XL. Note that the Junkie XL version never actually credits that the vocals are Siouxsie’s but I think it’s pretty clear. Two samples here: first, the main riff of the song; [...]

Wow. I knew the new Armin Van Buuren track reminded me of something, but it took me a while to iron it all out. I happen to think that “Going Wrong” sounds rather eerily similar to York’s 2000 or 2001 track “Reachers of Civilisation”, which was the very first track on the very first of [...]

I am following up my last post with a quick follow-on to dispel the cheesy smell that I emitted with the AVB track. Hanson & Parker — Aim High, Shoot Low (Label: Maelstrom) Cheesiness: Pretty Low Progressiveness: Medium High Intensity/Danceiness: Very Low Tranciness: Low Lyzaness: Medium (High if you consider male vocals) This is an [...]

I’m a bit hesitant to open my new featured track posts–now with samples!–with this track, because it’s got the cheese meter pegged. But I find that every time I hear it played in a mix (and it’s getting a lot of airplay, at least in Europe, where people actually listen to dance music), I end [...]