October 2008
14 posts
Apps that make me want an iPhone
RJDJ - creates incredible sounds using ambient/enviromental noise
Noise.io - super-cool iPhone synthesizer
Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle
“Oh...
Topspin » Drink and Eat With Topspin, Songkick,... →
Ólafur Arnalds - Himininn Er Að Hyrnja, En...
“I want to send satellites out to every thirteen year-old (girl) who might be...”
– Catherine A. D. on why she makes music. Beautiful. Read more here. (via Sean @ DiS)
Bjork interview on Pitchfork
Turns out to be mostly about the enviromental & economic issues Iceland is facing today and how they interconnect. There is a bit about the new Thom Yorke + Bjork song too, but that ends up being a side conversation in the interview.
Bjork - Pitchfork Interview Part 1
Bjork - Pitchfork Interview Part 2
Read.
FM Belfast - Lotus
Saw FM Belfast in Reykjavik...
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt quickly.”
– A law student from Spain studying in a German university who stayed in the same flat as I in Prague, temporarily working as the man who gets tourists into one of Prague’s largest strip clubs, before starting a job in International business relations in Latvia. He said he wanted to have a...
YouTube adds Amazon and iTunes links, yawn. →
Affiliate purchase links are not a breakthrough revenue model. In fact, almost everything on the Internet has them whereever a piece of relevant content can be bought. Amusing that this is news.
Have to give credit to YouTube’s PR team for getting so much press on it though.
“If I remember correctly they call that the irreversibility of time. The feeling...”
– On the feeling of adventure and time.
Nausea, Sartre, Jean-Paul. via Gina
Oh yeah, I left New York again
I guess I should post that here. The plan so far is:
Oct 1 - 11 Montreal, PopMontreal
Oct 11 - 14 Toronto
Oct 15 - 20 Reykjavik, Speaking at Iceland Airwaves
Oct 20 - 30 London
Oct 30 ~ Nov 10 Krakow, Poland
Nov 10 ~ 18 Rivne, Ukraine
Nov 18 ~ 21 Krakow, Poland
Nov 21 ~ 25 Dublin
Nov 25 New York
Does NME even know what a music blog is?: The... →
gtmcknight:
Larissa Wodtke just posted her 133 Page Masters Thesis on MP3 Blogs. Should make for some good weekend reading.
Fun fact: 58 occurrences of “Hype Machine”
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