Bookmarks for 08/24/2010

Even when I don't have time to write I still read. Here are bookmarks I've saved in Delicious.

E-Books, Cynicism, and Shelf Life

Really old school report

Full disclosure: I don't own an e-book reader. Maybe that's why I'm not too hip on e-books as described in this Huffington Post article by Paul Levine. Funny, I don't recall anyone blissfully sniffing their books until the threat from e-publishing appeared. Now, readers can't resist comparing their moldy old tomes to the finest Bordeaux. [...]

Jay Chou Guitar Cover

Random searching somehow lead me to Youku.com and some guy doing a great job playing a Jay Chou song. Since I can't read Chinese, all I say "is good job random search result guy" and then share it with everyone else. BTW, Jay Chou will play Kato in the upcoming Green Hornet movie along side [...]

Album Review: Nevermore – Obsidian Conspiracy

Nevermore - Obsidian Conspiracy

Once upon an MP3-eary, while I worked, weak and weary, Over many a deprecated code and compiled kernel’s core While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly double bass came a tapping, As if rapid machine gun rapping, rapping at my eardrum’s door. “Tis ass kickery,” I muttered, “slapping at my eardrum’s door – Only this and [...]

Bookmarks for 05/07/2010

Even when I don't have time to write I still read. Here are bookmarks I've saved in Delicious.

63: Patti Smith – Wave

Patti Smith - Wave

Patti Smith is weird. Everybody knows that including Patti. But she is that kind of weird that makes me wish I could sit around and drink with her and let her rattle on with her poetry. I had two of her albums when I was young. Patti Smith's Wave (1979) is my favorite above Horses. [...]

64: The Panic Channel – (One)

Cover of (One) Watching Rock Star: INXS made Dave Navaro appear human. I mean I knew he was human, but I only imagined faceless guitar riffs. Incredible singers, who lived in cars, sang for their lives only to win, coke it up, and eventually leave the band to live in a car. But that's how [...]

65: INXS – Kick

Cover of Kick Few groups influence music like INXS did in the 80s. I would argue their influence on popular rock and new wave created a "New Sensation". Get it? It's a play on the name of that song of theirs, "New Sensation". It's a song and it's how they rolled that's why it's a [...]

In Defense of STP

Stone Temple Pilots 3/20/2010

Having just seen Stone Temple Pilots on March 20, I was disappointed to read this story at Blabbermouth.net. According to several eyewitness accounts from fans who attended STONE TEMPLE PILOTS' Milwaukee, Wisconsin concert last night (Friday, March 26) at the Eagles Ballroom, vocalist Scott Weiland forgot the words to at least a couple of the [...]