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Modern Day Composer

Great idea: “Hello! Welcome to my home on the Internet. I turn emails into music.”

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like a valley cheese

BTW, Kraftwerk’s remains one of the coolest site I ever saw. As for their music, well, I always found it a litlle cheesey, but maybe it’s nicely displayed… like a cheese, eventualy it got better after some time, and prized … Continue reading

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I hear the bell door ring

Sometimes, in the middle of the night, some Beefheart’s orphans don’t know if they are black or white. Well, if you are in a terrible need of a new body… there is only ONE PLACE where you will find some … Continue reading

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Impressive

Ladies & gentlemen: the next Luth Undelwood.

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The Amazing Dr. Miller

No… that’s not the mandolin, it’s his brain! (via print out)

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Turning the Tide

Noam Chomsky has a weblog.

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Le Pied Qui Pu

This is a real treat: Stinkfoot, the comic as drawn by comic artist Jean Sol in 1975 for french mag Fluide Glacial.

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RIP Mercedes

Actress Mercedes McCambridge, star of Run Home Slow (see also here and here), died yesterday at age 87.

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Moon

…is here again. It seems after the beautiful she wanted to make something ugly. “Unit is my middle name.”

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Odd Music

Odd Music: “Whether you play stalagmites in a cave, the kaval, bow telegraph wires across the Nullarbor Plain, twist electrons by circuit bending, call whales on a Waterphone, or just love listening, this site is for you.”

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Grey Tuesday

Knowing how FZ was constantly sampling audio snippets of life on the road into his music, and knowing what he thought about sampling snippets of other people’s music to create “new music”; what would FZ have had to say about … Continue reading

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Boot Blurb Goes Here

You know, it can get hard sometimes to be writing sensible intro blurbs for the Friday Boot, so I thought I’d just leave you with: Palais Omnisports de Bercy, Paris, France 17 Sep 1984 (Pt. One) – with thanks once … Continue reading

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Stax

Estelle Axton, co-founder of the famed Stax Records Co., which generated hits from acts including Sam and Dave, Otis Redding Jr. and The Staple Singers, died yesterday, aged 85. (hat tip: Hairfarmer)

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Mutations

… and while I spend my day posting about beer, United-Mutation’s newsletter is, once again, well worth checking out. Aren’t these great?

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Heresy!

If you ever find yourself in Belgium (one doesn’t plan to go there, one somehow finds him/herself there), you’ll need the opposite of these.

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