New Music

I've got a couple of songs you should download now.

Angel Snow's Coals and Water can be downloaded here at her Myspace page.

Ash Valley's Grown Over With Moss is here. Their Myspace page is here.

Free Energy?

I found a story on the WIRED News site about a company in Ireland called Steorn that apparently has a new technology about which they make these claims:
1. The technology has a coefficient of performance greater than 100%.
2. The operation of the technology (i.e. the creation of energy) is not derived from the degradation of its component parts.
3. There is no identifiable environmental source of the energy (as might be witnessed by a cooling of ambient air temperature).
The sum of these claims is that our technology creates free energy.

I'm as skeptical as the next guy. They've taken out an ad in The Economist asking physicists to test the technology and prove or disprove it. I'm interested to see how this one turns out.

Boing Boing has a post about lullaby versions of rock music for babies. You can hear Metallica's One here. It's funny, the Radiohead songs sound just like the originals.

Jason Harrod in New York City

Jason Harrod is coming to New York! All you folks in the New York City area who want to hear some good music, come see Jason Harrod play. You'll thank me.

September 8th at 8:00 pm at
All Angels' Church
West 80th Street, New York, NY
212.362.9300
http://www.allangelschurch.com/index.php

Bruno, we'll miss you

I woke this morning to sad news on the radio. Bruno Kirby died of Leukemia. I never saw a performance of his that didn't make me smile. Rest In Peace.

Coca-Cola!!

We're gonna sell this to Coke and make millions.

Motivate!

You know those motivational posters you see in the offices of small businesses and dentist's offices? Well you can make your own now, thanks to the Flagrant Disregard site. I found out about this over on the brilliant site Lifehacker. The picture above is one that i made with a photo I took at Verona Park in New Jersey and a line from one of the great films of the eighties.

Just below the knees

My posting has become pretty infrequent and I apologize. Hopefully I'll do better in the coming weeks. Just wanted to let y'all know that The Shins have updated their site. It's much better.

We're back from Italy and we had a wonderful time. We spent a few days in Poggiorsini with family, then attended the wedding of Licia and Guglielmo. It was beautiful. Then we went to Castellanetta for a day for Matthew's first trip to the beach before flying back.