Purveyor of Iniquities

(written Saturday, v. early in the AM)
I’m at an Econolodge somewhere in central Pennsylvania en route to my sister’s graduation in State College tomorrow. My parents and I had dinner at a place called the Victorian Lady that looked a lot better than the food tasted. And the service was laughable, if well meaning. My [...]

What kind of music does Ken Ishii make? It’s not house, not exactly, even though some of it sounds that way, a little. Definitely not ambient or whatever it’s called now, ’cause you can dance to it, mostly. And it’s certainly not IDM (”intelligent dance music”), because it doesn’t suck (and, as I said, you [...]

Kottke wonders about how things will end up for Apple with iTunes music sharing quickly morphing into p2p via third-party leeching tools.
Seems like, technology-wise, Apple is on the right side of the law on this one.
There’s much legitimate use in everything that iTunes does; the software probably won’t fall short of that argument [...]

The Puzzling Music Archives looks like a great place to find some off-beat MP3s.
Take a look at the large Deerhoof collection (download “Fleur” for sure) and some interesting cuts by Allingham and Steve Gigante.

Two of the three Nigerian business scams in my inbox this morning address me as “My Dear.” How nice.
Meeting this morning with Rose McManus at the Katz campaign. Philadelphia’s dead if Katz doesn’t win, but I can’t say that his campaign appears to be doing much for him so far. It’s a pain getting anyone [...]