In this episode, I comment on the past, present, and future of the Ruthless Diastema BlogCast. I also mention a wonderful contest from one of my sponsors.
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Meet Chris
Chris Helton has been running the Dorkland! Blog for ten years. That is quite an accomplishment. To celebrate, he is raising money to attend Gen Con this year. Help him here: http://www.gofundme.com/GenCon-Fund.
The List
Pete asked me (and …
I ran across this odd little creature at ThinkGeek, home of much Japanese whimsical absurdity. This is the otomatone, an electronic instrument. With a face.…
Okay – one more video before I go to bed. This is a 12-year-old Asian girl nailing King Crimson’s ‘Red’. Nighty-night!
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Just so you understand the chain of thought that led me to post this video – Mick Karn, bassist for 80′s synth-pop band Japan, died today…so I went on the usual YouTube clip safari, checking out loads of old …
My favorite Beatle is George Harrison, and my favorite Harrison-penned Beatles tune is ‘It’s All Too Much’, featured on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack. Seriously, you can keep ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ – Harrison’s upbeat LSD trip does it for …
I’m running late getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner, so I don’t have time to say a lot – but I did want to note the untimely passing of musician Peter Christopherson, founding member of industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle and techno-occult …
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Okay – two things. I’m a lifelong Smiths fan (well, since the mid-80′s, which is probably a lifetime to most of you)…also, I can personally confirm that Morrissey is kind of a prick (went to see him in the early …
MetaFilter recently had a couple of cool links on Asian pop culture topics.
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4chan’s latest prank has seemingly obligated horrifying pop sensation Justin Bieber to a tour of North Korea. It seems the Beebs held a Twitter contest for fans to vote on the country the mop-headed terror should visit – predictably, 4chan …
Wired recently posted a quick breakdown of what goes into recording a track in Trent Reznor’s garage studio. I thought it might be worth a link since we mentioned his new project, How To Destroy Angels, in the first …
