…like excess. My favorite Ukulele Disco items to date:
Buggley Eyes
Monkey’s Brain
After You’ve Gone
Ragg Mopp
King Kong Kitchie
Misirlou
links for 2007-02-16
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“a timeline of innovation. Nine exhibits ranging from 1900 to 1979, comprising audio recording machines, wireless morse communicators, portable video to the precurser behind iTunes. The museum holds an inspirational array of invention, guaranteed never to
Taking the uke seriously
Gardner linked to a Jake Shimabukuro clip that I’m still recovering from… and so I explored the Midnight Ukulele Disco site a bit further and found depths of depravity that still have me slaverin’. Case in point: Amy Gordon does Betty Boop (and some lyrics here and more on Helen Kane)… but you’ll find others YOU will enjoy even more. A fine thing for a winter’s day.
Ansgar calls the Help Desk
The Duke of Ook
I’ve been working over some old old old tapes of radio shows, recorded while I was on sabbatical at Stanford in 1979-80. I mentioned KFAT a few days ago, and this wonderful bit of station-break madness came up last night: Alan Seidler, aka The Duke of Ook [1:35], from long before there was an Oook, or anyhow before I’d discovered the alter ego that inhabits me, or vice versa. I’ve had The Duke’s record since it first ummmmm emerged in the mid-1970s, on Blue Goose Records. It’s a Cult Classic, long out of print but maybe gonna be re-released real soon now.
links for 2007-02-13
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Tanya Witherspoon’s “poetic transcription”
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Lobster processing for the 21st century, “crustacean without the crust”. Amazing.
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“Revolutionizing the Way the World Eats Maine Lobster… The hard work continues in our production facility, or the kitchen, as we call it, where we process the lobster using our ‘Big Mother Shucker’.”
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and wins, all in about 3 minutes. Armani and hot dogs too.
links for 2007-02-12
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painful cover art and soundclips… something for everybody
links for 2007-02-11
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Bryan poses some toothsome questions
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Alan Levine’s followup to Bryan, brimming with sage advice on how to Proceed
links for 2007-02-10
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“…does not directly answer questions about Proust but rather provides textual and visual occasions for experiencing À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Specifically, it is built on the recurring motif of the church…”
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from Texas A&M, “An online index to historical and critical items about science fiction, fantasy and horror”
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OMSFG! I loved KFAT during my Bay Area sabbatical year 1979-80, and it’s sort of back: “KFAT is the only dead radio station you can listen to on your computer. It doesn’t even smell up your speakers – not too badly, anyhow. “
links for 2007-02-09
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“a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor…. Each Pipe consists of two or more modules, each of which performs a single, specific task. For example, the Fetch module will retrieve a feed U