Random Articles

• Tuesday’s Triple Play - Suburban Adventures  This week’s triple play goes out to Kris from the Croncast and all his suburban adventures. Shop Vac from Jonathan Coulton What’s He Building from Tom Waits’ Mule Variations Suburban Myth from Less Than Jake’s Borders & Boundaries
• Making Jonathan Coulton Videos - Minnesota’s Winter Pasttime A 10th Grade class in Sobriety High down the street in Edina made a video for Jonathan Coulton’s ‘Mandelbrot Set’. Aside from being a brilliant project, making videos for JC is a an excellent way to get through Minnesota winters. I should know.
• Tim Quirk Blogging Pop-Ed One of the best songwriters in the world is finally blogging. Tim Quirk (Too Much Joy, Wonderlick, The Its) and his cohorts at Rhapsody have kicked off Pop-Ed: The Rhapsody Staff Blog. Though I’d prefer his writing put to music, I’ll take what I can get at this point.
• New Work Playlist - Thanks to Tangerine Since discovering Tangerine a couple months back, I’ve been tweaking the BPM-based playlist to find the ideal collection of tunes that keeps me working without calling too much attention to themselves. Here’s the iTunes Smart Playlist that’s been working for me for 2 weeks: BPM - is in the range - 90 to 110 My Rating - is
• Jonathan Coulton Spells Jonathan Coulton I can’t believe I haven’t raved about Jonathan Coulton here yet. He’s been on heavy rotation since I stumbled across Ikea nearly a year ago. The honesty and bizarre humor of his song writing is matched with some of the catchiest guitar riffs. Everytime I hear Skullcrusher Mountain I envision Skeletor serenading an increasingly uncomfortable She-Ra.