Delicate Genius Blog

Feeling very very sad.

MSNBC article.

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If James Brown was in my mid-year career review at work last week, he would’ve gotten a 10/10 for cross team collaboration!

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Yes, it is what it sounds like, non region locked Pandora. 

[found on Alan Jones' blog]

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Eddie Vedder has always claimed that Vinyl is superior “and I don’t mean to be a Luddite and say I only listen to vinyl, which I mostly listen to vinyl or I just enjoy vinyl”

My generation grew up on CDs and prefer having media held in our hands.

Today’s generation is all about the digital download.

I came across this rolling stone article on Stephen Hamilton’s blog. The article, The Death of High Fidelity, talks about the degradation in the quality of download music as well as modern music production techniques through a practice dubbed “The Loudness War”. Where the industry has adopted the mindset that louder is better even at the cost of fidelity.

The article is a major eye opener and is well worth a read.

The concept of Loudness War is explained perfectly in the following video.

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I caught I’m Not There, the biopic based on Bob Dylan, last night.

Haven’t enjoyed a movie this much in ages.

The best way I have to describe it is from the little brochure-ish thinggy that I picked up at the cinema:

Ultimately, the highest complement you can pay Haynes [the director] is that he’s made a movie that looks, sounds and feels just like a great Bob Dylan song.

There’s been great hype over the fact that 6 actors (Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Marcus Carl Franklin, and Heath Ledger) play Dylan in different stages and incarnations. And, yes the hype over Cate Blanchett’s performance is well deserved.

The one awesome surprise for me was David Cross’ depiction of Allen Ginsberg. It was totally unexpected and stole the some of the move for me!

Can you tell them apart?

Also, check out a leaked bit from the movie from the YouTube.

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Something very cool happened today. I bought the new Ben Harper album, lifeline. Why is this cool?

Well, if you remember my dissapointment of not being able to buy another Ben Harper CD due to the copy protection on the CDs. Well today marks the day of my first Ben Harper purchase in years. Why? No copy protected-root-kitted CD!

Yeah!

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This is so awesome.

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[spotted via Leslie Nassar]

More great spoken word. Suicide Kings, The Question.

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I first heard it on Sage Francis’ Sick of Waging War and came across it again recently on the Indie Feed Podcast.

Behold, Taylor Mali’s How To Write a Political Poem – mp3.

Just can’t get enough of this track!

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Just got done watching Peal Jam’s VH1 Storytellers.

Eddie Vedder told a beautiful story about the meaning of the song Alive and how it has changed meaning.

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