I can’t recall the exact path I took through the internet tubes to find it, but I recently became aware of the immense library of free music available on archive.org, the Internet Archive. They have an incredibly long list of live music performances. There’s a special section just for Grateful Dead bootlegs.

This happens time and time again.
Back in 1995, when I got in trouble for connecting my computer to the computer of my hallmate with an arcnet cable because we were “breaking curfew” at the boarding school, we thought, “What we really need is a radio transmitter and receiver to connect our network cards to. [...]

Once again, the internet and human creativity have astounded me. Today, class, we’re going to learn about manualists. Does anyone know what a manualist is? Raise your, um, hands. No? Well then you’re in for some enlightenment.
When I was in elementary school and middle school, some people in my class [...]

Man, talk about winning a poetry contest! Some 52-year-old bloke, named Paulino Cubero, has won the competition to author the lyrics to the Spanish National Anthem. Coming from the super-duper patriotic, “pledge allegiance to the flag every morning in elementary school”, United States to a country where they don’t even have lyrics for [...]

One of my favorite songs has got to be John Prine’s Angel from Montgomery. I’ve mentioned it once before here when there was, well, a fly in the kitchen. It never ceases to amaze me how songwriters and novelists can write about someone else in the first person, to become someone else and [...]

The other day during a morning walk around Colindres, I found this very waterlogged album cover lying on the wet pavement. So I took a photo and forgot about it until today. Using the all-knowing internet tubes, I’ve found some information about the album.

I’m a huge fan of the Audio Player plugin for Wordpress that lets you embed a flash player for a single MP3 file in a blog post. The problem is that you have to host the MP3 file yourself, and if your hosting service isn’t very generous with either storage space or bandwidth, it’s [...]

My recent DVD order of Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds at Radio City Music Hall from April 22, 2007, arrived in the mail yesterday. iTunes link.

I was prodded into trying Last.FM again yesterday. As some of you may recall, I tried it last year and reviewed it in passing on my way to another conclusion:
The absolute simplest way to blog your current song is to use Last.FM. They give you an application that you run on your computer (it [...]

Rosana is one of Marga’s favorite singers. She’s the only artist that Marga has followed at all through her ten-year career. If Marga had ever purchased a CD, it would have been by Rosana. Back in 2000, when my new Spanish girlfriend told me that Rosana was her favorite artist, I immediately [...]