Funky and Smoky Downbeats| Yeah, Dope Beats ahoi! If you like groovy breakbeats, we have some candy for your ears. With Suhohvs melodic “Symphaty Modul EP” you get lots of strings, cut-up vocals and excellent sampled loops. Every song is carefully put together to kidnap you for a marvellous organised robbery. I guess Suhov is […]
There could be no better way to end this trip than by spending my final night in the Hilton, Kuala Lumpur - in a room which couldn’t be more Lost In Translation if it tried (unless, of course, it was in the Park Hyatt in Tokyo). Here’s the view which greets you as you come […]
It’s time for more adventures of my Comic-Con experience. And the welcomed visit of an old friend… my Scooby-Doo costume.
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With a bag full of postcards and a bigger bag full of costume, I entered a bathroom stall as Black Nerd and exited as Scooby-Dooby-Doo!
I didn’t know how my Scooby-Doo costume would be accepted at Comic-Con.
Turns […]
This week we explore what our concerns are when creating the plots, or thumbnails, of our comics stories. As we’ve stated elsewhere and in other podcasts, this is, for us, the most intellectually labor-intensive part of making comics. We do our best to chart some of the many battles we pick when we write our […]
by J.R. Carroll
“Singer/songwriter” is not a description often applied to jazz musicians, and generally with good reason: Jazz instrumentalists have demonstrated again and again that as wordsmiths they are, well, outstanding instrumentalists. At best, the typically after-the-fact lyrics strive uneasily for either social uplift or hipster knowingness; at worst, they are just embarrassingly […]
I think Sarah Palin’s stance on feminism hearkens back to the Dark Ages. After watching way too many of her pastor’s video tapes, and those that Palin appeared in herself, it is a theology that maintains female subservience to a male. In this case, it is “Jesus.” All actions and ideas must be seen though […]
To the up and coming DJs who may be reading this; this one is just for you. Part of being a true school DJ is knowing the fact that music as a whole is universal. You know how most people go around saying ” I don’t listen to white folks music!” or ” whatcha playing […]
An eight hour PBS documentary, ‘On Record: The Soundtrack of Our Lives,’ is in the works for broadcast in the fall of 2010. The enormous multi-media project, about the history of recorded music and it’s impact on society, is under the guidance of the legendary Sir George Martin.
Martin is working with PBS […]