Published on January 24, 2008
in Journal.
I listen to a pretty modest amount of rap music, since I don’t really like it — the music is usually pretty shit and the lyrics never, ever make any sense. And the reasons for one needing to posess an absurd quantity of expensive automobiles and drink nothing but over-priced Champagne have not really been conveyed to me through the music. So if like me, you’d like to understand what Jay-Z and the rest of the boys are on about, I suggest you look here.
This site has rather ingeniously converted rap songs into easily understandable charts and graphs. Now you can finally understand the correlation between say, ‘money and problems’.
Published on December 15, 2007
in Journal.
My portable music player history has been rather colorful. When I was small (like 7 years old or so), I had an old Sony Walkman. When I say ‘old’, I mean antique. It was already like 10 years old when I got it. But it served me well and if I’m not mistaken it still works, although I don’t have any Cassettes to test it out with. After Cassettes became antiquated, I moved onto a CD Walkman. It was huge and had no Shock Absorption whatsoever, so listening to music while walking was nearly impossible. While I lived in England, the MiniDisc hit the market and at the time, it was marketed as the CD-killer. So I got one and then another one. Both were neat gadgets, but since MD albums cost 1,5x the price of normal CD albums, they never really took off. The players were small, just a little smaller than a 3,5″ floppy disk, but the actual discs lacked storage space and recording music onto them was a real bitch — you had to listen though the entire song/album to get it onto the disc.
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I recently got in touch with my old friend Daniel from back when I lived in London, and after the mundane ‘hi, how are you?’-business, he got to telling me about a band he’s trying to get started up - Giants Fall. They’re a talent bunch of guys and I personally dig their genre of music. I suggest you check out their MySpace-page, it has a few demo songs (which I personally like too).
