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Posts Tagged ‘Music’

Biggie and Tupac

You either like Nick Broomfield or you don’t. Like Michael Moore, he puts himself front and center in the documentary, wandering into frame and asking questions with a painful naïveté. For fans of 60 Minutes, this completely unprepared approach makes you bristle a little. It’s both Biggie and Tupac’s greatest asset and greatest failure. Like [...]

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Standing in the Shadows of Motown

You know every note of every song. There’s no way you can avoid it. Even if you consider yourself unskilled in the art of music appreciation, you know Motown - Heatwave, Heard It Through the Grapevine, My Girl. I could go on and on. You think to yourself: those are damn good songs with damn good singers (Marvin Gaye, [...]

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Apple iTunes: April 2008

What hell hath Apple wrought? <div class=”thumbnail”><a href=”http://skitch.com/lightsoutfilms/e6ed/itunes”><img src=”http://img.skitch.com/20080405-pq44qr3pte8s8c1dskbh1bfmkk.preview.jpg” alt=”iTunes” /></a><br /><span style=”font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080″>Uploaded with <a href=”http://plasq.com/”>plasq</a>’s <a href=”http://skitch.com”>Skitch</a>!</span></div> Ok, the last song is OK and appropriately strange.

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I Love the Interwebs, Part 455

I wanted to gear up for the next version of Guitar Hero which includes the classic “War PIgs.”… It was easy and quick to do, and the format was a lossless one that sounded crisp and clean.

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