| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Crazy Life | Toad The Wet Sprocket | Coil | Alternative & Punk |
| 2. | Outside Now | Frank Zappa | Broadway The Hard Way | Alternative & Punk |
| 3. | La Quera Baila (The Fair One Dances) | Stan Kenton | Cuban Fire! | Jazz |
| 4. | Lightnin’ Hopkins | R.E.M. | Document | Alternative & Punk |
| 5. | Mahler: Symphony #4 In G – 1. Bedächtig – Nicht Eilen – Recht Gemächlich | Christoph von Dohnányi; Cleveland Orchestra | Mahler: Symphony #4 | Classical |
| 6. | Soul Kitchen | The Doors | The Doors | Rock |
| 7. | Run Away! | Monty Python’s Spamalot | Original Cast Recording | Soundtrack |
| 8. | Bought For A Song | Fountains Of Wayne | Welcome Interstate Managers | Alternative & Punk |
| 9. | Selim | Miles Davis | Live Evil [Disc 2] | Jazz |
| 10. | One Short Day | Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Ensemble | Wicked: Original Broadway Cast | Soundtrack |
Month: May 2008
Electric Computers
Apple takes delivery of 188 mysterious ocean containers Here’s an intriguing report from ImportGenius, a search engine that gathers “competitive intelligence” by monitoring U.S. Customs records of ocean containers entering American ports. Searching for shipments to Apple, Inc. (AAPL), employees at the Scottsdale, Ariz., company reported on Friday that they’ve spotted a “major spike” since … Continue reading “Electric Computers”
Sign of the times
Sales of Spam rise as consumers trim food costs Love it, hate it or laugh at it — at least it’s inexpensive. Sales of Spam — that much maligned meat — are rising as consumers are turning more to lunch meats and other lower-cost foods to extend their already stretched food budgets. What was once … Continue reading “Sign of the times”
Is Barack Obama Muslim?
No.
Friday Random Ten: 2008-05-23
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dam Would Break | Toad The Wet Sprocke | Coil | Alternative & Punk |
| 2. | Leave My Kitten Alone | The Beatles | Anthology 1 [Disc 2] | Rock |
| 3. | Hooch | Everything | Scrubs | Soundtrack |
| 4. | Alabama Song | The Doors | The Doors | Rock |
| 5. | Scarred | Dream Theater | Awake | Metal |
| 6. | Sound Chaser (Single Edit) | Yes | Relayer | Rock |
| 7. | Parallels (Rehearsal) (Previously Unissued) | Yes | Going For The One (Expanded & Remastered) | Rock |
| 8. | Gospel Train | Silver Leaf Quartet | Gangs Of New York | Soundtrack |
| 9. | Breath Of Life | London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Voices Feat. Sheila Chandra | The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers | Soundtrack |
| 10. | Ooby Dooby | Roy Orbison | Star Trek: First Contact | Soundtrack |
50 Cult Books
(via Shoot! the Breeze)
50 best cult books – Yet another semi-arbitrary list of books. Out of the 50, I’ve read eight:
(more…)Friday Random Ten: 2008-05-16
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dreams | The Cranberries | Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? | Alternative & Punk |
| 2. | Armando’s Rhumba | Chick Corea | My Spanish Heart | Jazz |
| 3. | Spider Web | Joan Osborne | Relish | Rock |
| 4. | Little Wing | The Corrs Feat. Ron Wood | VH-1 Presents The Corrs | Pop |
| 5. | Re-Jigue | Alan Parsons | Try Anything Once | Rock |
| 6. | Eastern Bloc (Sequel to Europa and the Pirate Twins, 1981) | Thomas Dolby | Astronauts & Heretics | Alternative & Punk |
| 7. | Neon Sisters | Thomas Dolby | Astronauts & Heretics | Alternative & Punk |
| 8. | On The Inside Track | Billy Cobham | The Traveler | Jazz |
| 9. | Watching The Water | Pretty & Twisted | Pretty & Twisted | Alternative & Punk |
| 10. | I’ve Got A Flair | Fountains Of Wayne | Fountains Of Wayne | Alternative & Punk |
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“Unread” Book Meme
(via Swimming with Sharks)
These are the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you own but have not read.
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers