Just saw Ben for the first time in ten years. The quality was a bit lacking, but after they warmed up it proved to be worth it. He had a great story with every song and even told us that the areangment were $10k per song. And if you didn't hear your favorite, it's because they paid it all and the arrangement still sucked ( Read more... )

In respect of my country roots, I wanted to produce a couple country music set lists for Burning Man this year. This seems to be blossoming into a Top 100 (or maybe 200 or 500, we'll see when I get tired) list. Right now I'm at ~40, as it's taking me a long time to conjure up the lyrics or artist or song names I've been rusty on for so long. I ( Read more... )

I'm looking for recommendations for surreal and creepy music. Black magic, evil circus, the creepy alice game, that sort of thing. I'm reading Master and Margarita and need appropriate theme music.

The other week I had an idea for a piece of code I'll never actually write. There's a fair chance it's been done before but, if not, perhaps confuseme and co. can put it to good use. I was listening to some Kidneythieves the other day and noticed how well the lyrics, the particular words chosen, accented the song well musically. Harsh sharp consonants on ( Read more... )