As I may have mentioned before, I'm a bit of an NPR Most Emailed Stories junkie. So: I was listening to a story about video game music, specifically with regards to the hit orchestral tour, Video Games Live.

And now I want a copy of Carmina Burana. Because they played a clip of it, before they played a clip of Myst III that it inspired. And... damn ( Read more... )

I've been listening to NPR podcasts again. They are Potter-crazy over there! Stories on Chinese bootleg Harry Potter, an story on Arthur Levine, even a piece on Wizard Rock. National Public Radio, people. This isn't... well, fine, they did have that bit about Soylent Green, but...

Okay, fine. They're a rather silly network.

Also: I want to ( Read more... )

As some of you know, I'm a bit of an NPR junkie. Especially, an NPR podcast junkie: even after removing a few on the basis that I had too many (trying to reduce the fix), I'm still subscribed to five of them. The most regular of these is NPR's Most Emailed Stories, which... well, it's the stories that were emailed the most to each other the ( Read more... )

I'm back in DC. It's...

I don't know, truth be told. There are things which are weird (the fact that everyone is still working on finals, while I'm not). There are things which seem more or less normal (sitting around watching "Jaynestown" and "Out of Gas"). And then there are the things which are normal (hanging out, mostly; I ate dinner at TDR, ( Read more... )

I don't know what you're up to, but if you've got about fifteen-twenty minutes to spare (and let's be honest; you were just about to go to YouTube and watch cat movies anyway), last week's News from Lake Wobegon was a particularly excellent one.

Not as good as this one, which is still my favorite, but still pretty good. I appreciate that the entire ( Read more... )