This is a video of Stars on 45 live doing a Beatles medley back in the early 1980’s. Today this is called a mashup; listen to many more music on our Tunes page.
- 27
- Jun
- 24
- Jun
With the mobile phone taking on a greater role these days, it becomes more apparent that we need more than what the traditional mobile phone carrier provides us at the price they charge. Most of them give you a limited amount of text messages, minutes to talk, a small amount of bandwidth with which you must stay within, and so on. Smartphones are hitting these limits easily, and it calls for a service that allows for truly unlimited, unrestricted freedom with our mobile smartphones.
This is where Buzzirk comes to the rescue. Using the proprietary smart VOIP technology from Zer01, you can now truly have unlimited text messages, voice, and data bandwidth for one flat fee, and no contract whatsoever. The Domestic Plan costs $79.95/month, and the International Plan costs $89.95/month.
Currently Buzzirk supports these phones, with more being added in the near future (which includes a jailbroken iPhone):
- Pharos Traveler 117
- Pharos Traveler 127
- HTC Touch 3G
- HTC Diamond
Even more appealing, for those of you looking to make a commission and earn a piece of the history, you can help sell smartphones for Buzzirk and earn a monetary reward each time. If you’re looking for a ludicrous business opportunity, then please visit this website and click on Enroll at the top-right of the menu or send an email to Ruthanna and express your interest in this exciting new venture.
After the break, you can read more about the domestic flat-rate fee plan from Buzzirk and the impressive list of features it offers. We are finally entering an Information Age where our mobile phones is the ultimate tool for information, rich multimedia, fun, and limitless communication.
- 10
- May
Pure, concentrated awesome. More information on the pianist in the video below can be found at jonschmidt.com
This arrangement is dedicated to Sarah, my 7 year old daughter who loves the song Love Story by Taylor Swift. Because of a common rhythm element between the tunes, I decided I could mish/mash the two. My great friend Steven Sharp Nelson (cello percussion) really makes this tune. (stevensharpnelson.com)
- 04
- May
The hit comedy television show from NBC, Chuck, is in danger of not seeing a Season 3. NBC is deliberating whether it should be renewed or not, and is worth the cost. I love the show dearly, and could list a boatload of reasons why the show needs to go on. However, I’m going to give the biggest reason why. I present to you, the CIA agent whose looks could kill … literally:
If you’ve never watched Chuck, or want to go over the episodes again, Hulu has all the shows available.
- 04
- May
Such an awesome, minimal, and sleek design. I’ve been trying to get a couple; one to drink, one to save to admire the looks. The ingredients in this drink are: sparkling water, sugar, natural apple extract (color), caramel color, citric acid, caffeine, acacia gum, tartaric acid, lactic acid, natural flavor, kola nut extract. The sugar is a blend of cane sugar and beet sugar.
You can check to see if it’s available in your area.
Image Credit: Teuobk on Flickr.
- 23
- Mar
Below is a video of my dog, Buddy, enjoying a new toy I had just bought for him.
- 06
- Dec
It’s that time of the year, my favorite time of the year. Not because of Christmas, although that’s nice. No, it’s because of this webpage, Fimoculous’s Lists of Lists. This is the third year in a row that I’ve been enriched and excited about this page. Essentially it’s a collection of the lists from around the internet.
Lists such as Pitchfork’s Top 40 Music Videos, Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year, Yahoo’s Top Searches, Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Entertainers of the Year, This Recording’s Top 20 Albums, Paste’s Top 50 Albums, Yahoo Movies’ Top 10 Trailers, Multinational Monitor’s 10 Worst Corporations, and NYT’s 100 Notable Books.
However, the best part is the music collection, in which I’d check out the top albums of the year that I’ve missed. I compare and contrast and the albums that fall in genres of music that I enjoy (of which there are many) that I haven’t heard of, then I check them out and if I like them, then I’m ecstatic because I’ve found a hidden treasure I would’ve never known about if it weren’t for Fimoculous’s lists.
I decided to add my own personal Top 20 favorite albums of 2008, based on statistics gathered by my charts page on Last.fm.
- The Raveonettes – Lust Lust Lust
- Shiny Toy Guns – Season Of Poison
- Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
- Shocking Pinks – Shocking Pinks
- Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
- Glasvegas – Glasvegas
- Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
- MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
- You Me At Six – Take Off Your Colours
- Santogold – Santogold
- The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing
- Creature – No Sleep At All
- The Sword – Gods Of The Earth
- Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s – Animal
- Kings of Leon – Only By The Night
- Stars – Sad Robots EP
- Justice – Planisphère
- M83 – Saturdays = Youth
- Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns
- Titus Andronicus – The Airing Of Grievances
By no means are these the best albums of 2008 period, but my own personal favorites based on the limited amount of music I can cram into my life. I was kind of surprised to see Shocking Pinks up there. I didn’t realize that I liked that album as much as I apparently did. The top album on my list, The Raveonettes’s Lust Lust Lust, is such a superb album, even now I’m not sick of it and tend to go back to it every now and then to enjoy it all over again.
As for individual tracks, here’s my top 20 favorite songs for 2008:
- MGMT – Pieces Of What
- Elbow – One Day Like This
- Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing!
- Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
- The Raveonettes – Dead Sound
- The Raveonettes – Lust
- M83 – Kim & Jessie
- M83 – Skin of the Night
- Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
- Shiny Toy Guns – It Became A Lie On You
- The Raveonettes – Hallucinations
- Shiny Toy Guns – Season of Love
- Vampire Weekend – I Stand Corrected
- Vampire Weekend – Walcott
- Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance
- The Raveonettes – Black Satin
- Vampire Weekend – Mansard Roof
- The Ting Tings – Shut Up and Let Me Go
- Vampire Weekend – One (Blake’s Got a New Face)
- Vampire Weekend – Campus
Every year is filled with opportunities to enjoy so much good music that it is almost overwhelming. 2008 was no different, and I sincerely look forward to next year’s treasure troves of great music.
