Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'music'
Time Has Come
This image makes me think of how we’re split in so many different directions, if only through technology we could do everything at once, in slices of time each smaller than the other, the abundant side of Zeno’s paradox...
In the Future Everyone Will Have Their 12 Seconds of Fame
Prelim Watching a video debate about whether President Obama should shame unprincipled detractors by identifying them, I came across a video that asks “Is Lady Gaga Sexy Or Just Crazy?” The moment I saw this picture Lady GaGa in...
This Is It: Portrait of the Artist as an Entertainer
This Is It: Portrait of the Artist as an Entertainer ENTRYURL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477715/ viaName: viaURL: TIME: 09:02:42 //--> I was not expecting to write this post. Last night Pam, my mother, and I went to see This Is It at the...
Cautious optimism
This is huge. Huger than huge. This augurs the possibility that license holders may once again implicitly (and by default) allow fair use of copyrighted material.Congress, are you listening?...
Embodied Threat
Analyzing Billy Idol’s “Cyberpunk” video, Thomas Foster notesAfter Idol’s character stands and begins to move, following [his] transformation [into a cyborg], the police open fire on him, apparently interpreting his merely standing in front of them in this newly embodied...
The Demise of an American Tradition
Walking back home across College Green this afternoon, I encountered someone whom civility demanded I hail and for whom I removed an earbud from my left ear.“Hi, _______. How are you?”“Hi, Johnnie. Not bad. Listening to something new?”“Not new. Old.”“Is...
Brekky with Gir
There are few things worth breaking writing silence for, and this is one of them: If that’s Gir in the video, he’s a young guy with impeccable taste and smart moves. Using an eggbeater’s whine as percussion is only...
Geographical Soma and Postfixing SPAM
Yesterday, I returned from my friend Jason's and his (then) bride-to-be Sarah's wedding in Indianapolis. The parts of Indianapolis I visited were incredibly clean and smoking is not allowed in public spaces, bars being an exception. The most interesting...
A Valentine For You
iTunes Music Service Countdown
If you own a Mac and use iTunes, you probably know that Apple is giving away 50 "special" 20GB iPod to those who download each of the 100,000th songs between the 95th million and 100th million downloaded songs. The...
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