Just ordered a set of videos from The Music Animation Machine and a Oskar Fischinger video from The Iota Center.

Guess I’m just in a music visualization mood today.

Check out The Secret Life of Numbers.
It’s ajava applet that shows you the relative popularity of every number between 1 and 100,000
based on web searches and the like. it also can show the most common associations for
a given number (ie, 357 == 357 magnum, 90210 == the tv show, etc).

Bizarre, and fascinatting.

Tommy Gun was good. Hadn’t seen them play in a long time, and they had improved
alot.

Listened to Primus – Frizzle Fry the whole trip up and down. What
a great album.

Was informed of another cd/album that I “must have”. Apparently
the “United States of America” is pretty cool, though I havent
actually heard it yet. Web searching on that doesnt look like fun.

Vaguely looking around for a good cheap keyboard for making
lots of noise. After fiddling with the ms2000 and a roland jxp8
for a few days, I’m intrigued. Preferably something with lots
of knobs and buttons to tweak. I’m not all that well versed with
the value/cost of keyboards though.

got a hair cut. Our as one of my old high school teachers
used to say “I got them all cut”.

I think my beard is longer than my hair now.

Off to winston-salem again to see a friends band play. This
time it’s Tommy Gun at The Garage

The ozzy visits the white house article got me thinking. Whats the obvious
sequel to the Osbounes? well, the Dio’s of course!

Ozzy visits the white house. Uhm, okay.

to continue on yesterday’s theme… brokennewyork.com

the stickwire mailling list
is begining to annoy me. It’s a list fo Chapman Stick players.
The annoying part about the list is that the creator of the instrument is just a whee bit
too protective of his intellectual propertiy rights (at least, I think so…). To the
point of patenting tunings and playing techniques, and copyrighting anything he can.
He probabaly has the right to do that, I just find it kind of annoying at times. Especially
when the list erupts into flamewars that match the best of the free software vs others flamewars.

It’s enough to make me consider selling my Stick, or more likely, letting one the
Japan Air guys borrow it indefinately.

There appears to be a short video story about Theremins on cnn.com
It seems to require a cnn subscription however.

The list of dead deparment stores got me thinking about one I
used to work at.

I worked at a Roses department school while in high school.
This story
sounds really really familar.

The chain went bankrupt in 1993, but stay in business.
The
Business Journal seems to have some info about the details.

Ah, google, I do love you so.

Apparently, in
Pike County, two of the more insteresting things to ever happen was Lynard Skyard crashing
into it, and a tornado destroying a Roses. I suspect these are somehow related.

Rose’s can save your life

Rose’s can inspire you to rock

Roses employess couldn’t care less!

Have you seen this child

It’s easy to steal from Roses!. We once had someone walk out the front door with one of those Powerwheel electric kids cars. Not a small item.

Lots of people worked for Roses!

Okay, nostalgia inspired internet scavenger hunt is now over.

on a similar note, A history
of grocery stores in Greensboro, NC from groceteria.net

And just for kicks, craneaccidents.com
I love cranes. I love info about engineering/industrial accidents. I love crane accidents!

deadmalls.com

Ah, a dirt mall reference site!

There is only one North Carolina mall listed
though, I can think of at least three that would
be good candidates.

I love urban decay. Or even suburban decay.