What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding?
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Here’s a video of My Morning Jacket’s Jim James playing Chinese Translation with M. Ward at SXSW. The video actually starts with M. Ward playing Rollercoaster on his own.
I love this. M. Ward is such a great guitar player! And Jim James is a leading god in my rock pantheon.
Found at Aquarium Drunkard.
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Larry Lessig just posted a brilliant Lessig-style video endorsement of Barack Obama. Hopefully this will change a few minds on the morning of Super Tuesday.
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Here’s a great video of Wilco performing Impossible Germany on Austin City Limits. The song is from Sky Blue Sky, Wilco’s most recent album and one of my faves. One of the highlights of the album is the addition of free-jazz guitarist Nels Cline to the lineup. The video is a great example of what he adds to the band.
Apparently this show aired on PBS a few nights ago. However, due to the frustration that is PBS, its affiliates and how they carry and schedule shows, it doesn’t appear to be offered by our affiliate, WGBH in Boston. I guess I’ll have to track it down on BitTorrent instead.
Thanks to Aquarium Drunkard for the video.
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Alex, Abby & Jonathan bringing in the harvest after a day of apple picking up in Montague.
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Another brilliant video by Michael Wesch, the man who brought us The Machine is Us/ing Us. This one is called Information R/Evolution and it’s basically David Weinberger’s great Everything is Miscellaneous put to video.
Thanks to Rob for the pointer.
And if you haven’t seen The Machine is Us/ing Us, here it is:
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Tom Petty resides high in my personal rock canon. Damn the Torpedoes and Hard Promises were formative, seminal albums for me; albums I’ve listened to hundreds of times.
So I was very excited to learn this morning, via a post by John Gruber, that he’s releasing a rock-doc this month called Running Down the Dream. The DVD will be released on October 16. I’ve pre-ordered mine.
Here’s the trailer:
And here’s a great video about The Waiting (I love Tom playing the guitar intro over and over):
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Just ordered myself one of the new 15″ MacBook Pros that were announced this morning. Santa Rosa chipset, LED backlit display and all sorts of other geek candy.
I’m really looking forward to switching my main work over to Mac. Windows has been driving me crazier than usual and Vista is making the problem worse, not better. I wish it was a full switch, but we still have the workhorse PC at home that manages all of our photos and music. One of these days that thing will get replaced with an iMac or Mac Pro. I’ll also have to maintain a Windows environment for work. I’m hoping I can accomplish this in Parallels or Boot Camp.
Seems I’m in good company.
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