The first time my friend Adam Kerchman introduced me to E-603, I didn’t really understand what I was hearing – I assumed it was just a bunch of weird rap songs, and filed his stuff away into the ‘listen later’ folder, where it stayed for the next 5 months or so. It wasn’t until I came across Jockin’ On Ya during a random shuffle (redundant much?) one day that I truly understood what it was that Adam had unleashed on me – a myriad of meticulous mash-up madness of magnanimous magnitude, made manifest by a master of musical mini-mixing (and much more). » Read the rest of this entry «
I’ve been trying to sell my old PC for a while, but to no avail – the last time I tried on Craigslist I was met by an army of scammers, so since then I’ve kind of kept it all boxed up and useless in the corner.
As of late, though, I’ve been reading a lot about Linux through some of the tech blogs I visit, and so I figured that now would be as good of a time as any to give it a shot – if nothing else than just to get rid of Windows once and for all and make the world a better place in the process.
After downloading and burning the Ubuntu 8.10 .iso off of the Ubuntu website, all it took was half an hour to erase the Windows partition and replace it with the Linux OS, and after fiddling around with it for about a day I was fascinated by how clean and versatile it was, contrary to my preassumptions. » Read the rest of this entry «
I’ve had this album in my iTunes library for a while, but it wasn’t until this morning that I finally got down to listening to it. The first thing I thought when I heard it was ‘what a waste of cereal’, because by then my jaw was lying on the floor in sheer awe-struck paralysis.
A review I read for it on Amazon sums it up perfectly: “The Flight of the Knife is like everything you’ve heard before, and nothing you’ve heard before.”» Read the rest of this entry «
