What’s Up with Paul Oppenheim

I saw this a while ago, and it’s pretty great if you like Animal Collective. Sorry I didn’t share earlier.

Allegedly I know my unicode but I still get rad surprises:

䷂ - U+4DC2 HEXAGRAM FOR DIFFICULTY AT THE BEGINNING

bad start.

I was just upgrading WordPress and noticed I haven’t said much in a while! Not for lack of anything going on, but it’s mostly been personal stuff and work stuff. Seeing as this is already a meta post, I’ll summarize for those following my stream that care (hello, facebook).

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just because.

So I was just ego surfing and found a song written by Niko Donburi that has a line about my work persona, Poppy Linden. Woot! Here’s the song…

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You just need to see this.

Hey folks! If you’re a unix nerd like me, you probably use rsync for everything. Unfortunately I learned today that if you do rsync -vaP --delete source dest you may not have sync’d files. Why? Because that only uses the timestamp.

Yeah.

Anyhow, rsync -c is what you want. This does a checksum everytime regardless of timestamp. A word of caution though: it takes forever. However, my 80GB cache of corrupted MP3s are thanking me.

Ok, I’m on a youtube binge with no real content lately, but I’m sick. Incapable of any real thought, I bring you this:

(Or at youtube directly). Which I saw courtesy of Channel Frederator, which I got from Miro, a sweet internet video channel program that is making my dusty old TV more useful.

Wow, youtube. You can get lost for hours. However, you find gems like this:

Yeah. Also…

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Ever wonder where your favorite artist gets their funky samples? Check out Sample Wednesday.

Today an IEEE Spectrum article pretentiously called The Future of Music argued against the overcompression of modern music known as the “loudness war.” Aside from the fact that that sounds like a war I want to fight in, it made an argument that we aren’t making technological progress on sound quality because of loud music.

If you have been hanging out around me lately, you know I totally dig the new Justice album, †. Their whole point is loud. Face-rocking, turn-it-up-to-11, side-chain-compressor-to-the-grill loud. Same with that good ol’ SebastiAn who I have previously blogged about. So, are these guys that I love so much right now really destroying the future of music technology? How can you have many of the intense modern sounds without loud? (Does indie rock make this point moot?)

There were a lot of concerts in San Francisco Wednesday last week: Air, Rufus Wainwright, The Decemberists, Junior Boys, Adult., and a few others. Some called it a “mini-Coachella” - and so Gabe threw a SonicLiving afterparty - with a bouncy castle. Good times.

I would show pix, but I still need a good photo manager program to (safely and transparently!) handle my gigs and gigs of photos. Trying F-Spot… don’t hold your breath, viewers.

like, rn.

I first heard of Sebastian about a month ago on MySpace while cruising around the profile of the ubertronic Does It Offend You, Yeah? (who are completely amazing and only on MySpace, check ‘em out). I heard Sebastian’s track “Ross Ross Ross” and was floored. This instantly became my #1 track - but I couldn’t find it anywhere! Vinyl only 12″, not on CD, Bleep, BeatPort, or even my music source of choice, eMusic. Well, i got the email yesterday that Sebastian’s “Ross Ross Ross” is on eMusic. I was on the verge of buying the vinyl and encoding it!

This 12″ is amazing. Listen to “Ross Ross Ross” on MySpace and rest assured that the 2 other tracks are clashtastic and all up in yr guts. Srsly.

I was gonna write a long entry about our great day in San Francisco, about how pumped Rachel was to see The Flaming Lips, how great the hotel room her dad got for us was, but in the end I just need to get it out. We met Wayne Coyne, lead singer of the Flaming Lips outside the hotel.

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