occasionally creative
October 4, 2012 Leave a Comment
There’s no shortage of ways to get Internet video content flowing to the television in your living room. If you shamefully didn’t buy some variety of smart TV with connectivity and apps and all built right in, you can connect with a video game console, Blu-ray player, or any one of several set-top boxes loaded with nothing but video streaming services.
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October 2, 2012 Leave a Comment
These are fun. Starsailor has a pretty perfect name, huh?
September 28, 2012 Leave a Comment
September 27, 2012 Leave a Comment
I hear a lot about how mobile devices are the future, and anyone still using a laptop or desktop is a hopeless dinosaur. One guy in my Twitter feed is using only mobile devices (tablets and smartphones) for a year and blogging about the experience.
Personally, I use full-blown computers less than I used to, but still quite a bit. I work on one all day, my laptop at home gets plenty of use, and the desktop with all my microphones and audio equipment hooked up to it is essential when I have the time and energy to be musically creative.
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September 26, 2012 Leave a Comment
I tend to judge albums quite harshly when I first hear them. They’re never exactly what I expect, so they can’t live up to that standard. With bands I love as much as Muse, the latest album can also clash with what I want to hear – more songs along the lines of my favorites from years past. I almost couldn’t stand their last album, The Resistance, because it was so different from their earlier work.
With a second listen, though, I know vaguely what to expect and can let the album speak for itself. The 2nd Law also stands out quite starkly from early Muse, so to judge it on its own merits required a cooling off period of about a day before I gave it another shot. Read more of this post