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Yeah, What They Said, pointers to interesting stories. Some people call it "link sharing." Webomatica chronicles the hoopla as the launch of the iPhone approaches. Antics include people paying other people to stand in line, christening June 29 as "iDay," and links to major newspaper reviews. T-minus 5, 4, 3, 2... A number of audiobooks were sold at the iTunes Store recently that didn't work on the iPod. That problem has ...

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I can assure you that you know every single piece of music featured at KickAssClassical.com, but you'd probably strain a muscle trying to figure out when and where you've heard them. Hopefully it won't come to that, because Mike Nelson no, not of mst3k fame has compiled 100 of the most popular pieces in the "serious music," aka classical music repertoire, pieces made famous by their use (or perhaps ...

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Interpretations of John Williams' Star Wars music is a veritable cottage industry. A portion of it is sure to turn up at any concert performance featuring "movie music" as well as concert recordings featuring the same. Then, there's Meco's disco versions, The Evil Genius Orchestra's excellent cocktail versions as well as countless techno/trance/club versions. So it should come as no surprise that there is at least one jazz variation. The ...

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Update: The revised sorting feature/problem in iTunes 7.3 and later renders this advice useless. If you're using a version prior to 7.3, feel free to use this scheme In striving for zen-like simplicity while maintaining and extending the usability of iTunes, please follow me as I introduce you to the technique I use to keep my Composer tags orderly and navigable particularly when using an iPod. The idea is to ...

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I spent a good seven+plus hours burning through some iTunes today to make up for yesterday's somewhat disappointing performance a shortened day at the office will do that. With about 100 songs to choose from, I had a very hard time narrowing down the song of the day, so lucky you, here's three songs to choose from. Choose wisely. Orbital: Time Becomes [audio:061021OrbitalTimeBecomes.mp3] Constructed from a single line spoken by Worf from ...

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In 1996, LucasFilm embarked on a multi-channel marketing project in an effort to make more money off the aging Star Wars franchise. The result was Shadows of the Empire, a venture that involved all the machinations of a movie marketing and tie-in campaign, without the production of an actual movie. In total, the endeavor included a novel, comic books, video games, trading cards, toys (of course) and, most ...

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Minority Report, the 2002 film and it's accompanying score, are both somewhat disappointing. The normally spirited chemistry between Señor Spielbergo and his personal maestro, Johnny William-san, turns into a cinematic and orchestral mush. Yeah, like the film, it's dark and complex and quite technically proficient. But it lacks that certain gravitas that one expects from a Williams' score. This is surprising; the dystopian-future themes and settings of the previous year's A.I. ...

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Since the mid-1970s, John Williams has never been lacking in notoriety. Jaws, Towering Inferno, Close Encounters, Superman, Star Wars... these film scores made him a household name, gaining fame and respect for work that is generally restricted to devotees and cultists only. The Star Wars album even managed to break into the public's consciousness, becoming best-seller on the Billboard charts for 1977 and inspiring an awful disco/dance version of ...

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As if to prove my previous post for me, the tunequest-pod offered me these selections today (in order): pearl jam-live at the fox theatre in atlanta (which i skipped because i had just heard a live show yesterday) vince guaraldi's oh good grief (a decent jazz album) sonic youth experimental jet set trash and no star (my first sonic youth ...

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