Tag: Music
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How I learned DJ basics on real vinyl
Departing Long Beach for the more lively pace of central LA, I found myself on the Sony Pictures Studios campus in Culver City. There I met movie industry music supervisor, DJ, and self-described music nerd Burt Blackarach. His studio space is packed with floor-to-ceiling shelves of records, along with several desks topped with turntables and…
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My First Earthquake at the Bottom of the Hill
Quick, what band do you associate with San Francisco’s Mission District? As bands come and go, the answer will of course say more about you — your tastes, your “era” — than the neighborhood. For me, one of the bands that made a tectonic shift in the Mission’s sound when I first arrived here was…
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resonate_glitch
Recently I was wandering around with my phone in my hand, as one does, and got to wondering: what if I could use the camera feed and other sensors on the phone to create a procedurally-generated soundtrack? And just to make things more interesting: I wanted to do it entirely in HTML5 + JavaScript with…
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Is “We Built This City” the worst rock song ever made?
I recently read that Starship’s “We Built This City” is considered to be one of the worst rock songs ever made, mostly because of the disconnect of its anti-corporate message and the undeniable fact that it sounds like a cheesy advertising jingle. Let’s dig deeper. Perhaps its worst offense is that they named the entire…
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Remembering the “clap-along” at Century Theaters
If you watch movies in the Bay Area (or anywhere in the western part of the US, really) there’s a good chance you’ve been to Century Theaters. Formerly known as Syufy Theaters, Century typically operated multi-screen cineplexes in out of the way locations. Around the year 2000 or so the chain began pivoting away from…
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More relics from The Jejune Institute on the web
I have no idea what my brain does when I’m asleep. Occasionally it leads me to some strange discoveries. For example, up until today I’d always assumed “Nonchalance,” the name of the studio behind The Jejune Institute, was something they’d made up for the game’s second chapter. My own dreams proved this to be incorrect.…
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Some love song titles
Are you a songwriter? Are you incredibly lazy? Good. This blog post is for you. As a songwriter you probably have too many things to worry about — like making your songs sound good — to worry about the lyrics. Fortunately that’s why love songs were invented: you can just say some general things about…
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Differences
The other evening while waiting for a train, I decided to write an intentionally terrible rap song about a relationship gone sour due to irreconcilable differences. Here it is in all its glory: You ride Muni and I ride BARTThat’s why we’ll always be apartI like the Giants, you don’t like baseballThere’s no chance we’ll…
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Hip parking meter’s cousin likes music
Recently we learned about a hip parking meter in the Mission. Today, I have news to share with you: hip parking meter’s cousin is a big fan of music. Okay, maybe this parking meter could stand to get some better headphones, but still, pretty smart for a parking meter.
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Handwritten song lyrics taped to pole
I’m not entirely certain what compels someone to write out the lyrics to the 2005 hit Hope There’s Someone by Antony and the Johnsons, then tape the page to a pole in a BART station. Perhaps they were inspired by the recent Avicii version? In all likelihood we’ll never know. It will remain as one…
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