February 18, 2008 – 03:32 pm
Okay folks, here’s a little something fun for ya. It’s the isolated vocal track of David Lee Roth singing “Runnin’ with the Devil”. It’s both awesome and terrible, and at all times, hilarious.
January 23, 2008 – 04:02 pm
From the Last.fm blog’s Free the Music: “As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website….Free full-length tracks are obviously great news for listeners, but also great for artists and labels, who get paid every time someone streams a song…This is good because artists get paid based [...]
January 1, 2008 – 03:57 pm
Happy New Year, everybody!
Sorry things have been a little slow around here, but Dawn and I have been going non-stop since the weekend before Christmas and I’ve barely been at my computer, let alone had the time to put together a post for FI. The slow period will probably last a little bit longer, since [...]
November 6, 2007 – 12:53 pm
Check out the art of Matching Album Covers.
October 18, 2007 – 11:56 am
A few months ago, my brother Shawn told me about a website called Wolfgang’s Vault, which he was using to listen to Allman Brothers concerts from the 1970s. I checked it out, but didn’t pay much attention, and the site soon fell off my radar.
Then on Monday, Shawn forwarded me a description of a 1973 [...]
September 30, 2007 – 01:01 pm
From the NY Times review of the new Springsteen record: “And while the songs on ‘Magic’ characteristically avoid explicit topical references, there is no mistaking that the source of the unease is, to a great extent, political. The title track, Mr. Springsteen explained, is about the manufacture of illusion, about the Bush administration’s stated commitment [...]
Iraqi Lawmakers Back Bill on U.S. Withdrawal:“A majority of members of Iraq’s parliament have signed a draft bill that would require a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq and freeze current troop levels. The development was a sign of a growing division between Iraq’s legislators and prime minister that mirrors the widening [...]
April 17, 2007 – 10:25 am
I work with this guy named Rick Prior. He runs his own carpentry business and we’ve sort of joined forces to take on projects for the summer. Prior started out as a mason on Block Island, and eventually went to school for some kind of Historical Preservation concentration, but only after working on a farm [...]
Each week for the last three weeks or so, one of my buddies (and a semi-regular on Fluid Imagination) has posted a half-hour music sampler for download on his blog, Third Ape-X. They’ve each been pretty good, with a mix of…I don’t know how you describe it…talented mellow techno, art-house indie rock, Kerouac with a [...]
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