Category: Audio
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Audio Interview with Texas Author Robert Flynn
Here’s my 2007 interview with Texas novelist Robert Flynn. All this information is at archive.org, but here’s a complete description: 0:00 Introduction 1:12 Current projects 2:55 Writing Habits 4:33 Writing For Practice? 6:10 Writing nonfiction vs. Fiction 7:18 Hardest Book To Write? Easiest? 8:30 Tie Fast Country: TV & Getting Inspiration From Rural Life 12:10…
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Monk Turner: LA Song Writer and Concept Album Creator
(See also: the Interview with Monk Turner, his official website and musical blog. All songs are free to download and a playlist of most of the songs mentioned in this essay follows at the bottom). Suppose you were a songwriter and someone asked you to write this song: I have a serious medical condition and…
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Free & Legal Benny Goodman MP3s
Direct links to the best Benny Goodman mp3s I have found on archive.org. Free & Legal!
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Some Amazing Podcasts & Video
Patrick McClean tells a true 30 minute audio story about getting shot. Hilarious, sardonic and profound. I had blogged about Patrick McClean in 2006 . Here’s some of his best storytelling pieces. By the way, it’s not really a story, but the Hans Solo Theory is intriguing. McClean now is blogging more regularly (not just…
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Awesome Free Shit Everywhere! (AFSE)
From an anonymous comment on a free (and legal) music sharing site: "what people dont understand, is there is awesome free shit everywhere." Although I avoid profanity here usually, the last four words of this quote convey the feeling as emphatically and eloquently. Henceforth, I will use the acronym AFSE to refer to gems…
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Post-SXSW Linkdump
Lots of small things to blog about. Allegory of the Cave as a claymation film (3 minutes). Great but it made me realize how much I missed the first time I read Plato! Here’s Life after Tomorrow, a delightful 70 minute documentary about some of the people who starred in the Annie Broadway play as…
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Bei Mir Bist Du Schon: All the Versions
After seeing it on Catching the Waves, I am now testing the new embedded yahoo media player. Wow, it works! I think I will start adding mp3 links to most of my posts. Let me know if it bothers you or if it has technical problems. Yahoo Media Player was the brainchild of Lucas Gonze …
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Risque Music Videos: Nonsensical or Subversive?
Here are 3 songs that are going to infect your brain: nonsensical songs with obscene lyrics and a hard rhythm. (By the way, both were features on the 2009 SXSW mp3 torrent download). Here’s an amazing rap song and an amazing music video by hip hopper Bomani Armah called Read a Book! If you check …
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Interview with Thomas Eccard (2 Inventions)
Recently writer and critic Robert Nagle made a list of 11 Incredible Musicians You Can Download for Free. Many of the musicians on this top list make their music freely available on Jamendo, a free and legal music sharing site. Several musicians appearing on this list also gave interviews to this blog (Read the other…
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Interview with Vavrek & John Holowach (Tryad)
Recently writer and critic Robert Nagle made a list of 11 Incredible Musicians You Can Download for Free . Many of the musicians on this top list make their music freely available on Jamendo, a free and legal music sharing site. Several musicians appearing on this list also gave interviews to this blog (Read the…
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Interview with Adam Szabo (Ant on Wax)
Recently writer and critic Robert Nagle made a list of 11 Incredible Musicians You Can Download for Free . Many of the musicians on this top list make their music freely available on Jamendo, a free and legal music sharing site. Several musicians appearing on this list also gave interviews to this blog (Read the…
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Interview with Hannah Sheehan (No Really)
Recently writer and critic Robert Nagle made a list of 11 Incredible Musicians You Can Download for Free. Many of the musicians on this top list make their music freely available on Jamendo, a free and legal music sharing site. Several musicians appearing on this list also gave interviews to this blog (Read the other…
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Interview with Lonah
Recently writer and critic Robert Nagle made a list of 11 Incredible Musicians You Can Download for Free. Many of the musicians on this top list make their music freely available on Jamendo, a free and legal music sharing site. Several musicians appearing on this list also gave interviews to this blog (Read the other…
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Jamendo having problems?
I’m in the middle of a long series about creative commons music on Jamendo. Definitely appearing on this blog this week. But I just wanted to alert people to the fact that Jamendo might go under – which would be devastating for artists all around the world. See this Techcrunch article as well as this…
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Those 20th century Beethoven-loving barbarians! (Free & Cheap Mp3s of Beethoven Symphonies)
Well, I did it. After checking the library and the free recordings, I decided to plunk $8 and download the Complete Beethoven Symphonies, conducted by Josef Krips with the London Symphony. I am downloading them now from Amazon. I am giving it as a Christmas present for my nephew. My reference for classical music recordings…
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Joshua Bell and the Washington D.C. Metro
Apparently I missed this outstanding essay by Gene Weingarten about a little social experiment. The writer invited world famous violinist Joshua Bell to play a Stradivarius violin for almost an hour in a DC Metro. The results were astounding: Nobody paid attention; Bell received only $30 in tips, and almost nobody actually stopped to listen:…