included below is a psuedo-yaml of

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Soundtrack:     Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
date: Wed, 11 Jun 1986 8:00:00 -0400 *FIXME*
tracks: 
    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: Big Audio Dynamite
      song: "Bad"
      co: CBS Records
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhkXQ96ZLR0
      notes: 

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: The Flowerpot Men
      song: "Beat City"
      co: 
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRWBt-haVOs
      notes: 

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: Wayne Newton
      song: "Danke Schoen"
      co: Capitol Records, Inc. 
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCQ6vKqgnU
      notes: 

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: The Dream Academy
      song: "The Edge Of Forever"
      co: Warner Bros. Records Inc. 
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr0HLpPHKjo 
      notes: 

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: Blue Room
      song: "I'm Afraid"
      co: Warner Special Products
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpl1C7nt6yg  
      notes: 

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: 
      song: "Jeannie (Theme From I Dream Of Jeannie)"
      co: TeeVee Toons, Inc. 
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBjx6ekd2FA 
      notes: 

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: Sigue Sigue Sputnik
      song: "Love Missile F1-11"
      co: EMI Records Ltd. / Manhattan Records
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk30a0qsVIk 
      notes: 

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: The (English) Beat
      song: "March Of The Swivelheads"
      co: Arista Records Ltd.
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQDwIjQDpUA 
      notes: 

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: Yello
      song: "Oh Yeah"
      co: Elektra/Asylum Records
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqU_0xpILIU 
      notes: 

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: The Dream Academy
      song: "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"
      co: Warner Bros. Records Inc.
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBjx6ekd2FA  
      notes: 

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: Zapp
      song: "Radio People"
      co: Warner Bros. Records Inc.
      url: http://mog.com/music/Zapp 
      notes: must hit track 4 on the side... there is no fully free version

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: John Williams
      song: "Star Wars (Main Title)"
      co: John frikkin Williams
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjMNNpIksaI  
      notes: 

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: General Public
      song: "Taking The Day Off"
      co: I.R.S. Records / Virgin Records Ltd.
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZLR7SuKorU  
      notes: 

    - track no:     *FIXME*
      artist: The Beatles
      song: "Twist And Shout"
      co: Courtesy of Capitol Records, Inc. / EMI Records Ltd.
      url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUrOMB-iBLk 
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oh yeah

--timball

YouTube - Second Life Kool-Aid (OH YEAH!)

For a long time I have had the idea that it would be interesting to be able to "hear" some of the sequences in the
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

The main goal in this project is to discover properties of sequences by listening to them.
If the results are also pleasing to the ear (and sometimes they are), this is an extra bonus.

Of course the idea of converting number sequences to music has a very long history.
The only new idea here is that now we have a large database of sequences to call on.

You can listen to midi-sequences of integers. Now w/ DRUMS!

(1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 ... )

--timball

Listening to sequences in the OEIS

The British Players performed Bernard Slade's play An Act of the Imagination: a mystery in two acts. Someone let me run the sound board for the play so I took shots from my little perch.

Here's a link to one of the reviews: http://www.showbizradio.net/2008/04/11/review-bp-an-act-of-the-imagination/

--timball

An Act of the Imagination: a mystery in two acts

Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednesday. He was 84.

Vonnegut remains one of my favorite authors. Uniquely american. He will be missed.

--tim “new wii browser” ball

Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84 - washingtonpost.com

Tivo just got this movie for me off of encore. And I gotta say for a caper movie it's damn good. Well written and not on the instant delete list.

--timball

Layer Cake (2004)

Your sister is wrong. It's totally not a country music song. Even in the manner you sang it:

Don’t go back to Rockvillllllllllllllle
Don’t go back to Rockvillllllllllllllle
Don’t go back to Rockvillllllllllllllle

(beat)

And waste another year

And to my oriental homie in D.C:

Josie's on a vacation far away
Come around and talk it over
So many things that I'd like to say
You know I like my girls a little bit older
I just wanna use your love tonight
I don't wanna lose your love tonight

hehehe

This song goes out to...

The long wait could be over for Thomas Pynchon fans. His first novel in nearly a decade is coming out in the US on December 5.

But the release, as with so much else about the elusive author of contemporary classics such as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow, is shrouded in mystery. Since the 1997 release of Mason & Dixon, a characteristically broad novel which followed the travails of two 18th-century astronomers charting the disputed borderline between Pennsylvania and Maryland, new writings by Pynchon have been limited to the occasional review or essay, such as his introduction for a reissue of George Orwell's 1984. He has, of course, continued to shun the media and avoid photographers, though he has turned up twice on The Simpsons, appearing in one episode with a bag over his head.

Thomas Pynchon to release new novel December 5th, 2006.

Okay I went to see Al Gore's movie on opening night. I was great. Yes it's a slide show. Is this Vice President Gore's salvo to become a comeback-nixon? Well watch the movie for yourself and see if your opinion doesn't change about the man.

The data shouldn't be shocking to anyone at this point. If the data shocks you, go watch the movie again until the data and the graphs really sink in. If the movie shocks you bring your friends. If the movie shocks you bring your parents.

Data points that were omitted that I wish were included:
- atmospheric CO2 vs human population
- reflectivity of atmosphere vs airborne particulate flux
- % of C trapped in land, sea, air, mantle
- tons fossil fuel consumed vs year (log graph please)

--timball

An Inconvenient Truth

The art of producing presented by RED BULL.

I thought this would be some faker marketing explotation. Shit it still might be, but they do get the best of the best to do their lecturing. Check out the interview w/ Madlib (hosted by Egon) or Prince Paul or Bob Moog or David Matthews (not the one that sucks)... Pissed you can't see the interviews w/ Peanut Butter Wolf or X-Ecutioners.

Cuts. Breaks. History.

Red Bull Music Academy :: TUTORS