inuit throat singing

probably last post for a while

:) life changes on the way and good ones, Lord willing.

i've been keeping up with my blogging for a while now since there are other more urgent things to handle and several of them are a bit behind on the old time chart.

i'll leave you with these youtube videos which are examples of some of the rich diversity of the canadian experience: inuit throat singing.

obligatory wikipedia link here

Qimiruluapi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z6ko-fEJ3E
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windsong


qimiruluapi (different singers)


so that's it. short i know.
those of you who'll be on hand for my life change - i thank you already for being there for me.

amorcita - to you always and forever: my love.

courtney to sell kurt's stuff

courtney love is going to have a christies auction to sell of stuff from their life together with a few things set aside for his daughter frances bean.

article link here

what i liked best about the article was the fact that she confessed to still wearing kurt's pajamas to bed every night.

it's the prosaic details that we sort of generally overlook when thinking about heroes. and yes, both of them - warts and all i consider heroes. kurt for his refusal of all things 'rockstar' and courtney for well, being courtney i suppose. all i can say is that i remember watching the mtv news clip of her reading kurt's suicide note to fans and inserting her bitter, hurt, grieving commentary along side.

three brillant voices of my generation went silent by various means in the space of three years and i cannot think of one without the other two:

kurt cobain: april 5, 1994
2pac shakur: sept 13, 1996
biggie smalls: march 9, 1997

superman vs spiderman

well sort of - it's more like a parody of the mac/pc ads but fun none the less.

mutevj

i just came across a massive list of good freeware and amidst the stuff found something new.
for me, if it's not too geeky (i.e. code related) then i've probably seen something like it, tried it, or already use it.

this one is a bit new. i'm providing the video link from revver.com to give you a glimpse of what the future may be with regards to electronica.

for many years now there has been a steady increase of 'laptop based' musicians. i would count aphex twin an bjork amongst them without a single moment of hesitation. and looking at all the work that trent reznor is doing with his 'year zero' album, i would probably put him in that category as well.

but here's the thing - what if all those electronica kids got bored with just tweaking beats and started tweaking videos.



for a geezer like me who remembers cutting super 8 and 16mm film the idea of what this software does is nothing less than staggering.