Monthly Archives: September 2010
SLC Snacker!
Going to be in Salt Lake City this weekend? Looking for a place to hang out and discuss Rubicon, listen to music, wax philosophic about culture and civilization?
You’re in luck. A get together is planned for blogging folks at my place this weekend. If you are going to be around and you are interested. Let me know.
markcquinn at comcast dot net.
Youtube music night with the kids
I was bored last night so I had my sons join me for an evening of surfing music videos on youtube. We plugged a laptop into our TV and took turns choosing videos to watch.
I started off with U2 performing at the US Festival in 1983. It’s pretty amazing–Bono climbs onto the lighting rig above the stage with his white flag. Took me right back to being a teenager.
Of course, my sons are teenagers (well not technically, my oldest is 20 and my younger is 16), and all they did was make fun of it. They made comments about Bono’s mullet, etc.
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Best Singles of Each Artist: Volume 2
One song per artist. No runners up.
1) Metallica
2) The Rolling Stones
3) Beethoven (song or symphony)
4) Michael Jackson
5) Bob Dylan
6) Guns ‘N Roses
7) Whitney Houston
8 ) Billy Joel
9) Pearl Jam
10) REM
Do You Ping?
So. Do you Ping?
Ping is Apple’s new music social media service integrated into iTunes. The new version of iTunes, version 10, has been controversial to say the least. It made a number of pointless and arguably counterproductive UI features like making most of the icons grey. Want to fix the appearance? Check out this post of mine.
Anyway, on to Ping.
Rubicon: 'In Whom We Trust'
I kept waiting for MCQ to post his summary but he never did. Being the impatient sort I am I decided to help our.
I really dug this issue. The main overarching plot is finally moving along. But we got a bit more characterization. We get to see Tanya in rehab and trying to deal with the loss of her security clearance. There’s a real awkward scene at lunch where everyone’s social ineptness is on display.
The best part of the episode was Ingram finding a bug in his bed lamp. There are starting to be strong parallels between Ingram’s life and Will’s. The only difference is Will is kind of clumsy and clueless in how he deals with things. It’s once again emphasized this week that Ingram disappears for up to four hours at a time.
Rubicon – No Honesty In Men
There’s no trust,
No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.                               -Romeo and Juliet, Act 3 Scene 2
A good song that you haven’t heard or thought about for a while
Sometimes, good songs fade into cultural (and personal) obscurity. This is the thread for those songs. Here is my entry:
Enjoy.
Mandatory (Non Legend) Marley
If you own just one Bob Marley album chances are high that it is the 1984 greatest hits album Legend. Legend was released the year after Marley’s death and is the highest selling reggae album of all time (by a wide margin). And with good reason. Legend is an aptly named masterpiece that combines 14 of the greatest songs of the truly legendary Marley. The album is as good today as it was 26 years ago.
But of course the Marley catalog is much larger than the 14 songs on this one greatest hits album. In this post I want to discuss the best of the rest. Here are some of my favorite non Legend Marley songs:
“Trenchtown Rock”. The first line in this one can’t be beat. “One good thing about music; when it hits, you feel no pain.”
New Fall TV Shows
Anything worth watching? Like all new things, we won’t really know if we like ‘em until we try ‘em, but I’ll give my best guesses below.
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