Archive for March 2010
Second week at Boing Boing
It was a thrill contributing to BoingBoing, but now it’s time to return to real life. I’ve linked to my first week’s posts already. Here’s Week Two, in reverse chronological order:
Chuck Berry, “Tulane” (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day
Son House, “Death Letter” (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
Richard Thompson, “For Shame of Doing Wrong” (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
Striking new Edgar Allan Poe collection
Free ebook download: Scott Kirsner’s “Fans, Friends & Followers”
Boyoyo Boys, “Back in Town” (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
Did Charley Patton play that way? (this one in particular had great comments)
Amy Rigby, “Balls” (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
Nina Simone, “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
Free download returns: Tribute to The Clash’s Sandinista!
Design thinking tips from the masters
Ida Maria, “Oh My God” (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
The Sandinista Project, once again free for a limited time
UPDATE: The free download is over. Thanks for participating.
A few years ago, I produced The Sandinista Project, in which 36 performers each covered one song from The Clash’s Sandinista! It was a fun and crazy project. Last summer, on Joe Strummer’s birthday, I made the record free for a day. The free download was a great success although what I learned from the experiment was more mixed.
I’ve been having a wonderful time on Boing Boing during my guestblogging residency and I’d like to say “thank you” by making the record free again, for a limited time. Instead of making it free for one day, which slowed the hamsters running the guterman.com servers to a crawl because everyone downloaded at once, I’m going to make the record, along with digital images of the packaging, available until midnight U.S. eastern time on Sunday night, so you’ll have plenty of time to download this before it goes away.
First week at Boing Boing
For those of you who had better things to do the past week than follow my posts on Boing Boing, here they are, in reverse chronological order:
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, “Wooly Bully” (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
Ennio Morricone, “Once Upon a Time in the West” (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
Thomas Dolby and ETHEL: Music for the morning after
The physics behind flying sharks who can destroy airplanes
Jorge Ben, “Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)” (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
“Ten Dollar Cover,” an excerpt from a novel-in-progress/disarray
How did Garth Hudson defeat gravity?
Mekons, “Memphis, Egypt” (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day
How to write about self-washing, self-flushing cat boxes? With passion!
Rod Stewart doesn’t play good Rod Stewart music anymore, but these guys do
A change of scenery (for two weeks)
For the next two weeks, I’ll be at BoingBoing. Please visit me there.
