Real Guitars are for old people

I’ve recently been playing Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock (Wii) instead of my bass.

Check out Kyle and Stan in Southpark Episode 1113: Guitar Queer-o.

There’s lots more coke and sex in the house.

Spinal Tap Reforming!

“The mock heavy metal group immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary, ‘This is Spinal Tap,’ will reunite for a performance at Wembley Stadium in London as part of the Live Earth concerts scheduled worldwide for July 7.”

Some tracks to familiarise yourself with,

Hell Hole

Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You

Big Bottom

I’m really in the mood for this nonesense tonight

I loved this interpretation of a song’s lyrics. I don’t know the track but it’s entertaining enough in itself,

Non-Innocent Conversations

It looks like I’m becoming a feminist.

Or at least in my course on Thursday night I have to lead a discussion about a particular feminist text, “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective”, which is chapter nine of Donna Haraway’s “Simians, Cyborgs, and Women”

Anyway, the post title comes from a provocative and contextually mis(s)appropriated line which rather tickled my fancy:

“We just live here and try to strike up non-innocent conversations by means of our prosthetic devices”

It appeals to me in several ways, not least because it sounds like lyrics from a Hawkwind song.

I trust you’re paying attention to how I categorise these posts?

King Tiger Rock

Today I received my own copy of King Tiger’s debut album, When The Music Hits

It’s great to have the music, but a shame I won’t get to see them anymore in their natural habitat: on stage.

All your MP3s are belong to us

I only just registerd with AllOfMp3 but have downloaded a couple of albums and can say I’m quite happy.

At about $0.10 per track you really can’t argue. They’ve got a large collection of music and you can download tracks in whatever format / bitrate you like. It does take a little while for them to be custom-encoded for you, and they do appear to lack ID3Tag track numbers & album artwork, but using iTunes it’s really easy to add that data to the files once you’ve got them in your library. Most importantly though, the music is not protected by DRM, so you’re free to whatever you like with it. You can listen to it on your iPod if you like, but also on any other music player. Sweet!

A friend of mine uses MP3Sugar, but I think their selection’s not as good. Still, it’s another useful backup store if you can’t find what you’re looking for at AoMP3.

The only reason I’d use the iTunes Music Store is as a third and final option. Case in point, I’d like to buy the famous Leadbelly track that Nirvana covered, ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’, but I can only find it on iTMS. Even then I’m going to try waiting in case I can find it cheaper somewhere else. Now that I can buy whole albums for just over one US dollar from a nice Russian company, paying Apple the same price for a single track seems extortionate!

In other music news, be sure to check out my page on Last.fm and particularly the section on my band, ZombiePorn. We played our first (and last) gig on Saturday. It was fun, and I’ll probably upload some media from the event soon.

Lalita

[Edit: Last accessed 23rd July 2007]

The original, lipsyncing to Crush by Jennifer Page (backups are here , here and here, and downloadable)

And stripping to Kylie Minogue’s, Slow.

In a schoolgirl skirt, tie, boots and a wet t-shirt, to Paula Cole’s Feeling Love.

A montage of a couple of her movies with new music.

Incidentally, to download these I recommend DownloadHelper, and extension for FireFox, and to playback use VLC.

She has a MySpace page.

There’s a Yahoo Group called FanLalita.

Photos of her modelling the “Age of consent tour” t-shirt.

A man dancing all over the world

I think that’s pretty neat

My Band

International Geek Song

A love song by one of Australia’s top acts, Tripod.