The National Archives: When Nixon Met Elvis:
“I have done an in-depth study of drug abuse and Communist brainwashing techniques and I am right in the middle of the whole thing where I can and will do the most good.”
Indeed.
Category Archives: Fun Stuff
South Park Glyphic
Cheap DVDs
Time for you to pick up Bring It On, Donnie Brasco, Donnie Darko, This is Spinal Tap, and Vanilla Sky for under $9 each at Buy.com. Get an extra 10% off. Free shipping on orders of $25 or more. And no, this is not a shill.
It’s too bad I paid full price for Cabin Boy last week.
Me and Hip Tanaka
I don’t play a lot of video games these days, and haven’t really for years and years. But two of the games I will always remember from my NES days are Metroid and Kid Icarus. Great, great games.
One of the things that made these games memorable was the great music by composer Hip Tanaka. The games these days have rock soundtracks and great sound effects, but the NES basically gave the music composers three channels to work with, and Tanaka made the most of them.
Feeling nostalgiac yet?
Download the actual NSF sound archives at Overclocked Remix. You’ll need Meridian Prime to play ’em back. The sound archives are just that: archives. So hit forward and reverse to hear the different tracks.
Additional Fun NES Links:
The biggest dork in the world
Good news, everyone. Our local public radio station (KCRW) is now podcasting its locally produced content. Being the big public radio dork that I am, I once considered getting the Samsung MP3 player instead of the iPod since it could record audio files directly from FM transmissions. Ultimately, the fact that it was ugly as sin, not as easy to use, and bigger (remind you of any poker sites?) made me settle on the iPod. Size matters.
But that’s partially a moot point deprived of practical significance / made abstract or purely academic* now that you can get these podcasts. Here are my three picks:
The Treatment – film and culture interviews
To the Point – current events roundtable
Final Curtain – radio obituaries
As for all the NPR and PRI shows that take up the other 75% of KCRW’s news/talk programming, I’ll have to settle for being tied to the network for their RealAudio streams, or shell out for the somewhat pricey Audible.com** downloads.
* See DuggleBogey below.
** Audible.com likes to give your session a unique ID and include it in the URL as you browse, which means that I can’t link you directly to their TV and Radio section. Their internal links also use JavaScript. Both measures will likely confound both the search engines as well as users who want to direct people to specific categories or products. Why are they so ass-backwards?