From the monthly archives:

September 2009

The Beatles: Rock Band

30 September 2009

The amount of affection you have for The Beatles: Rock Band is basically a product of how much you love The Beatles.  Interestingly, I don’t think it has much to do with your general feeling on music games.  TB:RB is a fundamentally different experience from a normal Rock Band or Guitar Hero game, in that [...]

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Small Press Marketing – How To Fix It

29 September 2009

One of the things I notice when I go to cons is that small press (the small small presses, not the Top Shelves or the Fantagraphii) and self-publishers don’t get how to market their work a lot of times.  The future of the medium for them lies in leveraging the web, but I still see [...]

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A List of “The 100 Worst Movies” I Have Seen

25 September 2009

lost souls
a sound of thunder
thr3e
doogal
the adventures of pluto nash
the fog (2005)
swept away (2002)
bloodrayne
soul survivors
house of the dead
happily n’ever after
the whole ten yards
the covenant
feardotcom
battlefield earth
texas rangers
half past dead
alone in the dark
one missed call
ballistic: ecks vs. sever
EDIT: The full 100 can be found here.  This is a flawed list, because it does not include Skeleton Man or [...]

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Project Mixtape Week: Friday Cover Songs

25 September 2009

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1. Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler cover) – Tori Amos
2. Careless Whisper (WHAM! cover) – Ben Folds and Rufus Wainwright
3. Girlfriend In A Coma (The Smiths cover) – Joshua Radin
4. Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen cover) – Teagan and Sara
5. In Between Days (The Cure cover) – [...]

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Project Mixtape Week: Listener Supported

24 September 2009

Tomorrow is the end of Project Mixtape Week, and I’m going to close it down with an explosion of 80s covers (because it’s also Friday Cover Songs day, you dig?).  But today I’m going to slow it down and talk a bit and open it up (fingers crossed) for comment.
One of the anecdotes that I [...]

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The Next Thing

23 September 2009

(Since we’re still not blogging on my employer’s new site yet, you get more workity stuff)
Social media is not technology; it is a philosophy, a philosophy that relies on a set of complementary technologies to function. Facebook is not social media; it is a social media platform, the rook on the chessboard. Social [...]

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Project Mixtape Week – Blog War

23 September 2009

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PLAYLIST
1. Final Fantasy – Power Of Love (Celine Dion cover)
2. Beck – Ghettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes)
3. Black Kids – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
4. TMBG – Experimental Film
5. Regina Spektor – Dance Anthem of the 80s
6. Ben Folds – There’s Always Someone Cooler Than You
7. [...]

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Hell Is A Teenaged Girl

22 September 2009

Let’s get it out of the way quickly, shall we?  No fewer than four people quipped that I was “really going to see Megan’s body, M I RITE?!”  I hate that I know people some days.  Maybe I should become a hermit.  It did, after all, work for Obi-Wan.  And I’m not going to try [...]

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Project Mixtape Week – We Are Vain And We Are Blind

22 September 2009

Today, I thought about a mix of nothing but songs from horror movie soundtracks, but really, there’s not a lot of merit to most horror movie soundtracks.  But since I do love the horror genre, the idea of a murderous mixtape appealed to me.
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1. Secret – The Pierces
2. Wilco – [...]

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Things I Hate: Being Single 2k9

21 September 2009

As a follow-up to today’s sad-about-girls mixtape, I am going to revisit my “Things I Hate: Being Single” posts from 2008, which were ruminations on the trainwrecks and horrorshows that await the newly single.  Since that time, I’ve had a brief and generally good relationship that ended largely due to environmental factors, a few dates [...]

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