Day Twelve: Zappadan

From the album Absolutely Free: Plastic People. 1967. RIP Frank Zappa. 12/21/40 - 12/4/93

Emmylou Harris & Kimmie Rhodes

"You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan."

Those, according to the Washington Post, were Richard C. Holbrooke's last words. Unfortunately they were delivered to his "Pakistani surgeon," not the president.

Germans have some issues

The genesis of the Scheisse fetish.

Somebody is in trouble...

Day Eleven: Zappadan

From the album One Size Fits All: PoJama People. 1975. RIP Frank Zappa. 12/21/40 - 12/4/93

The Crisis of Capitalism

Ewwww. Long video. Short attention span? Hit the 'Pause' every 3 minutes so you can pick the lint out or something. And resume.


<Thanks AMERICAblog>

You know that song spinning around in your brain - but you can't remember what it is?

Move the mystery song from your head to your MP3. Finally!

<via Consumerist>

Back when - before the earth cooled - it used to be the job of radio DJs and Sam Goody employees to translate your pathetic humming and insipid descriptions of songs you like into genuine song titles, as well as the tunes' artists and albums.

Technology has teamed with capitalism to make it easy to discover the songs that drive you crazy by playing on repeat in your brain. Digital Inspiration runs down cheap and free methods to track down your lost tunes:

*Mobile apps on cell phones - Download Shazam, which will listen to a few seconds of a song on the radio, identify it and show you a prompt to buy it.

*Search engines - If you know a few words of the lyrics, you can type them in on a computer and find the song within seconds.

*Humming - Midomi doesn't even need the genuine article or any lyrics to track down songs. Just hum part of the song and the site will pull up suggestions of possible matches.

What's your favorite way to unmask mystery music?
Find the Song Name Without Knowing the Lyrics [Digital Inspiration]