cartoon life

I was tidying up in Yojimbo when I found a bookmark link to iTunes Signature Maker. I expect people have found this before, and this isn’t really fresh news. The javascript runs through your web browser and creates a .wav file of selections from your iTunes library. This is mine:

I used to go into the London Public Library some days and wander to a shelf location where I had never been before, walk till felt like stopping and browse through the shelf - whatever shelf was beside me and look for a book that might be interesting. Something usually turned up.

I had found Rives on 4 a.m. on Miro on the TED channel the other day, and sent the link to a friend of mine, Spanner McNeil, who replied with a story of his coincidentally tuning in to a shortwave broadcast on “NHK Radio Japan. Signal strength 3-5. Hiss poor to inaudible.  “…the show is World Wide Interactive and this is DX Mailbag” where they read a letter sent to them where Roy talked about being up at 4 AM.

This little exchange prompted me, to, for the hell of it, Google ‘Shortwave Radio Blogs’ to stumble on  WFMU’s Beware of the Blog and the MP3 link leading to a series of articles on a very long page about very obscure recording finds, cassettes, old vinyl, and some really obscure videos.

Of course it leads to Classic Television Showbiz and Saturday Morning Blog

I could be trapped in this internet thing forever.

I shouldn’t be, but I am always surprised at what you can find on the web. I’ve spent the last day or so watching Kate Bush videos on YouTube. This song has always left me weeping.

Got a great CD from the library, A Proper Introduction to Yma Sumac. Always have been a fan of World music, and I seemingly always knew Yma Sumac. Fantastic sounds from the Alternate Reality of the 1950’s. Astounding that she could get away with being such a character yet bring such outlandish and modern challenging music and sounds. She rises above the orchestra stylings of the age, yet the orchestration isn’t schmaltzy or innappropriate, like another dimension briefly overlapped ours.