http://davidcorrell.net/news New media and print design from a music geek in Brooklyn, NY Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:33:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Listening to: - Hawkwind: Hall of the Mountain Grill [EMI] - Lau Nau: Nukkuu [Locust] - M83: Saturdays=Youth [Mute] - Syble Baer: Colour Green [Isota (LP) / Orange Twin (CD)] Dusting off: - Peter Murphy: Deep - Cypress Hill: Cypress Hill & Black Sunday - Fugazi: Steady Diet of Nothing (not that it was dusty) - Joe Strummer & ... http://davidcorrell.net/news/2008/july-2008/ Listening to: Firewater: The Golden Hour [Bloodshot] Ulver: Shadows of the Sun [The End] Waylon Jennings: Dreaming My Dreams [Buddha reissue] Neptune: Gong Lake [Table of the Elements] Roscoe Holcombe: The High Lonesome Sound [Smithsonian Folkways] Dusting off: Everything But The Girl: Walking Wounded Ani Difranco: Dialate Type O Negative: Bloody Kisses The Clash: The Clash The Offspring: Ignition http://davidcorrell.net/news/2008/june-2008/ Listening to: - Nick Cave: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! [Mute] - Black Mountain: In the Future [Jagjaguwar] - Lynyrd Skynyrd: Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd [MCA] - Portishead: Third [Mercury/Island] - Junior Brown: 12 Shades of Brown [Curb] - Califone: Roots & Crowns [Thrill Jockey] Dusting off: - The Sisters of Mercy: Floodland (Man, this has been hitting the spot lately) - ... http://davidcorrell.net/news/2008/may-2008/ Listening to: - Naked City: Radio [Avant] - Earth: The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull [Southern Lord] - Death in June: The Rule of Thirds [Soleilmoon] - Witch: Paralyzed [Tee Pee] - Mighty Baby: Mighty Baby [Big Beat UK] - Bridget St. John: Songs for the Gentle Man [Dandelion] - It’s a Beautiful Day: It’s ... http://davidcorrell.net/news/2008/april-2008/ Listening to: - Jackson C. Frank: Blues Run the Game [Castle/Sanctuary] - Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA [Columbia] - The Valerie Project: The Valerie Project [Drag City] - Billy Joe Shaver: Old Five and Dimers Like Me [Koch] - The Legendary Pink Dots: Same [Vinyl On Demand] - Porter Wagoner: Wagonmaster [Anti] - Six Organs of ... http://davidcorrell.net/news/2008/march-2008/ It brought great sadness to my heart today to hear of the death of the visionary author and dreamer, Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke is best known as the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and collaborating on film of the same name with Stanley Kubrick. I spent hours upon hours in ... http://davidcorrell.net/news/2008/my-god-its-full-of-stars/ Gary Gygax died last week and the universe did not collapse. This surprises me a little bit, because he built it. Adam Rogers, senior editor at Wired and contributer to the New York Times, has written a fantastic eulogy to Gary Gygax, co-creator or Dungeons & Dragons, and along with it, ... http://davidcorrell.net/news/2008/ode-to-geeks/ Last time I checked, we all die. When I was a teenager, I remember people talking about how teenagers thought they were going to live forever. As I have grown up, I have come to understand both that and my own mortality more and more. Friends and relatives have died, my ... http://davidcorrell.net/news/2008/lifeline-10/