April 29, 2008
The Post Apocalypse Muxtapes
I love you folks atWhitechapel.
So it's the end of the world and you are one of the few survivors wandering around. During the long tedious hours of looking for food, water, gasoline, weapons, ammunition, and fighting off the occasional mutant biker gang you need to listen to some music that fits the situation you are in and perhaps even make things seem less horrible.
TAPE 1
titled: "Just Walk Away"
http://postapocalyptic1.muxtape.com/
TAPE 2
titled: "I Fucking Hate This Deserted Wasteland"
http://postapocalyptic2.muxtape.com/TAPE 3
currently untitled
http://postapocalyptic3.muxtape.com/
When the world ends, I'll be listening to awesome.
(via whitechapel)
Posted by Groonk at 10:51 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Music, Muxtape
Bootleg Dark Knight Trailer Makes Me Feel Dirty, Excited
Sure whoever made this highly illegal and unorthodox bootleg could have had the decency not to talk during the damn thing or to turn the blasted auto focus off.
Having watched the new Dark Knight trailer, I officially have this to say: Hell. Fucking. YES!
(via idon'tlikeyouinthatway)
UPDATE: well that didn't take long. The Suits have reached across the Internets and stopped the signal.
Posted by Groonk at 03:35 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Movies, Trailers
April 15, 2008
WATCH: Portishead in Portishead
(via somebody's twitter, current tv)
Posted by Groonk at 03:55 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Music
April 02, 2008
I Spent a Swank Evening at Wayne Manor
And I am all the better for it.
LISTEN: "Another Swank Evening At Wayne Manor"
(via whitechapel, b00mb0x)
Posted by Groonk at 05:18 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Digital Share, Just Freaking Neat, Music
April 01, 2008
You Need a Lesson. You Dig?
Don't be a drag, man.
(via skyelab)
Posted by Groonk at 07:37 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Grammar, History, Tutorials
March 18, 2008
You Should be Doing This
If you don't know of Terry Pratchett - shame on you.
Here is some insight on his strange, brilliant mind.
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
Terry Pratchett
(via making light)
Posted by Groonk at 12:28 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Quotables
March 12, 2008
Make Awesome Things and Animation with Phun
LISTEN: Phun, the Theme Music
Something this awesome looking and, possibly, addicting should never be brought to my attention.
Yet there it is, ready for you or I to download..free!
http://www.acc.umu.se/~emilk/
(via phun lovin youtube, bad science)
Posted by Groonk at 06:52 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Games, Just Freaking Neat, Music
February 07, 2008
More Free Stuff: This Time, Comics I Know Nothing About
Crazy things happen on the internet. Myspace Comic Books has been blowing up my email with free samples of random comics the past few days. I've no idea of their calibur, but who am I to turn down free as a marketing gimmick?
(via myspace comics)
Posted by Groonk at 11:34 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Digital Share, Marketing
February 06, 2008
Moby's Giving Away Music
If you want a Moby fueled video project, you're in luck.
this portion of moby.com, 'film music', is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short. to use the site you log in(or on?) and are then given a password. you can then listen to the available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short.the music is free as long as it's being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, or short.
if you want to use it in a commercial film or short then you can apply for an easy license...
(via ontd, moby gratis)
Posted by Groonk at 04:43 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Movies, Music
January 23, 2008
Last.fm Becomes Relevant Again, Frees the Music
As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.Something we’ve wanted for years—for people who visit Last.fm to be able to play any track for free—is now possible. With the support of the folks behind EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner—and the artists they work with—plus thousands of independent artists and labels, we’ve made the biggest legal collection of music available to play online for free, the way we believe it should be.
The good.
They're paying artist for the music they play.
The catch.
You can only play it 3 times before it barks at you about some new subscription service.
A decent start.
(via digg, last.fm blog, everywhere else it seems)
Posted by Groonk at 01:11 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Music
January 06, 2008
Concert Click: Scotch Mist
My favorite poetry reading, between the songs is "Head & Shoulders." And by favorite I mean that it's the one I bothered to pay attention to whilst I was working on other things.
This item is 'perishable.' Due to end Jan. 30th, 2008.
(via egg radio forum, currenttv)
Posted by Groonk at 06:37 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Just Freaking Neat, Music, Video
December 17, 2007
JJ Abrams is Geek Baiting: 5 Minutes of Cloverfield is Shared
In the beginning Abrams announces the widget that gets the most clicks will win a hometown screening of CLOVERFIELD.
Oh, the ideas are turning.
I'm still calling your movie MONSTROUS though.
(via ontd)
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Soma.fm has a Lovely Christmas Lounge of Music
It's kid and parent safe! It's one of the few Christmas laden music streams that I can stand during the holidays. It's a pity I can't hear the damn thing in my car.
And for those with less sensitive ears there's:
You can follow the playlist in their Twitter.
I repeat, the Xmas in Frisco stream is not kid friendly. All they need is some random, non-reading idiot raising a ruckus about not being warned. I did it.
I warned you all.
(via soma.fm christmas, xmas in frisco)
Posted by Groonk at 01:33 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Holiday, Music, Streamed Goodness
November 19, 2007
Christmas with The Killers
I'm looking forward to the new album.
"Don't Shoot Me Santa" will be serviced to radio on Monday, November 26th, and released for digital download the next day. On December 1st (Saturday) the single and video will debut as part of RED’s World Aids Day activities. The following Tuesday, December 4th, the "Don't Shoot Me Santa" single package (including audio track and video) arrives in stores.
Nicely.
(via www.thekillersfansite.com, gun weary youtube)
Posted by Groonk at 09:20 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Holiday, Video
November 14, 2007
A Talk with Monkey Punch
Monkey Punch created the LUPIN III manga that the anime was based on. He's got some neat views on comics in The Future.
His work was discovered by an editor of Futabasha, the company behind Weekly Manga Action, for whom he created the Lupin III series, loosely based on the Arsene Lupin novel series and 007 movies. The artist's strange pseudonym, he explains, was given to him by his editor, who compared his characters' faces to those of a monkey.
[...]
Monkey Punch began using computers in his work nearly two decades ago.
"Digital technology allows me to look closely at the details [of the images] and easily change minor things several times. This means, though, that it's sometimes hard to give up the details and complete [the images]."
Cooperating with famous mangaka, including Machiko Satonaka and Tetsuya Chiba, Monkey Punch established the Tokyo-based Digital Manga Association five years ago to explore and develop manga content for the Internet.
"I thought it would be a waste not to utilize the Internet, since it allows us to directly communicate with people around the world," the creator said.
"Japan's manga culture is drawing international attention, but we don't even have an archive containing information about all the manga published here," he said. "I want to find a way to set up such an archive, getting cooperation from other mangaka and relevant experts."
(via green jacketed josh hechinger, daily yomiuri online)
Posted by Groonk at 03:23 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Digital Share, Grammar, Interviews, Marketing, Only in Japan
October 28, 2007
10 Tales of Terror: Each about 30 Seconds(Give or Take)
More Halloween goodies. Six writers were challenged to terrify us in the shortest time possible. Each story read by the author who wrote it.
One of those writers is Neil Gaiman. Two others that caught my interest: John Moe and Sean Cole.
(via neil gaiman)
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FREE: "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman
It *looks* like Halloween but it *feels* like Christmas.
Alluding to both the Sherlock Holmes canon and the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos, this Hugo Award winning short story will delight fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, and of course, Neil Gaiman. A Study in Emerald draws listeners in through carefully revealed details as a consulting detective and his narrator friend solve the mystery of a murdered German noble. But with its subtle allusions and surprise ending, this mystery hints that the real fun in solving this case lies in imagining all the details that Gaiman doesn’t reveal, and challenges listeners to be detectives themselves.
download: "A Study in Emerald"
(via neil gaiman journal)
Posted by Groonk at 12:56 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Books, Digital Share, Holiday, Just Freaking Neat
October 24, 2007
Pro-DRM Ninjas Attack Richard Stallman at Yale
The ninjas in question were re-enacting an XKCD comic when the attack on Richard Stallman occured.
Assumedly, no ninja or open source software were harmed.
(via engadget, open source XKCD, yale's blog)
Posted by Groonk at 05:44 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share
October 18, 2007
Now We Can See and Hear the Edwardians
(via warren ellis and google video, guba)
Posted by Groonk at 01:02 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Culture, Digital Share, Documentary, Grammar, Just Freaking Neat, Video
Furi Kuri!: Do It or Risk Overflow
If you people don't watch this before it disappears, well, I don't want to know you.
Nothing will happen if you don't swing the bat.
My love for this Gainax creation outshines the brightest star. I may have mentioned this before:
Searching for Kanchi
Furi Kuri overload
Fooly Cooly Loves You Crazier
Groonkly Bit
FLCL
(via anime loving warren ellis)
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September 25, 2007
Cory Doctorow On Giving Away Books and Getting Paid for It
Cory Doctorow, writer of stuff and co-editor of Boing Boing talks about how selling his printed books and giving away editions in ebook form has actually helped sell more printed copies of his works.
Many of us have assumed, a priori, that electronic books substitute for print books. While I don't have controlled, quantitative data to refute the proposition, I do have plenty of experience with this stuff, and all that experience leads me to believe that giving away my books is selling the hell out of them.
--Cory Doctorow
(via locus magazine)
Posted by Groonk at 03:01 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Books, Digital Share, Marketing
June 02, 2007
Comedian Steven Wright is on Twitter
And he's blessing us with short bits of comedy without a price for admission.
http://twitter.com/stevenwright
I'm not sure I can handle actually liking Twitter. Someone give me a rationalization, quick!
(via twitter)
Posted by Groonk at 08:53 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Culture, Digital Share, Funny, Just Freaking Neat
June 01, 2007
Apple's iTunes Proves Me Wrong, Tracks Data from DRM-Free Music
The slimey bastards.
The launch of music tracks free of digital locks on iTunes has been overshadowed by the discovery that they contain data about who bought them.Some fear this data could be used to identify the owner of the tracks if they turn up on file-sharing sites.
[...]
The tracks without the digital locks, known as Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology, officially went on sale on 30 May under the iTunes Plus banner. The downloads cost $1.29 (99p) rather than $0.99 (79p).
Apple uses a technology known as Fairplay to limit what people can do with downloads. Fairplay can be circumvented by burning tracks to a CD and then converting them to another format.
It suggested that this information could be an anti-piracy measure as it could help work out who was putting downloads on file-sharing sites.
But it also added that the user information was found on all the tracks that people buy on iTunes whether free of DRM or not.
Knew I had a bad feeling about this.
(via bbc news)
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May 28, 2007
LISTEN: There Be Pirates, Lads and Lasses
Sing along with me. Cause I'm singing like a pirate full of rum and wandering ambition.
Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the Colors high.
Heave ho,
thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the Colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never say we die.Some men have died
and some are alive
and others sail on the sea
– with the keys to the cage…
and the Devil to pay
we lay to Fiddler’s Green!The bell has been raised
from it’s watery grave…
Do you hear it’s sepulchral tone?
We are a call to all,
pay head the squall
and turn your sail toward home!Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the Colors high…
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never say we die.
(via stealth fiction)
Posted by Groonk at 11:18 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Movies, Music
May 03, 2007
Fresh Wounds Breed the Most Fear
Three Panel Soul is a webcomic I've quietly followed for 2 months now. Nice, funny, and simple stories. Imagine my surprise when I discover the latest story is actual truth. And that "terroristic" mysteriously became a word overnight. I'll let Diesel Sweeties' RStevens fully explain.
I've been meaning to post about Three Panel Soul, the new comic by Ian and Matt of MacHall fame- unfortunately I've got to do so under less-than-wonderful circumstances. I love this new strip because I’m finding it a lot more minimalist and relatable… also ridiculously funny.Matt was working as a contractor for a branch of the government. He made the mistake of being interested in the hobby of paper target shooting at about the same time as the VA Tech shootings and talking to someone about this hobby at work. Keep in mind he wasn’t even talking about those shootings, in fact he was discussing how he wanted a gun which would make it difficult to kill someone.
He was promptly fired and not allowed back to work because people were scared of him.
To top it all off, he was later visited by police detectives for making a comic about his experience, because it was a "borderline terroristic threat." (Is "terroristic" even a word? Did they get that from the Colbert report?)
I’m not a lawyer or a reporter or anything, but I would recommend anyone who was one of those things to contact Matt. ( machallboyd ATZORS gmail.com ) If you’re a cartoonist or a webcomics fan, spread his story around. The more people who know about this, the better. He’s a good dude who deserves your support.
(via diesel sweeties and three panel soul)
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May 01, 2007
Disney Releases 9 Minutes of Ratatouille
Ratatouille is the latest Brad Bird effort being created via Pixar. Now Bird is one of my favorite directors ever. Nothing can stop that man from putting out a good story that lasts. He did The Iron Giant and The Incredibles.
Hmmm. maybe he should call it The Ratatouille, just in case.
(via iwatchstuff and disney)
Posted by Groonk at 01:12 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Movies
April 28, 2007
Nine Inch Nails Loves The Pirate Bay
Releasing Nine Inch Nail material online is an avenue the industrial rock band has been familiar with some time. Many tracks are readily available one the NIN.com website, downloadable via the traditional client/server method. However in a brief announcement made yesterday, a surprising element appeared. Not that new material was available for download, but that it was available via the BitTorrent protocol. Even more surprisingly, the torrents were uploaded to The Pirate Bay.[...]
Although it has earned the scorn of the US entertainment industry, it appears that not all entertainers feel hostile towards the Swedish BitTorrent site - particularly Trent Reznor. Three audio tracks are currently being indexed by The Pirate Bay, "Capital G", "My Violent Heart", and "Me, I'm Not." This is an interesting move by NIN, and one that lends a hand of legitimacy to The Pirate Bay - as it shows that entertainers realize the importance of reaching out to their target audience.
(via ontd and slyck news)
Posted by Groonk at 08:38 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Marketing, Music
April 05, 2007
LISTEN: NIN Year Zero Album
You can either dance for the monkey to get it(register an email and such)
Or cheat the bastards and click the image below.
Either way, I'm liking what I'm hearing.
(Found @ The Engine, warren ellis)
Posted by Groonk at 12:47 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Music
April 04, 2007
Apple's iTunes and EMI Nixes DRM for the Right Price
And when I say "for the right price" I'm being only partly snarky. About 32% to be exact. This wonderful news has trickled down from 7d and various other sources. I chose Suicide Girls to be my link harbor.
Apple today announced that EMI Music's entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes Store worldwide in May.DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording, for just $1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions for just 30 cents a song
I may be proven wrong in the future, but in the right now a 30 cent increase for better quality non Big Brothered music seems a fair deal.
(via suicide girls geek, boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 12:14 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Just Freaking Neat, Music
December 20, 2006
John Hodgman Gives Away Precious Knowledge and His Book
You know him best as the funny and affable PC guy who is in a constant losing battle with that snide and pretensious Mac guy in those generally amusing Mac commercials. But John Hodgman is more than that. He's recited Hobo names. He blogs funny and clever. He's on the Daily Show in most amusing ways.
Now he's giving away his book The Areas of My Expertise via iTunes for FREE for a limited time only and with apologies to those in CANADA, AUSTRALIA, GERMANY, and the UK.
I'm grabbing mine now, as I post, via BoingBoing's provided link.
(via Boingboing and neil gaiman)
behold the majestic hobo
You found it. You went under the cut, of your own volition, and found the video cut I planted and gave no clue that it was lying in wait for you here.
I suppose you feel extremely proud of yourself right now. Keep feeling that.
Posted by Groonk at 11:38 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Books, Digital Share, Just Freaking Neat, Video
December 03, 2006
Santastic II: Puts the Claus in Clausome
Another Christmas. Another Clausome multi-DJ mashup.
LISTEN: Santastic II-Clausome
1. Jingle Jane - Divide and Kreate
2. Carpenter's Christmas (Karen Meets Roots Radics Uptown) - Go Home Productions
3. Lonely Siberian Winter - DJ John
4. Donde Esta Santa Claus? - Lenlow
5. The Darlene Love Sub-Zero Ecosystem - ATOM
6. X-Mash - Divide and Kreate
7. Let Me Clear My Throat At Christmas - Cheekyboy
8. Pere Noel Blues - ComaR
9. The Rockin' Manger Twist - Voicedude
10. Dreidl-Bells - DJ Flack
11. Chanukah Song (GoyiMix) - dj BC
12. Give Da Jew Girl Toys (Clean) - A plus D
13. Rudolph The Paranoid Reindeer - ToToM
14. I Want A New Limb For Christmas - Pilchard
15. Rudolph Berry Molecular Pattern 4 - ATOM
16. Red Nosed 5 - Solcofn
17. Wonderful Christmastime (Rhythm Scholar Kringle Kut Remix) - Paul McCartney vs Rhythm Scholar
18. Last Christmas The Winter Took The Street - Martinn
19. Stop I've Had Enough Christmas Music - King Of Pants
20. White Christmas (Electro Remix) - Miss Frenchie
21. Imagine Santa - dj BC
22. Frosty John - Secret Santa
BONUS (Mature Themes):
Horny Christmas - Loo and Placido
Give Da Jew Girl Toys (Dirty) - A plus D
(via Santastic II )
Posted by Groonk at 11:37 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Albums, Digital Share, Holiday, Just Freaking Neat, Music
November 29, 2006
"Singing in the Rain" the way George Lucas Intended
I laughed. I cried. I pissed myself silly with giddyness.
Posted by Groonk at 05:35 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Funny, Just Freaking Neat, Video
November 03, 2006
Oh My Golly, It's Time to Celebrate Diwali
Did you miss "The Office" last night? That means you missed The Diwali Song. Flog yourself about that later. Listen to the song now:
In case you didn't know, Jenna Fischer is insanely dutiful about updating her myspace blog with each new Office episode. Some times she throws in extras bits about the episode. See the "Diwali," pictures.
Now don't you all feel a bit Closer to Fine?
(via Nirali Magazine and Pam Beesley and Ricky Gervais for the Office idea)
Posted by Groonk at 07:43 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Holiday, Just Freaking Neat, Music
October 25, 2006
Mint Royale Shares a Tune
(listen or right click to download or both)
The nice folks at Mint Royale's MySpace were kind enough to share a movie mix of their awesome track "From Rusholme With Love." A track I first heard on the(much talked about by me) british comedy series SPACED.
This track was made special for the movie SERENDIPITY. Now this is a movie that if I were given a gun and a choice of watching said movie or shooting my eye out forcing myself to forever live life with a pirate-y gaze, I'd choose the gun each and every time.
Twice on Sundays.
But Mint Royale's music I could listen to for days upon weeks. Here's what they have to say about the re-found track:
...the directors wanted to use From Rusholme With Love as his signature tune, but wanted it performed by a Shenai player (by the way, a Shenai is an Indian oboe).So we got together with the guy who wrote the original sitar based version which we sampled in From Rusholme With Love, John Mayer, and a few of his friends, and recorded an authentic Indian version for the film. Then, we actually got asked to go to Toronto and play the part of John Corbett's band in the film itself - we are there, blink and you'll miss us!
(via mint royale myspace)
Posted by Groonk at 01:13 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Music
October 13, 2006
Ghost Town Offers a Savage Beast Soothing Month of Music
The Ghost Town blog is doing a 31 Days of Halloween thing as well. Only theirs is dubbed 31 Days of Pure evil. Did I miss out on an meme email or something?
Ghost Town's Halloween gig is that they're dropping a new mp3 on their site every day. By month's end, you'll have the chance to download an especially eclectic GT inspired mix tape from hell.
If you are so inclined.
(via ghost town)
Posted by Groonk at 10:59 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Blogged, Digital Share, Holiday, Music
And on the Thirteenth Day, there was Vincent Price
I thought I was getting a bunch of podcasts of Edgar Allan Poe stories via Senses Working Overtime. I thought wrong cause every file I grabbed was unusable.
At least there are pretty pictures.
Still, they are doing a 31 Days of Halloween bit that might have other usable Halloween downloadables.
(via senses working overtime)
Posted by Groonk at 10:35 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Blogged, Digital Share, Holiday, One Sheets
October 07, 2006
It Just Ain't Halloween without some Monster MASHUP
Ghouls with Attitude was entertaining me, until it plumb got on my nerves. Don't get me wrong. It's a fun mix of old horror movie trailers, vintage songs and TV themes, and a dollop or two of remixes.
But I'm done with Ghouls for the week.
I've moved on to The Bride of Monster MASHUP with bonus cuts and a pdf mag. All the DJ sounds I've come to know and love over the last 10 months are in there. Along with some new ones.
ALBUM:
1. DJ Schmolli - Satan.Omen.Death
2. dj BC - The Witch Doctor vs The Exorcist
3. DJ NoNo - County Sound
4. KrazyBen - Monster of the crypt
5. Pilchard - Jack The Ripper
6. DJ Engineer - Happy Mash-O-Ween
7. Cheekyboy - Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide
8. EARLYBIRD - ...that I put a spell on her.
9. Irn Mnky - Tongueless Ghost Of Sin
10. DJ Clive$ter - The Megablast Of Dragula feat. Pinhead
11. Mr. Fab - Cannibal Zombie Mom
12. Divide & Kreate - Highway Reaper
13. Fettdog - The Haunted Mashion
14. Essexboy - Freaky Teethbusters
15. Apollo Zero - Don't Scream, Halloween's Paid in Full
16. Autopilot - Devil Went Down on Betty
17. Juxtaposeur - The Demonique Dimotane Co
18. DJ Boasty - Purple People Eater
19. Solcofn - Release Yo' Nightmare
BONUS CD:
1. AberNStein - Halloween ist Krieg
2. Cheekyboy - Somebody's Sunglasses
3. DJ Clive$ter - Blue Monday 4 American Witches
4. DJ Engineer - Vampire Nation
5. DJ Earlybird - Halloween Puppetz
6. Mr. Fab - Dark Shadows Cha Cha Cha
7. RIAA - Caspar The Friendly Queen
8. BuG - Happy Devil
9. Cheekyboy - Halloween Haunted Megamix
You can download track by track or in a mega mp3 chunk or embrace the bittorrent love.
Know this: You need BoMM in your headspace. It'll make you right. It'll make you good. It may even make you dance.
Scary.
(headsup via myspace solcofn)
UPDATE: Blog of Monster MASHUP keeps you up to date on new tracks.
Posted by Groonk at 05:56 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Blogged, Digital Share, Holiday, Just Freaking Neat, Music
September 26, 2006
Tom Cruise, R Kelly, and John Travolta are still in Stan's Closet
Back in the sunny days of May, the South Park "Trapped in the Closet" episode was released onto the YouTube pasture and set to graze freely with all the other copyrighted cows.
Last I looked, the cow tippers of justice had snuck onto the field and shoved all the "closet" eps off the field.
Dirt re-found "Trapped in the Closet" grazing on a new, smaller, range. It was there, grazing amongst the other animated comedy greats.
I'm done with cow vagueries. Go WATCH the episode.
(via Dirt)
update: While catching up on a week and a half of unwatched Rocketboom, I noticed that they reported on said site www.dailymotion.com yesterday.
I didn't have to be vague at all. All that cow referencing for nothing. The Man is gonna come down on them sooner than later so watch what you can while you can.
Posted by Groonk at 01:03 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Just Freaking Neat, Video
August 26, 2006
OK Go Doesn't Need Instructions on How to Rock
Remember that OK Go "treadmill dance" video I gushed over weeks ago?
All the smart people are catching on to the sheer coolness of it, too. Watching Kulash talk about the vid on Colbert I was astonished to learn that they did the thing all by themselves. That makes it all the more special.
The industry is undergoing a slow, at times painful change from the old way of marketing CDs and TV music videos to going digital with music distribution and online videos, which fans view on the Internet or via media players like Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iPod.
Sites such as YouTube, MySpace, PureVolume and others allow aspiring artists to post videos, usually grainy lo-fi productions, at little or no cost.
[...]
"We're lucky we've had some great ideas," says Damian Kulash, 29, lead singer of OK Go.
"The treadmill video, for instance, was my sister's idea ... and it didn't require a lot of money," he said.
"A Million Ways," made in just five takes, is not only one of the most-viewed videos on YouTube but also one of the most-imitated. Hundreds of spoofs of the dance moves have been added to the site by fans performing everywhere from high school proms to wedding parties.
Don't be stupid, be smart. Watch more OK Go.
(via 7d)
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HOW TO: Bankrupt a League of Haters
All you need is time. JHaye Holmes explains:
This week, I found a way to strike back.
Focus on the Family, the horrid anti-gay evangelical church based in Colorado Springs that wields too much power for anyone's good, has a store on their website that will give you books, CDs, and DVDs absolutely free of charge. Usually people pay for their items by donation, raising millions of dollars to help Focus on the Family produce more hate-propaganda featuring "experts" on homosexuality who claim it's a curable "sickness". (They’re practically defined by their book A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality. Course, there's no mention of having less kids, which is the only proven method. No, no, you shouldn't use birth control, that would be wrong. They need more worshippers, how dare you prevent god’s will.)
It's a little bit time-consuming, but not enough to deter me. (Nor should it you). The chance to take money out of their pockets is too useful, not to mention satisfying.
Here's how to do it in 10 steps:
1. Go to www.family.org and look for the "Resources" link in the blue bar on the left-hand side, right above the "Search" box, and click it.
2. Under the "Resource Category" menu on the left-hand side, you’ll notice categories such as "Homosexuality" under “Resource Category.” Me, I went straight to the CD’s and DVD’s under “Resource Format.”
3. Go through, find something you like, such as the recently released movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe or The Chronicles of Narnia Radio Theatre Complete Set, suggested donation US $79.00, or the three disc Les Miserables soundtrack. It's not a very wide range of products, but there's bound to be something either you like or you could use as a sweet gift for someone else. Click the "Add to Cart" button.
They won't send more than $100 worth of materials for free in any given shopping trip, so be sure to go through a few times, until you're sure you've dinged them.
4. Select "Add New Shipping Address," decide to send it yourself or someone else, and once you’re done picking up to $100, click "Proceed to Checkout." Some people have been sending items to themselves to sell later on eBay, some have been ordering the more controversial items as conversation pieces or educational props, (as anti-anti-propaganda), but I plan on using mine as gifts, mostly. I’ve found no reports on receiving Focus on the Family junk mail after inputting an address, so I figure it’s fairly safe.
5. The next screen asks you to sign-up for an account and give your information. Fill it out with fictitious information, enter whatever name and address you like. You might want to make up a phone number too and an e-mail account too. After filling out all the required fields, click "Proceed to Checkout" one more time.
6. This will take you to the "Here is Your Cart" page. You may have to re-enter your data again after this part to actually confirm your account. Eventually, you'll get to the "How Much Would You Like to Donate?" page.
7. Select "Enter other total amount" and enter 0.00 as the amount you would like to pay. (Don't put in a dollar sign or it will ask you for credit-card information.) Don't be fooled by the field in the lower-right-hand corner that shows you the suggested donation amounts, simply Proceed to Checkout.
8. The next screen is a guilt screen, to make you feel bad about how little you donated. ignore it. Ignore it utterly. Think of how many people they're persecuted and had in their "gay kids can be cured" camps. Just proceed to checkout again.
9. Click "Checkout Now."
10. Finally, pass this information on to all your friends. They've got money to back them, we have word of mouth, let's see if we can win.
(via warren ellis)
Posted by Groonk at 05:27 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Politics
July 27, 2006
The Simpsons Movie Preview Totally Rocked My Brain
I Watch Stuff did a lovely thing and shared 2 links from God's Loving Heart featuring The Simpsons movie footage shown at Nerd Prom 06.
The footage has no color because they're still working on the movie. Homer explains it all here.
This one made me laugh the most.
That movie's gonna be fucking funny. Maybe that's what they've been doing the last few years. They took bits of funny from the seasonal shows and saved them for the movie.
I'm not saying they've been unfunny on the TV show. I'm just sayin' the quality has been lacking lately.
Just a bit.
(via i watch stuff and youtube)
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July 24, 2006
Cory Doctorow Talks on Charisma and Why Artists in the Future Need It
Boingboing's Cory Doctorow has an interesting word or two to say about the file sharing world of the 21st century. In it he compares the advances of file sharing with that of the radio only a few decades before.:
But what kind of artist thrives on the Internet? Those who can establish a personal relationship with their readers — something science fiction has been doing for as long as pros have been hanging out in the con suite instead of the green room. These conversational artists come from all fields, and they combine the best aspects of charisma and virtuosity with charm — the ability to conduct their online selves as part of a friendly salon that establishes a non-substitutable relationship with their audiences. You might find a film, a game, and a book to be equally useful diversions on a slow afternoon, but if the novel's author is a pal of yours, that's the one you'll pick. It's a competitive advantage that can't be beat.
See Neil Gaiman's blog, where he manages the trick of carrying on a conversation with millions. Or Charlie Stross's Usenet posts. Scalzi's blogs. J. Michael Straczynski's presence on Usenet — while in production on Babylon 5, no less — breeding an army of rabid fans ready to fax-bomb recalcitrant TV execs into submission and syndication. See also the MySpace bands selling a million units of their CDs by adding each buyer to their "friends lists." Watch Eric Flint manage the Baen Bar, and Warren Ellis's good-natured growling on his sites, lists, and so forth.
Don't be shy, read the entire essay.
(via Locus)
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July 20, 2006
Kevin Smith Speaks for the Fanboy/Normal Joe in Us All
Some critic, whose name I don't recall and can't be bothered to click over a tab in my browser to re-discover it, threw a tantrum at the screening of Kevin Smith's "Clerks II". "Clerks II" is getting my money regardless of what some dipshit getting paid to sit on his ass and review other people's work says. I vent on flicks, but god helo me I don't get paid for it. If I ever do become a salaried reviewer, I've paid a friend to whip the piss out of me every day until I get a job worth having.
Now I've heard and seen this before. You have to see and hear it yourself before you would ever believe it. WATCH Kevin Smith talk about the first time the new Superman project was being bounced around Hollywood, how he got to write th efirst draft, and his many, insane, interactions with a producer by name of Jon Peters.
It's about 20 minutes but what else do you have planned today?
Hmm. Peters didn't want to see Superman in the suit. And he didn't want him to fly? Sumbitch, that's freaking Smallville. Maybe that's why I can't fully get on board with that show.
(via the superficial)
UPDATE: A radio interview with Joel Siegel(the aforementioned critic) backtracking on his rude behavior and doesn't realize he's talking to Kevin Smith. So now this hooha is becoming viral. How funny...curious...sad. It's definitely one of those.
LISTEN: The rants are iPod ready.
Posted by Groonk at 03:19 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Interviews, Movies
July 13, 2006
"The Internet is a Series of Tangled Up Tubes"
A while back, Diesel Sweeties did a comic on it. Jon Stewart finally got around to it last night. Ponzu sent me a link to a techno remix of it.
So here it is. The hat trick of Senator Ted Stevens'(R, Alaska) internet. By the by, Stevens is famous for wanting to build a bridge to nowhere.
1) Comic
2) Video Satire
3) The Techno Remix
LISTEN: Ted Stevens - The Internet is Tubes(remix)
Posted by Groonk at 07:22 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Digital Share, Funny, Music, Politics, Video
July 10, 2006
Adam Carolla knows how to Treat a Lady
Which is why the... controversial... Anne Coulter was promptly hung up on after she called into his radio show an hour an a half late.
HEAR: The first Anne Coulter interview that pissed off no one.
The transcript of awesome:
ANN COULTER: Hello.
CAROLLA: Hi Ann. You're late, babydoll.
COULTER: Uh, somebody gave me the wrong number.
CAROLLA: Mmm...ow did you get the right number? Just dialed randomly - eventually got to our show? (Laughter in background)
COULTER: Um, no. My publicist e-mailed it to me, I guess, after checking with you.
CAROLLA: Ahh, I see.
COULTER: But I am really tight on time right now because I already had a -
CAROLLA: Alright, well, get lost.
(via crooks and liars)
Brilliant!
(via ONTD)
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July 04, 2006
Animated Music in the Round...
...leads to a catchy visual sound.
Musicanim.com did three things for me.
1) It introduced me to the works of poet Ogden Nash(Frog Round fea above). Some of his works I knew but didn't know I knew.
2) It introduced me to the Music Animation Machine proper.
The experience of watching the Music Animation Machine can be a remarkable awakening to the inner structure of music, especially for people who are sensitive to music but lack the training to "see inside" a conventional musical score. A tool for listeners of all ages.
3) It gave me something calming to watch and listen before bedtime.
There are bunches uploaded on YouTube.
(via 7d)
Posted by Groonk at 02:27 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Music, Video
June 30, 2006
Team Venture. Everybody's Free. GO!
The new season is up and running and does not disappoint. Also, a Venture Bros fansite worth its weight in cheese.
(via hero spy)
Posted by Groonk at 04:47 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Just Freaking Neat, Music
June 14, 2006
LISTEN: Neil Gaiman Inspires Artists to Music
A tribute album is ready to be bought this July 18th. The album is called "Where's Neil When You Need Him?". Think of it as art inspired by art. Fabulist.org has already shared two cuts from the album. I like the Lunascape song the most. It was inspired by Stardust the book. Soon to be "Stardust" the movie. Both songs are linked and ready to be tested.
Track Listing:
1 Rasputina - Coraline
2 ThouShaltNot - When Everyone Forgets
3 Tapping The Vein - Trader Boy
4 Lunascape - Raven Star
5 Deine Lakaien - A Fish Called Prince
6 Thea Gilmore - Even Gods Do
7 Rose Berlin (feat. Curve) - Coraline
8 Schandmaul - Magda Treadgolds Märchen
9 Hungry Lucy - We Won't Go
10 Voltaire w/The Oddz - Come Sweet Death
11 Future Bible Heroes - Mr. Punch
12 Razed in Black - The Endless
13 The Cruxshadows - Wake the White Queen
14 Ego Likeness - You Better Leave the Stars Alone
15 Azam Ali - The Cold Black Key
16 Joachim Witt - Vandemar
17 Tori Amos - Sister Named Desire (New Master)
The only thing I see wrong with this album is that it misses my birthday by a solid two weeks. How am I to worm this gift out of friends when I'll be all but forgotten when the disc hits the stores. *sigh* Such is my life.
(via boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 08:57 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Albums, Digital Share, Just Freaking Neat, Music
June 12, 2006
Alice Cooper Asked for the Dream King's Help
This man:
Has the oddest social networking:
LISTEN-> Neil Gaiman, one time advisor to Alice Cooper
Posted by Groonk at 08:59 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Interviews
June 07, 2006
The Pirate Bay is still Pirate-y
The once Swedish-based Bittorent site The Pirate Bay claims the problems many visitors have noticed on the resurrected piracy hub are the result of a glut of new users, rather than recent troubles with police.
This week The Pirate Bay reappeared on the internet just three days after a police raid shut down the site, and sparked street protests in Sweden and intense international interest. The reborn site -- newly relocated to servers in the Netherlands -- appeared much as it was before the police action, but included a mocking message for the authorities, and a revamped logo that shows the site's trademark pirate ship hurling a cannon ball at the Hollywood sign.
[...]
The Pirate Bay has a longstanding history of defiance to international copyright enforcers, most clearly exemplified by its habit of posting and publicly mocking take-down notices received from content owners. The defiance follows the politics of the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyran, which founded The Pirate Bay in 2004, but has since gone it own way. Copyright minimalists, Piratbyran and The Pirate Bay seek abolition of most intellectual property law.
The site administrators believe that what they are doing is currently legal under Swedish law, because they don't host the pirated content themselves, only the pointers that let people get the files.
"The internet is bigger than the MPAA."
That sticks out in my mind for some reason.
(via wired news)
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May 26, 2006
Diesel Sweeties + Groonk = BFF
Diesel Sweeties is a webcomic. Diesel Sweeties is funny. If Diesel Sweeties were a girl, she'd be that girl you wouldn't take home to mother...also known as the perfect woman.
I like Diesel Sweeties a lot.
Read all of "Creationism is like a box of chocolates. It melts under hot lights." It's chock full of Teh Funny.
(via Diesel Sweeties)
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May 18, 2006
FREE "Korndogs" of Doom
Danger Doom that is.
"Korndogs" is a new tune from that dynamic duo of DJ Danger Mouse and MF DOOM. Adult Swim has it ready for download on their site.
I hear that a new Danger Doom album is in the offing. One can only hope.
Posted by Groonk at 02:48 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Just Freaking Neat, Music
May 09, 2006
Neat as all hell
I've not found a version on YouTube so Silly Slug's link will have to do. It is worth the click though.
(via 7d)
Posted by Groonk at 05:12 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Just Freaking Neat, Music, Video
When all else fails...dance part 4: Dance Dance Evolution
Roughly 1 minutes 30 seconds in, it gets awesome.
At 3 minutes, it hits legendary.
Dance Dance Roundup:
Dance monkey
Dancing puppet
Dance-bots
When all else fails...dance: part 1
When all else fails...dance: part 2
When all else fails...dance: part 3
(via long, lost 7d)
Posted by Groonk at 06:16 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Funny, Video
April 19, 2006
Short Films that Make You Laugh
Kim Adelman of indieWIRE movies ran down 10 funny short films from the Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Adelman listed 10 films that "killed" in Aspen. Many of them listed have links to official sites where the actual film can be viewed.
I haven't seen any of them yet. Just bookmarking them for later viewing.
» SHORTS MONTHLY: Ten Hilarious New Shorts From the Fest Circuit
Posted by Groonk at 11:43 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Movies
April 02, 2006
Transmetropolitan #8: Posted and shared by fanboy
A livejournal fan has gotten away with posting the entire issue of Transmetropolitan #8.
Ellis says:
It has been brought to my attention that one chapter of my 1997-2002 serial TRANSMETROPOLITAN has been placed online. Since it's one chapter out of sixty, and no-one's trying to earn money off it, and I am lazy benign, I choose not to release the throatfucking hounds of hell upon the criminal Internets pirate responsible.
Instead, I offer it to you to read, and tell you that the story can be found in the collection TRANSMETROPOLITAN: LUST FOR LIFE, available from Amazon and all better comics stores and bookstores.
Damn it all to hell. I tried to stay away from reading Transmet cause I knew...I just KNEW that I'd want to buy the entire damn collection afterward.
That livejournal guy is an Ellis-plant. He's got to be. Making me want to buy more damn comics.
They're bastards. Right bastards all.
(via boingboing)
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Larry Young offers free "Continuity" GN
AiT/PlanetLar's Larry Young is giving away a free graphic novel called "Continuity". Annnnd he's selling it too:
(Excerpt from Larry hisself)Because, as you know, one of the best things about having your own business is being the guy responsible for everything is also the worst thing about owning your own business. Responsible for everything.
Take this online/scanning/pdf comics-delivery thing. It's my feeling that making a whole graphic novel available online at order time will only help orders in aggregate. Yes, there's always the risk that doing that will make some retailers NOT order the thing, but it's my FEELING that the orders you get by being so bold will offset the ones you don't. But there's no real way to test whether or not pre-releasing the book online to retailers has any effect one way or the other without actually doing it, and no one's that crazy.
Oh, right; except me.
(The book in question: http://www.ait-planetlar.com/resources/Continuity.pdf)
Selling comics on pdf is handy because you don't have to wait or rush off to the local shop during open hours. But I don't like reading comics in pdf form. The resolution is crappy as all get-out and, call me old-fashioned, but I'd still rather have a tangible copy of literature in my grubby hands.
(via boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 05:43 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Digital Share
March 30, 2006
SHORT: Dog Given Rights
How I found DGR: I was reading up on a movie being rewritten by John August called Bob: The Musical. That premise revolves around a guy who wakes up and finds he can hear other people's inner song. That idea sounds bloody brilliant, and I hate musicals.
Anyway, hidden in August's comments was a link to Dog Given Rights.
DGR Plot: Told from a dog pov. An owner's girlfriend doesn't like his dog, Lincoln. So Lincoln must decide between his best friend(his owner) or a leash-free life.
I had issues when the bastards began singing and dancing, but I got over those damn quick.
Dog Given Rights(Mise-en-chien Productions) is clever and funny and well worth your 10 minutes.
Guys, if your new girlfriend hates your dog, that's your first clue right there. Ditch her ass and find a woman with just the right amount of dog-love personality.
Same goes for you ladies.
Posted by Groonk at 03:51 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Just Freaking Neat, Movies
March 24, 2006
SoaP: Parody themes and logos
I may be feeding the cult of Snakes on a Plane, but what the hell.
The logo:
The song(reasons why not to see SoaP):
DC Lugi - SoaP song
(via geekdrome forums & entertainment weekly & Snakes on a Blog)
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March 21, 2006
DIGITAL SHARE: The complete South Park episode they didn't want you to see...
...or Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet.
In case you missed it: Tom Cruise got an episode of South Park booted off the air because it made fun of Scientology called him gay. An easy target to be sure. The SP guys must be slipping.
It was also reported that Isaac Hayes left the show for the same reason(that's the Scientology reason, not the gay reason). Although now it seems that was a bunch of false noise.
I find it interesting that South Park can mock and trash every other religion, race or idea on the planet but if you make fun of the "religion" known as Scientology call Tom Cruise gay, they get their asses handed to them.
And by 'interesting' I mean 'horrifying'.
But it's the 21st century and there are ways around such noise:
Editor's Note: The strike-throughs came after watching the episode. Stick around for the credits.
UPDATE: More on what Isaac Hayes did or did not say via The Superficial.
(via the superficial)
Posted by Groonk at 09:28 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Funny, Video
March 20, 2006
In2TV is playing old shows online for FREE!
While listening to this week's TWiT via iTunes, I learned that AOL is running tons of old TV shows from their site for damn FREE on something they cleverly call In2TV.
Immediately, I switched off my buggy-ass iTunes and found Babylon 5 is running on that sucker. I've been wanting to revisit that show for months. Seeing as the DVDs are 80 bucks a pop, I haven't bought them yet.
Pros: Shows like Wonder Woman, Adventures of Brisco County Jr, Pinky and the Brain, V, etc, etc etc are at my command.
Cons: You have to run the site on the spawn of evil puke known as Internet Explorer and commercials are back. Small price to pay to revisit old TV. So far, that's the only bad I see.
That's In2TV folks.
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