The death of Jani Lane has prompted quite a bit of thinking and talking between mrs tsuken and me, fuelled in part by an excellent, articulate and insightful post by Sebastian Bach. Fame, it seems, is a harsh mistress. There is a striking – and superficially surprising – dichotomy evident in the world of...
There are some real twits on YouTube (take me for instance…) … or the latest commenter on my All Along the Watchtower video: someone called Multishades complains about my hair movement, & the guitar – which s/he says is totally wrong … but says I sound great … but that I should “move on”. I...
I discovered something this morning. I discovered a practical reason to add to my intellectual annoyance at the way compound time signatures are handled in at least GarageBand. Simple time signatures – basically – are things like 2/4 3/8 4/4 and so on. Compound time signatures are when that top number gets above 4...
I’ve rearranged my iPad’s home screen again. When I first got it, I had a couple of apps on the home screen itself, and the rest were in folders (I have a lot of apps). After a while I decided that I should put the apps I use most (after those on the dock) on...
In Which Heavy Metal is Evil, Because Suicide!!1!1
Oh we have ourselves another fool, smothering a plate of idiocy in moron sauce. This time it’s Dr Katrina McFerran, from the University of Melbourne (who, as Guitar World noted, is not Tipper Gore, though you’d be forgiven for thinking so) who is trumpeting the dangers of teh heavy metalz – with a beautifully...
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