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Amazon Kindle Commercial

Monday May 24, 2010

If you’ve been watching TV at all in the last few weeks, I’m sure you’ve seen the new Amazon Kindle commercial (YouTube). It’s a pretty cool stop-motion production featuring the song Stole My Heart by Little & Ashley. But here’s the thing: How come nobody’s talking about the fact that it’s almost exactly the same [...]

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Last night I got to fulfill a lifelong dream of mine: I saw Paul McCartney live in concert. The show was at the Hollywood Bowl, which is just about the best venue for a show imaginable. For days the news forecast lots of rain, but the skies were crisp and clear all evening (although it [...]

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How You Like Me Now?

Tuesday March 16, 2010

There’s an excellent Kia Sorento commercial right now featuring a sock monkey and a monster (and some other kid toys). They go bowling and the sock monkey gets a tattoo. The best part, though, is the song. It’s How You Like Me Now, by The Heavy. You can find it on the album The House [...]

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Friday Five: Irish Songs

Friday March 12, 2010

Goodbye Mrs. Durkin – Irish Rovers Finnegan’s Wake – Dropkick Murphys The Orange and Green – Irish Rovers Black Velvet Band – Irish Rovers Seven Drunken Nights – Dubliners

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Living Under a Rock

Saturday January 30, 2010

With the possible exceptions of my father and (maybe-not-so-strangely-coincidentally) my father-in-law, I don’t know anyone who is as voracious a reader as I am. I also seem to consume an outlandish amount of television and there is rarely a moment in my life in which there isn’t music playing. Oh, and I love movies. Yet, [...]

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Friday Five: Favorite Christmas Songs

Friday December 25, 2009

Linus and Lucy – Vince Guaraldi Trio It Happened in Sun Valley – Glenn Miller Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Petula Clark Happy X-mas (War Is Over) – John Lennon Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley

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Last night I went to see The Killers at the Hollywood Bowl. My father-in-law got us amazing seats, right in the center on the lower level. I had to go to dinner with a client at work, so I missed the opening act, The Psychedelic Furs. But, just like when I saw Green Day a [...]

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iTunes Tuesday: Good New Songs

Tuesday August 18, 2009

I’ve already written about how you can use one playlist as the basis for another, and now we’ll put this ability to a good use. We’re going to make a playlist that will let you hear all the good new stuff. These are the songs that you’ve added recently, that you’ve rated highly, and that [...]

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iTunes Tuesday: Simple Tutorials

Tuesday August 4, 2009

If you’re just getting started with iTunes, the hands-down best place to learn how it all works is the Apple website. The “Find Out How” section offers dozens of video and text tutorials which will get you up and running quickly. You can learn how to import music from your CD collection, edit your music [...]

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No matter how hard you try to keep your music library organized, compressed, and free of ABBA, eventually you’re going to have more tunes than you can fit on your iPhone (or iPod, or any other mp3 device). The most recent iPod Classic has a capacity of 120GB, which can certainly hold a lot of [...]

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