Still settling in

I was going to feel real bad about making noise in my new neighborhood, but now that I know every other house has a barking dog tied up in its back yard all day maybe I don't care.

NINJAM is out

NINJAM is out. (I wrote about it earlier here.) Due to moving I haven't been able to use the latest versions, but I assume it rocks. The GUI looks slick to boot. Congrats, Justin. It'll be fun to see what people get up to with this great tool.

Moved

Holy crap, moving was more of a pain than I thought it would be. The new appliances were all damaged (the side of the stove was falling off, for instance), the new satellite received died two days after being installed and the Internet took a week to start working. Still waiting on appliances and my email. All I do anymore is talk to customer support.

Remixes

If I missed your remix, please send it in again because I have no mind:

Thanks to all the remixers as always. You can get the source to a bunch of my tracks here. You can email them to me or put them on my CC Mixter page for instant gratification.

Crimewire

Crimewire is Louise W. Klinker's proposed Limewire skin that reorganizes the P2P app into a different light. For instance instead of there being a "Library" of what you've downloaded, it's called your "Criminal record". Crimewire would track how much you owe each band and record label and you have a Justification Profile:

The last new function is the "Justification Profile". This section is the most fictional part of CrimeWire and based upon a point system. When you input your salary, number of records in collection, amount of vinyl in collection, number of concerts you go to per year etc. it returns the amount of money it is fair for you to "steal" for per day.

I like it, it's pretty funny. I'd also like to see aggregated stats of how much all downloads on the service are costing individual artists and labels, damage you're doing to the economy, the amount you would be fined for the material you've uploaded and maybe how much you're hurting Coldplay's feelings.

Mad Hot Ballroom copyright

Stay Free! has a great interview with Amy Sewell, writer and producer of the movie Mad Hot Ballroom, about the hell they had to go through to clear all the music in the movie:

If filmmakers have to worry about these things, documentaries will cease to be documentaries! What happens when the girls go shopping and there's music playing in the stores? We were lucky because in our movie the music wasn't identifiable, but otherwise what are we supposed to do: walk up to the store manager and say, "Excuse me but can you turn off your radio?"

I've been meaning to see this movie, I hadn't even thought of this aspect. Very interesting.

Interviews

For the next while I'll be trying to do some interviews to promote my freshly-pressed professionally manufactured version of I Don't Know What I'm Doing (read about it here). I've tried to contact everybody that asked me for interviews in the past few months that I put off until I had something to talk about. Now I sorta do. If you haven't heard from me or you would also like to hear my old man stories about times gone by, please get in touch.