Although I’ve been listening to Stereolab pretty consistently since the 90s, I somehow never managed to see them live until now. I’ve always appreciated this band’s quirky song names, retro vibe, mesmerizing jams and vocal counterpoint.
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Several layers deep in a YouTube music surf, I ended up at this video about the Mutek electronic music festival in Montreal, which I’d never heard of. I definitely have to get to that. In the video, Hans Thomann picks up this CD at a record store offering festival discounts and says it is “one of my personal trip-hop holy grails,” as a beautiful clip from “Vai Viver A Vida” plays in the background. I checked out the album on Spotify and got hit in the face with the opening track, “Blazing The Crop”.
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Water From Your Eyes is making some of the most interesting and original rock happening right now, though they amusingly refer to themselves as indie pop. The band just started touring their new album, It’s a Beautiful Place. Here they are kicking the tires on their live act with three songs.
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What if personal websites could replace traditional social media networks as the primary vehicle for sharing content on the Internet?
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I’ve always thought it would be cool to be able to compose music in code. There are some languages out there that do this, but I was more interested in direct midi programming than in a DSL for composing music. Enter mido.
Went to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem with a friend today to see an exhibit titled Making History: 200 Years of American Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It was a really interesting hodgepodge of American art. Here are some of my favorites.
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Hey, bagaag.com is back! I’ve just moved my fledgling site to WordPress. The old site was essentially just a test bed for a hobby programming project. It was a CMS written first in PHP and then in Python to manage a Hugo site hosted on IPFS. I got it working nicely and then promptly lost interest. As often happens with my hobby coding projects, the fun part was over. I decided if I want to actually focus on content, I should just use WordPress. It’s easy. I know it. Customization is fairly straightforward. And if I feel like geeking out, there really are no limits to what can be done.
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My daughter is Lucy Dacus’s number one fan, and she loves the Toy Story movies. So when I saw this photo of Lucy on tour, I had to fix it for her.
I took these during a crazy day trip to Manhattan with my daughter. We woke at 6am, drove 4 hours to get there, walked around for about 8 hours, then drove home.
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Excalidraw is a simple but highly capable wireframe editor and drawing tool. It runs entirely in the browser and saves data to browser storage — no cloud service required. You can also save and load drawings to and from a local file. The software is free and open source. A reasonably priced paid version adds some optional niceties like access controls and cloud storage.