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Nerding out / Geeking out / Wigging out

2011/10/21 by Jim Leave a Comment

The internet has been a little weird this week (subjectively speaking, as some of these things may be older internet phenomena of which I have only recently become aware). I guess the internet is a little weird every week but today it seems to me like it might have been a little weirder than normal. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Jim's Useless Ramblings Tagged: carl sagan, explosions in the sky, feynman series, geek, geeking out, nerd, nerding out, people-eating bible, richard feynman, sagan series, symphony of science, voltron kitty, weird internet, wigging out, william shatner

The future best album of 2011

2011/04/13 by Jim 3 Comments

According to this page on William Shatner’s web site: The Line Up For “Searching For Major Tom” Has Been Announced. WilliamShatner.Com Is Happy To Report That The Album Due Out Later In 2011 On The Cleopatra Records Label Will Have The Following Songs… Now as something of a self-professed expert on music, and also an amateur but … [Read more…]

Posted in: Jim's Useless Ramblings, Music Tagged: 2011, album review, awesome, best things ever, bowie, major tom, music, new album, searching for major tom, shatner, the shat, william shatner, william shatner's new album

Music Talk: 22 March

2010/04/25 by Jim Leave a Comment

This is a post from Aaron’s Radio Gen1us site, archived here. The following is the text of his original post. (Note: The original image is lost in the mists of the internet so I have used what I thought would be an appropriate substitute) Yes, it’s over a month old. It’s been a busy month. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Podcasts Tagged: ben folds, free energy, genesis, lou gramm, silkworm, the besnard lakes, the nightwatchman, william shatner

You Don’t Have To Call Me Darlin’, Darlin’

2008/08/26 by Jim Leave a Comment

  Way back in the day, a bunch of kids thought rock and roll was boring and started playing some super fast, sloppy, but extremely catchy rock and roll and breathed new life into a music scene that kept throwing different repackaged versions of the same 3 bands at the music consuming public. That music … [Read more…]

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