By Fleeceman, on January 6th, 2010%
[Note: I wrote this over a year ago, then sat on it because it seemed trivial. However, since this blog has been incredibly glitchy for quite some time and I can't find the fricken code I need to contact my host, you'll just have to read a belated review, sans pictures, because hey, that's part . . . → Read More: Pineapple Express
By Fleeceman, on July 7th, 2009%
Itunes recently promoted some Library of Congress podcasts, one of which was about composing with the Devil.
Apparently, a musical interval called the tritone consists of starting on C then jumping up to F sharp, which is somehow tied to physics (and our brain). If you have a string for each note, the ratio of those strings . . . → Read More: Dangerous Music
By Fleeceman, on September 24th, 2008%
The limited braintrust of Hollywood.
I was meandering around The New York Times online this morning, and after getting disgruntled over the $700 billion buyout of the idiots on Wall Street, I ended up looking at an interactive graph of movie revenue from 1986 to 2008, adjusted for inflation.
The layout is what the vagina of a . . . → Read More: Movies in Time