Archive for November, 2005

Thing a Week 9 - The Town Crotch

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Last week was so computery, I wanted a little palette cleanser this week, so you’re getting a nice simple all-acoustic number. This song is based on a memory I wish I had - none of this actually happened, but it is cobbled together from the many tiny bits of kindness and desperation and longing that [...]

Podcast Ho!

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Our “podcast” is posted here on the PopSci site (for now, on the front page, under the picture of the yellow indy car): Best of What’s New 2005. Listen if you dare.

PopSci Podcast

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

John Hodgman and I are just this moment working on a podcast for Popular Science from the Best of What’s New show at Grand Central Station - technology innovations, shiny things, robot mops, etc. This will be posted tomorrow AM on the PopSci site, so check it out. There is a small theme song by [...]

Thing a Week 8 - Sibling Rivalry

Friday, November 4th, 2005

This week, a little laptop music. I’ve been in airplanes and hotels all week, so everything had to happen inside my computer, which made for an interesting challenge. The vocal track is from some voice over work a friend of mine did for a TV show, cut up and arranged in Ableton Live. I added [...]

On the Road

Friday, November 4th, 2005

Sorry for no postie, I’ve been traveling with Mr. John Hodgman doing book stuff. Chicago and now Boston. Last night we appeared on a public access cable show called NightBeat, or maybe NiteBeat, here in Brookline. It was live TV, and it was very strange - I was a little spooked by all the cameras, [...]