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Eddie Floyd - I’ve Never Found a Girl. Yesterday’s music theme was my iTunes search results for “Lost.” (That show finally shut its doors apparently.) Today it’s “found.” Apparently musicians prefer the former — those sad, maudlin artists.
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A. A. Bondy - I’m On Fire (Springsteen cover), via Fred Wilson. I posted a tune from his sweet album When The Devil’s Loose last week. Here, he does The Boss so well.
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The Tallest Man On Earth - The Drying of the Lawns. Modern Bob Dylan folk meets Ikea sensibility meets hipster ‘stache styles. Secretly live in Vancouver, May 12. Shhh, don’t tell anyone.
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Aaron Nazrul - Butterfly Man [snag]
Since I picked up this track it’s been on repeat…there’s a dose of authenticity here that makes it incredibly accessible. I love the bluesy soul thing going on here, and I just found out he’s local to Vancouver. Solid.
Big ups to @hillydilly for hunting this.
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A.A. Bondy - When The Devil’s Loose. Here’s Verbana frontman’s sweet Southern folk desperation
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Nirvana - Lake Of Fire (MTV Unplugged). A little subdued angst for early morning pre BMO Vancouver (half) Marathon
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Flight of the Conchords - I Like to Rock the Party. Who likes to rock the party?
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Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (acoustic). Haunting acoustic version by the Boss for a cloudy Friday
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The Great Unknowns - Las Vegas. Some all-stars from my college music scene, including my band Second Act’s bassist @Altay, made the great album “Presenting The Great Unknowns” in 2004. More at http://www.greatunknowns.com/music.htm
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Growing up in a touchscreen world… err, my 1st computer experience was Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
From http://laughingsquid.com/a-2-5-year-old-uses-an-ipad-for-the-first-time/
My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter held an iPad for the very first time last night, and it turned out to be an interesting user-interface experiment.
As you can see, after geeking out on my Sutro Tower homescreen, she took right to it — including figuring out how to enlarge some of her favorite iPhone-legacy apps to 2x to display full-size on the iPad screen. If you’re good at understanding kid-speak, you’ll also notice that she immediately saw its potential as a video-display device. She lamented the lack of a camera, and wondered about its potential for playing games.
On the downside, she had the same frustration as many adults, where touching the screen-edge with your thumb while holding the iPad blocks input to all home screen icons. Notice also that she was confused by the splash page for FirstWords Animals, her favorite spelling game: Because the start button looked like a graphic, rather than a conventional button, she couldn’t figure out how to start the game.
Most of all, though, it’s cool to consider that as one of the new Children of Cyberspace, her expectations about computing will be shaped by the fact that she’s growing up in a touchscreen world.
