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I could use some of this.

(via Glen Phillips)

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Whenever we have people over to visit, one of the first things they do is use the Magnetic Poetry set on our refrigerator. Given the temporal nature of these creations, I thought it would be cool to start archiving some of them. Maybe this will incite more people to visit us - not only do you get to spend time with Carla and myself, there’s a chance your work will be posted on the internet on a website with….tens of visitors each month!

Anyway, to start things off, here’s one I think I made:

remember
yesterday pierce s the present
ask the universe for joy
listen with sacred longing

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“Ike, do your impression of David Caruso’s ridiculous opening one-liners from CSI:Miami!”

Caution: this goes on way too long. It wears out its welcome at around the halfway mark, and then, in true Sideshow Bob rake gag fashion, gets better again.

Have a great Friday…
…Miami style.

*cue Roger Daltrey “YEEEAAHHHHHH!”*

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Glen Phillips, one of my favorite songwriters, is sponsoring a contest to promote his new EP, Secrets of the New Explorers. Much like Nine Inch Nails, the Beastie Boys and Jim’s Big Ego before him, he’s provided the multi-track .wav files to his song “The Spirit of Shackleton” for budding remixers/arrangers/karaoke vocalists to do with what they please.

Having done this kind of thing before back in the old MP3.com days (check the remixes here), I was curious to see what I could come up with, and threw this together with a download of a loop-based music program, Glen’s tracks, and some stock loops. The original’s a little slower, but I was going for a more paranoid techno feel, in keeping with the lyrics of the song.

Check out some of the others at Kompoz.com, and if you like it, please leave a comment or something. I don’t know if public opinion will sway the judges, but the winner gets a guitar autographed by the man himself, and I could use all the validation from my heroes that I can get.

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