Apr 2009
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ACL Music Festival

04/29/09 18:03 Filed in: Music
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Music artists I’d like to hear at aclfestival: Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, School of Seven Bells, !!!, Bon Iver, The Decemberists, Alela Diane, Sonic Youth.

New Prefuse 73

04/23/09 09:19 Filed in: Music

Out Now. Prefuse 73 “Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian”


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National Library Week

04/09/09 09:31 Filed in: Misc

National Library Week 2009

The local library is where Jamie Lee Curtis ‘connects’. You can connect with the world, April 12-18, 2009. Visit www.ilovelibraries.org/nationallibraryweek.

Lost Knowledge

04/05/09 17:56 Filed in: Misc
The new issue of Make magazine features steampunk nerdness. Check it.

"Volume 17: MAKE Volume 17 goes really old school with the Lost Knowledge issue, featuring projects and articles covering the steampunk scene -- makers creating their own alternative Victorian world through modified computers, phones, cars, costumes, and other fantastic creations. Projects include an elegant Wimshurst Influence Machine (an electrostatic generator built entirely from Home Depot parts), a Florence Siphon coffee brewer, and a teacup-powered Stirling engine. This special section also covers watchmaking, letterpress printing, the early multimedia art of William Blake, and other wondrous and lost (or fading) pre-20th-century technologies." -- Make



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Do Not Call Registry

04/04/09 13:51 Filed in: Misc
For the first time in years, I started using a land-line phone. I was ready to use my phone once the service technician completed the setup, but before I could use the phone to call anyone, I had already received five phone calls/messages from telemarketers on my new phone line. To prevent more unwanted calls, I re-registered my new phone number to the "National Do Not Call Registry". Back in 2003, I had registered myself on the 'do not call list' and was asked to re-register every year after. If I failed to remember, then marketers could again make commercial calls. Thankfully, times have changed. In February 2008, the Improvement Act of 2007 removed the loophole. Telephone numbers placed on the National Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently. To register your phone number or to file a complaint against a telemarketer, visit the Do Not Call site. Note: it takes 31 days for the registration to take effect, some organizations (non-profit) are exempt, and cellphones may be registered.


US National Do Not Call
https://www.donotcall.gov/

Questions & Answers with FTC
Federal Trade Commission: The National Do Not Call Registry


Ableton Live 8

04/03/09 13:37 Filed in: Tech
Ableton has officially released Live 8. Out now and available online or at retailers. Next paycheck will be a chance for me to upgrade. I Beta tested Live 8 but never really worked on it long enough to find any bugs or problems. Ableton offers "Suite", "Large", and "LE" package softwares.


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Ableton Suite
Suite is the complete package, the "X-Large" version. Suite gives you the tools and the sounds, with a packed sound library and 10 Ableton instruments.

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Ableton Live
Live is the "Large" version. It provides a comprehensive environment for writing, producing and performing music plus a basic sound set.
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Ableton Live LE
Live LE provides a focused feature set—it's the "Medium" version of Live. Just the essential tools and basic sound content for making music.

Record Store Day

04/02/09 11:47 Filed in: Music

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On April 18, 2009, we should all go out to our local music store and purchase music on vinyl. Chairman demands it and so it shall be.

http://www.recordstoreday.com/
"This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on.

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A Record Store Day participating store is defined as a physical retailer whose product line consists of at least 50% music retail, whose company is not publicly traded and whose ownership is at least 70% located in the state of operation. (In other words, we’re dealing with real, live, physical, indie record stores—not online retailers or corporate behemoths)."




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Forida Film Festival

04/02/09 09:44 Filed in: Film
Film freaks, don't forget the Florida Film Festival 09 ends soon. I have seen the Animated Shorts, "Not Quite Hollywood", and Plympton's cartoon "Idiots & Angels". There's still more to see at Enzian or Regal theatre in Winter Park by April 5th. "Art & Copy" is the next movie I plan to see. Film Festival music: jazz legend, Sam Rivers will be performing, Saturday, April 4, 6:30 to 10:00 PM, Maitland Art Center, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland, FL 32751.


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Ratatat and Tussle

04/02/09 09:27 Filed in: Music | Events

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FOUNDATION PRESENTS: SATURDAY - APRIL 11, 2009 @ HOUSE OF BLUES


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Doors 8:00 PM | Show 9:00 PM
House of Blues (Orlando)
1490 E. Buena Vista Dr.
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
(407) 934-BLUE (2583)

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