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  • The Core is Getting Soft.6: Ohm…Ohm….Ohm….

    While the last post in this series on plug ins and virtual instruments, “Tuba Time,” proved that there are some truly atrocious digital products out there, this should not cause one to give up hope.  One of the best software developers out there, the French company Ohm Force, make fantastic products, and they are on…

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    July 5, 2013
    Music, Series of posts, The Core is Getting Soft
    Digital vs. Analog, Music, Plug Ins, software reviews, The Core is Getting Soft
  • Corporate Welfare.2: Subsidizing Sallie Mae

    Continuing this series on the publicly funded nature of so called private enterprise in this country…. Sometimes subsidies know how to disguise themselves.  Blackwater’s defense contracts bring them direct cash payments for no-bid contracts.  But student lenders like Sallie Mae get their government cheese in the form of regulations on interest rates.  In a double…

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    July 3, 2013
    Debt, Economics, Politics, Series of posts
    Barack Obama, Capitalism, David Graeber, Doug Henwood, Economics, Elizabeth Warren, Left media, michael hudson, Neoliberalism, Politics, profit margins, Socialism, Spain, The Real News Network, Washington Consensus
  • The Core is Gettin’ Soft.5: Tuba Time!

    I recently saw an interview with Lydia Lunch in which she said that the guitar bass and drums sound was dead, dead, dead.  She admonished people to move on and play the tuba.  So of course I was thrilled to find a free tuba sample library this evening, which I am currently downloading.  I’m not…

    jhd123

    July 1, 2013
    Music, Series of posts, The Core is Getting Soft
    Digital vs. Analog, Lydia Lunch, Plug Ins, software reviews, Syd Barrett, Tuba
  • Corporate Welfare.1: Blackwater’s Warfare Welfare

    (This is the first in a new series of posts about how corporations that claim to generate profit in the private sector are heavily subsidized by taxpayers in ways that I could only wish fields like education and healthcare were.  For an overview on that, see “Free Lunch:  How the Richest Americans Enrich Themselves at…

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    June 28, 2013
    Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Economics, History, Politics, Series of posts
    Aaron Glantz, american empire, Bank of America, Blackwater, Book Reviews, Capitalism, David Cay Johnston, Dirty Wars, Economics, Free Lunch, Goldman Sachs, History, Imperialism, Jeremy Scahill, JP Morgan, Left media, Matt Taibbi, Neoliberalism, profit margins, The War Comes Home, Too Big To Fail, veterans
  • The Core is Getting Soft.4: Redwirez Rulez

    It’s a tough enough job convincing folks that they shouldn’t look down on music software when it comes to stuff people use when holed up in recording studios.  But the guitar amplifier is a public affair.  Imagine a live rock band pulling out a laptop onstage instead of rolling out fearsome refrigerator size amplifiers.  …

    jhd123

    June 15, 2013
    Music, Series of posts, The Core is Getting Soft
    Digital vs. Analog, Music, Plug Ins, software reviews, The Core is Getting Soft, Wisecracks
  • Other John Davises.5: The Day the Dream Died

    Dreams.  We all have them.  We all want to live them.  We all suffer from this misguided aspiration when we wake up to the reality of lived experience. Green Day can sing about the Boulevard of Broken Dreams all they want, but they’ve never tasted anything like the intense disappointment I have recently experienced after…

    jhd123

    June 2, 2013
    Other John Davises, Series of posts, Spare Parts, Wisecracks
    Georgie James, Green Day, Laura Burhenn, Other John Davises, Spare Parts
  • Secrets of the Temple.2: Double Dutch

    (This is a follow up to the post Secrets of the Temple.1: More Than a Doorstop, dated 1/13/13.) As I wrote in my first post on William Greider’s history of the Federal Reserve board, one of the aims of “Secrets of the Temple” is to question whether Ronald Reagan really was the primary source of…

    jhd123

    May 19, 2013
    Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Debt, Economics, History, Politics, Secrets of the Temple, Series of posts
    american empire, Book Reviews, Capitalism, Economics, History, John Maynard Keynes, Neoliberalism, Niall Ferguson, Politics, Secrets of the Temple, The Real News Network, Washington Consensus, William Greider
  • Top 40 Over 40.12: Morton Feldman, Piano and String Quartet

          I’ve listened to lots of records I’ve liked over the last 10 years, but the recording the Kronos Quartet made of this piece is probably my favorite.  It seems remarkable that such a strange thing of beauty could be recorded at Skywalker Sound, George Lucas’s compound in Northern California.  Morton Feldman spent the…

    jhd123

    May 5, 2013
    Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40
    Gamelan, John Cage, Modern classical music, Morton Feldman, Orientalism, Stereolab, Steve Reich, Sufjan Stevens, Zen
  • Other John Davises.4: My Life as a Painter on the Plains

    It’s hard to keep track of all of your parallel lives when you have a ubiquitous name.  They criss cross the English speaking world like railroad tracks.  Fortunately, I have spies.  Agents.  Tentacles.  Informants.  Eyes and ears, everywhere. Like in thrift stores in Nebraska. Megan Siebe is one of these.  Her surveillance skills factored heavily…

    jhd123

    March 19, 2013
    Other John Davises, Series of posts, Spare Parts
    Megan Siebe, Other John Davises, Spare Parts, Upcoming Projects, Wisecracks
  • Top 40 Over 40.11: Wurst is also Best!

    I cannot pretend to write an objective review of today’s entry into my Top 40 Over 40 countdown, Transcendental Youth by the Mountain Goats.  You see, I compete in an annual NFL pool with John Darnielle and Peter Hughes.  I’m indebted to Peter for running this pool and to John for keeping me out of…

    jhd123

    March 3, 2013
    Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Sports, Top 40 Over 40, Uncategorized
    John Darnielle, Jon Wurster, Mountain Goats, Music, Peter Hughes, Record Reviews, Sports, Top 40 Over 40
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