As I’ve been sending out links to some of the music on the site to people, I have noticed that I am loath to direct people to zShare (where I used to host my music files), on account of the videos of girls in thongs that surround the download links. So, to remedy that, and because I don’t have all that much download traffic anyway, I’m rehosting all the music stuff myself, so I can send links to people that don’t involve multitudinous fannies. So all the links through the sidebar should go to files hosted on my site. Please right-click and download rather than listen online to save me the bandwidth!

I’ve added “Won’t Get Fooled Again and Again” to the sidebar (for better or worse–I’d recommend listening to the beginning, then find the guitar solos, then skip to the end), along with a The Books-inspired piece I composed for a multimedia course in college (in the archive-dredging spirit of the last post, and a previous draft of the Ciara piece from my Pop Studies. Also, in the spirit of full disclosure that has overcome me, a piece simply titled “Song 1” composed in Apple’s Garage Band, made solely from royalty-free loops. Highly recommended comedy listening.

For the completists out there, here is a list of all the musical cruft lining my website tubes:

• Pop Studies The whole album of ‘em.
• Ciara Drone The early version.
• Estefan on the Beach Philip Glass, a la Miami Sound Machine.
• My Claps Steve Reich, a la Black Eyed Peas.
• Seaver Final Project The elegantly named Books rip-off.
• Song 1 Royalty-free and comedy gold.
• Won’t Get Fooled Again and Again Keep in mind the listening notes above.

More to come…..?

After posting up that wordle visualization of my senior thesis, I decided to take a look back through the archives to see what other interesting things I could unearth. Reading one’s own college essays is an experience in humor and embarrassment that I could not just keep to myself. Of course, it wouldn’t be fair to you to put up the actual essays, so instead I’ve collected their titles, my recollections, and some visuals courtesy of Wordle for your amusement. Enjoy after the jump.

I saw Wordle on the blog of one of my future classmates, where she ran her thesis through it, so I decided to try it out on my own college thesis, just for kicks.

Basically, you copy in text, and it makes a picture of the top 150 words, varying in size according to their frequency. Here’s mine:

That appears to sum up my academic interests quite nicely. Maybe I should bring a copy to these meetings I’m having with faculty to explain myself.

(Words of note: the indistinguishable “indistinguishable” beneath the OR of “recording,” “woman,” above the D in “sounds,” and “Schafer” under the MU of “music.” I have no idea why woman would have shown up that often, especially given that I was particularly neglectful of female artists in my paper. Also, it appears that my obsession with Schafer-bashing turned up here. Also, it is so cool that “Metal” turned up at the top, capitalized of course because it usually refers to Metal Machine Music or Metal Acoustic Music.)

I had to add: I just learned that Metal Machine Music is sampled in the TV on the Radio song “Let the Devil In,” and that there exists a Killers song that begins in a similar way to a track on Metal Machine Music. Now I’m done.

Not actually done. I searched my thesis for “woman” to figure out the mystery, and it turns out it shows up a ton of times in a row in my description of Turing’s imitation game. So there you have it.

In honor of today’s internet Radiohead-style release of Girl Talk’s new album, I’m going to liveblog it, because it seems appropriate. Let’s see how much of this turns into “name that tune.” I’ll try to make it moderately interesting.

Turned out kind of long. Scroll to the end for my incisive conclusions, after the break.

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Won’t Get Fooled Again (played five times simultaneously)