How Fast Are You?

From the band that brought us that wacky and wonderful treadmill music video for “Here It Goes Again.” Keep up the good work fellas!

No, in a good way!

Quoth the creator, John Boswell:

A musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn -- Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and Stephen Hawking’s Universe series.

RIP Dr. Sagan, you will be missed!!

Please, click HQ to watch in better quality.

Go here to download the track:
http://www.colorpulsemusic.com/youtube.html

Via @JaneWiedlin.

Another delightful track from Pogo, this time composed of sounds from from Steven Spielberg’s Hook (1991):

Via Dr. Tiki.

BONUS: Click through for Pogo’s Alice in Wonderland remix…

Via davecobb.

How do our friends show their love? By introducing us to great new music like Marina and the Diamonds, that’s how!

Via jesthered.

Bonus video with throwies after the jump!

Watch yer brains kiddies, it’s The Zombeatles!

Via the very nice people at Coilhouse, who have more information.

Pico and Sepulveda, as performed in 1947 by Felix Figueroa and his Orchestra, and as seen in Richard Elfman’s 1982 film The Forbidden Zone. Stay tuned for the money line at the end:

Vine may be fine, but for mine
I want to feel alive
and settle down in my
La Brea Tar Pits

Where nobody’s dreams come true…

Brought to mind by Will Campbell’s post on Los Angeles Metblogs, where they’ve got a whole series going on songs about Los Angeles.

Lynda Carter will be performing at the Catalina Jazz Club¹ in Hollywood Thursday, March 5th² through Saturday, March 7th. Quoth the LA Times:

Expect to hear a well-polished set from a performer who can deliver a song even better than she can take down a bad guy.

I’m not ashamed to admit that this fulfills many an adolescent fantasy. I should be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not, do you hear?! Not!

Catalina Jazz Club
6725 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
[map]

Via sidewalksuperheroes.

The current trial underway in Sweden is important to all consumers, especially those of us who are of the nerd persuasion. The outcome may decide how media is distributed and how much hold the music industry still has on your entertainment dollar (spoiler: not much).

The music industry, in particular the terrorist organization known as the RIAA, has been whining for years that piracy is stealing precious dollars from their coffers. Even when presented with clear statistics that file sharers purchase more music and media, they turn up their noses and turn the screws.

But as a recent article from Torrent Freak explains very clearly, the music industry killed itself. To quote the simple and elegant logic:

The fact is that the music industry’s revenues have been artificially inflated for decades because of limited consumer options. The last 15 years of innovation have lifted those limitations, effectively leaving the music industry with an obsolete, defective business model of monopolized production technology, forced album bundling, and almost nonexistent competition in the realm of home entertainment. What is happening now – the decline of music profits and the piracy witch hunt by the music industry – is merely the panicked struggle of a dying business model, a complacent industry’s refusal to accept its diminishing role in a digital world. The pirates are not the reason, and the decline is the not the disease. It is the cure.

We have been spending our heard-earned dollars elsewhere: computers, gaming consoles, MP3 downloads. The music industry refused to budge from their business model of CD unit sales, which were astronomically priced for years. Now they are suffering as a result of their stubbornness and trying to find scapegoats in innocent people in desperation.

What can you do? Support efforts to fight DRM, support digital freedom, and be a good guy.