Tag: Popular culture
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RC 374: Midnights Are The New Afternoons / Black Sheep
BAH says the Black Sheep! Many midnights to (re)create this podcast…This podcast went wrong many times – first all but the last 2 1/2 songs were distorted on the recording so had to remix everything. I also had problems losing all my iZotope RX presets and plugins cos I uninstalled some software and it took…
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Lou Hayter – Private Sunshine
Rather late to the party – but my what a party! Listening to Lou Hayter’s Private Sunshine, which I would say quickly has rocketed up to my favourite albums of 2021, but it was released last year. The deluxe was released this year, so sorta qualifies. To the layman they’d probably say ‘chilled 80’s’ but…
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Voice Cloning AI and OpenAI Jukebox
It seems like those spooky AI images and sharpening now we are on the brink of AI voice and music generation – i.e. feeding in acapellas or instrumentals and the neural network generates new versions – with all the legal headaches that suggest. Is it owned by the computer or the original source artist? What…
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This Is America – Call Me Maybe?
Amazing that some get their knickers in a twist about this, a free media and especially one that points out the shallow nature of escapism and pop culture (something Mr Glover was guilty of too) also should be one open to parody, humour and critique. No shibboleths. ‘Srs Message is Srs’ – sorry, it’s also…
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This is America
With little-handed yellow hanky Donny coming over to the UK in July 13th (a Friday no less! See you there) it’s worth watching a timely PSA from another Donald – Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino. Initially it took me a few watches to get this – the first time was just shock – WTF IS…
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Nothing to prove – girl geeks
Love this video by the Doubleclicks called Nothing to Prove, which I found via the comments on this excellent Hijinks Ensue comic (which indeed is about identifying geeks). I think it needs to be said, there are probably almost no fake girl geeks – but if there are, I doubt in that subculture there are…