I hate ads. On the Internet, in the Paris Metro, on TV. I hate Flash. I link to an occasional YouTube video, and yes, I even use Flash for my numerous music players, but it’s slow, it hogs ressources, especially so on the Mac. Which is why I surf mostly ad-free, using Safari and SafariBlock,…
Catégorie : Old sknoblog (2003–2011)
1 mot, 1 chanson: Déboussolé
The last few months have been insane and I didn’t have time to think about music-making, let alone actually do some. I finally had time to sit down and start writing a new « one-word, one-song » song, but as I plodded laboriously along, I veered off-course into different, uncharted waters and ended up with something quite…
Animal Songs
I received this email from music-hosting site PurePlay yesterday: Subject: Vincent Knobil – You are on the playlist!!! You have made it onto the Pure Play Music Playlist We have chosen some of your tracks to play on our internet broadcasts. The tracks are currently on our automated playlist, so we cannot give accurate details…
Ce Insanity, continued (squared)
Epilogue. Following the calls from the customer service lady, and then from Davina, the online sales department lady, I got the third call, as promised, from Kaoutar, the regular sales department lady. She told me that they would exchange the defective LG set by an identically priced Toshiba set, which had the same specs. We…
Striking a chord (or 3)
I’ve always been puzzled by the fact that 99% of the pop music hits out there leave me totally cold and unmoved. I’m not a snob (I’m just a sknob). I like my share of simple or simplistic music. Maybe this incredible video by The Axis of Awesome explains it! See for yourself…
CE Insanity, continued, continued
Chapter 3. So the repairman came to check out the slightly defective new TV set last wednesday. He said he couldn’t fix it (big surprise) and that they would get back to me. Which they did, today, saying we had to go into a store to get an exchange. So far, so good. Except that:…
CE Insanity, continued
So, how does the new HDTV stack up you may wonder, if you somehow made it through this recent post? Well, it’s pretty great, even though I’m still mourning the loss of my 16+ year-old Sony 20″ CRT TV… I still haven’t connected anything via HDMI to the new set, but standard (wide-screen) TV, PPV,…
Geeks In Love Milestone
The Geeks were only off a couple of weeks, and have reached yet another major milestone. I never thought things would get to this point! UPDATE: Access to Geeks In Love seems to be hit and miss today. Too bad…
CE Insanity
I bought a TV about 16 years ago. A mono Sony set, with a 20 inch screen. In color mind you. I got cable about 8 years ago. I got a combo VHS+DVD player a few years ago. I got TV (some of it HD) via ADSL for free, without asking for it, as part…
But seriously…
Frank Zappa published a series of albums of live performances entitled « Does Humor Belong In Music? ». Good question. Or is it? It sometimes seems that for any artistic endeavour to be taken seriously and respected, it has to be, well, serious, and as such, devoid of humor. Humor casts doubt on the seriousness of the…