With the Pioneers of Prime Time TV on tour, I thought it would be appropriate to start a “watch” for any news and/or reviews popping up on the intarwebs. So, with no further ado:
And of course, the videos:
Anyway, I know there are more. I’ll keep you posted.
As the content of my website logs show, I’m apparently always being searched for Sigur Rós material. They are one of my favorite bands, and I did take some sweet pictures of them when they played at Benaroya hall, and I have written about them, so it’s really not THAT surprising.
In any case, I recently found out about the new album released by Jonsí of Sigur Rós, in conjunction with his partner Alex. Called “Riceboy Sleeps“, it’s basically a super mellow, mostly instrumental album along the lines of the more atmospheric things that Sigur Rós has done in the past. If you thought that ( ) or Takk were sleepy albums, you gotta listen to this.
Alex and Jonsí are the ones doing all of Sigur Rós’ design work, including the album covers, t-shirts, etc. Not surprisingly, this album looks like a Sigur Rós album. Had someone put that name on it, the only question would be, “Where are the drums?” It’s Takk-light, is what it is, without the brass.
Anyway, I acted too late to get the box set, so I’ll have to settle for the CD like everyone else. You can stream it on their website at http://jonsiandalex.com/music
The W3C has just released a working draft of a NEW box model for CSS, to complement the already existing box models of CSS 2.1/3.
Called the “Flexible Box Layout Module” it is practically ripped straight out of the user interface methodology of Mozilla-based projects such as Thunderbird and Firefox called XUL.
My co-worker had some smarmy comments to make about it, which realistically are not out of line:
that means we can use SOME parts of it, broken, in IE in 2013. 
While the world moves on ahead, something in our guts tells us that Micro$oft is going to continue minding their own business, to the detriment to the web as a whole. IE6 is almost dead, but its descendants keep tilling much of the same ground their forebear left behind.
Regardless of MS, having more box model to play with is sweet. You want to be able to make operating systems redundant? The ability to create stable and usable User Interfaces is key. That’s why I love my Macs. The UI is peerless.
Giving the entire web the ability to make UI similar to Firefox is certainly a Good Thing™
Much to my chagrin, I’ve apparently been listening to a “genre” of rock called Gypsy Punk. (At least, according to Wikipedia…)
I discovered this on accident, as I was simply looking to see what bands were covered on Devotchka’s “Curse Your Little Heart” EP, when I noticed in the sidebar that good ole’ trustworthy Wikipedia had them listed under a genre I had never heard of.
So I says to myself, “Self, you should click on that link and see what all of this nonsense is about…” LO and BEHOLD!, there were a few other bands that I listen to also, like Beirut. I’m sure the others get tossed into my Devotchka Pandora station too.
Now, I’m not a giant fan of labeling types of music, but there is something to be said for being able to search for a common term and being able to have relevant results. For instance, if I Google “Post-Punk”, I know for a certainty that I am gonna find Joy Division in the results.
Self, you should click on that link and see what all of this nonsense is about.Me. A few paragraphs up.
So now, if I search for “Gypsy Punk”, I know that certain bands that I like will show up under that term, as well as others that I hadn’t previously known about.
Very cool.
Enjoy this video of Devotchka playing their song “How it Ends” live from 2006