A daily miasma of frivolity by two wanna-be cultural critics. Or: just, like, some good links, dude.

Jul 03 2012
Mark Twain, probably

For reasons that are far too stupid to go into here, I was searching for music featuring both bagpipes and banjo the other day. This was one of the results.

NATIONAL BANJO CHAMPION DAN KNOWLES, returns with PIPER ED SMITH, FIDDLERS TYLER ANDELL, ADAM FRENCH & BASSIST SAM KNOWLES for this Civil War era tour-de-force! Recorded at the TENNESSEE STATE OLD TIME FIDDLE CHAMPIONSHIP in Clarksville, TN on 3-18-2011.

I’m uncertain what bagpipes have to do with the American Civil War, but okay.

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Jul 02 2012
Mark Twain, probably

From 1988:

Welcome to the fourth annual Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship finals, featuring regional finalists from all across the United States competing for the title of America’s best aerobic athlete!

I can’t look away.

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Jul 01 2012
Mark Twain, probably

Horne’s ‘home run cycle’ has yet to be replicated

Horne’s ‘home run cycle’ has yet to be replicated

Lisa Winston for MLB.com back in 2006:

On July 27, 1998, playing for the Arkansas Travelers of the Double-A Texas League, [Tyrone] Horne hit four home runs in a 13-4 victory at San Antonio.

Now, four-homer games by themselves are rare, but certainly not unprecedented. This year, there have been two such performances in the Minors (Ryan Harvey of the Daytona Cubs did it on July 28 and Alexis Gomez of the Toledo Mud Hens hit four on Aug. 7).

But Horne hit a two-run home run in the first inning, a grand slam in the second, a solo shot in the fifth and a three-run homer in the sixth.

In essence, he “homered for the cycle,” something never done before in the Majors or Minors and has not been duplicated since.

And it hasn’t been done in the six years since the article.

The rest of the piece is a nice feel-good story about Horne.

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Jun 30 2012
Mark Twain, probably

Wikipedia: SimCopter

Wikipedia: SimCopter

The game gained controversy when a designer inserted sprites of shirtless “himbos” (male bimbos) in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other, who appear in great numbers on certain dates. Their fluorescent nipples were drawn with a special rendering mode usually reserved for fog-piercing runway landing lights, so they could easily be seen from long distances in bad weather. An unintended emergent behavior of the code caused hundreds of himbos to swarm and crowd around the helicopter, where they would be slashed up by the blades, and then need to be air-lifted to the hospital — which earned the player easy money.

First off, what.

Secondly, what.

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Jun 30 2012
Mark Twain, probably

I’m not exactly sure what this is, but oh boy is it hilarious. Here’s another one.

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Jun 29 2012
Mark Twain, probably

The Magic of FM Synth

The Magic of FM Synth

Ray Barnholt wrote an great piece for 1UP.com on the use of FM synthesis in video game music. Writing on this kind of thing can be really dodgy, but this is pretty accurate and also pretty comprehensive, going over arcade games and Japanese PCs too. Check it out!

And I can’t recommend enough the Ubiktune albums mentioned at the end, FM FUNK MADDNESS!! and FM FUNK TERRROR!!. Also pretty much every other Ubiktune album released in the last year and a half.

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Jun 29 2012
Mark Twain, probably

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg

Fantastic music video for the song “Fantasy” by French electro musician DyE, off his debut Taki 183.

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Jun 29 2012
Mark Twain, probably

First trailer for RZA’s movie “The Man with the Iron Fists”

First trailer for RZA’s movie “The Man with the Iron Fists”

So far, RZA’s exceeding my expectations for this. Pretty amped.

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Jun 28 2012
Mark Twain, probably

Ken M has solved the financial crisis.

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Jun 27 2012
Mark Twain, probably

“Did I ever lie to you?”

“Did I ever lie to you?”

You may have heard that Jerry Sandusky of Penn State was convicted on forty-five child sexual abuse counts last week. I was reading an article on it from the Associated Press in the paper and this passage jumped out at me:

The accuser known in court papers as Victim 6 broke down in tears upon hearing the verdicts. Afterward, a prosecutor embraced him and said, “Did I ever lie to you?”

I kind of choked up a bit.

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