Bore Corps’ Neighborhood

I thought this was kind of neat.

The Beatles Complete on Ukulele  (recorded in Shabby Road Studios in Brooklyn!)

I was just looking again at a newsletter I got in October from Spottiswoode & His Enemies and noticed it mentioned at the bottom.  Well, Spottiswoode does a cool version of Within You Without You which I downloaded for free.  Yep, all of the songs are free to download.  They are doing a song a week for 185 weeks till the catalog is complete.  And if you happen to be in Brooklyn this weekend, they are doing a Benefit Concert for Yoko Ono.  Last year it was a benefit for Warren Buffett, so I don't think it's like Yoko's broke and needs bone marrow transplants or anything.

Sunday December 6, 2009, from noon to midnight at Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Whythe Avenue, between N. 11th and N. 12th Streets, Brooklyn 11211.

more info here.

 

The Eyeballing Game 

eyeball right angles, center of circles, 3 lines converging, dissecting an angle, etc.  Oh the worst for me is making a parallelogram.

Planarity

like untangling christmas lights, yarn, etc.  only with more and more for each level more points the faster you get it (if you have hours on your hands)

Let's not forget about the snowflake making sites!

Snow Days and Make-a-flake which is the one where I made this a few years ago:

 

There is no way I could do anything half that cool again.

 

Maybe you'll remember back in October, me trying to get a head start on the year end music voting/contest thing they do on WXPN and posting this.  Maybe not.  Anyway, I think I'm ahead of the game doing that.  Well, sort of.  WXPN decided to add top 10 SONGS of the year too.  And the contest is a drawing to win a 50 inch plasma screen hi-def tv.

You don't have to be a member to enter or win. Vote here, if you care to.

So I compiled my list of top ten songs of the year (and added Mike Doughty's "Sad Man, Happy Man" to the album list, since I only had 9 in October)

and here they are.

1. Illinois---- Hang On
2. Mexican Institute of Sound--Sinfonia Agridulce
3. Gomez--Airstream Driver
4. Empire of the Sun--We Are The People
5. Guerrilladelphia--Unstoppable
6. Vic Chesnutt--Chain
7. East Hundred--Slow Burning Crimes
8. Jack Penate--Tonight's Today
9. Sondre Lerche--Good Luck
10. Mexican Institute of Sound--Reventon

(I had a hard time with #10 so I just repeated a band.)

 

 

Oh Vox, I really hate your fucking formatting.  It really CHAPS MY ASS.

I give up or I will be here all night.

 

 

 

Just a sampling but they are all in my Vox library should anyone give a flying crap!