September 2011
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Everything Popular is Wrong
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The freedom experienced in creating music to your own criteria first and even “against the market” if necessary is way more elegant than trying to squeeze as much as possible out of music that has to produce your paycheck. That is another factor contributing to an artist’s longevity in the market — having guts and principles. Get your head around it, do your homework and you’ll...
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A Venereal Disease/Like a Menstrual Bleed: The... →
Lil Wayne has achieved unbelievable success in a few short years… Aside from racking up record-breaking sales (over a million albums sold in its first week), Tha Carter III was nominated for a whopping eight Grammys, winning four. He’s a rare beast in the mainstream hip-hop world: a hugely popular artist who is also critically acclaimed. Yet a close examination of his work reveals...
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Ender's Game
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott-Card
Chapter 1 — Third
“I’ve watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and tell you he’s the one. Or at least as close as we’re going to get.” “That’s what you said about the brother.” “The brother tested out impossible. For other reasons. Nothing to do with his...
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Ubu: Electronic Music Resources (books) →
This new section of Ubuweb is devoted to technical resources concerning the practice of electronic and experimental sound. This is a place for information about actual methods and techniques, with little writing on aesthetics alone. It takes the form of technical/historical articles, interviews, books, small-press magazines and patents. Regrettably, most previous treatments of electronic...
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Metropolis
Metropolis
Thea von Harbou
This book is not of today or of the future.
It tells of no place.
It serves no cause, party or class.
It has a moral which grows on the pillar of understanding:
“The mediator between brain and muscle must be the Heart.”
-T. vH.
Chapter I
NOW THE RUMBLING of the great organ swelled to a roar, pressing, like a rising giant, against the vaulted...
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