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9 Jan, 2008 9:01 am
... business is spot on. Apple is one company that has actually benefited from the switch to digital music, or so they say. That seems right.
When I bought my first iPod, about four years ago, I had an 'Ah ha!' moment. I re-discovered my love for music, an epiphany that paved the way
for me to switch my computing life completely to Apple. ... radio. It was an impulse purchase so I really had no idea how much I would like it. The quality of the sound is great,
and I now have a steady stream of new music ...
18 Dec, 2008 12:58 am
I have never felt this impulse or wanted to ask this question, but apparently it's been asked of The Explainer at Slate, and you can vote on whether you want it ... hot broth.
Anyway, back to the question in the blog post title: why does some music make you want to shake your booty? As Gradmommy notes, Asian people
dance ... have quite the fine ass, but it doesn't work right, at least in response to music. In fact, I think the enchanting swaying of my rear
when I walk is due to my surgically-corrected ...
22 Aug, 2007 7:47 am
... Blue" and "A Love Supreme", and I've thought for years that an overlooked way to talk about the history of American music would be to
explore the history of the record labels that distributed so much of it. It's been done, of course-- search ... one thousand words -- it expresses what our listening experience with
Impulse was." A CD booklet doesn't reproduce that, and mp3s have eradicated the artifact from the experience of music altogether. I feel
that loss acutely. I have vivid recollections of ...
11 Dec, 2008 10:35 am
... easy credit mentality isn't about value investing or shopping it's all about impulse and psychology. Those who trampled the greeter are the weakest link in National fabric,
and ... Friday fight that has the young camera person laughing while she records this impulsive behavior that looks more like junkies fighting
over their next fix. ... do well on Black Friday. This Best Buy, Black Friday put to rap music shows the number of shoppers converging on a
local store - The lyrics predict the problem. We ...
30 Sep, 2006 3:47 pm
... The events I relate above do not appear connected, yet they are the product of the same set of impulses. That impulse was nicely summarized recently in a criticism of
the Western response to the violence that accompanied the so-called Danish cartoon ... (spanning millennia) by students. In the one case, the West denies itself a continued renewal of
its cultural ties to music and expression, and on the other the West forbids the education of its children in its own cultural fundamentals. A
society ...
14 Dec, 2006 12:31 pm
... as if it were a dollar candy bar being vended. Both machines were attracting quite a crowd. Of course, for an impulse iPod buyer, you'd then have to load up iTunes on your
laptop, sign on and buy some music, then sync . . . hey Apple, ... you could buy a "classic rock" version or a "symphonically classical"
edition or even a "hip hop" collection of starter music so iPods could actually be used out of the box. Anyway, both machines were attracting
crowds - no ...
4 Jul 1:49 am
... that promised so much fun and functionality. It does deliver, no doubt. As a music and video player, it's still the clear leader both in
form, function and ... streamlined experience, especially if you don't own a Mac. You must impulse buy everything @ iTunes! I installed Apple's synchronization software - iTunes
- and was ... what happens at TheLaw.com. Safari is a quick, useful and delightful web browser to use. The music and media portion were quick,
easy to operate and the screen is beautiful. It ...
5 Dec, 2006 8:36 pm
... and shared - basically used as the fuel for the individual creative impulse of the listener, without the threat of copyright infringement. The framework around this
innovative approach to music production and dissemination is based on a set of copyright licence ... creative property well respected. It also
aims to develop the creative drive and technical expertise of aspirant music producers in South Africa by encouraging an open exchange of
ideas. It is precisely this sort of initiative that helps ...
5 Dec, 2006 10:36 pm
... and shared - basically used as the fuel for the individual creative impulse of the listener, without the threat of copyright infringement. The framework around this
innovative approach to music production and dissemination is based on a set of copyright licence ... creative property well respected. It also
aims to develop the creative drive and technical expertise of aspirant music producers in South Africa by encouraging an open exchange of
ideas. It is precisely this sort of initiative that helps ...
2 Aug 4:21 pm
... that song title!), and after that first time I played it so incessantly that I needed to find a way to "participate in" or "respond" to the music. To my surprise, I found myself writing a poem. It was a terrifically bad poem--entitled "Misty Road" (I still remember ... which gets the people close
to me (especially non-poets) upset about what happens on the blogosphere, it's seeing my impulse to help strangers for free, first engrained in me as a public defender (so
low-paid a job we often joked ...
27 Jul 3:00 am
... agreements make arbitration a means of precluding consumers from obtaining any feasible relief. Calling "Alternative Rock" a certain style of music some students at liberal arts colleges enjoy has long given the music a sheen of integrity ... , gentler
alternative to litigation and actually minimize or eliminate the downside of corporate malfeasance. Is there any solution, any impulse towards what now, fifty years since the
rise of consumer protection legislation, seems to be an old fashioned impulse ...
9 Apr 5:01 pm
... to Life," a song subjected to extensive criticism by students who disliked what they saw as the dilution of funk and house music with
"inappropriate" use of strings . . . some students explained that "inappropriateness" as the "bombastic" or "pompous" use of strings for music
that might ... students, this ad had the effect of seeing "Swan Lake" integrated even while another student's impulse was to question whether or not black people want to see
everything (including "trash") integrated. . . . One ...
13 Nov 7:14 am
... aware, a variety of copyright and trademark disputes have prevented the online distribution of the most valuable catalogue of musical recordings known to humanity - viz., the
songs of the Beatles, whose value in the online marketplace surely exceeds a billion dollars. ... brain, in terms of its perceptual coding in the central nervous system, turns these
sounds into electrical impulses, which then affect your mood, your cognizance, etc. Pyschoacoustic simulation exploits aspects of perception that ...
15 Dec, 2006 4:34 am
I was going to compile my annual list of favourite moments in TV/Books/Film/Music when I got back to Calgary, but I've been warned I'm booked
for many a game ... but damned if his grasp on how the internet really affects us isn't the most accurate yet. Music Ryan Adams didn't release
anything this year, so the music ... absolutely dominated my iTunes play count this year. In these days of the internet and impulse
downloads, any musical discovery has a good chance of hitting the trash after a few spins. ...
11 Feb, 2008 11:36 pm
... is in the community. If there is a natural opposite to gold-plated pop irony and faceless file sharing - music as the American majority
knows it in 2008 - this is it. These meetings are earnest, participant directed and person to person: a slow-going, folkish appreciation of American vernacular culture. Much of this
impulse descends from Pete Seeger, who has championed the cause of group-singing for more than 60 years. "No one can prove a ...
26 Mar 9:42 am
... and its bonus structure - I've been hearing language that reminds me of what I find objectionable about genuine socialism - the totalitarian impulse and the invasion of
individual autonomy. That language concerns what people need. I've been hearing a lot that AIG executives don' ... is incorrect, but in a way beyond the scope of this post.) I don't
"need" the books and games and music I buy - or at least, there is surely some bean-counter-at-heart who is willing to parse them and say I
don't "need" ...
15 Feb, 2008 8:55 am
From my favorite online seller, I ordered up some nice music on DVD to give to Mrs. B on Valentine's Day. Being an impulse shopper, I
also checked the box to send some books from my wish list. February 14 comes. The books arrived, but no music. So I had to ask my colleagues
for advice. For V day, do I give my wife The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, ...
29 Sep, 2008 2:00 pm
... of earphones. When I purchased my iPhone, I also purchased the Shure SE210 earphones and Music Phone Adapter. I was excited because Shure
makes the best foam eartips. They're ... special offer and bought them for $371 (they usually sell for $419). This was no impulse purchase. Remember, I had been searching for a
year. The right product finally hit the ... noticeably better imaging and more punch. One day after listening to some music with the triple.fi
10 vi, I switched to the super.fi 5 pro. I couldn't ...
9 Oct, 2008 5:40 am
... of earphones. When I purchased my iPhone, I also purchased the Shure SE210 earphones and Music Phone Adapter. I was excited because Shure
makes the best foam eartips. They're ... special offer and bought them for $371 (they usually sell for $419). This was no impulse purchase. Remember, I had been searching for a
year. The right product finally hit the ... noticeably better imaging and more punch. One day after listening to some music with the triple.fi
10 vi, I switched to the super.fi 5 pro. I couldn't ...
30 Apr 10:09 am
... been pursuing various links in my continuing quest to find easy ways to pay for music I like. I came across RCRD LBL.com which appears to
be a curated online community for ... for non-commercial purposes. They seem to be operating on a sponsorship model, rather than an impulse purchse model, so it's not precisely
what I was looking for but it's clearly a ... sites do better by getting more traffic so in a way I am 'paying' for music I found there by
promoting them and I hope getting my dear readers to ...
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