links for 2009-08-30
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Marc A. Price
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This Week in Tweets (w/e 2009-08-30)
- Landed safe and sound in Cork. Flight news: Aer Lingus breakfast was passable. Loud child kept me awake. Must sleep in car journey. #
- KLM check in area not rubbish today. I must be in a parallel universe. #
- Ugh it's dark o' clock #
- Left work for vacation straight into sheets of horizontal rain. But I can't see any clouds. #weatherfail #
- Can't get out if bed. Last day before holiday and it looks so gloomy out there. Back 2 back meetings all day
((((( # - Did I mention that I'm going on vacation for five weeks? Last day tomorrow. #
- ! ? http://blip.fm/~cdw35 #
- Reading Comic for August 26, 2009 at http://bit.ly/lDlvZ #
- Another production line starts tomorrow. #
- Sitting outside in my garden with an ice tea. Vodka in the next one I think. http://yfrog.com/18g48vj #
- Aha an air conditioned train. That works better. #
- On a full train in NL. What a wonderful day to be stuck on a train. http://bit.ly/n0hhr #
- Hmm beer in in Antwerp. http://yfrog.com/e870ij #
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Marc A. Price
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Ace Frehley in Outer Space
Ace Frehley has finally released a track from his first album in godknowshowlong. The forthcoming album, Anomaly is due in September.The track, Outer Space has a pretty hard edge, is rocking and fresh sounding (unlike some others we ain’t going to mention). You can get it from iTunes. For some reason they are making it hard for you, so if you have a link to the wrong iTunes store it doesn’t redirect. So, I have helpfully added the UK and US store links below.
Any other country and you are on your own I’m afraid.
You can always check out news of the new Ace Frehley album on his website http://www.acefrehley.com/. It is pretty exciting to think that there will finally be new stuff from the Space Ace himself.
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Marc A. Price
This Week in Tweets (w/e 2009-08-23)
- Dear Hotel Leopold in Antwerp, 11am is an early check out time. #
- http://yfrog.com/0u8g8j #
- Sitting in a champagne bar in Antwerp. It is the shape of a champagne glass. #
- Off to Antwerp for the now traditional birthday weekend. #
- RT @almightygod:Bibleman!! http://is.gd/2oGwm #
- Bored bored bored bored bored. Even mindless violence seems boring today. #
- I'd be really pleased to meet you if only I could remember your name ? http://blip.fm/~bye7s #
- Working @ home #
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Marc A. Price
Speaking of KISS tribute bands
It seems that if you want a KISS tribute band then you need look no further than Taylor Swift. Weird, unlikely and my isn’t she tall.
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Marc A. Price
KISS – MODERN DAY DELILAH
Back in the day I championed KISS. They were (in my view) nothing short of awesome. These days (in my view) they have become a KISS tribute band and I refer to them as the Tribute Band Formerly Known As Kiss ( or TBFKAK, – pronounced TBF cack – for short). Here sees them pulling out all of the stops and releasing a track to radio that sounds as if they raided some archive or other and all they could find was something that they would not have made one of their late 1980s efforts. The album cover is a reworking of their Rock N Roll Over sleeve (same artist apparently). In this age of reworking of old movies and zero originality I shouldn’t be surprised. I’m disappointed that a band that excited me so much as a child has become so boring.
Will I buy this? As there is no Walmart in the area probably not, I guess I’ll skip it.
Check it out for yourself if you want, you’ll hate it. The full track, Modern Day Delilah, is available to stream on Kissonline.
MODERN DAY DELILAH
August 20, 2009Okay, KISS Army… the 11-year wait is over! Here’s the first radio track from SONIC BOOM. KISS’ “Modern Day Delilah” hits radio stations everywhere today. Enjoy!
I am looking forward to the new Ace Frehley album though.
Listening to: I’m The Greatest Lover In The World from the album “Songs We Taught The Fuzztones” by Bo Diddley -
Marc A. Price
New Radiohead song
Radiohead have released a new track free of charge courtesy of their DEAD AIR SPACE website. It is pretty much what you’d expect from Radiohead but it is free. I like free.
Mon, 17 August
These Are My Twisted Words
So here’s a new song, called ‘These Are My Twisted Words’.We’ve been recording for a while, and this was one of the first we finished.
We’re pretty proud of it.There’s other stuff in various states of completion, but this is one we’ve been practicing, and which we’ll probably play at this summer’s concerts. Hope you like it.
Download the audio here or torrent here.
Jonny [From DEAD AIR SPACE]Listening to: Lagoon from the album “The Black Babies” by Devendra Banhart
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Marc A. Price
links for 2009-08-16
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Oh dear. What to say about this?
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Marc A. Price
Coffee Table Remote
In the future we won’t ever need to get off the sofa. We also never need to wonder where the remote is, because it will be under our cup of coffee.
Experimental Tech Turns Your Coffee Table Into a Universal Remote
By Priya Ganapati August 14, 2009
Stock up on coasters. A new technology combines the coffee table with a universal remote so that people sitting around the table can tap on a screen to change the channel, turn up the volume or dim the lights.
CRISTAL (Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces) is a research project in user interface that attempts to create a natural way of connecting with devices. The system offers a streaming video view of the living room on a tabletop, so users can can walk up to it, see the layout of the room and interact with the TV or the photo frame.
“We wanted a social aspect to activities such as choosing what to watch on TV and we wanted to make the process easy and intuitive,” says Stacey Scott, assistant profess [From Experimental Tech Turns Your Coffee Table Into a Universal Remote | Gadget Lab | Wired.com]
Listening to: Blush Response from the album “Blade Runner – 25th Anniversary 3-CD Special Edition CD-1” by Vangelis
Richard C Autorina are discussing.
Richard C Autorina 1:06 am on August 25, 2009 Permalink |
kiss became a much better band with eric carr and other guitarists after frehley and chris left the band. their substance abuse took its toll. kiss rules and modern day delilah sounds fantastic.
Marc A. Price 6:36 am on August 25, 2009 Permalink |
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I kind of agree about KISS reaching their peak in the 80s. Vinnie Vincent was a spectacular guitarist, Bruce Kulick was good too but too much of a hired hand. Eric Carr was a thumping good drummer.
Nostalgia killed the band for me. The line up was solid and then they did the first reunion tour with Peter and Ace. They became a parody of themselves and this is a constant source of irritation for me.
Modern Day Delilah sounds like an outtake of Hot in the Shade which was a really ordinary album found in bargain bins everywhere.