Tuesday, October 29, 2013

My latest audio production

I have been working on my latest audio production, which I just finished.  The subject is “how the law got started,” with some help from the late Lenny Bruce.  You can download the file by clicking here.  I’m still learning how to use the production tools so bear with me.  If you are unable to download and play the file you can send me an email at alamedatom@gmail.com and I will email you the file directly.

I hope you enjoy it.  I had loads of fun creating it.

~ Tom

ps:  When I was listening to the final mix I noticed a place where I could have sworn I used the work "fringe” but it came out sounding like “French.”  Go figure.

Monday, October 28, 2013

Lou Reed–Goodbye to a troubled soul…

With the passing of Lou Reed you’ve heard and read more than I could ever say.  I’m just going to leave it with giving you a download of my favorite Lou Reed track:  Busload of Faith.  This is Lou at his darkest, yet juxtaposed with a totally rockin’ tune.  I have to admit, when I was making the download I couldn’t resist turning it up load, getting up, and doing some serious dancing just for Lou.  Dig it.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Pick your loathsome three

Leave it to Charlie Pierce to come up with a fun exercise:  picking the three popular movies you most loathe.  Check it out here.  And take some time to read the comments, many of which are spot on and often hilarious.

I’m still mulling over my own picks…

Friday, October 18, 2013

Take a guess…

A few years ago I was listening to an FM station and heard this track begin playing.  I had absolutely no idea who it was, and I was pretty flabbergasted to learn that is was the 2009 incarnation of Marianne Faithful!  Since then I’ve had lots of fun playing for people and asking them to guess who it is.  So far after several years no one has made the correct guess.  Try it out on your friends and I doubt any of them will guess correctly.  (Of course if they have heard it before and have prior knowledge then it’s not a “guess” is it?) 

Download the file and check it out.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Some advice for all of us…

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”

~Gilda Radner

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Charlie Pierce calls out the morons

A lot of folks I know predict that this government shutdown will end soon.  Me?  I’m sorry to say that I don’t think so unless the Dems cave yet again.  I tend to agree with Charlie Pierce’s take, which you can read here.

This is the cogent penultimate paragraph of Charlie’s post:

What is there to be done? The first and most important thing is to recognize how we came to this pass. Both sides did not do this. Both sides are not to blame. There is no compromise to be had here that will leave the current structure of the government intact. There can be no reward for this behavior. I am less sanguine than are many people that this whole thing will redound to the credit of the Democratic party. For that to happen, the country would have to make a nuanced judgment over who is to blame that, I believe, will be discouraged by the courtier press of the Beltway and that, in any case, the country has not shown itself capable of making. For that to happen, the Democratic party would have to be demonstrably ruthless enough to risk its own political standing to make the point, which the Democratic party never has shown itself capable of doing. With the vandals tucked away in safe, gerrymandered districts, and their control over state governments probably unshaken by events in Washington, there will be no great wave election that sweeps them out of power. I do not see profound political consequences for enough of them to change the character of a Congress gone delusional. The only real consequences will be felt by the millions of people affected by what this Congress has forced upon the nation, which was the whole point all along.