NPR Streams Tom Waits

A few weeks ago, I headed out on the road with a few friends (hey, Nathan, Kitty, Delia!) to catch Tom Waits in Houston and Dallas, because … well, because Tom Waits is one of the great musical artists of our time, and anybody who says different is LYING TO YOU.

I’d been looking for a pirated copy of the shows to pop up in the usual places, but, apparently, the pirates are either lazy or have shit for taste or, I suspect, both.

Fortunately, NPR has saved me the trouble by streaming Tom’s Atlanta show — all 2 hours and 21 minutes of it.

In the spirit of sharing, I would like to point out that there are any number of ways to convert a streaming audio signal into an mp3, including Audio Hijack Pro, if you’re Mac-friendly.

Update: Mel reasonably points out that you can just download the mp3 straight from NPR right here.

Smithonian Global Sound

The Smithsonian has a site for world music that’s crazy fun to browse around on.

I’ve been flipping around on the ‘genre’ list — ‘ale liwon’ is a genre? exorcism music? thank God for drinking songs… — but you can also search for country, culture group (because a Navajo party don’t stop, yo!), instrument, label, language, and year.

Tons of stuff, most of it fascinating in one way or another, and clips of everything.

Hooray, webbernets!

Bert and Ernie

breakin’ it down, gangsta style.

oh yeah.

lyrics are here, if you wanna bounce along.

iphone lust

Yeah, sure, I know. I’m like the billionth person you know who either wants one, or has one.

But look! … beatmaking! on the go!

Sin of the day: envy. Or maybe it’s greed.

lust?

whatever.

THUMPITY!

WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP!

bastards.