pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

I just came across this post on media theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s blog comparing the music industry’s actions with the CD in the 90s with Hollywood’s treatment of its writers today.

That rug really tied the room together.
Walter Sobchak: You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me.
The Dude: Yeah, but Walter…
Walter Sobchak: Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o’clock this afternoon… with nail polish. These fucking amateurs… [...]

Comcast’s Fancast site
Back to business. The CES conference, brought to us by the Consumer Electronics Association, has been taking place all week in Las Vegas. It’s a gadget geek fest, no doubt. New products are rolled out to great fanfare…or not. I heard that one hit attraction was the Nemo-branded Blackbird gaming machine from HP. [...]

Oh Pampelmoosers! I have missed you so! How awful it must have been for you to be subjected to Dave’s tyrranical litany of Future of Music posts* with nary a moment of comedic respite from yours truly? In the immortal words of Chaka Khan “I feel for you. I think I love you“.
Sidenote: Is [...]

Episode 4 has some excellent zombie action. I’ll leave it at that. Check out episode 4, and if you haven’t seen the first 3 check those out as well.
See the wasteland here.
Post your reviews, good and bad, in the comments……
Josh k

Multimedia artist and DJ, Paul D. Miller a.k.a DJ Spooky is going to Antarctica for the holidays. Well, he’ll be there for the holidays, but the trip is not holiday-specific. He’s going to make a film.

American Gangster
The MP3s keep arriving. I wrote the other day about the new Stephen Malkmus album and today I received a cut from it - Baltimore - a couple of blogs have written that this is a Randy Newman cover but a quick look at the lyrics from Newman’s Baltimore put that rumour to rest. [...]

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I didn’t realize until recently how much Stanley Kubrick influenced my childhood. I had nightmares about the Shining that I only recently realized were ignited by TV promos that were playing when i was 5 years old. Now, back to 2001….
As an 8 year old in the early 80’s [...]