Category Archives: music

My top music of 2011

By Dave | Published: December 31, 2011

According to my Last.FM profile, here are my top artists (and number of times I’ve listened to their songs) for 2011. 1. Bob Dylan (557 plays) 2. Hot Water Music (556 plays) 3. The Wooden Birds (502 plays) 4. Daft Punk (433 plays) 5. Johnny Cash (422 plays) 6. Bad Religion (406 plays) 7. State [...]

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It’s Monday, but it isn’t…

By Dave | Published: July 19, 2011

I’ve been messing around with the ridiculously cheesy (but pretty fun) Songify app on the iPhone which auto-tunes spoken word and applies it to a backing musical track. I thought I’d make my own musical debut. Rebecca Black, watch out! It’s Monday. (Only it isn’t, because I’m dumb and recorded this song this morning — [...]

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California, I’m coming home.

By Dave | Published: April 30, 2011

Of course, I have my Rdio playlist ready to listen to on the flight home.

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Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes

By Dave | Published: February 14, 2011

What?! Who knew that Social Distortion had a new album out? (Mainly posting this to see if I can embed Rdio playlists via the Embed.ly plugin)

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Jurassic Park theme by a Japanese guitar class

By Dave | Published: February 1, 2011

Wow! Not too shabby. [via @jayzombie on Twitter]

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Everyone hates Ticketmaster

By Dave | Published: November 11, 2010

Interesting read in Wired about the rise of Ticketmaster: “Everyone Hates Ticketmaster — But No One Can Take It Down” In 2008, Ticketmaster had made veteran industry shark Irving Azoff—a man so cutthroat (and so short) he is known as the Poison Dwarf—its CEO. Manager of the Eagles since the mid-’70s, Azoff is famously aggressive. [...]

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Crazy emails from strangers [updated]

By Dave | Published: September 17, 2010

Alright, so someone keeps emailing me, thinking they have someone else named Dave Schumaker. This actually happens a lot. After receiving a number of recent forwarded joke emails, I decided to respond. Check out conversation. It reminds me of this earlier thread I wrote, about receiving strange email. Update: I just realized that it’s the [...]

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Vuvuzela Concerto in B Flat

By Dave | Published: June 16, 2010

Hahaha, brilliant! [Via @dlprager on Twitter]

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The Juliana Theory reunion tour is coming to SF!

By Dave | Published: March 4, 2010

Kerry passed on some info about The Juliana Theory coming to San Francisco in August! They’re another one of my favorite bands and I’m sad I’ve never gotten to see them. There’s a few things that surprised me. 1.) They broke up 10 years ago. 2.) I had no idea they were on a reunion [...]

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This happens to me all the time

By Dave | Published: March 3, 2010

What’s even scarier is how true the cats comment is. [Via Ryan Block]

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