An email to indie rock band Au Revoir Simone from 2005, followed by the band’s response: ——-Original Message——- From: John Subject: Au revoir Simone. Au revoir Pee Wee. Sent: 15 Nov ’05 09:56 TWIMC: I heard a track of yours on the Daily Sonic podcast today. I was really into it. I spit up my…
Author: Earshot Presents
Mah Nà Mah Nà, 1969 (alt. Mahna Mahna)
[audio:http://earshotpresents.com/sounds/within-earshot/MahNaMahNa-1969.mp3|titles=Mah Nà Mah Nà — Bip Bipadotta and the Anything Muppet Girls — Seasame Street 1969] This version of the Mah Nà Mah Nà song (or Mahna Mahna) is from 1969, from the first year of Seasame Street. It appeared on the program a few months after it was popularized on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley
[audio:http://earshotpresents.com/sounds/within-earshot/sneakin-sally.mp3|titles=Robert Palmer Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley]For his solo debut album in 1974, Robert Palmer was backed by The Meters (fea Allen Toussaint) and Lowell George of Little Feat. The same Robert Palmer who was “addicted to love” in 1985? Believe it or not.
Fluid: a must-have app for Mac users
Fluid is a great app for Mac users who rely heavily on web-based softwares like Google Docs, Basecamp, and Pandora. luid.app creates working applications out of these online tools (referred to as site-specific browsers) so that they can be launched from the Mac OSX dock, be kept in their own windows, and controled with Preferences similarly to how other regular applications can be.
The Bay Bridge scene from The Graduate
In the 1967 classic The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) drives his Alfa Romeo across the top level of the SF Bay Bridge, supposedly towards Berkeley; however, the top-level traffic goes to the San Francisco side, not Berkeley and the East Bay.