the first blog entry with my new iBook. installed and online in minutes. the modem did an odd thing during the registration bit, but other than that it's looking fine :) gotta get used to this weird keyboard. and mozilla will have to take the place of ie as soon as i can download it.
weird. making tea just now i noticed that the coke vending machine in the kitchen is made by a company called dixie-narco. it occured to me that primal scream released an EP with the same name. either it's odd that they chose to call an EP after a soft drinks vending machine company, or the vending company are named after the EP. me thinks the former. maybe some drugs reference? vending coke....
Check out British Sea Power if you get a chance. Their live gigs are chaotic to say the least.
The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations took 90 hours of recording time over 6 months to finalise, and cost 16 thousand dollars (1966). Sheesh, and it sounds like something they knocked up in a couple of hours. Apparently the idea behind the track was Brian Wilson's notion of telepathic signals between humans and animals, (Pet Sounds?). Considering how far off the rails he eventually slid, I think this was a sign of things to come.
These and other facts from a fascinating book - Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, a biography of the life of Leon Theremin, the inventor of the instrument that makes the eerie space noises heard on Good Vibrations and many of the early Sci Fi movie sound tracks.
BBC Radio 2 will be broadcasting a documentary on the life of Nick Drake on Sat 22nd May.
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