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February 2, 2007
Well, I had this notion of occasionally posting some music that’s currently in heavy rotation on my iPod, like a Cool Song of the Week or some such thing, but I’m thinking it’s not going to work out, because:
1) Most of my music was purchased through iTunes, and isn’t there some built-in DRM business with those files that doesn’t allow them to be distributed outside of the, what, five? machines you authorize?
2) If I post free music somebody will probably get mad at me for cheating the artist of their well-earned compensation. Personally, I think sharing songs on a limited basis is an awesome way to get turned onto new or new-to-you musicians and eventually buy their albums, but obviously it is technically, uh, stealing.
3) Which maybe is not entirely legal? Dammit, I wish this blog were sailing international waters. Then we could gamble, too!
Anyway, the song I was going to post for you to download is “Da Funk”, a 1997 single from Daft Punk. I know, 1997, could I be more cutting edge? Instead of hosting the file itself, here some little widget thingie that (hopefully) allows you to listen to it:
Turn this shit up to eleven, and just try to avoid making a chicken-peck head motion. You can’t, can you? Your head is totally doing that Night at the Roxbury thing. I love how the bass in this song keeps walking back in the room and going, oh, was I not kicking enough ass? LET ME FIX THAT.
I’m not even much of an house/techno fan, but this song does awesome things to my entire body. Riley digs it, too: he does his Patented Riley Dance, which consists, basically, of doing squats. You have not lived until you’ve seen a goony toddler doing a squat-dance to “Da Funk”, let me tell you. I hope to get it on video at some point.
Can we play the weekend game now? OH DO LET’S. Mine, in a nutshell: general chores, hopefully a geocache outing if the weather doesn’t go to hell, Super Bowl (for the ads, of course), and preparing for JB’s Sunday night flight to Taipei and a week of single parenting (kill me. Kill me now).
And yoooou?
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February 1, 2007
Hey, if I had an MP3 file I wanted to post on here for you guys to download, and it was…um, totally legal for me to do so and not violating any musical digital rights type laws or anything, would that work? Or would more than two people downloading a 6 MB file hose my entire website? I feel stupendously clueless on this front.
Also!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha HAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Yes, this is what passes for entertainment in my house. What can I say, we’re party animals.
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