Black Internet

I have no desire to spend lots of time advocating for the awesome that is the internet, I mean lots of us disagree on how the internet should be, many of us for example want the government to read our emails, to screen what we download or upload, monitor the sites we visit and prohibit us from visiting sites that the MPAA or RIAA feel are inappropriate. I know when I get on the internet my number one concern is which of the sites I visit on a daily basis will be blocked by the ISP today, due to lawsuits pending, and I know like all of us I am looking forward to the day when our cable providers put an extra fee on the bill that is listed as the Download Tax. I mean I think that's great, I personally can't think of anything more wise than to have extra fees, illegal taxes and most importantly censorship. I mean that's what the internet was built upon, monitoring, everyone needs to be watched controlled, all of our keystrokes logged, it's unpatriotic to think otherwise.

So with that in mind I suggest you visit http://openinternet.se/ and if you so choose to support these horrible people, well I won't be held responsible for the horror that is unleashed upon the world.

I know we live in a world where the Happy Birthday song is owned by somebody and so singing it in a public place is illegal unless you pay, and I personally think that's great, I also think it's great that any open source non profit freeware that is able to read MP3 files (which if you didn't know is also under a patent), should pay large amounts of money to IBM.

However if you are a Satan worshiping communist pirate from one of those Blue States of Liberal Libertarian ANARCHY then you no doubt support The Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Shame on you if you do! Shame!

What a tanned hand you have there Mr.Kowalski

Not really a full on post, but just thought I'd pass along a blog to distract you with.

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/

It is exactly what it sounds like, I'm a big fan of bad photoshop so for me the blog is very enjoyable. My current favorite is the polish racialism series.































How unfair for the English speaking racists!

Great Acting Persons Entertaining Sonically (GAPES)

As you may be aware we have been throwing around the idea of doing a whole show dedicated to GAPES. There are of course classic GAPES like
Shatner and Nimoy, Macho Man, Hulk Hogan, Mr.T, Bruce Willis, Steven Seagal, etc...
However we don't want to just rely on classic GAPES, and so if you have a good lead on GAPES let us know will ya! You don't have to find it your self, if you do that's great, but if you just have a feeling that maybe Corey Feldman at some point picked up a microphone in a sacrilegious way, well...

We will track it down, none are safe, none can hide!

Creative Commons tastes better.

Creative Commons is awesome, if you are interested in it, you can read about it here http://creativecommons.org/about/ I highly encourage it.

We at the LAN Party enjoy Creative Commons very much and if you listen to the show, then you know that we try to feature as many artists as possible who give away their music for free. Creative Commons let's you do that, but it also gives you control over specific rights like weather or not you want your music which you give away taken and then used in a Flo Rida song and then watching as they make tons of money off it and don't in anyway have to pass on the same generosity.

So with that in mind we share another website that shares Free Creative Commons music. http://sutros.com/ If you are an artist throw your stuff up there, embed the crap out of it, and get some free exposure. If you're a fan, go explore, we will no doubt find something fitting for the show, in fact we already have, listen for it next week.

DJ Donatello

Thor's Clubhouse

Jesus H. Cosby in Sci Fi

This post has nothing to do with the show or music or our obsession with free stickers or even He Who Must Not Be Named Jesus or The Cosby, no this post is just to tell you about a very Bourgeoisie Eye Candy opportunity.

http://www.thecoolhunter.net/cloud/view/Vilnius

I have very little to say about it, but if you are a fan of design and things no real person can afford then this may depress you and make you contemplate early onset euthanasia.

Enjah

DJ Donatello

Kill Dem Nazis Dead!

To celebrate the release of the new Wolfenstein I figured I would link you to some music from The Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and of course it's free, offered by Bill Brown the composer himself. Enjoy!

http://billbrownmusic.com/musicG4.htm#RTCW

Exploration of his site will reveal more gems I promise.

DJ Donatello

Free Music and Supporting Artists.

As you may know we love free music, and part of it is that we know we're not giving money to undeserving middle men in suits who think of bands as commodities to be shuffled around on a large checkers board. The other reason is that word of mouth works far better and is more profound and powerful if it comes with music you can take with you and listen to at your leisure. Metallica never figured that out, and neither did most of the bands addicted to label cartels, however smaller bands knew this long ago and with the help of the internet are exploring ways to get the music to anyone who may want to hear it, creating pools of support that then become possible tour locations. So with that in mind let me share a couple of bands who are giving away their music for free just recently and both trying different methods.

First is a band from Portland called Wax Fingers, http://www.myspace.com/waxfingersband they are a predominately instrumental post rock band, and they have decided to give away their first CD through FileFactory, you can find the link on their MySpace blog. This is a great method, because it's free, it's convenient, and I along with many other people who actually bought their CD will forward the link to our friends with ease and joy. Giving the power to the people, to choose, to sample and to know, and at the end to be in control of what we listen to. Look for Wax Fingers to release new material soon :)

Second is a heavier band from Boston called Constants, http://www.myspace.com/constants ,they have just released a new album called The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension, you can get it on triple Vinyl or CD or you can download it for free. Yes you heard right, and why would a band let you download their newest album they spent a long time working on for free, well gimmesound.com for every song downloaded gives the artists % of the ad revenue, but all you have to do is go and download the music for free. http://www.gimmesound.com/About.cfm you can read more about their plan there. You can also just go here and download the new album from Constants http://www.gimmesound.com/constants/ and then explore the rest of the site.
I also hope that 09.16.09 TBA Kalamazoo / Grand Rapids / Lansing MI gig happens in Kalamazoo :)

Good hunting!

DJ Donatello

People on the road can turn an LOL into a great big OMG.

People on the road can turn an LOL into a great big OMG.

MC Chris free tracks

My good friend Ashlybee has hooked me up with many, many songs for the show since I met her and one of her contributions is a site with a plethora of MC Chris rare tracks made by an awesome dude named MDT. Check it out for some free MC Chris goodness. The site has been okay'd by MC Chris due to the tracks being unavailable on albums, so splurge all you want and feel guilt free!
http://piratingmc.logicind.com/