Ten Things Miracle of Sound Can Teach You About Making Fun
Making fun. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Try it for five seconds and you’ll soon realise it ain’t. It involves just as much focus and effort as your day job. How …
What Spider Robinson and Miracle of Sound Taught Me about Music in Books
Stop right there. Step away from the keyboard and keep your hands by your sides. Thank you. Now, can I ask you to do me a favour, please? If you’ve …
How Music Can Make Or Break A Sale
The idea of a jingle – a short sequence of notes intended to catch the attention of a prospective buyer – has been around for ages. It’s an advertising cliché. …
Some are born and some are dying…
There’s a rule in fiction: Show, don’t tell. If something’s going on, show it happening; don’t have someone in the fiction talk about it. On Tuesday night, the first season …
Spider on the Web
Those of you who know Vickie and I pretty well know that we’re both fans of a science fiction author called Spider Robinson, mainly because his works are almost always …
Flogging Molly
Curse you and your evil birthday presentness, Gavin Lucan. Curse you to… I dunno. Boils or something. Everyone else: Irish folk pub rock. It’s good.
Yo Homeboy.
The Bronze Chef dug this up on YouTube, and I’d claim it as my theme song had he not already claimed it as his: UPDATE: On Weird Al’s MySpace, I …
I Mean, You Need The Lung.
The pimpin’ continues over on IMAGinES, and today I’m gonna hip you all to a neat little two-minute nerdcore hiphop number by the frontinest MC ever, MC Frontalot. It’ll have …