Hmm… noticed that our podcast isn’t showing up on iTunes today. I wonder how long it’s been down? I wonder what happened? Bummer.

After telling a friend about the Cocteau Twins 4 CD set Lullabies to Violaine earlier this month, he gave me one for Christmas. How sweet! Robin did a nice job remastering everything. It’s cool to hear the muddier recordings brought to life with more sparkling guitars and more distinct basslines. Comparing just the 320 AAC files I ripped from the original EPs to the ones ripped from the new CDs, the sound...

Daily Source Code followers will likely be familiar with the infamous Comic Strip Blogger, who comments religiously on Adam Curry’s blog. I recently mentioned him in some audio feedback to Adam, and now Comic Strip Blogger has mentioned me in his comic strip! Now, that is usually NOT a good thing, but I was somehow spared his wrath and appear in a fairly positive light. Of course, I should remind him that...

Had a great session yesterday recording the main vocals. Figured I’d rest my voice a day or two before going back in to do the harmonies, but I already know what I’m doing. Ryan worked hard on a nice piano line the day before last, gives it a different vibe than anything we’ve done before. He did some more guitar work, too. It’s coming along, for sure. The hard part is not sharing new...

Jive Magazine listed Free & Easy at the very top of their 2005 Holiday Gift Guide, alongside Richie Hawtin, The Prodigy, The ORB, and Aphex Twin. Not bad company! Haven’t seen their review go up yet, but they’re a print mag, so I suppose these things take time.

The night before last, Ryan and I wrote a new song. We’ve been writing quite a few songs the past couple months, but this one really seemed special. It was one of those songs that came together very quickly, magickly. We made a little demo of it with my new Spike system. Then last night we actually began recording the song in the studio. Ryan really kicked ass, too, and got most of it done. I threw down...

Man some jerk somehow made a spam entry on 100 blog entries. WTF? I didn’t check what the links were, but they didn’t seem to make any sense. There was no text to temp one into clicking them, either. It was just stupid and pointless. Why target our little blog, anyway? Geez spammers suck ass.

On the latest Accident Hash podcast, CC Chapman professed his love for me. Well, my voice, anyway. He said if I read a Chinese menu, he’d be ecstatic. Of course, he heard my infamous Adam Curry “love messaging” (as Adam recently referred to my audio feedback on Daily Source Code). Speaking of which, Dave of Dave’s Lounge teased me in his latest podcast, announcing me as “regular...

Last week I ran across an iMix listing all the music on iTunes that was used in the late nineties television show La Femme Nikita. One of the songs listed was “Sunset Bell” from Love Spirals Downwards’ 1998 CD, Flux. I hadn’t heard of that licensing deal before, even though I was hanging out pretty heavily with Ryan in 1999, when the show was aired. So I decided to check around on Google...

Forgot to mention that I posted a holiday greeting mp3 for the use of podcasters on podshow promo site. Adam used it for the second installment of his Christmas music podcast project, but anyone can feel free to use it on their podcast as it’s a generic one, not specific to any show: Anji’s Holiday Greeting