Sweet, Delicious Ephemera

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Back in May I made the big jump back to cable tv and greatly enjoyed the wonderful benefits of Video on Demand content. Lots of stuff available from Comcast, including a great folder from Something Weird Video. Even though all wasn't perfect, I really appreciated the seriousness they took in VOD content. They really treated it as a great complimentary tool to your channel service and seemed to display plans for even more enhancements. Then Time Warner took over, snatched tons of content down that was never replaced with anything and from the first day and even now, put out the impression that their VOD is nothing but a cheap extension for PPV. [No Listings Available] Does that generic message entertain you? If yes, you'd probably love the service then.

My beloved Something Weird video was gone, along with tons of other stuff I loved, but nothing hit me as hard as SW being gone for good. Now many months later I find an even great fix. Fix of what? 50'S and 60's educational cheese of course. Tons of the vintage filmstrips you always see shows and movies parodying finally for real. Looking at the movie you see displayed above, "Boys Beware", you'll find some of the real things are more over the top than the joke ones. Kind of sucks there isn't really too many 80's ones or even the 90's ones. Seen some classic 80's and 90's stuff on morning pbs that needs to be available online.

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Computer Chronicles, where have you been all my life! Shitty ass G4tv never seriously delivers when it comes to geek anything, just a cheesy buzz word like most all that comes out of their hosts mouths. Even Techtv was nowhere near as "l33t" and informative when it came to geek stuff as people claim save for TSS and Call for Help. Looking at these newer offerings, I always wondered how great or possible some real computing related programming could be. Then I came across this show after all this time, right under my nose for so long. I was always a big educational UHF junkie, but I've never come across this show on any of those types of channels.

Before my bedtime? I didn't look hard enough? Don't know, but I'm definitely watching now and you should too. Even though it's a very dated show now, alot of the discussions they have still apply very much to current computing. If like 90% of the things they display weren't bulky and beige you'd swear they were explaining how stuff in your current pc works. The real star though is the excellent history lessons. So much history and fresh unveilings we all look back on occur in realtime. OS2, Win95, the browser wars, it's just amazing to see such curious speculation on what's now etched in stone.

The only bummer is dealing with the quicktime format. Using anything other than flash for video should be a hangable offense these days, but flash video does suck on older computers so I digress.

Moog Overload!

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It seems like when most people think of classic electronic music they think of the 90's stuff. When I say classic, I'm thinking moog and other 60's and 70's synth albums. Above is a one of the greatest albums, by one of the greatest greats in electronic music. Plantasia by Mort Garson using the moniker of "mother earth". Ever since someone on alt.binaries.sounds.electronic.mp3 was so kindly enough to post a slew of classic works for me I've been addicted to this stuff. Recently, I got hooked up with this great online store that beefed up my collection with literally dozens of these old albums in addition to the dozens I already have. Sorting through all these though, has really reminded me of how much I appreciate the man above. Unless someone wants to prove me wrong with some other moog albums that I'd love to hear, it seems like most of the records out there were just covers of pop songs. Excellent covers mind you and I definitely have to let you readers out there here them, but it's just disappointing that hardly anyone besides Mort and another great moog artist Wendy Carlos, really made an attempt to seriously compose original stuff. A man can listen to a moog cover of Hair so many times.

Stay tuned for an upload or two.