http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ The third incarnation of a habitually lazy wannabe blog of a habitually lazy wannabe musician. en-us info@jeremiahjacobs.com 2007-06-10T22:25:49-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000263.html After a week or so of toying around with Blogger I'm going to make the switch. I still can't import my old blog to Blogger (a feature they're working on, I'm sure), but the interface is so much more efficient,... 263@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Web Flotsam 2007-06-10T22:25:49-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000262.html Having a bit of a laugh at myself. Hope my four regular viewers appreciate it, too. One of my favorite features of this vid is how the background sounds like a 737 is parked outside. It's just the crappy... 262@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Web Flotsam 2007-05-31T01:39:36-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000261.html Between music projects (scoring a documentary film), the occasional web consult, and a personal life, linkage has been sparse of late. I'm hoping to have clips available before summer - I'd like to share what I've been working on over... 261@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Utterly Useless 2007-05-22T16:02:25-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000260.html Some folks from Stanford's CCRMA group demo a DIY tactile feedback controller. Shot at the MAKE Faire.... 260@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Music 2007-05-22T15:58:34-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000259.html Congressman Mike Doyle (D-PA) proposing an innovative program to "encourage the creation of new and different music" by "find[ing] some way to make a career in music more viable economically." Once again, borrowing from our neighbors to the North,... 259@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Music 2007-05-15T21:03:09-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000258.html The Turtles explain some of the finer details of life in the music business.... 258@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Music 2007-05-07T02:18:40-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000257.html A fascinating insight into how music was (and in many ways, still is) produced for television, specifically, the BBC's classic series, Dr. Who. I smiled the whole way through - even though I know how it's done, it's still... 257@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Music 2007-04-28T01:31:42-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000256.html Spotted via The Raw Feed is the Gardner Post Baby Grand Master. This.....thing, is genius. Whether or not it sounds very good I cannot attest, but the concept is flawless. Basically, the tools of the modern MC/DJ/VJ enclosed in... 256@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Pictures 2007-04-24T22:38:05-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000255.html RSS is the salvation of the lazy. RSS relieves authors of the pressure to constantly post - a behavior driven by marketing wonks under the assumption that constant posting creates "freshness", resulting in a more "sticky" site. IMHO, freeing... 255@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Utterly Useless 2007-04-22T12:17:57-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000254.html I've been a fan of Josh's music for a few years now, keeping tabs on his (prolific) songwriting on FutureProducers and SongFight. Finally I get to see him live, thanks to PUBLIC TELEVISION (sound of angels singing) and YouTube.... 254@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Music 2007-04-10T23:55:40-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000253.html Just over at The Raw Feed where they've posted about Google's latest beta, voice-based local search. I've been fooling around with it for the last half hour or so, and I've now made the Google's search my de-facto info... 253@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ My Soapbox 2007-04-06T20:14:33-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000252.html Dick Dale lays out the reality for artists trying to "make it" in the music business. I've been advising my clients and artists for YEARS to stay away from labels, yet they still persist. I continue to deal with... 252@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Music 2007-04-04T19:26:55-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000251.html Been quite absorbed outside the blog for the last couple of weeks - my apologies to my three regular readers. In my defense, I'm back in a writing/composing mindset, with a bit of time for the occasional website or... 251@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ 2007-03-26T11:32:25-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000250.html David "Fingers" Haynes jams with some friends. Drumming....with his FINGERS on one of these old school machines...... 250@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Web Flotsam 2007-03-04T20:07:40-08:00 http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/blog/archives/000249.html After weathering over six months without an instrument, the fine folks at Allplanet stepped up and put together a production deal for me that included a shiny new Yamaha M08. Yes, baby, that's 88 full ivories, and yes, baby,... 249@http://www.jeremiahjacobs.com/ Music 2007-02-13T08:12:23-08:00