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The album of the week is the Fiery Furnaces’ Rehearsing My Choir.

I can’t remember how long it’s been since I bought an actual physical CD so kudos to They Might Be Giants for coming up with some plastic discs I’m still willing to pay for. TMBG’s Venue Songs CD and DVD combo is available for pre-order at only $15.

R.I.P. Shirley Horn (1934-2005): The vocalist/pianist was championed by Miles Davis and Quincy Jones but didn’t reach star status until late in her career. 1. Forget Me - Shirley Horn 2. Here’s To Life - Shirley Horn 3. Wouldn’t It Be Loverly - Shirley Horn 4. Quietly There - Shirley Horn 5. The Meaning Of The Blues - Shirley Horn 6. The Great City - Shirley Horn 7. All My Tomorrows - Shirley Horn 8. How Am I To Know? - Shirley Horn 9. Ten Cents A Dance - Shirley Horn 10. I Could Have Told You - Shirley Horn 11. Come Dance With Me - Shirley Horn 12. Baby, Baby All The Time - Shirley Horn 13. Just For A Thrill - Shirley Horn 14. Isn’t It A Pity? - Shirley Horn 15. You Won’t Forget Me - Shirley Horn

There was an awesome commentary on Marketplace tonight about how Alan Greenspan is responsible for the current dominance of electroclash and psychedelic folk in the underground rock and roll scene.

Microsoft is funding the scanning of 150,000 public domain books for the Open Content Alliance project. They have an online viewer now as well as PDF downloads for a few books.

Akismet is Mutt Mullenweg’s new anti-comment and trackback spam web service for WordPress. I turned off trackbacks a few weeks ago because I hadn’t gotten a legitimate one in over a year. We’ll see how Akismet does.

Ones to Watch (Oct. 2005): In this recurring feature, we present you with tracks by some of our favorite rising acts. 1. Tive Razao - Seu Jorge 2. Nee Dans La Nature - Helena 3. Mornings Eleven - The Magic Numbers 4. Feelgood By Numbers - The Go Team 5. Transporte - Jorge Drexler 6. Bem Querer - Seu Jorge 7. Le Jardin Pres De La Falaise - Helena 8. Don’t Give Up The Fight - The Magic Numbers 9. The Power Is On - The Go Team 10. Salva Pantallas - Jorge Drexler

The Slashdot interview with Sid Meier, designer of my two favorite computer games (Civilization and Alpha Centauri), is up.

The album of the week is Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

Fall Out Boy’s Mix (Explicit): The emo group dares to put the late, great Nick Drake on the same mix as the late, great ODB. 1. And This Is For… - Murs 2. 99 Problems - Jay-Z 3. Pink Moon - Nick Drake 4. Love Street - R. Kelly 5. Oh Sheila - Ready for the World 6. Suedehead - Morrissey 7. Where Eagles Dare - Misfits 8. MidLife Crisis - Faith No More 9. Such Great Heights - The Postal Service 10. Let’s Go - Trick Daddy 11. These Arms Of Mine - Otis Redding 12. Classifieds (Album Version) - The Academy Is 13. In Da Club - 50 Cent 14. Perfect Teeth - Motion City Soundtrack 15. Piece by Piece - Slayer 16. Sound System - Operation Ivy 17. Black Dialogue - The Perceptionists 18. It Ain’t Hard To Tell - NAS 19. Time To Waste - Alkaline Trio 20. Chain Gang - Sam Cooke 21. Regret - New Order 22. I Can’t Wait - Ol’ Dirty Bastard 23. The Details Of The Bomb - Joan Of Arc 24. The Year Summer Ended In June - Misery Signals 25. Just As Long As We’re Together - Prince 26. How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths 27. Save Me - Queen

You can watch the first nine minutes of Serenity online, which is convenient becuase I walked into the movie seven minutes late.

The album of the week is Antony and the Johnsons’ I’m a Bird Now, which I heard about on the NPR: Music podcast.

Guest Starring John Coltrane: Even after becoming a star with the Miles Davis Quintet, Coltrane still loved performing with colleagues and friends. 1. Soultrane - Tadd Dameron 2. Just For The Love - Paul Chambers 3. They Can’t Take That Away From Me - Red Garland 4. Minor Mishap - Tommy Flanagan, John Coltrane, and Kenny Burrell 5. Tenor Madness - Sonny Rollins 6. Ruby, My Dear - Thelonious Monk Septet 7. Don’t Explain - Mal Waldron Sextets with John Coltrane 8. C. T. A. - Art Taylor 9. Tenor Conclave - Hank Mobley 10. Under Paris Skies - Ray Draper 11. Hallelujah - Red Garland Quintet 12. Blues For Tomorrow - Coleman Hawkins 13. Smoke Stack - Johnny Griffin 14. Speak Low - Sonny Clark 15. Round Midnight - Miles Davis

TVT Label Spotlight: 1. Broken Down - Sevendust 2. March Of The Pigs - Nine Inch Nails 3. Salt Shaker - Ying Yang Twins (featuring Lil Jon/The East Side Boyz) 4. Primitive (The Way I Treat You) - Ambulance Ltd. 5. Glad Girls - Guided By Voices 6. Hands Down - Dashboard Confessional 7. Revelation of Love - The Blue Van 8. Going To Hell - The Brian Jonestown Massacre 9. The Love Explosion - Tsar 10. Bia Bia - (featuring Ludacris/Too Short/Big Kap/Chyna White)) - Lil’ Jon & The Eastside Boyz 11. The Information - Course of Empire 12. Wasting My Time - Default 13. Guilty (Album version) - Gravity Kills 14. Holiday - The Get Up Kids 15. Trouble With Dreams - Eels 16. $100 Groom - Paul Westerberg 17. Satellite - The Kicks

It’s great to hear that Mitch Kapor brought David Allen in to get his input on Chandler, Kapor’s open source email/PIM program. I can’t wait to see the final Chandler interface, I looked at a recent release and it still seems to be in the larval stage.