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Noah and the Whale: Five Years Time

michael lee — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:44:17 +0000

This little ditty has been stuck in my head for the past few days.

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Signal Chain :: Thoughts on Songwriting

Chad — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:00:20 +0000

I’ve posted my second little essay on our opening tune. This one’s all thinky and stuff.

I don’t know if I’ll be linking all of them from Addison, so keep checking at The Dailies website.

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hit and hold, baby

michael lee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:36:09 +0000

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michael lee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:48:15 +0000

You can check out iWork for 30 days, free. For those of you who dont want to wade through 90 pages of the apple website, here’s the direct link:

http://www.apple.com/iwork/download-trial/

Happy iWorking, iPeople. (can we be done iDone with that i think now, Steve? Please?)

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avalon

michael lee — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:44:53 +0000

Listening to tunes today, and it rolled down the list to Avalon. It’s been years since I listened. Such great singers, such awful songwriting.

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iTunes, without the ball and chain

michael lee — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:39:59 +0000

Apple Fanboys had their orgiastic expo-tacular today, where new products are typically unveiled by His Steveness. Steve was absent today, part of the ongoing effort to confirm the internet rumors that he died in March of last year.

Nothing big was announced: a new laptop, upgrades to popular software suites iLife and iWork, pretty much what was expected. The big surprise for me was the announcement that iTunes would be going DRM-free. For those of you who don’t take the time to memorize every TLA that you come across, DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. It’s the thing that prevents you from emailing a song to a friend, or playing it on another computer, or taking advantage of any of the awesome powers granted to us by the digital era. It’s the industry’s lock and key.

I haven’t bought anything on iTunes for about 12 months, and DRM is exactly why. I love everything else about the Apple model, but I can’t abide having my audio files locked away, preventing me from doing things that are well within my legal rights to do (like playback on any device I own). I switched to the Amazon MP3 store because they offered a universal file format (mp3), and no DRM lockdown.

In some ways, I think Apple was paying the penalty for being first to market. They made a deal with the devil to get major record labels to agree to release their catalogs to the iTunes music store, and the price was DRM lockdown. Once the model proved successful, other distributors (amazon, for example) were able to negotiate much more favorable terms for their own download sales. Steve Jobs said as much almost two years ago.

I’m glad to see Apple unchain their content. I hope this marks a step forward into a new model of distribution for all kinds of digital media, from video to software.

I dream of a wireless, portable, personal, and highly fungible digital future, where my data moves with me and works for me, without barrier or constraint.

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Signal Chain :: Evolution of a Song

Chad — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:09:50 +0000

Hey all, and a happy new year.

I have to tell you that I fear that Facebook and iPhones and the holidays and offspring are sucking the life from Addison Road. We need a mobile app, Mike!!!!

In the spirit of the new year, and new starts, I wanted to let you all know that I’m starting a new series of posts over at The Dailies’ Website, journaling the evolution of each of the songs from our new record. I had a lot of fun putting this together this morning, and I wanted to share it with you.

Hope 2009 is treating you all well, thus far, and we look forward to opening up our musical heads for you all now that the Christmas Miracles are all done.

Here! Click me! Click right here! Yeah! This one! With the little blue line under it! CLICK IT!!

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“How do you win at jazz?”

Sharolyn — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:31:10 +0000

“Jazz teaches us to listen.” And, in the end, to get a little silly.

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Christmas Chainsaw Massacre

michael lee — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:36:28 +0000

If you’re wondering what to buy your 4-year-old and 6-year-old nephews, allow me to highly recommend getting them a toy chainsaw that makes real chainsaw noises, and also has a spinning beaded metal “chain” that causes burn marks when they slam it against their brother’s shin and pull the trigger.

Who wins this round of Christmas? Uncle Michael, that’s who.

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The Christmas House

michael lee — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:04:57 +0000

Well, Phil and Sandy’s (Gretchen’s folks) house in norther Washington is now the official Christmas House.

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