Sunday, 27th of April, 2003

Yes, it’s bizarre search referral of the day.

And while we’re at it, can everyone who visits here even semi-regularly please note that the standard URL for it should now be http://www.frogworth.com/blog/ even though it remains for the moment (perhaps indefinitely) at http://www.fourplay.com.au/blog/ please! As both those domains are on the same server, the URLs point to the same documents, but you don’t need to know that! ;)

OK, get back to your aural orgasms now.

Wednesday, 23rd of April, 2003

This is fucking excellent. Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross are collaborating on another story, this time called “Unwirer”, and the collaboration is being mediated through a weblog. So you can watch the creative process unfold through the successive posts, and even make comments yourself. What I love about these guys is that they don’t just write about the transformed post-human future, but they’re actively pushing the creative boundaries through technology themselves.

Tuesday, 22nd of April, 2003

Just noticed that on the 13th of April the lovely Fenella played my Entropic remix [”Raven experiences Hardware malFUNKtion”, a remix of the Entropic track “Hardware”, featured on their Rendezvous remix album] on the Soundlab (playlist here). Great to get some Triple J exposure for the Raven name - Fenella’s great, and has been very supportive of my electronica…

Monday, 21st of April, 2003

Funny - while searching Google in creative ways for FourPlay, I stumbled across this live review of one of our support gigs with george at the Prince of Wales in Melbourne, back in April last year. Not sure how I missed that one - thanks to Girl Android for the lovely review :)

Friday, 18th of April, 2003

Here’s a transcript of Tim Robbins’ excellent address to the US National Press Club.

Friday, 11th of April, 2003

Thurston Moore has setup an mp3 label called Protest Records where you can download some top quality mp3s on an anti-war bent. Find two songs by Cat Power, Gary Lucas proving beyond all doubt that he wrote a large part of Jeff B’s Grace, Jim O’Rourke & Glenn Kotche, Chumbawamba, Mudhoney, and of course Sonic Youth themselves among huge numbers more. Oh and a demo by Brazilian protest singer Tom Zé called “Companheiro Bush”. All free! All good.

In case you were even half-convinced that the celebration on the streets of Baghdad is vindication for the war-hawks, Guy Rundle gives us this thoughtful article in today’s SMH - a much-needed antidote to the odious bitch Miranda Devine.

Wednesday, 9th of April, 2003

Search referral of the day: “his dark materials fuck the christians“

You’ve probably read this before, but if you haven’t, here’s Steve Albini’s celebrated piece on why the music industry sucks.

Thursday, 3rd of April, 2003

Triple J caves in to EMI only a couple of days after a staff member had downloaded tracks from the leaked Radiohead album off the net. I must admit I didn’t even know they were playing it as I don’t listen to commercial radio (oh the irony! If only I wasn’t being deadly serious…)

The British band’s album, titled with what must be unintended irony as Hail to the Thief, is not due for release until June9.

“Unintended” irony? I think not! They claim that the title does in fact refer (in a not unfriendly fashion) to file-sharing programs… But whatever. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it sounds pretty good. I’m looking forward to getting the album when it’s finally out (as I nearly always do with stuff I’ve downloaded pre-release, and indeed I often do with albums I’m given promo copies of, if the artwork is neutered or tracklisting changes…)

Tuesday, 1st of April, 2003

Glad to see someone’s taken April Fool’s day in their stead. Graham has truly, as acb comments, outdone himself!