Nils +1

Since it just came out a week ago, and because it’s awesome, I will recommend any song from the new Radiohead album “In Rainbows.” You can legally download it for free from their website if you wish, but there is a pay option for it as well. I paid 5 British pounds for it, and I think it was pretty worth it. Check it out.

PS Excited about the new pics

PPS Kind of a slow week here at TumbleDry. Not a lot of commenting action. What’s up with that?

PPPS I am out of things to say. No more postscripts.

Alexander Micek

Now there’s a musical recommendation I’m willing to take you up on. From what I’ve heard, the band has made over a half a million in cold, hard cash by bypassing the music cartel. I’m happy, no, overjoyed to see such a high profile success for the musical distribution model of the future. Also, consider this information from <kottke.org>: “The top 10 on <Last.fm>: all Radiohead. Official chart: nada.” Click though from that link to the <Last.fm> blog… amazing to see those charts.

And yeah, things have been slow around these parts lately. This is understandable as my posting has dropped off since I moved and didn’t have internet. Like the seasons, tumbledry will cycle around again.

Incidentally, at the local laundromat I found these tumbledryers that are taller than I — I’ll try to work them into the upcoming set of photographs, which should be out tomorrow evening.

Markoe +1

Alright, heres a suggestion for you.

His name is Jonathan Coulton and he’s probably most famous for his take on Sir-Mix-Alot’s “Baby got Back” (as seen on his myspace page)

The only reason I even know he exists is that he recently did the ending theme song for the game Portal by Valve. It is, by far, the best song I’ve ever heard in a video game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI&mode=related&search=

PS. You may want to hold off on listening to the song if you are ever going to play the game.

PPS. Yeah, I know I’m a nerd.

Alexander Micek

Thanks, guys! Also… about the pictures… difficulties of a technical and very non-technical nature arose. However, they’ll be up soon.

Dan McKeown

In a completely different vein of music might I suggest listening to “The Streets” sometime. At first I was less than taken by this English hip-hop/electronica artist (the sometimes slang-heavy Birmingham accent is particularly difficult to understand if you are not used to it) but some of his tracks have grown on me. We play a couple of his things at Brits (which is where I first heard him before being introduced more formally to his stuff by Megan Sprangers) and I can honestly say that I like a lot of what I have heard.

Anyway, I am still looking forward to pictures especially because it is fall and that tends to be a good time of year for tumbledry photographs.

Dan McKeown

Oh man, I just thought of another musical recommendation for you (and others as well I suppose). Check out Great Big Sea if you have an opportunity. “The River Driver” is my favorite song of theirs. I guess they are a group from Canada that does mainly modern versions of older sea-faring songs. If you were to give them a genre I guess they would be folk. My brother saw them in concert and bought their CD (this was back when people actually bought CDs) which I then took and imported into my itunes.

I am sure I will have more recommendations soon as I wait for more pictures…