Oh my god, it is full of stars…
I got my first computer pretty much 20 years ago. I’ve been a gamer and I’ve followed the cool stuff the demo scene put out. I thought I was a hardened user, one which simply doesn’t get “wow’ed” anymore.
Enter Apple and iTunes to prove me wrong.
Their new visualizer is simply stunning. Words would be wasted, take a look:
Needless to say… I am currently going through my classical music collection. The Blue Danube is playing as I write this, and it is stunning.
Saw the CD Cover Game on Pedro’s blog. I thought it was a good idea for some quick fun, but it turns out I had to modify the rules: Most of the images Flickr returned were “All rights reserved” or “No derivative works”. So I simply took the first image that I was allowed to use:
The photo is by Calliyan.
I checked my Music collection for all the Halloween-related music I could find. Here’s the result:
* “The Mummy”, Bob McFaddin
* “Monster Mash”, Dr. Demento
* “Werewolves of London”, Warren Zevon
* “Monster”, The Automatics
* “Witchy Woman”, Eagles
* “Halloween (Live at Luther College)”, Dave Matthews Band
* “Haunted”, Type O Negative
* “Season of the Witch”, Blues Brothers
* “The Witch”, The Rattles
* “Queen of Witches”, Kano
* “The Witch Queen of New Orleans”, Leon Redbone
* “Thriller”, Michael Jackson
* “The Tell-tale Heart”, Alan Parsons Project
* “The Raven”, Alan Parsons Project
* “A Dream Within A Dream (Instrumental)”, Alan Parsons Project
* “The Cask of Amontillado”, Alan Parsons Project
* “Halloween (Live)”, Dave Matthews Band
* “The Ghost Song”, White Ghost Shivers
* “Sympathy for the Devil”, The Rolling Stones
* “Ghostriders in the Sky”, The Blues Brothers
* “Ghostbusters”, Ray Parker Jr.
* “Theme to Ghostbusters 2″, Run DMC
That’s all I have, and I don’t really have any additional ideas. Do you know any other music appropriate for Halloween? Please post in a comment.
Heh. That pac-man outline of candles alone is just genius. And MC Escher? Best Weird Al song in a long, long time.
Well, there’s a first for everything, and today I’ll recommend two music CD’s I actually like. I got them from Corey and Joel when I was in Detroit, who in turn got them from their sponsor Chicken Ranch Records. Chicken Ranch Records seems to be an Indie label from Austin, Texas. Unfortunately, their website sucks – it’s basically a front-end for MySpace (guys, please build a real website).
Anyway, back to the music. The two albums in question are:
Thanks again to the guys for the big stack of CD’s you gave me. I haven’t listened to all yet but I’m gonna.