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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Latest Set Computer Time Auctions

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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Radiohead Ok Computer Full

Radiohead - OK Computer [Full Album]







This album is a masterpiece. Enough said. 1. Airbag - 0:00 2. Paranoid Android - 4:44 3. Subterranean Homesick Alien - 11:07 4. Exit Music (For A Film) - 15:34 5. Let Down - 19:58 6. Karma Police - 24:57 7. Fitter Happier - 29:17 8. Electioneering - 31:14 9. Climbing Up The Walls - 35:04 10. No Suprises - 39:47 11. Lucky - 43:35 12. The Tourist - 47:53 OK Computer is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on 16 June 1997. Radiohead recorded the album in rural Oxfordshire and Bath, during 1996 and early 1997, with producer Nigel Godrich. Although most of the music is dominated by guitar, OK Computer's expansive sound and wide range of influences set it apart from many of the Britpop and alternative rock bands popular at the time, and laid the groundwork for Radiohead's later, more experimental work. While Radiohead do not consider OK Computer to be a concept album, its lyrics and visual artwork emphasise common themes such as consumerism, social disconnection, political stagnation, and modern malaise. OK Computer reached number-one on the UK Albums Chart and marked Radiohead's highest entry into the American market at the time, debuting at number 21 on the Billboard 200. The album expanded the band's worldwide popularity, and has been certified triple platinum in the UK and Canada, double platinum in the US and platinum in Australia. OK Computer received considerable acclaim at the time of its release, and is frequently cited by critics ...


Access your Time Capsule over the internet (File Server)







Be sure to check out more tutorials at www.wyattjohnson.ca This is a tutorial on how to connect your time capsule to the internet and to access the wifi drive over the internet. Note: You will NOT be able to test the results of this tutorial from within the network, try accessing it from outside your network. This is more designed for macbook users who take their computer outside the network. Apple script: tell application "Finder" try mount volume "afp://ipaddress" as user name "UserName" with password "Password" end try end tell

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Sentinel Descendants In Time

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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

How To Do Everything

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Go beyond Google's deceptively plain interface to explore the many features of this powerful tool. The new user and the Web-savvy alike will benefit from the many simple and advanced tactics and strategies the authors share for finding information on the Web with Google. Save time with tips to narrow or broaden your Web searches, choose effective search terms, utilize Google search syntax, and understand your search results. Discover useful services such as Images, Answers, Groups, News, Google's bargain-finder Froogle, and much more. And along the way, get fun facts about the company and the people behind Google. Find useful information more quickly Locate phone numbers, maps, stock information, and get answers to mathematical calculations Configure your Web browser to facilitate easier searching Filter out sexually explicit content with SafeSearch Discover an array of features such as the bargain-finder Froogle, Google News, and Google Images Set preferences to specify a search and interface language, the number of search results shown per page, and more Learn how the Google search engine works and how new features are created in Google labs Use Google's search syntax to narrow your searches Formulate questions that get the best results from researchers at Google Answers About the authors: Fritz Schneider is a software engineer at Google. He is co-author of JavaScript: The Complete Reference and holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego. Nancy Blachman gives workshops on searching with Google and wrote an online tutorial, Google Guide. She is an author, and holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where she has taught for eight years. Eric Fredricksen has been a software engineer at Google for more than three years. He holds an M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University.


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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Blur Out Of Time







Where's the love song? To set us free Too many people down Everything turning the wrong way around And I don't know what love will be But if we start dreaming now Lord knows we'll never leave the clouds [CHORUS:] And you've been so busy lately that you haven't found the time To open up your mind And watch the world spinning gently out of time Feel the sunshine on your face It's in a computer now Gone are the future, way out in space [REPEAT CHORUS (x2)] Tell me I'm not dreaming but are we out of time? (We're) out of time Out of time [x4]
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*Update* Hey everyone, mostly decided to make this short video to prove to you all that im not dead =] Ive run into a few problems recently with my Steam account being disabled because some douche reported it as being hijacked... and getting my new recording / editing computer set up that will hugely imrpove the quality of future videos. After this upcoming week I will be finished all of my school projects / exams and I can start working on my YouTube videos again! :D Funny Moments part 10 for Left 4 Dead will be coming out soon, im trying to get better footage then I usually do, and im working on getting an intro for it from a friend. Thanks for watching! -Criken *Update* My first time playing GTA4 should I record future episodes with my commentary or with ingame text?
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Friday, July 6, 2012

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University of Maryland Researchers Find Home Computer Use by Kids Brings Benefits, But Not to All
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland shows that preteen children (ages 10-12) in the United States are generally benefiting from the steady rise in computer use among their age group.

The study, published in the journal Child Development, found that the benefits were not spread equally across children, but were concentrated among girls and minority boys. The results were consistent over the 1997-2003 and 2003-2008 periods.

"It is safe to say that we are not going to reverse the trend toward increasing use of the computer in middle childhood, and that adolescent achievement and adjustment generally benefit from it," said lead researcher Sandra Hofferth, professor of family science and director of the Maryland Population Research Center at the University of Maryland.

According to Hofferth the overall message of the study is that greater computer time can raise children's achievement without increasing behavior problems, but that video game play still needs monitoring.

The researchers found that the use of computers at home increased between 1997 and 2008 for elementary school-aged children. Compared to 23 percent in 1997, 32 percent of children aged 10-12 used the computer at home in an average week in 2003. By 2008 that had risen to 55 percent. Between 1997 and 2003 the largest increase was in game playing. Between 2003 and 2008 there was additional increase in the use of the computer for emailing, surfing websites, and studying. In 2008, 22 percent of 10-12 children used the computer to look at websites, 20 percent used it for email, 24 percent used it to play games and 9 percent used it to study (see Table 1 for trends). Except for computer games, home computer use was higher among adolescents 16-18 in 2003, with 29 percent using a home computer for surfing the web, 40 percent for sending e-mail, 12 percent for playing games, and 20 percent for studying.

Video game playing increased the most between 1997 and 2003, and only slightly across the 2003-2008 period, suggesting that video game playing may have peaked. Of the total 4.1 weekly hours spent using the home computer and video games by 10-12 year olds in 1997, 20 percent was spent playing computer games, 16 percent was spent communicating, 3 percent was spent studying, and 61 percent was spent playing video games. Computer time increased to a total of 6.1 hours in 2008, of which 21 percent was spent playing computer games, 27 percent was spent communicating, 7 percent was spent studying, and 45 percent was spent playing video games.

In 2003 television remained the dominant medium in middle childhood, with viewing averaging about 15 hours per week for 10-12 year olds. Even though no decline was noted in television use between 1997 and 2003, its use declined between 2003 and 2008, to about 13 hours. In 2003 there were few tradeoffs between television viewing and new media; today, however, new media have begun to make inroads into television viewing time.

Following up on other research into children's time, Dr. Hofferth set out to explore whether the increased use of media such as computers and video games was having a detrimental effect on children's achievement or causing increased behavior problems such as aggression or withdrawal.

In spite of concern by parents about too much screen time leading to increased isolation from peers, to increased aggressive behavior, or to neglect of schoolwork, most of the fears were not realized. The reading and math achievement of white girls who increased their computer use between 1997 and 2003 and the reading scores of black boys who increased their computer use improved. Additionally, playing more on the computer was associated with reduced withdrawal problems for white girls.

One reason parents and experts expected there to be dire consequences for children's achievement was that they expected new media to displace not old media but activities such as reading, studying, playing sports, being active out of doors, and socializing with peers -- activities that are good for children's achievement and behavior. This study found, instead, that displacement did not occur for computers. Computer time was compatible with studying and reading; therefore, the study found mostly positive effects of computer use on achievement, with one exception -- white boys who spent more time looking at websites had slightly lower achievement scores.

In contrast, video game play was incompatible with most other activities. Except for sports, as video game time went up, reading and studying went down. Because video game play time was so much greater for them, an association between increased video game play and reduced achievement was expected for boys. Unexpectedly, no positive or negative associations with achievement for boys were found. Previous research had identified video games as potentially increasing aggressive behavior because so many video games are violent and aggressive. For both white and black boys, this study found that greater time spent playing video games between 1997 and 2003 was indeed associated with increased aggressive behavior, though the association was quite small. In contrast, there was a positive association for girls; black girls who played video games increased their math problem solving score.

Finally, this study documented a continuing digital divide in computer use, with the levels of use of black children one-quarter to one-third of white children in 2003, with a slightly smaller gap by 2008. It also suggested that black children's achievement could benefit from more access to computers at home.

STUDY CONTACT: Sandra Hofferth, 301-405-6403 or 443-527-5894, hofferth@umd.edu

Research details
This research project, supported by grant R24-HD041041 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), analyzed data from a nationally representative survey of 3,563 children under age 13 and their parents that was collected by the University of Michigan in 1997, with follow-ups in 2003 and 2008. A typical week was constructed for each child using complete 24-hour diaries of children's activities on a weekday and a weekend day. The activities of age groups of children were compared across two or three waves. More than 1,000 children were tested in 1997 and again in 2003 using standardized tests of achievement and parental reports of behavior. Sandra Hofferth is Director of the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC) and Professor of Family Science at the University of Maryland. For more information about the research and about the programs go to the Maryland Population Research Center website.


Is the Time Correct Yet - on my camera?
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I'm trying a second time to set the time correctly on my camera. I'm preparing for mini-DILO on May 1, 2005. It's still OFF by 4 minutes.


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There are about 20 public computers on the lower level of the library. They can be used for up to 1 hour at a time and are equipped with Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint, access to the internet, instant messenger programs, and all hooked up to the print station.

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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Hot Chip

Hot Chip
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Hot Chip

Warmer, deeper and more stripped back than their previous record Made In the Dark, One Life Stand is still conscientiously crafted and informed by the kind of intelligent evaluation that is now second nature to Hot Chip. The seductive and surprisingly glossy finish they can deliver when the mood takes them is enhanced by an emotional honesty and open-hearted optimism that is disarmingly affecting. With both feet in the Jack Track underground roots of classic house and techno, and a heart in candid song-writerly craft, the album is convincingly inspired by Joe Smooth, Marshall Jefferson, Derrick May, Theo Parrish, Bill Withers and Bill Callahan all at once. One Life Stand seeps through to your soul while defiantly striking a pose in the middle of the dance floor called Now! "We never have any plan when we record", says Joe Goddard, one half, along with Alexis Taylor, of a core duo that have had the name Hot Chip since they played Pavement and Spacemen 3 covers at Elliott School, Putney where they first met in their early teens. "Things happen and we try to follow the thread wherever it leads. People might be surprised by a song like "I Feel Better" coming from us. It's kind of a big, commercial song that came from nowhere. We decided to embrace that instead of discarding it on this album. " But even this accidental towering Euro classic just waiting for a Robyn or a David Guetta to add shimmering synths and perform it on some glittering music awards show from Dubai- isn't enough to drag the whole thing in one direction. There's still one of those gorgeous ballads that make you feel like you're looking though a gap in Alexis' curtains as he emotes almost privately on the ironically titled "Slush" (a recent collaboration with Robert Wyatt was inspired and makes perfect sense when you hear this). Songs from Joe like "Brothers" ad the beautifully naive "Alley Cats" seem to move closer to Alexis' instinctively candid style. Gospel-inspired arms-aloft future house classics like "Hand Me Down Your Love" arm-wrestle with the spooky bass-line heavy Detroit influenced disturbance that is "Take It In"- something which might have Jeff Mills wondering why he'd never thought of putting something whistle-able on top of his brooding psychosis. One Life Stand is brimming with the easy eclecticism we have come to expect- absorb if you will, the idea of avant icon Charles Hayward of This Heat making like Marshall Jefferson's 909 machines on real drums. Still, uniquely, Hot Chip remain upliftingly accessible. "I'm always naturally drawn to simple, honest, big productions- things like "Love Can't Turn Around". Even if I'm lost in underground stuff, I'm always drawn to music with hooks in it. This record is the best and clearest expression of that kind of idea for us so far," says Joe. Alexis concurs: "Instead of being something to shy away from it should have that honesty, always. That's what I want from other people's music too" When they speak you quickly realize these are two people who would have become friends whether their tastes in music saw them working together or not. "We bonded at a very early age. We've known each other for 18 years", remembers Joe. "We met in first year at school. We were in different form groups but I became friendly with his group of friends and we'd eat our packed lunch out on the stairs. We used to spend our Friday evenings at 15 or 16 playing acoustic guitars and hanging out. He would write songs on his guitar and I would help him record things round my house on computer. We were always very serious about it. Alexis is more obsessed with music than almost anyone else I know and I am pretty bad too. Even back then we were trying to record things properly." "He had a 4 track. He was the only person I knew that did. And he was always up for recording stuff. We had the name Hot Chip set in stone even then. We did a gig together when we were 16 at lunchtime or something- covers of "Range Life" by Pavement and "Walking With Jesus"' by Spacemen 3 and our own songs too on organ and electric guitar. It was quite lo-fi but not acoustic. We both listened to The Beatles, The Kinks and I loved Prince and Stevie Wonder, Tim Buckley too. We went to separate Universities but we still carried on, stayed in touch, getting into new things like the Rodney Jerkins productions and trying to make things inspired by Aphex Twin and Destiny's Child in our own little way..." Alexis drifts in a kind of reverie. You realize music for him is a desperate passion. That he almost lives through what he loves (does?) Joe is not far behind though according to his school friend. "He'll be straight off the tour bus wherever we go. Right into a record shop and gone for maybe 4 to 6 hours. Sometimes I join him, standing behind him at the deck waiting to listen to things while he's trawling through a vast pile, totally oblivious. Maybe he takes no notice because it's just me." Asked how he relaxes, Joe says he just likes to work. He recently recorded Kano and Little Boots and is sought after for his empathetic skills. "When I'm not working I buy records. I love the calmness in a dusty old record shop. I buy music to DJ with but to learn from too. That's how I unwind." But this obsessiveness about music from all genres and all eras is not just about the anal retentiveness of the collector. All of this free time research is clearly feeding into the records they write and record together. Joe uses them at his own Greco Roman nights while the clearly scholarly Alexis mentions his love of the directness of author Raymond Carver and 20th century Greek poet CP Cavafy before getting right back to what makes him tick. "I guess if you could say this record had any starting point it was listening to Derrick May's "Strings Of Life" the original mix of that. It's inspiringly primitive sounding and quite rough - with wild panning from left to right. Those production values together with Bill Withers' "Harlem" and one by Swamp Dog called "God Bless America For What" really hit home. They seem now to make some sense of what we have done. Then there are the steel pans, played by Fimber Bravo (formerly of Steel n' Skin). I loved records like Van Dyke Parks' "Discover America", which evokes a beautiful atmosphere using that instrument. They were intended to be all over the album but we restrained ourselves a bit!" Similarly, Joe's intentions were quite clear. "I got really annoyed with aggressive processed digital dance music. I wanted to think about the antidote to that, to bring back some of the original spirit of dance music. I was thinking about records like "Stand On The Word" by The Joubert Singers. It's a gospel record really, but played in New York clubs in the 80s. These records mean what they say and it's the same with Alexis and what he writes. It's important for things to feel human. Some things are so airbrushed and slick and perfect.... we quite like to try to do something more human than that. I like things that have something not right about them, I suppose." This could also explain how the location for much of the recording of One Life Stand was chosen. In the heart of a disused industrial building in London, Lanark Studio, run by Hot Chip's Felix Martin and Al Doyle, was reduced to a blackened hole following an accident in 2008. The studio was rebuilt and refitted with all analogue equipment just in time for the sessions to begin in Spring 2009, and the defiantly eccentric atmosphere was important to shaping the sound of the new record. The three other members of the band each bring their own unique skills to the Hot Chip dynamic, which have been fused over the years through relentless touring and live performance. Owen Clarke, a school friend of Joe and Alexis, is a quick-witted instrumentalist with a stubbornly experimental streak only matched by his ear for a catchy guitar hook. His artistic visions have also been the catalyst for most the band's artwork from the first album onwards. Al Doyle, a highly talented guitarist long coveted by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, can play virtually any instrument, and on One Life Stand this includes bass, cello, synthesizer and the flugelhorn, which he learnt so that it could be played on just one of the new songs. Fellow producer Felix Martin completes the formidable 10 armed-beast that we know as Hot Chip with a passion for house and techno music that has also seen Al and Felix embark on their own studio projects including original material as well as remixes and production for other artists (including Kraftwerk and planningtorock) and DJ'ing around the world. Of the three Joe says, "They are crucial to us in terms of the aesthetic and the feeling. Talking to you about how Alexis and me work is necessary, but Hot Chip is very much a band and they are a vital part of it. What we do live together is a whole other thing that has a life of its own too. Things evolve as we try them out live. "Often we don't play the same parts on the same instruments when we go back to playing live", says Alexis. To be honest it's not that important to us. It's better that the songs speak for themselves, regardless of arrangements. I find it boring to go and hear people replicate a record note for note. I can't really see the point of that." Such is the commitment to a kind of theoretical drift in their method, there is quite a good chance that the songs from One Life Stand may well end up rendered on the spoons when Hot Chip get to playing them live soon. However they choose to frame them, they stand tall alongside those beloved 'proper songs'- the many inspirations Joe and Alexis amass on a seemingly daily basis.



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Passion Pit

Getting to Where We Belong: The Making of Passion Pit’s Gossamer
“Hideaway”

Hundreds of hipsters, college kids and music biz schmoozers gather under a massive white tent to see Passion Pit. It is an afternoon shindig hosted by the blog Brooklyn Vegan, at the 2009 South by Southwest festival. The sun is setting and it is a classic make-it-or-break-it moment for Passion Pit, who is headlining despite having just released a lone EP, Chunk of Change. The crowd is giddy on both free Izze fruit soda and the Boston band’s bubbly pop. Between songs, frontman Michael Angelakos runs his fingers and sweat through his thick, curly, Greek hair. He starts to rant—about a shirt he bought for his new girlfriend, about veganism, about inane blog comments. After a few awkward minutes, the music kicks back in. By the end of the performance, Michael is rolling on a red Persian rug amongst many, many keyboard and effects pedal cables, clutching his microphone, wailing in his signature helium falsetto. The audience cheers, the Tweeters tweet, the bloggers blog ecstatically.

Michael leaves the stage and begins crying. He has made it, and he has broken.

When the festival ends, the rest of the Passion Pit guys van back to Massachusetts. Michael stays behind in Texas. He calls a friend for support and begs her to come be with him. In a panic, he buys her a plane ticket. It is for the wrong year, 2010. He calls his parents in Buffalo, New York. “I’m going to a hospital,” he tells them.

Michael is standing with his father outside a hospital in Houston, looking at mock-ups of album artwork on his cellphone. Passion Pit has just signed to Columbia Records, and a debut album, Manners, is due in a couple months. The record cover is green and messy and murky. Michael is not crazy about it, but there is no time, as the hospital is about to take his phone away from him. “It looks fine, Michael,” his dad says. “Just go.”

In the hospital, Michael is not allowed to talk about work. “Up there, onstage, you’re alone, darling, ” a nurse tells him. “And if your life evolves into ruin, everyone will watch what you're doing.” Michael thinks these would make good lyrics. His friends smuggle in positive reviews of Manners. When one magazine blesses the record with an 8 out of ten, he almost cries again.

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“I’ll Be Alright”

This first sentence was not always the first. Originally, I was going to start with a simile: Michael Angelakos’ brain is like a shaken can of spray paint with no nozzle. Millions of particles of bright ideas bounce around in there. When inspiration punctures his head, art sprays out. Often, someone else must puncture the can, or smash it. Only, if you hold Michael’s bursting skull up to a canvas, you would not get a cloudy splatter of dripping bits. The paint would land perfectly in a detailed map of the knotty Tokyo subway system.

You can hear this “I’ll Be Alright,” the second song on Gossamer, in which a sudden seizure of skittering programmed drums swarms over diced synths. “My brain is racing and I feel like I’ll explode!” Michael sings amidst the orchestral glitch. He compares it to the sensation you feel after an orgasm.

Writing about creativity is like architecturing about dance. When I sat down to describe Michael’s thought process, a can of paint formed in my mind for whatever reason. After that, I thought no nozzle, because I like the alliteration. Then I tacked on a subject and verb. I start with a phrase, an image or a rhythm of words and construct around it. I’m not a beginning-to-end sentence builder. Michael asked me to write this piece because he intuited, correctly, that my writing is akin to his song crafting.

A spark of a Passion Pit song might be found in the fuzz of a guitar pedal. It might be a stumbled-upon drum loop, the tintinnabulation of layered chimes or some gibberish harmony he’s humming. It might be one of the 200 scratch melodies Michael has stored on his iPhone. Later, Michael might sit at a keyboard and work out a melody. “I do things backwards,” he admits, “and I’m a maximalist.” Indeed. The songs on Gossamer carry anywhere from 60 to 200 instrumental tracks, according to Michael. If you ask Alex Aldi, Michael’s engineer, the number 80 to 120. (The maximum output on their version of ProTools is 120 tracks.) Whatever, it’s a fuckton. But it’s important to talk to Alex.

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“Constant Conversations”

When Alex and Michael set forth to record Gossamer in January of 2011, the two first rented a studio near the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. Well, it was technically an office space. The new Passion Pit headquarters shared the building with digital media start-ups, dot.coms, that sort of thing, which were not appreciative of gut-rumbling bass bumps rattling the uninsulated walls.

“We'd blast these huge R. Kelly–like booms,” Michael says. “There would be fists pounding the walls,” Alex remembers.

The duo began working from 6PM to 6AM, partly to avoid pissing off the neighbors, partly because Michael is “really OCD about who’s hearing me” In the wee hours, Michael would toil at his array of keyboards, sequencers and computers.

The fruit of this first stage is the stunning slow jam “Constant Conversations.” It’s the kind of stank-faced, flesh-slapping R&B groove that makes a name like “Passion Pit” sound positively filthy. That is, until you pay attention to the lyrics. They are not nocturnal; they are dark. “I'm drunker than before / They told me drinking doesn't make me nice,” Michael sings. “Well, you're standing in the kitchen and you’re pouring out my drink.”

It’s important to pay attention to the lyrics.
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“Slip-ups in this town are like a sentence to life.”
–“Mirrored Sea”
What makes Southern California’s orange sherbet sunsets so gorgeous? It’s the life-strangling smog. Toxic clouds can sometimes lead to beauty.

In June of 2011, Michael headed to L.A. to continue work on Gossamer with a variety of big name producers. One producer would bring in pretty girls to sit on a couch in the studio. He would play back tracks at top volume. If the girls got up and danced, it was a hit.

Michael slept in another studio beneath the control room, where he could hear some dude fucking people’s brains out all night. The walls were marble.

Michael slept where Fiona Apple once slept. Michael recorded in a fancy house outside of which photographers snapped model in lingerie. Michael worked with a prominent hip-hop producer. They tinkered with “Hideaway,” an upbeat tune set to a speech a nurse once gave him. Michael played the hip-hop producer his demo. “You don’t need anyone to produce you,” the producer humbly admitted. Michael flew back to Brooklyn, ending what he now calls his “June gloom.”

“Everyone let’s me make these mistakes,” Michael says.
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“Carried Away”

“He plays music so loud in his headphones, I can hear everything he’s doing. When he's working, he won’t get up to use the bathroom or to take a sip of water. Watching him is watching someone in their element, someone doing what they were born to do. But it can be a waiting game for him to get an idea. Then, bam, ninety minutes later there’s this amazing finished song. He does stuff on the fly. Michael thrives on that, the immediate pressure. Everyone else game-plans. The game-plan is in Michael’s head and he’s twenty steps ahead. Conveying that is difficult. It’s information overload.’” — engineer Alex Aldi
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“It’s Not My Fault, I’m Happy”

Aside from the sarcastic “Love Is Greed,” all the songs on Gossamer are one-hundred-percent true. I know this because I’ve compared the lyric sheet to a 3,672 word life story Michael emailed me. It begins, “A main talking point seems to be about the fact that there is a dichotomy in my music.” It ends with, “The next day I quit drinking.” I read it one evening while listening to “It’s Not My Fault I’m Happy” repeatedly as tears welled in my eyes.

Unlike some songwriters, Michael does not write in character. He compares the album to a collection of John Cheever stories. “It’s non-fiction, but dramatized. It’s euphoric pain,” he tells me.

The record is more intimate than that. Listening and reading along, I feel as if I am reading his chart. I am eavesdropping. I am putting him inside one of the TSA’s full-body millimeter wave scanners.

Ah, I think, “Take A Walk” must be about his father and his father’s father, his Papou, who sold old roses and owned a candy kitchen, using his savings to bring his village to America.

Hearing the celestas and xylophones skittering about the opening of “Love Is Greed,” I envision bolts of blue electricity flashing across Michael’s grey matter. The systolic, panicked pulse of “Mirrored Sea” is awash in adrenaline and amphetamine salts. The pomp and silver twinkle of “On My Way” is confetti for a forthcoming wedding.

“Are you sure you want to be this open,” Alex asked when he first heard the lyrics.

“This music is so on point with myself, I don’t know that I could do it any other way,” Michael replied.

Yes, Michael’s music juxtaposes dark subject matter and ebullient pop. It is at once escape and reality. It is also consciously androgynous. In the past, this was suitably captured with Michael’s falsetto. Now the unisexuality is enhanced by Erato, a female Swedish a cappella trio, two brunettes and one blonde, who went viral with a performance of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend” on empty yogurt cups. Michael likes the idea of us not being able to discern if he or they are singing in certain parts. This is not duality or dichotomy. This is depth and honesty. Human beings are emotional, messy and murky creatures.
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“On My Way”

It is a misconception that Manners was written for a girl. It was a record about Michael. Gossamer was written for a couple. “It’s an album about making an album that’s straining the relationship that’s helping you make that album. But say it better than that,” he tells me.

Kristy is an editor for a prominent food website. Her face appears throughout the Gossamer artwork. The back cover is a letter Michael wrote to her. He proposes to her in the chorus of “On My Way.” Originally the tune was called “Ballerina.”

“Just believe in me Kristina,” he sings. “All these demons, I can beat ’em.”

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“Where We Belong”

Upon returning to Brooklyn from California, Michael reconnected with producer Chris Zane, who helmed Manners. Here is a sporting analogy, hockey specifically, according to Michael:

“Chris is the general manager and Alex is the coach. Without Chris I wouldn’t have been able to do this record. Without Alex I wouldn’t have been able to do anything.”

Alex is ten years Michael's senior, Chris a little older. Michaels refers to them as his older brother and his older, older brother. The trio hunkered down in Gigantic Studios and started over on Gossamer as a mild winter fell upon New York. Michael admits he will often redo songs “like thirteen times. It’s one of my worst habits.”
Manners was largely built on three keyboards. There was a conscious effort this time to avoid the same process, to use more organic ingredients. Composer Nico Muhly dropped in, dueling pianos with Michael on “Love Is Greed” and arranging strings. That being said, there were still dozens of keyboards, walls of keyboards, “some Herbie Hancock shit.” Yamahas, Moogs, Arps, MS-20s, SH-101s, Junos, Prophets, a Japanese piano. They flipped over a couch in the control room to stuff in even more keyboards. Ask Michael to explain the differences between these many keyboards and he synesthetically describes it by texture: “One is felt, one is 100% cotton, one is tweed…”
Alex would watch and listen in a busted La-Z-Boy recliner permanently stuck in the recumbent position.

“I did a calculation of the time I spent on this record. It was 4% of my life,” Alex tells me. He has recently heard the finished record. We chat about the sequence of the songs and debate the decision to cut a string section that originally opened the album. “It dawned on me this morning” he says. “After having a best friend for thirteen months, Michael is gone. I’m like, what the fuck do I do now?”

When I hang up, I must immediately play Gossamer again.


Written by, Brent DiCrescenzo

at Marathon Music Works
1402 Clinton St
Nashville, United States

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Hundreds of thousands of Internet uses may lose their online access on July 9, 2012, and Better Business Bureau is urging all consumers and businesses to run a quick and easy diagnostic test to see if their computers are infected. The FBI?s DNS Changer Working Group can detect the malware and explain how to fix infected machines.


?Everyone should check to see if their computer is infected,? urged Katherine Hutt, spokesperson for the Council of Better Business Bureaus. ?It takes less than a minute to check and, if your equipment is clean, there is nothing more you need to do. If your computer is infected, the DNS Changer Working Group recommends the necessary steps to save your computer. But this must be done by July 9th or you could lose internet access.?


Last November, the FBI took down the servers of international hackers operating out of Estonia. The hackers had already successfully downloaded malware onto more than half a million computers, turning off virus updates and redirecting consumers to fraudulent websites. If the servers had simply been shut down, the victims? computers would no longer be able to access the internet. Instead, the FBI set up clean servers to replace the ones that were running the scam, and victims have been redirected to those clean servers ever since, usually without any knowledge they?d been infected in the first place.


Originally the rescue servers were to be active until March, but a court ruling extended the program until July 9th. At that time the clean servers will be turned off and anyone who is still infected with the malware will lose their internet access. The FBI believes there are still about 360,000 infected computers in a dozen countries, including the U.S. and Canada.









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