Monday, June 10, 2013

David Bowie: Space Oddity

David Bowie

Smashing Pumpkins: Space Oddity (David Bowie cover) on ROCK 105.3 Radio (June 19th 2012)

Billy Corgan Takes 5 with the songs that make him feel good...


I asked Billy to play us five songs that make him feel good, and interesting all of them hailed from the 70's. As a kid, he loved the epic, prog sounds of that decade and when it came time to make his own music he resisted the trends of sharp, lo-fi punk and hardcore and instead lifted off into epic, emotional songwriting himself. It all made sense.

Here's what he played: 1. Yes - You And I 2. UFO - Love to Love 3. Neil Young - Ambulance Blues 4. David Bowie - Space Oddity 5. Lou Reed - Berlin


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Billy Corgan 2013 Interview on CBS Chicago

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Billy Joel on Not Working and Not Giving Up Drinking

Billy Joel hasn’t put out an album of new songs in decades, but the last few years have brought about a burnishing of his musical legacy. Most recently, he stole the show at the 12-12-12 Sandy relief concert, no trifling feat considering he shared the stage with the Who, the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney. His set, characterized by remarkably robust vocals and a tight backing band, allowed songs like “Only the Good Die Young” and “You May Be Right” to be considered anew; the passage of time has cleansed the songs of any of the annoyance-factor wrought by FM overplay. A generation who never appreciated him, who judged him uncool, are now at the age at which they might actually suffer one of those heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-acks of “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song).” Even the haters, grown up now, would have a hard time continuing to begrudge Joel his mastery of songwriting.
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Friday, May 31, 2013

Dumping Login Keychain Data

security dump-keychain -d ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Bandwidth throttling in OS X

To limit speed to 15KByte/s:
sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 15KByte/s

sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80

To delete:
sudo ipfw delete 1

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Friday, April 26, 2013