Facebook Hall of Ignominy

New feature here at tommoody.us. Occasionally, when our editors notice a blogosphere blog that has moved over to Facebook we will note it and make fun of it. Guys, the trend by now should be to move away from Facebook, not to sell your soul so Mark Zuckerberg can buy another home near his home so no one can live near him.

Today's hall-of-ignominy-er:

Dataisnature. We followed this blog for years and then noticed its RSS feed wasn't active. It's posting the same type of material on Facebook now. The page design is less elegant, the posts are shorter, people's (contentless) comments and "shares" are appended to each post on the front page, and members of the non-Facebook-joining public have a big "join now" banner permanently blocking part of the page. Oh, yeah, that's progress!

"But, Tom, that blog can now scale to the rich world of social media! Before we didn't know how many people liked this content and now it's numerically quantified, and we know for a certainty how popular it is."

"Three Claps Dub"

"Three Claps Dub" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]

Recorded and arranged in Ardour (Linux version)
Featuring: SIDGuts module, Doepfer A-154/A-155 sequencer, Elektron Machinedrum

Some beats on the Machinedrum were "found" (i.e., left in ROM by the previous owner). I tweaked them quite a bit, but, hat tip to GYS for the three claps, etc.

My enemy gave me a museum

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Detail of a photo by Ron Pollard (from a slideshow of his work).
Pollard's caption for the image, which depicts a billboard flacking Denver's Clyfford Still museum, is "Needlessly Menacing Cultural Advertisement."
Amen to that. Clyfford Still liked to depict himself as a gaunt son of the prairie, standing tall against cultural gnomes, but he lived in NYC for years, networking like every other painter, and then taught in San Francisco, acquiring student disciples for his towering ego.
In the '90s it looked highly unlikely that any city was going to comply with the terms of Still's will, which required that all his work be kept together and installed in a civic museum dedicated solely to him. Denver bit, finally, and is now committed to enhancing his legacy as a trowel-wielding American competitive individualist. Enjoy this work, or die, weakling.

More Pollard.

"Steel Percussion Climax"

"Steel Percussion Climax" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]

Recorded and arranged in Ardour (Linux version)
Featuring: SammichSID, Elektron Machinedrum & Octatrack

Some beats on the Machinedrum were "found" (i.e., left in ROM by the previous owner). I tweaked them quite a bit, but, hat tip to GYS.
Also, check out the actual house around 2:30. If I didn't get bored and need to change patterns, that would be the whole song.