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The Black Torrent Guard: Open With A Joke
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The Black Torrent Guard. An impoverishered grad student in Iowa still managing to participate in bleeding-edge classical, flooding, and other pretentious horseshit. Tuesday, September 09, 2008. Open With A Joke. Just as we all have our own El Guapo to face, we all could learn something about megalomanic perfection from Steve Jobs. This from today's iPod/iPhone event. I don't even care what they're announcing, this is an automatic win. Posted by Andy H-D. Or a Masonic conspiracy theory? Open With A Joke.
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The Black Torrent Guard: Wheel in The Sky Keeps On Turnin'
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The Black Torrent Guard. An impoverishered grad student in Iowa still managing to participate in bleeding-edge classical, flooding, and other pretentious horseshit. Saturday, September 13, 2008. Wheel in The Sky Keeps On Turnin'. I'm not usually much of a linkinista guy, but this was cool so I make exceptions. In opposition to much of the aimless chatter that happens on NewMusicBox (yeah yeah, here too), composer Erik Spengler. Has written a comprehensive and readable primer on turntablism for his ilk.
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The Black Torrent Guard: September 2008
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The Black Torrent Guard. An impoverishered grad student in Iowa still managing to participate in bleeding-edge classical, flooding, and other pretentious horseshit. Saturday, September 13, 2008. Wheel in The Sky Keeps On Turnin'. I'm not usually much of a linkinista guy, but this was cool so I make exceptions. In opposition to much of the aimless chatter that happens on NewMusicBox (yeah yeah, here too), composer Erik Spengler. Has written a comprehensive and readable primer on turntablism for his ilk.
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The Black Torrent Guard: January 2008
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The Black Torrent Guard. An impoverishered grad student in Iowa still managing to participate in bleeding-edge classical, flooding, and other pretentious horseshit. Sunday, January 27, 2008. Prick Up Your Ears. A number of you might be familiar with social-listening site last.fm. As you can see on the right sidebar I've been exhibiting my bizarre listening habits for quite some time now. However for the most part it has lagged behind quasi-competitor Pandora. However, the whole thing is built on a relati...
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The Black Torrent Guard: February 2008
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The Black Torrent Guard. An impoverishered grad student in Iowa still managing to participate in bleeding-edge classical, flooding, and other pretentious horseshit. Wednesday, February 06, 2008. Turns out the thing was a lecture-recital by Rob Kapilow. A jack-of-all-trades who has clearly found the meth stash in the PBS Kids hosts' lounge. My immediate reaction was to fold my arms like a hipster, but Kapilow does hit on that age-old question of how to sell concert music to the masses. And this guy was.
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The Black Torrent Guard: December 2008
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The Black Torrent Guard. An impoverishered grad student in Iowa still managing to participate in bleeding-edge classical, flooding, and other pretentious horseshit. Wednesday, December 31, 2008. It seems like a lot of blogs I follow have agreed with Merlin Mann's dictate of quality over quantity, more spawling manifestos and less memeing. Of course I lack the quality so the quantity has fallen off as well, but I can follow my own memes. I got me a master's degree! A website few other people know exists.
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The Black Torrent Guard: May 2008
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The Black Torrent Guard. An impoverishered grad student in Iowa still managing to participate in bleeding-edge classical, flooding, and other pretentious horseshit. Saturday, May 24, 2008. I'm blogging at you from new coordinates in Iowa City, Iowa, where I'll (hopefully) be attending the fine University there for musicology. I've truly succumbed to the Dark Arts now. I've got a lot of 'splaining to do about change in scenery and blogging in general, but also a lot of unpacking. Posted by Andy H-D. I'm n...
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The Black Torrent Guard: AMS Happened A Couple Of Weeks Ago
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The Black Torrent Guard. An impoverishered grad student in Iowa still managing to participate in bleeding-edge classical, flooding, and other pretentious horseshit. Saturday, November 29, 2008. AMS Happened A Couple Of Weeks Ago. I wasn't originally planning on doing a post-op of my maiden AMS experience, consider I thought that the general populace would find it boring as shit. However, an entire meme. 1) I went to way more papers than other people. 2) My schmoozing skillz are far, far from l33t. Other ...
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The Black Torrent Guard: November 2008
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The Black Torrent Guard. An impoverishered grad student in Iowa still managing to participate in bleeding-edge classical, flooding, and other pretentious horseshit. Saturday, November 29, 2008. AMS Happened A Couple Of Weeks Ago. I wasn't originally planning on doing a post-op of my maiden AMS experience, consider I thought that the general populace would find it boring as shit. However, an entire meme. 1) I went to way more papers than other people. 2) My schmoozing skillz are far, far from l33t. Other ...
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The Black Torrent Guard: December 2007
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The Black Torrent Guard. An impoverishered grad student in Iowa still managing to participate in bleeding-edge classical, flooding, and other pretentious horseshit. Monday, December 31, 2007. Became, for better or worse, a mighty TA. Got a whole bunch of links, and proceeded to squander it by not posting. Had my first program notes gig (Haydn's The Creation. In lieu of a summer job I worked at a hotel for 73 hours in a single week. Had my Boston debut? For a private party, but it was still in Boston.
