Safe As Milk

Oh damn.

This is easily one of my favorite records of the last 10 years. I can generally resist the pull of a “deluxe edition” of something I already own, but the goodies here might be too good to pass up.

CD Madvillainy “2” The Madlib Remix. 25 tracks. Read more below.

7-INCH “One Beer (Drunk Version)” Madlib’s original 2004 version, lost until recently on the floor of his Bomb Shelter studio. If you saw the studio you’d understand.

CASSETTE The Madvillainy Demo Tape. 12 tracks, 36 minutes. This is the first and only official release of the infamous Madvillain demo that “leaked into cyberspace,” while the album was still in progress, as DOOM alludes to in the lyrics of “Rhinestone Cowboy.”

T-SHIRT Nominated. Best Rolled L’s. Madvillain shirt.

COMIC BOOK Meanwhile… the continuation of the All Caps video, included with the CD.

THE BOX 12×13x3 inches. Wrapped in a silver like a mask.

I mean, a cassette? Dern. You can pre-order it here for $125. Kinda steep.

Some cabling compatibility is preventing me from getting today’s photo posted. I’ll have it for tomorrow.

Swear.

**edit to add (after poking about for the proper cable…)**

I do love these photos from outer space. NASA is ruling schools these days. Details on the photo here.

I am definitely grabbing these toys from McFarlane when they come out this fall.

[thanks, Chris]

I am in the fits-and-starts stages of installing ubuntu Linux on our old Dell laptop. There are some video settings I need to tinker with and I then I will have to work through getting the correct wireless settings (read: headaches), but overall I am excited at the low-end geekiness of this project.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about Linux, specifically Ubuntu, and came across a good “layman’s take” on the newest Ubuntu release, version 8.04 (the Hardy Heron). I kinda love how the releases have names as well as version numbers.

In “The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment” the guy installs Hardy Heron on a computer and asks his girlfriend to perform a series of tasks without any of his help. It’s a good read.

From the mailing list:

The Raconteurs are happy to announce that in one week’s time their second album, entitled “Consolers Of The Lonely”, will be available EVERYWHERE Tuesday, March 25th.

“Album” meaning: full length vinyl, CD and digital formats; and “everywhere” meaning: local mom and pop Indie retailers, corporate superstores, supermarkets, iTunes, Amazon, the band’s own website and any other location that could get the record up and going this quickly (some places couldn’t move this fast, so they will join in as soon as they can).

It contains 14 new recordings and is being released globally on Third Man Records in conjunction with our marketing/distribution partners, XL Recordings and Warner Brothers Records.

The album was mastered and completed in the first week of March. It was then taken immediately to a vinyl pressing plant. Then to a CD pressing plant. Then preparations to sell it digitally began. March 25th became the soonest date to have it available in EVERY FORMAT AT ONCE. The band have done no interviews or advertisements for this record before this announcement.

The purpose: to get the album to the fans as soon as possible and as we promised. We wanted to get this record to fans, the press, radio, etc., all at the EXACT SAME TIME so that no one has an upper hand on anyone else regarding it’s availability, reception or perception.

With this release, The Raconteurs are forgoing the usual months of lead time for press and radio set up, as well as forgoing the all important “first week sales”. We wanted to explore the idea of releasing an album everywhere at once and THEN marketing and promoting it thereafter. The Raconteurs would rather this release not be defined by it’s first weeks sales, pre-release promotion, or by someone defining it FOR YOU before you get to hear it.

The best part of this is that they will likely tour behind it so I can have another chance to see them. I double-promise not to miss it this time, guys.

This is the newest art print from Aaron Horkey and Burlesque Design. I can’t wait to get my hands on this gem.

Ooh! Embossing!

go get it here

[via fimoculous.com, the home of awesome links]

…and in with the hotness.

The old eMAc has been replaced with one of the new-style iMacs and I can’t describe to you how excited I am.

When I made the call to go Mac almost 4(!) years ago I didn’t want to drop the big dollars on an iMac, because if I ended up hating the Apple OS I didn’t want to be out all of that money on a machine I hated. As it turns out, I am a full-fledged Mac convert and I have been pining for the Big Boy iMac for the last year or two. I spent a couple of hours last night getting stuff set like I want it, surfing, and playing some games. The whole experience has been eye-popping. Everything is several degrees faster. The screen is amazing.

(Yes, I know it’s not a surprise that 4-year old machine from the bottom of Mac line that was at the end of the product cycle when I bought it compares poorly to the newest make and model of their flagship desktop. But daaaamn. The new one is noice!)

I’d like to get the new machine set up as responsibly as possible. I remembered to set up an Admin separate from my “Mike Flynn” profile so I don’t accidentally foul something up. I also imported all of the photos from the old machine. I am going to work on getting the iTunes library moved over this weekend. Anyone out there with a must-do task for a new iMac?

Clever band name, but the <your hometown here>vegas name game is a little played out, IMO. They’re from Scotland, you know.

I am intrigued to hear more from them based solely on how they look and the video they’re playing on their site. One would think they could tear it up in a 50’s rocker/greaser vein, but I don’t really hear that out of the songs they’re streaming.

More research is necessary.

[saw them linked up at Cool Hunting]