Up the Tree

  • Cover art

    Remember the days when you’d long to listen to music by the album? You went over to your shelves and looked at the album artwork to find the music you wanted to listen to. With the invention of MP3s and digital music players, the concept of album covers as navigational aids got lost (along with shelves full of records). Suddenly looking for a song meant you had to know the artist, album, or song name. As a visual thinker, I can easily tell you what any album in my music collection looks like from memory, but have a real problem with knowing what album a given song is on.

    Continue reading CoverFlow: Better Digital Music Navigation »

  • Southstreet Seaport that is!

    Clap Your Hands and Say Seaport

    -Today,- August 10th, “Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah”:http://clapyourhandssayyeah.com/ will have a *free* show on the docks of “Southstreet Seaport”:http://seaportmusicfestival.com/ with the excellent band “Devotchka”:http://devotchka.net/ for all those in the local NY area.

    _Did I mention it’s free?_

    Clap Your Hands and Say Seaport

  • Download me - I'm a Podcast

    Josiah returns from his busy schedule to grace us, fair listener, with some of the most meaningless banter ever recorded. It’s a one hour double shot show to make up for all that time Josiah’s been away featuring some of the finest music available online. I think You’ll agree, it’s well worth the wait.
    I apologize for the mix, but Josiah is impossible to eq! Please complain to him to get on the mic or buy his own mic please!
    Played on Today’s Show
    # The Language You Are Using Now by Don’s Mobile Barbers />

    1. Dark Don’t Hide It by Magnolia Electric Co. (slow)
    2. You Broke My Heart by lavender Diamond (female slow)
    3. Black Cab by Jens Lekman via Panda’s Hideout />
    4. slim mcshady by Go Home Productions />
    5. Lift Me Up by Saturday Looks Good to Me />
    6. Warpaint by Kyle Dawkins (instrumental)
    7. We Should Drop Like Flies by Alec Ounsworth from CYHSY!
      Mentioned on Todays Show
      * Balls!

  • While prepping my site for the big shove over to WordPress, I happened across an old draft that I haddn’t published. Man it’s amazing what a few years can do… now my writing is lazy and I hate using big words.

    h4. 200 Dollar Store

    We all understand the basic concept of the dollar store’s marketing strategy; take knickknacks, non-expiring canned goods, the un-familiar afro-American Santa figurines, every product produced by the Lorimar Cosmetic Company, aluminum tins and sell them all under one roof for a dollar or less. There was, of course, immediate innovation and the 99-cent store was born. However, the price drop of one cent did little to instill further consumer confidence or loyalty, but there was a certain ring to ninety-nine cent store, so it stayed part of the cultural vernacular. But I digress.

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  • Occasionally there may be a time when you really don’t want to publish all the MP3s of a post in your RSS feed. Unfortunately WordPress will not allow you to remove an MP3 it’s linked to. To be more accurate WordPress will always link to all available media files every time you press *Save.*

    This becomes a huge issue when you are recording a podcast and linking to various MP3s you might have played during the course of a show. However with the addition of one letter to one line on one page of your WordPress installation you too can be enclosure free… and by free, I mean you will from this point on never have WordPress enclosing files even if you want them. You may of course manually enclose files, but this may problematic for some people.

    # Find the folder in your WordPress Installation named *wp-includes*
    # open the file in that folder named *functions.php*
    # Scroll down to line 766 which starts preg_match_all and edit the bit that should have *http* and make it now read *httpp*
    # Save the file and upload to your server.

    *What did I just do?* Well, in effect you have told WordPress only to enclose files which start with httpp://www.yaddayadda…… and since no link can ever be on a server that starts httpp it will never include a file.

    *It’s ugly, but it works.*

    p(note). This hack has been tested with WordPress 1.5.x Please be cautious of modifying your WordPress code and always have a backup in the wings. I take no responsibility for broken sites.