With no pants on

This guy thinks he's the Sheik of Araby:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9MS_OIKy2iI

Supergun Leaks

An anonymous source has leaked these Supergun demos!
Rumor has it these three tracks are demos for Supergun's upcoming yet-to-be-announced album.
You may remember Supergun from their amazing live shows last fall, and they've also worked with and share at least one member with Artic Foxes.
Here are the tracks!

Chariots on Fire
Barack Attack
Rick's Just Blowing Off Steam

Thanks to Nick Turco for hosting the files!

Nick Fights

For those of you who somehow missed the big Fight last summer, some loyal fan seems to have captured it and put it on YouTube. Thanks Burt!
Watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWHhiGzGHkA

Update:
For more info on another, more recent verbal fight, check the newest Supergun track leaked,
Rick's Just Blowing Off Steam.

sites that are fake old desktops

http://chiptune.com/ - the best one, with demos and "games" but WHERE DA FILES AT???/ (includes a WEB BROWSER (WITHIN YOUR BROWSER (within your browser (within...(...(..
http://www.atari.st/ - not as desktoppy but I click on the trashcan!

Anybody know of any others?

chips

Collection of chiptunes videos and links. Write your own narrative.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJ2Bei3xKQ&NR=1 - very awesome flashy tunnel stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPb7zkCSz7g&feature=related - legend of zelda screen glitches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsW4aZH736I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js8ub6-OuBY&feature=related - notable for fifth element reference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bthRjRT7SFc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zexzRKCTVU&feature=related - fucking creepy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iPHCpcNYfA&feature=related - italo disco aficionado will like this one

Most of these are by this 1bit guy on youtube, and they are all pretty awesome.

anyway, found out about this guy from this great chip label:

http://filefreakout.com/
http://filefreakout.com/animal-style

and here's an awesome FM synth EP
http://www.iimusic.net/catalog/2007/10/waveform

Some Ancient Shit

I found a page of some nice recordings of ancient Greek instruments, the aulos and the kithara (a bigger version of he lyre), recorded on Edison cylinders around the turn of the 5th century BC (from the day Socrates drank the hemlock). Emotional stuff. I especially like the last aulos recording. Very bluesy.

In addition, I did some research on an ancient drink called posset in the Middle Ages, which was a mixture of milk, wine, eggs, nutmeg, and sugar. Sounds like egg nog, right? Yes. And then they let it curdle and sit for a while and it forms these three layers and you eat it with a spoon and drink out the bottom alcoholic layer. Yummy. Sounds good.

But then there's this ancient Greek drink called kykeon that was made of wine or water and barley, goat cheese and herbs. Sounds pretty nasty. I'm hungry though so it sounds good. And apparently they would drink it each year at the Eleusinian Mysteries (which went on for 2000 years - must have been somethin'!), only some people think the barley was infested with ergot, a fungus, which produces some nasty compounds that are precursors to LSD and are way nastier, causing convulsions, burning in the limbs, uterine contractions (even in men!), hallucinations and even death. And there's a theory that ergot-infested rye was the cause of the hysterical behavior in young women that resulted in the Salem Witch Trials. And that the epic poem Beowulf is the memory of a quelling of a fertility cult based upon drinking of ergot whose preserved bodies have been found in bogs in Britain with ergot in their stomachs. Wow.

All in all, a very good Wikipedia session.