Category: Current Events

Fireworks Mishaps

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On the night of the fourth, while watching Boston’s fireworks from a friend’s roof deck on Beacon Hill, I told my girlfriend that I was curious to see it would be like if a city released an entire show worth of fireworks at once. Well, whoops. San Diego seems to have accidentally done just that. I call them fire geysers: What an awesome 30 seconds that must have been.

And We’re Off!

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The commercial space race hit a pretty big milestone! Yesterday’s SpaceX launch put the first commercial spacecraft with plans to dock with the space station into orbit: I’m convinced that space travel, like the kind Virgin Galactic is planning, will become “reasonably” affordable over the next two decades. You can now book a space flight right on the Virgin site for $200,000. The form is actually quite funny: “Book Directly with Virgin Galactic” or “Book with your Local Accredited Space Agent.” I love it. It’s an outrageous sum of money, but not nearly as outrageous as the $20-$35 million per trip paid to the Russian government by “tourists” over the past 11 years. And now there’s talk of $13,000 trips in the

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Google Celebrates Robert Moog

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With a cool working electronic synth four track right on the homepage:             It’s funny. I feel like tons of blogs are posting about this, acting as though they know all about Robert Moog. And I suppose maybe they do. The “Moog Synthesizer” sounds vaguely familiar, but I won’t pretend to have known anything about the man or his contributions to electronic music until this morning when I looked him up on wikipedia. But now I do. And I used google’s synth to make this monstrosity. Click the link to hear something horrendous. A somethingsbrewing.com original.  

Moonrise Kingdom

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We’re only a few days away from the release of Wes Anderson’s new film, Moonrise Kingdom. Portable record players, tree houses, and canoes. It looks awesome: The soundtrack also looks promising, with lots of old Hank Williams tunes. My favorite Wes Anderson soundtrack is still that from the Darjeeling Limited.