I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man.
I’ve been working on a project for the past few days but keep seeing this mentioned. Just watched it and now I know why. And if you don’t know who Cee-Lo is you may know him from Gnarls Barkley, or if you’re really old school and you like hip-hop he’s from the Goodie Mob.
I can’t get this song out of my head, it’s so damn catchy. Children’s shows weren’t this cool when I was a kid. My daughter is 10 months old and actually starts dancing when this song comes on. It’s pretty amazing.
It may be a kids show but it has some major appeal. Apparently Jack Black’s wife actually wrote into the show begging them to let him make an appearance, which he eventually did.
The YO GABBA GABBA! album was ranked by the Los Angeles Examiner as one of the top 10 albums of the year, among albums from artists including GNR, The Roots, RTX, J.D. Souther, The Clash, Marah, The Knux, Q-Tip and My Morning Jacket.
“5. Yo Gabba Gabba – Soundtrack – They say it’s for kids, but this is a show that aging punks, soon to be hockey Moms and Little Mr. and Ms all love in equal measure. How good? So good. It’s not a question of how much fun this Nick Jr. release is, it is really a question of how much fun you can take.”
OK, so I guess the term “easy” is relative. But I’m going to layout how I did it and hopefully it will help some people who’ve been wanting to create their own ringtones and not have to basically buy the song twice from iTunes. It’s really ridiculous that there is no free, easy way to make ringtones for your iPhone. Not to mention I was getting pretty sick of hearing Marimba constantly.
In order to do this you’re going to need Audacity, a free audio editor, if you don’t have it you should go download it. The second thing you’ll need is a DRM free mp3, which means you cannot use any song you bought from iTunes (although iTunes is starting to sell DRM free songs). Basically any song you backed up from a CD or you can also go to Amazon to buy your mp3s, they are all DRM free. And the Amazon download tool will put your songs right into iTunes with no extra work for you.
So, once you have Audacity, or some other audio editing software of your choice, and a DRM free mp3, you’re ready to go.
Check out the step by step instructions after the jump.
After writing the Obama/Zune article last night I guess I didn’t realize how much the issue would linger. I was attempting to crack wise about it and make the point about who gives a crap what Obama listens to his music on while he exercises, but taken out of context it made me seem like I was a Mac fan boy.
The Apple crowd isn’t as psyched. “You can’t run an election claiming you own an iPod and garnering people’s votes then after you win suddenly start toting around a Zune. That’s just not cool,” writes James Poling.
There you have it ladies and gentlemen. According to the Wall Street journal, a respected and well established news outlet, I am “the Apple crowd”. That has to count for something right? Can’t someone at Apple hook me up with a free Macbook Pro to blog on or something?
P.S. I do have an email into the Obama camp to hopefully settle this once and for all. I’m sure it’s right on the top of their to-do list.
Even though Obama specifically says in his June 25, 2008 interview in Rolling Stone that he owns an iPod, some Philadelphia blogger with a plunger on his face claims to have seen Obama working out with a Zune. Yes, I know this is the dumbest fucking story of the century and I apologize in advance, but I’d just like to point out that Neal Santos may secretly own stock in Microsoft’s Zune project and may be trying to give it a bump.
Obama waxed rhapsodic about his favorite artists, many of whom — Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Jay-Z — have shown him love with endorsements.
“If I had one musical hero, it would have to be Stevie Wonder,” says Obama, who grew up on Seventies R&B and rock staples including Earth, Wind and Fire, Elton John and the Rolling Stones. “When I was at that point where you start getting involved in music, Stevie had that run with Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Fulfillingness’ First Finale and Innervisions, and then Songs in the Key of Life. Those are as brilliant a set of five albums as we’ve ever seen.”
Wonder shares room on Obama’s iPod with “everything from Howlin’ Wolf to Yo-Yo Ma to Sheryl Crow,” he says. “And I have probably 30 Dylan songs on my iPod.” Though he’s partial to 1975’s Blood on the Tracks, “Maggie’s Farm” is “one of my favorites during the political season,” says Obama. “It speaks to me as I listen to some of the political rhetoric.”
This may actually be up there with the “boxers or briefs” question Clinton was asked on MTV during his campaign.
But seriously though, you can’t run an election claiming you own an iPod and garnering people’s votes then after you win suddenly start toting around a Zune. That’s just not cool. It’s likely to give the impression that politicians aren’t trustworthy or something.
I’m sure the guy who wrote and sang, “and no religion too”, will finally be able to rest easy now that the Vatican has forgiven him.
“The remark by John Lennon, which triggered deep indignation mainly in the United States, after many years sounds only like a ‘boast’ by a young working-class Englishman faced with unexpected success, after growing up in the legend of Elvis and rock and roll,” Vatican daily Osservatore Romano said.
Guess they finally decided it pales in comparison to that whole pesky inquisition thing.
