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News-of-the-weird recording from 2006. One of my favorite compositions back from when I was doing
The Aural Times.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 12:20 PM on January 4, 2010
(3 comments)
Episode 5 of the Metafilter Music Podcast is the second, naughtier half of the two-part holiday series that started last week. It's about 46 minutes long and features 19 songs by 17 different metafilter musicians.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 3:02 PM on December 18, 2009
(18 comments)
This is the (long overdue) 4th episode of the Metafilter Music Podcast, and part one of two in a series of holiday-themed collections. This one is Nice, the next, in a few days, will be Naughty. This episode run just over 41 minutes and features songs by fourteen different mefite musicians.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 11:44 AM on December 11, 2009
(14 comments)
This is one of my favorite bits of not just holiday music but music in general, but it's not something I usually hear people rock out to. This is my attempt to help change that.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 11:58 AM on December 8, 2009
(14 comments)
November is over, and favorites are back to normal. In addition, we've got a couple related things to mention:
a survey about the November exercise and favorites in general, and a couple of new display options for folks who want to alter the default favorites view.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 12:36 PM on December 1, 2009
(471 comments)
We're raffling off usernumber 100000!
For the next week Through Friday, you can buy
$5 raffle tickets (to benefit your choice of five charitable orgs) for a chance to win the big account
and airfare to a meetup of your choice.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 8:32 AM on November 16, 2009
(720 comments)
I'm looking at purchasing a new PC for gaming, wanting to spend between $1000 and $1500 total, would prefer not to put it together myself, and am waaaay out of the loop on hardware at this point, particularly graphic cards.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cortex
at 11:37 AM on November 10, 2009
(23 comments)
This is my messy pop-rock interpretation of mikepop's
excellent parodic adaptation of the old murder ballad "Darling Corey", which this sounds basically nothing like.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 2:11 PM on November 6, 2009
(11 comments)
For the month of November, we're going to try an experiment with how favorites are displayed.
[Note: if this whole experiment is driving you crazy, here's a note on reverting the changes.]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 12:02 PM on October 31, 2009
(2725 comments)
This is a song I wrote in late August, for bingo's
Revolving Floor project.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 12:46 PM on October 23, 2009
(11 comments)
Meetup junket! I bought one of the last Jetblue
All You Can Jet passes (
previously on metafilter), and I'm gonna spend the month from September 8th through October 8th flying around, and hopefully meeting up with a crapload of mefites in the process. Help me figure it all out.
(NYC, Boston, Portland ME, Vermonsters, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, Raleigh, Vegas, LA, San Francisco, Salt Lake, Chicago, Denver: I'm talking to you!) [
wiki page with more information about specific meetups, etc.]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 12:29 PM on August 20, 2009
(167 comments)
The Metafilter Infodump
is back, and moderately better than ever! Statistics nerds rejoice!
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 1:55 PM on August 13, 2009
(502 comments)
Now with less German supermodel. Plus, I play drums!
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 6:30 PM on July 28, 2009
(10 comments)
So I just bought myself a drumkit. I have functionally no drumming experience. Where to start?
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 5:08 PM on July 22, 2009
(45 comments)
There will, of course, be food and drink tonight. Here's the skinny:
posted to Tenth Anniversary by cortex
at 9:00 AM on July 18, 2009
(12 comments)
As realized by the Christopher Walken & The Lounge Fellas.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 11:42 AM on July 7, 2009
(23 comments)
It's still June for another hour and seventeen minutes, server time.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 10:43 PM on June 30, 2009
(4 comments)
An attempt to anger both Leonard Cohen
and Bob Dylan.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 11:47 AM on June 19, 2009
(11 comments)
This is the soundtrack to a movie about Leonard Cohen going on a rafting trip in rural Appalachia.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 11:30 AM on June 18, 2009
(15 comments)
When Elvis Met Leonard. Nothing but uke, vox, and questionable taste.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 10:09 AM on June 17, 2009
(42 comments)
Stealing the 5/4 shuffle from Take Five and injecting it into Leonard Cohen: non-trivial.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 12:08 PM on June 11, 2009
(23 comments)
I thought I'd take one for the team and kick off June's "Cover Hallelujah"
Music challenge. This is a scratch recording I made about a year ago when I was home sick and had lost most of my voice. If you ever wanted to hear Excessively Husky-Voiced Cortex, this is your chance.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 12:14 PM on June 4, 2009
(15 comments)
FLEE!, a simple flash game
I'm teaching myself AS3/Flash, and this is my first attempt at a game. It's very simple, and has a combinatoric soundtrack based on nine improvised counterpoint-ish things I recorded yesterday.
posted to Projects by cortex
at 11:05 AM on May 24, 2009
I'll be in NYC soon (from Thurs. April 30th to Sun. May 3rd) for Gel 2009 and I'd love to have a meetup. mathowie will be in town too!
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 12:34 PM on April 17, 2009
(161 comments)
This is one of seven tracks off my friend Brian Rozendal's updcoming debut EP,
Lean. I'm on piano. A whole bunch of details within.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 8:20 AM on April 12, 2009
(10 comments)
We're going to be experimenting with some gentle scaling back of Metafilter's scope and services.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 8:00 AM on April 1, 2009
(482 comments)
An attempt to create a recording of the late-90s boozehound anthem Tubthumping that sounds as flat and obnoxious as the hundredth chorus of fratboys singing along with it did by the end of that decade. Happy St. Paddy's Day!
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 10:06 AM on March 17, 2009
(15 comments)
My attempt to exorcise some high school nostalgia. The lyrics are as dumb as they always were, but now there's banjo and mandolin!
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 2:36 PM on March 3, 2009
(14 comments)
Just what it says on the tin.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 6:15 PM on February 13, 2009
(4 comments)
Here's an attempt to cover O Superman without copying it; no synths, no vocoders, no sampling or looping.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 4:06 PM on February 11, 2009
(23 comments)
Look At This Cat!
I made
Look At This Cat because I figured there are a lot of cats out there that people should look at. And I don't see why that has to involve like crazy Web 2.0 crap when all you really need is some pictures of cats and the ability to say to yourself "hey, look at that, that is one great cat right there".
posted to Projects by cortex
at 5:48 PM on February 3, 2009
With Matt on vacation in Hawaii,
Josh cortex and jessamyn talk about SongSmith, Star Wars, whether or not anyone has actually read Wodehouse, and what the hell supermarkets are doing with bacon placement these days. This podcast was recorded Thursday, January 22nd, and runs just under an hour.
direct link
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 6:59 PM on January 26, 2009
(80 comments)
An attempt to filter the zeitgeist of this recent long dark downtime of the soul.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 5:27 PM on January 26, 2009
(15 comments)
Take a trip through clinical depression with this spicy new single from the Jimmy "Pharmacy" Walgreen Jazz Happening, featuring Dr. Herbert Grosowitz and his Passive-Aggressive Harmonica. (Thanks,
SongSmith!)
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 11:47 AM on January 9, 2009
(17 comments)
For anybody who figures it can't get any worse. Best played loud while drinking and shouting along.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 5:41 PM on December 31, 2008
(13 comments)
Being an apology-by-request to robocop is bleeding for trouncing him unmercifully in a recent game of
Diplomacy.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 2:44 PM on December 30, 2008
(8 comments)
What do I need to know when choosing a wall-mounted projection screen for my living room?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cortex
at 5:08 PM on December 20, 2008
(9 comments)
People with a keen strategic sense maintain a well-diversified hoard of coins and painstakingly build alliances with local shopkeepers or bank tellers, conspicuously proffering coins for one purchase or deposit in the hopes of being indulged when they're short of change at some point in the future. Argentina's coinage problem.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 12:32 PM on December 3, 2008
(19 comments)
As
requested by uncleozzy. I'd like to think this is a song sung by a hard-travelin' man dreaming of his girl—a girl with beautiful long black hair, and a high, soaring voice; Old Man Perry's daughter, Stephanie.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 10:06 AM on November 19, 2008
(15 comments)
A less-than-one-minute theme song I wrote five years ago for a fictional sitcom about a guy I worked with at the time. A music challenge twofer that I have had in the can
for half a decade.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 9:01 AM on November 14, 2008
(11 comments)
I wish I'd written this song a week ago, but I'd never even heard the phrase until this afternoon.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 4:18 PM on November 4, 2008
(20 comments)
A moody composition on behalf of the things in our new house that very much want us to know we were there first. Happy Halloween!
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 12:49 PM on October 31, 2008
(7 comments)
What's the simplest way for me to grab a daily digest of my twitter output?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cortex
at 11:10 AM on October 29, 2008
(6 comments)
