Playlist Magazine LIKES me!

So there's this new magazine about iTunes, iPods and MP3 players Called Pllaylist, and they have this new website that has a forum. I posted my mono file trick for saving space on your iPod (first posted here on April 18th), and Editor in Chief Christopher Breen, author of "Secrets Of The iPod" and an iPod/Mac guru himself, praised it. I am flattered. Check out their forums. I'm listed as Billeblast.

The new Frank Zappa DVD-Audio release, QuAUDIOPHILIac, is freakin' awesome. Quite possibly the best posthumous release of Frank's material yet. If you have a surround system, you owe it to yourself to seek this out. I've been a vocal critic of some of the other recent Zappa vault releases (most notably the mix on "Halloween" and the authoring errors on "Baby Snakes"), but this one is the shiznit. Get it. Highlights: "Rollo" from the ORCHESTRAL FAVORITES sessions, a jam session of the themes that eventually made up the composition "Chunga's Revenge", and extended versions of "Ship Ahoy" and "Waka/Jawaka", the latter minus some of the horns and a Frank guitar solo played though a ring modulator. The only other time I've heard a guitar through a ring modulator is "Too Much Paranoias" by Devo.