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About once a year I like to put together a podcast episode around a theme, and this weekend that subject is Hillary Clinton. I think I've prepared it with fairness and respect, so even if you disagree please do the same. It's both a personal expression and a way of capturing a moment.


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It's about 13 minutes long. Enjoy.

My third podcast is about San Francisco. Download it here or subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes.


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I had a lot of fun putting this together, recording sounds in and around San Francisco. I used my MiniDisc RH-910 and Audio-Technica AT822 microphone. Turns out the MiniDisc was a pretty bad investment, though. It has been a real hassle to use, and I am eyeing the new Edirol R-09 as a replacement.


Go buy the music used in this podcast from Magnatune: Cargo Cult, Phoebe Carrai, and Arthur Yoria. They are building a great modern label that embraces what the internet is about instead of fighting it.


Also special thanks to the Marin County Free Library for permission to use a portion of the Arthur Giddings interview. Check out their site on the 1906 earthquake.


Other resources: Point Reyes, San Francisco Police 9-1-1 Tapes, 19th-Century California Sheet Music, WWDC 2006 Keynote.


Update: How could I leave out a link to Sketchcrawl.com? Also: Eadweard Muybridge, Enrico Casarosa, and Dorothea Lange.

This is my first podcast, called Trains. If you subscribe to the main RSS feed using a podcast-aware newsreader like NetNewsWire 2.0, you may already have the MP3 in your copy of iTunes. If not, here it is for download:


» Trains (MP3, 10MB)


There is not a separate podcast feed, but you should be able to drag the main RSS feed URL onto the Podcasts icon in iTunes 4.9 or later to subscribe as well.


Related links for topics in this podcast:


Frank and Ollie DVD

The Iron Giant Special Edition DVD

Dumbo DVD

The Incredibles DVD secret menu (Jim Hull)

Animators and Railroads (Jan-Eric Nystrom)

The Caboose Who Got Loose (Bill Peet)

South Side (Moby and Gwen Stefani)

Trainfare (Toni Price)

City of Blinding Lights (U2)

My second podcast episode is about video game music. You can download it here, or subscribe to the new podcast feed in iTunes.


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I started working on this last year but it quickly became too ambitious and stalled. I picked it up again just a couple of days ago, simplified it considerably, and got it done. As usual, I learned a bunch, and look forward to improving a few things for the next one. Enjoy!


And some related links for the topic covered:


Buy at Amazon: Lumines, Electroplankton, Katamari Damacy


All games at Gamespot: Zelda, Tetris, Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Ys Book I & II, Myst, Electroplankton, Ocarina of Time, Lumines, Myth, Katamari Damacy


Remix credits: Super Mario World by Jason Cox, Super Metroid by The Wingless


Game history: TurboGrafx-16, Ys I and II, Ys I and II


Music archives: VGMusic.com, Zophar's Game Music Archives


More links: Composing with Electroplankton, Video game music emulators, Bungie's Myth, Myth II demo, Ocarina instrument