Today, on what seems like the first real spring day, I learn that Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse has died. I didn’t know Mark outside of his music, but still his death somehow gets to me more than I would have expected. Perhaps because I get the sense that this is a conclusion of a life-long [...]
I saw Animal Collective play for a sold-out House Blues in Boston a few days ago. It has been suggested that Merriweather Post Pavillon, their latest release, can be considered their “pop” album, and this was certainly confirmed by the venue and the crowd. But when they started playing, I was struck by the disconnect [...]
23-year old Bob Dylan plays Chimes of Freedom at the Newport Folk Festival, I think. This is one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs, and this is probably the best version of the song I have ever heard.
So I finally gave it a shot, and updated Wordpress (the thingy that I run my blog on). It was really inspired by the fact that I needed some kind of spam-fighting plugin added to the blog. I have been getting a butt load of spam lately, for some reason – maybe it is the [...]
So, having returned to the states after a long, wonderful summer vacation, I think it’s time to get this blog up and running again. Much of my time in the lab these days is spent doing manual segmentation, which is basically separating the gray and white matter in our brain scans. This is probably the [...]