The Crack Team » Music http://www.crackteam.org The most famous covert organization in the world. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:45:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Steve Jobs 1955-2011; too soon for jokes? http://www.crackteam.org/2011/10/12/steve-jobs-1955-2011-too-soon-for-jokes/ http://www.crackteam.org/2011/10/12/steve-jobs-1955-2011-too-soon-for-jokes/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:09:39 +0000 bladerunner http://www.crackteam.org/?p=1459

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It’s true, I never was a big Apple fan. I got my kids iPods because they relentlessly kept on asking. Oh, and the players were free when I signed up for a bank account (back in the day).

I inherited the old iPods and am using one today. They are not bad devices: easy to use and pretty to look at. But they are overpriced and I hate having to use iTunes to access my music. I hate being sold new material at every turn. I would love to have a simple drag-and-drop interface.

Sure there were MP3s before the iPod. I don’t blame Steve Jobs for making lossy music palatable. But I don’t share in the global outporing of grief that’s on every TV, computer and iPlatform in the world, either.

And Steve Jobs has a family that’s going thru the grieving process. So why start these tasteless Steve Jobs jokes? We may as well ask why we climb Mt. Everest. It’s because we can.

And you have to admit that it takes talent to make a clever joke about a sad, troubling situation. Sort-of like those improvisation shows where a performer is asked to make a joke about starving Somalians. A very poor-taste request, but also a challenge.

So here’s some jokes about the death of the iconic founder of Apple and the creator of the greatest devices in the world:

  • I hear President Obama has been implicated in the passing of the iconic Apple founder…
    his economic policies killed jobs.

 

  • Steve Jobs’ funeral will feature a private viewing for his many fans.
    As each person passes in front of the casket, they’ll pay 99 cents.

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Richard Vission & Static Revenger – I Like That (Adam F Dubstep Remix)

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]]> http://www.crackteam.org/2011/05/23/1375/feed/ 0 If I Didn’t Have You… http://www.crackteam.org/2011/05/13/if-i-didnt-have-you/ http://www.crackteam.org/2011/05/13/if-i-didnt-have-you/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 22:26:13 +0000 archangel http://www.crackteam.org/?p=1360 …I’d probably have somebody else. Tim Minchin on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson:

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]]> http://www.crackteam.org/2011/05/13/if-i-didnt-have-you/feed/ 0 DM says you’re gonna die, roll a d6. http://www.crackteam.org/2011/05/04/dm-says-youre-gonna-die-roll-a-d6/ http://www.crackteam.org/2011/05/04/dm-says-youre-gonna-die-roll-a-d6/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 01:44:42 +0000 archangel http://www.crackteam.org/?p=1343 D&D parody video of “Like a G6.” HD available. Tip of the hat to Masterchief.

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]]> http://www.crackteam.org/2011/05/04/dm-says-youre-gonna-die-roll-a-d6/feed/ 0 Do The Duck Face! http://www.crackteam.org/2010/07/06/do-the-duck-face/ http://www.crackteam.org/2010/07/06/do-the-duck-face/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:07:16 +0000 archangel http://www.crackteam.org/?p=1124 Funny song with naughty words, but you’ll be safe at work with headphones. What’s especially sad are the girls who went for duck face, missed by a mile, and ended up on, “I think I just sharted.”

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Learn more about the machine and video here.

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]]> http://www.crackteam.org/2010/03/05/ok-gos-rube-goldberg-video/feed/ 1 Guitar Heroine http://www.crackteam.org/2010/02/05/guitar-heroine/ http://www.crackteam.org/2010/02/05/guitar-heroine/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:39:43 +0000 zbalance http://www.crackteam.org/?p=993 My sister bought me Rock Band 2 for Christmas. I’m a little late to the rhythm beat-style game phenomenon, but I was instantly hooked and so was my wife and kids. So much so, that I went driving all around the next weekend looking for a second guitar since there’s four of us in the house, but the game ‘only’ comes with one guitar, a microphone and a drum set. The following weekend, I got the cymbal attachments for my drum-set. “I call drums!”
We now have a room pretty much devoted to this game.
Last Saturday (with a little alcohol) we played the game from 8pm until 3am. Kids too.
I’m telling ya…, hooked up to a nice tv with a good sound setup, you easily feel as if you are really playing that shit.
Which brings me to my point.
I FEEL as though I am playing but I KNOW I am not.
I have no delusions that I am actually a rock star despite my hours of fake drumming. None at all. Yes I feel that MAYBE I have a better sense of timing. Yes MAYBE I have a better understanding of using both hands and feet while following a beat. BUT I AM NO ROCK STAR. I CAN NOT PLAY DRUMS.
I am so sick of hearing mediocre musicians (and the media) criticize people who play the game.
They make blanket statements like this: “Guitar Hero punks who think they can really play guitar.”
Lets get something straight. NO ONE WHO PLAYS THESE GAMES, BELIEVES THEY CAN REALLY PLAY AN INSTRUMENT BECAUSE OF IT. NO ONE. Please show me ONE person, just one, who truly thinks this way because I have yet to see it.
As soon as I put the band controllers down, I return to my no-music-talent world of dullness, and I am fully aware of it.
Why all the hate over these music games?
You never hear NASA criticize people for playing Mass Effect. “So what, you think your some kind of astronaut now?”
Nor does the NFL come down on anyone. “Look at him playing Madden 09,… he thinks he’s a real football player!”

Hell, even those people who do that role playing with costumes don’t get as much flak. And they are throwing tennis balls in place of Magic Missiles! However, when the costume comes off, the player doesn’t continue to believe they are really wizards.

I will admit that one time while mixing prescription meds and playing Nintendo, I was pretty sure I was Mario. I did a lot of damage to my house with a hammer that day…

Anyway, to all the insecure musicians out there…
Look, I’m sorry that when I press four buttons on a guitar shaped joystick, that it somehow attacks your thrashing credibility.
Maybe if you stopped worrying about what I do in my living room and started practicing more, you’d actually get laid. and believe me, once you get laid for the first time, you will forget all about Guitar Hero.
Let me know how it works out.

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]]> http://www.crackteam.org/2010/02/05/guitar-heroine/feed/ 1 Wherein the queen confuses the Scarlett Witch with Emma Frost… http://www.crackteam.org/2010/01/01/wherein-the-queen-confuses-the-scarlett-witch-with-emma-frost/ http://www.crackteam.org/2010/01/01/wherein-the-queen-confuses-the-scarlett-witch-with-emma-frost/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:39:27 +0000 archangel http://www.crackteam.org/?p=982 http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv2swp8zaI1qa4ygxo1_500.jpg

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]]> http://www.crackteam.org/2010/01/01/wherein-the-queen-confuses-the-scarlett-witch-with-emma-frost/feed/ 0 Nadia Oh http://www.crackteam.org/2009/08/26/nadia-oh/ http://www.crackteam.org/2009/08/26/nadia-oh/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:43:23 +0000 archangel http://www.crackteam.org/?p=843 When I created a Pandora channel for Uffie, it kept playing stuff by Nadia Oh, who I never heard before.1 I won’t over-hype this – it’s well produced dance music sung by a cute British chick. Here are some songs off Hot Like Wow, produced by Space Cowboy.

Something 4 The Weekend

N.A.D.I.A. OH

Got Your Number

My Egyptian Lover

  1. BTW, Uffie make very different music, especially lyrically and vocally. And she’s got some really hot images out there.

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]]> http://www.crackteam.org/2009/08/26/nadia-oh/feed/ 2 YOU Want To Be My Facebook Friend??? http://www.crackteam.org/2009/08/11/you-want-to-be-my-facebook-friend/ http://www.crackteam.org/2009/08/11/you-want-to-be-my-facebook-friend/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:09:14 +0000 archangel http://www.crackteam.org/?p=823 So I can’t say that any former lovers, who ripped out my heart and ate it in front of me, have tried to friend me on Facebook. At least one girl I gave the brush-off to over and over has tried, but I can’t blame her – who could resist this pile of manliness? But I have had a couple people who I never got along with send a request. I keep thinking, “We never liked each other, we haven’t spoken in almost 2 decades – why are you trying to connect?”

Kate Miller-Heidke puts this sentiment in song, and much more eloquently than I have:

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