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Cheap Thrills 11.30.05
Knocking the dust off a few MP3s...
Animal Collective - Grass
Wolf Parade - You Are A Runner and I am My Father's Son
Crooked Fingers - Call To Love
Sufjan Stevens - The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Let's Boogie to the Elf Dance
Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue/Another Sunny Day
The Subways - Rock and Roll Queen
Giant Sand - Valley of Rain
Mark Kozelek - Katy Song/Bubble (both live on BBC6)
Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You/Breaking The Ice (both unmastered previews)
Sufjan Stevens - The Fifty States Song (live)
Arcade Fire - Age Of Consent
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Black Tongue
Radiohead - Winter Wonderland
Calexico - Wild Horses
My Morning Jacket - What A Wonderful Man
Belle & Sebastian - Another Sunny Day/Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto/Lazy Line Painter Jane/My Wandering Days Are Over/Step Into My Office, Baby/I'm Waking Up To Us
Ryan Adams - Let It Ride
The Raveonettes - Seductress of Bums
The Dead 60's - Riot Radio
Has Been - William Shatner
I'd Rather Dance With You - Kings of Conveinience
John Cale - Turn the Lights On/Hush
Beck - Untitled Song 2/Shake Shake (Black Tambourine)
Chocolate Genius - My Mom
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Congrats to the Kimmel show for finally breaking their string of weeks without a single decent musical act by having Beck on this Friday. Also, breaking some virgin territory is the Daily Show which will feature a rare musical act... the White Stripes. Will they actually play or is Jon planning to use his hard-hitting interviewing skills to get to the bottom of this whole "Meg and Jack are siblings" thing??
Tuesday - Alanis Morissette (Leno)
Wednesday - The Magic Numbers (Conan), Alanis (Kimmel)
Thursday - Bonnie Raitt (Letterman), Liz Phair (Carson Daly), The White Stripes (The Daily Show)
Friday - The White Stripes (Conan), Beck (Kimmel)
I'm Back!!
Hey gang...
Between the Thanksgiving holiday and a bad sinus infection that I'm still fighting, I haven't been able to spend much time at the computer. But I think I'm on the mend and there's a lot of blogging to do.
Did anyone miss me?
A cool White Stripes "B" side & lots of Ted Leo...
Rilo Kiley - Love and War
Bright Eyes - A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace/A Poetic Retelling Of An Unfortunate Seduction/When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass/The Calendar Hung Itself
The White Stripes - Shelter of Your Arms
Mountain Goats - Cubs in Five/Cheshire County/Pure Money/Nine Black Poppies/Stars Fell on Alabama
The Spinto Band - Direct To Helmet
The Decemberists - From My Own True Love
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Dirty Old Town
Interpol - Not Even Jail (remix)
Kathleen Edwards - Back To Me/In State/Copied Keys/Summerlong/6 O'clock News/One More Song the Radio Won't Like/National Steel
Pretty Girls Make Graves - All Medicated Geniuses
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Rider #2/Down To The Valley
Broken Social Scene - New Country (live)
The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So/Main Offender/No Pun Intended/Love Is Plaster
Sonic Youth - Unmade Bed
Death Cab for Cutie - Jealousy Rides With Me
Bloc Party - Tulips (club version)
Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down/If I Was A Carpenter
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Building Skycrapers In The Basement/Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone/The High Party/Hearts Of Oak/The Ballad Of The Sin Eater/The Anointed One/Bridges, Squares/The Crane Takes Flight
The Money Shot 11.22.05
Catching up on the news...
Edge's 'Music Rising' to Help New Orleans Musicians
The Money Shot: "The devastation wrought by the hurricanes of 2005 to the Gulf Coast region has threatened not only the lives and livelihoods of the region's residents, but the area's rich and spirited culture as well," says the Edge. "Providing replacement instruments through Music Rising will not only help thousands of professional musicians affected by the hurricanes to regain a foothold on their future, but will also ensure that one of the Gulf Coast's greatest assets, its music, rises again." (Music Rising website here.)
Coldplay Scalping Their Own Tickets?
The Money Shot: On Saturday, the band launched a special online auction through Ticketmaster.com, which gives fans the chance to bid on pairs of tickets to the first leg of shows on the band's upcoming North American tour. By Monday, the minimum bid on tickets for several shows was already as high as $400, and no bid was lower than $80 for a pair of tickets.
Courtney In Rehab
The Money Shot: She clearly had a dysfunctional relationship with others in her group, who often came to her when they were feeling weak. "I'd sit at a meeting and I'd say I feel like doing blow today and all of a sudden there'd be a line of people that wanted to do drugs with me and it would be like 'Relapse?' 'Let's call Courtney.'"
Sufjan Stevens: The Ultimate Indie?
The Money Shot: 'Corporations are run on principles of greed, and making the most money possible with the least work possible, and I think that's counterproductive to the health of human beings and society,' says Stevens, a half-confident, half-nervous figure with limpid green eyes who manages to seem distracted and deeply attentive at the same time. 'They create wealth but they destroy cultures and families. The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.'
Jeff Tweedy's Not A Control Freak.... Yeah, Riiiiiiiiight.
The Money Shot: I don't think I ever really had the energy or the interest in really exerting that much control. I mean, I know a lot of people have this idea of that being the case, and there's certainly elements of truth to that, but one of them is not in being very dictatorial about what I want played.
Coming Attractions - Richard Thompson
The Money Shot: Details are finally coming to light about "RT - The Life and Music of Richard Thompson," which has been in the works for several months. Due Feb. 7 through the U.K.-based independent Free Reed Records and Music label, the five-disc collection set will trace the troubadour's career as a solo artist, with seminal U.K. folk act Fairport Convention, in partnership with ex-wife Linda and in other settings.
Cheap Thrills 11.21.05 (Encore Edition)
But wait... there's more! :)
Wilco - A Shot In The Arm/Ashes of American Flags
The Spinto Band - Oh Mandy
Laura Veirs - Magnetized
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run/Backstreets
Johnny Cash - Folsum Prison Blues/Cocaine Blues
Brendan Benson - Tiny Sparks/Life in The D
Ryan Adams - Starlite Diner/Blue/The Sadness
Broadcast - America's Boy/Tears in the Typing Pool
The Raveonettes - Ode to L.A.
Amy Rigby - Beer and Kisses
The Replacements - Beer for Breakfast
Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me Babe
Belle & Sebastian - My Girl's Got Miraculous Technique
Mando Diao - You Can't Steal My Love/ God Knows
Bright Eyes - When The President Talks to God/Mushaboom
Wilco - Company In My Back/Wishful Thinking
Wilco - Misunderstood
The White Stripes - Folk Singer
The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
The Flaming Lips - Mr. Ambulance Driver
Weezer - Only In Dreams
Ben Harper - Michelle
Ted Leo - I'm Looking Through You
Ben Lee - In My Life
Gogol Bordello - Bordello Kinda Guy
Ryan Adams - Elizabeth You Were Born To Play
The countdown to Turkey Day hits 3 days to go...
U2 - City of Blinding Lights (Paradise Soul Vocal Mix)
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Arctic Monkeys - Scummy
The Detroit Cobras - Last Nite
Hot Hot Heat - Bandages
The Rosebuds - Blue Bird/Boxcar/Leaves Do Fall/Unwind/I'd Feel Better
Johnny Cash - One
Sigur Ros - Untitled #8/Staralfur/Olsen Olsen/Leit af lefi/untitled #4 (a.k.a. njósnavélin/the nothing song)/viðrar vel til loftárása/jósef tekur fimmuna í vinnuna/von/dánarfregnir og jarðarfarir/streamside/síðasti bærinn/fjöll í austri fagurblá
Death From Above 1979 - Better Off Dead
Ted Leo & Pharmacists - The Gold Finch and the Red Oak Tree
The Smiths - I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
The White Stripes - Apple Blossom
The New Pornographers - The Fake Headlines
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Water and a Seat
Wolf Parade - Disco Sheets
Violent Femmes - Prove My Love
Wilco - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Ryan Adams - 29
John Vanderslince - Big Band Stars
Johnny Cash - In My Life
Fiona Apple - Never Is A Promise (Live on Letterman)
P.J. Harvey - You Said Something (Live on Letterman)
Cat Power - All I Have To Do Is Dream/Blue Moon
Johnny Cash - Folsum Prison Blues
Urge Overkill - (Today is) Blackie's Birthday
Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything
Jeff Buckley - I Know It's Over
Elliott Smith - Almost Over/Going Nowhere/Thirteen/Fear City
Okkervil River - For Real
Death Cab For Cutie - All Is Full of Love/Bad Reputation/Here Comes The Rain Again/Girls Just Wanna Have Fun/Shattered Dreams/Complicated/Thriller
Waco Brothers - I Fought The Law
Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty (2005 Remake)
New Coldplay (a B-side), Ryan Adams top the list...
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy #4
The Thrills - Whatever Happened To Corey Haim/Our Wasted Lives
Matt Pond PA - Closer/Graves Diesease/The Hollows/Lily One/A List of Sound/Measure 3
Wilco - Airline to Heaven (live)
Elliot Smith - Blackbird/I Me Mine/Yer Blues/For No One/Long, Long, Long
Cake - Strangers in the Night
Death Cab for Cutie - Earth Angel
The Raveonettes - My Boyfriend's Back
Mindy Smith - Come To Jesus/It's Amazing
Jeff Tweedy & The Minus 5 - King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1
The Ramones - Judy is a Punk
Elliot Smith - Needle in the Hay
David Bowie - Queen Bitch
Coldplay - The World Turned Upside Down
Pearl Jam w Sleater-Kinney - Harvest Moon
The Crimea - White Russian Galaxy
Spoon - I Turn My Camera On (John McEntire Remix)
Today's news highlights...
Jack and Meg Cracking Up in the U.K.?
The Money Shot: "Penny and I miss America, did you know? Maybe Penny should be Miss America? We miss the Grand Canyon, the Grand Tetons, and hundred grand candy bars.""Penny and I are sad that we have to take a break soon," he added. "It takes so long to play the whole world doesn't it? Why haven't we played in India? Why haven't we played more in Indiana? What is indie? What is mainstream? Is it sane to play mainly on the plains or only to the lonely?"
New Flaming Lips Track Hits the Net
The Money Shot: "You don't really know when the good stuff is going to happen, you just kind of have to be doing stuff and hope it turns out good and little by little. We kind of let some of it get out there and let people listen to it and we like getting some feedback. As ridiculous as that seems to go against the idea of an uncompromising artistic approach, you need some objective ideas need to be thrown your way once in a while because you get so caught up in your own world."
Coming Attractions... The Hives!
The Money Shot: The Hives' next album should be out by autumn 2006, the band have said. The group have a number of new songs for the follow-up to 2004's 'Tyrannosaurus Hives', but are resisting playing the tracks live.
Cash on "Walk The Line"
The Money Shot: Sadly, Cash died before he and Phoenix could meet face-to-face. But to the end, the legend appreciated and returned the love that such younger artists had for him."I'm aware that some of them do [admire me]," he said at the time, before acknowledging the crushing loss of his soul mate just three months prior. "My little world has been kind of limited lately, since June's death. I've kind of hung close to home here; yeah, I did hear from Kid Rock through Hank Williams Jr. that he would like to meet me."
Coming Attractions... Belle & Sebastian
The Money Shot: Veteran Scottish rock act Belle & Sebastian will release its new album, "The Life Pursuit," Feb. 6 via Rough Trade in the United Kingdom and Europe. The set will arrive the next day in the United States via Matador.
Interview with DBT's Jason Isbell
The Money Shot: Luckily for Isbell, the other members of the band accepted him, not just as the new guitar player but also a songwriter alongside Hood and co-founder Mike Cooley. "If I came in with a song that sounded like fucking Bauhaus, as long as it was a good song, they probably wouldn't mind, though Cooley would probably give me shit," Isbell said. He also found that the band had established a tight rapport. "If there's a song that's not strong enough for a Truckers' record, the person who wrote it will usually be the one to cut it. I think it's just a matter of the chemistry we have in the band."
Awesome acoustic Tweedy songs top the day's list...
Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure/Whistling Jesus/I Am Trying To Break Your Heart/Black Eye/War on War/The Late Greats (live)
The Constantines - Working Full-time
The Replacements - White & Lazy
Ladytron - Flicking Your Switch/International Dateline
Rilo Kiley - A Better Son/Daughter
Belle & Sebastian - Sleep The Clock Around
Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen (Justice Mix)
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)/Brazil
P.J. Harvey - Is That All There Is?
Wilco - Kingpin (4 different live versions)
Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance
All the news I feel like blogging...
Laura Veirs: To Tour or Not To Tour?
The Money Shot:"It's a job, and I can feel it wearing on me," she said from the Arizona desert. "Touring is kind of fun but tough. We just got through with a 12-hour drive. It's not good on your body, and there's all this sitting around waiting. When I go home, I do yoga and eat well, but then I get back out here and I'm immediately smoking and drinking again. It's a very topsy-turvy existence."
Not Content to Bash Coldplay, The Darkness Takes a Pop at Doherty
The Money Shot: "I'd say firstly (Pete) doesn't do rock music, and secondly, he only sells records because people are curious as to what a junkie sounds like," Hawkins told Orange World. "I think that's really wrong and really irresponsible...I think he's a talentless waste of fucking skin!"
Road Trippin' with Supergrass
The Money Shot: U.K. rock quartet Supergrass will return to North America for a 15-date tour that begins Feb. 6 in Toronto. The trek will be in support of the group's latest Capitol album, "Road to Rouen," which debuted in August at No. 9 on the U.K. album chart.
Jem's a Whore?
The Money Shot: "I'm like prostituting myself," Jem joked. "No, I think it used to be a sort of dodgy thing to do, but I mean as far as I'm concerned, as long as it's done creatively ... I don't want my music on like a dodgy food ad or something, but I think that I'm really flattered and its catch is huge. I did write the album to be heard."
Coming Attractions - Morrissey
The Money Shot: The singer, has been mixing the follow up to 'You Are The Quarry' in Rome with producer Tony Visconti and has set a release date of March 20, 2006 for the LP.As previously reported, a single will precede the LP in early February.
Road Trippin' with the Decemberists' Colin Meloy
The Money Shot: For the second January in a row, Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy will embark on a solo tour as his bandmates recuperate from another busy year on the road. The hardy Meloy will play nine cities on the trek, starting January 18 with a West Coast run that includes the Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
and finally, because sometimes dreams come true...
Destiny's Child Plays Final Show
The Money Shot: The trio also gave its first and apparently last public performance of the new single "Stand Up for Love." Asked by Kimmel if the split would be permanent, Rowland seemed to leave the door open for a future reunion. "You never know," she replied.
Music That Sucks 11.16.05
In stores just in time for the holidays! Personally, I'd rather get a truckload of coal in my stocking on Xmas day than any of this dreck...
Journey - Live in Houston 1981: The Escape Tour (Journey live? Because my wish for Journey dead is yet to come true...)
Santana - A&E Live by Request (More toothless, 'Smooth' lite rock from a legend who's cashin' in...)
Loggins and Messina - Sittin' in Again at the Santa Barbara Bowl (I think I liked them better when they were broken up...)
Various Artists - This Is Mullet Rock (Just guessin' but somehow I don't think this is going to include anything from those early but unfortunate U2 bad-hair days...)
Jimmy Buffett - Live at Fenway Park (OK everybody... Close your eyes & picture your frat-boy boss drunk, wearing a flip-flops and a Hawaiian shirt and "rockin' out" to "Cheeseburger In Paradise."... Nuff said.)
Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi - Platinum Deluxe Edition (Features an interview entitled "Mariah Carey In Her Own Words"... ooooh, somebody call Mensa!)
Carrie Underwood - Some Hearts (File next to Justin Guarini?)
Rod Stewart - The Great American Songbook Box Set (All four CDs together in one box... uh, because four of shit is still SHIT?)
Buy These Now 11.16.05
Here's your weekly shopping list... Go get the Springsteen disc now. I saw some of the 1975 concert footage on the big screen Monday night & it was truly amazing to see Bruce tear it up like he was the missing link between the garage bands of the 60's and the punks of the late 70's. If you've always judged him based on the icon that he's become, watch this and then picture yourself seeing a performance like that at your favorite small hole-in-the-wall venue and you'll start to understand how he became "The Boss" in the first place.
Between the Springsteen reissue, the live Wilco & Green Day CDs and the U2 DVD, I gotta give this bountiful week an "A+".
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run: 30th Anniversary Edition
Bright Eyes - Motion Sickness: Live Recordings
Green Day - Bullet in a Bible
Wilco - Kicking Television - Live in Chicago
Various Artists - MySpace Records Vol. 1 (featuring Weezer, Dashboard Confessional, Against Me! and others)
Original Soundtrack - Cry Wolf (featuring Bloc Party, Cake, Low and others)
Original Soundtrack - Walk the Line (the Johnny Cash biopic)
Original Soundtrack - Screaming Masterpiece (featuring the Icelandic music scene including Björk & Sigur Rós)
Original Soundtrack - The O.C. Mix 5 (including the Kaiser Chiefs, LCD Soundsystem, Gorillaz)
Guided by Voices - The Electrifying Conclusion: The Final Concert, New Year's Eve 2004 (DVD)
U2 - Vertigo// 2005: Live from Chicago (DVD)
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Sony BMG Recall
We covered this here and here. The NY Times reports that Sony BMG's trying to get in front of this by recalling the CDs, but will it be enough? I don't think so...
For some critics, the recall will not be enough.
"This is only one of the many things Sony must do to be accountable for the damage it's inflicted on its customers," said Jason Schultz, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group in California.
On Monday, the foundation issued an open letter to Sony BMG executives demanding, among other things, refunds for customers who bought the CD's and did not wish to make an exchange, and compensation for time spent removing the software and any potential damage to computers.
The group, which has been involved in lawsuits over the protection of digital rights, gave the company, which is jointly owned by the Sony Corporation and Bertelsmann, a deadline of Friday morning to respond with some indication that it was "in the process of implementing these measures."
Mr. Schultz said: "People paid Sony for music, not an invasion of their computers. Sony must right the wrong it has committed. Recalling the CD's is a beginning step in the process, but there is a whole lot more mess to clean up."
If you don't have those Replacements songs, get 'em!
The 22-20's - Baby Brings Bad News/Shoot Your Gun
The Replacements - I Will Dare/Unsatisfied
The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost/Love Me Like You/Love's A Game/Don't Give Up the Fight (all live)
Cat Power - The Greatest
Death Cab For Cutie - A Lack of Color
Sufjan Stevens - Romulus
Sparklehorse - Shade In Honey
Pavement - What Goes On
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
Echo & The Bunnymen - Foggy Notion
Husky Rescue - Summertime Cowboy
Oasis - Champaign Supernova
Pearl Jam - Light Years (demo & studio versions)
Spoon - The Fitted Shirt/Sunday Morning, Wednesday Night/The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
Pearl Jam - Hard To Imagine
The Strokes - Juicebox
Okkervil River - Another Radio Song
Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty
Nora O'Connor - Nightengale/Down Here
The Smiths - Please Let Me Get What I Want
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Radiohead - Let Down
Everything you needed to know...
The Darkness Takes on Coldplay
The Money Shot: "During Band Aid, Chris swanned in, stayed for about 20 minutes... we were there for two days and worked our behinds off."Hawkins told The Sun, "He obviously didn't care. I got the sense he was just doing it to raise his profile."
Beck Does The Robot
The Money Shot:"They have such an unbelievably fluid range of motions, so Beck and I just had to work out an elaborately choreographed number for them. I think it took the programmers in Japan about three weeks to program the routine into each robot."
Road Trippin' with Bob Mould
The Money Shot: His latest effort, Body Of Song, showcases his wide-ranging musical resume and he's been supporting it with a full band on the road this summer and fall. Next up, however, is a solo tour that will take him from Morgantown, W.Va., November 10 to Brooklyn, N.Y., December 3, with a dozen U.S. cities on the schedule.
Steve Earle's New Addiction
The Money Shot: "I'd been touring Australia and discovered the strongest heroin I'd ever taken. So when I got to New Zealand I went down K-Road and my usual MO was to find a prostitute, as they could always hook you up with what you wanted. But there was nothing available and it was a total shock to my system."
Death Cab Breakups
The Money Shot: After a couple more records I don't know what we're going to do. I guess I'm just going to have to keep breaking up with people. But I kind of want to hold on to this one I've got right now. So if it's really a record for each breakup, maybe that means we've only got three more albums and then we're done.
Road Trippin' with The Strokes
The Money Shot: As the Jan. 3 release of their third RCA album, "First Impressions of Earth", draws near, the Strokes are about to set off on a worldwide promo tour that will feature secret club shows in several cities. The outing will begin Monday (Nov. 14) in Tokyo and proceed to Sydney, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Berlin, Milan and Madrid through mid-December.
Pearl Jam Gets Aggressive
The Money Shot: "It's easily the best stuff we've done but also some of the hardest stuff. It's very aggressive, because again, it's kind of a product of what it's like to be an American these days. It's pretty aggressive, especially when you turn it loud."
Costello, Toussaint Team on New CD
The Money Shot: Elvis Costello is slated to head into the studio the week of Thanksgiving to begin a collaboration with songwriter/arranger/pianist Allen Toussaint. Joe Henry will produce the album for Verve Records. Henry likens the project to Costello's 1998 pairing with Burt Bacharach, "Painted from Memory".
More Mould... Surprise! He Wants His Music to be Heard
The Money Shot: At 44, Mould celebrated a career milestone of sorts when his new single "Circles" received airplay on the indie rock-friendly, teen-loving hit Fox television series "The O.C." "It feels good," Mould said. "Did you ever have 20 million people listen to your music?"
Coming Soon... David Bowie DVD
The Money Shot: Serious Moonlight, which will hit stores March 13, captures a performance at the Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, during Bowie's 1983 Serious Moonlight World Tour in support of that year's Let's Dance. The DVD features the original film as well as an extended version of the the tour documentary Ricochet.
Springsteen Comes Clean on O.C.
The Money Shot: "My obsessive/compulsive nature, which crippled me through much of the rest of my life, does come in handy once in a while," said a chuckling Springsteen. "And it came in handy at that moment. I wanted something unique that you couldn't hear in the live show."
Why The Dandy Warhols Love Their Record Label
The Money Shot: "It's really hard to interface with a big, fat, bloated, desperate, irresponsible company, so you've got to really focus on finding two people, three people there that will work for you. You find the people that understand — find the least stupid people and you fucking go into business with them. The company itself is going to be frustrating. They're all a joke. Every big label is just, like, bad and fucked up."
Hey Hey! We're The Arctic Monkeys...
The Money Shot: "Our greatest achievement?" muses ex-tiler Cook, fiddling absent-mindedly with the zip of his flimsy anorak. "Gettin' this far without 'avin' a fist fight. Seriously. It's a miracle."
Road Trippin' with Sigur Ros
The Money Shot: Experimental outfit Sigur Ros has a new U.S. tour on the books for February. The Icelandic group, which is touring Europe through the end of November, will land in Portland, Maine, February 6 and proceed across a dozen states throughout the month.
Liz Disses Critics
The Money Shot: But the 38-year-old contends that the critics were misguided when they lauded her for Guyville's so-called confessional songwriting. "I'm actually more honest and confessional in my material now," she said. "In my early [work] I was a lot more clever about disguising [the meanings] with metaphors, and I think that was really exciting to those brainiacs."
Coming Soon... Josh Rouse
The Money Shot: Josh Rouse is pleased to announce that he will release the Bedroom Classics, Vol. 2 EP on November 15 exclusively via iTunes! (Perhaps you're one of the lucky fans to nab a super rare copy of the Bedroom Classics, Vol. 1 EP — only 750 printed and going for over $200 bucks on eBay.) According to Josh, "Bedroom Classics, Vol. 2 consists of 5 tracks, some instrumental and some with my voice. I'm excited about it, it's really moody and different from anything I've put out."
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This week in late night appearances by Musical Justice artists... the Jimmy Kimmel shutout reaches 5 weeks (unless you count an visit this week by William Shatner, but since he's not performing music that's close but no cigar!). Nothing too exciting except for Patti Smith this week.
Monday - Brian Wilson (Leno)
Tuesday - Melissa Etherridge (Leno), Patti Smith (Late Late Show)
Wednesday - get some sleep!
Thursday - Amos Lee (Late Late Show)
Friday - Sheryl Crow (Leno), Alanis Morissette (Conan)
Cheap Thrills 11.14.05 (part 2)
More great stuff... priceless (but very rude) Mojo, a great Death Cab cover, live Franz, Ryan Adams/Elton John duets. Check 'em out!
Kings of Convenience - Winning a Battle, Losing The War
Richard Thompson - Tim and the Bears
Paul Kelly - You're Learning
Wilco - Via Chicago/The Late Greats/Sunken Treasure/Forget The Flowers
Arctic Monkey - Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor
Mojo Nixon - Tie My Pecker To My Leg/Louisiana Liplock
The Magic Numbers - Love Me Like You
Iron & Wine/Calexico - 16, Maybe Less
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
Sufjan Stevens - Jacksonville/Prairie Fires That Wanders About
Radiohead & Panzah Zandahz - Creep
Depeche Mode - Precious/Strange Love/Personal Jesus/It's No Good/I Just Can't Get Enough (remixes)
Bettye Lavette - Just Say So/Sleep To Dream
Bruce Springsteen - Santa Ana/Thundercrack
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (live SNL) and more live tracks
Pearl Jam - I Got A Feeling
The Ponys - Today
Death Cab for Cutie - Bad Reputation (live)
Mike Doughty - The Gambler
My Morning Jacket - Always on my Mind
Sonic Youth - Superstar
Ryan Adams & Elton John - Answering Bell/Firecracker/Rocket Man/Daniel/Tiny Dancer/My Sweet Carolina/Lovesick Blues/He'll Have To Go/Great Balls of Fire (all live)
Blur - Girls & Boys
Elastica - Stutter
Iron & Wine - Sodom, South GA
Devendra Banhart - Happy Happy Oh
Bright Eyes - From A Balance Beam/Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh/Going For The Gold
Wilco - Misunderstood/Via Chicago
Getting back in the swing of things here. So much stuff that I'm splitting this into a couple of posts...
Mojave 3 - Bringin' Me Home
The Mountain Goats - I Know You've Come to Take Away My Toys
The Polyphonic Spree - Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Arcade Fire - Jinglebell Rock
Death Cab for Cutie - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Tom Vek - I An't Saying My Goodbyes
Radiohead - A Punchup at a Wedding
My Morning Jacket - Wordless Chorus/It Beats For You/Off the Record/What A Wonderful Man/Anytime/Dondante (all live on KCRW)
Iron & Wine w Calexico - Wild Horses
The Constantines - Why I Didn't Like August '93
Iggy & The Stooges - Shake Appeal
Brendon Benson - What I'm Looking For
Wilco - Ashes of American Flags (live)
The Afghan Whigs - Regret
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Pavement - Cut Your Hair
Cat Power - The Moon/Empty Shell
Giant Drag - This Isn't It
The Lemonheads - Amazing Grace
The White Stripes - Blue Orchid and a bunch of live Stripes
Kings of Conveinience - I'd Rather Dance With You
Troubled Hubble - Nancy
Josh Rouse - O, I Need All The Love
The White Stripes - My Doorbell and even MORE live Stripes
Nirvana CD and a last chance to win $50
This was just posted to the Musical Justice mailing list & I thought that regular readers of this blog who haven't signed up might still be interested in entering the contest outlined below...
Congrats to our winners from last week's bulletin board contest. We're doubling up the prizes so that we'll have 2 winners of "This Bird Has Flown: A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul" instead of just one. Also congrats to all those who went out to the Musical Justice website and found the "Contest" button. Initially, we planned to just give out 25 mix CDs, but the response was so good that everyone who clicked the button and emailed us before the deadline will get a CD! In case you're curious, here's the track listing for the limited edition mix:
The Hustle – Marah
Juicebox – The Strokes
All the Money or The Simple Life Honey - The Dandy Warhols
I Predict A Riot – Kaiser Chiefs
Permanent One – Eugene Edwards
The Fallen – Franz Ferdinand
Onions – Heartless Bastards
Waitin' For A Superman – Iron & Wine
Middle of Nowhere – Hot Hot Heat
Collide The Tide – Chin Up Chin Up
Ain't No Easy Way – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Help Me Suzanne – Rhett Miller
Why – Gina Villalobos
Last Nite – The Detroit Cobras
Bandages & Scars – Son Volt
Cool Water – Laura Veirs
Lottery Winners on Acid – The Crimea
Walking With a Ghost – The White Stripes
Halloween – Matt Pond PA
No Surprises (live acoustic) – Radiohead
This week's contest is for the latest Nirvana offering, "Sliver – The Best of The Box" which features rare mixes, demos and live versions of classic Nirvana songs including Smells Like Teen Spirit, All Apologies & Come As You Are. Again, all you've got to do to be entered in the drawing is go out to the Musical Justice bulletin board and add your 2 cents in a posting. The contest will be open until next Friday, November 18th at Midnight EST. As a bonus, you'll also be entered in our drawing for a $50 Amazon gift certificate which also ends at the same time. The more you post, the more entries you get in the drawing.
From my fingertips to your eyeballs...
Tweedy on Tweedy
The Money Shot: "I think it's senility. I can't keep my train of thought going on one topic anymore. Actually, I think at some point I became bored with trying to sing a straight narrative; and, ironically, the songs that I felt comfortable singing and emotionally invested in over time ended up being the songs that were the most open-ended. It's basically like leaving escape hatches. I think the songs have been given a longer life since I started doing that."
Coldplay Hitting the Road with Apple, Ashcroft
The Money Shot: Fiona Apple (Jan. 25-March 5) and former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft (March 20-April 6) will split time as the support acts for the tour; Ashcroft opened for Coldplay in Europe this summer and joined the band to perform the Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" during the London segment of the Live 8 concerts.
Roskilde Victim's Family Claim Denied
The Money Shot: Pearl Jam were originally blamed by Danish police, but after questioning a number of witnesses, they backed off. It was later discovered that the sound was not traveling well to the back of the arena, which in turn caused the fans to push forward in order to better hear the performance.
Hard-Fi Crankin' Em Out
The Money Shot: Despite their busy schedule the band have still managed to pen songs for their next record.Archer told XFM: "We've got about 30 songs written over the last year after the last album. But I don't know if they're any good yet. I'll have to sit down and have a look at 'em."
Sufjan on Fahey Tribute
The Money Shot: Many of the tracks are full-band, electric interpretations of Fahey's compositions. Such worthies as Ward, Banhart, Sufjan Stevens, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Howe Gelb of Giant Sand and Pelt (which includes guitarist Jack Rose, possibly Fahey's most gifted admirer) plumb the guitarist's repertoire.
I think today's highlight is the U2/Killers duet...
The White Stripes - The Denial Twist
Mike Doughty - Looking At The World From The Bottom of a Well/Busting Up a Starbucks/White Lexus/Tremendous Brunettes/Sunken-Eyed Girl/Grey Ghost/Your Misfortune
The Cardigans - Drip Drop Teardrop/In The Round/And Then You Kissed Me/I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need To Be Nicer
U2 (with The Killers' Brandon Flowers) - In A Little While (live)
The Mendoza Line - The Way of the Weak/A Damn Good Disguise/Whatever Happened to You?
Camper Van Beethoven - Tusk
Yo La Tengo - Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
Weezer - Beverly Hills (Urbanix Mix)
Death Cab For Cutie - NPR Interview
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Hmmm... in spite of the slim pickins for the "buy" list, there's no shortage of music that sucks this week. Go figure.
Gordon Lightfoot - Harmony (Awww hell... this one's too easy. Nevermind.)
Britney Spears - Remixed (Garbage in. Garbage out.)
Various Artists - Soul Jazz Beatles (Because nothing says 'soul jazz' like the pasty white lads from Liverpool.)
Kenny Chesney - The Road and the Radio (Just because we'd be wondering if he was thinking about Renee or Peyton...)
Peter Gallagher - 7 Days in Memphis (Yeah, let's let the O.C. guy sing because CDs by actors are almost always a good idea...)
Il Divo - The Il Divo Gift Pack (Just in case you ever wondered what Simon Cowell actually likes...)
Original Soundtrack: Doom (Uh... so you can listen to the game noises on your iPod when you're detached from your joystick?)
Buy These Now! 11.08.05
It's a short shopping list this week, but that's probably how's it's gonna be for the next couple months as nearly all the major holiday releases will be in the stores by next week. In spite of a cool dB's tribute and rare Sexsmith, I'm giving this week a "C-" due to the slim pickins.
Harvey Danger - Cream and Bastards Rise EP
Various Artists - Stand-ins for DeciBels: A Tribute to the dB's
Ron Sexsmith - Rarities
Patti Smith - Horses: Legacy Edition
Coldplay comes out for '06 while Trent says "Show me the money!" and Noel Gallagher tries to convince everyone he's still relevant...
Reznor PO'd about 'Hate Machine' Re-release
The Money Shot: However, Reznor recently told the Toronto Sun Ryko isn't satisfying him as far as money goes. "I'll do the extra songs. I'll redo the packaging. Everything. But I'm not willing to do it for free," he says. "They're not willing to pay, so they put out whatever they put out. That's that."
Noel Gallagher - Jealous or just a dick?
The Money Shot: Speaking on Australian radio station Triple J the Oasis guitarist blasted the likes of Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, and Kaiser Chiefs."Let's call it what it is - it's indie shit, is what it is," he said. "None of them are trying to make it big. They're all trying to make it small or medium - that's it. "Don't get me wrong - I kinda like Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs [but] Bloc Party are just appalling. None of them strike me as trying to be in the biggest band in the world or the best band in the world - it's just indie rubbish."
Coldplay's Not Done with You Yet
The Money Shot: Coldplay will return to North America for a spring 2006 tour, beginning Jan. 25 in Vancouver. Set to run through early April, the trek is gradually being unveiled on the Web site Talkthetour.com, where a new show is confirmed for every 33,000 hits. At deadline, half of the 26 shows had been announced.
Cheap Thrills 11.9.05
Interesting stuff today... Death Cab, Cat Power and Babyshambles' recent UK hit...
Jim Reid (formerly of Jesus & Mary Chain) - Song For A Secret/Dead End Kids
Billy Bragg & Wilco - California Stars
Cat Power - Could We/The Greatest/Lived In Bars
The Fiery Furnaces - The Wayward Daughter/Seven Silver Curses
Preston School of Industry - Caught In The Rain/Get Your Crayons Out!/Whalebones/Falling Away
Death Cab For Cutie - We Laugh Indoors (dub)
Babyshambles - Fuck Forever
Death Cab For Cutie - Sick of Myself
All the news fit to blog...
U2 Can Be A Killer
The Money Shot - Earlier in the show, Bono hinted at the unannounced collaboration during 'A Beautiful Day' when he sang the lyrics, 'I've Got Soul But I'm Not A Soldier' from The Killers' hit single 'All These Things That I've Done'.
Black, Sweet & Others Go Back To School
The Money Shot - But if you want to hear a bunch of indie rockers covering 80s soundtrack hits, then scoop up High School Reunion: A Tribute to Those Great 80s Films when it hits stores on December 1. Featuring tracks by Frank Black, the Dresden Dolls, Kristen Hersh, Matthew Sweet, John P. Strohm of the Blake Babies, and many more, the compilation is the brainchild of power pop labels American Laundromat Records and Face Down Records.
Coming Soon: White Stripes 'Ghost' EP
The Money Shot - The White Stripes will on Dec. 6 release the EP "Walking With a Ghost" via Third Man/V2, featuring a cover of Tegan & Sara's title song plus previously unreleased live versions of "Same Boy You've Always Known," "As Ugly As I Seem," "The Denial Twist" and "Screwdriver." "Ghost" will debut Nov. 14 via Apple's iTunes Music Store.
QOTSA Talk About The Future
The Money Shot - Homme says that the UK was the first country to embrace QOTSA because of its "dry sense of humor." For a band that describes its music as "equal parts stupid and cerebral without pretension," dry humor is a must. That and lots and lots of, um, substances.
Today's pick of the crop... Lots of Radiohead, Iggy and Bowie. But don't miss the Laura Veirs topping the list!
Laura Veirs - Galaxies/Magnetized
Iggy Pop & The Stooges - Dead Rockstar/Little Doll/Search & Destroy/Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Weezer - Take Control/December
Radiohead - Planet Telex/The Bends/High & Dry/Fake Plastic Trees/Just/Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was/Black Star/Street Spirit
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Speakers Push The Air
LCD Soundsystem - Too Much Love
Mike Doughty - Tremendous Brunettes
Dar Williams - Mark Rothko Song
David Bowie - Starman/Queen Bitch
David Bowie & Trent Reznor - I'm Afraid of Americans
David Bowie & Arcade Fire - Wake Up
David Bowie & Foo Fighters - Hello Spaceboy/Seven Years in Tibet
Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up
The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man (demo)
Death Cab for Cutie - The New Year/Title and Registration (both acoustic)
Luna - Only Women Bleed/Here She Comes Now/23 Minutes in Brussels/Into the Sun (w Lou Reed)/Lucky Day
Nora O'Connor - Two Way Action
Weezer - Private Message (demo)
Goose eggs this week from Letterman & Leno as far as interesting musical guests go... and have you noticed that Jimmy Kimmel consistently has the worst music? In four weeks of doing this scan of the late night musical guests, I've yet to see one of note. Paul Anka and Switchfoot both make Kimmel appearances this week, if you needed proof. Fire whoever books the music, Jim, ok?
Monday - nada
Tuesday - zilch... zippo
Wednesday - Patti Smith (Conan)
Thursday - The Bravery (Carson Daly)
Friday - Green Day (Conan)
Fresh off the presses and delivered to you...
Tweedy's Wingin' It
The Money Shot: Since he has no bandmates in tow who need to learn songs that were co-written and/or recorded by different sets of musicians on 1995's "A.M.,'' 1996's "Being There'' or 1999's "Summerteeth,'' Tweedy can just wing it onstage, and cull songs from the band's entire catalogue - not to mention songs he wrote for Uncle Tupelo in the 1980s and early '90s.
"This way, I can do any of the 200 or so songs I've written over the years,'' said Tweedy by phone from his manager's office in Chicago. "And it allows me to change it around every night, which is also part of the appeal - it'll be fun to just get up there without a firm set list.''
Coming Soon: Rhett Miller
The Money Shot: "The songs on The Believer are about sex, war, love and death . . . but mostly sex," Rhett Miller says of The Believer, his second solo album and his Verve Forecast debut. "Before going into the studio, I thought I'd be making a punk rock Ziggy Stardust, but I wound up with George Gershwin does T. Rex's The Slider."
Junkies' Subtle Protest
The Money Shot: "One of the things that surprises us is that not that many artists out there are commenting on it musically, which is one of the reasons we decided to go back to the songs of the '70s, because it seemed every artist was doing it back then," Anton explains. "Music has become so commercialized and corporate now that a lot of artists would be pressured not to get involved in this sort of thing."
Coming Soon: Tori Amos
The Money Shot: Six live recordings stemming from Tori Amos' spring and fall solo tours of the United States and England are being bundled together in time for the holiday shopping season. Due Dec. 6 via Epic, "The Original Bootlegs" brings together a set of discs that were released separately earlier this year and sold exclusively online, plus one that's previously unreleased.
Jimmy Page Gets His Stripes in London
The Money Shot: The famous guitarist, who Jack White is often compared with, was spotted watching the gig from the side of the stage throughout the 90 minute set. Unfortunately hopes of a duet failed to materialise because that was as close to the stage as the founding member of Led Zeppelin got.
QOTSA Playing Big & Small Gigs
The Money Shot: "The one in Austin was strange because I felt really ill. We showed up and people had been waiting inside Waterloo for an hour, and there was nothing set up at all. We had to set up in front of them watching. There was a drunk, 16-year-old girl there who tried to heckle and I had to destroy her with my telekinetic powers."
Devendra Banhart Busses Your Table?
The Money Shot: He's the wanderer, he may never drown, and he may just be fooling around. He's a man out of synch with any specific time, but he says all the right things. When asked what he would be doing if he weren't singing and playing music, he thinks a moment before concluding, "Wiping carrot dressing from your table in a restaurant."
Daltrey Next in Line To Diss Doherty
The Money Shot: "It's a waste of a life really, because he's got talent," Daltrey told the Sunday Mirror. "He seems to be feeding of it, now he's become infamous for his drug addiction he seems to think 'that's what I do so I've got to do it', it's very sad."
Damn, these MP3's sure can pile up over the weekend.
Death From Above 1979 - Sexy Results
Cat Power - Empty Shell
Goldfrapp - Number 1 (remix)
Vic Chesnutt - It's The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
The Ramones - Go Mental
Queens of the Stone Age - Everybody Knows You're Insane
Sleater-Kinney - Entertain
The Cure - Play for Today (rehearsal)
Champaigne Supernova - Matt Pond PA
Heigh Ho - Tom Waits
Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright
Crown of Love - Arcade Fire
The Bagman's Gambit - The Decemberists
60 Revolutions - Gogol Bordello
Sufjan Stevens - Decatur/Round of Applause for Your Stepmother
Tribulations - LCD Soundsystem
The Cloud Room - Waterfall/We Sleep In The Ocean
Weezer - Take Control (BBC Sessions)
Harvey Danger - Authenticity
Belle & Sebastian - Final Day
The Fiery Furnaces - Winter
Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now
Sufjan Stevens - The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders/The Seer's Tower
Cat Power - Could We
Tegan & Sara - Walking With A Ghost
White Stripes - Walking With A Ghost
Elton John & Ryan Adams - Rocket Man (Live)
Spoon - The Beast and Dragon Adored
The Mendoza Line - Mysterious in Black/It's A Long Line/Metro Pictures/Throw It In The Fire
Rhett Miller - Help Me Suzanne/Singular Girl
Friday's Random 10
One last post before I head out the door... almost forgot my random 10!
I Can't Leave You - Jack Ingram
Doublewide - Southern Culture on the Skids
Like Eating Glass - Bloc Party
Soul Refreshing - Robert Randolph & The Family
Collide The Tide - Chin Up Chin Up
Radio - Rancid
Irrelevant - Matthew Ryan
Candy Everybody Wants (live) - 10,000 Maniacs w Michael Stipe
Tabloid Magazine - The Living End
Persuasion (live) - Richard Thompson
Feel free to play along in the comments.
Lots of goodies here... a bunch of live Decemberists, a great audience recording of an entire Stripes show in Paris, live Beck, rare Franz Ferdinand... Enjoy!
Tom Waits - Earth Died Screaming
Bad Religion - You
Mendoza Line - Settle Down, Zelda
Koufax - Isabelle/Why Bother At All
The Decemberists - The Covers Album (including covers of ELO's Mr Blue Sky & Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way)
The White Stripes - Live in Paris
Franz Ferdinand - Suffragette City (w Scissor Sisters)
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime/Golden Age/Clap Hands/Do You Realize/He's a Mighty Good Leader/Hot Wax (all live)
We Are Scientists - Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt/Can't Lose/Cash Cow
The Mountain Goats - This Year
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I'm off to St. Louis to see my Philly bros, Marah, tonight. Any day you get to see Marah is a very, very good day...
Vek Barnstorms States
The Money Shot: The band generated a good deal of hype with packed shows in New York City, Philadelphia and Los Angeles earlier this year, and now the four-piece is aiming to take the whole country. Tom Vek's fall dates run from November 4-23, beginning at New York City's Knitting Factory and hitting 14 major cities in the U.S. and Canada. The tour wraps in California at West Hollywood's Troubadour.
X Hits the Road
The Money Shot: After successfully exorcising their well-honed honky-tonk demons by resurrecting their alt-country alter-ego the Knitters for a reunion album and tour, legendary L.A. band X is grabbing guitarist Billy Zoom and painting the town punk.
Stripes: 'Denial' in the U.K.
The Money Shot: The White Stripes are set to make live recordings from their forthcoming UK dates available to fans.The band, who kick off their sold out British dates at the Hammersmith Apollo on November 5, will record a live version of song 'The Denial Twist' every night which fans can then download
Pete Doherty: Crazy or Just Nuts?
The Money Shot: "Yes, these are the things that were haunting me since I was a kid. Hallucinations or something. Long before I took drugs. I didn't take drugs till I was quite old. I think I took a couple of bad blows to the head, and ever since I've suffered bad hallucinations from an early age."
Damon Albarn Blurs the Lines
The Money Shot: When a reporter asked him about criticisms that he was "too clever for his own good," Albarn incredulously responded: "Are they saying it's better not to be intelligent and have no knowledge of other things outside pop music? How can anyone be too clever?"
Road Trippin' with Death Cab
The Money Shot: When we first started playing, you'd look out and you'd see all your friends, that was cool. And then it was great to go to a different city and have there be no one there that you knew. So, it's been an extension of that ever since then. Now, we play in some foreign country - around the world - and you're like, "How do people know about us in Singapore?" That's strange. I don't understand that, but that's cool. I like that.
Coming Soon: Beth Orton
The Money Shot: British singer/songwriter Beth Orton will release her fourth studio album, "Comfort of Strangers," Feb. 7 via Astralwerks. The 14-track set was produced by Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth, Wilco), and features his accompaniment on bass, piano and marimba in tandem with drumming from noted Chicago musician Tim Barnes.
The Boss Circa '75 - One Night Only
If you're a Springsteen fan, circle Novemeber 14th on your calendar 'cause this is gonna be a special one-time only chance to roll back the clock 30 years and see the Boss on a big screen from 1975. Even if you aren't a big Bruce fan, you might want to check this out because it'll be a very cool way to see one of the greatest live performers at the peak of his power.
Here's the gig. To mark the release of a new 3 disc version of Born To Run complete with a DVD of the only known video footage of an entire Springsteen show from that era, they're going to do a special one-night showing of about 90 minutes of the 1975 Hammersmith Odeon show. The song list is below.
Hammersmith Odeon, 1975 Song List:
1. Saint In The City
2. She's The One
3. Born To Run
4. Rosalita
5. Detroit Medley
6. Quarter To Three
I was able to get advance tickets ($10 each) by purchasing them online through Fandango. If you're interested, I'd suggest you go to this website to find the nearest location and contact the theater for ticket details...
Calexico - Black Heart
Ben Folds - Protection
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine/Get Him Back
Dar Williams - When I Was A Boy/Empire/Blue Light of the Flame/Comfortably Numb (w/Ani DiFranco)
Spoon - Everything Hits At Once
Goldfrapp - Lovely To See You
Elvis Costello - My Funny Valentine (live)
Spoon - Chicago At Night
Cowboy Junkies - a bunch of assorted live tracks including Powderfinger, Sweet Jane and Dead Flowers
Arctic Monkeys - Chun Li's Spinning Bird Kick
World Leader Pretend - Bang Theory/Punches
Sony BMG Fallout Continues
Wired Mag speaks out on the recent Sony BMG copy-protection debacle. Didn't I say that they're gonna get sued?
By deliberately corrupting the most basic functionality of their customers' computers, Sony broke the rules of fair play and crossed a bright line separating legitimate software from computer trespass. Their actions may be civilly actionable.
Sony may even have committed a crime under the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which can carry fines and prison terms for anyone who "knowingly causes the transmission of a program ... and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage, without authorization, to a protected computer." Corrupting Windows so it misreports the contents of a hard drive sounds a lot like "damage," and the click-wrap license agreement on the Sony disk amounts to pretty thin "authorization" -- disclosing only that "this CD will automatically install a small proprietary software program ... intended to protect the audio files embodied on the CD."
The Money Shot 11.3.05
Are Sony BMG Copy-protected CDs Hiding Hackerware ...
Buy These Now! 11.1.05


It's a great 7 hours tour to get in touch with nature and to discover the secrets of the great Mayan world. You will hike through the lush green rainforest, float through the beautiful cave system on your tubing in the clear river.
ask about our group discount.
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Yes. there will be hiking involved.
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Delusional optimists. That's the moniker opposing counsel gave Brenna Bell and her band of grassroots organizers from Tryon Life Community Farm, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sustainability education. It ended up becoming a badge of honor.
After more than a year of aggressive campaigning–including gathering support from the city of Portland, Metro regional government, Tryon Creek supporters, and thousands of individuals–Tryon Life Community Farm emerged from the woods victorious. With the help of countless supporters, they raised $1.6 million to prevent development of the farm's seven-acre site near Lewis & Clark Law School. A Portland-area builder had planned to raise a 23-home subdivision on the land, surrounded on three sides by Tryon Creek State Natural Area.
While Bell was attending law school, her partner lived at the farm. Bell chose Lewis & Clark because of its stellar environmental law program. She didn't intend to be a lawyer in the traditional sense. She wanted to be an activist with better tools.
After law school, the couple moved to Southern Oregon but returned to Portland in November 2003, when development threats to the farm became ominous. They decided to fight to save the farm as their home and as a full-time living laboratory for the Portland community.
Sixteen adults and three children live on the site. Collectively, they share skills in natural building, environmental law, gardening, food preservation, community activism, permaculture farming, and multimedia art, which they use to teach social and ecological responsibility.
"I love living in an intentional community," says Bell, who grew up in rural Washington and spent her summers at Buck Creek Camp in the foothills of Mount Rainier.
Bell has a special affinity for the farm's maple grove, where her daughter Ember, now 11⁄2, was born. It's the place where residents gather to celebrate and to resolve problems. With the community's help in child rearing, Bell is also able to pursue part-time nonprofit legal work. "Ember is a 100-percent community kid," she says.


Is your dog feeling the harsh winter weather kicking in? Why not treat your loved companion to a luxury, hand knitted personalised dog scarf by Broughton & Co?
Personalisation is very important to us here at B & Co, so as well as hand stamping your name into our collars, we can do exactly the same with our scarves, every one if therefore unique!
Large: (Staffies, Labradors etc) 15 - 25"


Organised by The MeshMinds Foundation to showcase how art and technology can be leveraged for positive social impact, the second edition of ArtxTechforGood invites visitors to be part in the growing conversation on sustainability. From augmented and virtual reality technologies, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, to the Internet of Things, MeshMinds 2.0: ArtxTechforGood harnesses cutting-edge creative technologies to tackle some of today's pressing issues and challenges. Each installation endeavours to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – allowing visitors to have a deeper understanding of the complex global challenges faced in a rapidly developing world today.
Ugly Vegetables – Using augmented reality on a smartphone, different kinds of weird yet cute looking vegetables and fruits can be placed in the real world. This exhibit aims to teach people that different looking vegetables and fruits can be eaten and are not to be thrown away. What's more, you can even snap a photo of yourself next to your veggie!
Animaker Asia – In this interactive exhibit, visitors can build their favourite animals with Duplo bricks, and scan it to see it come to life! This exhibit will also showcase some of the endangered species of Southeast Asia.
Oceanscrub – Newlywed artist duo Jason and Cherlyn have created this fun interactive mobile game that invites everyone to take on the role as an Ambassador for Ocean Protection and guide sea creatures to safety through the polluted waters.
Paperchase – This is an augmented reality experience that invites visitors to go on a treasure hunt to find and use Singapore's recycling points whilst collecting comic strips to piece together the story of a trash-eating monster. In completing the story, one learns the importance of moving towards a zero-waste world.


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HERBERT SIMON, PAUL THAGARD, PAT LANGLEY AND OTHERS ON DISCOVERY SYSTEMS
BOOK VIII - Page 3
Human Problem Solving, Cognitive Psychology and Heuristics
Simon's theory of human problem solving is his theory of procedural rationality, and it is elaborately set forth in his Human Problem Solving (1972) co-authored with Allen Newell. This nine hundred-page magnum opus took fourteen years to write. During this period Simon also wrote a briefer statement, Sciences of the Artificial (1969), and several articles since reprinted in his Models of Discovery (1977), an anthology of many of his previously published papers. Much of Human Problem Solving consists of detailed descriptions of problem-solving computer programs, none of which pertain to scientific discovery. Nonetheless his views on human problem solving are relevant to methodology of science, because he considers scientific discovery to be a special case of human problem solving.
At the outset of Human Problem Solving the two collaborating authors state that their aim is to advance understanding of how humans think by setting forth a theory of human problem solving. The concluding section of the book sets forth a general statement of their theory, which is based on the computer programs described in the body of the book and presented as empirical evidence relevant to their theory. They state that the specific opportunity that has set the course for their book is the development of a science of information processing. Their central thesis is that explanation of thinking can be accomplished by means of an information theory, and that their theory views a human as a processor of information, an information processing system. They say that such a description of the human is not just metaphorical, because an abstract concept has been developed of an information processor, a concept that abstracts from the distinctively mechanical aspects of the computer. The authors compare the explanations in information science to the use of differential equations in other sciences such as classical physics. An information theory consisting of computer programs is dynamic like differential equations, because it describes change in a system through time. Such a theory describes the time course of behavior, characterizing each new act as a function of the immediately preceding state of the system and its environment. Given at any time the memory contents characterizing the system's state at that moment, the program determines how the memory contents will change during the next computing cycle and what the contents will be at the end of the cycle.
The fundamental methodological problems of theory construction and theory testing are the same in both the mathematical and computational types of theory. The theory is tested by providing a specific set of initial and boundary conditions for the system, by using the equations or computer program to predict the resulting time path, and then by comparing this predicted path with the actual path of the system. The advantage of an information-processing language over the mathematical languages for a theory of thinking is that an information processing language takes symbolic structures rather than numbers for the values of the variables.
The information theory about human thinking and problem solving is a theory in cognitive psychology. Newell and Simon note that their cognitive theory is concerned with performance, specifically with the performance of intelligent adults in our own culture, while psychologists have traditionally been more concerned with learning. In his autobiography as well as elsewhere Simon distinguishes cognitive psychology from both the gestalt and the behavioristic approaches to psychology. He rejects the black-box approach of the behaviorists and especially that of B.F. Skinner, who maintains that the black box is empty. Simon also rejects the reductionist version of behaviorism, according to which complex behavior must be explained in terms of neurological processes. And he furthermore rejects the neurological modeling approach of the psychologists who use parallel connectionist networks or neural nets for computerized explanations. Newell and Simon propose a theory of symbols located midway, as it were, between complex behavioral processes and neurological processes. Simon acknowledges a debt to the Gestaltists and their allies, who also recognize a layer of constructs between behavior and neurology, but Simon rejects the Gestaltists' wholistic approach to these constructs. Simon proposes an explicitly mechanistic type of explanation of human thinking and problem solving in terms of information processing.
Simon defines human problem-solving thinking as a system of elementary information processes, organized hierarchically and executed serially, and consisting of procedures that exhibit large amounts of highly selective trial-and-error search based on rules of thumb or "heuristics". Simon relies on the concept of hierarchy as a strategy for managing complexity. He defines a hierarchical system as one that is composed of interrelated subsystems, each of which in turn is hierarchical in structure down to a lowest level consisting of an elementary subsystem. In human problem solving hierarchy is determined by the organization of subgoals, which is the second idea that Simon said in his autobiography is basic to his entire scientific output. Hierarchical organization is common in computer systems. Applications programs are written in compiler and interpreter languages such as FORTRAN and LISP, and these languages in turn contain reserved words that are names for macros, which are subsystems in the compiler library, which in turn contain lower level subsystems, and so on down to a basic level consisting of elementary systems in binary code.
For the specifically problem-solving type of human thinking Simon has analyzed information processing into a few basic concepts. Firstly there is the "task environment", by which he means the problem-solving processor's outer environment. Secondly the task environment as viewed by the problem solver produces a "problem space", together with the goal that orients the problem solver to his task environment. The problem space is the inner environment consisting of the processor's internal representation of the outer task environment, and in which the problem solving activities take place. Simon maintains that there is no objective representation of the task environment independently of some processor's problem space. Furthermore there is a task or goal that defines the "point of view" about the problem-solving processor's outer environment, and that therefore defines the problem space. Simon calls this defining process an "input translation process." Thirdly in addition to task environment and problem space, Simon introduces the concept of "method". A "method" is a process that bears some "rational" relation to attaining a problem solution, as formulated and seen in terms of the internal representation, which is the problem space. Here the term "rational" is understood as satisficing in the sense that a satisfactory as opposed to an optimal solution is achieved. In the mechanical processor, the method is the computer program, and most of Simon's theory of problem solving pertains to the method.
Simon distinguishes three types of method. The first type is the recognition method, which can be used when the solution is already in the processor's memory, and artificial-intelligence systems using this method rely on large stores of specific information. Computer programs using this type of method contain a conditional form of statement, which Simon calls a "production". In a production whenever the initial conditions are satisfied, the consequent action is taken. And when the conditions of several alternative productions are satisfied, the conflicts between them are resolved by priority rules. In his autobiography Simon notes that productions have become widely accepted to explain how human experts make their decisions by recognizing familiar cues directly, and that productions have been used for the "expert systems" in artificial intelligence. Experts, both human and mechanical, do much of their problem solving not by searching selectively, but simply by recognizing the relevant cues in situations similar to those experienced before. It is their wealth of experience that makes them experts.
The second type of method is what Simon calls the generate-and-test method. In this method the computer system generates a problem space, and has as its goal to find or to produce a member in a subspace identified as a solution by a test. The generality and weakness of this method lies in the fact that the generation and test procedures are independent, so that the amount of search is very large. Simon typically portrays this method as requiring a search that is so large, that it cannot be carried out completely, and so must proceed in a random manner. To address this problem of innumerable possibilities the pragmatist philosopher C.S. Peirce had advanced his logic of abduction, which postulates a natural light or instinctive genius for producing correct theories.
The third type of method is Simon's theory of heuristics, which exploits the information in the task environment as that task environment is represented internally in the processor by the problem space. In the heuristic search, unlike the generate-and-test method, there is a dependence of the search process upon the nature of the object being sought in the problem space and the progress made toward it. This dependence functions as a feedback that guides the search process with controlling information acquired in the process of the search itself, as the search explores the internalized task environment. This method is much more efficient than the generate-and-test method, and Simon believes that it explains how complex problems are solved with both human and mechanical bounded rationality.
These three alternative methods represent different artificial-intelligence research programmes, software development v hardware development, which may also be characterized as knowledge v speed. The generate-and-test method is dependent on fast hardware; the heuristic-search method is dependent on efficient software design. Developments in hardware technology, as well as the magnitude of the problems they select affect researcher preferences for one or another of the methods. The hardware preference has been called the "brute force" approach, and as the technology has advanced, it has enabled the implementation of artificial-intelligence systems that offer little new software but greatly improved performance for the extensive searching of very large problem spaces. It has often been implemented in supercomputers.
For example the Wall Street Journal (30 April 1990) reported that a group of five Carnegie-Mellon University graduate students with IBM Corporation funding have developed a multiprocessor chess-playing system named "Deep Thought", that exhibits grand-master performance with superhuman speed. It was reported that this system does not represent any noteworthy software development either in chess-playing search heuristics or in expert chess-playing strategies. Instead it explores the huge chess-playing problem space more quickly and extensively than can the human grand master, who is limited by human bounds to his rationality. Developments such as the quantum-computing technology promise to enable the combinatorial generate-and-test method with effectively minimal hardware constraint.
On Scientific Discovery and Philosophy of Science
Before Simon and his colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University had developed functioning computerized discovery systems simulating historic scientific discoveries, Simon had written articles claiming that scientific discovery is a special case of human problem solving. In these articles he related his human problem-solving approach for discovery, to views published by various philosophers of science. The articles are reprinted in his Models of Discovery, where he insightfully comments in his "Introduction" that dense mists of romanticism and downright knownothingness have surrounded the subject of scientific discovery and of creativity. And in his "Scientific Discovery and the Psychology of Problem Solving" (1966) Simon states his thesis that scientific discovery is a form of problem solving, i.e., that the processes whereby science is carried on can be explained in terms that he used to explain the processes of problem solving. Problem-solving thinking uses a collection of elementary information processes organized hierarchically and executed serially, and consists of processes that exhibit large amounts of highly selective trial-and-error search based on rules of thumb or heuristics. The theory of scientific discovery is a system with these characteristics, and which behaves like a scientist.
Superior problem-solving scientists have more powerful heuristics, and therefore produce either adequate solutions with less search or better solutions with equivalent search, as compared with less competent scientists. Science is satisficing, and to explain scientific discovery is to describe a set of processes that is sufficient to account for the degrees and directions of scientific progress that have actually occurred. Furthermore, for every great success in scientific discovery there are many failures. Curiously Simon also says that a theory explaining scientific discovery must predict innumerable failures for every success.
In this same 1966 article Simon also takes occasion to criticize the philosophy-of-science literature. He maintains that the philosophy literature tends to address the normative rather than the descriptive aspects of scientific methodology, and that philosophers are more concerned with how scientists ought to proceed to conform to certain conceptions of logic than with how scientists do in fact proceed. And he adds that their notions of how scientists ought to proceed have focused primarily on the problem of induction. He concludes that the philosophy-of-science literature has little relevance to the actual behavior of scientists, and has less normative value than has been supposed.
But he finds two exceptions in the philosophy of science literature: Norwood Russell Hanson and Thomas S. Kuhn. He says that both of these authors have made significant contributions to the psychology and sociology of scientific discovery, and that they have been quite explicit in distinguishing the process of discovery from philosophers' traditional canons of "sound" scientific method. He also says that he has made much use of the views of both of these philosophers. Simon's principal commentary on the philosophy of Hanson is his defense of Hanson against the view of Popper in "Does Scientific Discovery Have a Logic?" (1973). He notes that Popper rejects the existence of a logic of scientific discovery in Popper's ironically titled Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934), and he says that Popper's view is opposed by Hanson in the latter's Patterns of Discovery (1958) and is also opposed by Peirce. Peirce used the term "abduction", which Simon says is the main subject of the theory of problem solving in both its normative and positive forms. Simon observes that Hanson made his case by historical examples of scientific discovery, and that he placed great emphasis on discovery of perceptual patterns.
In this 1973 article as well as in his earlier "The Logic of Rational Decision" (1965) Simon distinguishes heuristic search from induction, and defends the idea of a logic of scientific discovery in the sense that norms can be derived from the goals of scientific activity. Simon defines the logic of scientific discovery as a set of normative standards for judging the processes used to discover or test scientific theories, where the goal from which the norms are derived is that of discovering valid scientific laws. Simon emphasizes that the heuristic strategy does not guarantee success. He states that discovering a pattern does not involve induction or extrapolation. Induction arises only if one wishes to predict and to test whether or not the same pattern will continue to obtain when it is extrapolated. Law discovery only means finding patterns in the data that have been observed; whether or not the pattern will continue to hold for new data that are observed subsequently will be decided in the course of predictive testing of the law, and not in discovering it. He therefore argues that he has not smuggled any philosophical induction axiom into his formulation of a logic of discovery, and that such a logic does not depend on the solution of the problem of induction. It may be noted that after Simon's colleagues had created functioning discovery systems based on heuristic search, Simon often described some of those systems as using "inductive search". However, in his Scientific Discovery he explicitly rejects the search for certainty associated with attempts to justify inductivism. He subscribes to Popper's falsificationist thesis of criticism.
Simon's comments on Kuhn's philosophy are principally concerned with Kuhn's distinction between normal and revolutionary science. Kuhn maintained that the revolutionary transition is a gestalt switch, while Simon defends his own view that heuristic-search procedures apply to revolutionary changes as well as to normal science. In his "Scientific Discovery and the Psychology of Problem Solving" Simon says that his theory of scientific discovery rests on the hypothesis that there are no qualitative differences between the processes of revolutionary science and those of normal science, between work of high creativity and journeyman work respectively. Simon points to the fact that trial and error occurs in both types of work. He argues that trial and error are most prominent in those areas of problem solving where the heuristics are least powerful, that is, are least adequate to narrow down the problem space, such that the paths of thought leading to discoveries often regarded as creative might be expected to provide even more visible evidence of trial and error than those leading to relatively routine discoveries. Later in his Scientific Discovery Simon develops the idea of the amount of trial-and-error search into the distinction between "strong" methods, which he says resemble normal science, and "weak" methods, which resemble revolutionary science. He identifies expert systems based principally on productions, where there may be almost no search needed for problem solving, as paradigmatic cases of strong methods exemplifying normal science. Simon's argument that trial and error is used in all types of discovery is his defense of the heuristic method.
But method is only one aspect of his theory of problem solving; there is also the definition of the problem space. He acknowledges that scientific work involves not only solving problems but also posing them, that correct question asking is as important as correct question answering. And he notes that Kuhn's distinction between normal and revolutionary science is relevant to the relation of question asking to question answering. In the 1966 article Simon identifies the problem space, which is the problem solver's point of view of the outer environment, with Kuhn's idea of paradigm, and he identifies defining the problem space with the process of problem formation. Firstly Simon notes that normal science need not pose its own questions, because its questions have already been formulated for it by the current paradigm produced by the most recent scientific revolution. The problem space is thus given by the current state of the science. The problematic case is the scientific revolution, which establishes the new paradigm. Simon argues that it is not necessary to adduce entirely new mechanisms to account for problem formulation in revolutionary science, because, as Kuhn says, the paradigms of any given revolution arise out of the normal science of the previous period. Normal-science research leads to the discovery of anomalies, which are new problems that the prospective revolutionaries address.
Therefore Simon argues that there is no need for a separate theory of problem formulation for scientific revolutions. He states that a theory of scientific discovery adequate to explain revolutionary as well as normal science must account not only for the origin of the problems, but also for the origins of representations, namely the problem spaces or paradigms. Representations arise by modification and development of previous representations, as problems arise by modification and development of previous problems. A system intended to explain human problem solving and scientific discovery need not incorporate a highly powerful mechanism for inventing completely novel representations. Even in revolutionary science the representations are rooted in the past and not from whole cloth.
Later in his "Ramsey Eliminibility and the Testability of Scientific Theories" (1973) reprinted in his Models of Discovery Simon considers another objection pertaining to the problem space in revolutionary developments. The objection is that in revolutionary science the range of alternative hypotheses that constitute the problem space or representation cannot be delimited in advance. He states that this objection rests on a commonly drawn distinction between well defined problems, which are amenable to orderly analysis such as those in normal science, and ill-defined problems, which are thought to be the exclusive domain of creativity, such as those in revolutionary science. Simon argues that the force of the objection depends on the distinctions being qualitative and not just matters of degree. He replies that there is no reason to deny that revolutionary hypotheses can be the result of some kind of recursively applicable rule of generation. He cites as an example of a revolutionary discovery Mendeleev's periodic table, which does not involve a notion of pattern more complex than that required to handle patterned letter sequences. The problem space of possible patterns in which Mendeleev was searching was of modest size, and at least half a dozen of Mendeleev's contemporaries had noticed the pattern independently of him, although they had not exploited it as systematically or as vigorously as he did. Simon concludes that before one accepts the hypothesis that revolutionary science is not subject to laws of effective search, one should await more microscopic studies than have generally been made to date of the histories of revolutionary discoveries.
Later in "Artificial Intelligence Research Strategies in the Light of AI Models of Scientific Discovery" in Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1979) Simon can refer to operational discovery systems. He states that discovery systems are distinguished from most other problem-solving systems in the vagueness of the tasks presented to them and of the heuristic criteria that guide the search and account for selectivity. And he adds that because their goals are very general, it is unusual to use means-end analysis commonly used for well structured tasks and to work backward from a desired result. The discovery system solves ill-structured tasks and works forward from the givens of the problem and then from the new concepts and variables generated from the givens. He does not reference Kuhn in this context, but the implication is that discovery systems can routinely produce revolutionary science. Then still later in his Scientific Discovery (1987) he reconsiders his earlier correlation of well structured problems with normal science and ill-structured problems with revolutionary science. He notes that normal science is described by Kuhn as involving no development of new laws but simply of applying known laws or developing subsidiary laws that fill in the dominant paradigm. He concludes that all discovery systems that develop new laws directly from data and not from a dominant paradigm must be productive of revolutionary science.
Simon's difficulties in relating his ideas to Kuhn's originate with Kuhn's ideas, not with Simon's. The most frequent criticism of Kuhn's Structures of Scientific Revolutions in the philosophy of science literature is that his distinction between normal and revolutionary science is so vague, that with the exception of a few paradigmatic cases his readers could not apply the distinction to specific episodes in the history of science, unless Kuhn himself had identified a particular episode as revolutionary. The attractiveness of Kuhn's book at the time of its appearance was not its unimpressive conceptual clarity; it was its welcome redirection of the philosophy profession's interest to the history of science at a time when many philosophers of science had come to regard the logical positivist philosophy with hardly any less cynicism than Ovid had shown toward the ancient Greek and Roman pagan religion in his Metamorphoses. Simon's discovery systems offer analytical clarity that Kuhn could not provide, with or without the Olympian irrelevance of the Russellian symbolic logic used by the logical positivists.
Nonetheless Simon's psychological approach shares difficulties with Kuhn's sociological approach. Philosophers' reaction against Kuhn's sociological approach was often due to the recognition that conformity to and deviance from a consensus paradigm may explain the behavior of scientists without explaining the success of science. Turn next to the discovery systems developed by Simon and his colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University.
The Theory of Discovery Systems
Simon's principal work on discovery systems for science is his Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes (1987) co-authored with several colleagues including notably Pat Langley. Simon is the editor of the book. In the introductory section he says that the central hypothesis of the theory of scientific discovery is that the mechanisms of scientific discovery are not peculiar to that activity, but can be subsumed as special cases of the general mechanisms of problem solving. The theory of scientific discovery is therefore a theory in cognitive psychology. Simon seeks to investigate the psychology of discovery processes, and to provide an empirically tested theory of the information-processing mechanisms that are implicated in that process. The book exhibits a series of computer systems capable of making nontrivial scientific discoveries, which are actually replicated discoveries of historic scientific laws and theories including but not limited to empirical generalizations. The computer systems described in his book incorporate heuristic-search procedures to perform the kinds of selective processes that he believes scientists use to guide them in their search for regularities in data.
Simon states that an empirical test of the systems as psychological theories of human discovery processes would involve presenting the computer programs and some human subjects with identical problems, and then comparing their behaviors. The computer system can generate a "trace" of its operations, and the human subjects can report a verbal and written protocol of their behavior, while they are solving the same problem. Then the system can be tested as a psychological theory of cognitive behavior by comparing the trace with the protocol. But Simon also admits that his book supplies no detailed comparisons with human performance. And in discussions of particular applications involving particular discoveries, he notes that in some cases the historical discoveries were actually performed differently than his systems performed the rediscoveries. The interest in this book therefore is actually system design and performance rather than psychological testing and reporting.
Simon states that he wishes to provide some foundations for a normative theory of discovery, which is to say, to write a how-to-make-discoveries book. He explains that by this he does not mean a set of rules for deriving theories conclusively from observations. Instead, he wishes to propose a set of criteria for judging the efficacy and efficiency of the processes used to discover scientific theories. Accordingly Simon sets forth a satisficing rationality postulate for the scientist: to use the best means he has available – the best heuristics – for narrowing the search down to manageable proportions, even though this effort may result in excluding some good solution candidates. If the novelty of the scientific problem requires much search, this large amount of search is rational if it employs all the heuristics that are known to be applicable to the domain of the problem. Thus, his rationality postulate for the scientist is a bounded-rationality postulate, not only due to the limits imposed by the computer's memory capacity and computational speed, but also due to the limit imposed by the inventory of available heuristics.
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