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Well to continue the trend from Day 3 today’s pick is a group for the late 80′s that has a lot of aliases. The KLF, is also know as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu aka The JAMs and on one occasion as The Timelords. The Timelords only really had one s...

To say my taste in music is a little eclectic would be a bit of an understatement I listen to everything for classic rock and classical to Nerdcore and Synthpop. While I don’t listen to a lot of metal there a few bands that I like. One of the guys I...

So were going to lighting thing up a bit here on Day 3 of My Amazon Advent Calendar with Dr. Bombay. Now for those of you who have watched Bewitched this not the globe trotting warlock “witch doctor” played by Bernard Fox. This Dr Bombay is one of t...

Ok for day two of the Advent Calendar I have Operation Ganymede off the album Operation Ganymede by the American electropop duo Ganymede. Now that’s a lot of Ganymede’s in one sentence. The Ganymede in question here is the moon of Jupiter discovered...

It’s time again for that doubly bodacious day of the week Symmetrical Docking Friday. This week Symmetrical Docking Friday features a couple of Touhou girls (again) this time around it’s Kaenbyou Rin and Reiuji Utsuho. It also is yet another example...

In a blatant rip off of the great +Andy Ihnatko I have decided to do my own version of the Amazon Advent Calendar. Now don’t expect 1000 word essays from me on why have picked a particular song like Andy does ’cause that boy is a wordsmith and I don...

Moog has had a guitar for a couple of years now and have recently come out with their new Lap Steel. A Lap Steel is a kind of fretless guitar that is played using a piece of metal or glass to change the pitch of the strings. I think it’s kind of int...

It’s Friday again and you all know what that means it’s Symmetrical Docking Friday time. But this week is a little different for those who live in the United States. For not only is it Symmetrical Docking Friday it is also Black Friday. Black Friday...

It that time that comes ever week boys and girls, it’s Symmetrical Docking Friday time. This weeks Symmetrical Docking Friday like last weeks is a cross over. This time between a couple of game girls, on the right we have Krystal from Hard Corps: Upr...

Even thou I can’t afford to buy figures anymore I still keep half an eye out for cute ones. And what could be cuter then Kotobukiya’s Melty from the game Shining Hearts. Of course she would catch my eye as the character for Shining Hearts is the gre...

When a lot of people first get into syths they have a little trouble with how all the parts, VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator), LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator), VCF (Voltage Controlled Filter), interact. Part of the problem is that a lot of people m...

Hello my friends, it’s Friday again so you all know what that means… it’s Symmetrical Docking Friday!! Sorry for the lack of updates this week but I did something to my back and so I’ve been spending most of my time lying in bed on a heating pad. I...

Well it is a little after Halloween but who cares it’s Symmetrical Docking Friday Time!! Since Monday was Halloween I decided to give you all a treat instead of a trick. So we have again a couple of Touhou girls. This time around it’s Patchouli Knowl...

I’ve had my Kindle for a few months now and have been using it a lot more in the last month or so. But the one thing I have had for it was a cover. Kindle Lighted Cover for the what they are now calling the Kindle Keyboard cost $50 and it was kind...

World War Robot (WWr) started out as a graphic novel by Ashley Wood and is now in development to became a major motion picture. But between the novel and the movie WWr became a line of 1/6 scale collector toy from threeA Toys. But for those of you...

The ARP 2600 is a early semi-module synth. In it’s basic operation they 2600 is ready to play right out of the box, with the modules connected together internally. But if you don’t like how that sounds most of the connections can be rewired with patc...

One of the latest additions to my iTunes library is Krypteria. Krypteria is German ‘symphonic metal’ band. Started in 2001 as a “pop musical theatre studio project” in 2003 the self titled ‘fantasy-musical CD’ was released. At the time there was no...

In August NPR came out with the results of their survey for the top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy books. It’s a pretty comprehensive list. All the big names are there Card, Tolkien, Bradbury, Orwell. As I go through the list there a quite a lot o...

Next month Goodsmile is reissuing the very nice looking and very popular Rin Tohsaka -Unlimited Blade Works- version figure. I really like this one, Rin’s pose is very dramatic with lots of motion, and she definitely does not fall into the fugly bas...

So most people assume that to control a synthesizer you need a keyboard. And while a keyboard is useful it is not exactly necessary. I’ve seen video of large modular synths that once patched together play themselves. One way to control a synth is u...

Another Friday is upon us so the means… it Symmetrical Docking Friday time. That time of the week where we gather around the digital ‘fireplace’ of the 21st century and look a well endowed girls who like to stand too close together. Not quite sure w...

I’m always on the look out for new music, especially something I can just listen too while doing something else. Today I was introduced to Senri Kawaguchi a young Japanese girl with amazing skill. She is just 14 years old but has been playing drums...

A couple of weeks ago I went and turned in my change jar at CoinStar for an Amazon gift card as I usually do and I had been debating on what to spend the money on. Well I figured it out last week and on Sunday I ordered the Rode PSA-1 Studio Arm (Am...

Ok I’ll admit it I’m a sucker for headphone moe, and one of the queen’s of cans is Super Sonico. Coming from Wing is Super Sonico Takonatsu Version. The Takonatsu ver. has Sonico at a gravure idol photo sessions wear a crop top and some nice short s...