Michael "The Whisky Companion" Jackson Dies

The man who brought Single Malts to the attention of the world has died in London, UK. A dram of single malt in his honour tonight.

(Originally via Daring Fireball)

blimps are really cool

I always like to use the word "audiophile" in there because nowadays a "mastering engineer" is someone who mangles the sound to the lowest common denominator. In other words, so that their CD is just as loud as everybody else's out there. Sort of the old, "my radio station is louder than your radio station" thing. My personal opinion is that there has to be a bastion of good sound out there and many of my jobs entail much more than mastering. There's all different kinds of restoration from old records to old tapes to this and that. I didn't want to be lumped in with the mass of guys out there who just follow orders now and compress the hell out of everything.

-[ Mastering for the "Breath of Life", Steve Hoffman on super geeky audio mastering for vinyl ]-

Alpha found this after discovering a remaster of Dark Side of the Moon has been issued on Vinyl.

Don: The Chase Begins Again

Why didn't anyone tell me about this? They've remade Don (which I fucking loved):

Don - The Chase Begins Again, directed by Farhan Akhtar, is a remake of the blockbuster 1978 film, Don. The film was released in India on October 20, 2006 and it was also simultaneously released internationally. It received a very good response worldwide, and collected over Rs. 30 crores in India in its first week itself. The script of the previous film was written by Akhtar's father, Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan (father of Salman Khan).

-- via Wikipedia or all places

[Cause I'm looking for Indian rotohouses if anyone knows any, y'know, off hand]