{"id":319,"date":"2006-07-14T20:52:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T03:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/14\/the-dork-report-for-july-14-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:04","slug":"the-dork-report-for-july-14-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-14-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for July 14, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After years of getting picked up and put down by various labels, <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.josepharthur.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Arthur<\/a> is launching his own <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">independent label<\/span> (no longer online: billboard.com\/bbcom\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002839192), Lonely Astronaut. His new album Nuclear Daydream drops on September 19, to be followed by a long-awaited-by-The-Dork-Report US tour running through November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m still immature enough to think <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">things like this<\/span> (no longer online: youtube.com\/watch?v=u-kfLf_RGqk) are awesome. (spotted on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/07\/13\/news\/funny\/mentos_dietcoke\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An flurry of activity from one of my favorite old (and I mean &#8220;old&#8221; in the geriatric sense) bands, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Who<\/span> (no longer online: petetownshend.co.uk\/projects\/thewho):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Their first world tour in over 20 years, if you ignore the numerous reunion mini-tours.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A new EP &#8220;Wire &amp; Glass&#8221; comes out August 1, excerpting a song cycle (known to music snobs as a &#8220;rock opera&#8221;) from a forthcoming studio album, their first in 23 years!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tons of video, some free, on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TheWhoLive.tv<\/span> (no longer online)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Roger Waters <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">live in Italy on July 12<\/span> (no longer online: bigozine3.com\/rarities\/?p=32), a concert dedicated to Syd Barrett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of getting picked up and put down by various labels, Joseph Arthur is launching his own independent label (no longer online: billboard.com\/bbcom\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002839192), Lonely Astronaut. His new album Nuclear Daydream drops on September 19, to be followed by a long-awaited-by-The-Dork-Report US tour running through November. I&#8217;m still immature enough to think things like this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-mini","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dork-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-59","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":499,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-november-5-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":319,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for November 5, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"November 5, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The Telegraph interviews Peter Gabriel on freedom from choice, Lithuanian rap music, and passing on the Genesis reunion. Paul Cornell goes boozing with his fellow Doctor Who writers on his blog, the House of Awkwardness (no longer online: paulcornell.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/night-out-with-writers-of-doctor-who.html). 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(spotted on Fortean Times) (no longer online: forteantimes.com\/breaking_news\/breaking_news.shtml) The Beatles are taking it to Vegas. But what really interests me is the NY Times reporter's preview of the new Beatles remixes\/remasters. After audio quality, the next detraction to digital music is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Dork Report&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Dork Report","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/dork-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Dork Report","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":452,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-october-13-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":319,"position":2},"title":"The Dork Report for October 13, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"October 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Practically every site featured on csstux (no longer online: csstux.com) is so gorgeously slick it's a wonder I have a job as a web designer. Terry Gilliam busks on the streets of New York for his controversial new film Tideland. (spotted on Neil Gaiman's Journal) The Independent has a long\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Dork Report&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Dork Report","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/dork-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Dork Report","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":228,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-may-31-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":319,"position":3},"title":"The Dork Report for May 31, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"May 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow, both sides of the isle are getting the axe. Adobe will nix Macromedia Freehand in favor of Illustrator and Adobe GoLive in favor of Dreamweaver. My belove-to-hate Macromedia Fireworks, however, lives for now. Also of note is this article about merging the two massive sites, even though it uses\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Dork Report&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Dork Report","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/dork-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Dork Report","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":585,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-january-17-2007\/","url_meta":{"origin":319,"position":4},"title":"The Dork Report for January 18, 2007","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"January 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Wikipedia's Unusual Articles entry does exactly what it says on the tin, and it's a veritable goldmine. Just to name a few gems at random: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, famous body parts, list of self-referential songs (no longer online: en.wikipedia.org:80\/wiki\/List_of_self-referential_songs). 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Now The Sunday Mirror cites a source claiming Phil Collins' recent divorce has cleared the way for a 3-piece Banks\/Collins\/Rutherford Genesis reunion world tour (no longer online: sundaymirror.co.uk\/showbiz\/radar\/) in 2007. 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