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December 2012

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November 2012

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October 2012

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September 2012

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August 2012

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Episode 2 of It Might Get Personal with Bill DeRouchey playing some Clash! → muleradio.net
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It Might Get Personal

I am very excited to announce the unveiling of a project I’ve been working on for several months now, a new musical video podcast on the Mule Radio Syndicate called It Might Get Personal.

Here’s why it exists.

We are inundated with music. As a consumer, you can carry thousands of songs around in your pocket, and what you can’t fit in there can probably be found somewhere on the Internet. As a performer, you have access to recording technology on your laptop that a decade ago would have cost hundreds or thousands of dollars a day. And there are more bands and musicians every week. (Heck, some friends and I started a band last year.)

I think that’s great. I love having all that music at my fingertips. Some of those songs have found a permanent special place in my heart, songs that never, ever lose their meaning. The song that takes me back to my very first concert, the song that was playing when we had to rush our sick dog to the vet for the very last time. I believe most people have at least a few of those songs, and they’re very powerful little signifiers in those people’s lives.

But there’s one thing that can make those songs even more meaningful: sharing them. I don’t mean uploading them to Usenet or squirting them to your friend’s Zune — I mean singing them or playing them yourself, for other people.

Sharing music with people that way will open parts of your brain you may never have looked in before. It lets other people see things in you that they didn’t know were there.

Plus it’s fun. Singing or playing for someone is just a crazy amount of fun. It’s a rush. Of course what makes it a rush is that it’s also pretty scary, especially if you’ve never done it before. But when you let yourself go and really sing that special song with all the meaning that has for you, it’s like nothing else.

I started It Might Get Personal because I want you to come share that song. Share it with me and the Internet. I promise you’ll do something great. Maybe something you didn’t think you could do.

Be brave. Have fun.

It’s that simple. It’s something I tell myself every day.

Be brave. Have fun.

If you’re interested in being on the podcast, email me at getpersonal@muleradio.net. We’re going to have a mix of practiced performers and people who’ve never sung outside the shower. We’re not looking for groups, at least not right now. We want individuals. We want to learn about this one person’s absolute favorite song. We want you.

I owe an unpayable debt of gratitude to a few people who helped me get this off the ground. The first five episodes you’ll see are people who agreed to come record an episode with me based on nothing but my description of the show. Each guest sat patiently while my partner Seven Morris and I figured out how the heck to shoot video and record audio that’s worth watching and listening to. We’ve been working on it for a few months now, and we’ve gotten better with each shoot. I believe we’ll get even better as we go forward.

Thanks for taking the time to watch. It means a lot to us and the performers.

Be brave. Have fun.

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July 2012

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Evening Edition from Mule Design → weblog.muledesign.com

jimray:

Right now, there’s more “news” than ever before, but it comes in dribs and drabs disguised as news-like updates fed through the same channels as your friends’ baby photos and fart jokes.

So we built Evening Edition, a summary of the day’s news, written by a real live journalist, with links to the best reporting in the world. We optimized it for your phone and iPad. It’s perfect for your commute home or when you’re kicking back on the couch. It’s breaking news for the slow web and we really hope you like.

Follow along on Twitter for a daily update or just add it to your home screen and check in on the train ride home. And please let us know what you think.

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May 2012

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“An aside: I originally wanted to write a post arguing that for moral and ethical reasons, you shouldn’t buy Facebook stock, no matter how much money it earns, because doing so is the equivalent of investing in Big Tobacco, or Monsanto, or Dow Chemical, or Exxon. That was slapped aside, and I was basically told to shut my hippie mouth and that I am a dyspeptic old curmudgeon who ought to slink back to whatever stinky all-ages Fugazi show I came from.” —Facebook Is Going To Be Even More Annoying Now That It’s Public (via emptyage)
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April 2012

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When Will You Come Home Galaxie 500

So excited about this show I could squeal. Dean Wareham is touring a little bit playing Galaxie 500 songs, and I have tickets for May 11 at the Hemlock in San Francisco. I never saw that band or Luna live, and I’ve never seen Dean & Britta, but Dean is easily one of my favorite guitarists and songwriters and one of his bands is constantly on my heavy rotation list.

More about the show

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March 2012

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