this just popped up in my itunes coverflow and i instinctually got a shot of adrenaline. like i’m still 13 years old.

Trial By Fire – testament (mp3)

: testament (amazon link)

quick shortcut to whiz through your image search. thank you google!

- i posted this how-to on my personal site a few months back. enjoy!

Discovering that the person on the other end of the phone can’t hear you talk, especially while driving on the freeway, is frustrating, scary and dangerous. Is your headset broken? Is it the iPhone itself? Do you need to repair or replace? Very frustrating.

However, as I recently learned, it’s likely a simple issue called “headphone mode” – the setting the iPhone automatically switches into when you listen to music with standard headphones (not the headset with the microphone and button). If the headphones are removed the wrong way (what that is, I do not know), the iPhone might think you still have them inserted and won’t respond correctly when you try to use the earpiece.

A call to the Apple technician recommended rapidly plugging and unplugging the headphones. However, that didn’t work for me. The other option was to restore the iPhone, erasing all my contacts, photos, etc.

Before doing that, I tried one last thing, which worked immediately. Here’s what to do:

1. Put your iPhone into iPod mode with the headphones plugged in
2. Unplug the headphones. iPhone goes back to regular mode.

Voila, the problem is solved. Enjoy.

stunningly beautiful sleepy jazz classic
mal waldron w/ eric dolphy and booker ervin “warm canto” (1961)

steady and gorgeous melancholy synth banger. best new band of ’09?
washed out “good luck” (2009)

dramatic synth mood setter
sauveur mallia “baby robot” (1980)

ifixit has already gotten their hands on the new macbook, . sounds like it’s pretty up-to-date, sharing a lot of components with the macbook pro and macbook air (logic board, lcd display, glass trackpad). downside: no more firewire (again?).

one nice thing: the price is the same as before, .

of course, you can also get the previous model (with firewire!) at discounted prices. .

if you want to learn about rogue film making, head to los angeles in january 2010 for a weekend with one of the masters: .

the three day course will cover things you don’t learn in film school, and WON’T cover the things you do. sounds fun!

- The Rogue Film School will not teach anything technical related to film-making. For this purpose, please enroll at your local film school.

- The Rogue Film School is about a way of life. It is about a climate, the excitement that makes film possible. It will be about poetry, films, music, images, literature.

- Related, but more practical subjects, will be the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy. Guerrilla tactics. Self reliance.

- Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.

funky lounged-out soundtrack song
vincent gemignani “ophis le serpentaire” (1970)

bass, chanting, and claps make up this artsy number
henri_texier “le piroguier” (1976)