Monthly Archives: July 2009

A random assortment of music

By Ananda | Published: July 30, 2009

I’m not entirely sure what to say about the music in this post. The first set of songs is by a band called Munk. I don’t have much information about them–just that they recorded (to my knowledge) two seven-inches, which I bought when I saw them live a looooong time ago. The releases were simply [...]

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Automation with OpenOffice.org Writer

By Ananda | Published: July 26, 2009

Tutorial Level: Intermediate At the Tata-Dhan Academy where I work, with each new batch of students, we try to promote the adoption of freeware or open-source software instead of promoting the already ridiculous levels of piracy that goes on around here. So, during our orientation, we introduce the students to OpenOffice.org—something which, unfortunately, causes many [...]

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DWAB: New and Found Songs Keep the Music Playing

By Ananda | Published: July 22, 2009

New and found songs keep the music playing, but not nearly frequently enough. Being away from my artsy friends and living in a place where I doubt people would pay much attention to what I’m doing tends to take away some of the inspiration for writing songs. That’s not to say that I’ve lost interest, [...]

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Punk Comps Rock: 400 Day Headache

By Ananda | Published: July 22, 2009

I used to really like buying punk and hardcore comps, even when I already had the song by the band (or bands) that I already knew. (That seemed to happen quite often, by the way, but some of the more prolific bands–like J Church in this case–would contribute songs not found on other recordings.) Anyway, [...]

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Sisters of Mercy: The End

By Ananda | Published: July 20, 2009

Back when we had the “Deep Grooves” record store in Santa Barbara, I was always able to find some cool oddities. This Sisters of Mercy 2×7″ bootleg (which claims to be a limited edition of 300) was one of them. The Sisters of Mercy are generally rockin’ and the songs on this recording are no [...]

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David Hanna: Excerpts from the 1990s

By Ananda | Published: July 19, 2009

I don’t know what much I can say about David Hanna. As I mentioned on the page I created for him at So, sue me already, he would be one person I would love to have in a DWAB live band if there ever were one…. I remember David had moved away after recording the [...]

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Tommy Strange: Waiting on the Corner

By Ananda | Published: July 19, 2009

I first heard Tommy Strange when he was the singer for Strawman (which, if I remember correctly, was Scarecrow at the time). I think the first stuff I heard was on Allied Recordings’ “Sign Language” compilation, and I thought it was pretty cool. So, when I was on one of my San Francisco music-shopping trips [...]

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