August is almost over, but the summer heat is still sultry and intense. Time to play some hookey, skip home room, and jump into the deep end where its dark, cool, and just slightly dangerous. 

Come on in.  The water's fine.


If you just can't get enough of the heat, you can also try "Global Warming."
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"Evergreen" by Faithless is just one of those songs that speaks to DJDeedle, tugs at the heartstrings, and has begged for a DJDeedle remix for a number of years. So, at long last, here it is.

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair held on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 43 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock forty years ago changed the history of rock and roll.  For better or worse, the 32 acts in the Woodstock concerts captured the zeitgeist of the age with the diverse sounds of rock legends like Janis Joplin, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, etc.  Though four decades have passed, and a fickle music industry and fans have diverged from the sound of 1969, the sounds of the 60s still live today as echos in modern rock, and modern rockers owe much to their Woodstock forebears.  Like the those at Woodstock, rock music has mutated, transformed, adapted, and survived.  This week DJDeedle salutes not Woodstock, but rock music itself, punk, metal, Brit, garage, grunge, indie, and even electronic.  The sound of this week's Deedlecast is rock music, but the flavor is definitely DJDeedle.  Enjoy this rock block.  

DJDeedle invites you to look into the eyes of the dragon.  In the dragon's lair all things meet their opposite. The future and the past, desire and regret, knowledge and oblivion, and of course love and . . . Well, you get the picture. 

Over thirty years ago the first digital arcade games took the U.S. and the world by storm.  Pong and Space Invaders revived the long moribund arcade industry, and spawned a digital revolution.  These early two-dimensional games set the game industry on fire, and the world would never be the same again. 

This week, DJDeedle harkens back to those early days with a little digital invasion of his own.  What digitalism did for games, digitalism has done to music as well.

It's time to be invaded. Are you ready?

For those of you who just can't get digital enough, check out "Twisted Digital" from September of 2007. 

Social networking is among the many things, like identity theft and pop-up advertising, made simpler and easier by modern digital technology.  It is not that we didn't meet people or stay in touch with friends and family before the internet connected us all to spam and Youtube. But with all this new connectivity, even staying in touch with people and meeting new people has been streamlined and systematized, and made almost instantaneous and compulsive.  The trouble is that with Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and all the other networks, being privy at all times to our connections' many thoughts, moods, exclamations, whims, concerns, causes, photos, home videos, humors, disappointments, and the other detritus of the human endeavor can be vexing and overwhelming to say the least.