for no particular reason, i've started an ongoing log of every instance of the B♭-D-C squeak i come across in tv and film.  it's only a few weeks old, and i already have no reason not to believe that it's the most comprehensive squeak database on the web!

i don't know much about the squeak, except that it's everywhere; it's been catching my ear since i was about 10, and hardly a fortnight goes by that i don't hear it at least once.  i also don't know for sure that this kind of prevalence is unusual for sound effects..  it may just be that pseudo-melodic sound of the squeak makes it more distinctive than most, and easier to recognize.  if you know more about the history of this sound, please let me know.

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

i've been scouring my old hard drives for salvageable files lately..  for some reason, linux can still mount most of the damaged vfat filesystems which windows gave up on years ago.  there're still plenty of corrupt data, but i was able to retrieve about a dozen of my old impulse tracker songs intact!  i've posted some of the better ones on the music page.

most of them are only available as .it files right now, but i'll try to get mp3/ogg versions posted over the next week or so.

dwaley.com is currently the first result in a google search for 'rescue rangers harmonic analysis'!!  i've inadvertently managed to find the one piece of useless information that wasn't already on the internet!

while i'm on the subject..  wikipedia has a pretty amusing list of chip n dale's names in various countries (though i'm not convinced 'metal teeth and big nose' isn't just wikipedia vandalism).

[update: the soulless minions of wikipedia orthodoxy have taken down the list!  here's a link to an older revision that still has it.]

i finally gave in and posted mp3 versions of all the songs in the music section.  a few of them had to be transcoded from the ogg encodings, since the source audio is gone forever, but the quality loss doesn't seem to be too bad. in related news, mediacoder is an incredibly handy little program.

thanks to jim and his everlasting hard drive, i've recovered a bunch of songs that i'd thought were lost forever!  i've put a few of the highlights up in the music section.  feel free to go listen.