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Download mp3: Gymnopedie 1

Download the mp3 now and play it at your next birthday party, wedding, or deposition. Or embed it in your PowerPoint presentation to keep them smiling.

Download mp3: Feel The Magic

Based on music by Charlie Schmidt for his YouTube video “Cool Cat” an mp3 and iPhone version is available for download.

If you prefer not to use the mp3 as a ring tone then keep it on your portable audio player and “Play him off” whenever the occasion arises.

Downloads:

Keyboard Cat Ringtone mp3 version

Keyboard Cat Ringtone iPhone version (m4r)

This is the Gary Jules / Micheal Andrews version found on the Donnie Darko soundtrack.   Adam Lambert also performed a version on the latest season of American Idol.

Download mp3: Mad World Karaoke

Download mp3:  Extinction Level Event

or watch the hastily put together video.

Brian put together this is a short instrumental piece for strings, piano, and flute. This is a variation on another piece that is still a ‘work in progress’.

Download mp3 Café Con Leche (Reflection Point)

Download mp3: Wall Street Flop

Lyrics for those who like to sing-along:

They’re blaming it on sub-prime
They’re spending all the TARP funds
I’m down to my last dime

Wall Street Flop

Our confidence is failing
401k’s is ailing
Have to sell my kidney

Wall Street Flop

Hey Ho, Let’s Go
Spend another trillion.
Will it work?  I don’t know.
They’re all levered up and ready to blow

Some think inflation
Others day deflation
What about hyperstagflation

Wall Street Flop

Interest rates are zero
Unemployment’s rising
Depression is on our minds

Wall Street Flop

Hey Ho, Let’s Go
Start another war now
Will it work?  I don’t know.
They’re nuked up and ready to go

The Government is bailing
Bonuses still paying
One giant Ponzi scheme

Wall Street Flop

Madoff lost billions
Tent cities building.
Never mind the Bachelor’s on

Wall Street Flop

This first stage of the inflationary process may last for many years. While it lasts, the prices of many goods and services are not yet adjusted to the altered money relation. There are still people in the country who have not yet become aware of the fact that they are confronted with a price revolution which will finally result in a considerable rise of all prices, although the extent of this rise will not be the same in the various commodities and services. These people still believe that prices one day will drop. Waiting for this day, they restrict their purchases and concomitantly increase their cash holdings. As long as such ideas are still held by public opinion, it is not yet too late for the government to abandon its inflationary policy.

But then, finally, the masses wake up. They become suddenly aware of the fact that inflation is a deliberate policy and will go on endlessly. A breakdown occurs. The crack-up boom appears. Everybody is anxious to swap his money against ‘real’ goods, no matter whether he needs them or not, no matter how much money he has to pay for them. Within a very short time, within a few weeks or even days, the things which were used as money are no longer used as media of exchange. They become scrap paper. Nobody wants to give away anything against them.

It was this that happened with the Continental currency in America in 1781, with the French mandats territoriaux in 1796, and with the German mark in 1923. It will happen again whenever the same conditions appear. If a thing has to be used as a medium of exchange, public opinion must not believe that the quantity of this thing will increase beyond all bounds. Inflation is a policy that cannot last.