I got lucky this weekend

I had some sick people to take care of this weekend so not much was happening. I left the house 3 different times, once to Blimpie, once to the drug store and once to the grocery store. Eact time I left home I was treated to TOOL on the radio as I drove away from my house south towards the general area of commerce that surrounds the I94 exit near my house.

No, I sweat I did not have a TOOL cd in my car, each time it was actually TOOL playing on Q98!

buying music

its been a while since i walking into a store and purchased anything music related that I could hold in my hand and walk out with. I went to best buy to pick up halo 22, Nine Inch Nails – Live – Beside You in Time. Any Nine Inch Nails fan should get this, and look at the price!

Watching that now I know I’m gonna have to go out and get Nine Inch Nails Live – And All That Could Have Been. I used to have it but I don’t know what happened to it years ago…

R.E.M.

There was an R.E.M. song in one of the TV shows i watched last nite, So I dusted off some of the R.E.M. CDs that I own.  Just a couple of things about R.E.M. this morning:

1. Only band I can think of that I could possibly say one single album is better than their “greatest hits”.  I would not include shit like Hillary Duff who made a greatest hits after only releasing 2 albums.  There is a minimum of 5 albums before you can release a greatest hits.

2. Everytime I hear losing my religion I am singing along in my head but the words go a little more like this: (only a few of you will fully appreciate this)

Thats Scott in the corner, thats scott in the spotlight, losing his virginity – to himself

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strange music combo

tonite i added a couple of albums to the toshiba gigabeat, and I’m pretty sure I’m the only person to ever copy supertramp and too $hort at the same time.  I’m surprised how many of these supertramp songs I know, and how many of the too $hort songs have the word “bitch” in the title.  It is really amazing and awesome!

Insanity for sure

Well somehow I ended up at this Wikipedia entry today. So check it out, it is a list of songs that were supposedly banned by Clear Channel after the September 11th terrorist attacks on NYC.

It is crazy that there is such a list of songs banned, but come on, look thru them and let us know which are the most ridiculous song on the list!

RIAA boycot

Gizmodo had called March the boycot the RIAA month. I think I’ll go for 2007 as boycot RIAA year:

More about Songbird

A couple days ago I wrote about how I missed using iTunes since getting the Toshiba Gigabeat, and how I had high hopes for an open source/cross platform media player Songbird. Well one of the Songbird developers came and left a comment and said they will be developing whatever it is that will allow me to use the Gigabeat with the Songbird.

I was impressed that someone from Songbirdnest.com would care enough to leave a comment here, where most of the faithfull readers have never tapped the keys in the comment area. So for those of you who don’t know anything about Songbird, here are a couple things that I like, and a couple things that I would like:

Like:

• Same artist/album/song navigation as iTunes, beats WMP hands down
• Cross Platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) – some day I fully plan on dropping Windows in favor or Ubuntu or some other Linux on my jukebox PC
• Nice mini player with a nice “Jump to” feature
• Songbird is open-source and has a lot of developers creating very usefull addons
• Can be used with many online music stores, including eMusic, which sells DRM-free music. This will be my new music store for sure!

Wish-List:

• Something similar to iTunes Party Shuffle. I like shuffle but I really like the ability to right click and “play next in party shuffle”
• Support for my Gigabeat (which is coming very soon as I pointed out earlier), this means it will also probably support your mp3 player.
• CD importing and burning (also planned for future releases). Right click on album name –> “burn cd” would be a nice option.
• Windows Toolbar mode, even though I will eventually use the Linux version

Maybe I’ll think of more later. Overall this is a great product, even though it is in the very early stages of development. Once they get this to a 1.0 release I think this will be the most essential software that I will have on my computer. Well maybe after PokerStars….

i miss itunes

with the purchase of my toshiba gigabeat i started to use windows media player as that is what the gigabeat is going to like. I really miss itunes, but i love the gigabeat. would i dare say i wish i had a newer ipod? I don’t know, i like the gigabeat better, but i like itunes better.

I found this a long time ago, and it isn’t quite ready for a full release, it looks like it has real potential. Its an open source itunes-like media player. some of the stuff it does is really way better than any other media player i’ve seen before. then there are also a couple things that it is missing. i hope that eventually i can use the toshiba gigabeat with songbird, then i’ll be happy:

happy minute for me

the dixie chics just won “Record of the Year” at the grammies, oh yeah, i love those chics…..

but right after that they show the awards coming up, including “Album of the Year”

WTF is the difference between record of the year and album of the year?

more importantly:

WTF am I watching an awards show? for the boobs!

PS: lets talk about the red hot chilli peppers tomorrow…

NIN Binge

I’ve been in a 3 day long Nine Inch Nails binge. I have a huge NIN collection and for the past 3 days the Gigabeat has been on shuffle all NIN. I think I’m gonna go for some world record here.