Month: August 2006

Apparently I listen to a lot of music on Fridays

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July:

  • be your own pet . “thresher’s flail”
  • be your own pet . “we will vacation, you can be my parasol”
  • belafea . “tara”
  • cold war kids . “hang me out to dry”
  • cold war kids . “hospital beds”
  • cold war kids . “saint john”
  • dears . “ticket to immortality”
  • jesu . “dead eyes”
  • jesu . “silver”
  • john frusciante . “communique”
  • john frusciante . “sphere”
  • john frusciante . “walls”
  • ladyhawk . “the dugout”
  • mischa . “cubicle”
  • mission of burma . “2wice”
  • my latest novel . “sister sneaker sister soul”
  • primal scream . “country girl”
  • primal scream . “dolls”
  • primal scream . “the 99th floor”
  • spangle call lilli line . “b”
  • spangle call lilli line . “piano”
  • spoon . “idiot driver”
  • spoon . “mountain to sound”
  • sunset rubdown . “stadiums and shrines ii”

[tags]loose music[/tags]

…aaaaaaaaaaaaaand June

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  • blowoff . “hormone love”
  • bruce springsteen . “john henry”
  • curve . “chinese burn”
  • faders . “no sleep tonight”
  • fiona apple . “not about love”
  • justine electra . “defiant & proud”
  • kristin hersh . “echo”
  • liars . “the other side of mt. heart attack”
  • ll cool j . “mama said knock you out”
  • matt pond pa . “holiday road”
  • mercers . “sexy youth”
  • mercers . “use for abuse”
  • smoosh . “find a way”
  • thom yorke . “and it rained all night”
  • thom yorke . “the clock”
  • tilly & the wall . “bad education”
  • tilly & the wall . “rainbow in the dark”

[tags]loose music[/tags]

May loose? Mai oui.

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Seriously? I am struggling with those post titles…

  • 1900s . “bring the good boys home”
  • detroit cobras . “boss lady”
  • final fantasy . “many lives”
  • final fantasy . “this lamb sells condos”
  • frank black . “cold heart of stone”
  • gomez . “how we operate”
  • josh ritter . “girl in the war”
  • katatonia . “deliberation”
  • petra haden . “god only knows”
  • pilate . “barely listening”
  • pilate . “knife-grey sea”
  • she wants revenge . “these things”
  • stills . “destroyer”
  • tilly & the wall . “lost girls”

[tags]loose music[/tags]

"You'll need a snorkel to breathe underneath the pile of groupies that will sack you."

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My wife sent me this link titled How to totally fake being a geek (which I assume she found through some sort of google search that scours the web for any mention of Buffy The Vampire Slayer). I’m glad it’s tongue-in-cheek, ’cause I’d hate to think that knowing Assembler is the ne plus ultra of geekiness. Why? Because I know Assembler. At least, I knew it. At least, a I knew a little bit. When I first moved here my job was mainframe programming; don’t ask me why, ’cause I had no programming experience.

It was tough to learn, since writing Assembler is what I imagine it’s like to talk to a retarded robot, but from then on every other programming language seemed like a treat. The first time I tried COBOL I was ecstatic because it could do, you know, math like a human. It was like when my brothers and I learned to drive; we didn’t learn on a car, or on any automatic…we learned on the 2-ton stick-shift farm truck. Once you can work with that, a Ford Tempo’s a pussycat.

That said, it’s been so long since my foot’s touched a clutch, it’d probably be pretty comical to watch me try.

[tags]geekery, buffy, assembler, cobol[/tags]

"Any site that's got a longer entry on 'truthiness' than on Lutherans has its priorities straight."

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I’m not sure even Stephen Colbert himself expected this after wikiality was The Word on Monday night. [via Digg]

.:.

Also via Digg, I learned about the Christian version of Ubuntu Linux. I anxiously await operating system flavours for Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Scientology. Unless someone figures out that this is retarded first.

.:.

Make Marketing History points us to a couple of disturbing statistics: 58% of people never read a book once they leave high school, and 46% of people don’t read newspapers. I think the first stat freaks me out the most. I actually can’t figure out how you’d avoid it, what with long airport waits and bedtime stories and such.

[tags]colbert report, wikiality, truthiness, christian ubuntu, people don’t read[/tags]

Aprilooseness

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  • calexico . “deep down”
  • calexico . “letter to bowie knife”
  • calexico . “panic open string”
  • caroline . “where’s my love”
  • cut copy . “going nowhere”
  • elf power . “an old familiar scene”
  • fembots . “history remade”
  • fembots . “so long”
  • human television . “in front of the house”
  • imperial teen . “ivanka”
  • irving . “situation”
  • jason collett . “i’ll bring the sun”
  • jets overhead . “seems so far”
  • kt tunstall . “suddenly i see”
  • kula shaker . “govinda”
  • kula shaker . “into the deep”
  • kula shaker . “knight on the town”
  • lanterna . “luminous”
  • mono . “the flames”
  • pearl jam . “life wasted”
  • pearl jam . “marker in the sand”
  • raconteurs . “steady as she goes”
  • robert cray & shemekia copeland . “i pity the fool”
  • rogers sisters . “never learn to cry”
  • sebadoh . “hoppin’ up and down”
  • sebadoh . “the freed pig”
  • sebadoh . “total peace”
  • shearwater . “white waves”
  • snow patrol . “chasing cars”
  • snow patrol . “you’re all i have”
  • velvet underground . “sister ray”
  • wilderness . “emergency”

[tags]loose music[/tags]

Looseness on the march

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This is fun, catching up on music that I listened to once, liked and jammed onto my MP3 player. Here’s what I collected in March:

  • ben harper . “better way”
  • kula shaker . “hush”
  • michael meldrum . “rainstorm”
  • mogwai . “1% of monster”
  • pearl jam . “world wide suicide”
  • prodigy . “voodoo people”
  • raising the fawn . “carbon paper”
  • raising the fawn . “christmastime in the fields”
  • raising the fawn . “the maginot line”
  • track a tiger . “sound as ever”
  • wintersleep . “fog”

[tags]loose music[/tags]