the Medieval Experience (a compilation set that had the disks wrecked) Brian Eno & David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Psychotrance 4 compilation Janis Joplin Greatest Hits (1999 edition, not the 1973 one)
:-/ I should pull out my vinyl, look at it, and make a big fat list, then just work my way through it. then I can fix my digitized collection, rebuild my CDs, and be a Positive Consumer. becuase everyone knows the best way to help the economy is to give the RIAA money for music one's already bought once before... uh, yah...
Current Location:home Current Mood: awake Current Music: sssh everyone else is sleeping Tags:digital music adventures
a pair of Inputs from my Gentle Readers, please input 1: music
I don't just want to backfill, I'm thinkin I want to extend it. what should I get? I'm looking for specific CD recommendations. I could possibly be thought of as eclectic by some, but I'm actually not, so I'd appreciate either a genre along with the recommendation, or a 'sound is like sort of' some other band. classical is great, even better is early music (i.e. pre-Bach, renaissance or medieval)
and yes, I already have everything by Underworld. and Thievery Corporation. and Siouxsie. and the Subhumans. and the Dead Kennedys. and Mike Oldfield... I think.
input 2: nintendo DS games
my ESO gave me this nice toy for my birt'day. what are good games for this device? I have no idea and I am sure at least a few folks who read my journal have some opinions here.
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Current Location:home Current Mood: busy Current Music: Santana
out in the Big Outdoors ...I started using that phrase when Trillian was a puppy.
this morning, my ESO took off to buy cat and dogfood. I was left, half awake, watching the puppy.
I realized he'd had a nice sleep, so I got dressed - this is a challenge, he chases one's pantslegs - and took him outside. he played with Trillian, then he barked and growled at the big red ball that has some sand in it so it rolls unpredictably.
my ESO was taking too long, so I started some cleanup. that meant, that all Dasko's lingering suspicions about The Evil Broom were correct! o noes! it sweeps! we must CHASE IT! I spent the next hour or so doing that traditional dance handed down to humans and dogs over thousands of years, trying to sweep without the puppy catching the broom.
it wasn't quite as funny as watering the backyard, but the puppy is now pretty peacefully tired. maybe now I can get something done.
lazy, lazy, lazy Now we know how Russell T Davies plans his plots - he reads the worst fanfic he can find! Seriously, I am shocked at how disappointing that was.
Ok so yesterday's post was all for loving America! Wooo! But a few comments in recent comics have reminded me how much I love old political cartoons, and now I am making a post about that. Unfortunately for you, America, this means you are out of luck! Little did you know, because you don't give two damns about Canada ever, but we care lots and lots about you. We know all about you! We also think you are out to get us. Allow me to show you a thing or two.
this year, they put up signs warning against "illegal fireworks." they didn't bother defining what that meant.
I found out what that meant tonight. instead of firing them into the air, they FIRED THEM INTO MY BACKYARD and thank goodness Dan had just stopped by and chased Trillian down before she could go after the loud, noisy intruder...
usually, my neighbours put on their own show in the street. we all sit in the cold and fog, in Al's driveway and watch them. this year, I can hear them doing it now, but now I'm indoors. there's a bit of a damper on it anyhow. the neighbour 2 doors down and across the street put himself and his motorcycle under my next door neighbour's jeep earlier today. I heard the thump and thought it was another firework. but really it was him fucking himself up. we had the POlice, fire trucks, ambulances, etc. he had a compound fracture in his shoulder and some sort of head trauma. that's all I know.
Current Location:home Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: "innocente" by delerium Tags:dog
music attrition I'm missing a lot! I have pretty much ripped in all the CDs on my CD rack that aren't classical. ditto for my ESO's, except add Star Wars 1,2,3 soundtracks to that as well, yecch.
I list what I find here, so I can start to backfill.
Orbital the Altogether the Orb Aubrey Mixes: the Ultraworld Excursion the Best of Goa Trance Volume 2 (I think I borrowed that one, never owned it) Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik the Chieftains a Celtic Wedding Infected Mushroom Classical Mushroom Sting Dream of the Blue Turtles Prodigy Fat of the Land Foo Fighters Foo Fighters Nick Warren Global Underground 008: Brazil (only missing 1 disk) the B-52's Good Stuff (this was an empty case, grrr) the Doors Greatest Hits the Doors L.A. Woman Banco de Gaia Live at Glastonbury the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour Prodigy Music for a Jilted Generation Foetus Nail Gus Gus Polydistortion BT This Binary Universe Gus Gus This is Normal the Orb Toxygene (I think this was a CD single) the Crystal Method Tweekend
there are probably more missing but those are what I get from looking at what iTunes thinks I ought to have, form my last ripping adventure that I never actually completed
Not that Nova Scotia (which at the time was both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick together) didn't try to go make themselves Americans back in the day because some totally did.
avatar the last freekin airbender so okay you probably already know about this, but i must post anyways. Since soundhive and i don't have cable or tv, and because i refuse to play netflix's DRM-buggy-instaload-movie game, we are often a little slow on the media uptake when it comes to tv shows. Often times we're watching something because one or more of our more vulturey friends have given us the Axe Of Reason that we must view it Or Else.
Case in point: Avatar, the Last Airbender. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS SHOW?? tell me you have, cause you have nickelodeon, cause you've been telling me about so many poorly animated drug-humor-filled shows on adult swim, cause you have kids and must have seen all the toys and games and legos(!!) that this show has generated, you MUST have seen it.
No? You haven't? Then i shall school you, and i shall come at you with the Axe of Reason, (or, if you prefer, the Labyris of Logic). Avatar is the single neatest animated series i've seen in a very long time. Some young american kids thought they'd make an asian-fu inspired and miyazake-inspired anime series. Only instead of making it awful, they made it awesome. The animation is top-notch for a tv show, the world and culture is fascinating, the fu is expertly and creatively wielded, but above all, the comic timing is just incredible. I have never laughed so hard at a cartoon show since looney tunes came back on DVD. It's that good.
We've gone through about 10 DVDs worth of it now, and there's maybe been 3 or 4 enh episodes in the whole series. It's got war and battles and reference to past deaths, so it's not for the very young kids. but it's good for everybody else. The show's won award after award for its quality, and why am i even typing about this, cause you've SEEN it already, right?
We're slowly catching up to present-day, starting season 3 this weekend. Last night i had dreams of earth-bending, moving rocks around me like it clay.
of course that was clearly designed to bring to the listener's mind the famous quote from John Kennedy's inaugural speech: ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
but even more so, it calls to mind a good portion of that speech, which many people nowdays have not actually listened to, other than the sound bite. here's a good link to it with both the text and the video. I note, it starts with something people consider a "religious shift" in these times: Kennedy's declaration that "the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God."
for the lazy, I cite part of the end of the speech below. watch the Obama campaign over the next few months; I predict he hits these themes repeatedly. keep in mind that when he does, even with the religious bent, Obama is not being original. it's okay, actually, that he isn't; after all, JFK fired up America in a good way, yes?
In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation," a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
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