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Seriously, congressman need to get some people to explain to them that the internet isn’t a series of tubes and that pretty much every website has a “social” element to them these days.
Yaeka and I are doing a new podcast called The Pitchfork Report and just wrapped up putting out the second one. I think we’ve managed to make pretty big strides on this one greatly improving over yesterday’s release that saw some understandable criticism.
Check it out at pitchforkreport.com and let me know what you think.
and I intend to play, damn it!
I really haven’t been using this blog that well. I’m not just talking about the fact that I post mainly stupid crap or not at all. Actually maybe better put, I haven’t been using this domain as well. Most people (aka dorks) have a spare domain that they use to try out new tricks and mess around with code and stuff and I haven’t really been doing that with this.
With the various projects I’m trying to get going, however, I’m running into a few questions here and there and stuff I’d like to try out. So this is a warning. This site my break or look ugly at times, but that’s just part of the test.
I was planning on using this new theme on my in development project The Pitchfork Report, but it had some serious issues so I scrapped it. This is a perfect place to test out whether the new release of the theme fixes the bugs or not though so if you find anything weird, let me know.
Phill and I have chosen not to get cable in our new place. So instead of watching trashy TV I have been making playlists.
The first one was for phill to go with the book I purchased for his birthday, Thurston Moore Mix Tape : The Art of Cassette Culture . Of course I had to put this mix on a tape rather than a cd. I found a mix tape made my his ex-girlfriend and had the very satisfying experience of recording over it. Its was totally heinous…it should had destroyed long ago.
the list:
Artist - Song - Album
Cat Power- Sea of Love – The Covers Record
764-Hero – You were the long way home – Weekends of Sound
Radiohead – Morning bell – Kid A
Elliot Smith – Color Bars – Figure 8
Modest Mouse – All Night Diner – Building Something out of Nothing
Mates of State – Ride Again – My Solo Project
PJ Harvey –This is Love – Stories from the city, Stories from the Sea
Rondells – He’s got heart – Shined Nickle and Loose Change (actually 2001)
Death Cab for Cutie – We have the facts and we are voting yes - Company Calls
Modest Mouse – Tiny Cities made of Ashes– The Moon and Antarctica
Sonic Youth – Renegage Princess – NYC & Ghost
Murder City Devils – Press Gang - In Name and Blood
Sunny Day Real Estate – One – Rising Tide
Sweep the Leg Johnny - Walking Home On The Emergency Bed – Sto Cazzo!
Self – Trunk fulla amps – Gizmodgery
Sleater Kinney- Your no Rock n’ Roll Fun – All Hands on the Bad One
Rainer Maria – Spit and Fire – A Better Version of Me (again 2001)
Pedro the Lion – Slow and Steady Wins the Race– Winner Never Quit
Arling & Cameron – W.E.E.K.E.N.D – Music for Imaginary Films
The next mix was for a co-worker who accused me of only listing to “punk”. I don’t listen to too much punk but I guess she meant that its louder than what she prefers…So I made her the “Quite mix”. The list:
Name, Artist, Album
Waitin’ For A Superman, Iron & Wine,
Such Great Heights (performed by Iron And Wine), The Postal Service, Such Great Heights
White Center, Damien Jurado, On My Way To Absence
Going for the Gold, Bright Eyes, Oh Holy Fools - The Music of Son, Ambulance and Bright Eyes
Oh Comely, Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
November, Azure Ray, Saddle Creek 50 Disc 2
Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley, Grace
Leftover Coffee, Rosie Thomas, In Between EP
Exit Music (For A Film), Radiohead, OK Computer
Sprout and the Bean, Joanna Newsom, The Milk-Eyed Mender
Cross Bones Style, Cat Power, New And Old Songs
Melt Your Heart, Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat
Involuntary, M. Ward, Transfiguration of Vincent
Styrofoam Plates, Death Cab For Cutie, The Photo Album
Ann Don’t Cry, Pavement, Terror Twilight
Why I Cry, All-Time Quarterback,
This Year, The Mountain Goats, The Big Ticket - Mix ‘05
Unfortunetly it was too depressing and made her want to cry (which was what I was going for). The next day she recieved the “uplifiting mix”. The list:
Name, Artist, Album
If You Want To Sing Out Sing Out, Death By Chocolate, Death By Chocolate
Beautiful, Clem Snide, A Beautiful EP
A Spoonful Weighs A Ton, The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin
Van Lear Rose, Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose
Little Red Corvette, Prince, The Very Best Of Prince
Like A Prayer, Rondelles, Shined Nickels And Loose Change
Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Hearts Of Oak
Shoot Shoot, Kaito, and YouÂve Seen Us… You Must Have Seen Us…
The Power Of Yawning, Enon, Hocus-Pocus
Hotel Yorba, The White Stripes, White Blood Cells
Ha Ha, Mates of State, Team Boo
Cut Your Hair, Pavement,
Tootsie Pants, CoCo, C.O.C.O.
Chauffeur, The Fitness, Call Me For Together
Hollaback Girl, Gwen Stefani, Love, Angel, Music, Baby
Crazy, Gnarls Barkley,
Gold Digger (Feat. Jamie Foxx), Kanye West, Late Registration
Korega Watashino Ikiru Michi, Puffy, Japan Not For Sale Vol.3
What A Fool Believes, Self, Gizmodgery
Having A Party, Dufus,
The last mix I made was for a friend goign through a break up. I didn’t want to make her a “cry over the breaking up” mix so this is what she got…
Neme, Artist, Album
Dime A Dozen, Tuscadero, The Pink Album
You’re Gonna Be The One Who Is Sorry, Nerf Herder, Nerf Herder
How To Survive A Broken Heart, Ben Lee, Something To Remember Me By
Breakin Up, Violent Femmes, New Times
I Hope You Die, The Bloodhound Gang, Hooray For Boobies
You Made Me Gay, Gravy Train, Hello Doctor
I’m Lonely (But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet), The White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan
Good Things, Sleater-Kinney, Call The Doctor
Single Again, The Fiery Furnaces, EP
Goodbye To You, Screeching Weasel, Kill The Musicians
Revenge, Rondelles, Shined Nickels And Loose Change
The Awful Truth Of Loving, Rainer Maria, Long Knives Drawn
You Are So Unreal, The Promise Ring, Encapsulated
Goodbye Song, The Moldy Peaches, Moldy Peaches
Somebody That I Used To Know, Elliott Smith, Figure 8
Nothing Left To Say, The Eyeliners, Here Comes Trouble
I like to masturbate, John Mars, John Mars
Coin- Operated Boy, The Dresden Dolls, The Dresden Dolls
Catch You Disappointed, The Divorce, There Will Be Blood Tonight
Jerk, The Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks
Kill Yr Boyfriend, bis, This Is Teen-C Power!
This Year, The Mountain Goats, The Big Ticket - Mix ‘05
Mixes to come:
The gay mix
The Robot project (songs about robots for the The Robot Project to cover)
To Blockbuster that is. You see, every Christmas season, I believe my relatives in Tennessee (not immediate family) go into a scramble trying to figure out what to get me. This usually leads to me getting shirts I can swim in or socks or occasionally, some cool stuff. My uncle always does very well, last year he got me a really slick Case pocket knife.
Anyway, a while ago I got a $10 Blockbuster gift card. I had been meaning to re-gift it actually, but I keep a messy desk and the thing always got misplaced. So now that I’m unpacking boxes at my new house - need to post about this later - I finally found the card again. Yaeka and I took a walk around town today and happened to pass a Blockbuster. I decided right now, at 2:25am to call the number on the back that is for balance inquiries. Well I call the number and it says, “For Terms and Conditions Press 1, for balance inquiries press please visit your nearest Blockbuster location.”
I understand that no one wants to go to your stupid stores any more and you need to come up with anyway for people to go, but give me a damn break! I just want to know my balance. Seriously, make the phone number work or put it up on the website or something. I only want to go if I have a balance left after all this time and that’s it. It’s really not a big deal since I’ll probably walk over in that area again, but it’s still really annoying. So annoying I had to blog about it. I think I’ll email them a complaint.