12:09 PM
Time for some assorted rambling. Can you handle it?
First let me say that I am tired of hearing about steroids. You know what, I really
don't care if any of the players have used them. Sure they may enhance performance;
but tylenol, vicodin, and cortisone injections will all increase the performance of
a hurt player. You may say it's not the same thing, but it's still using a chemical
to help you do something you would otherwise be unable to do. What if it is proven
that caffeine helps someone hit, or play better defense in the NFL. Is coffee a
banned substance now? Plus there are TONS of legal supplements that you can use.
This
great post on The Juice talks about that hypocrisy. Of course you might say that
steroids are dangerous and carry health risks. If that were true, doctors wouldn't
be able to prescribe them. Of course you can abuse them and have bad side effects,
but I have a feeling taking 15 tylenol a day would also leave someone with health
problems.
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10:43 AM
Sorry I haven't written in so long. Life has been busy for me... a little too busy
for my tastes. Anyway, read this
article from the financial times about IP. It makes me happy. When
publications like this start recognizing that there is a problem, it makes me
believe things might get done about it.
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12:40 PM
The good news first. I have my 12:01AM Episode 3 tickets. The bad news, the
Cinerama was already sold out. Bummer. I did get tickets at the Pacific Place
theater down town, which is still a very good theater. Plus, I can always see the
movie at the Cinerama later. Can't beat that screen... Plus it's DLP. After seeing
Sin City there, I never want to see a digital movie anywhere else.
In other news, I finally got my fish tank cycled and bought some fish. I have two
female Neolamprologus
Multifasciatus and one male. I'm pretty sure about their sexes, but there is no
way to be positive. They are named Ruby, Consuelo, and Gomez. Right now they
mostly hang out in their shells. Ruby is the most gregarious of them. Consuelo
rarely gets out of her shell... it may even be possible she already has eggs in
it.
I also bought one Julidochromis
Transcriptus of the "Gombi" variety.
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8:47 AM
The Sports Guy posted a great article about Hulk Hogan on his site. He didn't write
it, but damn it was good. Check
it out here.
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2:26 PM
Kathrine, in a gesture of good will, bought me a new disc from a band that we loved
from Dallas, Mandarin. We
own two of their previous albums: World Upon a Pin (a CD-R they sold at shows)
and Driftline. They had some problems with their record label going out of
business, so even though these recordings were done in 2001 and the album was
complete by 2002, it just came out fairly recently. It's titled
fast>future>present; and it isn't a far departure from their previous sound
of elaborately finger-picked guitars, long instrumental bridges, time signature
changes, and breathy, strained vocals. This record does have a little more polish
too it though. Driftline at times sounded as though it was a home recording,
but this record never suffers from that. They also have toned down the
soft/loud/soft dynamic that was very apparent on their earlier work. While the temp
and intensity does change often on the album, it never seems quite as frantic as it
did on songs like Even Ghosts Wear Shadows.
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11:15 AM
This comes from U.S.S. Mariner, but
I though it was interesting enough to link to
here:
And in the knife-twisting department, it has been 33 years
since Led Zeppelin IV aka Untitled aka Runes aka Zoso was released. When that album
was released (November 1971) it had been 32 years since Glen Miller’s “Moonlight
Serenade” had hit the US Top 10.
More knife twisting? We are further away from the Beatles appearing on Ed Sullivan
(1964) than the people watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan were from Louis
Armstrong’s first recordings with the Hot Fives (1925).
And still more: We are further away from the release of Bleach (1989) than Bleach
was from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
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10:50 AM
I read a very good
interview with Conrad Keely of ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead on
PopMatters. The best part of
the interview though pointed out how lazy some music critics have been when
reviewing World's Apart. I stand by my earlier statements that this album is
an excellent one. It may not be as good as Source Tags and Codes, but very
few albums are (The only reason I haven't bought it yet is because of the giant FBI anti
piracy label on the back. If you're going to treat me like a theif, I'm going
to be a thief).
Many critics have panned it though. Especially Pitchfork Media in their review.
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3:56 PM
Posted a great rant on his blog about the RIAA. Go Read It
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2:52 PM
I downloaded two albums last night and burned today before they come out next week.
One I'd been anticipating and one I wasn't even aware was coming out until I read a
blurb about it in Rolling Stone.
The first was Hot Hot Heat's Elevator. As you might now I was a huge fan of
their last album. I'd heard good things about this album from everywhere and I
couldn't wait to hear it. Unfortunately I'm not buying it next week. And unless it
really grows on me, I'll probably throw out the CD-R and forget all about it fairly
soon. It's hard to exactly put my finger on what makes this album not nearly as
good as the last. It really does sound a whole lot like Make Up the
Breakdown. I think the difference though is that this record just isn't as fun.
The beats aren't quite as prevalent. It doesn't make you want to dance. And it
sounds just a tad slicker. I don't think anyone of those things alone would have
been enough to cause me to not like it, but taken together they just kill it for me.
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2:03 PM
If you need feel like you need to chuckle today, just read this story about a feud between The
Killers and The Bravery. Brandon Flowers may have just proved that he is a
complete nut. I can't believe he actually said that. I wondered about him when I
heard him talk up Interpol and The Strokes, but slam The Stills. I figured he was
just misquoted then. I guess I was wrong. He seems to have a distorted sense of
history. No one is ripping of The Killers. All these bands are just building on
the late 70's to early 80's post punk sound. Brandon Flowers has no reason to be
pissed (except for the fact that a few people might buy a Stills or Bravery record
instead of one of his). If anyone should be pissed it should be The Cure, Echo and
the Bunnymen, and New Order. Of course, I bet those bands are all seeing spikes in
the record sales because of this new found interest in their sound; so I doubt
they're complaining.
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