So the other day The White Stripes came up in conversation with one of my co-workers. I hadn’t really listened to The White Stripes since their 1st mainstream album “White Blood Cells” came out. I really liked the single “Fell in Love With A Girl”, so I figured I’d listen to the entire album, especially with all the rave reviews the album was getting. After listening to it, I couldn’t believe how awful I thought the album was. I wrote the band off as overrated, and didn’t give them much more attention. He was telling me about the documentary “It Might Get Loud”, and about The White Stripes documentary they made (evidently they tour without announcing their venues — it sounded kinda cool). So this got me to thinking “Hey, maybe I shorted the band! I should give them a second shot!”.
I was telling my ITVR friends about this, and they seemed to like the idea. I listened to all the White Stripes albums over the course of a day, and posted my thoughts on each album on Twitter. By the end of the day, some of my friends posted other bands I should try this with. Today I started on Weezer, and by now between all the different suggestions I’ve got 10-15 bands in the hopper.
So why am I posting about it on here? Well, I’ve been having this weird urge to do blog posts lately — this kinda fills that need. I’ve also realized I’ve got more to say about these bands/albums than can be put into 140 character blurbs. So: the process will be for me to post about each album as I get done with it on Twitter, then when I have a chance to think about it, write up a quick blog post on here. I’ll get the studio discography for each artist, then listen to all the albums start to finish in order of their release.
As far as my musical qualifications? Surely you jest! I can’t play a single instrument, can’t even play anything on Expert in Rock Band. I do have a good love of music, and have a very varied collection of music. My preferred music tends to be rock, though I do love pop, country, jazz, techno, even a little hip-hop. So really, I’ve got no qualifications for this, and no real reason why my opinion on why Ball and Biscuit is one of the greatest songs of the last ten years. But, I hope you read them and enjoy them. And if anything I write here inspires you to listen (or re-listen) to the music I talk about — well, I feel honored.
At any rate: CONTENT~!
Still here, and strangely getting the desire to post on a blog again. I’ve been getting more active on Twitter lately, so heres hoping I may start posting again soon. That is, worthwhile posts as opposed to this post.
Looking through my Twitter feed yesterday, someone retweeted to Roger Ebert’s response to an Esquire article written about him: http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310 . Ebert then posted his response on his blog with the Chicago Sun-Times: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/02/roger_eberts_last_words_cont.html. Both articles are really really powerful to read.
I knew Ebert had gone through the removal of his jaw from the cancer he had, but had no idea to the extent he almost died when his artery burst. The articles also details how he currently communicates, using the text-to-speech on his Macbook Pro to “speak” to people around him, and doing lots of blogging and Twittering. The man does tweet all day long, and links to a number of interesting things. Needless to say, I added him.
Anyway, read the articles if you haven’t already. (Also: two posts in one day! Cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria!)
I’ve got a lot I’d love to say, but just can’t figure up how to say it, I guess. Writing can be very very rewarding, but difficult to get the words out right. Anything I have to “say” these days goes on Twitter. This blog’s still here, of course. I’ll always keep this domain around. I just guess the content’s become extremely few and far between.
So anyway, yea blog post. Here’s hoping I can figure out how to get words typed into a box on the screen a bit better and faster next time.
(This year’s goal: More than three posts for the year!)
This list is basically just for my own personal use — as a reminder of what all I want to keep installed on my Blackberry. All of the links below are OTA, so you can load up this page on your BB and use these to install all of the software below.
BlackBerry Messenger – http://www.blackberry.com/bbm
Facebook – http://www.blackberry.com/facebook
MySpace – http://www.blackberry.com/myspace
UberTwitter – http://www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php
GTalk – http://www.blackberry.com/googletalk
AIM – http://www.blackberry.com/aim
MSN – http://www.blackberry.com/livemessenger
Accuweather – http://www.accuweather.com/blackberry/push/signup.asp
Speedtest – http://www.xtremelabs.com/assets/mobile/speedtest/speedtest.jad
Amazon.Com – http://www.amazon.com/bb
Pandora – http://www.pandora.com
Just a quick list, and I’ll add more to this as I think of them.
This Blackberry WordPress app is kinda cool. Now, if only I’d post more often…
Okay. So I’m a few days late with my New Year’s Resolutions. I mean, they still count even if you don’t have them posted on 1/1, right? Right? Right.
2008 was an extremely good year. We got settled into the house we’ve always dreamed of having, Anna started kindergarten, I
made some really awesome new friends, I got the opportunity I’ve been waiting on at work, and at times I’ve gained that confidence in myself I’ve been looking for . . . well, all my life, really. So, what do I want to accomplish in 2009?
Read more…
That’s really kinda scary. Guess it’s time to try and reboot the site again. Making a quick post to recheck the LJ plugin, then I may see about getting things cleaned up around here.
Details here.
Looks like a part-owner of Absolute Poker gave insider info (i.e. everyone’s hole cards) to one of the players in a tournament. I think you could safely say no one will play on that site for quite some time. The online poker community should be having a field day with this one.
