Stylus Magazine has an interesting little article up titled, “The Problem With Indie“. Read it if you are interested in such things as indie music, street cred, and other such pretensions.
Or, if you want to get a better viewpoint combined with super-cool music, listen to “Indier Than Thou” by MC Frontalot, here’s the chorus:
(he’s so […]
It just occurred to me that I haven’t explicitly mentioned that I have another blog of sorts.
What it is - is that our band has a “diary” page, and everyone is supposed to have a day where they make a entry. (Since there are 7 of us in the band, this works out smooth…on paper.) […]
Today is my birthday (tanjobi). Happy birthday to me.
Right now, I’m just waiting to go to practice - I guess we decided last night that pre-pro for the first CD was done, and now we need to work on the songs for the second. (Just a reminder of the current plan: we are going […]
The news is all over the place now, but the Family Guy Movie, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story!, has been leaked onto the various internets 2 months before the release.
It’s great quality, too - a DVD rip from a screener, I think.
I guess the deal is that this was a 3-part episode that […]
Summer is definitely here on Okinawa, because it is just too hot out there. It’s only by running the A/C straight that I can even stand it. Not a big fan of the tropical summer, too muggy. I think I prefered the Las Vegas heat when I was there a few summers ago on vacation […]
I picked up the Belkin Nostromo Speedpad n52 the other day. I’ve been back to playing just a little bit of the old Enemy Territory lately, and thought I’d give this device a spin.
It’s pretty cool, but I haven’t got adjusted to the slighty different layout yet, so sometimes it’s a bit frustrating. However, […]
Just got back from practice (renshu), and it went pretty good, but a little strange. We are working on what we are calling a “re-mix” of a song, except we’re not really re-mixing it, so much as re-writing and re-arranging it. I’m not sure how it will eventually turn out, or even how much of […]
Well, we did Music Picnic 2005 yesterday, and I think it was a great success! I guess about 3,500 people showed up, so that was nice and a bit more than I expected (which is always a happy thing!) We played a good set, with a little bit of a different set list, mostly older […]
Meme from here.Italics: What you’ve seen; Bold: What you liked.
1. Titanic (1997) - $600,779,824
2. Star Wars (1977) - $460,935,665
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - $434,949,459
4. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - $431,065,444
5. Spider-Man (2002) - $403,706,375
6. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - $377,019,252
7. Passion of […]
Music Picnic is an event we will be playing this coming Monday (because that’s a Japanese holiday, and the start of summer vacation, don’tchaknow). Here’s who is playing:
Soul’d Out
Orange Range
High and Mighty Color
All Japan Goith (Skashippe)
Hoi Festa
Abiroji
Duty Free Shopp + Kakumakushaka
The Do-Nuts
Plank Puppy
Heaven’s Hemp
Magnets
It’s thrown by Spice Records, and all the bands are Spice […]
Well, I arrived safe and sound back on Okinawa this evening. Here’s something neat: in Osaka, at the baggage claim guess who else was on the same flight? Colin Powell. That was kinda neat.
I went from the Naha airport home long enough to get a little cleaned up, and then we had practice tonight. On […]
One thing I had hoped to pick up while I was back here in the States was a flight case for my amp head (Line 6 Vetta). I went to 3 different music stores, and only one (Sam Ash on Capital Blvd.) had any at all.
That one was OK, and seemed to be the proper […]
As you might now, I’m on a short little vacation in the States, and will return to Okinawa late next week. So, I can’t promise how much I’ll be posting. For one thing, internet connectivity is a little spotty (read: I’m not finding many open WAPs around here.), for another there’s not going […]
“CrazyJ” is a guitar-playing robot from the Georgia Tech graduate Mechatronics class.
It looks basically like a MIDI controlled set of plungers (fingers) and scrapers (pick), but still pretty cool.
I hope the popular music industry will put this technology to good use, like squeezing any remaining human emotion totally out of any top-40 song.
Of course, […]
Well, here I am in the Kansai International Airport in Osaka, on my way back home to North Carolina for a quick visit. It took just a little bit of tweaking (because my laptop has such a wierd network configuration), but I was able to get on the airport’s free wireless network. Pretty […]
I’ve been playing a little bit of the ol’ Enemy Territory the last few days. I used to play it all the time, but I had wiped it off the hard drive a while back.
I had tried out a couple of other games, like Silent Hill 4: The Room - which started off strong, but […]
I’m just throwing this up here because I had this problem and it might help someone searching out an answer.
I have the internal DVD burner/multi-drive: LG GSA 4120B, and I’ve had it for a while now. Anyway, yesterday I finally got some DVD+R DL (Dual Layer) discs to burn - but they wouldn’t, Nero and […]
Movie time again this weekend, we went and saw Mr. & Mrs. Smith tonight. I liked this movie, it was pretty much what I expected, which was basically a punched up version of Undercover Blues.
Two things distracted me in this movie, one was the obviously cut-for-PG13-rating sex scene, and two was the jackass in the […]
We celebrated the July 4th weekend with a little BBQ - cleaned up the grill, threw on a new rack and headed down to the commissary for some meat. Since it was just the two of us, we kept it fairly light, but we each got 2 steaks (rib eye and tenderloin), some hot […]
TamiTam and I stepped out to see The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . I had to apologize several times during and after the film. Damn, this thing stunk up the joint. Bad.
Afterwards, both of us said we were very close to asking the other to walk out.
Terrible, terrible, movie. (I’ve read the book(s), […]