I want to be meeker / but have you seen this old Earth? I'm tired. At least it is Friday :)
I miss old-school music (old school, for me, means mid/late 90's christian rock). Pandora is awesome for being able to listen to said old-school music. Unfortunately, I can't get Pandora in my car :-(
I bought some CDs at Half-Price books, though. So I can still have some amount of Old School, in the car. And if I got it together, and figured out how to make play lists work on my nano such that I could easily swap music on and off of it... I could listen to that in the car.
Long story short, I'm whining, there's an obvious solution to my problems, and I'm just to lazy to deal with it. That's like, the story of my life.
The day the music died... Pandora (along with a great number of other internet radio stations) is participating in a Day of Silence, to protest the new increased royalties that are going to be charged to internet radio stations.
I wrote my representative... who was very politic, and basically said the bill to exempt internet radio from this is in committee, and she can't do anything about it, but to please vote for her the next time she's up for re-election.
Pandora is one of my biggest sources for discovering new music. I have bought probably 50 CDs, just because I heard the artist on Pandora and liked them. Regular radio around here has a rotation of like, 40 popular songs, so it's difficult to find things that are new and interesting (especially if your taste in music happens to be slightly off the mainstream). As usual, the music industry is missing the mark by putting these people out of business...
Separate words from the sentence themselves / I pack double meaning like bread from the elves I'm not a big fan of rap, but this caught my attention. The lyrics are really well put together, and well... funny. And geeky. I might have to look into more of this group...
Answers, finally. Answers to the TV show theme quiz:
1: Where is the World is Carman Sandiego? Sung by Rockapella. 2: Suicide is Painless, the theme from MASH. 3: DuckTales. 4: Sesame Street. 5: Family Matters. 6: Due South, written and sung by Paul Gross. 7: Theme from Firefly, written by Joss Whedon. 8: Everywhere you go, the theme from Full House.
Now what's cooler than bein' cool? Totally weird.... So I'm listening to pandora (because it rocks, and to drown out the ringing in my earsthat's driving me crazy)... and my girly music station plays a cover of Hey Ya by Ediblered. A very slow, angsty, girly music cover. My brain is rebelling against even recognizing this as the same song. And yet... somehow I feel compelled to listen to more of their music. Very strange.
I was hellbent on agony back then... been listening to old mp3s. brings back old memories... both good and bad. Mostly from Freshman year, but some before and after that.
I did some crazy stupid stuff back then. Fun, mostly, but crazy and stupid. And... well... not always fun, come to think of it. lol. Like the time Mike ran into a tree, and got a concussion, and we had to take him to the Oktibbeha Coutny ER (for those of you who have never been there... this is like, the smallest "trauma" center ever. Ask me about it sometime)... And Hil freaked out...
Or the time that Hil, Louis, Grey, Joe and I all went out to Dorman Lake for a Mudslide Party (the drink... not the wet dirt)... and Joe was busy hating Louis for hitting on Hil, and Hil was busy being oblivous, and Grey was disgusted with the whole situation... and then we ran out of ice cream, so Grey and I drove like, 45 minutes round trip to the nearest store, and by the time we got back everyone else was drunk, so we all ended up just going home.
Yeah. Lots of random crap. Some of which I had forgotten... Interesting, I suppose, if nothing else.
Random note to self... typing on a Z-board is annoying. Remember to switch out keysets before blogging.
AI continues to amaze me... ...in fact, even though I have studied AI and know (more or less) the concepts behind it, it's really still kind of magic. Take for instance, this article, stolen from David. Amazing.
Another type of (less human) AI, Pandora, a customizable radio station program based on the music genome project, is also amazing. Probably the best ever "learning" radio station I have ever used. Way better than Launchcast. Check out my girly music station.
Back fomr Statewide... and (amazingly) caught up on homework, too... for the moment.
So. Statewide was awesome, except Ole Miss didn't show :-P Not sure what I thought of the speaker... interesting. I guess.
But... Get this... Bad Feng Shui showed up to statewide! hey did an acoustic set for us at coffee house.. not the whole band, mind you, just three members (they usually have three more mandolins, and an electric mandolin).
I was shocked and amazed to discover that there is no Bad Feng Shui music on like, any of the file sharing programs around here... I mean, really... they opened for Jimmy Eat World last year.
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
