July 2007 Archives
I tried a number of tumble log packages before finding tumblr and none of them ever really captured my attention. I could never find anything that could give me the ability to produce something like Anarchia (which if you don't follow, you should start immediately). But tumblr made all those failed experiments fade away into the haze that is my long-term memory.
It gives me a place to put all those camera phone pix that I don't want to upload to Flickr.
It gives me a place to put link that I don't want to put into delicious.
It lets me just post quotes from web pages. And by "web pages" I mean Fake Steve.
It does all this with what can only be described as a magic bookmarklet, without which tumblr would be just another "web 2.0" site that I would quickly abandon.
So I had a few photos in the iPhoto Library on the laptop which needed to get imported into Aperture on the iMac. I was hoping this would be easy (and if I had just gone and booted into Target Disk mode it would have been).
The first thing I did was burn the entire Library to a DVD. I then put the DVD into the iMac and pointed Aperture at the DVD when it asked me for the location of the iPhoto Library. It was not happy with that idea at all. So I had to import the photos into iPhoto from the DVD and then import them into Aperture.
Don't waste your time doing it that way.
I get e-mail. Specifically from the RNC. Why? Eh...why not. Anywho, today I'm told that if we don't stop Hillary now horrible things will happen. Right there I have to stop and think, wow...I wonder how bad it could be? Could we have terrorist attacks on US soil? Could we engage in the stupid foreign policy "adventure" in decades? Jeebus H. Christmas, how bad are we talking here?!?!?
The appointment of more liberal judges and the further expansion of the federal government into your daily life.
Wait. What? You mean like how the NSA, if they wanted to, could listen in on my phone calls without a warrant? Oh wait, that happens now. And the GOP is actually proud of that.
Maybe a federal agency could try their best to keep the general populace in a continual state of fear so they will never question the government. Oh wait, that happens now. And the GOP is actually proud of that.
Oh, I could be arrested for trying to protest in the vicinity of the president? Oh wait, that happens now. And the GOP is actually proud of that.
And before you pull out the tired "Clinton did..." just shut the fuck up. Seriously. If your party is "better," don't go there. But the GOP isn't better. It sucks. It sucks big time.
I'm not going to spend my time pointing out the weaknesses in the Democratic party (they do quite well on their own most of the time, thank you very little), so lets not try and take this to a "both parties suck can't we all just get along" place.
Come on GOP...sadly, I expect better.
Many moons ago Warren posed the question:
So my question to all y'all is what I should put on [Zen Micro]. I've already
loaded a mess of my personal favorites on there; I'm just curious to
know what all of your current "top 3" albums are, in case there are
other bands that I don't know about that I might like.
As I am prone to do, I went a bit overboard with my reply. Warren and I were talking about this list last night, so I decided to go back and review what I wrote and damn if it isn't still close to relevant. I'm working on an update of course.
Jeez, what's with the trick question? Top 3 could mean anything...all time? This month? This year? Last year? This decade? Last decade? I refuse to give a serious answer until you pose a serious question. So here are my top 3 non-serious albums for you to go buy immediately, if not sooner.
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (actually quite serious, one of the best sociopolitical albums of all time -- a must have, even for a cracker like you)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder (Brit-pop, double bass guitar, hit single Kill Your Television, not a single skipper on the whole CD)
The The - Dusk (If you like Johnny Cash, this might intrigue you -- more blues than country influence. Also British).
and now for the rest of the stuff you should have
Ash - Trailer (The best rock band you've never heard of. This is their first album. Their second album was called 1977 because they're huge Star Wars fans. That's gotta be worth something.)
Billy Bragg - Don't Try This At Home (Socialist brit-folk-rock -- you'll love it Warren. Seriously awesome raw guitar playing though)
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust (First and best album -- another must have)
Descendents - Everything Sucks (Must have punk rock)
Electrafixion - Burned (Formed Echo and the Bunnymen members doing something a little more rock and roll and a little less foppy haired british 80's pop)
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year (Former Pixies front man. Easily a top 10 all time for me)
The Get Up Kids - Red Letter Day (only an EP, but some amazing indy rock)
The Housemartins - Now That's What I Call Quite Good (best of from one of the best bands from Hull ever - everything from drinking to gospel, you might think they were Irish...)
Inspiral Carpets - Revenge of the Goldfish (another top 10 all time, brit-pop)
James - Best of James (brit pop) Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking (must have) Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic (must have brit surf-pop/shoegazer)
Knapsack - This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now (driving punk-pop out of Davis initially)
Leftfield - Leftism (one of the best "dance" albums ever, although it's not the crap dance you're used to hearing 'Yall ready for this' samples in. 10 top all time)
Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste (one of the best "industrial" albums ever)
Operation Ivy - Energy (pretty much everything this Berkeley punk band ever did on one CD -- great stuff)
Pixies - Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim or Doolittle or Trompe le Monde (One of the best rock bands to come out of the US)
Reel Big Fish - Why Do They Rock So Hard? (great pop-rock-ska)
SheeponDrugs - One for the Money (hard to describe duo from the UK, technically "industrial" but much more fun)
Therapy? - Troublegum (often overlooked Irish hard rock band)
Underworld - Underworld 1992-2002 (famous for the ending song in Trainspotting 'Born Slippy Nuxx 1995' also on the Trainspotting soundtrack which is a great one)
Violent Femmes - Add It Up '81-'93
