Brian

GOOD GOD

music

Faust is an amazing book and it really hit the spot for the way I was feeling the last few weeks.

post-rock is what classical has had to become to get the attention of a generation who grew up with the world screaming at them

So I was listening to some old Breezeblock sets and found this.

http://www.last.fm/music/Bubba+Sparxxx/_/Back+In+The+Mud

This is what I wish Gnarls Barkley was. Cee-lo is just holding himself back.

http://www.afrotechmods.com

Found this site again today :O)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7688299.stm

I wonder how the reaction to this would be different if not for Gattaca.

So trying Songbird motivated me to set up my foobar to manage my music library. Turns out it was a lot simpler than I thought and only took a little futzing. So now my foobar is set up to everything I can think of wanting from a music player bar one thing (RIP Toaster). Clocking in at 100MB memory usage with the metadata from my entire library loaded into the playlist, less than half of Songbird and without the system and player lag I was having.

johnny smash makes me laugh

I've been watching Songbird for a looooong time hoping it would evolve into something akin to foobar2k but with better library support. This is my semi-annual "Can Songbird Handle My Music Collection And Still Be Responsive?" check. It's still in beta so it's failed all previous ones but it's been getting better every time. This is the first time it's gotten this far into the library importing without freezing so here's hoping.

http://getsongbird.com/

Best way to describe it is Firefox that also plays music. It's built around Firefox code which means it has support for add-ons to do all kinds of neat things.

EDIT: Well it's working for the first time ever. I'm liking it. It's taking up 560MB of RAM versus the 22MB my custom foobar takes so I definitely won't be using it all the time.

Sometimes the colors I see are breath-taking. Driving back from Charlotte...things that stick out.

Rich freshly tilled soil filled with red Carolina clay piled on brilliant green grass
Pink rain clouds as the sun filters through them in the afternoon
Yellow corona of the sun as it's setting behind some denser clouds
Speckled black of a freshly paved road

Glad I'm not completely color-blind. Makes me want a working camera though.