Sunday, February 22, 2009
Filler post #8,238...
For some reason, I can't seem to get anything out of my head and into this shitty blog for the past year or so. I broke my sole New Year's Resolution (well, the one I'll talk about here anyway), which was to write for an hour a day, just to see if I have any talent for this whatsoever. That one was busted on January 3. On the plus side, that's a new record. Christ, my last post took me two hours to write four short, unoriginal paragraphs about steroids and sports. What am I, Rick Reilly? So lately I've been putting up crap like this and this and this. So thanks to Will Leitch, here's another one, about my iTunes library:
Number of songs: 8,789
Number of albums: 862
Total length: 23 days, 6 hours, 6 minutes, 58 seconds
Total disk space: 33.04 GB
Most recently played song: "My Favorite Things", John Coltrane
Most played song: "'Charu's Theme' From Satyajit Ray's Film 'Charulata'", Satyajit Ray
Most recently added album: Blood Bank, Bon Iver
First song alphabetically: "'A' (morse)", The Conet Project
Last song alphabetically: "Zurich is Stained", Slanted & Enchanted / Pavement
First song numerically: "1-10 Announcement", The Conet Project
Last song numerically: "99 Year Blues", The Anthology of American Folk Music / Julius Daniel
Shortest song: "There's a Riot Goin' On", There's a Riot Goin' On / Sly & The Family Stone (0:04)
Longest song: "Bitches Brew", Bitches Brew / Miles Davis (27:00)
First album alphabetically: A.M. / Wilco
Last album alphabetically: Zen Arcade / Hüsker Dü
First album numerically: #1 Record/Radio City / Big Star
Last album numerically: 89/93: An Anthology / Uncle Tupelo
First artist alphabetically: Aaliyah
Last artist alphabetically: Zoot Sims
First band alphabetically: The Aardvarks
Last band alphabetically: The Zombies
First twenty-five songs on shuffle:
"The Precious Jewel" / The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
"Sign O' the Times" / Prince
"I'm a Loser" / The Beatles
"Inn Town" / Whiskeytown
"Two" / Ryan Adams
"I Would Die 4 U" / Prince
"Tonight, I'll Be Staying Here With You" / Bob Dylan & The Rolling Thunder Review
"Thank You Friends" / Big Star
"Powerline" / Hüsker Dü
"Love Is Plentiful" / The Staple Singers
"The Wind Cries Mary" / Jimi Hendrix
"Why Me Lord?" / Johnny Cash
"Willie Nelson [insert 2]" / Miles Davis
"Parting of the Sensory" / Modest Mouse
"K.O.S. (Determination)" / Black Star
"Life on a Chain" / Pete Yorn
"Absynthe" / The Gits
"Walking in Memphis" / Marc Cohn
"Sample Count" / The Conet Project
"My Brilliant Feat" / Colin Hay
"Nothing Compares 2 U" / Sinéad O'Connor
"Hard Luck Woman" / Kiss
"Christmas Time Is Here" / Vince Guaraldi Trio
"The Upper Peninsula" / Sufjan Stevens
"There She Goes" / The La's
"Sara Smile" / Hall & Oates
Number of songs: 8,789
Number of albums: 862
Total length: 23 days, 6 hours, 6 minutes, 58 seconds
Total disk space: 33.04 GB
Most recently played song: "My Favorite Things", John Coltrane
Most played song: "'Charu's Theme' From Satyajit Ray's Film 'Charulata'", Satyajit Ray
Most recently added album: Blood Bank, Bon Iver
First song alphabetically: "'A' (morse)", The Conet Project
Last song alphabetically: "Zurich is Stained", Slanted & Enchanted / Pavement
First song numerically: "1-10 Announcement", The Conet Project
Last song numerically: "99 Year Blues", The Anthology of American Folk Music / Julius Daniel
Shortest song: "There's a Riot Goin' On", There's a Riot Goin' On / Sly & The Family Stone (0:04)
Longest song: "Bitches Brew", Bitches Brew / Miles Davis (27:00)
First album alphabetically: A.M. / Wilco
Last album alphabetically: Zen Arcade / Hüsker Dü
First album numerically: #1 Record/Radio City / Big Star
Last album numerically: 89/93: An Anthology / Uncle Tupelo
First artist alphabetically: Aaliyah
Last artist alphabetically: Zoot Sims
First band alphabetically: The Aardvarks
Last band alphabetically: The Zombies
First twenty-five songs on shuffle:
"The Precious Jewel" / The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
"Sign O' the Times" / Prince
"I'm a Loser" / The Beatles
"Inn Town" / Whiskeytown
"Two" / Ryan Adams
"I Would Die 4 U" / Prince
"Tonight, I'll Be Staying Here With You" / Bob Dylan & The Rolling Thunder Review
"Thank You Friends" / Big Star
"Powerline" / Hüsker Dü
"Love Is Plentiful" / The Staple Singers
"The Wind Cries Mary" / Jimi Hendrix
"Why Me Lord?" / Johnny Cash
"Willie Nelson [insert 2]" / Miles Davis
"Parting of the Sensory" / Modest Mouse
"K.O.S. (Determination)" / Black Star
"Life on a Chain" / Pete Yorn
"Absynthe" / The Gits
"Walking in Memphis" / Marc Cohn
"Sample Count" / The Conet Project
"My Brilliant Feat" / Colin Hay
"Nothing Compares 2 U" / Sinéad O'Connor
"Hard Luck Woman" / Kiss
"Christmas Time Is Here" / Vince Guaraldi Trio
"The Upper Peninsula" / Sufjan Stevens
"There She Goes" / The La's
"Sara Smile" / Hall & Oates
Monday, September 18, 2006
What a coincidence -- so do I!
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Wes Anderson Amex Ad...
...Stephen and I were thoroughly confused and delighted when we saw the new Wes Anderson-directed American Express ad. It's like a mini-film:
Labels: Misc.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Dum-dum-dum, dum-dum...
Arrested Development is probably gone for good. Showtime had a deal where they would pick up the show for 26 eps/2 years, but Mitch Hurwitz (the show's creator) doesn't want to do it anymore. 'Tis a sad day for television -- at least we have the DVD's.
Labels: Misc.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Who knew...
Monday, January 16, 2006
Underrated...
So I'm waiting for school to start up (on Tuesday) and I've been thinking about stuff. Generally pop culture, as usual. Anyway, a term that gets bandied about a lot is "underrated," especially in the sports world, where lazy journalists use it like a crutch holding up whatever shaky point they might be making. My definition of the word is "something that is really good, but not flashy-good or extraordinary-good that it stands out; you take it for granted." Here's a brief list of underrated things:
- TOBACCO DELIVERY SYSTEM - the pipe. Not as pretentious or cliched as a cigar, and doesn't have the social stigma of the cigarette, the pipe just looks super-cool and classy, even when it isn't being smoked. Only drawback is that it might be a bit too rare these days.
- DESK ACCESSORY - the rip-off-a-day calendar. It's kind of nice having something to wake up and do each morning, even if it's something as banal as tearing a piece of paper from a pad on a stand.
- PROCRASTINATION TOOL - the snooze button. I've snoozed for upwards of three hours before. That's right -- hitting the button every nine minutes for three hours before finally getting my ass out of bed.
- ENTERTAINMENT DEVICE - video games (in general). What the hell did people do before video games? I can't even begin to imagine what college dorm life would have been without video games...what would I have done with my time? Studied? Fuck, I graduated cum laude without studying much. Gotten high with Lyle and Nic? Yeah, probably that one.
- TELEVISION CHANNEL - ESPNews. That's right, ESPNews. Need to kill a half hour? ESPNews is your ticket. The previous day's sports highlights condensed into a half hour, plus the running bar on the bottom that provides more info than the actual presenters. Only problem is that they are starting more original programming, but that bar at the bottom is gold.
- CLOTHING ACCESSORY - the belt. I always took the belt for granted until I left mine at home when I went to JAX for my cousin Jackie's wedding. Even with my big ass, my fuckin' pants were falling down all weekend.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
RIP Eddy Guerrero...
Found dead in his hotel room bathroom in Minneapolis (same city Brian Pillman died). So many great matches, so many great moments...sad it had to end this way, but given his profession, not particularly surprising. Roll call of wrestlers dead before their time:
Andre the Giant
Art Barr
Big Bossman
Chris Candido
Miss Elizabeth
Owen Hart
Curt Hennig
Crash Holly
Brian Pillman
Road Warrior Hawk
"Ravishing" Rick Rude
"British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith
Louie Spicoli
Yokozuna
This is just depressing, on too many levels...viva la raza.
Labels: Misc.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Happy Happy Time...
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
"But then, why would it be on its back legs?"
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Bored and Googling...
Monday, June 13, 2005
Sleep update...
I'm a notorious sleepwalker. Once in high school I sleptwalked all around my room, knocking my TV over and didn't wake up. In the dorms I walked into the hallway and woke up getting a drink of water from the fountain, locking myself out of my and Jim's room in the process. (Luckily Ryan and Justin always left their door unlocked.) And then there was the time I freaked Ryan out when we were living on Ferdinand.
Last night was a first: I guess my alarm went off and it worked myself into my dream at the time -- for some reason I was working at a grocery store meat counter and an alarm went off, indicating that one of the meat packages was open. So I go through the packages to find which one it is. Eventually I find it and the alarm shuts off. I wake up at 6:50 or so (my alarm is set to 6:30) and find myself clutching a pair of socks. I look over at my chest of drawers and see my sock drawer halfway open. My alarm was turned off.
Last night was a first: I guess my alarm went off and it worked myself into my dream at the time -- for some reason I was working at a grocery store meat counter and an alarm went off, indicating that one of the meat packages was open. So I go through the packages to find which one it is. Eventually I find it and the alarm shuts off. I wake up at 6:50 or so (my alarm is set to 6:30) and find myself clutching a pair of socks. I look over at my chest of drawers and see my sock drawer halfway open. My alarm was turned off.
Labels: Misc.
You're dead to me Katie...
I can accept dating Tom Cruise -- he's successful, you need some publicity -- I mean, you're obviously a beard. But this -- this I cannot accept. A replacement will be named soon.
Labels: Misc.
