Congratulations Alex and Family
Congratulations Alex and Family! Podcasting partner Alex and wife welcomed Zachary Franklin Harden this morning.
The Other Scott Buffington
Not just another Scott Buffington, but a musician and artist to boot. I checked out some of Scotty's music courtesy of CD Baby and was impressed. I know we have some independent music fans around here, including myself. Be sure to give Scotty a listen.
Not only am I jealous of Scotty's artistic abilities, he has a lot more hair than I have too. Scotty is an extraordinary gentleman too, he dropped me an email and bought me a drink when finding my humble abode. It is obvious his new website was the cause of the jump in folks looking at Nitevilla via the Scott Buffington searches. Welcome to the web Scotty!
Desert Island Media Player on Random Meme
Alex called me out and posting has been light with the home buy/sale. So here goes:
Here are your instructions:
1. Turn on your favourite media player and turn your shuffle feature on.
2. Hit "play" and keep track of the next 10 songs that come up. (If you have iTunes, you can make a smart playlist that will automatically list your most recently played selections.)
3. Post your 10 shuffled songs, along with these instructions. You are not allowed to lie, omit tracks or otherwise try to make your musical taste seem hipper than it actually is.
4. Tag five people on your friends list to do the same.
1. Porcupine Tree | "Lips Of Ashes" | In AbsentiaNow I suppose I have to tag 5 folks. I really need to add a few more folks to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Anyway, here goes... Chuck, Craig, Phil, Paul and Mike.
2. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals | "Dance All Night" | Cold Roses
3. AC/DC | "High Voltage" | High Voltage
4. Porcupine Tree | "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here" | Deadwing
5. Bruce Springsteen | "My City Of Ruins" | The Rising
6. Coldplay | "A Whisper" | A Rush of Blood to the Head
7. Dire Straits | "Walk Of Life" | Brothers In Arms
8. Porcupine Tree | "Lazarus" | Deadwing
9. Four Horsemen | "Let It Rock" | Nobody Said It Was Easy
10. The White Stripes | "Seven Nation Army" | Elephant
Here are your instructions:
1. Turn on your favourite media player and turn your shuffle feature on.
2. Hit "play" and keep track of the next 10 songs that come up. (If you have iTunes, you can make a smart playlist that will automatically list your most recently played selections.)
3. Post your 10 shuffled songs, along with these instructions. You are not allowed to lie, omit tracks or otherwise try to make your musical taste seem hipper than it actually is.
4. Tag five people on your friends list to do the same.
'la la' Is Very Cool
I do not have any invites yet, but when I get them if you would like an invitation, just post a comment to this blog post. Perhaps WebJones or Alex can hook you up if they have any spares. I have already unloaded 3 or 4 CD's in just one day of membership and have some CD's that I wanted on the way. The price is $1 a CD. Pretty reasonable when services like iTunes charge $1 or more per song. If not for a service like this one, I would not be getting any CD's with my current budget. But $3 or $4 dollars is certainly not breaking anyone's bank.
Oh, and thanks for the latest shipment Streeter, I have received it and am currently utilizing it in my commute. Because of many of the tunes you turned me on to, I have a ton of music on my want list over at "la la". I like to prove the RIAA wrong by buying music that has been shared with me in some form or another if I enjoy it. Plus, since most are independent artists you send me I really like to give back.
Holy Drivey Hits
Well, it seems our friend and fellow extraordinary gentleman, Mark Pursey, has been Slashdotted and Mark is fighting to keep his sites online. This is a very cool geek honor for Mark and I wanted to make sure I congratulated him. Hang in there Mark and congratulations on your geek fame!
BTW, cooper's web server (http://unixodyssey.com) will be out of commission for a while until I find the time to configure the web server again.
Porcupine Tree At The Troc
I was waiting for Alex or Don to post something, since they could provide much better insight on the show than a newbie to Porcupine Tree like me could do. Now that Alex posted, I thought I would mention how much I enjoyed the show at The Trocadero.
Most of my experience with seeing music artists has been in bigger venues. I have to say, I really enjoyed the intimate setting of seeing a very, very talented band in a theater/club. The whole show was incredible, and I want to thank Alex for inviting me to join him.
I picked up a copy of Deadwing which I will be enjoying on my trips to and from work.
Most of my experience with seeing music artists has been in bigger venues. I have to say, I really enjoyed the intimate setting of seeing a very, very talented band in a theater/club. The whole show was incredible, and I want to thank Alex for inviting me to join him.
I picked up a copy of Deadwing which I will be enjoying on my trips to and from work.
Musical Baton
Passed to me by Extraordinary Gentleman, Matthew.
Total Volume Of Music On My Computer...
I really do not keep much on my computer, I rip and stream through ICYG. So only about 1 GB exists on my machine. I am old skool, I listen to CD's.
The Last CD I Bought Was...
Ryan Adams, Demolition.
Song Playing Right Now...
John Mellencamp, Pink Houses
Five Songs I Listen To A Lot, or Mean A Lot To Me...
•Bruce Springsteen, No Surrender - For friendship.
•Bruce Springsteen, Glory Days - We all miss them.
•Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Cause I hear Jimi.
•AC/DC, It's a Long Way to the Top - If you wanna Rock!
•Alice in Chains, Rooster - Cause being called "Rooster" is so John Wayne.
Five People To Whom I Am Passing the Baton...
Alex
Chuck
Paul
Phil
Jonathan
Total Volume Of Music On My Computer...
I really do not keep much on my computer, I rip and stream through ICYG. So only about 1 GB exists on my machine. I am old skool, I listen to CD's.
The Last CD I Bought Was...
Ryan Adams, Demolition.
Song Playing Right Now...
John Mellencamp, Pink Houses
Five Songs I Listen To A Lot, or Mean A Lot To Me...
•Bruce Springsteen, No Surrender - For friendship.
•Bruce Springsteen, Glory Days - We all miss them.
•Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Cause I hear Jimi.
•AC/DC, It's a Long Way to the Top - If you wanna Rock!
•Alice in Chains, Rooster - Cause being called "Rooster" is so John Wayne.
Five People To Whom I Am Passing the Baton...
Alex
Chuck
Paul
Phil
Jonathan
Mark's Drivey Screencast
If you have never viewed a screencast before, a screencast is basically a video of what is going on, on a computer screen while the broadcaster narrates. Since I have been following Drivey for quite a while, I have seen Mark post quite a few screenshots and describe what he was experimenting with. This made the screencast more interesting to me, since I could finally see the screenshots in motion. Mark points out in his screencast that he would like to see Drivey be different, not just in appearance but also that the game is more about a relaxing driving escape rather than a challenge. I found some of the aerial views particular interesting, as I always wondered how Drivey's tracks were laid out and if they actually went anywhere, so to speak.
As with podcasts and any other type of recording done by those who have websites I read regularly, it is always nice to put a voice with the face. While I am mentioning Drivey, if you would like to try a lite text editor for Windows, checkout JujuEdit.
Another GeoURL
Another one of the League of XG made me aware of yet another Geo tagging website. Thanks to PsychoPhil I have tagged both Brutal Deluxe and Nitevilla. Check out the new GeoURL.info. Thankfully I had left my meta-tags on both sites and I merely had to ping. They need a better way to update your entries, currently you have to email the guy and prove to him you are who you say you are. Improve that (which should be easy) and you have yourself a winner. But I like it much better than BlogMap which I mentioned earlier in the week.
Websites within 300 km of Scott
Yet another URL with the same Info.
Thoughts and Stuff
I caught a little slack from a few people about not blogging much in the last few weeks. I had a few things on my mind and thought I could muster up a post out of it. I think I just needed a break or something and have just been motivated to move away from the computer. I still tried to take some time each evening to catch up on the sites I read. As per Ross Notes I tried BlogMap, it is cool kind of, but needs more functionality than just printing out maps to be really cool.
Football season is over and Brutal Deluxe will go into a mild hibernation except for a few posts here and there for the next few months. The Super Bowl and the attached entertainment spurred some more thoughts. My next project will be titled, "Titanic", and it is fantastic title and or label for a project.
Another thing, if I register a new domain name, I am going to use Go Daddy.com (I use Hover now). I liked Go Daddy'shumourous Super Bowl commercial poking fun at our government and their overreaction to last years halftime debacle.
The House of Receding Hair
I invite anyone interested in music to check out the ICYG website and contact Alex Harden if you would like to become a member and enjoy all the varieties of music on ICYG. Because my show has a hair band metal theme, I submit that type of music for my show. So come on feel the noise of ICYG and bang your head with the House of Receding Hair. What are you waiting for? Jump in the slick black cadillac because mama we are all crazy now.
Seriously though, there is a large variety of music that is played in the ICYG music club. I also submitted some Mark Knopfler for the regular rotation and I know Alex has been adding a lot of indie artists.
Jake Playing Drivey
Actually Drivey is just a demo proof of concept type executable. LXG Mark Pursey is the creator of Drivey as well as some other cool applications. I use Drivey as a screensaver and Jake thinks he is playing a driving game.
First Cygweb Rosscast or Podcast
Alex Harden of Cyg's Calorie Outlets fame for you Brutal Deluxe and Nitevilla visitors, released his first ICYG Podcast. The Podcast has a very internet (notice the lowercase "i") geek feel to it. Even if you do not have a big interest in some of the geek speak but you want to get an idea what any of us sound like, or hear about all of our websites then you should download and give the Podcast a listen. The Podcast is in MP3 format, so you can listen to it with an audio player on your computer.
Alex and I have talked about doing a sports related Podcast, probably focused on football and perhaps fantasy football at least to start. If that happens, I need to make a note to myself to slow down when I talk. I suppose it was a bit of nervousness, but I thought I talked somewhat fast. Or perhaps I always talk fast, who knows. For those of you who frequent the forum here at Nitevilla, I still do not talk as fast as the guy that Zubritsky's Corner is named after.
Check out the ICYG Podcast and listen to Ross, Mike, myself and Jonathan be interviewed by Alex.
Cygweb - Nitevilla Summit
I had the opportunity to finally meet and hang out with Alex today. We consumed some Lager and wings while watching the 1pm NFL games.
It was great to finally meet Alex and talk about ICYG, Podcasting, Localfeeds and all aspects of fantasy football. Of course during the course of four plus hours we also touched on family, politics and backgrounds. It was fantastic to get to know someone you know online only, in an offline setting. No doubt the first of more meetings in the future.
It was great to finally meet Alex and talk about ICYG, Podcasting, Localfeeds and all aspects of fantasy football. Of course during the course of four plus hours we also touched on family, politics and backgrounds. It was fantastic to get to know someone you know online only, in an offline setting. No doubt the first of more meetings in the future.
House of Receding Hair is Back!
I grew up listening to my brother jam AC/DC so loud, the house would shake. The great thing about AC/DC is that you always know what you are going to get. Heavy power chords that can make just about anyone bang their head and a high energy guitarist that just rocks out the entire show. No whiney music from AC/DC, just an all out good time! I saw an AC/DC concert once, and let me tell you, it was one of the best damn rock and roll shows I have ever seen. High energy and heavy music, if this show does not get your blood pumping, you are not alive!
If you are not part of ICYG yet, what are you waiting for? By the way, ICYG has a shiney new look, just in-time for the House of Receding Hair to blow the cover off your speakers!
Localfeeds Returning
The initial post on the Localfeeds Weblog signals that the Localfeeds Bulletin Board is back too. I really think Localfeeds has a bright and long future whose potential has yet to be realized. Hopefully Ross will have better luck handling the massive popularity of the service this time around.
