Safe As Milk

If you were looking for a reason to go ahead and sign up for Twitter, here are two of them.

[via J Blankenship]

I had never heard of Antietam but I bought the album based on the allmusic review. I’ve had good luck with blind purchases in the past based on their good word. Opus Mixtum (amazon link) is a double cd and probably a bit more than a person should chew unless they’re way, way into this band. It took me several listens before I got it. And even now it fits better as a passive listen than it does as something I root around for to play. There is some terrific music in here, but there’s just so much in the package that it’s tough to get through the thing in one listen.

“King Me is one of a couple instrumental songs on the album. It’s got a nice groove that I think you will enjoy.

You don’t need me to tell you more about how I love this band.

I’ve covered it.

Often.

RFTC R.I.P. is a recording of their farewell concert from Halloween 2005. I wouldn’t say it’s the band in top form, since they hadn’t toured for a while before this show, but it’s clear from the recording that they were having a good time and that the crowd was deep into it as well.

“Boychucker” is a cornerstone of the RFTC catalog. Killer stop/starts build and release tension and culminate in Speedo’s Florida Declaration at about the 2:20 mark. It’s classic stuff.

This album, like most live albums, is really for the diehard fans of the band. If you don’t know anything about these guys you would be much better served to start somewhere in the rest of their catalog

I was pretty excited to get this one when it came out. I first heard the band via videos on Subterranean from their last album, “Love And Distance“.

I was disappointed when the new album, “Keep Your Eyes Ahead“, didn’t sound as good to me. I read up on what the story was and it turns out that “Love And Distance” was a departure from their sound and that the new one was a move back to why people liked them so much. I guess I just caught them at the wrong time.

Shed Your Love is a nice little (kinda) folky song. It’s the one I like best after a number of listens through the album.

And so you have an idea about what I like from these guys, here’s the video for “Everyone Knows Everyone”, from “Love And Distance”

I am definitely grabbing these toys from McFarlane when they come out this fall.

[thanks, Chris]

I know, not the best name for it, but that’s what he calls them so I will play along.

Apparently they’re all photoshopped from real, in-game Halo3 screenshots. There are lots of cool ones in there. Take a look. I’m not the biggest fan of the game, but the multimedia capabilities are freaking sweet.

[thanks, JP]

I am in the fits-and-starts stages of installing ubuntu Linux on our old Dell laptop. There are some video settings I need to tinker with and I then I will have to work through getting the correct wireless settings (read: headaches), but overall I am excited at the low-end geekiness of this project.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about Linux, specifically Ubuntu, and came across a good “layman’s take” on the newest Ubuntu release, version 8.04 (the Hardy Heron). I kinda love how the releases have names as well as version numbers.

In “The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment” the guy installs Hardy Heron on a computer and asks his girlfriend to perform a series of tasks without any of his help. It’s a good read.

Isiah Thomas: ‘My Time With The Knicks Was Actually A Large-Scale Psychological Study Of New York Residents’

NEW YORK—Ousted Knicks coach and president Isiah Thomas, who presided over the team during one of the least successful and most shameful periods in its history, held a press conference Wednesday to announce that his four-year legacy of…

(pretty neat feature via The Onion, though)

Knicks fire Isiah .

I am still giggling over this. I am simple.

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