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Due to me being a dumbass I don’t have the write up for this week’s episode. I wrote the whole damn thing and then I closed the wrong tab.
Dumbass.
It wasn’t very good this week so it’s not really that big a deal. The highlilghts were Chromeo’s “Needy Girl” and Bloc Party’s “Banquet”. Oh! And I don’t want to forget Interpol’s “Evil” video. That one is actually really cool. I’ll try to dig up a link to it for you guys.
Frank over at Chromewaves wrote that Matador is reporting that the band is in the studio and aiming for a late Summer/eary Fall release.
This is good news.
Cool Squeezebox thing. On Windows, my Slimserver interface is an .exe. On Linux, it’s a browser page. I open Firefox and type “http://bigbend:9000″ (”bigbend” is what I named my server) and the Slimserver software comes up as a webpage. I can control the Squeezebox from the Office PC or from Al’s laptop since she’s on the same network. (To be fair, I think the web interface is possible when running Slimserver under Windows, too, but it’s not the default interface and you have to know to look for it). The software isn’t as good as iTunes, but it’s very good for creating playlists on the fly and changing the queue. I’ve even read that I could do true remote control and set it up so that I could access the player from work or from Richmond. Other than scaring Cadbury, though, I don’t see the usefulness.
I’m had been thinking that my way around the lossless AAC problem is to abandon AAC entirely. From what I’ve read online, Windows Media Player’s lossless format is at least as good as Apple’s. Most people say that they’re comparable and some say that Windows’ is better. I did a quick compare and found no great difference. Open source denizens tout FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec). Essentially a lossless codec that isn’t owned by Apple, Microsoft, or anyone else. I see the usefulness of that for future-proofing. But the process sounds painful. Convert the CD to a .wav file and feed it through an encoder. Ugh. I’m not that much of a perfectionist.
Anyway, I tried it, and the Slimserver can’t recognize WMA, either. I understand it. Linux is free (as I’ve paraphrased from O’Reilly and otehrs: free as in beer, as well as free as in speech). Anyway, because it’s free & open, they’re limited on what non-free, non-open code they can include. Licensing and royalty issues. And Microsoft and Apple’s WMA and AAC codecs are proprietary.
It’s not undoable. There are free codecs that will get the job done. I just have to find them and apply them correctly. As I’m mentioned before, installing Linux software isn’t always as easy as double-clicking an .exe. But that’s okay.
I finally got Ethan’s smiling face up there next to my ugly mug. Now maybe we’ll get some chicks to read along.
I also updated the falfa.com main page with E’s info. Check him out.
Here’s the link to the list. To me, The Diesel is the king:
“I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.”
– Shaquille O’Neal
“I think it’s a great city . I think it’s a fabulous city. But in my young juvenile days, I was an idiot and I bought 30 cars. And I need to drive those cars and New York isn’t really the place you can do that.”
– Shaquille O’Neal on why he never wants to play for the Knicks
“Stay out of the gentlemen’s clubs. Get a lot of rest. Just have fun and relax and stay focused.”
– Shaquille O’Neal explaining the secrets for winning on the road in the NBA
So it’s 10:45 in the morning and I just noticed that I put my sweater on backwards this morning.
Nice.
No booze or anything for breakfast, I swear. Just some eggs. And some coffee.
Backwards sweater. Jeez.
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings are an unbelieveably great soul and funk revue that I had the chance to see a couple of times in the last year. The Dap Kings are a rock solid and skin tight band and Sharon Jones is the female emodiment of the Godfather of Soul (they share the same hometown).
They were on Conan O’Brien last week and I missed it. I have TiVo and I still missed it. I am a fool. Luckily the fine folks at Daptone Records must have known what sort of fool I was so they have video of the performance for all of us to enjoy. Check it out. They have a new album out and they are touring to support it. If you have an ounce of soul in your body, and I suspect you do, you owe it to yourself to check them out. I guarantee that Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings will set your tail feathers a-shakin’!!!
FRI 1/28 - WILMINGTON, NC @ SOAPBOX LAUNDRO-LOUNGE
Soapbox Laudro-Lounge
255 North Front Street
Wilmington, NC
Doors @ 8pm
21+
SAT 1/29 ? ATHENS, GA @ THE GEORGIA THEATRE
SUN 1/30 ? CHARLESTON, SC @ VILLAGE TAVERN
TUE 2/1- ATLANTA, GA @ THE EARL
WED 2/2 ? BIRMINGHAM, AL @ THE NICK
THU 2/3 ? NASHVILLE, TN @ EXIT/ IN
FRI 2/4 ? HATTIESBURG, MS @ THE THIRSTY HIPPO
SAT 2/5 ? MEMPHIS, TN @ HI-TONE
MON 2/7 ? DALLAS, TX @ THE GYPSY TEA ROOM
TUE 2/8 ? HOUSTON, TX @ CONTINENTAL CLUB
WED 2/9 ? AUSTIN, TX @ CONTINENTAL CLUB
FRI 2/11 ? LAWRENCE, KS @ BOTTLENECK
SAT 2/12 ? COLUMBIA, MO @ THE MUSIC CAFÉ
MON 2/14 ? DES MOINES, IA @ VAUDEVILLE MEWS
WED 2/16 ? MINNEAPOLIS, MN @ 400 BAR
THU 2/17 ? MILWAUKEE, WI @ ONOPA BREWING CO.
FRI 2/18 ? CHICAGO, IL @ THE DOUBLE DOOR
SAT 2/19 ? CLEVELAND, OH @ BEACHLAND TAVERN
Just a housecleaning announcement, I’ve pulled all of the mp3’s I was hosting here at SaM. I’m going to try to limit the life of the mp3’s I host to try and keep my bandwidth usage to a reasonable level. I got hammered in November and December thanks to Franz Ferdinand’s ‘Take me Out’ that I posted in March of last year. Apparently falfa.com was the place to get a copy of that song for the Holidays (I’ll take this moment to thank Max for being an excellent and understanding web host).
Big thanks to Luke for setting me on the path. The problem was that I had created many of the folders in my /home/ethan directory, but as root. So Linux wasn’t giving me permission to share root’s folders.
It’s a Unix thing. You have your “normal” logon (e.g., “ethan”) and your “root” logon (i.e., admin). And you generally try not to do too much as root, because you never know when you might do something wrong. And root is Superman. Linux ain’t telling root not to do nothing.
