http://wmbr.org/m3u/Pink_Bullets_20061211_2200.m3u
http://wmbr.org/m3u/Nocturnal_Lights_20061211_2300.m3u
I’ll consider doing setlists for all of these.

Totally warranted subversioning!
My foray into MP3Toys was ultimately short-lived, brought to a halt when I found what people were doing with Single Column Playlist for foobar, particularly the playlist-embedded album art. Back in the foobar saddle, I also gave in and tried out the “official” Play Count component, which I had avoided for so [...]

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so i just saw them and it was actually kinda monotonous, though they were bathed in green light as i had imagined
saturday and sunday nights were very good for very different reasons, and friday had its charm
and in 48 hours i will be back in chicago with:

goose island variety pack with ben and jon
tenacious d
several thanksgivings
cali & co.
tom
anna

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closes at 2 on the weekends

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If anybody knows the source of this you have to tell me right now.
[via MetaFilter via WFMU]
[3MB WMV download]

Wow, I can’t believe I was able to do this.

http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/topalbumart.php?user=
Just tack your last.fm username onto the end of that url to generate the cover art for your most listened-to album of last week. Pretty cool.
Bands and albums with ampersands don’t work at the moment. urlencode() doesn’t seem to do the trick. Any theories?

This will come as a shock to anybody who knows me, but I’ve all but stopped using foobar2000. A couple months ago on the indietorrents forums, somebody mentioned MP3Toys, and I’ve been using it almost exclusively since.
As I mentioned in a previous post, all the chores I was made to do in foobar seemed to [...]

Last night I saw Portastatic at Great Scott and it was relatively uneventful. A text message exchange: [...]

For a long time, last.fm has linked to a purported weekly album chart feed on their web services page. Because I find this much more interesting than the weekly artist and track charts, I was happy to find today that these feeds have finally become active. Just replace “topdownjimmy” with your username in [...]

A couple years ago I toyed with eDonkey and the Digital Archive Project as a means to collecting MST3K episodes. Turns out eDonkey is widely and rightly regarded to be a terrible piece of software, and the episodes weren’t well-seeded, so that went nowhere, and I opted to rip a low-quality ShoutCast channel for [...]

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It’s good to be home.

Becoming actually brisk these days, and those little yellow leaves are strewn all over the concrete. This weekend I’m visiting Ben and Kanu in New York, maybe through Monday because of Columbus Day. For whatever reason I love visiting people in the colder seasons. I like seeing my breath when I’m hungover.
Rode up [...]

From: Neateye [mailto:nitaigouranga@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 7:14 PM
Subject: Gouranga
Call out Gouranga be happy!
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga
That which brings the highest happiness!
Gouranga

Praise Jesus.
One of the handiest features in Firefox, and one that I use frequently and absent-mindedly, is the “find as you type” shortcut. Press forward slash, and Firefox will jump to the next text that matches what you type; press single-quote, and Firefox will jump to the next link text that matches what you type. [...]

I’m starting to really resent Boing Boing for taking up so much space in my aggregator. I kept it there begrudgingly, for the dwindling handful of interesting posts that I’d probably hear about elsewhere anyway. But for every interesting post, there are ten totally boring posts about DRM, ten totally boring posts about [...]

RSS feeds appeal to me not just as a useful medium for reading serialized content, but also as representative of a kind of “dumb” handling of data, the separation of content from presentation, modularity, all that stuff, which I just appreciate aesthetically. And as I found an increasing number of the sites I visit [...]

Collecting my thoughts here…
So, ironically, music is becoming increasingly difficult for me to listen to. As though worrying about an extensive gauntlet of tagging procedures isn’t enough, I just have too much damn music. Browsing alphabetically through upwards of 500 artists is not the best way to go looking for something when you have [...]

Again.

Once again I put a set together for Andrea’s radio show on WMBR, and this time she joined me so that I could have some banter to fall back on when I faltered. Listen here.

So I’ve spent the last couple days trying frantically to get a BitTorrent tracker installed, mostly for the use of my internet acquaintances, their friends, and my friends. Really just a dedicated alternative to YouSendIt and all those other bullshit file sending sites that always have one catch or another.
So, just as a test, I [...]

Last week I spent some time developing this algorithm in fb2k’s titleformatting script to translate numerical timestamps (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) into natural English text (”Friday Evening”).

It’s pretty cool. So, uh, here it is.

I used to require four programs for getting all my tags exactly how I want them: The GodFather (with AllMusicGuide patch), the MusicBrainz Tagger, Mp3tag, and foobar2000. The GodFather was always the first and worst part of my tagging procedures, being slow, refusing to write APE tags, and relying on the Internet Explorer engine.
Now I’ve [...]

This morning I took over my friend Andrea’s radio show on WMBR. You can listen to it here.

Winning bid: $108.50
Destroyer’s Streethawk:A Seduction, very rare and long out of print. This vinyl and sleeve is brand new and is in MINT++ condition, it has NEVER been played.

In a previous post about A Flat Hierarchy for Subjective mp3 Tags, I described the arduous and marginally rewarding task of tagging my entire library with as many ‘tones’ tags as AllMusic was able to provide. With foobar2000 0.9 final now less than a week away, these tags may prove useful soon enough. [...]

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This link was posted as a comment in my Destroyer’s Rubies cover art post, but in case you missed it, here’s a great Destroyer wiki with album art, release dates, lyrics, and even cross-linked themes (e.g., “Royalty”) between songs. Really excellently done. Makes me wish I had thought of it first.

With very special thanks to Zoilus, which I’m starting to suspect is a pretty wonderful blog anyway: its previous Destroyer drinking game post.

I noticed this on my way to lunch the other day. In Boston these rainclouds are a familiar, even comforting sight, so this sticker was especially offensive here.

i finally ordered a new battery for my laptop. the one i have now is worthless, it gives me like 20 minutes of use. i actually spent an extra fifteen bucks on the battery so i could have it by this weekend. now that i have wifi, the thought of my forthcoming [...]

Last summer I spent a lot of time listening to Destroyer’s City of Daughters. I only had it on vinyl and it lived exclusively on my turntable for the better part of two or three months. I would listen to it on repeat for hours, drinking beer at my tiny kitchen table, soaking [...]

Finally. You’ll see it at the upper-left of this promo scan.

Found at I Love Music.

last.fm is great, and it gets better every single day. Part of its appeal is voyeurism. I love being able to see what my friends are listening to, but that usually requires going to the “What are my friends listening to?” page, which is still too much effort; I’m not that curious. [...]

TiddlyWiki 2.0.
WordPress 2.0.
Gaim 2.0.

Since graduating from college almost three years ago (Christ), I’ve really missed the convenience and fun of organized education. There are a million things I wish I knew more about, but that I don’t know where to start looking to learn: anthropology, sociology, literature, art history, psychology, more philosophy, more linguistics, math, physics… [...]