Things I’m looking forward to in the next week:

• Tears of the Valedictorian on Tuesday
• Bishop Allen at The Middle East Upstairs tomorrow night
• Acid Mothers Temple at The Middle East Upstairs Saturday night
• Trans Am at Great Scott on Wednesday night
• Sunset Rubdown at The Middle East Downstairs next Saturday

The other day I downloaded and installed Pine. I’m having some difficulty getting it to use my SMTP server. I don’t need it, but I’m drawn to technologies that appear obsolete but that manage to survive heartily in spite of it, especially text-based ones — Pine is “robust” and “stalwart” and other strong, respectable adjectives. My real motivation though is that it’s what we used to access our email at U of I, and I want to relive that, because I’m a huge sap. What browser did I use back then anyway? 

I got episode 1 of TV Party this week, and I’m trying my damnedest to rip it using MediaCoder, but I’m having troubles. FairUse might be a viable alternative, but I don’t have enough free space on my internal drive to try it out at the moment.

At last weekend’s Times New Viking show, they didn’t play “We Got Rocket.”

Also, what is this shit?: