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?: