Month: March 2007

Well despite my ibook going down on me yesterday it’s been a good week.

Emily, Cate and I all went to see Anne Lamott at All Saints Church on Wednesday. Her new book “Grace (Eventually)” came out. If you ever get a chance to see her in person it’s really worth it. She read a chapter from the new book based on an early article she wrote for Salon called “Let’s Have A Revolution! Does July 14th Work for You?” You can read the article on Salon, you just have to wait through some of the ads.

Found this New Lovedrug Music video for “Ghost By Your Side” on youtube the other day.

Because I am a Quentin Tarantino fan I’ve been on the lookout for his new movie Grindhouse coming out, it’s in the B-rated horror genre and I can’t wait to see it. Here’s a movie poster I found online.

Burnside Writer’s Collective posted 5 ways to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of OK Computer, one of my all-time favorite albums. My favorite suggestion is #2, I would really like to go and get it on vinyl.

I forgot to mention earlier, when I was chatting about Elvis that we also saw Let’s Go Sailing. I enjoyed their music and think they’d be worth checking out, the only problem is I totally forgot about them till today due to the fact that they got lost in Elvis’ wake.

For those of you, who like myself, have really gotten into Twitter Maddness, here are a couple cool apps, etc. Twit This – is a way to share links via twitter. Twitterlex is an easy dashboard widget for posting to Twitter (though I normally use either a Flock plugin, 30boxes and Quicksilver to post). And Alex King has a great Twitter plugin for wordpress called TwitterTools.

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Well – I my ibook G4 kicked the can today.  Or so I think – I am going to take it into the genius bar tomorrow at the apple store – but it looks like it’s going to require some serious cash for repairs.  As far as I know it’s a power management problem, it won’t boot up, the screen’s all waky when it does, and the fan likes to buzz really loud.  It looks like it’s having a panic attack.  This comes at a really bad time.

Burnside Writers Collective has written a worthy review ofLovedrug’s new album – Everything Starts Where It Ends. Even though I am friends with a couple of the guys in the band I really like Lovedrug’s music and their new album. This review shows I am not the only one.

As a sidenote I found this quote on their website from Michael Shepherd, front-man of the band, and thought it was a great comment about all the illegal downloading of music happening on the web.

If all of you out there in Download-ville WANT me to break up the band, then by all means illegally burn copies of our record and download them to your heart’s content. If you DON’T want me to break up the band then PLEASE, have a heart and buy it. Tell your friends to buy it. Have your dog buy it. Have your dog’s kids buy it. Every time someone out there burns a copy of our record (even if you are spreading the good word, which we appreciate) you should definitely keep in mind that you are not “screwing a record label”, you are not “sticking it to the man”, you are not “beating the system”, what you are doing is slowly but surely putting me and my bandmates out of a job… and when that happens… we won’t be able to make records anymore because we won’t be able to afford to. This might sound like elitist artist bullshit.. but I assure you it is not. You can’t possibly fathom just how close to starving WE really are. Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Michael and the gang

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This week I’ve got some really funny videos here.

Okay so this isn’t a video but it’s really cool.

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