iTunes backup #2

15 discs. That's how many it took to back up my purchased songs. Seems like a lot of time and money spent to make sure I don't lose "The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia" or "Jackie Blue" or better yet anything by the Thompson Twins.

Ok maybe it was worth it.

iTunes backup

So I thought I would be an adult (I hate that) and back up my iTune purchases. I have about 1900 songs on iTunes and over 200 of them are songs that I have purchased. When my work lap top went down I lost a bunch of purchased songs because I kept hitting the no button whenever it asked me if I wanted to back up. So tonight after purchasing two Happy Mondays songs and 1 LCD Soundsystem song I thought it would be a good idea. Let me tell you there is nothing that pisses me off more then when I purchase a song and I get that message that says "you've already purchased this are you sure you want to do it again?" They might as well as finish the sentence with YOU DUMBASS you should have backed up.

So I'm backing up and I'm on disc #12 - I really wanted to go to bed early tonight but who knows now. This is what happens when I try to be responsible. It takes too freakin long.

Horoscopes

I get my horoscope delivered every day to my work email. I love reading it and thinking about the different ways that it could be true or that it could come true. Are horoscopes real? It's not my place to say. Can people tell the future and speak to the dead? Yes I think they can but thats just me...

Dear Jennifer,
Here is your horoscope
for Wednesday, August 22:

Try not to worry too much about whether or not you're in the right place -- you should be able to feel the love coming from all around you. Now is a great time to reflect on the people that make your life what it is.


There it is your basic "don't worry, be happy" horoscope. Works for me today.

More Great Stuff

Back when MTV was really a music channel and not just a place for the reality whores to call home they used to have a show called 120 minutes. Of course this show was on in the middle of the night on Friday/Saturday night because it played "alternative" music. Alternative to what? The shit they were playing during the day? I guess so.

Anyway - after digging around on youtube here is some of the stuff that is so very missed from that time......

Elastica - another great band lost to drugs in the 90's.




David Bowie looking damn good in his eye makeup and Trent just looking scary which of course I love...



Holy crap it's the Throwing Muses - remember them from Boston? This video shows a really really young Tanya Donnelly in really bad 80's garb.



Ok one more...Sonic Youth 100%. I always had a major thing for Thurston Moore (the singer) and his wife Kim is the baddest chick bass player out there. If you look close the skater in the hat in the black and white shots is Jason Lee long before he was famous. He's also the one who ends up dead for some reason.



Ok kids - that's your music lesson for today.

Now This Is Good Music

Now this is what I mean........


Creative - fun and best of all TALENTED. Huh, imagine that.

Or this



You didn't think I post about music without Trent now did ya?

Let's go back a little further. One of the most underated bands ever - Jellyfish-.



So sad they aren't around anymore.

And then finally- my favorite musician of all time



Not the best video - but who made good videos in the 80's? It's kind of ironic that the videos were bad during the time when video channels actually played them.

Radio

My God - when did radio get so bad. Before I go any further let me freely admit that I am a complete music snob. I listen to radio so little that when I do I'm left with this awful taste in my mouth. Even these stations that claim to be "alternative" are just ridiculous. (Yes I am convinced I could do a better job myself)

Listen up people My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy are NOT alternative music - in fact I'm not even sure if they are music at all - but if we have to label them I would call them pop music played by boys in makeup. Now I have nothing against boys in makeup mind you but these guys wear it for all the wrong reasons. The right reason would be because it truly is a form of self expression - the wrong reason is because everyone is doing it and you think it looks cool (thats you guy from Fall Out Boy).

Weekdays between noon and 1:30 there is a station in Providence that plays what they consider to be a "retro" lunch. I personally think something has to be at least 10-15 years old to be considered retro (in the music world) but these guys think anything that has fallen off their playlist in the last three years counts. I bet if you asked them who Concrete Blonde was or what the name of U2's first and second album were (Boy/October) they would have no clue. Eeeessshhh get a grip.

Now Julie Kramer on 101.7 WFNX out of Boston knows her stuff. Every weekeday at noon she plays what is called the "Leftover Lunch". It is specifically music from the late 70's - 80's and early 90's. It kicks ass and I love it. Unfortunately I live pretty far outside Boston so I can only get it if I'm driving on 128 which is pretty rare since I work during the day like the rest of the world. I was however on 128 today on my way to meet with my professor and I got to listen to it and it rocked.

So the point here is good stuff doesn't get played on the radio - they'll play one cut off of a really good record (usually the worst song) and then it goes away. Then we are stuck with crap like James Blunt or Artic Monkeys. Come on radio people pull your head out of your asses and play the good stuff. I know it exists.

I'm not even lying....

I took this cool little book quiz and it turns out I am one of my favorite books.
Pretty cool huh? Take the quiz.

You're To Kill a Mockingbird!

by Harper Lee

Perceived as a revolutionary and groundbreaking person, you have
changed the minds of many people. While questioning the authority around you, you've
also taken a significant amount of flack. But you've had the admirable guts to
persevere. There's a weird guy in the neighborhood using dubious means to protect you,
but you're pretty sure it's worth it in the end. In the end, it remains unclear to you
whether finches and mockingbirds get along in real life.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Not the warm fuzzys

Because of my research I get a lot of emails from the Dept. of Defense and other military arena's. One of the places that I get an update is www.military.com. Today one of the headlines was "Army Meets July Recruiting Goal". Why doesn't this make me feel all warm and fuzzy? They are offering something like a $20,000 signing bonus or maybe that should be called a $20,000 bribe.

As I mentioned I get a lot of different emails from the Dept. of Defense, I went onto the website and just signed up for some things not really sure about what they were. Now I get an email every time a casualty is identified. It's a little disconcerting. I think that everyone should get these it really makes what is happening over in the Middle East real. You see the name - age - where they are from and how they died.

This is not an anti- war post. It's more of an anti-death post.

Fight Club

How many people out there saw the movie "Fight Club" with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt? I bet if we took a poll the numbers would fall heavily to the side of men seeing it. I know that I had purposely never rented it because really, who wants to see a bunch of men beating each other bloody? Well in a conversation with my friend Kate she asked me if I had ever seen it and when I said no she immediately made plans to dump her kids at her moms and have me over for dinner so we could watch the movie.

I'm not going to give anything away I just want to encourage everyone who hasn't see the movie to do so. I want to be clear though...this is not for kids - not even close. Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are really at the top of their game here and if you can get past the violence and see it for what it really is - a reflection of society you can really begin to get into the psychology of the movie. There is a bit of fist fighting but the truly bloody scenes are few and far between. I'm not a huge Brad Pitt fan but let me tell you that Tyler Durden is now officially one of my favorite movie characters.

When the all of the pieces start falling together in this movie it throws you for a huge loop. It's the kind of thing that you just sit and look at the screen with your mouth open. Immediately you think I have to see this again and again and again because now that you know the secret other things will make even more sense.

See the movie - close your eyes during the bloody scenes if you have to but see the movie.

Still Obsessed

Yes I'm still obsessed with Trent Reznor. I thought it would be over by now but it doesn't seem to want to go away. (Or maybe I don't want it to go away.........). Anyway, they are back on tour in Russia and are updating the site every few hours with new pictures so now I have another site to obsessively refresh. Eeessshhh just what I needed.