(r) = rhapsody playlists, (v) = video, (lv) = "bloody portal wanabes", launch video (ies) = "Internet Exploder sucks, but its required", (M) = 3.x+ Rhapsody Musician Reference, (A) = 3.x+ Rhapsody Musician/Album References, otherwise.. (____) = ____ is what it is.
This site is managed with GVIM, Filezilla and PHP, yeah I code my own stuff..
Due to the nature of this blog, archives have to be provided in seperate locations, to
get back to the most recent blog, simply click on the default link. The site will always
link to the most recent one.
Youtube + Me = Chann3lz, a completely random music video playing jukebox of content, managed by the audience, no registration necessary, all mechanism, no policy..
If you want your own netcast (netcast = podcast, Apple is trademarking podcast), but are not sure how to set one up, get my drop-it-in netcast generator script. Script is provided as-is, use at your own risk, thus I'm not liable if somehow you don't get it to work or it eats your cattle and causes you to lose a bunch of money.
My tutorials require Real Video not because I'm a Real-Rhapsody fan, but because RealVideo happens to be the best format for low-bandwidth tutorials
Rhapsify Everyhit.com looks for albums of a date range precise to a month, providing links to rhapsody-online (and YouTube). YouTubeify Everyhit.com is much better for tracking down music videos to precise songs on "YouTube.com".
BEST WAY TO PERUSE YOUTUBIFIED LINKS
go to url "about:config" in address bar of firefox browser.
toggle 'browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs' to true (pre 1.5; post v1.5, search Advanced Options )
then middle mouse click on each youtubified search link
click on the videos, bookmark, make into playlists, enjoy..
Alternative Content Discovery:Blogdigger, WebJay Trouble Viewing Videos? You need some Codecs: Matroska Pack (good), free-codecs (works, but it may have a Trojan) Need to convert Media format X to media format Y? Use Mediacoder its a freeware media swiss army knife, that is supposedly open source (its on sourceforge, huh?). Need to convert video formats that Mediacoder doesn't? Use AVS Convert , I own a copy myself, and it lets me do stuff with Quicktimes and WMV's that neither Microsoft nor Apple will permit me (note the site looks kinda cheap, but the program isn't. My most favorite rhapsody playlist:Smooth And Punchy Playlist My most favorite bands (and most played): Level 42 (r), Nik Kershaw, Cock Robin, Double (not played, on my wishlist), etc. My most favorite years (musically):1978 (r), pretty much any year from 1976 to 1989 My most favorite movie (note: works, and could be made on a low budget):Brainstorm Most Favorite Music Video (5/12/07):Brinsley Schwarz - Surrender to The Rhythm..
Why is this page so huge: Google can cache it all, audience is broadband users, I use less than 50% of my quota per month. Your most favorite rhapsody playlist:The Brian Eno Playlist Big application wish: SOUNDBLASTER LIVE! PRESET EXPORT, so I can share with you some of my killer rooms.
Cool way other than Chann3lz for listening to audio.
Bag 'O' Tricks Directory lists tips/tricks and reminders and other stuff I would love to clog my header with.
* - Wikipedia is edited by anarchy, don't use for christian inspiration. Christian Bahai is a oxymoron BTW. *! - I use Zonealarm Pro, which is what that flash demo is demonstrating, ZoneAlarm costs about fifty dollars a
year with updates, but is well worth it, it also comes with spyware weeding software, so there is no need for an application like "Ad-Aware",
"Spybot Search & Destroy" or "Spyware Doctor".
Companies/Organizations I Currently Consider Evil or Stupid:
Why?: Claims to save time and accelerate processing
(9/23/07 12:16 AM): Working on another little piece of javascript code, a bookmarklet, that turns every link on a page in youtube
into a link to chann3lz, so that people can watch youtube stuff in chann3lz, or people can add a page of links from youtube to
chann3lz.. And so on.. I found all these great commentaries of people of history and thought, this would be cool to add to
chann3lz's documentary section, but I didn't want to go around, clicking on links and saying "add to chann3lz" and so on.. So this
bookmarklet is almost completely written.. Actually I have it now so it creates links to chann3lz.. I haven't tried it for all
cases, but for the basic case it seems to work well.. BTW, that Antone guy in DIG reminds me of Phil Spector.. I wonder how
closely related great musicians are to mental illness.. He seems kind of schizophrenic paranoia, like in parts of the movie he is
like saying "the police, they are coming to kill me.." .. Then on top of all this he has something like autism, an intense concern
for perfection, for order, and throws a fit when everything is not absolutely perfect.. This could be seen as being a brat, or
being arrogant, but it's probably the case that it tears at his soul when something isn't right, and he explodes in the direction
of the stimulus.. His way of solving problems is by beating the crap out of people, or yelling at them.. It's also possibly the
case that his drug use, such as cocaine, made be extremely agitated by imperfection. I have a english teacher who was alleged to
take cocaine, someone found a vile in her desk.. And I can remember up to that point, she had all the kids in our class drawing
10,000 frames to be scratched, later onto baclk-exposed film.. Note a 10,000 frame movie, and 10fps, is about 1000 seconds or about
15+ minutes of footage.. Then to deal with the impossibility of satisfying his expectations, he'd take heroine to escape from
himself and his own demands, and ensuing demands of others, on himself.. His music, his creativity, was how he justified his
screwd-upped-ness.. It's how he would build back his self-esteem.. I suppose if he didn't have that, it would be something else..
He's replace god with himself, because he doesn't believe in god, and says such things just to insense others and so to say "piss
them off". God his who you acknowledge with the crap hits the fan.. It usually takes a life-threatening occurence to acknowledge
that one is not the center of the universe.. But in any case, whether one believes in god or not, for someone like Antone, I'd
assume that he thinks his talent succeeds everyone else, because it has to (he has no hope of having any value for himself unless
he is..), then once everyone realizes he supremacy, he takes a bunch of drugs to cope with the down of not being able to keep
peoples attention and respect. It's kind of like "look at me, ook what I can do".. Then everyone is happy, he's happy.. And then
everyone goes back to doing what they want and he goes into a spiral of depression and drug use, and self doubt, but something
tells him.. You have to keep on showing these people who you are, or else you might as well die. Or something of this sort..
Either he replies to it with taking drugs, or over-powering people, trying to win love, and so on, anything to satisfy this long to
be acknowledged as genius.. Of course, if nobody considered he was a genius, he'd either die, or strive to "Show them".. I am not
sure where the cycle can be broken, but I figure, he could be taken off the drugs, put on some mood supressants, and put in a
community of people who do things outside his "comfort zone". He might realize that he can do other things, well, and that music is
not his only talent.. But you'd really have to know someone like this, to help them get out of the cycle.. The fear that drives it
all, and it is a fear, a fear of falling, or of starting again, of not achieving ones expectations.. Probably another reason why he
picked on everyone was augmented by an agitation and need to progress, due to pressure.. Maybe his perception of people's
expectations of him are not accurate.. Maybe if others affirmed to him their expectations of him, and their tollerances, maybe even
writing down, somewhere, a process they go through to get something done, maybe books on how to interact with others, from people he
knows, maybe he will build a better cocept of others around him.. Well I'm no psychologist, just am trying to put puzzle pieces
together from what I know of my own problems, which deal with processing sound.. I've been known to get extremely frustrated with
people when two people are expecting me to respond to two questions, fed at the same time.. Or if I'm working on the computer, the
expectation that I should shift my focus and think about discerning words.. I mean, it actually takes some brain power for me to
consider what people are saying, and translate this into information.. I prefer to be on the computer because it is patient, it
will let me manipulate stuff until I'm satisfied, and it's not impatient with me.. I'm sure in some ways, I'm like Antone.. But we
are all a bit screwed up in some way.. Just most people know how to cover up for their failures, how to deal with shortcomings and
beg forgiveness and such.. If you have a great pride in your ability above everyone else, it's tougher understand others, and
understand others understanding of yourself, and so on.. It's the mote in your own eye, so to say..
(9/22/07 5:04 PM): I saw the movie DIG, about The Brian Jamestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols. And the only words that come to
mind are "The Spectacle of bleeding people.. " Well if I was clever, maybe that would go somewhere.. But it's one of those movies
showing the juxtaposition (as is everything in art is some sort of juxtaposition, okay I'm trying to sound clever again, shoot me,
well juxtaposition is nothing but contrast).. Anyhow, the justaposition of true success and the delusion of success hiding hateful
jealousy, the humility and the hyperbole.. As it is said in the bible, those who take the least prominent seat will be exhalted and
those who take the most prominent seat will be humbled.. However in this case, the one being humbled hides his humility in
arrogance. I know the feeling, and the atmosphere is familiar, I was in New York about the same time as when all this was going on,
I suppose.. I've seen at least one person in this video personally, I attended a showing of "Better living through Chemistry" in Al
Pacino's personal theatre in Chelsea, above his bar.. It was a funny experience because everyone there was in the movie, except for
us.. That was a great raver movie.. But I don't know if I would want to be in the room with Antone.. I'm big enough guy I probably
could take the abuse, but he doesn't seem scarey, just abusive.. I need a spell checker for my blog.. Well I suppose if I ever get
to be 90, I'll still be talking like I was in New York yesterday because I cherish all my special opportunities, probably too
much.. I'm an introvert who got to see what it is like to be extroverted for a sliver of my life.. I doubt an extrovert would
cherish the opportunity of being introverted.. Introversion as far as Christianity is concerned, is bad.. Well shyness is bad, but
isn't that introversion.... Interversion, who the heck cares, everyone knows what I mean..
(9/22/07 11:08 AM): You've probably noticed that some videos are still getting repeated, I don't know why that is.. I may need to
put some probes in to see what is causing that, but I think somehow some videos are not getting marked off, after being played..
My parents were getting a divorce in the 70's, this song was among
the songs that took my mind off things.. I think I escaped into the radio, until MTV came to the world.. But the world of Radio in
the late 70s, it was the only thing really interesting about the 70's.. I never really understood what the punk movement was, it
was more of a fight against the artist grinders that they became, denying every group the opportunity to be heard.. Something that
is not so much of a problem these days.. But this song I read was about Busking in England, which is essentially what the Beatles
were doing atop that roof in the early 70s. It was in effect, I think, a protest for the ability to be heard, musically, speech,
whatever.. I don't know the brits, but this is probably why punk rock was so popular there during the 70s. But Gerry Rafferty,
though he got the record contracts, from the time him and his brother did Steelers-"Stuck in the middle with you"-Wheels and so on.
He probably spent years trying to get heard.. I've heard similar with Level 42, who travelled to London thinking that they would
make it big time, and were disappointed.. Now we know with Youtube, it's tough to get everyone heard, people don't have that many
ears or eyes.. But you can at least find your niche.. Thomas Dolby says that he's happy with being this one-hit wonder but now less
famous (from his DVD), he gets instant responses to his playing on the forums.. He said that it used to be the case he'd come home
from a concert and would wonder about the success of that nights concert, probably concerned about his performance, if some mistake
he made distubred the audience or if nobody spotted it, and probably what he did that was right.. The record companies are still
just as deaf as they've been, to the music, it's a business.. But at least the musicians have a democracy finally, they can do
their own marketing, plan tours, etc.. with or without the approval of the record industry.. Busk Busk
Busk..
I don't know what illness I have, but it's making my throat sore.. I
have only two allergens, dust mites and grasses, nothing else.. I think this is Dust mites kicking me.. Anyhow, I love these videos
of people trying new ways of playing guitars..
This was my most favorite Queen album, The Game.. That was the one
that "Another One Bites the Dust" came on, the whole album is a work of art.. Best to get the LP version, I think I stared at the
album forever.. I got it for Xmas, I think.. That was the year I got my first Ghetto Blaster.. The Panasonic Platinum, the same one
that Earth Wind and Fire advertised..
I'm the ultimate sicko, I'm sick as a dog.. No Pun intended.. Sore
throw, somewhere at the back of the nasal cavity.. I might as well be beheaded.. My mind lives on, but I'm dead watching chann3lz,
without the body to control..
I have never seen anything so cruel in all my life.. Whoever thought
up this one is one real sicko.. This is getting trashed.. I let it go by, and thought.. I'm a sicko to leave this on.. It's trash..
Unfortunately there is no way to really permanently remove it.. It will be in the trash pile.. This is like the video where
someone fed like 200 dogs at the same time.. At some chateau.. I'd like to shoot those rich sickos for feeding dogs like that..
Dogs should be out running around.. Catching frisbees.. This reminds me a little bit of that movie from the 70s where these guys
figure out how to capture peoples souls and put them away in a container, so their bodies continue to live on.. I'd like to know
the name of that movie.. The 70s was so full of crazy scarry movies.. Stuff you'd see late at night on channel 11 in Ft. Worth,
where I grew up, at 2 in the morning.. Like that TV show, like ripley's believe it or not, that Leonard Nimoy would
narrate...
Clip 1 of this brawl in Albuquerque that was covered in the news..
And to think there is a prison in Downtown Albuquerque.. You'd think the police would waste no time getting to the
event..
This is why you shouldn't purchase a downtown Albuquerque apartment..
Note, all the time I was living in Manhattan, about two years, I never, never ever saw anything like this.. But I've heard for years
how bad it has been..
Someone and their analog synth.. You can get a Commodore 64 to make
sounds like this without much work.. Ring modulation is commonly use to make ethnic sounds like clunks and clanging glass bottles
and such, this is what came before we had sample playback....
New video cliche, well it's not cliche yet, it will
be..
(9/13/07 1:28 PM): Apple is now trying to sell a version of their iPhone without the phone part. It's the same multi-touch
interface as the iPhone, and has builtin wireless capability, but it is nothing really, more, than a zune with a 50% profit margin.
It's probably costing Apple 150 dollars to make the iTouch. They have a tendencey to overprice their products, I suspect the iPhone
was overpriced by about 300% markup, and then they dropped the 4GB iPhone, and reduced the 8GB one to 400 dollars.. Now their 8GB
iTouch is 300 dollars. If it is a 100% markup, the real price of the iPhone is 200 dollars and the iTouch is 150 dollars.. That
means they could lower the iTouch to 200 dollars, and still have a 33% margin. You can survive on that.. Just that if you are
popular enough, which Apple has about shot with their recent manipulations, you can pull just about any pricing scheme.. When
people saw that in China someone was making something similar to the iPhone, that also had an effect of consumer awareness.. Look
you are not saving American jobs by having Apple stoop lower to satisfy the market, they make the dang things in China anyhow. It
probably costs them even less to make the phones, possibly even 120 dollars.. I mean look at the Insignia mp3 player, look at the
T9, these are roughly similar products, and they are selling for around 100 dollars.. The nano sells for 150 to 200 and it doesn't
even have video playback options like the T9. And Apple makes their products in China.. This is why I don't touch the iPod's or
other Apple products, because they are making a killing, and they have too great a profit margin. I don't pay a 300% markup for
fantastic design, I can hire a few product design experts for that.. All they have is a touch screen, lcd screen, a thin L-ion
battery, a risc processor that can handle video and audio decompression and playback, and about 8GB of memory.. That's probably not
flash memory, as the device is a bit big. It could be chip memory. You know, the chip memory is probably the reason why the iTouch
could cost more.. I mean considering that a 1GB stick for a laptop can sell for about 30 dollars.. At the very least 8GB would sell
for about 120 dollars. So maybe they are justified in the price.. Maybe they are just trying to push product to reduce their losses.
Still I think the iTouch could come down in price, probably to 250.. Or make it like an iPod and bring it down to 160 dollars.. The
hard drive in the iPod can't possibly make that much of a difference in cost, hard drives are cheaper to fabricate, per gig. They
probably just don't want anyone to know that, I mean if they were to come out with a 200 dollar iTouch, that would make the iPod
owners feel bad, but it would allow apple to push a lot of product.. It may also be the case that the iPhone's form factor, which
iTouch has, doesn't allow for a mini hard drive. Anyhow, I'm holding out on getting an Apple product, the iTouch is coming
close, but no cigar.. I like the ability to use wi-fi access points.. Now if, only if, there was an Ubuntu based mp3/mp4 player,
with a running copy of linux with email, firefox, and other components on it, selling for about 160 dollars, I'd consider going out
to purchase that, but if it sold for 130 dollars, that would be a steal.. The touch screen would be nice, but it's not needed..
Maybe other people are wowed by "spielbergesque" touch navigation, but you could get that with a small touch pad from a laptop
without oiling up the screen. Hey, I should probably be on Cranky Geeks.. Ha!
(9/13/07 9:53 AM): Well I got Ubuntu Gutsy Tribe 4__
Linux installed on the Toshiba Satelite A135-227__
that I purchased several months ago. What I had done was deinstalled Vista because I was having permission problems and the DVD
content was skipping on me with the supplied 512MB of ram that came with the laptop. I had actually installed an extra 512MB, but
it's coming up in the memory readings as 800MB, I think I blew a chip.. Anyhow, I deinstalled Vista, then installed XP. But was
upset that Toshiba didn't include any drivers for XP on their site. I went to Youtube and expressed my disastisfaction with a video
entitled Toshiba Sucks__.
Someone in the comment area told me it wasn't a problem with Toshiba, but that Microsoft had discouraged all the
vendors/manufacturers from supporting XP, that they should burn the bridge. But Toshiba had a choice.. Anyhow, since I did the
video, people have found drivers for XP on this laptop, and I'm now writing this message on the very laptop, in Ubuntu Linux,
Gutsy, Tribe 4. I just watched a DVD and have been watching chann3lz on the laptop. I wasn't able to get Art Rage 2__
running in Wine, and for some reason the headphone port doesn't work.. But sound works, it plays dvd's, I can download video with
democracy tv, I can run a web browser on it, what more do you need.. Of course Ubuntu comes with OpenOffice, so getting a word
processor is not a problem.. It doesn't easily play games, making it perfect for a productivity machine. I didn't install the
updates that the machine is nagging me to get, because I had installed it several times before, and it failed with Tribe 5 of
Gutsy, and it failed after I downloaded and installed the updates, so I disabled the updates search.. I probably won't touch
updates for another month or so, until Gutsy is supported.. By that time I hope that more bugs on this laptop are ironed out.
It's funny, back when the Linux
craze was in full swing__,
Toshiba supported linux on the Libretto's__..
I guess they just go wherever the wind takes them.. But they do not know where it is going. BTW, I'm going to see if I can
install Windows XP too, if not on another partition, within a Innotek Virtualbox__
sitting atop Gutsy.
(9/12/07 8:51 AM):
Sarah, hey my father likes her voice.. I was the guy who put up
"What a woman" on the comment area.. Those big bold arms, and that bold soft voice..
Ahhhh..
The original "Black Betty".. Note, on Coverville there is a
"Originalville", and it isn't the April Fools joke from last April.. It's the first real Originalville.. Some pretty suprising
songs, but I knew about Prince's "I Feel For You", which I almost like better than Chaka Kahn's
version..
I still think they should have gotten the Oakridge Boys to sing the
missing bass part, "I surrender all".. "I surrender all".. This is a hugely popular CoC song.. Probably from southern baptists.. I
dunno.. I've attended church for such a long time that I can't listen to a "studio" version without hearing the original.. Same
happens when I sing a Amy Grant retrofitted into a acapella church song.. CoC's (Church of Christ) don't believe in instrument
assisted music, but it's perfectly okay for people who can't sing to sing, it's challenging, but I accept the challenge to retain
harmony despite (makes my sense of pitch stronger when I have someone next to me singing out of tune).. I have a tendency to make
my own parts for songs which keeps them from becoming stale.. I think this is probably why most modern church services don't pass
out sheet music, because some people find arrangments that are not in the sheet music.. Though some who can't improvise get totally
lost.. But given that it doesn't matter if you sing out of key, it's perfectly okay..
What makes this video cool is it is playing backwards.. Meaning they
recorded it performing backwards, walking backwards, saying words backwards (meaning they probably had to rehearse it a bunch of
times, recording it a ton of times, then picking the best take).. Just one of the freedoms of having cheap media, but time
consuming.. Makes me wonder how many times "Say Go" had to do their treadmill choreography before they got it right, and when it
became popular how many times they had to rehearse it until it became second nature, so they could perform it on
request...
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