(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
I was expecting something different, but I like the thrash / pearl
jam mix of this.. I have a bit of emotional disconnect.. I guess its all those war games I've played.. But I know I'm supposed to
hurt here.. But its war, biz as usuall.. War, what's it good for.. Huh, Nothing.. But war video games, are a heck of a lot of fun,
if you don't let the frustration get to you.. I try to be a good sport, but I'm not the best..
(12/31/07 5:35 PM): Had thought about going to my friend Nate's house for games, in Albuquerque.. Its a 90 mile drive from where I
am.. I was at the opthamologist, they dilated my eyes soo much that I was wearing those rolloup dark glasses practically all day..
It was kinda cool, though, they took my eye pressure with a little device that touches the eye.. It was a funny experience because
the prick didn't occur where I thought it would, because my eyes were dilated, my depth perception was skewed and it was as if she
too a magic wand and pierced a force field in the air 3 feet in front of me, and distorted the air.. She was like "sorry sorry, I
know this is tough".. I was like "wow, this is so cool, you can do this to me anytime..".. I've never done drugs, but this was
cool.. But it kept me from a good night with friends at new years.. Okay.. I'll just hang out on the Z.. Sent email to B-52's
to see if its alright for me to use this name.. I don't know what they are going to say, if anything.. Hopefully they don't mind..
But I think it would be dumb to exploit it, like some TV show, because the message is "get away from TV".. And I'm sure it goes
against their wishes in a way.. But I think the evil is more centralized media.. Well it is for me.. I like seeing other new people
from other places in the world.. I like to see what other people think is cool, but I don't want to see what the majority thinks is
cool, its so boring, and you know that half the people are watching that stuff on youtube that gets popular because a friend of a
friend of a friend sent it, and they are just trying to jack up the popularity.. I don't have a problem with people being popular,
I like good music and content, but things can get stale.. I need to figure out a way to keep chann3l from getting stale.. I think
its working, but its not it that does it, its everyone together.. Its amazing I think, how people can communicate so well without
writing text or talking to each other.. And I have to wonder who it is that is on the other end of this station, but I don't want
to know, it would spoil the fun.. I'll save that for another project.. But this is my favorite one now..
Nickelback is just a band, thou shalt always
kill.
Note, I've been fanatical like this about a band, for me it was ELO.. But I get sick of listening
to ELO, now I love everything.. But Nickelback.. Sounds like yet another Pearl Jam rip off.. I never listen to the lyrics.. I'm
into the energy of the music an harmony..
Here is a place I'd like to visit, Chick Corea just happens to be
playing there.. The "Palau de la Música Catalana" in Spain, evidently styled by Gaudi.. I'm a huge Art Nouveau fan.. It was a era
in art that was made short by the first world war, the whole idea was to bring nature into architecture and industrial design. When
I lived in New York for the first several months I had dreams like this, which are typical I guess of someone who came from a
natural atmosphere and going into a man made world.. It's too much a shock of the senses that somehow your brain (or at least mine)
is striving and trying to grasp for something natural and organic, which is impossible to find in NYC).
(12/29/07 9:22 PM): Correction, the iPod Nano (video) is not a 640x480 screen, its 320x240.. But about a month or so ago they were
saying it was 640x480! Or someone was.. Well that makes me feel better, its only a little better than the Samsung T9.. But I doubt
the Nano makes as efficient use of the pixels as the Samsung T9 does..
(12/15/07 8:52 PM): Check out Classic Cinema Online__
(), I'm getting a video podcast feed from them via Miro on Ubuntu, but you can wath the movies streamed from your web
browser.. I watched "It happened one night" with Clark Gable(w)__
and Claudette Colbert(w)__..
It's a bit old, but a heck of a good film.. Better than most modern Hollywood movies.. I'm watching "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington",
which is a bit like "My favorite year", a similar story, an idiot about politics is put into office (sounds familiar)..
(12/14/07 11:17 PM): Cheap Ass Bastards in Hollywood, I was going to buy gift certificates for my sister-ln-law, who likes to watch
movies at the arclight__,
in Hollywood.. And I thought, oh two 10 dollars Gift Certificates, not a bad deal.. Then I look down, what's that, a 8 dollar
shipping charge for basic shipping 5-8 days.. Bullshit, utter and complete Bullshit!! (note: I could not help those words coming
out of my mouth, its like when its almost pleasurable, with full justification, to use profanity, ahhh..) Who are they fooling?
And 20 dollars for next day air!! Hollywood Soup Nazi__
Jerks.. Should black list them all.. They are screwing Microsoft's Vista by requiring all this PVP-OPM__
crap into the OS and hardware, now they are charging an arm and a leg for delayed revenue with the possible chance of a profit
(someone loses their gift certificate), which is all gift certificates are.. I've had it up to here with Hollywood.. They can't
produce a sing damn movie worth watching anymore, and they want special treament, I hope they all go up in a bonfire.. 8 to 20
dollars for shipping, on a 10, or 25 dollars gift certificate.. Chances are that is per item.. Lame, Lame, Lame.. I'm just giving
her money.. Now to see what iTunes gift-certificates cost on shipping.. Sorry for the profanity, just feel like sometimes it is
called for.. I can't believe these arclight nazi guys..
(12/10/07 12:12 AM): uW2y_PpVV5Y::Whoa, Fantasy Island, I was only hoping to find "da plane, da plane" on youtube.. But a
whole episode? Wow!! .. With Charro and the guy who plays George Jefferson..
(12/9/07 11:53 PM): Okay its back up
(12/9/07 11:45 PM): Youtube on this day at this time, goes completely down without any explanatory message, just "Http/1.1 Service
Unavailable"... I guess the sysadmin saw "2 Girls 1 cup".. BTW, I haven't seen it nor do I want to.. I gathered it was two girls
eating poop.. But the gist of the thing is there is no video on youtube of it anywhere.. But there is tons, I mean tons of videos
of peoples reactions, and I have to admit they are sooo funny.. But it can't be as bad as the fungus that ate a mans face.. I
still can't get over that one.
Very soulfull singing there.. You can almost understand what she is
saying without really knowing the language..
(12/5/07 11:13 PM): George Bush Jr. is a joke.. He's a Rovian puppet.. He doesn't know shit.. Never did.. If you've seen videos
like "War Tapes" or "Bush's Brain", you will come to realize that Bush was put in office by Karl Rove, and upon 9/11 they had no
intelligence, nor a clue what to do.. They were not going to look for bin laden, so they went for Saddam, because they had
something of a blank check... In the "War Tapes", which was video taping of the actual experiences of soldiers on the battlefield
and interviews with others, you will find out that for the first month we did nothing, there was no battle plan, there was lots of
looting, the troops were told to let the looting occur.. The looter looted musuems.. We didn't have translators.. And Donald
Rumsfeld arranged bounties to capture potential terrorists.. The bounties were filled mostly with innoncent civilians, two of which
were just some comedians that had offended syrian officials.. Because the bounties were not conditional, it people were turning in
undesireable friends and family for the bounties. The reason why the prisoners in guantanimo are denied rights to a hearing even
to haebeus corpus, is the bush administration is afraid to say this war was a mistake and they were reponsible for the blunder.
They have all sorts of reasons to pursue terrorists, but terrorism is not really stoppable, its just like trying to stop kids for
sniping mall goers, like the ones of recent. You can pursue terrorists, you can pursue drug traffic, you and pursue all sorts of
difficult to control things, but this administration won't even take care of the things that are within grasp.. The purpose for
pursuing this war is, I think, tied up in pride of the representatives of this war... I serriously feel Bush should be impeached.
Even if he doesn't he will go down in history the same way Nixon did.. He really does not have mcuh to look foreward to.. He may
think so, but he should have never become president.. Karl Rove, I think should be put in prison.. Because he was the one who
convinced Bush he could run for president.. Bush Jr. has no leadership tallents, he was just the son of a president with the same
name, that's the only reason he was voted into office.. If you put him in a room in front of press without any advisors, he would
not be able to function at all.. This was the worst administration in office since Nixon, I really trully believe that, if not the
worse ever..
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