Tag Archive for 'ipod'

alaska, by itself, has as much coastline as the rest of the u.s.

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gregor
on September 10, 2008
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happy birthday, little buddy! this pic was taken shortly after losing a hard faught battle with the corner of a wall. sadly, he and his head lost. the remnants of the battle can be seen around his right temple.

dont know about you, but i was pretty disappointed by todays ipod unveilings. sure, the nano looks actually pretty sweet, its hard to fit hundreds of gigs of shit on one. dont even get me started on the touch refresh and they drop the 160 gig classic. feels like they are going backwards here. i know the classic will eventually, if not shortly, be phased out but they really got to get that touch capacity up to about 80-100 before i am will consider one. ok, i could 64 gigs, but dont even try to charge $500 for it.

if for some strange reason you haven’t checked out okkervil river’s the lovely new record, stand ins, you probably should. really, fuckin do it. jeez…

lost coastlines

okkervil river site

touch and go just announced that they recently signed atlanta trio all the saints to their already almost untouchable roster. sadly, i had not heard of these young lads until today, but i am really liking the first single, “sheffield,” from their record fire on corridor x/. they sound a bit like raise era swervedriver or maybe early jesus and mary chain. fire on corridor x is out now on killer pimp, but will be released digitally via touch and go on today, or well i guess yesterday depending on your time zone and on wax on 11.14. so, you got options here people. regardless of the road you choose definitely check em out.

sheffield

all the saints via touch and go

denton, tx’s matthew and the arrogant sea’s interestingly titled family family family meets the magic christian is coming out or maybe out now on robert gomez and eric pulido of midlake’s nova posta vinyl label. havent gotten a chance to delve into it yet, but so judging by these two tracks it sounds interesting enough to warrant a few listens.

riyl: fleet foxes, midlake, beach house, maybe the moody blues, iron and wine

pretty purple top hat

mock origami

matthew and the arrogant sea myspace

the ladies at when awake coerced bj warshaw of parts and labor fame to come clean on his “top 10 countryish/folkish songs by artists that people don’t consider to be country/folk.” clicky here for the goods. parts and labor, who? you say? here’s a track from their excellent record, mapmaker.

fractured skies


i think of things unpure, unchaste

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gregor
on September 9, 2008
in announcement, new stuff and shows
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hola! so new ipods out today, supposedly. i am truly hoping that they come out with a 64 gig touch for about $399. not that i have any business buying one, but thats what i wishing upon a star for. they have to drop that 32 gigger to $299 or $349 or something. hmm, gizmodo is reporting rumours that no new storage bumps on the touch, but if they can drop it to $299 i may have to indulge myself or if someone wants to send me one, i would be forever grateful. 

hey a new deerhoof song! its called “offend maggie” off the upcoming album of the same name. offend maggie is due out on 10.7. diggin it thus far…

clicky here for tour dates

offend maggie

for those that werent able to make exile in guyville recreation shows, here be your chance to hear what went down. sadly, i havent been able to hear much of it as of yet, but its a nice sounding recording. btw, did you happen to check out her matrix inspired “fuck you” to the mainstream? oh its fucking bad. hit idolator up to view. you have been warned though. as one of the commenters stated “usually with acting this bad somebody eventually gets naked” or something like that. pretty much sums it up though.

all my love to persistent for the recording…

the whole she-bangs

1. 6′ 1″

2. help me, mary

3. glory

4. dance of the seven veils

5. never said

6. soap star joe 

7. explain it to me

8. canary

9. mesmerizing

10. fuck and run

11. girls! girls! girls!

12. divorce song

13. shatter

14. flower

15. johnny sunshine

16. gunshy

17. stratford-on-guy

18. strange loop


were the handcuffs totally necessary, officer?

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on October 9, 2007
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my ipod has died. long live my ipod! in a bit of foresight on my part, i ordered the new 160 gigger when they were announced, but my better judgement weighed in and helped me decide that i didnt necessarily need a new ipod. i tried to tell my better judgement to mind its own fuckin business, but he’s a strong son of a bitch. so, luckily i had bought the protection care thing a couple of years back. i am kinda glad it went out when it did cause the warranty was going to run out in 42 days, and now i am supposed to be receiving a new one or i guess a refurbed. no matter as long as i get one back. although, apple totally pissed me off after it was suggested to me by the people in their warranty dept that i contact my local apple store because they supposedly should have been able to replace it for me. when i called the apple store at north lenox in atlanta i spoke a woman that would neither confirm nor deny that they had a back stock of 5th gen ipods. i didnt want to make the trip there unless i knew for sure that they could supply me with a new one as the people in the warranty dept claimed they would be able to do. she was a total pain in the ass that i eventually just hung up on her - something i really hate doing but she was so freakin irksome that it just had to be done. so for the next seven - ten days i am using my sprint supplied lg muziq. its really not any kind of substitute, but i have about 200 songs on a 2 gig micro sd card that will suffice for now. one awesome thing is that i still am receiving unlimited music downloads, thanks to sprint, and they really do have a pretty great selection, surprisingly.

two gallants play this fine evening @ drunken unicorn. i have yet to hear their new record but their previous, what the toll tells, is really great. i have been told that they are an aquired taste, i dont think so, but its probably due in large part to the dramatic story telling nature of their chosen genres, a sub species of americana and folky punk. their new self titled record is out, now.

the hand that held me down

despite what you’ve been told

waves of grain from what the toll tells

two gallants site

ok, so there’s this hoosier now brooklynite, aaron stout, that’s releasing his 2004 debut, queens live in caskets, in 2007. not too sure what has happened the past 3 years that would delay its release in the states, but whatever. queens live in caskets sounds like it was recorded in a closet, kinda like, how legened would have it, on avery island supposedly was. queens live in caskets shares no similarities with avery other than they both are dyi in nature and have a sense of stoner like urgency about em. “the coronation” could be straight off destroyer’s streethawk if only bejar was channeling kevin shields instead of bowie.

the coronation

fountain of youth

aaron stout site / myspace

there is no more inconspicuous rock star than paul simon. the man writes amazing songs and composes some of the most beautiful pieces of music i have ever heard, all while looking like a small town used car salesman. if you only listened to one simon record, i couldnt recommend graceland enough. its definitely in my top 15 of all time and me thinks it should be required listening in order to join some kinda club that doesnt exist.

here is a beautiful soundboard recording from the hollywood bowl in la on 9.27.91. part two will be posted later tonight.

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try the holy water, death breath!

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gregor
on August 3, 2007
in lyle lovett, mary timony and oakley hall
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can someone answer me something? why is it, and this only happens half the time, when i update my ipod it sometimes alphabetizes all the “the” artists together and the sometimes, not? also, sometimes i can get it to scroll and the letters will show up on the screen and then other times, again, not. 

i am going to be in raleigh, nc for a day/night next week. can anyone recommend a good place to eat/grab a beer or two or three? keep in mind i will be with a 3 year old. thanks! 

i have been listening to oakley hall’s gypsum strings quite a bit as of late. when it came out last year i listened the hell out of it, then i just stopped. that happens quite a bit and i suppose burnout tends to happen to those of us who tend to be a bit obsessive. as it turns out they have a new record coming out on merge entitled i’ll follow you - its due out on 9.11. i didnt even know they signed to merge, or did i? its hard to keep up.

no dreams from i’ll follow you 

lazy susan from gypsum strings

living in sin in the usa

landlord from second guessing

eyes, lock & steel

oakley hall site / myspace / merge

mary timony always reminded me of a little sprite. like i could scoop her up, put her in my pocket and she would sing me wonderful little sprite songs as we went about our merry way. enough with my prepubescent fantasies. mary’s got a fairly new record out called the shapes we make. i havent heard it but i am sure its grand.

sharpshooter from the shapes we make

friend to jc from ex hex

pats trick from helium’s dirt of luck

mary timony site / kill rock stars 

here’s the remainder of the lyle show from vienna, va on 7.7.97

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damn you engadget! pavement on the bbc

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gregor
on November 12, 2006
in pavement, shows, techno-babble and tunes
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i stole this photo from engadget, which as i have stated before is the best site, technology or otherwise on the net. one of the many things that i love about engadget is that the staffs collective writing style is very conversational, and they dont get too technical just to prove they can - see boring as hell and really quite pompus. the past weeks visits to engadget have ben a bit painful though. with all the ps3, wii and zune it made me realize that my pocketbook doesnt match my technological aspirations/wants. regarding the zune, i dont want one but i still would love to play with it. i found this tid bit of information pretty funny. in order to install the zune you must register it first - which is totally insane if you ask me. i dont believe that apple requires this, do they? apparently, a zune was purchased a couple of days early at some mega retailer and when they went to install it they kept getting errors. as it turns out in order to install the software it must connect to the zune servers/database which are not up yet because the zune has yet to be officially released. i think that its a fair assumption that the zune is going to bomb.

my wife and i have been together for almost 9 years, and in that time there has not been a week that has gone by that i have not listened to a pavement record in her presence. it has not been until recently that she has finally started sharing my love, of pavement that is. dont know what the hell changed in her brain, but damn bitches be crazy.

this can now be found here

here is a pavement bbc radio show from 99

1. the hexx

2. you are the light

3. here

4. cream of gold

5. ann dont cry

6. stereo

7. father to a sister of thought

8. carrot rope

9. cut your hair

10. trigger cut

11. shady lane

ok, here is a question i am posing to your dear person(s) i have heard some rumblings that its a pain in the ass to download each individual track especially when a post contains more than 10 tracks.? would you prefer that i provide a link to a .rar file that contains all the tracks? keep in mind that i am fairly lazy, so maybe what i will do then is only provide a couple of track direct links, but the also provide the .rar file. let me know if you care.