Barenaked Ladies have a new album out: “Snacktime.” As the name implies, it’s geared toward kids, and from what I’ve heard of it, they do a good job pulling that off. I’ve seen a couple of their videos – which are animated in a sort of wacky, zany style – and have no trouble imaging my kids loving the songs and their videos. If you have iTunes, you can click on the “iTunes” button and go to the page in the iTMS for the album.
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Todays drive into work was pretty atypical for several reasons. One was that I left the house when I meant to – since Jen was long gone when this happened, and the kids weren’t actually fighting me (for a change), this was a pleasant surprise. Drop off went well, so that was good. A left, a right, a left, another left, and one more right and I’m on the highway – but the iPod is coming up with nothing but things I just don’t want to hear. I had yesterday off so the family could visit my Aunt and Uncle who are visiting from Australia, so today is my Monday. I needed a little something to pick me up and get me going. It was a long hard road to finding something – I was 3/4 of the way to work when it finally happened: “Hot for Teacher”, from Van Halen’s “1984″.
That song is only about 3 or 4 minutes long, so I had to find something else to fit into the remaining 5 minutes of my drive. What to do, what to do? The iPod was picking out more stuff I didn’t want to hear – including several passages from an audio book that really, really needs to come off there – when suddenly I heard “Angry People” by Barenaked Ladies, off of “Are Me & Are Men Deluxe Edition”. It’s a double CD set that I got off of the iTunes Music Store, and it’s chock full of BNL good-ness. Keep in mind that it’s called “Are Me”, but it’s supposed to be read like “Barenaked Ladies Are Me” – or, as they put it on their podcast, “Barenaked Ladies Army” since their fans are so very loyal. Just a fun little tidbit for you there. Anyway, “Angry People” is kind of a happy, upbeat song, despite the name, and it helped continue the momentum built by “Hot for Teacher” to get me into a mindset that I’d be able to tackle the day.
Of course, when I remembered that today isn’t Monday, and that I still have a piece of go-suh work cell phone and I have no idea when or if a replacement is coming. It works, but the battery won’t hold a charge anymore – I need to charge it about once a day, and I don’t use it to make more than two or three calls a day. BAD CELL PHONE!
But then I get to the office and there’s good news! The new phone – a nice, shiny new phone – has arrived. A phone call, some idle chatter w/ the Verizon rep, and an activation later, and I’m playing with my new RAZR V3mI don’t want this to turn into a giant “Verizon is evil” rant, so I’m going to stop here, but point out that it’s my phone, and I think I know what I want better than they do. Well, ok, it’s the State of Connecticuts phone, but I have the same issues with my personal phone. Anyway, that’s enough of that.
Tube Lines – Any old iron? Disused tube carriages being turned into studio space
A startup company over in the UK is taking old Tube cars (subway cars for the Americans) and turning them into studio space for muscians.
How cool is that?
This is kinda neat:
There’s a plugin for most MP3 players that will pass your info to the service – and apparently some for hardware devices like the iPod. I’m going to spend too much time playing with this, I suspect, but it’s going to be fun when everything is set up.
Eliot 12:54 on 2006/10/22 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Dude, how do I get one to turn into my new apartment?