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Bohemians Per Meter

In my previous entry, I alluded to the fact that there’s something else I’m doing to the MP3 files I’ve ripped from my CD Collection, as well as the ones I’ve downloaded from eMusic. I’m running MixMeister’s BPM Analyzer on the entire collection. This analyzes the track and sets the “BPM” (Beats Per [...]

Summer Of Upgrades, Six

“Sheesh”, you’re probably thinking at this point, “What more could this dude have possibly wasted money on lately?”
One of my goals is to rip my entire CD collection to MP3 files on the computer, like my bandmate DJ Smallberries recently did. I want to get everything into iTunes, or whatever will eventually replace it. [...]

Summer Of Upgrades, Two

In this entry, I talked about my problem playing MP3s on the stereo of my Prius, since the CD player in the 2005 version will not play MP3 CD-Rs. And since I download a lot of MP3s from eMusic, and also have a vast MP3 collection ripped from my CD library, I needed a [...]

The Sliced Bread Scale

Fun with the Bumbershoot Band Bio Generator:
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A history of indie rock icons: Charterstone Mob
Since forming in their cousin’s basement in Boca Raton, Charterstone Mob found themselves at the top of the the indie rock scene in 2005 with their debut album, Meddle. The band’s latest album, Last Intervention, mixes Martha Worthless’s nonsensical lyrics with lo-fi [...]

I’m Just Passing My Time

While I’ve been “away”, guest blogger InfK helpfully posted an interim message in the comments of the previous post. I felt I should elaborate on the points. So here we go:
Flasshe has been distracted lately, so I’ll try to help out with a simulated post based on a weighted average of his past [...]

The Victim Of A Series Of Accidents

Kurt Vonnegut, one of our greatest American writers, died this week at the age of 84. I haven’t read a lot of Vonnegut, but what I have read, I’ve enjoyed. Like many authors I admire, I’ve always wanted to have the time to go through and read everything he wrote. Though the [...]

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