Posts by Peter Darlington
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By the way, hands up if you knew Russell Brand had a football blog.
Not only that, the man is a Hammers fan. I really don't know how I feel about that. He did do a great job of baiting the Nazis though.
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That, and his album is freaking lovely....
Thought the first 2/3s or so was pretty good but it kind of tails off in the end like he didn't quite know how to finish it.
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Nightmares on Wax, Peter? Nice.
Thanks Jackie, I'm generally a big fan of the Pork Recordings whanau including Fila Brasilia, Solid Doctor and trippy breakbeat house in general.
Osbourne Ruddock, nice.
Heh, I gotta get more of the Tubbster into iTunes though, all mine is on CD.
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I don't mind creating a PAS group on Last.fm if there are enough people interested in jumping on, it's not like it's very onerous if you are already a last.fm user. The only stipulation is that more than 3 people have to be interested to make it viable (less than three means the group is deleted), and it would be only polite to have Russell's agreement as the PAS Hoochie Mama.
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So you're saying I need to sign up to Last.fm? I used to listen to Pandora at a previous place of work, until they were all like "would you mind not eating up all of our internet with your streaming music?"
You don't need to be streaming from Last.fm. The interesting bit would be the scrobbling it does from your iTunes or WMP (or other) client activity and how it uses this to compile things like Top Artists and most popular tunes for different groups.
Unlike Robin above, I think of PAS as being a diverse interests group with music playing a reasonable part. So it would be interesting to see where our music playing leads in terms of popularity and also would be a good shared spot to pick up some new tune or band ideas from. I know my taste is fairly similar to Russell's and Simon Grigg's but probably miles away from many others.
Could be mildly interesting anyway and another way to hook up.
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Soulseek or those naughty Scandinavians works fine for more popular or well-known stuff, but obscure New Zealand releases it doesn't handle too well at all
True, although it's pretty good for non-mainstream international stuff.
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Speaking of all this e-music malarkey, and PAS readers devotion to tunage. It would be cool to set up a PAS group on Last.FM so all this playlist playing could be shared and seeing a Top 20 for PAS would be kind of interesting as well. My Last.FM profile is here, anyway.
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OK. I still reckon I can make better play lists though.
Agreed. Playlists are like baking. They should only be done with the greatest of love and care in mind. I'll stick to the home baking thanks.
BTW - has anyone found a workabel way to rip vinyl to MP3?
Yep, install Soulseek and grab a decent digital copy of all your vinyl tunes. Trust me, it may eat some bandwidth but it'll save you a whole load of pain and suffering. And it's kind of legit as you already own the songs.
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Shoeless Thoughts:
1. When my kids were much younger we had friends visiting, one was from England and he visibly winced at our kids running up and down our gravel drive in bare feet. He couldn't believe that they could do it.
2. In Spain earlier this year. Shoeless is very very bad and our almost constantly shoeless kids got a lot of laughter and pointing from the local kids who were all immaculately dressed, including shoes.
3. Also in Spain. The young kids and teens on the metro looking for gullible tourists to rip off would always start with a shoe check. Fancy, shiny shoes, especially shiny white ones beloved of a certain type of tourist meant sure money. Beat up Converse sneakers with ripped jeans, not so much.
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Which is why we just know the Biden / Palin debate is going to be a blast. She has already started with her "I remember his speeches from 2nd grade" jibes. I bet there is a whole lot more where that came from.
Including her thoughts on the bailout:
""But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the -- oh, it's got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, um, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we've got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is part of that."
From the WaPo
Ahem, yes I guess that clears that up then...