Lost And Found Three (this post actually took some effort)

I recently got into my head that I ought to do something about all of my digital music that doesn't have an artist tag. Over the years, I've had several knackered hard drives, so it's pretty amazing that anything is intact. I'm convinced that the ipod did some interesting stuff to some of the files. I found Smog's Forgotten Foundation among the mystery files. I also found some Big Black bootlegs, which are pretty great. The "auto-tag" function in Winamp is pretty good, but it doesn't help for King Crimson bootlegs, or some other unidentifiable cool stuff.

It did help out with a lot of strange stuff that I don't remember stealing/downloading--most of it seems to be relatively far-out stuff. I didn't bother to double-check to make sure that the software was right, though. Check it out (and let me know if I've got something wrong):

• Aphrodite's Child - You Always Stand In My Way (3:54) -- Reminds me of Roky Erickson with the painful-sounding vocals; I love the stutter bass line; this song should've had a cool change.
  

• Los Iberos - Corto Y Ancho (2:10) -- Finally, a song that I can relate to.
  

• The Blues Magoos - Sometimes I Think About (4:13) -- I dig the organ sound.
  

• Ways & Means - Make The Radio A Little Louder (2:15) -- big woofie low end; horns; lots of echo!
  

• Cassandra Wilson - Easy Rider (7:03) -- I dig the glissando bass. One of these songs doesn't belong (this one). It's nice to have some bluesy chill-out music in the middle of the set, right?
  

• Birmingham Sunday - You're Out Of Line (2:52) -- Lots of overdrive on the organ; groovy, man.
  

• The Zombies - You Make Me Feel Good (Live) (2:23) -- I think that one of my cousins married a zombie, but it might have been an animal. I can't remember. Something is wrong with the file, too, so it cuts off the ending of the song, apparently.
  

• The Tages - I Should Be Glad (2:21) -- Is that 12-string electric? I'm not sure, but this one fits in with most of the rest of these songs.
  

Ack! This Is Not Cool.

What I get out of this advertisement (it's really real), is that Microsoft has created software that allows anyone to be Wesley Willis. Dig it:



And compare it to this:



The Song Smith does allow for the creation of some interesting 'remixes,' though.

Yahoo Media Player Rocks.

I'm totally enjoying the easy playin' of websites using this one. It's especially sweet on pedal manufacturer sites, and stuff like this (I think that it's a Zoom H2 used to record).

Currently, I'm obsessing about hand held recorders, again. I just need to get some funds together for a H4. I think that's my best bet, after using Josh's to do up the BLS stuff. It's mighty powerful, even if it feels plastic and cheap. It's priced right, and sounds amazing. It could be cool to bootleg shows, record rehearsals, and do some writting (since I gave away my 8-track, I can't get all crazy with songwriting--I don't even require 8 tracks for writting, though). I'd like to record some of my friends that do the 'dude with a banjo' thing.

Back to the topic...check out the easy easy yahoo media player.

I Am A Guitar Zero (insert parenthetical here)

Everyone that knows me, fucking knows that I'm not much of a home video game player, like men my age are supposed to be, according to my mother. I do love pinball games (I might just school your ass on solid state tables on a good night--I need to drag Fuckin' Ronny up to Lyons), and certain arcade games of antiquity (I heart puzzle games) , but my Playstation 2 is virtually unused (that perspective shit makes me ill). I was totally addicted to DOOM in college, though (almost flunked out because of that).

I recently discovered an open source (whoot!), PC version of Guitar Hero, called Frets On Fire.

I suck at this shit, really. I've been attempted to rock out with my cock out, and it's just not happening. I can sort of pull off Danzig's Mother on the "supaeasy" setting, but I still can't do it right (this is fucking embarassing, because that's probably the easiest song ever written). As it turns out, the video game version is way way way more difficult than actually playing the fuckin' song.

I suck; I'm a banjo nobody.

This game sounds like it's more my speed (I just discovered it). Weed, yo. I think that I'll give it a shot. It sounds like games that I played back in the day on the BBS.
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Now playing: Bad Luck City - Andrew's Happy Song

Holy Jeebus

Those last posts certainly render better within the edit mode of the blooger. It's pretty to me, I promise.