Just noticed a rather sneaky little bug. The archive pages for March entries only list March (not April) as an available full-month archive page. Odd. My guess is that I just need to rebuild all the individual pages. But doing that on a monthly basis is kind of annoying. Perhaps I should replace myself with a small shell script to get that done...
Update: Rebuilding seemed to work. Good.
I fully recommend the band Múm. It's weird, unless you keep an open mind or are already in to stuff like Boards of Canada etc., you'll probably not think to highly of it. But I recommend it. Honestly, I think it's some of the most beautiful music I've heard in a very long time. "Green Grass of Tunnel" from the album Finally We Are No One makes me happy. The album Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK in its entirety is similarly smile-inspiring. I love this stuff.
As an aside, I realize it's very non-music-elitist of me to have not thoroughly consumed Múm's ouevre already, as they're days of big hype were like in 2001 or something. But oh well. I'm just now getting around to it.
As another aside, if you dig Múm at normal volumes, it's even better really loud. Give it a try. At any rate, this is probably some of the music I'd want to be listening to if I knew I my hearing was going to fail soon anyway. :)
Woohoo. BitTorrent is working again on campus. Sweet. I'm currently downloading episodes 1-5 of Full Metal Alchemist. I've heard good things. As well as the first ten episodes of Slam Dunk! I've heard good things there too. I'm also embarking on an effort to redownload all 75 or so episodes of Hikaru no Go for long-term archival on my big ass hard drive. Wee.
Thanks to Lane for recommending a fantastic band: The Fiery Furnaces. It's rather late for me to go about trying to describe them. I'm horrible at it anyway.
I initially got a Mates of State vibe from them. There's piano there. Which is like an organ, I guess. And guy-girl vocals. But I just chalked that up to hearing them about the same time I saw Mates live. Turns out it's a brother-sister duo, so to some extent, I was at least somewhat close on that initial impression.
I also detect a hint of The White Stripes in there. Not exactly, but sort of. They've got that sort of bluesy, roots feel at time. The instrumentation is much wackier, and definitely not as sparse as the Stripes (or Mates of State for that matter). In any event, AMG lists the Stripes as a "similar artist," so again I am vindicated.
All in all, this is great stuff. The tracks "Two Fat Feet" and "Asthma Attack" are my favorites of the generally-quite-good album Gallowsbird's Bark. Check it out.
Google is a very powerful search tool. We all know that. But Googlism might be even more powerful... well, at least in the fields of dubious information and non-sequitor humor.
Presumably, it parses search results from Google and extracts data from them, resulting in often-humorous descriptions. Some particularly funny examples:
- kentucky is a very interesting state if you happen to be interested in it
- new jersey is the back door to hell
- new jersey is not blue * nor is pennsylvania
- new jersey is buff colored
- ninja is stuck on puree
- ninja is speared through the leg
- ninja is a ninja ninjaman
- ninja is too much funk (!!)
- spam is glue for male bonding
- google is just the juice (??)
- google is $deity
- google is not god
Hilarious, self-contradictory automatically generated nonsense. And so insightful.