I am generally a Counting Crows fan, yes, but even I will admit there are certain recordings where lead singer Adam Duritz takes it just a little over the edge into cringe-territory. In his and the band’s defense, both have been through a lot since the days of Mr. Jones (from their first album) and have matured quite a bit. Their live album New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall, however, is truly a culmination of their careers and their musical genius. » Read the rest of this entry «
Blu-ray possibly coming to iTunes (Mac?)
May 19th, 2009 § 2
Several weeks ago Apple seeded out the iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4 and iTunes 8.2 Pre-release to the developers enrolled in their iPhone developer program. The release had varying minor to major changes to both the iPhone and iTunes but one poster on the MacRumors forum found something pretty interesting in the About iTunes window.
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Setting up aggregate devices in OS X 10.4+
May 18th, 2009 § 1
I’ve mentioned on this blog before that I’ve experimented with using Guitar Rig to produce guitar tones through my MacBook. Setting up such a rig is pretty straightforward but I ran into an interesting problem when it came to routing sound from the input jack on my laptop to the Guitar Rig application. With some research and tinkering, I found a solution that works perfectly. If you can’t figure out how to get your guitar input into Guitar Rig, this tutorial is for you. » Read the rest of this entry «
The feeling won’t go
January 1st, 2009 § 0
Have you ever wanted something more than anything? It could be anything. It could be a material item, a feeling, or a person. What happens when you finally get it?
Sometimes you are in paradise. I mean, a pure psychedelic, transcendental inebriation of absolute euphoria. You’d sell your soul to whichever deity could keep freeze that moment for you. Even Mephistopheles himself, as Faust had done. Betraying your eternity for an instant of complete satisfaction. To just hold that moment in your hand, next to your heart or mind, whichever was more overwhelmed.
But what about the other times? What do you do when you finally achieve your desire and you don’t feel as you thought you would? What happens when the emotions evoked by such an event aren’t those you thought would rush the floodgates of your mind, spilling down your soul and intoxicating your heart? Every feeling is meaningless and contradictory, betraying your hopes and desires. Inversely, you would sell that same soul to whichever deity could make this pain pass. You begin to question yourself, even blame yourself for not feeling like you think you ought. Your mind wanders and wonders. Every thought becomes an indecipherable concoction of feeling and reason. The line between your heart and mind begins to blur. Why aren’t you satisfied? Was it not enough, or did you expect too much? Probably so.
Where do you go from here? You’ve attained the unattainable, and now feel the crushing foot of insatiable desire. Were you foolish? Surely not.
Why can’t you settle for less? Maybe there’s nothing less to settle for? Perhaps what you thought was more than enough isn’t anywhere near what you need. Maybe you don’t know what you need. That’s probably so. If you had you wouldn’t be feeling this way.
Oh well, you’ll heal, right? Time heals all wounds. Bullcrap. Time masks wounds. It’s like when the waves on a beach gradually carry in sand and cover up a wayward shoreline boat. When the waves get rough the boat resurfaces, in a worse form than before.
God, somehow you know that boat is me.
America Doesn’t Know Talent
September 3rd, 2008 § 0
Has anyone noticed that on NBC’s show America’s Got Talent that two of three judges of “American talent” are not even American at all? Apparently this means that Americans do not recognize talent when they see it. Furthermore, there are even people on this show that admittedly only came to America to compete in this show.
So let’s some this up: On America’s Got Talent, two out of three judges aren’t even American, and not all of the contestants are even American.
My best guess is Hollywood is taking advantage of Americans’ patriotic spirit to draw more viewers into their show. It’s not about “America’s Talent” at all.
For some reason I’ve watched the Olympics this year
August 21st, 2008 § 0
I’ve generally ignored the Olympics in the past. Of course, given the fact the last few times I was incredibly young and didn’t get anything out of watching them. But for some reason this time it’s different. I’ve actually watched some coverage about every night or at least checked up on them at NBC Olympics to see what’s up.
Few notes:
- Michael Phelps is all that is man.
- Usain Bolt is literally a freaking lightning bolt.
- Shawn Johnson is kinda hot.
- Okay, about all of the USA’s gymnastic women were kind of.