NPR’s podcasting had been my favorite discovery of 2005. I’ve always enjoyed listening to the programing on WGBH, but most of time I don’t catch the shows I want to hear. Since Howard Stern left terrestrial radio earlier this month the radio stays off expect for listening to traffic reports on WBZ.
I got turned on to podcasting over the summer when Julia’s sister Vanessa was drumming up topic ideas for the show she worked on (Open Source Radio). The idea of the program fascinated me, but I was bummed when I found out it was on when I was normally at work. She told me to subscribe to the podcast, so I did and I was hooked. Since then I have subscribed to many other shows including Nova and All Songs Considered. All Songs Considered is my favorite right now. ASC is an internet only broadcast that spawned from another great NPR show I never get to catch: All Things Considered. They play live concerts and talk about all the bands the hipster in you would enjoy.
Thanks for putting my tax dollars to good use America!
I am pooped. I am cold. I am going to bed.
If Jesus was like Freddy Kruger and kept dying and coming back to life all the time there would be alot more days for me to sleep in. Just think if Jesus really did come back, would we have a new holiday? Would everyone feel obligated to buy even more meaningless crap for friends and family members?
The holiday retail season has left me exhausted and empty. I was expecting nothing for presents, but my parents got me some shure in ear monitors. (Thank mom and dad, but more importantly thank you Jesus!) Not the crappy kind, the really really expensive kind. I’m probably the only person in the world that would get excited about getting something like that as a gift. No more crappy headphones if I wanna hear a click while playing drums. I’m looking forward to using them. Once I can afford to buy a legit copy of Abelton Live ($500) I plan on encorporating some subtle loops and textures into my everyday playing using my powerbook. My unlegit version crapped out right before a dj’ing gig a month ago. I lost much sleep trying to revive my sets and vowed not to use it in a live scenario until I had the real deal.
Harris just got CD of the Month in January’s Northeastern Performer magazine proceeding last month’s featured live review. Hopefully we’ll win the Noise Board’s best new song for 2005. If you haven’t voted, do it! Now!
http://www.thenoise-boston.com/poll2005.asp
My christmas present to myself was paying off my Discover Card. It’s the first time I have been in the black in three years. I am pumped. Maybe now I can start saving for a house, new car, and a camera?? I’ve been eyeing a Canon D20, but can not afford it. I need to find a local shop that finances and I will reconsider. Until then I will settle with visitation rights on the weekends with the store’s prosumer digital camera.
If only money could buy me a date… Oh wait it can: Russian mail order brides! No, seriously you can buy a person! How bad must the motherland be that girls are selling themselves to creepy fat rich men? I creeps me out (but not enough to poke around the site for a bit). “I’ll just put this young lady in my shopping cart for checkout” *plop* “Do you take competitor’s coupons?”
Paying for a wife may raise a lot of ethical and moral questions, but I think going to the mall to buy a puppy is way worse.
Gibson guitars being sold at Costco? WTF anybody? We’re not talking little two dollar Epiphone jobbers, we’re talking real 100% USA, Never Forget, Proud to Be, All American Gibson Not only that, they are selling them below minimum advertised price which is a big no no. I bet Guitar Center is behind this. See for yourself.
Speaking of being “All American”: Unless you are a contractor, a lumberjack, or alot bigger than me, you don’t need to own a truck. I’m so sick of dudes with their trucks driving like assholes. I mean c’mon when does a Obstetrician need super duty hemi power? Or the towing capacity of a blah blah? If you’re going to drive a truck there is only one way to do it: On the highway on the outskirts of Tampa with no rearview mirrors, an expired registration and four or five children (between the ages of 5 and 12 and preferably of a minority of your choice) in the back. Someday I’ll get those pictures developed. I’m just afraid of what else I will find of the Harris/Will Brierly adventure to Florida and back.
I bumped into two girls from high school today while at the mall. It was nice to make good conversation with some people I hadn’t seen in years.
Each month on myspace I update my profile with 5 albums (old and new) that are constantly playing on my itunes, cd player, etc… I’ve been doing it for about a year and half now and have gotten lots of great messages from people saying how cool/or gay I am. Either way, it’s a good converstaion starter with people. In the spirit of Top 5 I must give my Top 5 of ‘05 based on my Top 5 spins each month (in no particular order of course).
My Top 5 Spins of 2005:
Damien Rice – O
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
Stars – Set Yourself on Fire
Elbow – Cast of Thousands
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
Yes I know, some of those albums did not come out in ‘05, but I spent most of the year enjoying them. The End.
My Top 5 spins from month to month can be found on the ole myspacege. Ha me calling myspace old?
Fuck… that means I’m old.
