postjack

i use imageshack, with the imageshack toolbar in firefox. Its fantastic. My favorite part is being able to rightclick any picture on the web and upload it to imageshack, very handy.

they were that super beat up pair that went for $700 on eBay. He did indeed get them refurbed by Alex.

no, i am tough. perhaps you missed the <--- that is the tough face.

don't get smart with me, boy. make me come over there and smack your mouth.

I hate to say this, but typically I have found that the more resolving my rig becomes, the harder it is to listen to brickwalled/max gained modern recordings. \

grrr, i already changed my bookmark! i can name one place where this will never be happening.

okay, due to popular demand, this thread has been unlocked!

kk, all done here, thread locked.

Link To Audiocubes Thoughts?

So I just bought two albums that I first heard about in the "What Are You Listen To" per jpak's posts: and It was actually watching the video on the amazon page that made me realize I absolutely had to own Mirrored. Check it out, its gnarly as hell: [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Mirrored-Battles/dp/B000OLHGBQ]http://www.amazon.com/Mirrored-Battles/dp/B000OLHGBQ[/ame]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It was actually your dissension on the D5000 that stopped me from buying a pair sound-unheard. I'm sure I'll hear the D5000 or D2000 eventually, and no matter what I think of them then, its always nice to have someone present the opposite side of the story on a piece of gear.

I'm going to try to do like jpak, and post albums that were seminal in my development as a music snob. Okay, so I was 11-12 years old, I think (6th grade), when I first heard this album. A buddy of mine had snagged a cassette tape dub from his older, cooler, pot smoking brother. None of our parents would let us buy the album since it had pot leaves all over it. Hell I still remember what the track listing looked like on the label in the cassette, all scrawled out in my buddy's distinctive goofy handwriting. Of course I'd seen the videos for "Dre Day" and "Nuthin But A G Thing" on MTV, but they left so much up to the imagination, what with half the video bleeped n' blurred out. Even after listening to it, I had no idea what half the words meant. Hell, I was in pre-adolescence. But to this day that album has stuck to my ribs: its flow, its beats, its sense of mystery and utter cool confidence falling from the lips of Dre and Snoop with apparent ease. Sure, it depicted a violent gangster fantasy world I knew nothing about, but coming to a kid who's favorite book was Clive Barker's Imajica, in hindsight parallels are easily drawn between the two fictional worlds rooted in reality presented so well by both artists. Dre brought melody to hip-hop, and in doing so he brought it to the masses. For better or worse, this makes it one of my all time favorite albums.

this is a good album. david byrne's talent-seeking abilities FTW.

Also check out Ryan Adams. His seminal work is Heartbreaker, but I'm also a huge fan of Jacksonville City Nights and Cold Roses. More straight alt-country/rock then YHF, but his songwriting is unparalleled.

The executive producers of this show were on Fresh Air yesterday, sounds like it could be a winner. Plus one of them wrote for DS9 for 4 years.

who shot ya?

So I'm buying some stuff on amazon and this little gem catches my attention: Because hey, isn't that my main man, my favorite post-punker, the living representation of everything that makes music GOOD, mr Mark E. Smith of The Fall? And who are those other two cats with him? According to the blurb: "This is the debut by a trio formed by Mark E. Smith of The Fall along with Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner of Mouse On Mars. It combines the genre-smashing attack of early millennia club music with Smith's free-associating visionary wordplay. The riffs and rhythms come together from many different places, with synths, samplers, and sequencers all firing off. It's not a band, it's a free-flowing collectivist dance generator - a futurist sound system." Mouse on Mars, coolness. Is it possible for this album not to completely redefine pop music as we know it? Says one reviewer: "Like being shouted at by an old man for an hour in a pub staffed entirely by robots. In a good way." (4/5 stars) I should have it by Friday. I'm excited.

THERE IS NO X MAS FOR JOHN QUAYS

here is the schedule: http://www.bayfest.com/sc_stages.php?from=0

So today I got in the new SACDs of Depeche Mode's Ultra and Exciter. I'm not the hugest Exciter fan, but I love Ultra. So many great songs: Barrel of a Gun, Home, Its No Good, Useless...

Summerteeth (to me, this album is Wilco, but thats because it was like, THE album in high school). "She's A Jar" is one hell of a song though, Christ in heaven man, talk about great songwriting! I'm honestly not the hugest fan of A.M. as a whole, but "Passenger Side" makes it worth the asking price. Of course it helps that my friends and I were a bunch of drunks, and one friend in particular lost his license due to DUIs and drug charges several times. I think the new album, Sky Blue Sky, is fantastic, but its much less experimental then its predecesors Yankee Hotel and A Ghost Is Born.

Hey, so this weekend Mobile is having its "big" music festival. About the only two bands who I have any interest in seeing are Velvet Revolver and The Wallflowers. Anyone seen either of them live? Any good?

Who's a good boy?!

What is your preferred weather condition?

What you could do here is just bathe yourself really good, then heatshrink your whole body leaving holes for air, food, waste, vision, and hearing. That way you would never have to bathe or change/wash clothes again, since you have a new permanent heatshrink suit.