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My 00s music review:

the 3GS is the greatest thing ever.

yeah that best!

how loud it get

Knowles came through Mobile and played a show at the Blue Gill on the causeway. I missed it because I had class. My buddy said he was amazing.

Apple's attempt to simplify ringtones may muddy the waters whoops, fuck apple.

got it, took about 90 minutes. I opted to order mine from Apple and activate it at home so I wouldn't have to speak with an employee of AT&T. Probably would've been better to just go into the AT&T store, there have been some shipping snafus. But I'm good now, phone is working fine. Here's a question: I haven't purchased a song from the iTunes store to convert into a ringtone in a long time. How do I tell what songs in the iTunes store can be made into a ring tone? They used to have the little bell picture next to them, or I could do a custom search that would only show songs available to made into ringtones. Another intense googling session only led to ways to tell what songs I already purchased are eligible to be made into ringtones. I would like to be able to tell in the store. Yes I just wasted 99 cents on a Squonk MP3 that I now can't convert into a ringtone (I thought for a second that maybe ALL iTunes Store MP3s could be converted into ringtones).

soooooo... anyone know if Apple/AT&T resolved the lengthy at home 3GS activation problems? googling only results in stories about the issues at launch, not if they lessened after the initial glut of 3GS sales. cause I'm at about 30 minutes right now, and would rather not wait two fucking days to use my new toy.

hate to be a chooser but I'd really rather pay a little more and have it already in an external enclosure.

actually if assdroid had multitouch and the kindle app I probably would have gone with it.

my 3GS should arrive today.

happy birthday!

RP Vintage 2nd, 1990, PC. tastes like a regular vintage to me. love these cigars!

I found a lot to like about the W5000, though it's anemic bass always bothered me.

nice connection! brent was my favorite non-pigpen Dead keyboardist. unfortunately I never got to see the Dead live (the real Dead, not any of its various incarnations since). nice, thanks for calling me out on my shit.

oh yeah, I know you are just playing, but i get similar questions a lot and it always makes me think. The statistics element is the whole "man they haven't played 'peaches en regalia' since 1999, then they bust it out night two at the Garden" thing, or watching the setlists roll in all tour to try and figure out what they will most likely play at upcoming shows, "well we all knew we were getting that Hood tonight". Phish (and the Dead, and other jambands) have a history of playing with their fans, withholding certain songs like a tasty treat, then dropping them into random (or sometimes not so random) setlists, so if you are at the show and hear those first notes kick in you just freaking lose it. Great example: fans wanted Phish to "bust out" Fluffhead (a strangely celebratory song about a guy with a drug addiction) for the longest time before they broke up, but they never did, probably because at this point they had stopped practicing, and Trey was constantly fucked up on opiates, and the band treated their fans with disdain (IMO). So 2004 they break up, ending with a two day festival that was the worst two concerts in Phish history and one of the worst weekends of my life, personally and musically. Trey was so wasted he was nodding out on on stage in the middle of jams. I got sober 9 months later. Fast forward to I believe winter or spring 2007, Trey gets arrested for possession and put through the drug court system, where he gets sober. Fall 2008, Phish announces a reunion run in Hampton, VA. So the internet buzz begins, and the biggest question, as always: "what will they open with?" Speculation immediately trends toward Fluffhead, but anyone who mentions it is totally shot down, because A) it seems way to appropriate and we were all kind of used to Phish doing whatever they hell they wanted at this point, and not really keeping the fans' best interest at heart. Well, I went to the reunion show, and they opened with Fluffhead. They opened with fucking Fluffhead! It was the greatest live music moment of my life. I don't think I will ever feel energy like that at a show ever again. Man, hope you snag some tickets. Melody and I will be present for 12/31 only. We are in the 300s somewhere, but I'm just happy to be in.

i dunno, i like it. its a social thing, and a stat geek thing, but more then anything else its an energy thing. my girlfriend doesn't understand Phish at all, but she understands it is very, very important to me. if live music is my religion, Phish is like the Eucharist. the last concert that really mattered was in 1977? dude I see amazing concerts like twice a month. Thats like listening to "London Calling" and saying "guess I ain't listening to music anymore".

Phish in Charlottesville, VA, this past Saturday, 12/5/09. Right during the beginning of Ya Mar a completely butt naked guy jumped on stage and hugged Trey, then juked the security folks for about twenty seconds before they tackled him. Great show!

happy late birthday!

nevermind, i'm confused.

happy birthday gene!

sweet let me shoot out some PMs.

nums I've got a long-term loaner cinemag SUT floating around out there somewhere. I think maybe texas marc or texas steve (by way of alaska) has it? If they aren't using it you are welcome to borrow it to see if it works for you. let me know if you are interested and I'll track it down. anumber1 from audio asylum built it, pretty similar to the one bob sells on ebay.

another gem from my city. yes, that is the local news team.

happy birthday!