To be announced

I have GUI! and all it took was a re-install. I haven't checked to see if I have connectivity yet - I was about to, and then Wolf fired up the vacuum so we had to shut down all extraneous electricity because of load. the lights flickered. I'm not kidding.

(later)

okay, so GUI=yes. internets? no.

okay, keep trying.

xubuntu has a word processor built in. once I get internets going, basically what I want it to do is write, web, music, chat, and the capability of using skype/webcam - not that I expect the laptop to be able to do the latter, but it has to be able to do it on my desktop.

oh and image editing. mustn't forget image editing.

I don't think that's beyond xubuntu's capability.

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not a single stitch on Durrow. Yet. But it's early yet. I may not get a full pattern repeat in, but I'll get some done now that I'm done messing with linux for today.

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After raving about Minstrel in the Gallery, I was then enabled with another track from that album, The Baker Street Muse. Well, Peter recced it, and Bear sent it. She also managed to send the beginnings of a more recent album, J-tull.com.

So even more music to enjoy. Hurray!

There could be happier, but I've only got three days to find out what it is

so. can you ante and raise on the 29 person Swedish band "I'm From Barcelona" singing Treehouse?

come on. I used to live in a Tree house. it was like the best pad EVER. just look at it. that's mountains of cool.

This one is the super duper top end of happy I dare you not to chairdance!

The English Beat - Ranking Full Stop

Those of you who remember The Great Santa Hat Project know that I take christmas seriously around here. Yep. I've even noticed some of you no my f-list hauling out the santahatted icons I made for that and that's like being given a gift in return. *warm fuzzies*

So, advent calendars around my place were of the chocolate box variety: starting on December 1st and every day until chistmas, you got to open a little section on your box and eat a chocolate. it is with that spirit I bring to you:

Totally Fuckin' Festive Holiday Season Tunes!

And this is almost as christmassy as I get with my music. I will get more christmassy, I promise. but not much. However, I've been planning to use this song as December 1st ever since I came up with the idea--it's the perfect song to get this fun started.

nomeansno - Joy

Yes. I am a fan. And you should be too. so there. Play it loud and frantic.

this might be a track that should have sunk into mid 80's obscurity...

except I have it in my collection. Mwa ha ha ha!

Belfegore - All That I Wanted

I knew this song but i didn't know what it was called. I remember hearing it in the mid 80's when I sneaked into Luv-A-Fair in Vancouver. I actually got the track from someone here on LJ who was going to Luv-A-Fair at the same time, but either could sneak in more regularly or was of age at the time. me, I was 16.

And sneaking in. Gad, that's what my Harry/Draco slash is about. HAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh and I'm gonna give you another one, because I am filled with the generous and the evil.

Bigod20 - Like a Prayer

All tracks stayed in as planned. I did as much as I could with my meager and pitiful tarck mixing - aligning skills is soundforge and sonic foundry CD maker.

a werd of caution - there are places where I crossfaded. this won't be a super rippable cd. if there is a track you want once you've burned, let me know and I will up the mp3 for you.

So. heads up, heimshal! this is where I need you.

i have the cd setup as a .cdp file. I think this is proprietary.

What format do I need to convert this to in order to make it available to anyone with a burner, with whateva software they're burning with?

CD architect says it can save as Cd Architect image file (wav) - is that all I need to do?

i also have nero express, if that's helpful.

Over the years I have searched for certain tracks to add to my mp3 collection, because they were important to me. because they represented certain moments in my life, or memories, or happinesses or unhappinesses.

ever since I knew what Mp3's were I'd been looking for Carmel - Bad Day. Little did I know just how obscure it was - I had the 12" single on vinyl. somehow this album never made it to CD. since it never made it to CD, the mp3 format would be damn near impossible to find.

Now, I might have the only mp3 in the world of this song. Well, until you download it, that is.

This song will always be about perching in the window that still had a working counterweight in number 13 at the Arlington with awful box wine, sobranie black russians, and singing this song out the windows once I'd had too much awful box wine. It's torchy, gospelly, bluesy and stayed in my heart for more than a decade without hearing it once. Now I can let rip any time I'm near my computer. where's my franzia?

I haven't been right on the screaming edge of music. The New Pornographers released Twin Cinemas weeks ago (and if you are in boston, they are playing in your town either today or tomorrow. Go. they're great.) I haven't run away to the record store to pick up the CD, but from the mp3s I stumbled over (I swear, ma, they followed me home) I must run not walk to the record store and get this album and listen to it over and over and over just like I did with the other two. I've got three tracks and I'm eager to hear this in proper listening order.

Get a load of this:

Use It - Did you like that Peanuts Cartoon soundtrack song, Linus and Lucy? I was reminded of that song in the percussive buildup of this one, with a left hand only piano line coupled with Kurt Dahle playing drums like he's beating them to death. it's a simple setup that occasionally breaks out in gleeful cacophany - I think this song is fun, but maybe a bit... disorganized.

Twin Cinema - Fuck, I'm grabbed by this seesaw sound and gently dissonant crunchy walking guitar line right off the hop. this song is bright and cheerful, with everything that's happy and wholesome about rock and roll polishing up a tune that has to have electric stage presence. It's also an irresistible chairdancing song. So far this one is my favorite, but I must hear the rest of the album to know for sure.

Jackie, Dressed in Cobras - A.C. Newman, Neko Case, and Dan Bejar are all "lead singers" for NP. and they exploit this abundance of golden throats with three part vocals to go overtop of the strangely flavored with new wave if new wave had a wall of sound that reminded you of Zumpano.


For Sosostris2012 - Here Is Juno Reactor - God Is God. I hope it's the right one.

Soooo. you ever wonder what kind of updo/bun hairstyle you could do on your past shoulder length to near waist length hair with two pony tail holders, six hair pins and less than ten minutes?

( 86 K worth of pitchers! )

how I did it, the short version:

I made a ponytail, then twisted up a 2 strand rope braid, fastened the end, wound it in a bun, tucking the ends under and pinning in place. I used hairpins, but bobby pins will do if there are no hairpins.

That glossiness? a glossing of Ultimate Hair and Skin Butter. bun updos are a great way to wear a long term oil treatment - nobody can tell your hair is *oily* and the oils make your hair gloss nicely. Plus you've got the ends tucked under and protected. bun updos are *good.*

oh, and yet more LOVE! Kate Bush - King of the Mountain. Yes, this is new. scoop it, darlings.

The person (or persons) who passed the baton to you:

argh! pnew8 got me!

Total volume of music files on your computer:

1969 songs, 5 days, 23 hours, 2 minutes, 46 seconds, 9.09 GB

--This number isn't completel accurate. I have some albums wrapped up in an archive

The title and artist of the last CD you bought:

The New Pornographers - The Electric Version

Song playing at the moment of writing:

The Breeders - Too Alive

Five songs you have been listening to of late (or all-time favorites, or particularly personally meaningful songs):

I don't listen to my mp3s that way, really. I generally load my whole playlist, hit random, and come back in a bit under a week. So let's do it like this:

The Tragically Hip - Ahead by a Century
(Or sit silently and listen to our thoughts...With illusions of someday cast in golden light)

Jefferson Airplane - Lather
(And I should have told him, "No, you're not old," and I should have let him go ...)

War - Spill The Wine
(...This really blew my mind: The fact that me--an overfed long haired leaping gnome--should be the star of a hollywood movie)

Police - Man in a Suitcase
(It looks like home to me alright--But it's a hundred miles from yesterday night)

AC-DC - Back in Black
(Forget the hearse 'cause I never die! I got nine lives, cat's eyes; abusin' every one of them and running wild)

because it will earworm you.

O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei

this is what I like to call the Numa Numa song.

Dance, Dance!