Bad News, Good News.

Ok, I have some bad news and some good news for you trusty blog readers. I always put the bad news first so you'll say "Oh, that sucks! Why did she tell us that?" but then I always put the good news second so you'll say "Oh, well that makes me forget about the bad news!"

The bad news.
The bad news is that I overslept by two hours and I had to end up missing the gig ): Yes. I know your pain, because I really wanted to go too. I got up at 6:15 yesterday and was out 'till around noon and thats when I came back home to take a nap (how can you mosh if you are tired?). I went to bed at 1 in the afternoon and I got up around 3 and then realized that I was "late and there was no point in going if I was late." Anyway, I made it right at the end of the last set and was kind mad. But then I remembered.

The good news.
The good news is that I will (hopefully) be buying my secret tickets to a secret show soon and I should (hopefully) get in and have something eveen better to write about :)

Yes, I'm super sorry guys. The last thing that I wanted to do was fall out at a show that was hot to begin with and spend the rest of my Saturday in bed recovering from a slight heat stroke. Don't worry, I'll make it up to you this week. I promise.

Friday Five! The back to school edition.

Just finished my first week of school. I got 12 more months, but that's ok because I live for the weekend and Friday five!
PJ Harvey - 50 Ft. Queenie (1998) Black Sessions - The BEST version I ever heard! Check out the rhythm session. I might have to post all of the Black Sessions gig, because it is so awesome!





JFA - Out Of School- I really want to be out of school now...

Sugarcubes - Motorcrash - This was playing in my head when I was taking my pre test in English. (Yes, that is Bjork singing)


The Ventures - Walk Dont Run (but you have to run sometimes in a hall with 650 Freshmen)


Extra! Alanis Morissette-You Oughta Know - What ever happened to Alanis?

Gig Invite

I got an invite to a gig at one of my favorite record stores next weekend, and that should be a good thing (it is anyway) because it will provide for my first gig review! Get excited. I'll be taking mental notes, grabbing all of the free stuff I can find, and I will try to get some pictures to post.  It serves for a good outlet from my first week of school (yuck). Hopefully there will be a mosh pit, nothing too extreme, because my shins are a mess right now. Ok, see you next week!

Fun Friday Five!

B52s Rock lobster. Awesomeness. Do I have to say anything else about this song?


My Bloody Valentine - Bilinda Song. This is a leaked track from the was to be released box set. Still no box set, but me and lots of other people sure want one!



Shonen Knife - Tomato Head - I want one of those tomato heads from the video. 1+ for the synchronized head banging.


Sleater-Kinney - Ironclad - Cambridge MA. Hah, this was 10 years ago. (wow that's a long time ago)


The Muffs - Beat Your Heart Out


Extra! Drive Like Jehu - O Pencil Sharp. I love this song, try to make it thorugh the whole 9:43 secconds.

My collection. Part one.

I kind of hate it when people ask me "What do you listen to?". I have to think for a minute, because I like music so much. This is the CD part of my collection. I'm aware that the tops are cut off, but all of my cds' are in a corner of my bookshelf right by my wall. If you look under the picture, you will find the name of the cd's just in case you can't see. Just like me.

Be aware though, my collection is like my kid, so don't say I have too much! Sorry if I didn't get the bottom of each stack. Like I said, I had no other choice than to take these pictures at a really bad angle. Just be happy that you can see them :)

As always, if you can't see the picture, just click on it to enlarge it.

Stack one

Stack two

Stack three

Stack four

Stack five (and the side of a Minor Threat album and the front of a French Book)

I don't own any logos or album covers, but I did take these pictures, so I did put this creative commons license here.



My collection is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Coming up next, part two. Stay tuned!

Music For Dummies.

My Dad wants a new Ipod. Let me say that he only has a few CD's (not even close to what I have by the way) a blackberry touch (I have no idea what it is, I don't do blackberries) and he downloads everything else of the two devils of online music: Rhapsody and Itunes. This new Ipod that he wants is only a steel at 160 gigs and can hold everything you can "ever dream of".  As a music lover, collector, and blogger I had an inherent right to disagree with him. I'm not going to retype everything that I said, but I can just break my argument into 3 reasons why he doesn't need an 160 gig Ipod to hold all of his music.

Do you even have 160 gigs worth of music in the first place?

According to my research, 160 gigs is 40,000 songs.  That is just about 2,666 CD's total. The last time I checked, my dear old Dad Isn't even close to that number on hard copy CD's or even in downloads. Why waste the money on going big? Take it from me people, sometimes more isn't worth it.  Here is an example: One time my Dad thought it was a good idea to get my Mom a 200 Gig laptop and iPod touch just because she was "behind on technology". She uses both about once a month. I go by this saying " Only buy it when you need it".  I'm going to move on to the next thing...

Can you even rip 190 CD's without my help? Can you download and renew licenses without my help?

I got the title from those For dummies" book series. Its kind of a running joke in my family "You need to get your Dad a "computers for dummies" book because he doesn't know what the heck to do when it comes to computers. Being the tech geek in my family, I know what is good, what is bad, how to put it together, how to take it apart, and how to fix it. A while ago I was like "Yeah! I'll help you set up your computer :D" and after I was on the phone taking 3 hours out of my homework time in SAT season talking to the Lead IT specialist in India for no reason, I gave up helping. Who has to take responsibility for when a phone breaks? Who fixes computers when the WiFi goes out? Me. If I can do it, then I'm pretty sure that it Isn't that hard to take responsibility to fix your own technology.

Whatever you download, you don't own.

One of the bad parts of downloading off the internet is that sometimes you have to get "license" to use the music that you have. I don't want to spend too much time on this, but HowStuffWorks has a great article on music licensing. I recommend it so you can feel my pain.

I hope you guys learned something in my madness. It really isn't worth being flashy. If I'm giving off the impression that my family is rich, it isn't true. It really isn't . I don't even have enough for a burrito sometimes, more or less, a new iPod. Who has money though? My Dad. Thanks for reading through my family issues. I promise I wont do it again. But you know what I will do? I'll finish typing my super secret post just for you guys.

Friday Five. Fabulous!

Happy weekend everyone! I hope you will start your weekend off right with 5 Fabulous music videos

Bikini Kill - Strawberry Julius (It might just be me, but I can here some Le Tigre in here...)


Lunachicks - Babysitters on Acid


The Clash - Police On My Back  (It has the lyrics, so sing along!)


Mika Miko - Take it Serious (Early stuff right here people...Might turn classic soon :)


Kleenex - Nice (It's in German, who cares... If you want the lyrics, click on the video and look in the description)


Extra! Marine Girls - A Place In The Sun (Someone remind me to pick up more Marine Girls on my next buying trip)