Posted on June 21, 2002 at 9:19 am | No Comments
Sometime within the last hour we officially changed over from Springtime to Summertime. And so the cycle continues on. “Summer is ready when you are.”
Last night I bought my first pair of real ‘running shoes’. Brooks’ “Annihilators” or “Avalanche” or something. No, wait, maybe they’re “Addictions”? Now comes the hard part, where I actually try to ‘run’ in them. I’m not a runner, and I always blamed this fact on the shin-pains I get soon after my feet hit the pavement. Well, supposedly these shoes will help remedy that.
Last night my intended 20-minute “break-in-the-shoes” walk turned into a 2-hour city-wide expedition. Runners blew by me along the Charles River, and I looked at them and thought “That will be me.” I blame Amie for this ’bout of insanity, and we’ll see if it sticks. “Addiction”? I can only hope.
I’ve done some minor site-updating over the past week, most evidenced on the links page. I’ve also finally fleshed out the Information Security links and am starting to work on the Gaming page. As usually (and happily) happens, Summer sucks away my non-workish computer time, so I’m trying to get some things done that have been on my ‘to do’ list for awhile, before the dry spell hits. At some point I’ll be happy with all the sub-sections on the site and I won’t have to mess around with them much. Yeah, right.
Posted on June 19, 2002 at 9:51 am | No Comments
Saw an excellent pop-rock show last night at 608 in Summahville. Tender Trap, Sportique, and the Orange Peels played to a mid-sized crowd on a summery Tuesday night.
Tender Trap is Amelia and Rob from Heavenly/Marine Research along with John (who goes by DJ Downfall, and was in MR, too) on bass duties. The beats are handled by a cd player, which played tracks programmed by John for their wonderful new album on K records. I picked it up at the show last night and am already gearing up on obsession. Catchy as all-get-out, and I’ve always had a thing for Amelia’s voice. I’ve been listening to her sing for more than 10 years or so, since the early Heavenly daze, and she always does it for me. The perfect pop princess to my ears, and she was in fine form last night, with only the occasional dodgy-nasal-spray-induced voicecrack. Or maybe it was the pre-show Denny’s meal that did it.
Following Tender Trap was Sportique, in which Amelia jumped on the keyboards (actually, she improvised impressively on the melodica, since their keyboard set didn’t survive their trans-atlantic journey), Rob switched over to bass, and a drummer and lead singer/guitarist appeared from the wings. I didn’t mind the buzzcocks-inspired vocals at first, but it got old, and the songs started to blend together a bit. Not bad, but certainly not as much my thing as TT was.
Sportique ended, and bedtime beckoned… so we only caught a couple of the Orange Peels ‘california-pop’ songs, as Matt calls it. Better than Sportique, but not enough to keep me in the club past midnight. All in all, an excellent evening that peaked awfully early.
Down With the RIAA…
Well, this was pretty much inevitable, given the demise of Napster: News: Rest in Peace, Audiogalaxy. Yup, AG is gone, thanks to a lawsuit by the RIAA that forces them to block all content unless they get approval of the artist. In other words, they’ve been made useless to those of us who actually buy more cds thanks to online sampling. Wonder how long before WinMX or Grokster fall like dominos?