A momentary diversion on the road to the grave

Stolen bike

2007-06-23T20:27:47Z

My bike was stolen last night. It's a green Cannondale H-300. The serial number is JC 01929 39758 P4Y2G1P.

There's a $100 reward for any tip leading to the recovery of my bike.

Summer Mix!

2007-06-21T14:48:45Z

I decided to make a summer mix CD of some of my favorite songs that have come out this year that have that pleasant summer vibe. It's all new stuff or stuff that has been recently reissued. The title is Summertime and Mah Bukkit is Easy.

1. The Avalanches - Ray of Zdarlight
2. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Forever Heavy
3. R. Kelly feat. T.I. & T-Pain - I'm a Flirt (remix)
4. The National - Brainy
5. UGK feat. Three 6 Mafia - Players Anthem
6. Kavinsky - Testarossa Autodrive
7. Deerhunter - Like New
8. The Cool Kids - 88
9. Boris with Michio Kurihara - Starship Narrator
10. Wu-Tang Clan - Ain't Nuthin' to Fuck With (Bird Peterson remix)
11. Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat
12. Selda Bagcan - Ince Ince
13. Dr. Dog - Weekend
14. The Team feat. Clyd Carson - Hyphy Juice
15. Frankie Valli - Beggin' (Pilooski edit)
16. Panda Bear - Bros (edit)
17. Petey Pablo - Get Me Out of Jail
18. Jens Lekman - Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death (long version)
19. Derrick Laro and Trinity - Don't Stop Till You Get Enough

maskedyodeler @ 2007-05-29T08:12:00

2007-05-29T13:17:59Z

I just got the best spam ever.

"You dont know what is the best revenge for your ex girlfriend. Just enlarge your dick with Penis Enlarge Patch and she will die from jealousy and regret."

Also, I had one of the best weekends ever. It was filled to the brim with wonderfulness, but was dominated by two things: Amy & Justin's wedding and the new R. Kelly album. The former was absolute life affirming beauty and the latter is transcendentally ridiculous. To quote a Brad Neely comic, Life Rules.

maskedyodeler @ 2007-05-16T19:34:00

2007-05-17T00:55:36Z

Goddammit, I think I'm turning into a lyrics person. I've been mega-obsessed with Leonard Cohen recently and then all of the sudden I discover this pretty sweet band called Coltrane Motion. I dug their sound and was listening to the album for the second time when I suddenly noticed they had some nice lines.
"Let's play 60s pop star/You be Ronnie/I'll be Phil"
"It's not a swagger/It's a limp."
"All my love songs turn into hymns."

Their album Songs About Music opens up with a quadruple salvo of awesome pop songs that touch just enough on shoegaze, new wave, 60s soul and indie rock to keep everything fresh. Then it kinda craps out, but whatever. At least the songs have clever meta-musical titles ("Dozier-Holland-Dozier", "I Guess The Kids Are OK", "Ex-Girlfriend In A Coma"). That always gets me off.

Here's a song. It's really good.
Coltrane Motion - How to Be

Also, hello journal, we haven't spoke in a while.

5 Reasons why Jim Webb (D-VA) is my favorite Senator

2007-03-30T17:28:24Z

1. Hot Asian wife
2. Wrote a buncha books, some of which included graphic sexual content
3. Wrote an op-ed in the WSJ entitled "Class Struggle"
4. Verbally smacked down Bush and was this close to slugging him
5. Apparently rocks a pistol at ALL TIMES

Grad School!

2007-03-29T21:32:56Z

I have decided that I will be going to grad school at Michigan State. I just got back from visiting there and the math ed program there is awesome. It's a very large program and the people there are working in a bunch of different areas, which is great for me, as I'm not sure what I want to go in to.

Also, I saw the season finale of Battlestar Galactica. Holy shit! Talk about a curveball. No one cares what I have to say about the B-Star, though. :(

Throw Some D's on that Blog

2007-03-19T17:01:58Z

I did two things of note this weekend. One was play kickball. The other was finish cataloging my entire music collection.

A couple of months ago I decided to get plastic sleeves for all my records. And since I was going to have to go through my records one by one to put the sleeves on, I figured I might as well catalog them. I put them all on RateYourMusic, a user created database of records. After I finished that, I meant to do the same for my CDs, but I never got around to it.

Then, Justin introduced me to LaLa, a CD trading website. I decided to go through all my CDs looking for stuff that I was willing to trade, and I figured that was a good enough excuse to just catalog them all on RateYourMusic while I was at it. I finished the project last night. And now I have detailed information on my music collection. Here's the numbers.

Cassette 8
CD 575
CD-R 52
DVD 13
Vinyl 609
Other 1
SACD 8

93 of those got listed on Lala.com as potential trades. Hopefully I'll get rid of some wack old shit and get some hot new shit. I've already gotten rid of 5 lame promo CDs that I had and I'm getting 3 Neil Young albums, Wu Tang Forever and Three 6 Mafia's When the Smoke Clears in exchange.

maskedyodeler @ 2007-03-16T15:30:00

2007-03-16T20:31:21Z

This is example #1 of why the 70s were awesome.

Neil Young Update

2007-03-16T16:25:21Z

Holy Shit!
The long promised Neil Young Archives box set will be coming out this year. 8 CDs, 2 DVDs, and a 150 page book. And it only covers up to 1972! I don't care if it's 300 dollars, I am on that shit.

Neil Young

2007-03-15T16:39:55Z

Here's an mp3 of my Neil Young feature show.

And here's the playlist.

Buffalo Springfield - Broken Arrow - Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield - It's So Hard to Wait - Last Time Around
Neil Young - The Emperor of Wyoming - Neil Young
Neil Young - The Loner - Neil Young
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Country Girl - Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Find the Cost of Freedom - Ohio/Find the Cost of Freedom
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Cowgirl in the Sand - 4 Way Street
Neil Young - L.A. - Time Fades Away
Neil Young - Revolution Blues - On the Beach
Neil Young - Speakin' Out - Tonight's the Night
Neil Young - Danger Bird - Zuma
The Stills-Young Band - Long May You Run - Long May You Run
Neil Young - Homegrown - American Stars and Bars
Neil Young - Human Highway - Comes a Time
Neil Young - Powderfinger - Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young - Like a Hurricane - Live Rust
Neil Young - Captain Kennedy - Hawks & Doves
Neil Young - Southern Pacific - Re·ac·tor
Neil Young - Computer Age - Trans
Neil Young - Mystery Train - Everybody's Rockin'
Neil Young - Bound for Glory - Old Ways
Neil Young - Weight of the World - Landing on Water
Neil Young - Mideast Vacation - Life
Neil Young - This Note's for You - This Note's for You
Neil Young - The Ways of Love - Freedom
Neil Young - T-Bone - Re·ac·tor

Hillary Clinton wants to continue the Iraqi occupation

2007-03-15T16:20:00Z

Hillary Clinton wants to continue the Iraqi occupation

Well, at least she's being honest that she doesn't really care about ending the war and bringing the troops home. But, to me, this is just another in a long list of reasons why she is not an acceptable Democratic presidential candidate.

maskedyodeler @ 2007-03-13T13:22:00

2007-03-13T18:22:35Z

50 Bajillion Boners

Neil Young

2007-03-13T14:39:04Z

I'm doing a feature show on KXUA on Wednesday at 10pm. It will be on the lesser known works of Neil Young. If you just know Harvest, I've got some schoolin' for ya.

I couldn't have said it better

2007-03-07T21:14:11Z

Okay, so I was flipping through the RateYourMusic user reviews of the new Arcade Fire album Neon Bible (my short review: good, but not particularly exciting) when I found this gem from Mikey2000

"I just find it so hard to get through this album; it's so tedious and such a chore to listen to. The title track is OK and "My Body Is a Cage" kicks off towards the end, but that's it, the rest I just find painful. Infact, over this past couple of weeks I've been going off so called "indie rock" a lot. Maybe this is a transitional phase, or maybe this is just a phase, or maybe it's because I'm turning 17 next week and I'm starting to become a man, instead of a teenager, or some crap like that anyway." source

I couldn't have said it better Mikey2000.

taking an LJ dump

2007-02-27T22:10:15Z

Well, I took a sick day. I went to work yesterday feeling kinda crappy and got progressively worse. I slept in really late today and I'm feeling halfway decent now. I've spent most of the day watching TV. Well, TV on the internet. Shaun was watching Heroes yesterday and I got sucked in, and since I didn't have anything else to do today, I've watched the first few episodes. And drank lots of tea. All the episodes are up for download as high definition divx files at http://stage6.divx.com.

My trip to the University of Maryland went very well. I'm thinking very seriously about going there, but I'm not making any decisions until after I've visited all the schools that accept me.

Wes Fif - Haterz Everywhere

2007-02-21T16:59:08Z

Oh shit, I just heard the fucking new hot jam.
Wes Fif - Haterz Everywhere
A six and a half minute Florida rap single with a beat that sounds like Paul Oakenfold faking Timbaland. Sounds like it should be a disaster, but so do most shocking new things. To call it Trance Rap would be a bit of a disservice, but, still. It's Trance Rap! The future is now!

TRANCE RAP

Also, from an interview with Wes Fif:
So, you’re in Atlanta, right now?
Yeah, I’m in Atlanta right now.
What’s in Atlanta?
A whole bunch of shit. I’ll be back in Florida soon.

maskedyodeler @ 2007-02-19T10:23:00

2007-02-19T16:27:08Z

I want to move to McMurdo Station

events

2007-02-15T17:17:21Z

There was a show at the Dinosaur House last night. It was a good way to spend Valentine's Day. The highlight was Tippy Canoe. They were awesome. So raunchy and cute at the same time, like a twee version of Miami Bass.

I will be DJing at another party on Saturday. Eric, who DJs at KXUA, is having a party with some out of town DJs and he wanted me to open. I'll be DJing from 10 to 11pm. I'm looking forward to it, needless to say.

I'm going on a trip! I'll be flying to College Park next week to visit the University of Maryland. They're flying me in on Thursday and I'll be coming back Friday evening, so it'll be a very quick trip. I'll be visiting Michigan State at the end of March which will be a longer excursion.

Bloggin' hard or hardly bloggin'

2007-02-14T22:24:09Z

I'm not sure which of these is funnier:

maskedyodeler @ 2007-02-14T15:10:00

2007-02-14T21:14:06Z

My new favorite song: Ray of Zdarlight by the Avalanches

maskedyodeler @ 2007-02-14T11:03:00

2007-02-14T17:08:19Z

I wish I had a spaceship

Grad School

2007-02-13T16:00:34Z

I've been accepted to the University of Maryland. However, it was to the M.A. in math education program, not the Ph.D. I think that's because their Ph.D. program assumes a masters degree instead of being an entire bachelors to doctorate program. I'd still be able to get an assistantship, so it's not much of a difference.

maskedyodeler @ 2007-02-09T16:08:00

2007-02-09T22:11:51Z

"The Ecstasy of Influence" by Jonathan Lethem, a fascinating exploration of copyright, influence and plagiarism. If anything sums up the importance of the copyfight/open culture movement without resorting to tech-speak, it's this. This is a very important article, I think. And maybe it will do some part in toppling the tyranny of ownership within my lifetime.

Predictions for 2007

2007-02-07T22:17:52Z

Now that we're over a month into 2007, I think it's time for me to make some wildly speculative predictions of various levels of seriousness on what will be hot this year.

TYPING IN ALL CAPS WITH NO PUNCTUATION BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THAT CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
Long strings of dollar signs
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Trance
Armpit hair on women
PCP
Cowboy hats on men
Burqas matched with a mini-skirt
Terence Trent D'Arby
Usenet
Michael Douglas
pre-British Invasion rock'n'roll
Babyface

Plastiscines - Loser

2007-02-07T17:10:06Z

Plastiscines - Loser (MySpace video)
Somehow sounding like the Strokes works much better when it's done by four beautiful French girls.