Entries from October 2007 ↓

My dad is officially awful at remembering names. I’m not entirely sure when it started, but the point is that I’m genetically predisposed to the same kind of forgetfulness.

I have a program that tags MP3s - similar to MusicBrainz on Windows, but for Macs, and 800 times better than iEatBrainz, the obnoxiously-named Mac version of MB - except I couldn’t find it last week. It turns out that it’s named Jaikoz, so I basically had zero chance of finding that one in my Applications list or typing in anything related to its name in a Quicksilver window.

And today, two or three of my favorite bloggers have written something about Mint, the extra-fancy Web 2.0 budget-tracking app, and I thought “man, I signed up for that a few months ago, and promptly forgot to update it”… so maybe I should get back into it?

Nope, I signed up for a different rounded-corners personal-finances social-networking site, Wesabe, which I had to look up for ten minutes before I finally found it in a roundup of similar sites. (Mint looks better anyway.)

But maybe my main problem is that these products have dreadful names. At least I can remember iEatBrainz.

Adam has favorite songs like Becky has favorite colors - they’re pretty much all good, depending on when you ask and what you’re doing at the time.

I found out about Battles from Cratchit, when I was rattling on about John Stanier and how he was in Tomahawk and not Helmet anymore. “And he’s in Battles now, too, right?” “What?”

I downloaded this shortly after I ditched my old music collection as part of “reinventing” my musical taste. This is so far up my pre-existing alley, though. I’d already imagined a music project that was down this same path - looping, guitary, surreal, and polyrythmic (but not really very synthy, or so intensely drum-based). I had it on in the kitchen two weeks ago, and Adam really seemed to react to it. In the car on the way to school the next day, he was picking out rhythms and clapping, and when I put it back on on the way back from school, he said “no, the fast one.” It turns out that Atlas is the fast one. He LOVES it.

The version on the album is 7+ minutes long. Adam has figured out iTunes on my Mac to the point that he can queue it up and play it, and when it’s over, I told him to hit Enter and it will start again.

You can look up the track listing for Guitar Hero III anywhere. I’m not going to do that to you. (But apparently you have to include two Velvet Revolver songs if you want Slash to appear as a character in your game these days.)

What I will do is give you a song that’s, well, it’s gonna be in there, and it’s going to be on like level one-million.