Sunday, May 6th, 2012
If you listen to music on YouTube, no doubt you’ve heard of the “VEVO” channels used by the major record labels. However, if you listen to non-dance, non-soft-rock, or older music, you probably wonder why VEVO channels’ “Related Videos” are anything but related. You may put on some Alice in Chains or Nirvana, but be [...]
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Thursday, April 26th, 2012
Sometimes all it takes is one or two sentences of something to make me feel miserable for days and nights afterward. And that is what happened last night which continues through this evening, and hopefully will end soon. At least there is light in the evening. Otherwise I’d probably be totally destroyed. And adding to [...]
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Looping the same few seconds over and over, with repeated buffering notices in between. 23 people are supposedly listening, but it’s totally screwed up. No other Shoutcast radio station, including those of the same bandwidth, is giving me probs. It’s a real shame, haven’t listened to that station (KQLZ Pirate Radio) in a long time. [...]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Twenty years ago, they were unhappy. They had valid reason to be unhappy. As did we. Five years later, they were angry. They had valid reason to be angry. As did we. But no more. Today, they are not allowed to be angry. Today, they are not allowed to be unhappy. For doing so means [...]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2010
An E! Online news story from early 2009 reports a bizarre lawsuit (which has since been settled out of court): Bier, otherwise known as Madonna Wayne Gacy, sued [Marilyn] Manson for more than $20 million last year, claiming Manson siphoned off millions of dollars in band revenue. The funds allegedly paid for drugs, assorted Nazi [...]
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Friday, October 29th, 2010
that doesn’t mean it’s bad though, it’s actually pretty good
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Saturday, October 9th, 2010
…given his support for communism: Overpopulation is a Myth (Yesterday would have been his 70th birthday. Via Lew Rockwell.)
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Saturday, September 18th, 2010
Diablo II is getting tough. Any possibility of addiction is not coming true. The shoutbox breaks the Cynthia Says compliance, so this page is no longer compliant with those standards and the button has been removed. The tapes are all backed up. They rock.
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Sorry for the lack of updates. A few weeks ago, I won a lot of 20 tapes off eBay, and I’m about halfway done backing them up to my computer, holding the seller off on a rating. So far all work and great music. The tapes are various obscure and popular 80s pop-metal and pop-rock [...]
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
If you’re as old as me, you remember the 1990s Nickelodeon cartoon Doug. The children in the show listened to a music group “The Beets”, a hybrid of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Ramones, and The Clash. Here are some real people dressing up like The Beets and singing to their songs “I Need [...]
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