The Return of 10 Random Tracks..

Audioscrobbler :: User :: prosonik:
1 Barenaked Ladies - Be My Yoko Ono 07:26:27 PDT, April 26 2005
2 Elliott Smith - Twilight 07:22:57 PDT, April 26 2005
3 Dropkick Murphys - As One 07:19:16 PDT, April 26 2005
4 Tom Petty - Learning to Fly 07:15:56 PDT, April 26 2005
5 Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away 07:12:36 PDT, April 26 2005
6 Elvis Presley - Hound Dog 07:10:16 PDT, April 26 2005
7 Blur - Girls & Boys 07:06:56 PDT, April 26 2005
8 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away 07:02:16 PDT, April 26 2005
9 Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode 06:57:16 PDT, April 26 2005
10 Yo La Tengo - Cherry Chapstick 06:53:06 PDT, April 26 2005

Where trees meet technology

Trail Repository - Main: "the Trail Repository, a database with many trails and routes in Canada"

I'm not really up on the whole GPS/mapping thing. For all of my training, It was all done using map and compass, with little or no use of a GPS. Over the last couple of years, I have seen more and more interesting uses for GPS.. I have been thinking of investing in at least USB GPS transponder for my laptop, but I haven't really looked into the Linux based options for it.

A interesting read on P2P in Canada..

Piercing the peer–to–peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience: "Although faced with significant pressure to reform Canadian copyright law, it is increasingly apparent that the industry’s ills are not the result of peer–to–peer downloading. Moreover, the Canadian experience with private copying suggests that a levy system may provide an effective alternative to adequately compensate artists for lost royalties that may occur due to the current popularity of file sharing services."

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I'm know everybody is all up in arms over liberal handouts in the 90's, however I think there are newer burning issues like Copyright, that need to be debated.. I know most Canadians think "Ho-hum, so we can't pir8 anymore.. " However, the larger issue here is the fact the Canadian government has decided to ignore fact, and give-in to the powerful lobbying efforts of the (Global) Recording Industry/Film Industry, and not (Publicly) actively investigate the issue for itself..

It's Somebody's Birthday Somewhere (and they are sad)

prosonik says:
unhappy?
unhappy birthday says:
it is a song. which has been in my head since the telephone rang this morning
unhappy birthday says:
at 5:45 am
prosonik says:
oh
prosonik says:
yeah
prosonik says:
what type of an asshole would do that
unhappy birthday says:
you have no idea which song i'm thinking of do you?
prosonik says:
no
unhappy birthday says:
when i heard your voice i immediately thought of it.
prosonik says:
i can only think of the cracker version
unhappy birthday says:
http://www.davemcnally.com/lyrics/TheSmiths/UNHAPPYBIRTHDAY.asp

The Smiths Lyrics: "UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY Lyrics - The Smiths"
Cracker Lyrics: "Happy Birthday To Me (Lowery)"

CBC's "The Hour" is in Vancouver this week

I'm a big fan of "The Hour". I'm sure die hard CBC lovers, and pop-culture haters loath the ADD rapid fire format, but it fits Georges personality perfectly, and it keeps ADD/pop-culture/news junkies watching. When 'The Hour' first started a couple months ago, I Canadian media made more of Georges nose ring, then admitting has the show has merits.

CBC.ca - The Hour: "The Hour will be broadcasting live, April 18-21, from the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver. In addition to all the regular features you've come to expect, George will also be visiting some of his favourite haunts."

Napster/Itunes Fair Use

The concept of buying DRM music has pissed me off for awhile. A couple years ago, when record companies were all hyped up over pushing DRM protected cds, I stopped by any cd that had any sort of DRM on it. The majority of my music colleciton has been converted into mp3, so why would a buy a cd that i couldn't rip?

Fastforward to 2005, and we are now living generation I(pod). I personally have not bought anything from online stores. I have two major reasons why 1. Buying the album vrs downloading it, I have the physical album. What Happens to all purchased music if you have harddrive failure? 2. I'm slowly moving everything over to Linux, alot of DRM'd music simply don't support linux.

That being said, i'm increaslying tempted d/l music from a pay service, when i can't find a good copy of the floating around. A great example of this is "Beverly Hills" by Weezer. I am making a spring mixed cd, and I'd like to include it. However, the album is not out yet, so i can't rip it. The versions I have downloaded from various file-sharing services are radio-rips or are damaged. Finally, I don't want a broken DRM'd version of the song that i can't listen to on my laptop or Mythbox. I would be happy to pay $.50->$.99 for a good clean version of Beverly Hills - In a format I can use such as MP3 or OGG

It looks like this may be the case in future if i want to circumvent the drm from napster or itunes (The itunes hack has been around for awile, but itunes only became avaible in Canada in the last 6 months). Musik release seems to be a result of reversing both the itunes and napster clients, and allows linux users to use the songs that they have legally purchased on their platform of choice. What a concept!

Realm of the BlackBlade Clan » Musik Release

Fark Beat Me to the Punch Line

FARK.com: (1445834) Limp Bizkit plans to be more like Rage Against the Machine. Only with less hair, a worse guitar player and bad lyrics

Every indie kid likes a pop culture reference..
I stumbled across this track on pitchfork. A CN tower reference, Hidden Cameras feel, and some fun organ loop and bell chime. Sounds like indie-snob-rock heaven to me.

Pitchfork: Free Downloads: "MP3: Final Fantasy: 'The CN Tower Belongs To The Dead'"

I don't think I could find more fitting lyrics..

This song just about wraps up how I'm feeling these days.

The Scientist Lyrics - Coldplay

Come up to meet you, Tell you I’m sorry, You don’t know how lovely you are

I had to find you, Tell you I need you, Tell you I set you apart

Tell me your secrets, And ask me your questions, Aww let’s go back to the start

Runnin’ in circles, [sounds like] Comin’ our tails, Heads on the science apart

Nobody said it was easy
It’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Aww take me back to the start

I was just guessin’, At numbers and figures, Pullin’ the puzzles apart

Questions of science, Science and progress, Do not speak as loud as my heart

Tell me you love me, Come back to haunt me, Oh when I rush to the start

Runnin’ in circles, [sounds like] Chasin’ our tails, Comin’ back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Aww It’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I’m goin’ back to the start

Ahhooooooooooooooooo
Ahhooooooooooooooooo
Ahhooooooooooooooooo
Ahhooooooooooooooooo

You are being Watched

I put up a hit counter yesturday, because honstely, I thought i was talking to myself, well, Inturn I guess I'm not... So I had a a look at where people came from before this blog.. (Refering Links).. And I don't have a damn clue on how they got here from there. However, whoever you are, and if you can actually read english. Welcome!. However, I'm preety sure people are coming here as a mistake, becasue the majority of hits are less then 5 seconds.. Just enough time to release how much of a moran i am (If they need real proof, email one girlfriend, I'm sure she'll lay witness to that)

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Looks Like My Sloan Catalog is going to double.




I (heart) Sloan. I have been a fan ever since hearing the indie version of "Underwhelmed". I'd like to say that i was too cool for school, and bought Peppermint.. But the first Sloan album i bought was "Smeared". Now, to date myself, I'm almost 100% sure, I first owned smeared on cassette. How's that for too cool for school? After "Twice Removed", my love for Sloan was solidified. Thirteen years have passed since the release of Smeared, and I now hold their entire catalog in both CD and MP3 format. My collection is missing a few gems such as the plexi single from Edgefest 3 in 96.. (interestingly Enough, the Official Sloan Discography does not list this as a single, but I swear it was from 96) My collection does contain such rarities as the original 7 inch of "Stove/Smother"

However, it looks like I will have a chance to fill in the gaps in my collection. According to the MTV article they are re-releasing all their albums in the States, complete with bonus tracks. Bonus track that I don't own. So I suppose my collection is about to double. Hopefully they will be fully re-mastered, in all the rock and roll glory that is Sloan.

mtv.com - News - Sloan Get Nostalgic With Greatest-Hits Release, U.S. Reissues

and from Tofu Hut, Sloan "False Alarm"

Sloan is playing across Canada this spring with a stop at the Commodore on Thursday, May 5, 2005

Mythbuster - Smashing Phones
After watching Cellular, Alex proves that you can infact dial out on a smashed up phone.
alnemosophy: Cellular

America, We love your processed Cheese..




Hot on the heels of Mr. T talking about not dissing your mother, Scenestars brings us this gem. I'd love to write an essay on the topic of this guys hair. However, I'm withdrawing on the heaving bashing as it's obviously some post-911 song. That being said, it is some well processed American cheese.

America We Stand As One

However, just a side note; Why Have we not seen any cheese rock on crisis in Dafur?

Mr T says 'Treat your mother right... Fool!

(From stereogum: I Pity The Fool Who Doesn't Watch This Video )

AudioScrobbler

I had totatly forgot that I had this winamp plug-in installed. AudioScrobbler collects stats based on the music you listen to. The site also performs the expected tricks. It displays other simular users to your listening habbits, and other band you may like. However, It's the nice clean interface that i like.

Perhaps I can figure out a way to feed the rss into this site, for some phat-ass realtime rock and roll stats.
Audioscrobbler :: User :: prosonik

My Top 3 Artists for the week: (Number of Plays to the right)

1	Beck	24
2	Nouvelle Vague	19
3	Queens of the Stone Age	16

B-U-S-Y

My parents are here this week. Life seems to be busy. I haven't touched on the death of the pope or shrivo at all. I'm sure there is lots of blogland stuff about it already. Maybe I'll blog on it next week, way after the fires have settled.

I came across this gem. From the EFF, the ins and out of blogging without getting fired..
How to Blog Safely

CHUM-FM Launches PODCAST
Okay, I'm am not at all a fan of Chum-Fm (Other then the fact that ex-CFNY DJ Maie Pauts seems to work there now). However, I am pleased to see that they are launching a podcast. To really impress me, they would use Bittorrent to speed up the distribution, but it is good to see mainstream media types to offer cutting edge concepts like podcasts.

What I would really like to see is CBC RADIO 3 go the same way. I truely believe that if you could get it on demand, that it would greatly increase it's listenership.

Here is the link to the pulse24 article:

Pulse24 - Toronto's News: "as of May 2, those of you with an MP3 player will be able to listen to more than just your favourite catalogue of tunes on your way to the office. CHUM FM is offering fans a downloadable version of the Roger, Rick and Marilyn morning show"