TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

I figure when it comes down to ripping stuff I actually will want to hear regularly (and that time will come) I'll up the rate.

if you change that to "Keep It Live" by the Dazz Band, it would actually be correct.

i think i'm convinced. but i still resent the fact that (merely out of practical necessity) 90% of my listening is from a compressed format. when i move things will be better.

Today my "play on repeat" song has been "Bamboo Banger". I made up a lawn sprinklerish dance to go with the opening bassline while I was getting ready in the bathroom.

(yes I realize how sad/awesome (delete as applicable) that is)

holy shit tom what a task.

i rip at 192, but use AAC because gold cablers told me it was better. will doubtless regret that in 10 years.

I've just been ripping at 320, but I can be a bit zany sometimes.

One thing I've found (and one reason why I'm hardly dumping all my discs at once) is that if I don't have the visual prompt of a CD spine or the like I often forget about what I have. This is obviously in part due to what I'm used to as a personal standard; someone who grew up with iTunes, say, will have a different perspective. For me even using the search tool is not an intuitive approach.

estela: that should be you now, all details the same as here. (I don't know what yr password is btw, we encrypt them)

I'm surprisingly much quicker with coverflow, especially on iPhone. Something about remembering objects rather than names. Hate the blank covers tho

your music talk is not making my day very exciting

and i'm sure the whole of itr's main concern is my general disposition

much the same as one can't "browse" online as one can in an actual record shop no? you have to have at least some idea of what you're looking for.

ned to x-post

i get here ---> itr gets boring ---> everyone leaves.

is that whut you're saying?

MAKE RUBYREDD'S DAY

YES PRECISELY

Today's music purchase -- that double-disc reissue of Tubeway Army's _Replicas_, which surely must rule. (As I muttered elsewhere I honestly think that the only CDs I'm going to be regularly purchasing from here on in are gussied up special editions -- and by that I don't mean those idiot releases they do these days six months after the album's first release, I mean things like that Numan reissue. My other goal -- use as much credit where possible at Amoeba and the like to never actually have to purchase them.)

oh this is priceless:

nobody ever said in some ILX constitution written on eco-friendly recycled parchment that this was supposed to be some socialist discussocracy designed to advance the human race. i don't know about other people, but i use it to make time go faster and give trayce shit somewhere other than livejournal.

-- Mikey Bidness

One thing I don't get about that secret board thread is how I was randomly invoked from time to time.

The best invocation of you was Dom's rickroll!

That, I admit, was pretty great.

thanks stet!

Okay, but THIS is greater:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KANI2dpXLw

hahahahahaha that is awesome

Just perfect. Red hair, even!

I actually think that was the only RickRoll I watched all the way through.

i am pretty much terrified of ever clicking on a link on ilx ever again because of rickroll.

Oh god the technical music/ripping talk; I am going to have to get A. to interpret for me later. I just download from iTunes or rip at whatever number/setting A. has it set at and never think about it.

As for music, I was still in Swan Lake land today.

i'm still listening to the same 3 or 4 albums i've been listening to for a year. i have a playlist of about 20-25 songs that i listen to while falling asleep/asleep, and maybe 3 albums that i listen to on my mp3 player everyday to and from work. i am exceedingly narrowminded, boring and picky when it comes to music.

and that said, anyone who would like to send me mix cds would be awesome. i'm finally getting ready to move onto some new stuff.

yuh I haven't been listening to much music lately at all. Too busy destroying at Bioshock.

Said 3 to 4 albums are:

John Howard Interprets the Great Love Songs
Winston Peters -- Return of the Mack
Helen Clark's spoken word interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi
Ken Rudd -- Confessions of a Dancefloor

There's also some rumor that the Australian Environmental Minister gigged with some pub band in his spare time but nobody would believe such nonsense.

u mean kev rudd?

Bah, you and your pathetic so-called 'facts'

I will make you one, RR! And then send it to... NZ? Or wait until this summer when you are here and then send it to CA? (I might not manage, timewise, until this summer anyway...?)

I totally get into music ruts and then I'll hear a song I haven't heard for a while and get onto a totally different tangent.

Or sometimes someone will recommend an album and I'll get hooked (I'm thinking specifically of Dan recommending Depeche Mode's Playing the Angel, which I owned but hadn't really found time to listen to until he made a big deal about it...)

Such wisdom!

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5969583,00.jpg

Yeah, Dan is kinda smart about these things; I have noted that! xp

See, now I imagine your PM doing that in his own RickRoll.

wilter did you get my email?

i'm not the guy that posts youtube links. this though is an exceptional circumstance. and with the swan lake talk, it fits. MUST SEE TV PEOPLE. seriously, even if you're not interested in ballet and/or chinese acrobatics. it goes OFF from 2:51

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqxSaW05p4

sara i would love music asap but i can wait till (my double) summer!

yes, sometimes i rediscover something that i never liked at first and then fall utterly in love with it. i had angel dust by faith no more for years and years but only really properly listened to it for the first time last year.

estela, I have received no email

maybe droone got it, i used that gmail address.

that was amazing, jergins, it made me cry.

that's odd. the address I use for most things is mdwalter att gmail

And I think i've got all other addresses forwardeding to that address.

that was amazing

i know, right? lxy and i watched the other night with big dumb open mouths. it was hard to talk about it afterwards, beyond 'WOOWOOW>?>>>!!??'

HOLY SHIT JERGINS THAT WAS INSANE WOW!!!!!

How can they do that?!