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This will be the last in the ‘meta’ series, so I figured I’d give it a title that won’t be funny even a week from now.

OK. I’ve suffered another hard drive crash. It was one of my externals, and almost everything was backed-up on one of the other ones. But it made me rethink the whole way I was doing this. (And by “doing this” I mean “thinking about doing this“.)

A problem that bugged me about the randomness of what record to select depends on a process that is easily corrupted (by me) or disrupted by technical concerns. A less asshole way to say this is I’m trying to make it easier to continue while making it harder for me to cheat.

Enter: my sidebar blog. I’ve been fucking with tumblr a lot more than wordpress lately. Really, I’m trying not to as much since I want to create at least some original content on my own server that I pay for. (I now remember starting that tumblr to remind myself to care less about last.fm…eh.) Anyway, I got everything merged together now and it looks cool and it works so who cares what the original concept was because it was way too complicated.

This really feels like a huge cop-out to me, but life goes on. [Note to self: get life.]

Click here and you get a record I not only own, but have listened to. I will be choosing records to talk about from there. Now I need to clean up and recode that a bit, but I’ll try not to get too crazy.

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It’s a valid question.

It wasn’t asked directly of me, it was a thought I had towards someone else the other day, but I’m sure the same thought has been in many people brains at some time, and many of those times, I was putting it there. It should be answered directly.

Sometimes I have a point. But it becomes a habit, as I find it has with others. I try not to get mad. We just can’t stop talking like assholes. Maybe we are assholes. But this is a simile, followed by a metaphor.

I want to tell you about my record collection.

My record collection is something real. It exists, in the present. It consists of many forms of recorded music, which might be a serious debate for some people, but, if you make music and are serious about it, the fact that you have a recording of it or not is infinitely more important than the playback medium. The next important thing would be the quality of the recording process, but even that’s getting into subjectivity. The medium (and number of copies made) determine the survivability of the recording. I’m going to tell you about the copies that I personally have.

I try to make music and have a number of songs running around my brain at any time. And I spend a lot of time fooling around of various instruments. It might not ever turn into anything. If I die tomorrow, definitely not. But my record collection will still go right on existing. Unless I’m killed in some sort of house explosion, or fire, or planes fly into my house causing a flaming explosion, which I feel is always in the cards.

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Bloglines seems to have died and/or outlived it’s usefulness.

First, Bloglines is back up and I’m still using it, it was only down for a few days. And many people still think a working RSS is a good idea. (The rest I follow on twitter.) Second and maybe more important, I myself am barely alive and currently not very useful. Should I write something off with a better overall percentage of working than me?

I kinda had to take a little break being hard on myself, but I clearly went too far. I’m hardly doing anything lately but giving other people (and web servers, inanimate objects, etc) crap at the first sign of temporary failure. Then to top it off, I make a blog entry (on a whole new blog, at a new address, which I expect people to find, and love) that seems to be designed to earn me sympathy for being a horrible person.

Well, if I know anything about the internet, it’s full of horrible people. Let me know it’s working.

Nah, j/k. But comments are open.

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First of all, this blog is a year old. The memories! No, it’s not very active. 2009 kicked my ass in various non-entertaining ways and I should feel lucky I got anything done at all. But I am a miserable sensitive artist, you see. Behold my self-dissatisfaction!

Also, I took down the Opentape page because there was a glitch I didn’t like and it was up long enough. The old blog will remain up in it’s trainwreck glory. I think I lost most of my readers before it ended for whatever reason (I was pretty drunk) but to anyone wondering this is the active one (that isn’t about my own music or mostly random nonsense.)

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Haven’t gotten down to any reviews yet, given my (on-topic) writing speed and my (completely unrealistic but not impossible) goal of reviewing every album I own. I only got one started before my computer crashed and I had to rebuild the whole site. And I felt a little boxed in being stuck with that one. But that is kinda the point of this blog: thinking inside the box. BUT, I can make a bigger box. So, using my random process (foobar shuffle) here’s the first 20 reviews which I’ll get to in whatever order:

• Queensrÿche| Empire
• Kinski | Airs Above Your Station
• V/A | Words and Music of Pizzicato Five
• V/A | Osu! Tatakae! Ouedan! Original Songs!
• V/A | I Love Bollywood
• V/A | Japanese Independent Music
• Sonic Youth | Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
• V/A | Kill Rock Stars
• Faye Wong | Jiang Ai [To Love]
• Pigface | Preaching to the Perverted
• 2Pac | All Eyez On Me
• V/A | Music of Islam Vol. 8: Folkloric Music of Tunisia
• It’s a Tesseract | S/T
• Pizzicato Five | Made in USA
• V/A | Anticon Label Sampler: 1999-2004
• Mark Prindle | Smilehouse
• Tom Waits | Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
• Morning Musume. | Hawaiian de Kiku
• Vince Guaraldi Trio | A Boy Named Charlie Brown
• American Watercolor Movement | It Takes 15 to Tango in My Book, What Book Do You Read?

  Thaaat’s quality random. I don’t foresee any controversy.

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