17 posts tagged “music”
His jaw's been broken
His bandage is wrapped too tight
His fangs have been pulled
And I really want to see you tonight
After deciding to hold onto my somewhat aged PowerBook G4 for a while longer, I decided to invest in a wireless network upgrade. It's been a while.
It has, in fact, been a while since I've paid for Internet access. When I moved to my current location, there was a Linksys Wireless router in place. Tragically, it was an 802.11b.
All was fine until I recently purchased an Airport Express in order to get music from my computer to my stereo. Keen memories may recall that I had a Squeezebox to do this, but I think a power outage or breaker switch blew it. Sadly, there will be no more Pope Gravely Ill days for me.
The Airport Express is different from the Squeezebox--all of its control and input is provided by the computer. I could have bought an (as yet unavailable) Apple TV unit but this would have meant having the TV on to control music. Since I don't like my TV anyway, I chose to go this route. It was also quite a bit cheaper.
Unfortunately, 802.11b was just not enough to feed the Airport Express. My solution?
Yup. I bought a new Airport Extreme to replace the Linksys equipment. The last Airport base station I bought was one of the first in Canada, served only 802.11b and is still in use some 6 years later in Toronto.
So how did the upgrade go?
30 Rock's third season has ended. Alan Alda guest starred as Jack's long lost father Milton Green. When it turns out Milton needs a kidney transplant, Jack solves the problem in his own special way: by marshaling all the power of the liberal media, calling in personal favours (he apparently saved Mary J. Blige from a "...20 year contract with Sea World.") and throwing a musical fund raiser benefit.
Some of the musician guests were great, and some of my favourites. Moments below.
Sheryl Crow snubbing Liz Lemon despite the fact that they were best friends in the fifth grade and co-kidneys in a play about the bodily organs.
Probably my favourite blog is "Aquarium Drunkard": http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/ which just feels more...blog like than Paste Magazine or the newly updated No Depression. It has more personality, while the others have a publication kind of feel to them.
Plus they post lots of music, like today's awesome Austin City Limits show that Wilco played last year.
Dame Very Lynn turns 82 today, my mother another year older in her early 60s, it's the first day of spring and the anniversary of Einstein's publication of his theory of relativity.
Battlestar Galactica goes off the air in one last finale and apparently tonight's episode of Dollhouse
It really is quite a day.
The night David Byrne played in Vancouver I was at local hero A.C. Newman's show at the Biltmore Cabaret. Loyalty and budget won out over fame.
Apparently, I should have been riding my bike around teh city because that's what David Byrne was doing.
The Boomtown Rats popped into my head today, which doesn't happen that often. A performance from the Secret Policeman's Ball that I saw a few years ago was just beautiful. Wait for the pause after the reverb at 2:46.
Ok, wasn't Mats Sundin supposed to save the Canucks? On another note, did anybody publish a story today that didn't include a superfluous reference to Barak Obama's inauguration?
Canucks lose to Sharks in last-minute heartbreaker
BY BRAD ZIEMER, VANCOUVER SUNJANUARY 20, 2009
SAN JOSE -- On the day the United States and its new president began what Americans hope will be a journey of renewal, the Vancouver Canucks continued down that bumpy road to ruin.The Canucks played the San Jose Sharks extremely tough Tuesday night, but surrendered the tying goal with 40 seconds left in the third period and then lost...
Ottawa's Kathleen Edwards dedicated her song Copied Keys to Sundin on Friday night. The opening line:
This is not my town and it will never be
She's a funny lady.
"At the end, when you're holding the pedal down, let's let it roll so we get some extra frogs."
