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Posted on 11.07.07 by Widge @ 1:45 am
Okay, well, I had to work way too hard to try and help a guy on 43 Folders. Anyway, here's what he was complaining about: tucking away songs that you don't want because they are tied to a particular event. Xmas, for example. Real simple. It helps if you have everything tied with a genre like "Xmas" or "Holiday" or something. Select all the songs you wish to tuck away somewhere else. Then right click and "Get Info" on all of them. Change the album to "Xmas Tunes" or whatever you want to call it, and make sure you check that this IS a compilation. Now…go to your compilations folder, grab that Xmas Tunes folder and move it wherever you want it. Then just go back into iTunes and delete the songs from your library. When it becomes time to celebrate our favorite "reformed" pagan holiday, just throw the songs back into your library. Done. Now, if you don't have everything fixed with a genre, then just use my previous tip about using stars to mark things needing action, and if you come across "Jingle Bells" when you shouldn't, mark it with the right amount of stars and then deal with it when you get home. As to the comments on 43 Folders: I had to register, fill in my personal info, do a captcha, then wait for my password to show up. Then I put the password in and was told that I was denied access to the comment form after all that. No error messages. No whoops, you did something wrong. Just nada. If I ever put in place a scheme so user-unfriendly as that bullshit, please promise me one of you will call me on it, okay? Filed under: Free Ideas
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Posted on 08.28.07 by Widge @ 2:19 pm
And what's the only thing better than listening to tracks from the soundtrack? Listening to the techno versions of same. No shit. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 07.26.07 by Widge @ 2:02 am
The Format gave a great show. They even ended up by smacking the living crap out of Van Morrison's "Caravan." One of the best live covers I've been witness to since Tracy Chapman and her band tore the hell out of "Proud Mary" several years back. I realize all the bands are all buddy-buddy and all, but the first two bands were strictly Big Spring Jam material. Honorary Title has a great lead singer but when they dwindle to a three-piece they tend to waste him. Although if there's one thing I don't miss about being in a band, it's coming home smelling like a fucking ashtray. On the comic side of things, Y #57 made me forgive Vaughan for the part of the series where it wandered off course. Suddenly Yorick goes from the Last Man to Everyman. Wow. Nice. And Kirkman confused the hell out of me with the latest issue of Walking Dead. Something nice happened for once? The world makes no sense anymore. I owe Karl a response. Soon enough. More later. For now, the coffin calls me. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 07.18.07 by Widge @ 2:51 am
Direct link for the feedreaders. So Doc and I were talking about Living Colour, and how their Wikipedia entry says that: Candidates for the bass player position vacated in 1992 by Muzz Skillings and eventually filled by Doug Wimbish included Melvin Gibbs (most known for having spent a long tenure with Rollins Band) and Me'shell Ndegeocello. First of all, Wimbish is pretty freaking good. He also played with Seal on his first (and best) album. But the Weight version of Rollins Band is my favorite, and Gibbs was on board for that. And Ndegeocello's stuff, especially Plantation Lullabies, is awesome. So I wonder what Living Colour would have been like with either Gibbs or Ndegeocello on bass. Which leads me to something I've thought of before: doing music-related alt-history stuff on Needcoffee. But problem is, since it is so audio-based, being music naturally, it really does lose something. Or DreamCovers, where you can have the ultimate Culture Club cover album, for example, and talk about what "Church of the Poison Mind" would sound like covered by Marilyn Manson, or what "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" would sound like covered by Fishbone. Don't ask me why Culture Club sprang to mind first. Could be any band. Anyway, the Primus cover of Metallica up top is because Doc marvelled at what Metallica would be like if Les Claypool had replaced Cliff Burton. Faaaascinating. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 04.05.06 by Widge @ 11:52 pm
I've heard it and I still can't believe it. Are you fucking kidding? Britney Spears loves rock and roll as equally as she loves good taste, another thing she's never been properly introduced to. I almost feel sorry for her, since for a fleeting picosecond she was Something instead of what she is now, which is I Can't Believe It's Not Xtina. I just can't get over that cover song. Sade could have rocked that song with more oomph backed only by Tiny Tim on ukelele–and he's dead. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 04.04.06 by Widge @ 2:01 am
At least though, with The Black Rider, I can get a sense of the show itself from the album. I have no clue about Franks Wild Years. Would love to see that staged. Or just the book. Or anything. Too much cool shit and the world is still too big. Hi, by the way. Sorry I've been away. I was bedridden for a few days by a memetic virus. How was your weekend? Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 03.25.06 by Widge @ 9:10 pm
Well, that's depressing. We handed Regina Spektor the Chazzies for Best Artist and Song, and then she went and hobbled her own sound, if the MP3s that are out now are any indication. "Better" completely loses her keys. And it basically sounds like…well, a song that any other female vocalist would put out. The magic's just been drained out of it. In "Fidelity," she sounds like she's been imprisoned by the (what sounds like a) canned beat behind her and just wants to bust out and go nuts. But she can't. The "and it breaks my ha-hahaha-hahaha-hahahaha-heart" thing which has been known to work live just sounds ridiculous and phoned in. Now I can see her taking the next step, which is the same mistake Tori Amos made in–if memory serves me correctly–her Boys for Pele tour: touring solo but using a recorded backup band for the songs that "needed" it. I would have much preferred to see everything done with just a piano. It felt cheap otherwise. I'm never one for musicians to stay the same from album to album, but when they chuck what made them special out the window, it's always a sad day. If this is the new album, then I'll just ignore it and listen to Soviet Kitsch and Bull Moose over instead. "And it breaks my heart, and it breaks my heart." Yeah, mine too, Regina. Sorry. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 03.09.06 by Widge @ 2:28 am
Well, I've done it. I went ahead and signed up for Second Life. I am Widgett Wombat. Yeah, I know. It's like the hero from a 1940s sci-fi radio show on shrooms, isn't it? Anyway, what I have found is that the Second Life experience really isn't much different from the First Life experience. In both realities, I have all of these tools and power and ability, but with no clear way on how to use them all. So if you see a shmoe all in black trying to figure out how to build objects and doing it badly…that's probably me. If you're in there, ping me in-world if it please you. I have plans and they will develop as they unfold. Or if you join up, tell em I referred you. What I want to do will cost game-money to pull off. I need land. And then I need ability. God help me. Musical Postscript: It's no mystery that I love mashups. Hell, Dark Blue Monstropolis is nearly completely built around the idea. "Stand Up and Ring My Doorbell" is a mash of Ludacris and White Stripes. And thankfully, it's a mashup that sounds to be uncensored. There's nothing that takes you out of a groove faster than a big dead space where a "shit" or a "fuck" once lived. I understand these are getting radio play, but can we get a "dirty" version for those of us who can hear such words without our worldviews collapsing? Anyway, mini-rant ends. Found that song via Between Thought and Expression. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 03.08.06 by Widge @ 12:34 am
Now that the Pope has an iPod (a white one, naturally–although I would have laughed my ass off if he had gotten the U2 "limited" edition), wouldn't it be hilarious if he went the way of Sen. Ted Stevens from Alaska and started giving the RIAA and MPAA grief about what he can and can't have on there… "What do they mean I can't tear Snoop Dogg songs to this thing? Who do they think they are?" "That's rip, your eminence." "Oh whatever. I want an answer. Get me an answer." I want to see some cardinals sued for file sharing. I want this. Ungawa! Make it so. Music Postscript: Trimbal's "They Gave an Inch". Found via Largehearted Boy. Why can't I stop laughing? Update: I really appreciate Engadget's headline on this. Filed under: General BS
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Posted on 03.08.06 by Widge @ 12:29 am
The headline on Drudge says, 30,000 people are patrolling the Web in China… Who the hell do they think they are, the RIAA? Anyway, the lesson is this: 30K pairs of eyes working to filter the Net and they still can't keep up. Let that be a lesson to everyone who tries to put this genie back in the bottle–can't be done. So sorry. Musical Postscript: Mig's "Concrete Jungle." Kind of like Supreme Beings of Leisure with the Martina Topley-Bird rheostat turned up about two notches. Found via Aurgasm. Filed under: General BS
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the pseudonym of Widgett Walls.
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