Dam, I'm sleepy! I want to sleep! I've been doing nothing BUT sleep! I'm tired of sleeping!!!
I finally got a real listen to Panic! At The Disco's new album VICES AND VIRTUES. I think I tried listening to the first track closer to when it first came out and didn't like it 'cause it was just too murky sounding...then I somehow managed to listen to the first track a few days ago, and got to track #2 and was like "yay!" and was just amazed at almost every track from then on. 9/10 ain't bad! ...well...I guess you could make a case that no good album should be left with only ten tracks, but, c'mon...
And...I get $ tomorrow...I am expecting $ for completing a series of surveys, should be here "no later than" a week or so from now. I will use that to buy a bidpack from BidCactus and use that bidpack to buy a $100 Amazon.com gift card. The $ I get tomorrow will be almost half used up to pay back my Mom's housekeeper and then $13 will go to a public domain DVD w/ case and cover-art (!) and then a few things from Amazon that I thought were too good to pass up...I already placed an order for three items, just need to update my payment info...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
altered opinion...
I don't know why I'm so anxious to have a "hi end" audio setup. It's simply NOT gonna happen. I want to see how long my TV lasts, I don't care about fullHD or whatever, but I would like to see A CLOCKWORK ORANGE in its correct aspect ratio and see THE LAST UNICORN uncensored w/o being a fugitive for having a region free DVD player in my home......and it would be cool to have a blu ray player with internet apps that matter i.e. pandora, netflix etc. I don't think I'll convert every movie I want to own to blu ray, if I end up needing to, so what? At least I'll still have the packaging to look at (depending on what movie it is; a lot of movies these days have really pathetic packaging...).
But having SACD playback is totally pointless, there aren't even any SACDs worth owning, IMO. SACD is for people who get hung up on "how it sounds" and not just how it FEELS to listen to it. I guess I'm just more into cathartic music, vs. that middle of the road jazzrock/progrock/artrock of the 70's and 80's. Not to say that the 70s and 80s didn't have good music. Joy Division's debut came out in 1979...oh, yeah - and Pink Floyd is a pretty good band, but DARK SIDE OF THE MOON is probably the most overrated album EVER. The last two or three songs are totally meandering b.s.. I much prefer their ECHOES retrospective, even if it is missing a few "key" tracks...
I might want to own the Denon rec'er in my previous post - no matter what you listen to, the little things do make an impact...but I surely don't need a Plasma right now and I don't need a $500 blu ray player either...
But having SACD playback is totally pointless, there aren't even any SACDs worth owning, IMO. SACD is for people who get hung up on "how it sounds" and not just how it FEELS to listen to it. I guess I'm just more into cathartic music, vs. that middle of the road jazzrock/progrock/artrock of the 70's and 80's. Not to say that the 70s and 80s didn't have good music. Joy Division's debut came out in 1979...oh, yeah - and Pink Floyd is a pretty good band, but DARK SIDE OF THE MOON is probably the most overrated album EVER. The last two or three songs are totally meandering b.s.. I much prefer their ECHOES retrospective, even if it is missing a few "key" tracks...
I might want to own the Denon rec'er in my previous post - no matter what you listen to, the little things do make an impact...but I surely don't need a Plasma right now and I don't need a $500 blu ray player either...
$2,000.00 a/v set-up...
$668 Plasma HDTV from Panasonic
$559 home theater receiver that doesn't kick music to the curb by Denon
$500 blu ray disc player that also plays hi-def music (SACD etc.)
$268 (apprx) highly rated speakers!!!
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$1,995
If by any chance anyone who is willing/able to buy this stuff me is reading this, these items are on my Amazon wishlist and they can be found by searching Jonathan Cardwell's wishlist. No need to ask my address because it's built in to my wishlist....it'd take me at least 3 years to buy these items with what I have to spare each month on stuff of this sort.
blackout
quote from Senses Fail's "Blackout" (from LIFE IS NOT A WAITING ROOM on Vagrant Records)
"If I had a shot for every *odamn time I thought about your face and what I lost, at least I'd get some sleep"
I love that song, not sure if I'd feel the same about it hearing it at random...on the LIFE IS NOT A WAITING ROOM album, it's like they subconsciously lead you to expect a big payoff at the end (that being "Blackout"). I don't know how they do/did it, I'm not even sure if that's the correct conclusion, but looking back I don't see how I was able to listen to the entire album with songs like "Wolves At The Door" and "Hair Of The Dog", the latter having a rather nice melody with kind of barf-inducing lyrics, if it weren't for the subliminal message of more-to-come (??) in the opening song "Fireworks At Dawn" (??).
I also like the lyric in the song: "There were times, there were times, I reached for the phone, to tell you there might still be some hope...".
I don't know why those two parts of the song appease me so much. I didn't even realize what he was saying in the first quote until I looked up the lyrics on MetroLyrics to verify content. I just remember the melody and the part where he keeps repeating the word "sleep".
You'd think "Blackout" would be the backbone of their 2010 release, since it leaves you wanting more, but alas, they decided to go for a more aggressive sound for the newest CD THE FIRE.
"If I had a shot for every *odamn time I thought about your face and what I lost, at least I'd get some sleep"
I love that song, not sure if I'd feel the same about it hearing it at random...on the LIFE IS NOT A WAITING ROOM album, it's like they subconsciously lead you to expect a big payoff at the end (that being "Blackout"). I don't know how they do/did it, I'm not even sure if that's the correct conclusion, but looking back I don't see how I was able to listen to the entire album with songs like "Wolves At The Door" and "Hair Of The Dog", the latter having a rather nice melody with kind of barf-inducing lyrics, if it weren't for the subliminal message of more-to-come (??) in the opening song "Fireworks At Dawn" (??).
I also like the lyric in the song: "There were times, there were times, I reached for the phone, to tell you there might still be some hope...".
I don't know why those two parts of the song appease me so much. I didn't even realize what he was saying in the first quote until I looked up the lyrics on MetroLyrics to verify content. I just remember the melody and the part where he keeps repeating the word "sleep".
You'd think "Blackout" would be the backbone of their 2010 release, since it leaves you wanting more, but alas, they decided to go for a more aggressive sound for the newest CD THE FIRE.
Friday, May 13, 2011
pulling teeth
I got one tooth pulled today. It was infected, so a local dentist pulled it for $102. The novacane or whatever they used is wearing off finally (it's been 3 hours since I got out of there...), and my teeth are starting to hurt. I was laying down, watching THE EXORCIST, not sure if that did anything to help...I couldn't sleep - I'm a little tired, but far from ready to sleep. i need to feed my cats. xx.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
A "Crash" course in shipping...
My sister used her debit card - I don't have one, I finally will be getting one soon tho(!!!!!!!) - to buy J.G. Ballard's CRASH in hardcover on my behalf. I somehow managed to find it for $6 w/ S&H. This edition of the book typically goes for $40 on up. So I figure I can have it to read until someone else buys it from me (on Amazon) and if I'm not totally disappointed with the book by that time, I can rebuy at least one copy, maybe two - one for display and one for reading - and have a few+(++?) dollars left over...
I was worried the seller wouldn't ship the book after realizing they were offering it for too low of a price...one thing looks promising though and that's the fact that the seller's Amazon listing for the exact same book was taken down. There's still time for them to cancel the order and try to sell the book to someone with $40++ falling out of their pockets...I mean, ya know, nothing's final 'til the book ships, and even then I have to receive the book, safe and sound, neither have happened yet. So I'm hoping still...anywaz...
I was worried the seller wouldn't ship the book after realizing they were offering it for too low of a price...one thing looks promising though and that's the fact that the seller's Amazon listing for the exact same book was taken down. There's still time for them to cancel the order and try to sell the book to someone with $40++ falling out of their pockets...I mean, ya know, nothing's final 'til the book ships, and even then I have to receive the book, safe and sound, neither have happened yet. So I'm hoping still...anywaz...
my first bluray player - returned
I returned my Magnavox Blu ray player. I used it every day since I bought it, but not for movies. It was essentially just a CD player with movie-watching capacities. The only thing I'll miss out on b/c of this is seeing A CLOCKWORK ORANGE in its correct aspect ratio. That can surely wait 'til...whenever $75 isn't such a large amount of money in my eyes. I will hopefully get apprx $500++ in January or February of 2012, but I might need to give that to my sister to help out with paying a deposit on whatever apartment I move into after the house I live in now is bought, supposing that even happens...but anyway...if it takes a whole 3 years for this house to sell, that'll just mean it's gonna be awhile before I can afford a blu ray player. So what? i enjoyed A CLOCKWORK ORANGE w/o seeing it in its correct aspect ratio. Heck, if I could rent movies on VHS, I'd just use my VCR to watch GHOSTBUSTERS and whatever else even though most VHS tapes are in Full Screen.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Fear of a better tomorrow...
This country fought a 50 year war in the name of Capitalism/Free Trade, but only 5% of it chooses to save money by buying online. People would rather give their money to seedy companies like Best Buy and give into the convenience of thinking thoughts that don't acknowledge all facets of the reality at hand.
The fact is most identity theft happens online, yes, but the majority of it happens because people open emails from people they don't know or don't know how to spot spoof emails.
If people would get their act together, identity theft would probably be more likely to happen the way people are afraid it would happen if they shopped online, but it would probably be less common because websites that have valuable information pay good money to secure that information so that unwarranted peeks don't take place.
I can understand that saving $5 on a CD or DVD or whatever isn't a big deal to a lot of people, but in this economy, you'd think a lot of people, maybe not as many but certainly more than 5%, would value their money enough to try to keep as much of it as possible by not wasting that $5. I mean, with that $5 saved, whoever saves it could pay for half of a casual dining meal w/ a drink (unless the casual dining meal is at Red Lobster; half of a Red Lobster meal is apprx $7.50, which isn't much more than $5; and if you save $5 on each of THREE CDs/other/? that's pretty close to, if not just plain all, that you need to visit a casually fancy place like Red Lobster...).
The fact is most identity theft happens online, yes, but the majority of it happens because people open emails from people they don't know or don't know how to spot spoof emails.
If people would get their act together, identity theft would probably be more likely to happen the way people are afraid it would happen if they shopped online, but it would probably be less common because websites that have valuable information pay good money to secure that information so that unwarranted peeks don't take place.
I can understand that saving $5 on a CD or DVD or whatever isn't a big deal to a lot of people, but in this economy, you'd think a lot of people, maybe not as many but certainly more than 5%, would value their money enough to try to keep as much of it as possible by not wasting that $5. I mean, with that $5 saved, whoever saves it could pay for half of a casual dining meal w/ a drink (unless the casual dining meal is at Red Lobster; half of a Red Lobster meal is apprx $7.50, which isn't much more than $5; and if you save $5 on each of THREE CDs/other/? that's pretty close to, if not just plain all, that you need to visit a casually fancy place like Red Lobster...).
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