Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

Won’t be long now. I think as of tomorrow I will officially ditch my Hotmail account and swap to Yahoo. This would be a perfect opportunity to get the chromewaves account into action, but I do like the My Yahoo functions.

My back has been acting up again this week, after more than a year of mostly pain-free happiness. Pisses me right off. Why now? What’s the cause, where’s the stress? Stupid back muscles.

np – All-Time Quarterback / All-Time Quarterback

Adventures In Stereo

Out of boredom and some pragmatism, I have just spent the past hour rearranging my speakers. I’m not going to get optimum sound from my setup considering the way my room is arranged, but the way it was I could only achieve optimum listening position if I stood in the centre of my room. Not practical.

I’ve stretched out the base of the invisible equilateral triangle between the speakers by almost 200% (in other words, I moved them to the outside edges of the bookshelves instead of the inside – scientific yah!). The ideal listening position in my room is now sitting on my bed, back against the wall – where I usually sit when reading. Better than standing in the middle of the room. My computer, where I spend most of my time, still isn’t in a great listening position but the left speaker is directly behind my head now so at least I’m getting more detail and volume from one of the channels. Better than nothing.

np – Low / Trust

Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press

The Trouser Press website is back up!

Trouser Press

np – Neutral Milk Hotel / In the Aeroplane Over The Sea

I Am An Indie Snob

The Big Picture

This Bright Eyes disc is really quite amazing. Sometimes you buy stuff totally unheard and cross your fingers. Sometimes you get lucky.

These long weekends are pretty slothful. What’d I do yesterday… Went to Canadjun Tire and bought various bits and pieces for hanging stuff in the rehearsal space as well as parts for tweaking the setup of my pedalboard though I suspect the screws I bought are too long. Bought a pair of jeans. Played with the new delay and tidied up the big mess of cables that I call my ‘home studio’.

Andy’s making Thanksgiving dinner and apparently we’re going to Meg’s family’s place to eat it. I get to meet his in-laws! I hope Peeka is there, dogs make holidays much more fun. What that means is I won’t be seeing Minority Report tonight. I think I will never actually get to see it.

Watched Birds Of Prey from last week. Haven’t made up my mind on it yet – there’s some good acting and decent writing, but the episode felt like it went through some dumbass filter that added crappy editing, voiceovers and music to try and appeal to the Beastmaster/Immortal/crap sci-fi TV market. This show can be better than that, I think. I hope it figures that out sooner rather than later. But Ashley Scott (The Huntress) is so hot it’s stupid.

Finally completed the hockey pool draft last night online with Jim and Nicole. My team is looking ok – God I hope Lemieux plays at least 60 game – but somehow I ended up with Martin ‘Oh my back’ Straka. Let that be a lesson to you, kids – always do like Santa and if you make a list, check it twice. We will be having trades. Bye bye Marty.

np – Bright Eyes / Lifted, Or, The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground