March 13, 2008 - 9:10 pm
I really haven’t been updating this blog too much lately. Most of my updates used to come while I was at work, but my new job doesn’t have enough downtime to really give me the chance to write entries like I used to. The good news though is that I can submit what I listen to at work to my last.fm account now since the new place doesn’t have any web filtering so I’m going to start posting some playlists of what I’ve been listening to outside of my radio show.
I’ll try to get some other posts up soon too, though.
Here’s last night’s radio show…
| Chris Walla |
The Score |
Field Manual |
| Gaslight Anthem, The |
Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis? |
Senor And The Queen |
| Jason Choi & The Sea |
More Than Many Sparrows |
Leave The Night Behind |
| Sons And Daughters |
Gilt Complex |
This Gift |
| Beach House |
All The Year |
Devotion |
| Born Ruffians |
I Need A Life |
Red, Yellow, & Blue |
| OaKs, The |
War Changes Everything |
Songs For Waiting |
| Soundpool |
Lush (What Becomes You) |
Dichotomies & Dreamland |
| Nada Surf |
Whose Authority |
Lucky |
| Bell X1 |
Flame |
Flock |
| Luke Doucet |
Motorbike |
Blood’s Too Rich |
| Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks |
Gardenia |
Real Emotional Trash |
| Murder By Death |
Fuego! |
Red Of Tooth And Claw |
| Loved Ones, The |
Louisiana |
Build And Burn |
March 8, 2008 - 2:28 pm
Here’s the playlist from Wednesday’s show…
| Loved Ones, The |
Louisiana |
Build And Burn |
| Teenage Prayers, The |
Good Voodoo |
Everyone Thinks You’re The Best |
| Born Ruffians |
Humming Bird |
Red, Yellow, & Blue |
| Jason Collett |
No Redemption Song |
Here’s To Being Here |
| Drive-By Truckers |
Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife |
Brighter Than Creation’s Dark |
| Clock Hands Strangle |
White Blazes |
Redshift/Blueshift |
| Painted Saints |
Lights Hanging Low From Heavy Cottonwoods |
The Bricks Might Breathe Again |
| Downtown Harvest |
Shrimp Fried |
Golden Dragon |
| B-52s, The |
Funplex |
Funplex |
| Ex-Boyfriends |
Saving Face |
In With |
| Raveonettes, The |
You Want The Candy |
Lust Lust Lust |
| Duke Spirit, The |
Into The Fold |
Neptune |
| Shackeltons, The |
Tremble |
The Shackeltons |
| Nada Surf |
Weightless |
Lucky |
| Bell X1 |
Bigger Than Me |
Flock |
| Murder By Death |
Rum Brave |
Red Of Tooth And Claw |
March 3, 2008 - 8:05 pm
On Saturday, I took a trip over to Best Buy to pick up a a couple (literally two) DVDs, but I instead walked out having spent over $550. While I was in the store, I decided to pick up a Playstation 3 (and a bunch of other DVDs). Not really because I care about it on a gaming level since Guitar Hero and Rock Band are the only games that I’m really interested in on the system, but mostly because I wanted a blu-Ray player.
I got home and kind of took my time opening up the box and hooking it up, but once I did, I was met with a couple annoyances that I wasn’t aware of prior to buying. The first is that it does not include an IR port so you can’t use a regular universal remote control with it. I was able to go out and buy a third party IR remote that came with a little USB dongle so I can map those commands to my universal, but the system can’t be powered on or off via remote unless you have a bluetooth remote. The second was that if you have it plugged in to two different outputs, you have to manually switch between which one you want to use from within the settings on the system. This sort of becomes a problem when you need to turn on the display that you don’t want to use just to switch to the other display. In my case, I have it hooked up to do component video to my receiver for my TV and HDMI going straight to my projector. My previous upconverting DVD player would automatically switch to HDMI if the projector was turned on and if it wasn’t, it would just stick with component. Is this really too much to ask?
All of that aside, 30 Days Of Night on Blu-ray on my projector on a 10′ screen? Simply beautiful. I couldn’t get over just how good it looked. It made the purchase worth every penny.
Now that the format war is over, I really recommend picking up a Blu-ray player if you have an HDTV and watch a lot of movies.
