The Official Tenacious D Policy on the Filming and Photographing of our Shows: Have fun, go ahead tape our shows, but be cool and don't sell our stuff.
For this they rock but... tell that to the people selling bootlegs on Ebay not the people at city hall.
Put up a full show in MP3 and we wouldn't need to buy bootlegs. Follow Weezer's example! Do a video with the Muppets! OK, I ask too much I know.
What do they do when they get home? Quick survey... nothing. Watch some TV, talk to the family, sleep. What do I do when I get home? Make dinner. Talk to the family (go Katie... it's your birthday). Write music (not much lately though). Copy jams to CD. Scan photos. Not much TV lately. Surf the net. At least once a week after work the band jams. These days there are gigs... Sometimes dinner with the collective families. So nothing grand. But not nothing. Although I suspect most people wouldn't tell me if they did anything really interesting at home...
Do I have too many hobbies? Not enough?
Why would anyone renting a house want a garden other than as a buffer to the neighbours. But then, I don't understand why you'd want a garden anyway. Too much work. Same goes for kids. Hey, I'm selfish! ;p
Had dinner for the last time at my parents place last night. They're moving out on Tuesday and they'll not be back there for years. They're going to England. I'm not going to really miss the place... but I lived there for nearly ten years. And now someone else will be living in it again. Will miss the parents.
How long before artists start releasing their albums with all of their past albums on a reference MP3 CD as a bonus second disc? David Weber is doing it for books. (via Slashdot)
80% of email into a Hotmail account is SPAM. That doesn't include spam caught by filters. Is that all? (via Slashdot)
Yes, DVD is (maybe) soon to be replaced with HD-DVD. Not that new DVD blue-lazer technology I may or may not have mentioned ages ago. No, the same DVD red lazer tech but with a new compression format. In theory I should be able to flash the BIOS of my DVD player and be able to play the new technology. But I doubt it. (via Slashdot)
"Clearly, the Warner argument is that we can get red laser to the market faster," Doherty said. "But some of the other studios have wondered if using this approach could result in a loss of picture quality that would upset artists and directors. Those developing the red-laser compression algorithms say, 'We can get a pretty good picture with a bit rate of 5 MB.' Well, the question is, how good is 'pretty good?'"
Saw Photos Of Being at the Barleycorn on Saturday night. Early gig, 6:30pm. Almost no-one there. Probably 20 people. Excellent gig. Where was everyone? Where do people go on Saturday nights? More people should be out seeing bands. Down with cover bands. Oh, The Whitlams are playing at cover-band-central, the Mountain View Hotel, right near my house. I was unaware that "the spew" even had real bands play there. I'm tempted to go, except that the venue is such a hole. But it's just down the road. A gig just down the road from my house! Amazing.
Have you read this? You should. And you should read the follow-up too. Did you know the music industry is stuffed? Artists are unhappy? News to me. I wonder if people wrote similar articles about their current industry, whatever it may be, it would sound just as screwed? Building industry? IT industry?
So those Qantas workers going on strike. Maybe I missed something, but I read they're going on strike "to get 5% pay rise over two years to compensate for agreeing to a wage freeze." Have I missed something? They want a pay rise for agreeing to a wage freeze. There must be a sentence missing, something like "after the wage freeze period is over..."
Article on how to record vinyl on the Mac. I've been thinking I should share my knowledge on what I spend all my time on and write an article on converting live gigs to CD / MP3. It's easy as pie. I've never made pie.
My girlfriend quit smoking. I've been wanting this ever since we started going out two and a half years ago. I'm not celebrating too loudly though. Don't want to jinx it. She has a cold at the moment. I expect to have it by Wednesday for the gig.
If your home town was being randomly bombed nearly every day, would you stay? Could you leave if you wanted to? I could leave. I could take my girlfriend with me. But my country is huge. Could I leave if my country was being bombed? Would I want to leave. I love Australia. I love Melbourne...
I have work to do until at least mid to end September. It's nice to be useful. I'm surprised at how few people can do what I do. I don't think it's very hard. It's not. I was never formally trained in it. If I manage to find somewhere to live near Monash Caufield which is sort of the plan, I might take night classes... or I might just buy books... or spend all night on the web.
Or maybe I'll play guitar more.
I havn't been playing guitar as much as I should be. I only play in jams now. I used to write inbetween. I have time... I just spend it on other stuff now. Focus. I need focus. Focus on the music. Everything else is extra.
RSI. It hurts less to play guitar than it does to work on the computer.
Dave made it. But that's all we know. When my parents get to England we'll have SMS for contact. At the moment, Dave's in the ether. We're thinking of him.
Java, JSP, custom tags. I'm learning new technology. I'm learning different ways of doing what I already know. I could learn PHP at home if I really wanted. But again, same thing, different bucket. Well, same thing, free bucket but hey. It's useful to have different ways of doing the same thing. ASP won't be around for ever. Hopefully. User-interfaces to databases will be.
Converted Walken's site to use stylesheets. Much nicer now (but not as nice as I wanted it to be, still using tables for formating). If you look at it in Netscape 4.X you may have problem, but I suspect you'd be used to that by now. Isn't the recomendation of Netscape to turn off stylesheets in Netscape 4? I would if I was you. I havn't even tested it in V4 browsers. If your browser doesn't support HTML 4.01 I'm not interested in you anymore. Sorry, harsh but fair. Browsers are free. There are browsers that run on old computers that can run HTML 4. You have no excuse. Upgrade.
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