Note: The following posts were imported from my previous blogs.

TIVO FM  #
Monday, 27 Jan 2003 08:56PM
I want a TIVO (personal video recorder) for my radio (so it'd be a PAR). I'd tell it I liked live recordings, particularly from Triple J (107.5FM in Melbourne) and that I like hearing new metal and music by Mike Patton. It'd go off and recording various radio stations and I'd come home and listen to what I liked. There would always be something on the radio! I'm a genius...

That way I wouldn't miss Triple J's Live At The Wireless every damn week. Except this week, excellent Bjork from Live At Royal Albert Hall (47 minutes of what I believe is the same show on the newly released DVD of the same name from Dec 2001).

And the radio stations (and thus the record companies) should be happy because they'd still be telling me what I want to hear and I'd stop downloading music.

I wonder if you put it this way does it make it easier or harder to understand why the TV stations hate those little digital personal video recorders I so desperately want.

ps: I believe when Foxtel and Optus go digtal, part of their plan is for the cable boxes to include PVRs.


Two mice fall into a bucket of milk...  #
Monday, 27 Jan 2003 01:46PM
Saw "Catch Me If You Can" yesterday staring Christopher Walken. Interview with the Walken-ster (?!) at The Age website. For some reason they seem to think he's a nice guy in this movie. He plays the father of con-man Frank and spends much of the movie doing nice-guy things... while running from the IRS. Everything this guy says is spooky. I kept expecting for him to pull a gun and smash his son's knee and say "are you listening to me?!". Still.... the movie was entertaining in a hollywood based on a true story kind of way. And, "and that's why those who are convicted of millions of dollars worth of fraud are treated like gods while those who steal bread to feed their kids are shot by police and/or locked away for good."

Finally got around to see "Bend It Like Beckham"... twas ok, probably not worth the massive hype that has been shoved down my throat. "Feel good western-ideals triumph over out-dated tradition story."

Hottest 100 for 2002. Crap crap crap. Good to see that a whiney Aus-rock song wasn't number 1 for once. And what the fusk? No Tenacious D?! Or was that 2001?

This season's "24" makes last season look like a bad episode of Neighbours...

More later... cleaning house :(