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Monday, July 31, 2017
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
People often talk about which came first the chicken or the egg but they rarely ever mention the feather, or The Magic Feather™, which theoretically could have existed a long time ago and given birth to a chicken, "mid-hatch style," thus negating the entire argument, because, like, have you ever touched a feather? They weird as shit.
Monday, July 24, 2017
Friday, July 21, 2017
F Spotify
So... I'd read about the dreaded 10,000-song library cap on Spotify accounts not too long ago, and I was thinking, "Damn, I gotta be getting close." And––sure enough––just this morning, I try to save some albums to my account and I get the above message inside the blue stripe. (Sidebar: Why blue? Should be a deathly red, because that's how it felt getting the cheeky, way-too-cute alarm.)
Look, Spotify is bad for about a 100 reasons. But despite/in spite of all of them, it was PRETTY GOOD and it had MOST OF THE MUSIC. That was always my bar. I'll gladly pay $10 a month to listen to MOST OF THE MUSIC on apps/players that both work and designed PRETTY GOOD. This was my policy. But I have my limits. The "Save Album" feature was crucial. Because, each and every week, I trick myself into thinking I have the time to listen to ~3-9 new records that come out, and I have Google Calendar system and everything, alerting me when said records are live in the wild. But now that I can't tag these records, I'm not sure what the hell I'm supposed to do.
And make no mistake about it, this is dumb. There is no reason for this cap. I'm not downloading 10,000 songs; I'm merely tagging them so they'll easily show up in my library. 10,000 could not be a more arbitrary number. Their stock response is basically, "Well not many people save that much music so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "
It really is infuriating and I'm currently ripping music off the Spotify web player on my laptop because fuck it. I'll probably cancel my account now too.
In happier tech news, I finally figured out to "hack" my kindle tablet to access the Google Play store so now I can download a bunch of time-wasting apps on that thing and free up some space on my iPhone. Hooray.
Look, Spotify is bad for about a 100 reasons. But despite/in spite of all of them, it was PRETTY GOOD and it had MOST OF THE MUSIC. That was always my bar. I'll gladly pay $10 a month to listen to MOST OF THE MUSIC on apps/players that both work and designed PRETTY GOOD. This was my policy. But I have my limits. The "Save Album" feature was crucial. Because, each and every week, I trick myself into thinking I have the time to listen to ~3-9 new records that come out, and I have Google Calendar system and everything, alerting me when said records are live in the wild. But now that I can't tag these records, I'm not sure what the hell I'm supposed to do.
And make no mistake about it, this is dumb. There is no reason for this cap. I'm not downloading 10,000 songs; I'm merely tagging them so they'll easily show up in my library. 10,000 could not be a more arbitrary number. Their stock response is basically, "Well not many people save that much music so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "
It really is infuriating and I'm currently ripping music off the Spotify web player on my laptop because fuck it. I'll probably cancel my account now too.
In happier tech news, I finally figured out to "hack" my kindle tablet to access the Google Play store so now I can download a bunch of time-wasting apps on that thing and free up some space on my iPhone. Hooray.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Finally the last old thing I am republishing here. In 2010/2011 I was pretty obsessed with the Andrew WK 'controversy' and compiled a rather lengthy post about it with the outrageously pretentious title "My Advanced Hero: Andy Wilkes-Krier, or The Possibly Contrived Advancement of Andrew WK" which you can read in its mostly unedited form below. I will add that the story seems to have dissipated, though I don't follow 'the news' close enough to tell you for sure.
What do our Billboard #1 albums say about American culture?
Another dispatch from the past. Preserved here... for some reason.
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Friday, July 14, 2017
July 14, 2017 at 07:44AM
Another day I'm up at like 6:15 and my two year old is still asleep. Ay caramba!