come praise me when i'm doubtful- how strong i am inside... hold me in your weak arms and make love to my pride. i know i said i'd stay all night, but i'm not always true. just gimme, gimme,gimme what i want- i'm taking from you.
i will suck you dry just to feed my own greed. caress you in my fragile grasp just to see you bleed. come and save me! from the real world! so, i can waste some time... i don't give no care 'bout you cuz you be mine.
come praise me when i'm doubtful how strong i am inside hold me in your weak arms make love to my pride. i know you think i'll stay all night, but, i've got news for you... all i need is you to give all- i'm taking from you.
The problem I have always had with P2P networks such as Napster and especially Kazaa/FastTrack have been that they are only good for finding music you already know. You will rarely be exposed to something new. So if I'm looking for something moderately popular (forget finding rare B-side industrial, it ain't gonna happen), I'll find it, but I won't hear a new band I might like. For that, about all I can do is listen to the RealPlayer stream from [WSOU] or some MP3 streams like [Corrosion].
I've been playing with [iRate Radio], which is interesting. It's a sort of filtering system that grabs legal new music from a number of places like IUMA. As you listen to random tracks it grabs, you rate the music and it learns what kinds of things you like, eventually bringing you new music that matches your tastes. So far, so good. You can see a decent synopsis of how it works [here].
The easy way to launch it under MacOS X 10.2 or later: Open /Applications/Utilities/Java Web Start
Open the Preferences. For the "Remote Applications URL" enter "http://irateradio.org". Hit OK. After it takes a minute to load, you should see 4 choices in the Java Web Start window for applications to run - run either of the 2 Swing clients, "iRate Swing" or "iRate Swing (unstable)".
And speaking of music, last night Kaley, Sara, and I went to check out a semiprivate performance of Thrice and meet the guys at the [Santa Monica Apple Store]. A fun time was had by all, even if we got funny looks for humping hedgeanimal dinosaurs.
[ 10/16/2003 03:52:00 PM ] [ ]
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
What I want...
Someone who sees themself as my equal, not a competitor. Someone whom I complement, but who is complete without me. I don't expect someone to take care of me, but I expect someone who cares.
Or is that too much? [ 10/15/2003 12:12:32 AM ] [ ]
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
Oops.
For some reason I thought the Edwards air show was this weekend ([Miramar] actually is). Instead it's the 25th and 26th. Opps. More info [here] [ 10/14/2003 11:38:39 PM ] [ ]
Monday, October 13, 2003
The Sound Of Freedom
Where every day is that postcard that sold out on the kiosk rack...
no one takes their freedoms for granted.
American air power overhead is the sound of freedom ringing.
