okay hit me up with suggestions.

i’m inspired to start the list with Smooth Criminal by Alien Ant Farm.

edit: clarifying one-hit-wonder. If it wasn’t their only hit, it has to be their biggest hit.

New in Eastside Bend Safeway…

Sierra Nevada IPA!

Word. A classic NW IPA. Thick and meaty, it won’t let you down. It has a smoky, full taste, and won’t leave you hangin’. An IPA in the classic sense, where the malt character doesn’t everwhelm the hops.

Pick one up if you get the chance. Kelly green packaging, sick, sick, sick.

dude, I just learned, via the shite news I’m “watching”, that thsy give away a separate grammy for Album of the Year and Record of the Year.

U2 won the Album honors while Green Day took home the Record.

Anyone else remember when records were albums? Weren’t they called record albums?

oh nevermind

so I have just recently stopped working on my work blog/podcasting project for the night.

I’ve spent many, many after work hours banging out a sick WordPress blog for my company. I’m really stoked on the design, it’s got a nice header that I put together, and I really am surprised with the type style and size changes I’ve made to make the FastTrack theme (the one in use here, in barely-modified form) quite enjoyable.

But tonight, working on getting all the podcasting stuff together - audio podcasts aimed at iTunes’ podcast directory, primarily, I find out that I’m fucked.

Yes, fucked. I’m already about a week past when I said I could get it done, and it’s not really, even though I have only gotten the chance to work on it after hours for the most part….seriously, it’s like come home from work, play with Delaney until her bedtime, eat dinner, talk with Jeannie a while I start hittin the ThinkPad, Jeannie goes to bed, and suddenly, it’s 2:30 in the morning. But anyway, I’m stoked on it and willing to put in some extra hours to get it going. Back to being fucked.

I decided, rashly, and under deadline, to go with a Yahoo hosting account due to it’s automatic WordPress install and web tools to configure the account. Cheap, nice features, and they have a big, pretty link on the WordPress Hosting page. Don’t trust that bullshit. They’re fucking lame ass servers that do not support mod_rewrite or .htaccess. So permanent links don’t work without the Yahoo-supplied Customizable Permalinks plugin, which conflicts with the audio-player plugin, which is a really nice, simple embedded-flash mp3 player. Even worse, the really nice set of iTunes podcasting plugins, PodPress, uses the audio-player code to work it’s magic.

So I’d have to add all the crazy iTunes tags to the feeds manually every time a new podcast posted. Which is weak. Perhaps acceptable for the mission at hand (well, probably not actually) but I’m trying to get this shit together so that we could use it much more heavily with some other projects that are cooking in the shop.

Which leads me to my next mission. Find a new, competent, high-test Apache host, move files over to the new host, transfer a domain, and bring it all back up with as little downtime as possible, so that my boss, the author of the blog, would be able to dismiss it as a speed bump on the road to podcasting supremacy.

Keep in mind, this project is already overdue and over-budget. And I pretty much have to be an art director all day long, not a web designer.

And see, the scariest part is, I really like my job. Even tonight. Or this morning, or whatever the fuck it is. That’s probably because I started drinking beer at two a.m., or at least partly, but regardless, it is pretty damn fun. We’re basically launching a new company inside my company without any increase of staff. And it could really be cool - there’s a lot of us really hoping to launch a whole new era for the shop. I should be careful with that though, or I’ll be 40 and have no idea how I got there so fast.

Wow, that is some serious rambling. But I feel better now, and I bet you do too. Er, no, wait…

thanks for listening. er, read…fuck it I’m out.

Okay, Shakira. Lots of vocal talent, probably the native Spanish stuff is better than the stuff sung in english, but she seems to have a voice that could be used in some really good music.

That’s not what they’re writing for her, unfortunately.

The song she just played tonight was laughably contrived…just totally unfortunate. It had a decent verse, kinda funky thing going on, and then the chorus hits, and it’s this totally out of place, almost Cher’s “Do You Believe in Life After Love” type of bullshit. Just bad. I mean, I know, everything modern and pop sucks and all, but please. Don’t make it suck this badly.

It’s too bad, because I think Shakira’s voice and sound paired with some sick modern latin jazzy house production could make some incredibly playable platters. But we’ll never get to know.