I was so enthralled with The Arcade Fire when the Funeral album in late 2004 came out, that I bought the physical album, which was something I hadn’t done in years. I’d always buy my music online. Now with their new album, Neon Bible, right around the corner (March-April 2007), I’m getting excited again.
A couple of days ago they released a teaser from the new album, called Intervention, which you can hear below.
Update: I remembered that I have a live recording of Intervention from The Arcade Fire when they played for the Santa Monica college radio station, KCRW. The difference from the retail and the live version is remarkable, but I absolutely love both. Here’s the song for your listening pleasure:
Instead of spending up to or over $1,000 to upgrade my motherboard, processor, and power supply in order to buy the latest generation of PCI-e cards, I decided to stay with my current system and get the latest and fastest AGP solution available. Since ATI just released their new Radeon X1950 Pro cards which supports AGP, I decided to give one a spin.
This is where the Visiontek XGE Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB card (MSRP: $300) comes in. It has AGP, has a bit of legroom for future gaming, and it allows me to get instant gaming satisfaction until I can come up with the funds to get a whole new system. So is the X1950 Pro AGP the answer to gamers who want to stay with AGP for a bit longer? Read on to find out in this review of Visiontek’s XGE X1950 Pro 256MB video card.
I’ve been getting a lot of emails from visitors to the site telling me that they heard about this site, thanks to a mention on Colin Murray’s “The Black Hole” show on the BBC’s Radio 1 radio station. Colin’s show features internet music submitted by listeners, and according to him, this site’s Tunes page was the best submission for the show.
First off, thank you to everyone that has written in with kind words, it is always appreciated. Secondly, I can’t describe how great to hear that my puny, little blog got mentioned on such a large radio station. It made the effort of putting all the songs up, getting the player together, and answering a ton of questions well worth it.
After perusing Colin Murray’s page, I found where he mentioned this site on the air, and you can hear a clip of it below:
After seeing commercials for this hamburger from Wendy’s, I thought it looked good — keyword: looked good. In this day and age, we all know that what we order at fast food restaurants will look nowhere near the same as what you see on the menu, on commercials, and other forms of advertising. It is really sad, and reminds me of the scene in “Falling Down“, where Michael Douglas confronts the cashier with a gun about how what he ordered didn’t look like what he wanted.
Here’s the shot from Wendy’s website of what the burger looks like:
This is what I got tonight:
It wouldn’t be such a big deal if it tasted good, but it didn’t. Denny’s version of the jalapeno burger is many times better, although Denny’s burger costs a few dollars more. Luckily Denny’s is closer than Wendy’s for me.
Update: Here’s a picture of Denny’s jalapeno burger:
Other than the Florida Gators going to the national title game, this video of My Morning Jacket live at Austin City Limits has been the highlight of my week:
My Morning Jacket has to be the best live rock band in America today. Watching this performance gives me goosebumps everytime.
Since Yahoo’s TV listing service has gone down the (boob?) tubes (see the irate members dissing Yahoo), I’ve been looking around for alternatives. The best I could come up with was Zap2It’s service, but the design leaves much to be desired. Ironically AOL’s service has won me over, since it is powered by Zap2It, and it looks better, plus has a few features (favorites and recommendations) that are handy.
However AOL really cluttered up the page badly, so I used the Firefox extension, Stylish, to clean the page up considerably, and now I have a much better tv listing service than what I had before Yahoo totally trashed their service. If you have Stylish installed, you can grab it at userstyles.org. Here’s the before and after screenshots.
Update: The Gators are the BCS National Champions! They beat Ohio State 41-14. See my post here.
College football is where it’s at. I don’t even watch or root for any NFL teams, because it cannot compare to the excitement, rivalries, and unpredictability of college football. My father and I are both lifelong Florida Gators fans, and not just football, but basketball, baseball, and even the women volleyball.
Tonight the Gators are SEC champions, beating Arkansas 38-28, and it was a tremendously exciting game to the very end. The SEC is the toughest conference in the nation, no questions asked, and the Gators are on top of it.
Growing up in the Fun ‘n’ Gun offense of Steve Spurrier, I was spoiled rotten. The Gators won so many SEC championship, and a national champion title, that I took it for granted. When Steve left to the NFL, and Ron Zook became coach, I knew it wouldn’t be the same, and it wasn’t. I didn’t start fireronzook.com but I was supportive of the idea. After 3 bad seasons, he was fired, and Urban Meyers was hired to start a new dynasty. I knew his style isn’t the same as Spurrier, but I just knew he was going to bring the glory back to The Swamp in Gainesville.
Tonight, in just his second season as head coach at University of Florida, Coach Meyers has brought back the glory to Gator Nation. The Swamp is once again a feared destination for any hapless team heading to play there.
I’d also like to thank many of the players on the team — especially Chris Leak who had to make so many adjustments in his 4 years at Florida. He broke records left and right even against such obstacles, and he won a well-deserved SEC championship ring. He passed Danny Wuerffel and Shane Matthews in top records such as passing attempts, passing completions, and total yards. That is just amazing.
Other players who made it happen are Billy Latsko, Dallas Baker, Percy Harvins, Tim Tebow, Andre Caldwell, and definitely not least, the supremely dominating defense. Marcus Thomas was great before he got suspended for smoking weed (and let his team down), Earl Everett, Brandon Siler, Reggie Nelson, Ryan Smith, and the rest of the D were one of the top reasons why the Gators were 12-1 this season, and in many cases were the sole reason the Gators won a game.
I’m not going to argue for the Gators deserving a chance at the national title game against Ohio State, and not a rematch with Michigan. I’m not going to go at lengths about the BCS ratings system, because that’s a whole huge can of worms. Right now I’m just proud of the win, and the season as a whole.
So congratulations Florida Gators, you’ve made a lifelong Gators fan very happy tonight. With the basketball team winning the national championship just 4 months ago, and now the football team possibly having a chance to play in the national title game, the Florida Athletic Program is looking mighty fine indeed. Go Gators!
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