11 posts tagged “music”
I am totally bummed about my favorite music hang out going out of business. It was located in the same building where my last indie bookstore (The Midnight Special) existed before it closed its doors in 2004. I swear that building must be jinxed.
We drove to Santa Monica and from a block away my heart sank and my stomach felt like a rock had landed. I saw the For Lease sign and told Boo "Oh no, it's gone!"
Even as Boo tried to reassure me I was upon it and yep, the building was closed. Shelves bare. All the beautiful artwork gone. Musical instruments nowhere in sight. Dark and empty.
To console myself we trekked to the Borders bookstore where I bought a Don Henley CD which was an unadvertised sale. Sure it was great not having to pay full price, but all the while I kept thinking about Wild About Music and why such a fantastic store couldn't survive in, of all places, Santa Monica, CA.
Santa Monica is synonymous with hip.
It oozes of cool.
Overflows with money.
How could Wild About Music not survive in such an environment?
This sucks. I am so disappointed.
Audio: Share a song you could listen to all day on repeat.
That would be Zero 7's In the Waiting Line
Audio: What's your favorite carol or holiday song?
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives. I can have a totally sucky day and be in a down mood but hearing this song perks me right up!
Show us your favorite local band.
Submitted by Soup.
That would be a blues band called The Road Dogz
What's the best music documentary or concert film you've seen? Hands down it's the film Inside Led Zeppelin, one of the best rock bands of all time!
Led Zeppelin will finally offer their music online starting next month. Of the music you buy, about how much of it do you download and how much do you buy on physical formats (CDs, vinyl, etc.)?
I buy all of my music in CD format through Amazon or at Circuit City. All of it. I do rip my music to MP3 format for iPod and Creative Muvo players, though. I don't like the bit rate of online music or the DRM B.S.
Audio: Show us a song or album you've recently downloaded.
I don't download music.
What song do you wish would never show up on a karaoke list?
The Pointer Sisters' Slow Hand
Yes I did, I bought the external drive for work. The project now begins as I populate it with music, I only hope I have enough to fill half the drive...I bought a 250 gig drive for $80 from Fry's....how could I refuse. I even paid with a gift certificate which is all the better.
So even though it's past 9:30 p.m. I'm sitting here sifting through music and grooving to disco...yes - I said the 'D' word and I make no apologies for it. Today it's called dance, techno, or plain pop but...it all started from disco baby, so don't forget your roots! LOL
And yes, disco will absorb a large portion of the new drive along with hard rock and sixties music. There's no denying the sixties produced some fantastic bands and music without whose contribution music wouldn't be what it is to date.
The night is young
and full of possiblities.
Now come on
and let yourself be free.
You can ring my bell!
One thing about working in the basement: No radio reception.
At the very least, I need music to work and with no radio reception the selection of music becomes quite scarce and repetitive.
I came upon a possible solution in my sleep the other night:
Buy a minimum 160 GB USB external hard drive, fill it with my favorite tunes and then some, take it to work and connect it to the work computer. I'm not using up scarce company resources like hard drive space because the drive is mine.
Anyone have an idea how many songs - MP3 or WMA format - will fit on the drive? I'm liking this idea a lot and feel a field trip to Fry's is in order!
