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"Antitrust" is on TBS right now. Man, I'm such a sucker for bad hacker movies. Of course, "Hackers" is fabulously bad, but this is pretty good, especially the open source software reference. Makes me feel like I'm back in the dot com days.
Speaking of IT issues, Les has a very well worded rant about why the Navy sucks. It's specifically targetted at their poorly run attempt to get all commands running under one IT infrastructure. Check it out; this kind of boneheaded crap is going on in the government (and probably plenty of regular companies) every day.
A quick band update. We're going to be playing this Friday (Nov. 7) at City Limits, followed by a show on Friday, November 14 at Brewski's. In related news, our sound, especially vocals, should be much better. On Monday, after answering an ad in craigslist.org (an excellent free online classifieds site for many metropolitan areas), I went to Covington (which is east of Federal Way and the Valley freeway) to trade my old Peavey bass amp for a mixing console. When I got there, I was floored to see a 12 channel Peavey mixing console, complete with a flight case. It works perfectly. Once that was taken care of, obviously what was needed was a power amp and some speakers to go with it. A visit to Guitar Center was in order. To make a long story short; we have a real PA system now. A QSC power amp and JBL cabinets complete it, and since we were pegging out and distorting the crappy microphones we had, a couple of Shure SM58's should fix us up. I'm looking forward to not having a Spinal Tap type show at City Limits this time.
We recorded a few songs for a demo. "Prisoner" and "Vampire Girls" came out OK, but "Wally" sounded terrible. We're going to re-record it from scratch tomorrow. Anyway, if you're equipped to play Ogg-Vorbis files, you can check them out. You probably are if you're running any recent version of XMMS or whatever. If not, or you're a Windows using (l)user, get Winamp 3, which does play Ogg. I compressed as far as I dared with Ogg so my bandwidth wouldn't get killed, and they still sound pretty good. However, the popping sounds you hear periodically are not compression artifacts, they're the unfortunate results of the crappy E-machines computer that Greg used for the recording. Anyway, here they are. Be sure to use "save this link" to save these as files. The way to make the link a "download" link is escaping me at the moment.
Enjoy, and send me your comments.
The Olympian
Read the article in the Olympian. You're from North Carolina? And you practice around campus with a guitar and bongo drums? Fascinating...
Lisa
The Olympian article
Yeah, I left a copy in your car so you could check it out. That kid has his facts *screwed.* When he was interviewing us, I asked him where his recorder was, and he said that they don't let the reporters use recorders at the Olympian because it "puts people on edge." Go figure. Robin Newcomer, the bitch-ass professor that wouldn't waive me into English 104 last summer is her advisor. Obviously her paper policies are just as retarded.
wicked asylum
when Slow Goat Riot was still called wicked asylum, yes we did practice with an acoustic DeArmond and a bongo handmade by my potter brother. To set the record straight, me,Winston is from Baltimore, I play Guitar,and sing. Sean is from Indiana, Bass, and Sings, Greg is from North Dakota,and plays Drums and Guitar and Brian I can't remember where he is from, but he plays Guitar, and about every brass instrumnet known to exist. Come and see us at Brewski's this week. In Bremerton off Kitsap Way. SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC!
winamp
The latest winamp v2.91 will play it as well. Winamp 3.x is a disaster in my opinion.
Good songs. Too bad you guys aren't playing at the AUSTIN City Limits.
-whit
Things Sean-ish
I agree with Whit, Winamp3 and ICQ are the two biggest examples of what AOL can do to decent low-impact applications.
I still use the 2.91 myself and don't see myself switching unless it's to something else because AOL finally kills the 2.x series.
I've yet to listen to the songs but thanks for the plug you got like four people to visit my site.
-Les
Winamp 3
I didn't realize Winamp 3 was much different. It *looks* the same; does it have AOL ad/spyware or something?
-Sean
Shitamp 3
Well, its been quite a while since i used it... But back when i did try it, it would crash all the time. It also supports wacky themes/skins - nonstandard from winamp 2.x.
It just felt like they were putting all their effort into the looks of the program, and forgot what it was originally suppose to do - play fucking mp3s.
-whit
someone knows who we are!
come to Brewski's next week, be there at 10:00, and more then maybe 4 people will show up. I don't get kitsap. Man we put up about 125 flyers total, at OC,in Port Orchard, Bremerton, ans Silverdale......
a music revoulution is coming, Slow Goat Riot will be ready, will the rest of world?
alternative to winamp
foobar2000 is a lean mean audio player for those who hate winamp bloat.
jim
audio player
I'll check it out.
yeah, uh..
it's only for us windows (l)users...
jim
downloadable links
In Windows 2000, I just clicked on the link normal and it brought up a dialog box to download the song.
Dave