I find it happening sometimes that I sit down to write a post and I really don’t have anything to say.
I saw a show on Friday: David Pajo, Holly Throsby, Garrett Pierce. I was joined by Billie and Katherine+roommate(Angelina?). I bought two CDs.
I signed up for WordCamp and plan on going since this is a WordPress blog after all.
a photo:
My stint teaching summer school has ended. This week I’ve been filling for the office manager at my dad’s optometric practice. My dad isn’t even here this week. He’s vacationing in Tahoe. The other doctors appreciate my help, I suppose.
I can’t stand Lite Rock radio stations. It’s even worse that I grew up with my mom listening to this stuff and I know all the words.
I received an information packet for the MLIS program I will be starting in two months at UCLA. It made me quite excited about school. I already emailed my Faculty Advisor to introduce myself and started sending out my resume for potential jobs.
I’m required to take two core courses in my first quarter: Information in Society and Information Access. Since I’ll be a full-time student I will take one more class of my choosing. There is a class called “Metadata” (!!), though that one is not recommended for new students. Being offered this quarter is a class called “Digital Preservation” that I don’t think I can pass up. It is described:
Introduction to the problems and possibilities of long-term preservation for digital objects ranging from cultural expressions such as music, video games, and media art, to applications such as databases and 3-dimensional architectural and engineering drawings. Topics include the challenges of technological evolution, questions of re-creation and authenticity, and conceptualizing information systems to manage the preservation process.
I get to go to school for this!
It looks like the ball has started rolling to get Ayn Rand’s epic made into a film after almost 50 years in print. The word is that Angelina Jolie really wants to play Dagny Taggart. I’m really not a huge fan of hers, but I can easily see her playing that role extraordinarily well in my mind.
[via The Liberator Online]
On Sunday I went up to San Francisco again to see Sonic Youth. This time it happened to be at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium because they were opening for Pearl Jam. I went with my friend Capri and we had a pretty good time.
We were a bit late because of my fantastic navigation skills around the streets of SF. Sonic Youth was already playing when we got inside. They sounded great to me, of course. We opted for finding seats in the balcony somewhere because neither of us are particularly huge Pearl Jam fans and we knew sitting would be nicer than standing the whole show. Our view ended up being about even with the right side of the stage. I actually think it was a really cool angle. We could see everything happening on stage from above.
Sonic Youth still played many tracks from their new release even when in the opening slot. They didn’t opt for the popular hits that the crowd may have known. It must be so difficult for a band to be playing with another band who has a huge following when their sounds are not the same at all. There was one guy who shouted out during “Or”: This fucking sucks! Maybe he was drunk already.
Since we were late I didn’t get the whole setlist written down. I haven’t been able to find it online yet, either. That might be a good thing because then I can’t be disappointed by what I might have missed. Here’s what I got:
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100%
What a Waste
Mote
Do You Believe in Rapture?
Jams Run Free
Pink Steam
Or
Even though it was short for me, it was still a treat.
As for Pearl Jam, they played pretty well. The only stuff I’m familiar with comes from their first three albums and there was a fair amount of it. It was really interesting hearing “Garden” from Ten. I didn’t expect to hear that at all. The highlight for me was probably seeing “Better Man” because Ed didn’t even sing the entire first verse–he left it up to the crowd who filled in very nicely.
I had tickets to the Tuesday night show, but I decided not to go because getting up there on a weeknight would be a hassle, and I had already seen them. I found a friend who needed tickets for his sister so I wasn’t stranded with $120 worth of tickets on my hands either.
technorati tags: sonicyouth, pearljam, music, liveshows, sanfrancisco
Last night I went up to San Francisco to see Sonic Youth at the Fillmore. They snuck in a solo show before the shows with Pearl Jam in the next few days. I was really happy about that. They played for close to two hours–much longer than they probably will play when opening for PJ.
On the Sonic Nurse tour I was pleased to realize that Sonic Youth will never become a touring “Greatest Hits” band. They played all but one track off of that record during that show. Last night they played every new song off of the new record, Rather Ripped. I thought it was quite a treat. The few other songs they played were exciting too. The ending of “Pattern Recognition” was long and furious and quite lovely. “Expressway to Yr Skull” was unexpected but very welcome. I love how they made it just kind of disintegrate on itself.
I started taking note of the setlist about halfway through with memos on my phone. This is what I got down, anyway:
Incinerate
Reena
(I Got a) Catholic Block
Pattern Recognition
Do You Believe in Rapture?
Eric’s Trip
What a Waste
Sleepin’ Around
Jams Run Free
Rats
Turquoise Boy
Pink Steam
Or
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Lights Out
Shaking Hell
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The Neutral
Expressway to Yr Skull
technorati tags: sonicyouth, fillmore, sanfrancisco, music, liveshows
A little while ago I posted on my MySpace blog about Mozy, a cool little online backup company. I’ve been quite impressed by their service so far.
Well, the people who work there started a blog. The posts so far are funny, a tad sarcastic, and even informative.
My favorite part so far has been the little jabs at the government in a post about encryption:
We’re a little unique here in that we give our users the option to provide their own private key (a passphrase, a picture, a music file –whatever) which is hashed to generate a 448-bit key for encryption.This key is stored on their PC, and we don’t have access to it – it’stored on the PC and is never transferred to our servers – which means that we can confidently protect data from both kid sisters and government agencies.
When debating which aluminum foil brand to wrap their hard disks in they recognize the threat posed by the government and cooperating corporations:
This is a tough one. On the one hand, you’ve got Reynolds – which is an old standby. On the other hand, perhaps it’s safer to use a more generic brand, like from Target. Reynolds is made in Virginia, which is home to all sorts of government agencies, and who knows how they’ve meddled with the manufacturing process of this aluminum foil. But the Target brand is manufactured in Minneapolis, which was the home of the Cray supercomputer, and everyone knows they were in cahoots with the government, specifically the NSA.
I hope they continue in this vein. I will love it.
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