Interesting CD: BOCKMAN’S EUPHIO: gorjus
Month: June 2004
Phish
Now Playing: “A Song I Heard The Ocean Sing”, from livephish.com [06/19/04].
Yahoo Mail Plus
Yahoo! Mail Plus now gives me pretty everything I would have wanted out of Yahoo mail. And the $20/year price is reasonable. Unfortunately, they didn’t introduce it until after I’d moved everything over to Gmail.
Wilco
Wilco was on WNYC’s Soundcheck today.
SharpReader
I’m playing around with SharpReader tonight. I’ve never been able to get myself really excitied about RSS, but I’m giving it a try. My Atom Feed looks OK in it.
Gmail
I’ve got a few Gmail invites, if anyone wants an account.
The Move
I just got The Best of the Move from Amazon. I’d never heard of these guys until a couple of weeks ago. They’re great. Their earlier stuff (late 60’s) is very psychedelic. Their later stuff (70’s) is kind of crunchy and messy. It’s all a lot of fun to listen to.
Phish
I just took a look at StubHub.com to see if they had tickets for the Phish show at the Tweeter Center that’s coming up in August. They’ve got tickets from $99 all the way up to $1095. I like Phish, but not *that* much.
The new CD is good. I just got it today and listened to about half of it right after I got home from work. It definitely helped melt some of the stress away.
His Dark Materials
I just finished reading the last book in Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy. Just for yuks, I did a Google search on “cheerful instead of surly”, part of a key line at the end of the book. I found a few interesting pages, including this one, along with some odder stuff.
The line, in part, is: “…showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and patient instead of hasty, and cheerful instead of surly, and above all how to keep their minds open and free and curious.” I particularly like the cheerful/surly part, partially because it’s just a nice turn of phrase, and in part because it’s something I seem to be having trouble with lately.
Phish-related
I stumbled across a good blog today, looking for something Phish-related: Wax Banks: Music