Jul 2005
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An Emotional Week

Jul. 29, 2005 16:50
Just getting home from Michigan. My Uncle Phil passed away suddenly last weekend of a heart attack. We (my parents, another aunt and uncle, my sister, and her daughter) left Tuesday morning so that we could attend the wake Tuesday evening, and then the funeral on Wednesday.

I had just seen my Aunt Shirley and Uncle Phil in March. I used to play for a softball team out of the Detroit area, and still get up there a couple of times a year. March is the annual Hall Of Fame Banquet in Sterling Heights, and I have many teammates and friends who are either already inducted, getting inducted, or will be in the future, so I always try to attend. So the day after the banquet last March, I made the 20 minute trip and spent a couple hours visiting. I'm glad I did.

I talked to a couple of friends to let them know I was going to be in town for a few days. It turned out that one of them (Chuck) was turning 50, and his wife was planning a party for him Thursday night at the park where we played. Thankfully, everyone agreed to stay an extra day, and I was able to attend the party and see so many friends that I now only get to see a couple times a year. A bittersweet ending to an emotional week.

I have no idea as I write this if my show was aired on Wednesday. In any case, it is now available for download or podcast. Here's the playlist:

Glass Hammer - The Knight Of The North
Antimatter - In Stone
Porcupine Tree - Trains
Quidam - The Fifth Season
Anathema - One Last Goodbye
Antimatter - Going Nowhere
Blackfield - Hello
Carptree - Superhero
The Gathering - Nighttime Birds
Antimatter - Angelic
Arena - Friday's Dream
RPWL - Cymbaline
Timothy Pure - Scotty's Castle
Antimatter - Planetary Confinement
Antimatter - The Weight Of The World
Antimatter - Line Of Fire
Antimatter - Epitaph
Antimatter - Mr. White
Antimatter - A Portrait Of The Young Man As An Artist
Antimatter - Relapse
Antimatter - Legions
Antimatter - Eternity Part 24
Iona - Lindisfarne
Antimatter - Over Your Shoulder

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Listening to "Scotty's Castle" by Timothy Pure
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July 20, 2005

Jul. 20, 2005 21:32
Still waiting to hear back from Apple regarding getting the podcast listed in iTunes. Other than that though, subscribing through this site is working as it should (sigh of relief). Here's tonight's playlist:

Spock's Beard - At The End Of The Day
RPWL - World Through My Eyes
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere (But Not Here)
Lana Lane - We Had The World
Karmakanic - Where The Earth Meets The Sky
Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - Owed To Darryl
IZZ - Ancient Memory
Magenta - Lust
Metamorphosis - Then All Was Silent
Carptree - This Is Home
Canvas - Getting There
Blackfield - Open Mind
Quidam - Everything's Ended
Parallel Or 90 Degrees - Bedtime Routines
No-Man - Close Your Eyes
Satellite - A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset
Antimatter - Nobody Home (Live)
Magic Pie - Dream Vision

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See you next week. I hope to have the new Antimatter album "Planetary Confinement" in its entirety.
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July 13, 2005

Jul. 13, 2005 23:06
Tonight's show got off to a rough start, due to a software update on my end and an inability to connect on the server end. The first 25 minutes didn't get broadcast, but it DID get recorded. Here's the list:

Pink Floyd - Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
Pink Floyd - The Fletcher Memorial Home
Pink Floyd - Southampton Dock
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Wobbler - Clair Obscur
K2 - Chapter 3: The Edge Of Light
House Of Not - Pipedream
Mostly Autumn - Carpe Diem
Porcupine Tree - Trains (Live)
Kino - Holding On
The Urbane - Loop
The Urbane - Immaculate
Quidam - The Fifth Season
Aragon - In The Name Of God
Anathema - Harmonium
Satellite - Evening Overture
Timothy Pure - Without Words
Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - P.S.A.
Jadis - Each And Everyday
Magic Pie - Motions Of Desire
Kaipa - Shadows Of Time
Dave Bainbridge - Until the Tide Turns
Magenta - Anger (Live)


BTW, sales of Pink Floyd CDs are up 1300% since Live 8 Happy

EDIT: I'm still attempting to make podcasts automatically downloadable via RSS (I'm not having much luck). Let me know whether or not this works, in the meantime I'll keep the download link as well. When it does, next step is iTunes, and world domination Winking

EDIT #2: OK, got it figured out. If you use a news aggregator, you can subscribe to this feed by clicking the RSS link or the XML button in the sidebar. The XML button is the preferred method. You can then download podcasts automatically. The link will still appear in these posts for those who want to d/l it the old fashioned way. I submitted the podcast to iTunes, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

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Listening to "SurREvival", by Quidam (excellent album!)
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Tonight's show, and a new beginning

Jul. 06, 2005 20:32
I officially return to the ranks of Student on August 22. Yes, I registered for Fall classes today, 14 credit hours. Still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Better late than never I guess.

Just a reminder, this blog is available as an RSS feed. For those of you who use Firefox (and you really should), click the orange icon in the lower right corner of your browser and subscribe to the feed. It will then appear in your Bookmarks menu. You can also subscribe using any RSS-capable newsreader. My plan is to embed the podcast in this page so it can be automatically downloaded with the feed. The next revision of my page building software will support this function. I also intend to try and get my podcast listed on iTunes, this would be really cool! I'll keep you informed.

Here's tonight's playlist:

Wobbler - Rubato Industry
Frogg Cafe - Creatures
A.C.T - The Chase
Enchant - Look Away
Sylvan - Encounter IX: In Vain
Porcupine Tree - Mother And Child Divided
Magic Pie - Dream Vision
Riverside - The Curtain Falls
RPWL - Roses
Antimatter - Over Your Shoulder (Acoustic)
Antimatter - Flowers (Acoustic)
Carptree - This Is Home
Karmakanic - At The Speed Of Light
Cyan - Nosferatu (Requiem For A Vampire)
Pink Floyd at Live 8 - Breathe / Money / Wish You Were Here / Comfortably Numb
Quidam - Hands Off
White Willow - Chemical Sunset
Parallel Or 90 Degrees - Migraine
Mostly Autumn - Julia Dream (Live)

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Listening to "Pink Floyd at Live 8"
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Choose your cliche...

Jul. 03, 2005 22:02

FloydatLive8

Hell freezes over. Pigs can fly. Etc. etc. All I know is that the reunion of Waters, Wright, Mason, and Gilmour was one of the most magical moments in music history. As a Floyd fan, the anticipation level was high, but my expectation level remained realistic, after all, it had been 24 years and they only decided to do Live 8 in the past month. Man did they sound great! Like they never stopped touring. Roger looked like he was having the time of his life. Dave flashed a couple of those classic Gilmour grins. Also nice was seeing ONLY Nick on drums and ONLY Rick on keys. Roger dedicating Wish You Were Here to Syd Barrett... the entire 24 minutes was such a high. I guess you know what I'll be playing on Wednesday's show.

To the producers of VH-1; as Roger said in "The Wall" - GET 'EM UP AGAINST THE WALL! They should all be shot. Breaking away mid-Comfortably Numb, just before the greatest guitar solo of all time so their 2 on-screen dopes could blab, what a joke. I'm surprised they even showed any Live 8 coverage as it was. God forbid they miss out on another chance to rerun an episode of The Surreal Life. Assholes...

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Listening to ''Pride'', by Magenta

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