Greased Melon

good weekend.

rode my bike
finished one of my favorite books
got my record player fixed
drank some good beer
got some new good beer
hung out with friends
ate some cookies and ice cream

Confession: I turned off my “Current Song” status message on my IM client for awhile today because I was listening to Yanni and didn’t want anyone to know it.
That is all.

Bits and Pieces:
Mark Funkhouser and Alvin Brooks made it to the Kansas City Mayoral runoff election at the end of the month. Brooks represents the same old “we’re a great town because we suck” mentality that’s bothered me since I’ve lived here.
The weather is starting to “get there.” Rode yesterday and will piddle […]

That’s a line from Dan Conner on Roseanne.
KC ended up with 3 or so inches of ice, sleet, and non-categorizable frozen precipitation starting early Friday. And then today the bottom dropped out on the thermometer–it’s currently 12 degrees at lunch time and we hit our high earlier this morning. After not touching my […]

Razorlight [America, In the Morning]
Remy Zero [Fair, Goodbye Little World, Life in Rain]
Bonobo [albums Days To Come and Dial ‘M’ for Monkey]
Built To Spill [Else, Strange, You Are, Liar, Saturday, The Wait, Conventional Wisdom]
Paolo Nutini [Last Request, Rewind, Million Faces]
Amy Winehouse [Rehab]
Lo-Fi-Fnk [City]
Go! Team [Everyone’s a V.I.P. to Someone]
Snow Patrol [Set the Fire to the […]

I stumbled on the Songbird project earlier in the summer but didn’t get around to using it until a couple weeks ago. It’s rather interesting.
It’s the convergence of two apps: an iTunes-like music player and Firefox. So, it manages your library / plays music and lets you browse the web.
Where the convergence […]