Lady (05.23.94 - 11.29.04)

Boy, does this album ever sound good. This is the perfect time to listen to this album. A good album is like a book; stimulating your sense of sound, as well your sense of perception and state of mind. The remastered CD sounds brilliant, so crisp and fluid.

Sounds of Silence was recorded in December 1965 at CBS studios in Nashville, Tennessee and Los Angeles, California. The album was produced by Bob Johnston.

Where have all the good albums gone?

Today I quietly ventured out of my seclusion to secure a copy of the long over-due DVD release of Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged. The DVD is being released 14 years after it was recorded live in New York. Click here to read all about it.

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Original Art by Bryan Los

Who can I thank for letting me down?
Who could I thank when no one’s around?
Not anyone.

Who could I talk to when I was down?
What’s there to hear when there is no sound?
Opposite of loud.

Where can I turn to for help and a hand?
Why won’t my hand grip, why can’t I grab?
No feeling.

What is the reason I don’t belong?
Who makes the rules and who follows along?
The “never wrong.”

Is it true that helplessness is contagious?
What would it mean to be contemptuous?
The loathing of all of us.

Can I exist when I cannot flee?
What is the chance for something of beauty?
A mere catastrophe.

When will I die and be relieved of pain?
Why must it take so long to attain?
The epitome of insane.

Who can resist the denial of temptation?
And what will become of innocent elation?
The subsequent stagnation.

Who do I owe this feeling of inspiration?
Where can I let them know my frustration?
Beyond cremation.

Bryan Los, 11.22.07 (remember JFK)

I have started a website and want to start a campaign to get one resident in every state in the union (at least those which permit it) to register GETMAC as their license plate. The website can be found here at www.GETMACplate.org, and is still in it’s infancy. I will eventually be adding a way for people to search their states to see if the plate is available as well as an area for GETMAC owners to shout out.

Bookmark the site and come back again to see what we’ve done!

With iTunes 7.5 and the new iPhone software 1.1.2, MakeiPhoneRingtone works again! And the best part, it’s FREE! What this software does is automate the process of adding your songs (no longer than 40.04 seconds) into the iTunes ringtones folder, thus making them available for use on your iPhone when you sync it.

The program will take your AAC file, send it to your iTunes Music sub-folder “Ringtones,” and add it to your ringtone playlist. The only thing you have to do is make the ringtone. I use Sound Studio 3 to cut my songs.

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This is a voice message I received from my old boss, on my splendid iPhone. She wants to know where her $800.00 printer is. I dunno. Have any of you seen it? Where could it be?

Listen to the voice message and see if you can find any hints as to where this printer may have gotten off to. Then read the full article for some clever hints.

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Get ready for my 10 part series into why Wal*Mart is evil and why China wants to kill all of us. Still working on part 1. You’d be happy to know that a helpless Wal*Mart worker told me “you don’t like it here, go somewhere else.” This was an answer to my question “how many of the items you sell here are made in China”? Not off to a good start. More to come.

RANT: I’m so sick and tired of thin, cheap, and almost useless Home Depot shopping bags. If the bags could get any smaller, I don’t see how. If the bags could get any thinner, I wouldn’t think it physically possible. WTF? — Me

I love shopping at Home Depot. The products are diverse, the prices are great. However, one thing has always stuck in my craw– those f*@#$%g lousy bags! No matter how big the product, or how much it weighs; rest assured that it’s going to pop through the bag, starting a series of events that will ultimately land your new merchandise on the parking lot blacktop.

Why?

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UPDATE (11.17.07) - Apple’s new iPhone software 1.1.2 allows you to add your own songs as ring tones. It’s not as “Apple-like” as it should be, but easily accomplished in a few easy steps. First, use an audio editor (I use Sound Studio for Mac). Create your ringtones (less than 40 seconds), fading in/out as you wish. Then save them as AAC (I prefer 256 Kbps). Once saved, rename them to *.mpr. Then open your iTunes music folder, and find the “Ringtones” folder. Drop all your *.mpr files in. Then, from that folder, open each one (make sure the mpr extension is associated with iTunes), and the songs will magically be added to the iTunes ringtone folder. I don’t know if this is a mistake on Apple’s part or this is what they are planning, but it works great and I don’t need iToner now.

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