Running iTunes 4? Want to let a friend running iTunes 4 to your music? I found some simple instructions over on one of the TiVo boards explaining how to do it.

This week at the Analog Lounge should be pretty damn cool. DJ Defixio, another of my favorite Boston DJs will be joining us this week, so all should be quite good. Also, just as a reminder to folks, next week will be our first non-smoking week. Anyone have any suggestions on how to celebrate? I was thinking maybe some candy cigarettes for the smokers who need to put something in their mouth.

Changmian and Dubcoast present

*~The Analog Lounge~*

The relaxed side of things. Join us every Wednesday for a mix of
music styles in the lounge at Vertigo, with lots of mellow mixed in.
This week, we bring you longtime Boston DJ:

Defixio [Redlight : punkrocktechno] MA

(Read a recent article on DJ Kris Defixio in Stuff@Night).

The Analog Lounge with resident dj’s
Gregory Blake (Changmian) Boston
Special Pete (dubcoast music) CA
Peter Ellis (ttb) Boston
Pete Yagmin (Changmian) Boston

Wednesdays
@ Vertigo (upstairs)
126 State St. Boston, MA
617-723-7277
10pm – 2am
21+ with ID
$5 cover (gets you into both the Lounge and Anitya)
No dress code
www.changmian.com
www.dubcoast.com
www.vertigoboston.com
www.mapquest.com (directions)

Upcoming Guests:
May 7 – Lenore [ELEMENTS, Boston, MA]
May 14 – Mark Martini [Dubcoast Music, Source of Gravity UK; MA]
May 21 – Chris Barakat [Boston, MA]
May 28 – Chris VanWart [Boston, MA]

To view our calendar online (with support for you iCal and Mozilla
calendar folk):
http://ical.mac.com/gblake99/The32Analog32Lounge

This week downstairs at Anitya it’s Peter Digital [digital structures-Sweden] and GAVIN [spectra-New York]. Should be pretty damn good!

As usual, if you’re a Boston DJ who is interested in spinning, drop me a line.

Gizmodo is reporting that cellphones have gotten so cheap that “baseball fans no longer have any compunction about throwing them at the heads of players during games. Seriously.”

Well, after close to a year of waiting, Apple finally delivered what I was waiting for: iTunes 4. What’s so cool about it? Well, it supports rendezvous. What does this mean? Well, it means I can easily listen to the mp3s on my server from my laptop (as long as I’m on my home network). Yes, I could have (and do) share out the directory that my mp3s are in. But the thing that rocks about rendezvous is that it automaticly finds shared out playlists and makes them available. We also just figured out that you can share out your playlists so that you can listen to them from anywhere you have OS X and iTunes 4. I connected to a friend’s computer and listened to music from it.

Apple also opened up its online music store. From within iTunes you can browse for songs and listen to them. If you like a song, just click on a button and buy it for 99 cents. I of course had to try it out and bought Rock the Casbah. Very cool. It also lets you burn CDs with the music you buy, which is even more cool.

Now, this is getting to where I want home networking to be. You should be able to just fire up a machine on your network and be able to access the music from wherever it is on your network. Of course now this brings up another thing I just thought of. With things like rendezvous it doesn’t matter where the content on your network lives. So you could either have it on some kind of NAS box or on whatever machines you have. Hmmmm.

Oh well, off to rip more music (uh oh, AAC or mp3?)

William Blake: “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” [Quotes of the Day]

Finally got around to playing around with FOAF. Now I need to learn more about RDF. The more I learn the more I have to learn to understand it.

Kenneth Tynan: “A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.” [Quotes of the Day]

 

I took in the first episode of Gad-Guard last night. The only things I really knew about the show beforehand was that Gonzo had a hand in it and the initial images I’d seen looked pretty slick. There’s not much to give away really, since the first episode only just gets us started. The main character seems to be a school kid who works on the side as a delivery boy. It’s got giant robots (guess who it looks like will get one). We like giant robots. Especially funky cool looking ones like these. The animation style kind of reminds me of Jet Set Radio Future, which is pretty cool. Oh yeah, and the soundtrack? It kicks ass. All very jazzy. The opening track is quite good IMHO. This is one I’ll be waiting for more of (to balance out my waiting for new episodes of Kaleidostar (which I’ll talk about soon)).

 

Seen over at Jen’s blog. The Pisces Soap company, where you can get Bubblegum Soap, Cupcake Soap, and Breakfast Bagel Soap (to name a few). I just couldn’t see walking around all day smelling like bubblegum.

A steak, mushroom, and cheese sub. A coke. And a cheesy movie (In this case The Cutting Edge (yes, the skating movie)).