Not around much today. In a cranky mood, will blog more about it later.

This article was posted to a mailing list I was on. I missed it the other week when it was posted, but thought I’d throw up a link to it in case others missed it.

A month ago I experienced a very small taste of what hundreds of South Asian immigrants and U.S. citizens of South Asian descent have gone through since 9/11, and what thousands of others have come to fear. I was held, against my will and without warrant or cause, under the USA PATRIOT Act. While I understand the need for some measure of security and precaution in times such as these, the manner in which this detention and interrogation took place raises serious questions about police tactics and the safeguarding of civil liberties in times of war. [AlterNet: Patriot Raid]

This story really unnerved me. I did try and find more information on it, unfortunately, there were just lots of blog posts like this about it. Anyone have pointers to more information on this?

Jeremy Zawodny writes about Mailing List Behavior.

Sometimes I worry that I’m becoming one of those grizzly old Unix geeks that gets sick of all the young kids who are invading what used to be great technical mailing lists. Some people just don’t get it. There are fairly basic rules that, when followed, go a long way toward making mailing lists useful communities for everyone involved. [Jeremy Zawodny’s blog]

I remember when I first got online, I was a bit intimidated by mailing lists and news groups. I watched numerous other newbies get ripped to shreds for posting without learning the rules. These days I don’t see that much of that either and it kind of saddens me.

Aldous Huxley: “The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.” [Quotes of the Day]

Even if it is restless sleep where I’m worrying that I’ll miss a call from my parents. I got a few hours at least. Now to get things done for the rest of the day and tonight. Primarily, vacuum (can someone please buy me a roomba?), find a monitor speaker for tonight (I have a decent lead on this I believe), shower, have an early dinner with parents and sis and nephew, and sneak in another hour or two of sleep. Ugs. And this is without the other important stuff I should be doing like job search things.

Update: Mom just called and said they’d be here soon. Augh.

Tommy Cooper: “Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.” [Quotes of the Day]

Bah, tossed and turned most of the night. Didn’t sleep well at all. My sister is coming up today with my parents. Hopefully I can find a way to get a few hours sleep before tonight. Though the little sleep let me finish cleaning up more and I got to watch too much BBC America. I also bought my first CD from the iTunes music store. It was pretty cool. I got Pleasure Victim by Berlin. It also got me thinking about things they could do to make the store better. I’d love the option to get the actual CD when I buy something. There’s a few reasons for this. First, AAC may be fairly good quality, but it still isn’t actual CD quality. Second, Liner notes. I like having them. I like seeing who is involved with producing an album. Maybe if they had a way to download a PDF of it or something.

Seen over on Lockergnome: Indy is finally coming out on DVD. ROCK. I still remember seeing the first movie as a kid. I’m so psyched to finally see this coming out on DVD.

I’ve been really excited about a lot of the DJs we’ve had playing lately. When I was first asked to do The Analog Lounge I wanted to do something a little different. I wanted to have a night where there would be all styles of music welcome. Last week and this week are just a taste of some of that. This week we’ve got Lenore of Elements at the Phoenix Landing on Thursday nights. I actually haven’t been in ages since the Landing tends to be just about the smokiest place in Cambridge and it’s murder for me to go there. But I do remember the first time I ever saw Lenore spin. It was at the first beach party Changmian threw. That was a special night for me since I was told to bring my records just in case there was time for me to spin. 10pm rolled around and the DJ set to spin there hadn’t shown up yet. Dino pointed at me and said “you’re on”. I spun one of my very first sets in front of a crowd of people. Lenore was up right after me and I was really stunned by what she played. I hadn’t heard much drum and bass at that point, and I certainly hadn’t heard stuff like she was playing. I loved it. So I’m glad to finally be able to book her for the Analog Lounge.

Also this week we’ve got a few other special things going on. First, my little sister is due to be in town and I’m dragging her out to show her that Boston knows how to have a good time. It’s also her birthday, so everyone should come out to wish her happy birthday. Next, as many of you know, Boston has gone no-smoking. I’m pretty damn psyched about this. The upstairs at Vertigo has never been that smoky, but there have been nights where it has been a bit too much for me. This week, in celebration of no smoking I’ll be doing the closing set. I’m thinking something kinda housey, we’ll see what comes out.

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.
In order to celebrate this very first week of a no-smoking Boston, and my little sister’s birthday we’re very happy to bring you one of the residents of Elements at the Phoenix Landing:

Lenore [ELEMENTS, Boston, MA]

Opening things up will be Special Pete, and Gregory Blake will be closing the night out.

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 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

Are you a DJ in the Boston area? Are you interested in playing out some Wednesday night? If so, drop me a line at lounge@ezoons.com.

Thanks to Lyn for showing me Boohbah. How very odd and entertaining.