http://dataenema.com Back up in that ass with some *hard code*. Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:54:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm sure for many people, this is a no-brainer, but having helped a minimum of three of my music collecting friends with this issue - who sadly had already encoded significant portions of their library - I consider it a public service of sorts to spell out with some detail ... http://dataenema.com/2006/11/30/why-apple-hates-you-or-how-to-get-itunes-to-encode-mp3s-properly-with-screenshots/ If you are like me, your first exposure to Jamiroquai may have been something along the lines of 'WTF with the crazy buffalo hat'? Other acceptable associations are: 'nice voice', 'wow, my chick really loves this album' and 'sounds like disco'. As Jamiroquai grew on me, I think the initial ... http://dataenema.com/2006/11/28/high-times-on-planet-earth-the-return-of-the-space-funky/ I first purchased the BulletBoys self-titled debut on cassette when I was in middle school - this was just prior to me getting into Depeche Mode and New Order (via 101 and Substance respectively). Indeed, what a beautiful swan song for my teenage buttrock/hair-metal days. I always loved this album ... http://dataenema.com/2006/11/26/get-your-buttrock-on-with-some-goddamn-style/ A few years back I noticed a startling similarity between "Hanging on the Telephone" by Blondie and "No Action" by Elvis Costello. The first time I noticed this, it seemed like the two songs were having a conversation with each other... Debbie Harry pleading: I'm in the phone booth, it's the ... http://dataenema.com/2006/11/25/separated-at-birth-blondie-and-elvis-costello/ Just signed up for my technorati profile and filled out the forms for the exhaustive mp3 aggregators thehypemachine and elbo.ws so let's get this party started. I've got plenty of exclusive music to post. . . http://dataenema.com/2006/11/25/hello-technorati-thehypemachine-and-elbows/ One of the handful of reasons I wanted to start a widely syndicated, well regarded and generally impromptu kegger party of a blog was to have an outlet for the occasional bootleg I tend to maneuver. Frequently I team up with my partner RareMatthew on these endeavors. . .thus making ... http://dataenema.com/2006/11/24/if-journey-and-death-cab-dont-cheer-you-up-you-are-hopeless/ Periodically I like to shuffle through the used bins at Amoeba in a complete hypnotic trance. During my last visit I found this gem. If you didn't hit the link, discogs says: "This CD was released as a gift at Gsus first store in Amsterdam (Holland). Limited to 1000 copies." ... http://dataenema.com/2006/11/23/i-got-lost-in-the-supermarket-and-ended-up-in-amsterdam/ Ahh chiptunes... My inner 8th grade geek (circa 1988 or so) is screaming at me to write a detailed account of the significance of this track but I don't think it would enhance 99.76% of most people's enjoyment of it. Pretend its some obscure Pink Floyd meets Tangerine Dream or ... http://dataenema.com/2006/11/23/delta-patrol-for-the-soul/ I've had the cleansing and funny feeling dataenema.com domain for about a year and a half now, but its not until I started configuring Wordpress for this blog that I finally felt like I was building something of value on the previously unimproved digital real estate. Now look at me: ... http://dataenema.com/2006/11/20/witty-biography-mission-statement-title-goes-here/