Still Holding On

Stuff I Listened To Today 2011-11-22

Peter Gabriel - 1

Peter Gabriel - 2

Peter Gabriel - 3

Patricia Barber - Monday Night: Live at the Green Mill Vol. 2

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

Joe Strummer - Streetcore

The Fixx - Calm Animals

She & Him - A Very She & Him Christmas

Joy Division - Substance

Jane Monheit - Home

Melody Gardot - My One and Only Thrill

Marianne Faithful - A Perfect Stranger

Stuff I Listened To Today 2011-11-21

Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More

Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

Oscar Peterson Trio - Christmas

Peter Gabriel - Shaking the Tree

Patricia Barber - Monday Night: Live at the Green Mill  

What I Listened To on 2011.11.17

Beatles - Abbey Road (LP)
Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight (LP)
Forgotten Rebels - This Ain't Hollywood (LP)
Cat Power - The Greatest (LP)
Pink Floyd - Meddle (LP)
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks (LP)
Dido - Life for Rent (CD)
Zee Avi - Ghostbird (CD)
Micheal Buble - Crazy Love (iTunes)
Jane Monheit - The Lovers, Dreamers and Me (iTunes)

Weekend Music

Weekend was great for listening to records. 

Shelby Lynn - Just a Little Lovin'
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Thelonious Monk - 5 by 5
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Tom Waits - Blood Money
Tom Waits - Small Change
Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth
Norah Jones - The Fall
Holly Cole - Don't Smoke in Bed
Amos Lee - Amos Lee
Marissa Nadler - Marissa - Nadler
The Decemberists - The King is Dead
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

This is How I Watch Hockey

Leafs and for tonight, Tom Waits' Blood Money

 

There was blood.  The Leafs.  7-0.  Terrible.

Pinch Me

I must be dreaming...

Tom Waits

Yes!

Halloween

Tori's windows. Who invited them?

Harvest Moon

We all love the Harvest Moon in Autumn. But it is out side and you can't drink it.

But now you can! Thanks to technology innovated by the LCBO, you can bring the Harvest Moon home.

1.5 ounces Spiced Whisky (which is good on its own)
0.5 ounces Goldschlager
2.0 ounces apple cider

Shake and serve with a slice of apple.

Yum!

It Begins ...

EBay Finds

Thanks to Frank, I am now the proud owner of a $0.99 iPod holder for the car, plus $2.50 for shipping. From Hong Kong. What a deal.

Hacintosh 10.7.2

Yup, upgraded to 10.7.2 without a hitch using the instructions from here. That got me from 10.6.8 to 10.7.0 (the Lion upgrade I bought for the real Macs in the house). The 10.7.0 to 10.7.2 update went smooth.

Lion!

Well, looks like it is not too hard to upgrade to Lion on the Hackintosh.

Tom Waits - Bad As Me

YAY!!!

Listening to Bad As Me from my digital download.  Just received confirmation that the Limited Edition CD and LP have shipped.  A happy time in the house.  In other news, my spouse will be out the night it comes, whatever night that is.

I Smell Another Vinyl Night Coming

Whats cooking at V i n y l   N i g h t labs?

Just another V i n y l   N i g h t.  Details soon.

That is All

Working Downtown last Saturday

I love working downtown Toronto when they close the Gardner.  It seems to happen every time.  Here I am zipping along Lakeshore Road West at, oh, 0 km/h.

Jericho

When I was in Denver, I was bored.  Really bored.  Flipping around Netflix, (can you use the term 'flipping'?), I came across Jericho.  It is a series (unfortunately only one and a half seasons) that deals with life post nuclear war.

My kind of happy, go lucky TV.

Anyway, lots of twists, turns and conspiracies.  You learn what is going on as the characters do.  A very entertaining show.  A shame it was killed off.  Luckily they managed to end part of the story line in a relatively decent way.

Expenses

Well, you know that your company's expense system is bad when it takes both sides of Tom Waits' "Blue Valentine" to do the expenses for a five day trip to Denver.

On the good side, I was able to listen to Tom Waits' "Blue Valentine" on work time.

On another Tom Waits note, I just received the download code for "Bad as Me".  Plus, notice that the CD and LP should be shipping soon.

Boo-Ya

Hackintosh lives!

Well, until I get my iMac, I have been able to get the Hackintosh up and running again. And it was pretty easy. It is running 10.5.8, and doing quite nicely with the new video card, an NVidia 9400GT.

The main reason, so I can burn DVD audio disks from my collection of 24 bit, 96 KHz FLAC files, mainly from Bowers and Wilkens Society of Sound.

Been a while ...

But Happy New Year to All!

Trying unsuccessfully to get some work done. Listening to the Abecedarians: AB-CD. Forgot how good this album is. Non-commercial 80's with a hint of dark and brooding. Yes, this was a good time to enjoy music.