<< March 21, 2007 >>
this one is also for his imperialness

...the Republicans were nowhere. Their most popular candidate, by this measure, was Ron Paul, an obscure outsider from somewhere in Texas.

-- the economist, on candidates' popularity with the myspace crowd

this is the typical no-nonsense, objective, keep-your-smarmy-comments-to-yourself writing style that i enjoy each week from the economist.

frustrated by the daunting list of bands that play boston each week, of which i have heard of maybe 1 every three months, i've decided on a new policy. at some yet-to-be-decided interval - between weekly and monthly - i will likely purchase a new record based solely on its cover.

there is more logic in this than was immediately apparent to me: there is not quite as much released on vinyl these days, so that which is was probably loved a little bit more by someone than whatever new cd is out. and the whole point of cover art is to try to sell something to me, so why not let it do its job.

yesterday's choice was lymbyc systym's new album love your abuser. i picked it up because they had a track on it called pittsburgh left. you see, in pittsburgh, when the light goes green, traffic going straight usually pauses for a couple of cars to turn left without an arrow.

it works well there, but since then i've been terrified by the thought of pittsburghers trying to take their act on the road, expecting others to be as kind. i can't imagine them pulling it off in boston.

i decided to not even look them up on wikipedia before listening to the record, in order to not prejudice my opinion. in fact, i was delighted to find that the album was not only tolerable, but i actually liked it. it was kind of like boards of canada turned up a couple of notches, with hints of awesomeness, but not really peaking. which sounds maybe lame, but it's nice to listen to while reading about shipping containers.

it turns out they were just here (twice!), and they have some stuff on the etree, including a heights show.

i can't tell whether this week's success should have me encouraged for next week, or whether i'm just setting myself up for disappointment.

also the new apostle of hustle finally reached the states, and i've been enjoying it.

posted by jacob around March 21, 2007

<< March 21, 2007 >>
even more boring

my mozilla friends have broken the osuosl mirror, presumably, so i set out to get rum to start using the kernel.org one. i wrote a script to generate a nice repos file for me. it uses advanced shell techniques such as numerical (C-like) for loops and arrays!

posted by jacob around March 21, 2007