NOOOOOO….

Why, i say, WHY does the next sub of the next episode of AIR have to come out on or about SUNDAYS?? howabout monday afternoon guys? GIve me a break! you bastards! (pulls out hair)

Heh, i shoulda known. Well, i’m gonna be firm about it this time and not watch the this next ep till tomorrow. I’ve found that when i do watch this show on sunday mornings it causes all sorts of problems with my own creative process. It’s not that it doesn’t inspire creativity in me, it’s just that it’s not the right KIND of inspiration for doing Megatokyo comics, if that makes sense. Great for ‘warmth’ perhaps, but thats not what’s due today.

Oh, i got the most bizzare email yesterday. Someone actually recognized the vending machines and the location where i took this picture in Sendai. Not only did she recognize them and the station where they are located, but that she actually LIVES there.

This isn’t like some station in Tokyo, near Akiba or Shinagawa or something. This is a small out of the way normal sized station on the JR line going from Sendai to the bay. It’s the location where i plan the base the warmth story (i may not use the actual station and town name, but then again i might, not sure yet).

Anyways, that was fun. It amazes me sometimes where you can find people who read MT. Now if i could just put her to work to do some more research for me there…

- pirotunes: Schloss Tegal – Technocore (Iteration X) – The Outsider -

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Posted by fredrin on February 27th, 2005 :: Filed under Daily Blogging

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Damnit. I’ve been assimilated.

I’ve tried hard not to let this happen. I’m a proponent of whee wiz bang freedom, i never fall into the trends, or i try not to. Actually, to be more specific… I’m a mac user, i love the things, glad i made the switch, etc. I actually like my Ipod a lot. I don’t put it on an altar and worship it (in fact, i dont use those crappy white headphones that come with it, i like my Sony MDR-A34′s much better). I don’t care about the Ipod Shuffle – nice, but pointless for someone like me. I made jokes about the Apple Mini. I like itunes, and the Itunes music store is nice enough. i like the concept well enough (even if i’m still not convinced that DRM standards are quite to the point where its fair for both customers and digital rights owners) etc, etc, but not something i’d just use because of the ‘cool and new’ factor.

When the Itunes store first opened i poked at it here and there (pretty easy to do if you have a mac and use itunes – gotta give apple credit for integrating things nice and simple) but there was quite literally nothing i was interested in. Yay, more of the “crappy music that we are all supposed to like” bullshit. I tend to like things you can’t find in music stores. I bounce between Industrial, House, Downtempo, Ambient and certain kinds of Metal. Not really what the store focused on initially.

The only thing that would make the Itunes store work well for me would be if i could buy tunes and CDs of things i wanted that are hard to find elsewhere. It is frustrating to have to mail order almost everything i’d be interested in (most CD shops around here never have what i want) and as such, i almost never get anything. If the Itunes store had some of them, it’d be nice. The DRM is easy for me because i have macs and an Ipod anyway…

I just bought my first album from the Itunes music store. I fell so ashamed.

Damn them, but if their selection of Industrial tracks has increased dramatically. Damn them. I’ve actually found several CDs i’d want now. It was too easy. I picked up NamNamBulu – Distances. I can’t make a habit of this. That could be very dangerous.

and expensive ^^;;

- pirotunes: NamNamBulu – Memories from “Distances” -

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Posted by fredrin on February 25th, 2005 :: Filed under Daily Blogging

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