trucker
First off, i should let you all know that the table repair for the Megatokyo forums IS in progress, and hopefully things will be back up and running tonight. Of course, we still need to dig in and find out what is wrong and work to fix that (which will probably mean some more downtime at some point) but with some luck we can attain some semblance of stability with the MT forums.
Oh, and as for the MGS:4 joke today… it was a natural. I feel kinda bad that we are all making fun of the slightly older, more mature Solid Snake. I mean, he’s still cool, right? 
Him chomping on a cigarette cracks me up. The mustache has got to go tho (shudder).
Had an odd revelation today, and found out about something i’ve been wondering about for years. I think it was back in 1999 that i connected to my first shoutcast station and started to discover some of the musical genres that up to that time i had had little exposure to. One of my favorite stations was Afternoon Nap (which was defunct for a long time but now i see is now back up again! (adds to playlist)) I really like Downtempo stuff, and the balance of things you will find between what is considered ‘downtempo’ and ‘ambient’ and ‘chill’. As with anything, you develop favorite tracks, and over time you will seek out the artists and the CDs to add to your collection.
MP3 tags are great, but sometimes, especially with tracks that have been around for a long time, they don’t contain a lot of info. One particularly quiet and moody track that i have always liked was one called ‘Trucker.mp3′. On many occasions i’ve tried to dig up just who the hell did this track and what CD it might be on. As you can imagine, searching for ‘trucker’ on google didn’t lead to much, nor did combining it with tags like ‘ambient’ or ‘mp3′ or ‘fredreallylikesthisone’. I had little choice but to just be happy to hear it when it came up in rotation on Drone Zone.
Imagine my surprise today when ‘trucker’ started playing, and when i glanced down to look at the itunes window:
Terre Thaemlitz – Trucker
Several years of wondering finally solved by the simple act of Drone Zone adding the right mp3 tag to a tune i’ve been listening to for years. Obviously, with the artists name it was pretty easy to find out more information about the artist, the track itself, and what CD it was on – Soil
Of course, my hopes were kinda dashed when i went poking around to see if i could find this CD anywhere… nope. Nothing on ebay, and none available from anyone on Amazon.com. There’s still hope, of course. Now that i know what CD it is on, i can keep an eye out for it, and over time who knows? Might actually be able to listen to ‘trucker’ whenever i want to. 
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Posted by fredrin on September 28th, 2005 :: Filed under Daily Blogging
