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And for search engines and those who can't be bothered to dive into the cut, that was Sowelu's Mamoru Beki Mono, Bonnie Pink's Water Me, Ai Otsuka's Planetarium, and Namie Amuro's Can You Celebrate.
I think I just lost all my manly-man cred. Did I ever have any?
I've been pretty diligent about not upgrading iTunes, just in case it becomes incompatible with QTFairUse.
One of the recent free iTunes "Pick of the Week" songs at Starbucks (I think it was Waking Up by Bitter:Sweet) required an upgrade from my crufty old iTunes 7.2 to 7.6. I've been thinking about getting an iPhone, and in a moment of weakness, I upgraded my version of iTunes.
And sadly, that put my iTunes in a walled garden, because Apple sent a cease and desist to the QTFairUse team, and QTFairUse doesn't work with iTunes 7.6. Now any new songs I purchase with DRM will have to have the DRM stuck to them. I shouldn't have upgraded.
This is pretty disappointing. iTunes feels cripped to me now, since all the songs I want are DRM-only there. My disappointment in being stuck with the DRM at iTunes translates to the iPhone, too. So, now I'm not so sure I want the iPhone 3G either.
Darn. I wonder if I can regress my iTunes library back to 7.2...
Naturally, I threw up the horns, started in on my best Angus Young impression, and launched into Back in Black.
And you know what?
I won. Later that morning, before I left for work, I caught her absent-mindedly singing Back in Black.
I do love that woman.
Apparently the developers that should be working on anywhere.fm are really working on imeem. So, let's see how a playlist link to imeem works.
Here's that playlist of I Want To Hold Your Hand (very wistful), Dear Prudence (so hopeful), and Hey Jude.
Here are three select songs from that playlist: I Want To Hold Your Hand (very wistful), Dear Prudence (so hopeful), and Hey Jude.
[Edit] What the hey? That link isn't working for most people. anywhere.fm is really confused about that playlist. I'll have to fix this over the weekend. Sorry.
"Even though the chorus is really repetitive and the girls just say 'chocolate disco' (it's more like CHOKOREITO DEISUKO) over and over, it's what makes the song so catchy."Oh, just go listen at YouTube. If it doesn't get stuck in your head, you're a better person than I.
- 17:38 Note: Recovery from Seagate's OEM of True Image works! Yea for backups! dblume.livejournal.com/76739.html #
- 21:09 Family fight: Daughter wants Black Eyed Peas. Son wants Namie Amuro. Daddy's happy: There's time for both. #
If I can't have perfection, I'll take progress.
On Saturday, we went to play at the ruins of the Sutro Baths near the Cliff House. The song for the day was the theme song for Indiana Jones.
On the sidewalk near Ocean Beach, was the graffiti in the photo. It made us happy.
- 00:05 Goofing around, and got another star on Metallica's "One" on Guitar Hero III. #
Augh! That someone would be pretty frustrated.
That someone would then probably open Anytime in Mp3tag and notice that the Codec wasn't MPEG 1 or 2 Layer III. They'd wonder why iTunes is so picky.
Then they'd open Anytime in Audacity (with the LAME MP3 Codec) and transcode it to another file. They'd have to trim it in a little bit to remove some popping, and they'd have to manually move the cover art from the old MP3 to the new one.
But then, they'd be able to get Anytime onto their iPod.
Hypothetically speaking.
And this is here for anybody who Googles for iTunes and "won't import" "can't import", MP3 file.
- 16:16 It takes me three tries to tweak a playlist right and be happy with the burned CD. (My car takes CD...) #
- 23:52 When no one's around, I sometimes play Aly & AJ's "Potential Breakup Song." Don't tell. #
Ben Templesmith's "30 Days of Night: Blood of Christ" For a split second I thought it was real, and was ready to call Lee's and ask them to put it in my saver.
Also, welcome back Lex! Lex's original Beyond The Sea blog was taken down by WordPress.com, but he's back at beyondthesea2. Lex maintains the best J-Pop review blog I've seen. I missed all the drama because I let my rss feed do the polling. I thought Lex was just being inactive for a while.
- 12:56 It's lunchtime and Penny Arcade's servers appear to be wanged. #
- 22:50 It makes me happy that so many people play Namie Amuro's WoWa as an Audiosurf level. #
With that, I hereby rededicate this blog as the v-u-den shrine with the song, Loving♥Angel♥Heart.
Now that's bliss. Seriously, it just makes me happy.
- 00:13 Your Friday morning music video (Paranmaum's Linda Linda): tinyurl.com/38h36z #
We're going on vacation for the week. And guess which videos I've packed for the kids?
Here's the original version of Mothra's song, vs. the crazy new-fangled Morning Musume version.
See you all in a week! (I won't be accessing the Web.)
*Twitter readers will recognize where the Gamera vs. Godzilla tweet came from, now.
[Edit] The author regrets omitting a link to this most excellent Mothra Song Alarm Clock.
So, I found myself strangely compelled by the song "Happiness is a Warm Gun" in the movie Across the Universe.
It wasn't until after the movie was over that I realized that yes, indeed, Salma was the hot nurse.
Oh, and I adored Prudence's rendition of "I Want to Hold Your Hand." So sad and beautiful.
