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After five years our apple tree has blossoms. Can’t wait for apples this fall.
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Look! You can still buy cassette recorders and tapes at Walmart. Just like it’s 1986.
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Albums From My Teen Years #14
Most people probably don’t know who Frente! is. They are an Australian band that have been together on and off since the early 90s. They basically only have two studio albums, and I really fell in love with Marvin the Album in college in 1993. I’m listening to it now for the first time in probably 15 years, and it’s still great. I wish I knew how to describe it better, but you know what, you have the internet. You can go listen yourself. -
Albums From My Teen Years #13
I was a little late at discovering the Pixies. I actually became of fan of Frank Black first, and then went back and listened to the Pixies. Teenager of the Year is the first Frank Black album I discovered. I just love this album. So many quirky, catchy songs. It’s probably one of the most underrated 90s albums. -
Links For Wednesday, April 26, 2017
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April showers…
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Links For Tuesday, April 25, 2017
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Albums From My Teen Years #12
I discovered the Smashing Pumpkins with the Gish sometime in high school after seeing the video for “Rhinoceros”. While I liked the album, I didn’t love it. Siamese Dream came out the summer after my senior year. From the beginning riff of “Cherub Rock”, I new the Smashing Pumpkins were going to be huge. I love the beginning lyrics of “Cherub Rock”, “Freak out,And give in, Doesn’t matter what you believe in, Stay cool, And be somebody’s fool this year”. The album only gets better from there. Billy Corgan driving around the ice cream truck in the “Today” video is one of the memories from my freshman years of college. “Disarm” got so much air play, I kind of got sick of it. This album probably makes it into my top 10 favorite albums of all time list. -
I’m the Real Slim Shady
Middle schooler me wanted to be a rapper. I was really into the Beastie Boys, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, and Run DMC. I wrote a couple of rap song, and my rap name was M&M. I spelt it a little different than Eminem, but it was essentially the same. Like Marshall Mathers, my initials are also MM, plus it’s my favorite candy. My brother and I recorded the couple songs I wrote onto a cassette tape using his little Casio keyboard as the only musical instrument to make some noise that we called music. I made artwork and everything for our album titled Too Much Hype. It would be cool to hear how awful it was, but I sure it’s in a landfill somewhere. But anyhow, I am the original slim shady.*
*after writing that I looked up Eminem and he is actually older than me. We were probably both rapping as M&M at the same time, so I guess I’m not the original M&M, I’m just the M&M that sucked.
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Do people still pirate software?
Today I was thinking, I don’t have any pirated or cracked software on any of my computers. Back when I was a poor college student, I pirated or cracked everything. You name it, I could get it for free. I was the go to guy for free software among my group of friends. It was almost a game. Most of the software I didn’t even use, I just wanted it for free. Nowadays I am so out of the loop, I’m not even sure where to go for it.
Ok, I just went to one of my favorite sites for cracks, astalavista.box.sk, and it looks like it still works. It’s crazy that it’s still around, it’s probably been 20 years since I last used it.
I don’t think people use the amount of software now that they did back then. You can do so much with just a web browser these days, and operating systems are so much more advanced too. About the only piece of software I pay for now is Photoshop. At $10 a month for Photoshop and Lightroom it seems like a great deal. Over time it’s probably not that great of deal, but I don’t really notice it and there isn’t really a comparable free alternate. Everything else I use is either free or low cost, but honestly, I don’t use that much software these days.
