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I am not a big fan of music podcasts. Most of the ones that I have tried to listen to don’t really play much music I like. My iPod is full of music I like, so if I want to listen to music I have it all there. I have started listening to The AP Show though. It plays a lot of the stuff I like. I have been a reader of AP Mag for many many years and am a fan of Jason Pettigrew and Scott Heisel.

AP does another podcast that you can find on iTunes, but I couldn’t find a website for it. It’s just call the AP Podcast It is more of an interview type podcast. The newest episode has an interview with Richard Reines from Drive-Thru Records. It’s a great interview. I learned a lot about all the crap the record labels have to go though and how much they are really being hurt by downloads. Richard also has a lot of great ideas for the future of his record label. I have been a big fan of Drive-Thru Records, and it sounds like they have a good future. I like guys like him that put out music he likes, not just music that he can make a buck off of. So head over to their site and buy some of their shit. The new Hellogoodbye and Self Against City cds are great.

I have never bought music off of iTunes. The main reason being the crippling DRM. Now that they are starting to sell some music without DRM I actually looked at the store today. I thought I would look for a few of the CDs that I plan on buying this week. I looked for the new Ozma, Groovie Ghoulies, and Dinosaur Jr. CDs and they didn’t have any of them.

Ok, I just did another search and they do have them. Nevermind that thing about iTunes not having my music. I guess they do. They are crippled though, so I will be buying the CDs. Someday all of iTunes music might be fit to buy, but not yet. Once all their music is DRM free and they drop the price of their DRM free music to $9.99 or less for an album I am all over it. Until then, I am still buying cds.

So I had a few non-geeks email me about not understanding that cool license plate that I saw a few days ago. Here is a great leet speak converter for all you non-geeks that didn’t understand t3h 1337.

For a lot of people Memorial Day is the start of summer. They head to the lakes, go camping, grill out, drink a lot of beers. Not me.

My family has always had the same Memorial Day tradition. Every Memorial Day we head to my Mom’s hometown, and attend the Memorial Day ceremonies. It’s the day I visit my Great Grandparents that I never knew. It’s the day I visit the uncle that was killed in Vietnam that I never knew.

This year will be the first time I get to visit someone I knew. It will be my first visit to my Grandpa’s grave. He died two years ago, but I had to work last Memorial Day. I don’t know how I am going to feel. My eyes are already starting to water just thinking about it.

My Grandma on my Dad’s side died in 1987. I feel terrible that I have only been back to her grave once since. She is buried in my Dad’s hometown which I don’t get to very often. I couldn’t control myself when I saw her grave. I think it also had something to do with my last name being on it.

Memorial Day is a sad day for me. It’s the day that I remember not only the veterans, but everybody who has passed on. It’s my day to say thanks.

I have been offline all day today. I feel so out of touch.

It’s Towel Day today. I got my Towel. Where is yours?

It’s weird how often the number 42 came up today. It seemed like I couldn’t do anything without noticing the number 42 today.

I also saw this sweet license plate today.

I think that must be the coolest license plate that I have ever seen.

The Action Design are playing a few dates on the Warped Tour this year. I wish I could see them.

I subscribe to a Flickr tag for Fargo so I can see what people in my home town are posting. The other day I found a set with some really good pictures of the Hellogoodbye concert I went to last week. Much better than I could have taken.

Our coffee maker died the other day so we bought a new one yesterday. We spent the money and got a good one that has an espresso machine built into it. I don’t know if the coffee maker can make that much of a difference, but the coffee sure seems to taste better than our old machine made.

Last night I learned a secret in the blogosphere. I could tell you, but I would have to kill you.

I just heard Leo’s exercise ball pop on TWiT. I loled for real.

So last night at work they played “Suck My Kiss” from the Chili Peppers on the radio and didn’t bother bleeping the word motherfucker. So let me get this straight, you can’t say cocaine on the radio, but you can say motherfucker?

Weird.

Last night they played that old Kid Rock song, “Picture” on the radio and they bleeped out the word cocaine. Since when can you not say cocaine on the radio? Back when they played that song every five minutes they never bleeped that work. I hate when they censor stupid stuff like that. Even the F-bombs. Who the fuck really cares about an occasional F-bomb? Is it really harmful to people to hear that word?

Personally I don’t swear a lot and I don’t really like when other people swear a lot. I think the overuse of swear words shows a lack of intelligence, and de-emphasizes it too much. How fuckin’ pissed can you really be if every other word if fuck?

Wow, I think I swore more in the post then the rest of my blog combined.

Fuck yeah!

I have been interested in the “Getting Things Done” action management system for a while now. I never thought my life was really complicated enough to use the system. About a week ago I installed iGTD. I am surprised how much stuff I had to do that I kept in my head. Now I just dump everything that I needs to get done into iGTD. I am working on keeping my head empty and just referring to iGTD when I have spare time to get something done. I have barley scratched the surface in all the GTD stuff, but it seems to be working well so far.

So Wednesday I will be going to the Hellogoodbye concert. It should be a good concert. I like all three bands that are playing, The Rocket Summer, Boys Like Girls, and Hellogoodbye. The only one that I have seen before is Boys Like Girls. I was going to post some tunes from those bands, but I think I will just point you to their Myspace pages. It’s easier and legal.

The Rocket Summer
Boys Like Girls
Hellogoodbye