What Mainstream Publishers Don’t Want You to Know About Door-to-Door Magazine Sales – News – Houston Press – Houston Press Sad, sad article. And unfortunately, one of the scummy fuckers in it works out of my hometown, Pilot Point, Texas (tags: expose magazines publishing)
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Currently listening: 07/20/08
The Kinks — The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society The Clash — London Calling (25th Anniversary Edition) Emmylou Harris — Wrecking Ball Nine Inch Nails — The Fragile Various Artists — My Blueberry Nights OST
What I'm doing right now…
…well, I don’t want to say just yet. But it’s pretty cool. It’s a new gig. I actually have a title this time that means something. And you may be seeing more of me than usual….
links for 2008-07-19
Delia Derbyshire Early Dance track AMAZING. Sounds like any kind of glitch/IDM stuff you’d hear right now. (tags: music)
Feist on Sesame Street
This makes Mr. Grumpy Dude happy. Shut up.
Cassandra Wilson – Harvest Moon
Cassandra Wilson doing my second favorite Neil Young song (after “Needle And The Damage Done”). Incredibly beautiful and simple. This is from the soundtrack to the Wong Kar-Wei film My Blueberry Nights.
Technical Question: TPS to MySQL
I need to import an assload of data from old TopSpeed (TPS) database tables into MySQL. I don’t have access to the original app, just the database tables. I’m on a Mac, but can use Unix tools and Windows as last resort. Anybody know an easy way to do this? It’s time-dependent.
Watchmen trailer — oh my my, oh hell yes
Watchmen trailer is online. And I’m using a steel baseball bat to beat down my hard on.
links for 2008-07-17
Damn Data ¦ Jah Wobble and the Chinese Mask Changers | Cabinet of Wonders via Klint; must look at this when I’m not desperately hungry (tags: music)
Yes, Joss Whedon, I have bought your Internet TV thingy.
I now have $1.04 in my iTunes account, thanks to Joss Whedon. I hope your hard work is worth $3.99 of my hard-earned (by living for 30 years so my parents would give me an iTunes gift card for my birthday) money, Mr. Whedon. (I’m kidding. It’s totally worth $3.99, even if it’s only a […]