I’m usually not one to post music that I’ve recorded, but I was somewhat pleased with how this “jam session” turned out last night. I usually start with some basic rhythm guitar and build from there. All effects and such were done using Garageband. Yes… I did layer my voice and use some (not T-Pain by any means) voice correction, so for any purists out there, I apologize.
Siren Call – It’s obviously not a finished product, but I hope you still enjoy! Read more…
This past weekend (5/16/09), Dashboard Confessional and Augustana (and another band I can’t recall Steeltrain) put on a free concert for all Ohio State students at the LC Pavilion in Columbus. I saw this exact same duo last year at Newport, and once again, they did not disappoint. This wasn’t the best concert I’ve ever seen (Jack Johnson takes the cake on that one – see this set list), but it was pretty awesome nonetheless.
I like to keep track of the set lists of all the concerts I go to, so I can make playlists to relive the musical ecstasy once the concert has gone the way of yesterday. Here’s a link to the iTunes “iMix” playlist I submitted to Apple in case you want to easily pick up any of those missing songs to create your own playlist.
Note: in the iTunes store, the cover songs are NOT available. The songs linked in my iMix are the originals. If anyone can find recordings of any of the covers, please let me know. Thanks!
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In case you don’t follow the Mac portion of my site… you may be interested in this post I made.
“Mac-Lovers Are a Pretentious Bunch… as are All Other Computer Users“
Just this past weekend, I finally went out and bought one of those Nike+iPod sensors for running. I have an iPod Touch 2G, so it only set me back $20. For those of you who don’t know, this incredible little device allows you to keep track of distances you have run, the amount of time it took you to run that distance, along with some other useful stats all from your iPod. Once your workout is finished, simply connect your iPod to your computer, and iTunes will prompt you to head on over to nikeplus.com. With a simple click, you’re taken to the website, and a nice little graph is displayed for you (you’re prompted to create an account the first time) showing your running statistics (see below). Trust me… 1.67 miles was enough for my first run.
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Apparently there are some people out there who think the latest MacHeist bundle is more or less an insult to the developers who allowed their software to be included in the bundle. Their argument is that we (those deciding to participate in the MacHeist bundler) are greatly devaluing the hard work that was put into creating/coding the software.
Initially his does makes sense… I mean come on. Kinemac costs $299 alone! I’m getting it AND 11+ other apps for only $39?! BoinxTV (may be) included, too? That costs $199! Gees, way to show appreciation to programmers… and to think I might be one…
This is hardly the case. Read more…
