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As my family moves to Europe, I’ve been pondering the home entertainment options. Since all of our current A/V equipment with the exception of our Macs is US-only voltage, I left it behind in Portland (where it is hopefully going to be [...]

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Welcome to broadcast two of the Halfass Podcast.

This one’s all about the rock.
Halfass Podcast (copy this link into your Podcasting application)
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Halfass Podcast Two: Short and Halfassed MP3 file 29MB
Podcast Two: Short and Really, Really Halfassed

Introduction (Garageband loop by Halfass) [...]

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The Halfass Family Band, a product of Halfass & Halfass West with a long history and various monikers, plays live at the Yukon Tavern in Portland, OR this Saturday, August 20th. Please call the venue for exact times and dress code:
Yukon Tavern
(503) 235-6352 5819 SE Milwaukie Ave
And as an added bonus to the Halfass [...]

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Kevin Byrd has passed me the Musical Baton and set me up the bomb. So here goes:
Total volume of music on your computer:
120 GB

The last album you purchased was:
Stephen Malkmus | Face The Truth

Song playing right now:
Postively Tenth Street Podcast, “Ain’t No Way” – David Lindley
Five songs you’ve been listening to a lot recently, [...]

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I’ve been rocking a few of the podcasts listed on Fred’s site. I’m finally hooked. I tried the initial few podcasts back when Adam Curry whipped up the first iPod/RSS integration stuff and, quite frankly, I couldn’t listen to podcasts about podcast and hearing people blow their noses and shit. Plus, it filled [...]

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The Halfass Podcast
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Coming to your from the labs at East Lake, be on the lookout for the Halfass Podcast.
The mini show for proof-of-concept is complete and in the hands of a couple discerning listeners. I’m looking for beta testers for first preview release podcast. Hit me up with a comment if you’re interested.

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Reading bump.net today and saw this:
I don’t normally do these things, but I liked this one.
Here are the instructions:Open up the music player on your computer.Set it to play your entire music collection.Hit the “shuffle” command.Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s [...]

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It’s hot by the windowsill
It’s late in the living room
Tomorrow, the car will be warm #

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Reason number 634 that having an iPod rocks. I can shut out all the noise at work.
Reason number 635 that iPod rocks. When one listens to “Filmore Jive” by Pavement (from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain) while working on a document titled “Software Candidate Matrix for Project POC”, the little piece of your soul that [...]

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It finally arrived. My iPod mini, which happens to be the same color as the current Halfass background color, was delivered yesterday morning by FedEx. A birthday gift from my sister, my iPod mini was a bit late in arriving due to overwhelming demand. I named it “Gasoline Rainbow,” plugged it in, [...]

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Metafilter” just sent me to this great Frontline interview with David Crosby during which he touches on the future of the record companies:
Now they’re going in the tank, because the world has changed, and they did not change with it. They bit the poison pill, without realizing it, when they went digital. Once a [...]

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For some reason, probably because it’s fact, I think this song by emo-rockerz Rainier Maria r0×0r. I like the lyrices, especially the “mit Luftwaffe” part:

Expect me like one waits for mail,
all lost dropped and cancelled.
Like foreign post, i leave twice a day
but take a week to get there.

Expect me like [...]

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I have always had musical shit going on in one form or another. I just found a buttload of really old school songs improvised by a bunch of youthfully exuberant (read: likely baked) folks in the late 80s and thought it right that I torture you with the output.

“Chained To The Zlov” 128K MP3 [...]

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I feel like such a good person. I just completed my first iTunes Music Store purchase. It went down flawlessly, and I’m currently enjoying my well-spent $2.00. Audio delights purchased: Kenny Rogers: “Lucille”; New Order: “Ceremony”.
I agonized over that trailing period in the last paragraph for about ten seconds, but I’m [...]

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This page on CNN.com is almost too difficult to believe, but obviously a product of what happens when the news outlets and the record companies are all owned by the same giant corporation. It reminds me of those magazines one gets as an elementary school student in which all the articles are moral tales [...]

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