Now what?

A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.

Music Binge

I've been on an absolute music binge the last several days. It started with a purge of a bunch of stuff off of my iPod, and the new stuff keeps coming. I really am a music addict. Here's today's special: Field Music - Tone of Town For fans of indie rock, Decemberists, Tapes 'n ...

Arcade Fire, etc.

The Arcade Fire's new album, Neon Bible comes out in March. There are some leaked tracks out there already. You can hear the first single, Black Mirror, and snippets from the album by navigating the site, http://www.neonbible.com, which is delightfully odd. I can't wait to hear the whole thing. Plus ...

The Best Music of 2006

Best Albums of the Year: 1) Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat 2) Anathallo - Floating World 3) Deerhoof - The Runners Four 4) Josh Ritter - Animal Years 5) Pick any one of my honorable mentions below and put it here. There was one standout here, Jenny Lewis, but otherwise, ...

A musical post

Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon - Good indie rock. Sort of a Pavement kind of vibe. For fans of Wolf Parade, Pavement, Built to Spill Cracker - Greenland Finally, a new Cracker album that I can get behind. I just didn't care for Forever, and Countrysides, their cover album of ...

Urge, etc.

MTV/Microsoft's new Urge service looks interesting. I must admit that for me, a subscription music service makes perfect sense. I go through so much music that keeping a library of it it's really that important anymore. I need a way to legally pay for everything that I listen to. If ...

Music Time

For some reason I'm not getting last week as an option from my last.fm page right now, so here's the week before to clue you into my hotlist right now: As you can see, I really love Jenny Lewis's solo album, Rabbit Fur Coat. It's a great alt.country type record. She just ...

A musical test…

Just testing out a new feature.... Winston's Recently Played Tracks:

New iPod?

Now rumored to be called the iPod AV. These rumors keep coming up and the fakes keep coming too. Is this the real thing? Man I hope so: Image 1 Image 2

Anathallo

My music discovery for this week: Anathallo. Heard them on the Paste Culture Club Podcast. Wow.. what a gorgeous song. Click on the link to download the podcast and then you can skip right to that section of the show via the chapters menu in iTunes. They're also one of those ...

Music Post

OK, my last post was kind of a downer, but here's some good news, Built to Spill have a new album coming out in April, and here is a track from the album. Their last album was really a letdown, though Doug Martsch did come out with an amazing acoustic bluesy ...

May 27th 2010
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Apple Passes Microsoft

The New York Times posted a graph showing the stock price of Apple and Microsoft over the last 20 years. It was announced a couple of days ago that Apple's market capitalization put it ahead of Microsoft, making it America's largest tech company. I've been an Apple fan since our Elementary school ...
May 5th 2010
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The single best month for music….ever?

There's a lot of good music out this month, there's more good stuff coming out this month than usually comes out in a year. They say that in economic downturns, creativity goes up. Maybe that's what's going on, regardless... I'm listening to all of this stuff: I didn't count MGMT's new ...
April 18th 2010
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The iPad After 2 Weeks

So, it's been couple of weeks, and I've gotten used to using the iPad, and I'm addict to it. I purposely set out to only uses my iPad for home tasks when possible for the first few days. After the first couple of days of that, I don't reach for my ...
April 6th 2010
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The iPad After a Few Days

My impressions of the iPad after a couple of days of using it. First off, this thing is a little heavier than it should be. I wouldn't mind having just one battery, with the ability to add on our snap in the additional battery. I think the limitation of only having ...
February 23rd 2010
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Ron Paul 2012?

I think that the neoconservative pundits underestimated the Ron Paul Revolution's staying power. Over the weekend, while I was working at a retreat, I walked in front of a tv screen and was pleasantly surprised to see that Dr. Paul won the CPAC straw poll. Immediately, the neocons in the Hannity and ...