Last night I recorded our practice onto my laptop. I threw a couple of the recordings online here. They're not our best takes of those songs but they're fun.
A billion months after I put I Don't Know What I'm Doing Remixed online for download you can now buy a $5 homemade CD-R of it in the little Brad Sucks Store. That's the kind of organized businessman I am -- ruthlessly capitalizing on every opportunity at my own lazy pace. I actually was toying with the idea of pressing it up or digitally distributing it, but in the end the task of getting permission from everyone, signing agreements and making sure everyone wasn't angry with me seemed like hell on earth. Oh yeah: and if you're a remixer on the CD, drop me a line and I'll send you out a copy. Thanks again everyone.
I have Guitar Hero on the brain. Here are some videos:
These two dudes rock pretty hard.
Ace of Spades is an awesome song, but that's not Lemmy singing, is it? Sad.
A guy gets hit in the head with the Guitar Hero controller and everyone enjoys it.
The Last Guitar Hero: a docu-drama about the dangers of Guitar Hero addiction.
I want to love Google Notebook but it's not doing it for me. The best part is the little browser plugin. It's awesome and functional but makes me annoyed that the other Google services don't use something like this to make them quicker to use. I can manipulate my Google Notebook without manually logging in, but I can't do that for my Gmail or Google Calendar? Lame. And I'm really kind of lost as to what to use the Google Notebook for. For serious info-hoarders the lack of tagging is hard to overlook. Sure I can cram all my little snippets of text into "notebooks", but how am I any better organized than jamming that stuff into a text file (or a blog if I care about accessing it via the net)? And once we get over 10 or so snippets, it gets rough to find what I want. Very weird choice.
the jerker has a posse - Scott joins the Jerker club. I still love mine. And I think I'm about to buy a Dave for my laptop.
Freetar Hero - a fella from my hometown is working on a free version of Guitar Hero that you can use any music with. I still need to try that game.
The other week I did an interview with Mike from GarageSpin. You can check it out here and here.
Free calls to all landlines and mobile phones within the US and Canada - wow, voice over IP just got extremely interesting.
MC Hammer Blog: May 12: Chapter 11 - MC Hammer (on his blog!) recaps his history.
Red wine may fight deafness - "Moderate consumption of the popular drink, or aspirin, could delay the onset of age-related deafness and reduce hearing loss caused by loud noise." I'm way ahead of you, science.
Just as I was about to ditch del.icio.us for Google bookmarks, del.icio.us beefed up their social networking. So now I want to stay with it rather than move to lonely ol' Google Bookmarks. But Google Bookmarks has some great features, so I'm torn. I wish there was a service that would synchronize all my public data between all these services. They all want my data and I'm more than happy to give it to them. Why can't I do this? This ties into my previous complaint that there's no way to import my Wordpress blog entries into MySpace. A synchronizing service would also help a lot of smaller services get the amount of data they need to develop and compete on a feature level. Ho hum.
Behind the Song: Eye of the Tiger - Jim Peterik's description of writing and recording Eye of the Tiger. A good example of why I hate talking about songwriting: because it's boring and lame.
GypsyMIDI Motion capture MIDI controller - control MIDI via your arms. I can't decide if this is really cool or goofy as hell. Probably depends on the wearer.
How to Build a Guitar Clock - awesome photoset on Flickr of a guy building a clock out of an electric guitar.
If you're looking for Brad Sucks tabs, liam and I have cooked up a few over here in the forums.
If you're a blogger and a Firefox user, Performancing for Firefox is worth checking out. It's a nice little blogging extension. You hit F8 in Firefox when you're on a page and it splits the screen into the page you're viewing and a blog editor. So far I'm impressed with it and I've stayed with it for longer than any other blogging tool (three posts now!) We'll see.
It was Google Press Day yesterday. I'm looking forward to Google Notebook launching next week as I don't have time develop cluebacca. I've been trying other notebook solutions (SEO Note, Evernote) to replace Keynote but they don't behave the way I want them to. And the only simple web-based note app I've found is Simpy which is dead slow most of the time. I got the new Google Desktop with "gadgets" (aka widgets) and quickly took a stab at writing a gadget, which is a little widget you can float around your desktop or dock to your Google sidebar. As much as I envy the sexiness of Macs, I'm still unclear on how these things are supposed to be useful in any way. How many floating clocks and plants does a person need?
Keith Richards' brain is OK - probably one of my favorite headlines. In fact I would like status reports on the brains of all the Rolling Stones members.
Evolution of Dance - awesome six minute sketch by Judson Laipply going through the history of dance.