Tonight: Steeldogs arena football game, free tickets scored at work. Tomorrow: Free MySpace Secret Show, Patton Oswalt at The Bottletree Cafe Next Thursday: Free Joshua James(never heard of him, but he messaged/friend requested me on VIRB and mentioned his free...

Loosely inspired by. I am having a hard time deciding between two songs that are both vying for the title of "jay's official musical guilty pleasure of summer '07". One is the new track from everyone's favorite boy-band-that's-not-really-a-boy-band, Maroon 5....

Pearls before Breakfast I linked the above article on the linkroll during the weekend, but there was a wonderful quote from lower down in the article that I wanted to point out. The article, for those who do not wish...

I decided to embed the vids this time around rather than linking. If this causes any problems (slow loading or the annoying tendency of some videos to not play sound when too many are open at once) let me know....

Audacity is a small, open-source, freeware sound editing and recording program available for Windows, OSX, and Linux. It can be used for editing existing audio files or for simple track-by-track multi track recording. I've used it before to edit or...

Around this time every year publications begin to publish their "Best of $CURRENTYEAR" lists, each jostling for position as the definitive list of its kind. I have already started to see a few such lists out on the blogosphere, and...

The Death Cab/Ted Leo show on Thursday night was really, really great. Ted rocked significant portions of my face off and Death Cab made my heart swell and pound. I ended up with two extra tickets due to Josh dropping...

The first song is "Paranoid Android" An astute reader pointed out that the first song is Airbag. Paranoid Android (hear original here) is actually the second song (it's been a while since I listened to OK Computer and I guess...

I feel like I have done too many of these type of posts lately rather than my observational or day-in-the-life type posts, but there hasn't been that much going on in my life lately. So, this is all I am...

Dustin Rowles at Pajiba! (tagline: Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People) recently wrote up a wonderful little post about the use of music in movies, as well as a tangent about the death of the mix-tape, called "Damn, It Feels Good...