I would like to give monodrone a ubiquitous thumbs up for this post. I’m bummed that eMusic unnecessarily added content that can be found at any of the bigger players on the internet.
I don’t download *classics* from eMusic. Like my favourite books, where library borrows won’t do, I want a hard copy of those. eMusic is for trying out new things, finding bands through similar artists, and is, for me, the online equivalent of the record store listening booth. I also joined (and rejoined and rejoined) for similar reasons monodrone did:
A lot of the reason I was part of eMusic in the first place was as sort of a charity for the artists and indie labels that help to bring great music to me. I have always been willing to give some money for that, even though I am web-savvy and can easily acquire music for free.
45 cents a song from 30 cents (I had the smaller 50 for $14.99 plan) is quite the jump. So, is it back to used CDs and feeling guilty that the artists never see that cash? I have a hard time paying almost 50cents a track, when some tracks were never meant to be a standalone thing (i.e. Ryan Adam’s Heartbreaker track “Ryan Adams Argument With David Rawlings About Morrissey”). And I have an equally hard time not paying for music at all, unless the band offers it up as a promotional spread-the-word tool.
Live shows and buying merch when I can afford to will have to remedy. Speaking of which… I need to find a belt for my Sadies cowboy bling. T-shirts wear out or get permanently borrowed by siblings, but a giant belt buckle is forever.
Title credit: Waylon Jennings, Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
Trying to get my apartment back to livable conditions after getting slammed with work for all of May and June (And April, March, Feb, etc) and sorting through shoe boxes. It’s amazing what fits in those little buggers. 4×6s from high school parties, open mics, etc. Mini discs (!) from the early 2000s. Mix tapes from ex-boyfriends. All the miniDV tape I shot while I was in undergrad. Some iZone Polaroids from 2004. More 4×6s — this time college friends. Photographs of the rooming house I lived in for a month. Photographs of my sister’s apartment on Booth street — I loved that place – high ceilings, a backyard, a computer room where I could crash when I came to visit.
Placeholder balloons until I have time to sort & edit the photographs from the weekend.
And I have three folders of photographs to sort… but another two hours left of design drudgery. At least it’s rainy out and my neglected cameras can’t send me guilt-vibes.
Title credit: some lame pop country song playin on my folks radio in Campbellford (Hell bent for Buffalo?)
Reminds me, I’ve gotta return some digital video discs before I head ootta town. And blast through three books before I start my infinite summer dot org.
Oh great… now every hipster with a 35mm is gonna be gumming up the works at Dwayne’s.
{Photojojo » Photojojo’s Guide to Kodachrome}
Hey Everybody! Don’t use Kodachrome – trust me, you will hate it. I’ve heard they are discontinuing flash memory… QUICK! Stock up on SD cards or CF cards or whatever your expensive digi-cam uses and get out there and take some JPEGs! or RAWs! Before they are gone!
Unfortunately, when it is in the red for too long, and there is only one lab that will process it in the continental United States, it gets cut from the budget.
A friend asked me why Kodachrome, and I realized that seems to be the most popular question posed to anyone using expired or expiring processes. So I have been thinking about it, and will write more of my thoughts on my top secret thesis blog. More when I reach some kinda conclusion.
