Rough Draft

Everynight's Another Story

Dana and I went to the Grog Shop to see American Hi-Fi, The Early November, Fall Out Boy, and Trouble Is. This was the first time either of us had been to the Grog Shop. It's a nice little venue and we were within the first 3 rows of people the entire time. All 4 bands were quite good. I had heard at least some songs by all of them except Trouble Is. I'll definitely be looking for some of their mp3s now though. The crowd was pretty tame, there was some crowd surfing during The Early November's set, including band members jumping into the crowd, which is always fun. This was their last show of the tour and the other bands came on stage during their set and toilet papered them which was pretty amusing. American Hi-Fi played a good set, and took requests after they played through their set. All in all it was quite an enjoyable evening.

The Quiet American

Amusingly, last night after watching the Happy Cake episode of Sealab I read about The Quiet American starring Michael Caine in both Erik's and Jeff's blogs. I hadn't heard of it but I watched the trailer and it looks pretty good, so Dana and I are going to go see it on Wednesday at the Centrum in Coventry.

Concerts

I'm posting this list of concerts that I'd like to go to in the next month or so mainly for my own reference because there are so many of them, but anyone reading this that wants to go to one or more of the shows should let me know. If you haven't heard of the bands, I have mp3s of them.

The Movielife, One Line Drawing, Static Lullaby, Senses Fail (?), Vendetta Red (?)
Agora
Friday March 21
Note: I'm pretty sure Vendetta Red is playing and not Senses Fail, so I'm not too interested in this show anymore.

The Ataris, Juliana Theory, Further Seems Forever
Agora
Wed Mar 26
Note: This is the first date for the Ataris tour, should be an excellent show. I saw Juliana Theory with Something Corporate and they were ok live. I saw Further Seems Forever with New Found Glory and they were really good.

American Hi-Fi, Fall Out Boy, Early November, Trouble Is
Grog Shop
Fri Mar 28
Note: I'm definitely going to this show because I've never been to the Grog Shop. American Hi-Fi should be fun. The Art of Losing is a catchy song and it was played during Malcolm in the Middle last night. I have a few mp3s of Fall Out Boy and they sound pretty good and Early November is decent too. I don't know anything about Trouble Is.

Taking Back Sunday, From Autumn to Ashes, Recover, Somehow Hollow
Agora
Wed April 2
Note: I'd really like to see Taking Back Sunday. Their songs are very strong lyrically and you can feel their emotion just listening to their album, so I'm sure they'll be amazing live.

Ben Folds, Tegan and Sara
Severance Hall
Wed April 16
Note: For $8, I have to go to this. Also Sarah says Tegan and Sara are good.

Allister, Fall Out Boy, Don't Look Down
Agora Ballroom
Thurs April 17
Note: I'm definitely going to this show, the Agora Ballroom is a nice small venue. Sarah and I had a blast when Allister played there after the Finch show a few weeks ago.

New Found Glory, Good Charlotte, Less Than Jake
Tower City Amphitheater
Friday April 28
Note: NFG, probably my favorite "punk" band.

Woohoo!

"Congratulations, you have been selected to receive a scholarship to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, May 18-23, 2003 in San Jose, CA!" I had a blast last year and can't wait to go again. Thankfully this year its well after school is done, so I won't miss the first 2 days because of finals like I did last year. Also, I wish I had had time to work on Recent Tunes or something else for the Student Apple Design Award.

QTSS

I set up QuickTime Streaming Server on my machien today. The address is http://kenshin.cwru.edu:8000/iTunes. Setup was simple and I found this AppleScript that generates a streaming playlist from an iTunes playlist. Right now it's just cycling through the 36 songs I have rated 5/5 stars. The main reason I decidd to do this was I accidently left teh AC Adapter and FireWire cable for my iPod at my Uncle's in Maryand. So normally, I'd just connect my iPod to the microphone input on the iMac here at home to play music, but now that the iPod's battery is dead I figured it was a good time to try messing with QTSS. Let me know in the comments if you can successfully play the stream or if you have any problems.

Lyric Search

Now you can click on a song title of the Current Tune or any song in the Recent Tunes list and it will search songmeanings.net for the lyrics.

Music Video Update 1

Added 2 Senses Fail and a Beautiful Mistake video to the list.

Music Video Comments

This post is for comments about my music video collection.

Recent Tunes Comments

This post is for comments about the songs in my Recent Tunes list.

DVDs

I've added a list of most of my DVDs here. I'm linking to this post from the DVD page, so comments about my DVDs, recommendations, etc can go in the comments of this post.

Media Collections

I added a list of the music videos I have on my computer. I still need to add the anime music videos I have and there's more videos I have burned to CD, but the CDs are at home right now. Soon I'll be adding lists of my MP3s, DVDs, and CDs.

Racquetball and Skating

Played racquetball for a few hours yesterday. Angie and I beat Tim and Pfil 2 out of 4 games. Then I played Tim twice and he kicked my ass. We did get quite a few really good volleys going though. Pfil and I lost to Angie and Han 16-14, we had a good comeback though after it took us forever to get our first point.

After racquetball we went ice skating at this place on Mayfield. The rink was rented out by Housing and Residence Life, so we got to skate for free. This was the first time I've been skating since I was 8, and it actually ended up being a lot easier than I thought it would be. Surprisingly, I never fell and even did a little backwards skating. Jacob learned how to do a hockey stop, which I pretty impressive. I tried a few times, but couldn't really get it down. It was a lot of fun and they played several good songs while we were there including Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (Good Charlotte), I'm Still Here (John Rzeznik), and My Friends Over You (New Found Glory).