I got back to my dad's this morning. This weekend was pretty awesome. I spent Friday with Tully, Mason and Nikki before we went to Pip's bonfire which I won't talk about in detail in this blog. Shenanigans were then to follow at Richard's that night and with Simone on Saturday and Sunday. My brother Josh's birthday was on Sunday 25 May. That was fun.

I've been listening to a lot of new music including: Grizzly Bear, Autolux, Santogold, Crystal Castles, Be Your Own Pet, Los Campesinos!, Deerhunter, Death Cab For Cutie (Narrow Stairs), Pendulum (In Silico), Foals, NIN (the Slip), MSI (If). I just can't stop listening to music lately. I'm pretty much addicted. I hope I don't go deaf from listening to my iPod so loud. Not to mention playing live music with friends and turning up my stereo quite loud... and concerts. I think that I'm going to go to a few concerts this year. I'm going to see NIN with Deerhunter in Oakland around September, I think. I'd like to see Radiohead but it's around $100 a ticket. I hope that Autolux plays CA this summer, too. Also, just to mention, I am going to listen to the first Foxboro Hottubs album. I wasn't going to, but everyone is talking about it so, why not? And I'm going to listen to the new Dresden Dolls album this weekend as well.

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I need to read about 50 more pages of Malcolm X for my English class. I should start on that. I'm going to watch V for Vendetta with Simone tonight and then go in my hot tub. I still haven't seen that movie. I guess I just wasn't into movies so much at the time.

Best song to wake up to.

BATTLE OF THE BANDS!

I am definitely ready.
I made 50 sandwiches and got all the equipment.
I know all my parts.
This is going to be awesome.

Anyone who has a MySpace or other social networking profile, post a bulletin about Wednesday at lunch tonight. That means Leah and Nick! Bulletins!!!

Battle of the Bands

I hope that everything goes okay. I have all of the necessary musical instruments ready. My dad is going to bring them and help set up a little before 12:00. I have enough bread and other supplies for about 50 half sandwiches. I might as well learn Tainted Love now. If you are reading this Nick, make sandwiches! And don't forget the cupcakes Leah! And everyone else make sandwiches and snacks, too! Bahhhhhhh!

Yes!!!

I have an A in Bellsey! 93%!!!

Yesterday

Was great. Great times with Tully and Mason. Great time at the football game and after with Simone.

Mozilla just released Firefox 3.0 RC

I guess that Firefox 3.0 RC was just released. I downloaded it and it seems basically the same. I'm sure they have fixed bugs. I might post again to give an opinion. I can't wait for the official 3.0 release. I think that it's June 2008. Or July?

New Autolux single

I have been a huge fan of Autolux since I saw them with NIN in winter 2006. I listened to their first album, Future Perfect, everyday in freshman year for awhile. Now their new single was just released for free digital download or pay what you want (like In Rainbows) [link]. The single is called "Audience No. 2" and I like it a lot. My favorite line is:

i have always been your vegetable
and you my Swedenborg
i would drop myself through black holes
to end up at your door

For some reason I really like that part. It's free so everyone should download it.

Pendulum - In Silico

I just got the new Pendulum album In Silico which came out yesterday. First, I have to say that I was obsessed with their first album, Hold Your Colour (2005), which got me interested in drum and bass music for the first time. If I were to rate Hold Your Colour I would give it 5/5. That said, the new album is a very good album. I haven't listened to it enough to really get into it and the sound isn't as new to me as Hold Your Colour's was so it is not as interesting. However, it is still Pendulum and Pendulum remain my all-time favorite drum and bass group. I am not a drum and bass noob, I listen to Andy C, Subwave, DJ Fresh, Goldie and LTJ Bukem and all that, I just really enjoy Pendulum. I can hear that the drums and synths that are used on this album are in the same style as their last (sometimes beats sound exactly like beats from their previous album). Overall, it is a great album and everyone should at least check out some tracks.

I made a new email

I have a new email that I will be giving to people from now on. I think that mr.stacysunshine@gmail.com is too long so I made a shorter one that is easier to remember.

New email: yousheep@gmail.com

I will still use my old email, but if you want you can just email the new one.

haircut

I got a haircut. I mostly cut it on the sides. It looks a little bit like Amon Göth because I use gel. I like it.

I just got the new NIN album at home

I decided to stick with the high-quality M4A because I'm not a FLAC guy and the 24/96 audio wouldn't make a difference with my audio equipment. And it's also 1.2gb. So, I will definitely be listening to this over and over for the next month or so. I also enjoyed the included artwork (which I actually saw earlier today). It is interesting to see how they each represent the corresponding song. I will post links to the artwork below. To download the album go to www.nin.com.

999,999
1,000,000
Letting You
Discipline
Echoplex
Head Down
Light In The Sky
Corona Radiata
The Four Of Us Are Dying
Demon Seed
Cover Art

__The artwork for 1,000,000 isn't official. For some reason, when I finished the torrent, the artwork for 1,000,000 wouldn't display and it looked like it didn't fully download. So, I downloaded the torrent again with just that jpeg and it still didn't work. I then noticed that the file was around 4mb while the others were just a few kb so I figured something was up with the original torrent. To get this image I had to screenshot the pfd and take it into Photoshop. That is why it is slightly smaller and probably worse quality than the others.

New Nine Inch Nails album - The Slip

Nine Inch Nails just released their new album for free download on their website. The album has ten songs, two of which have been previously released. I couldn't download the album yet because I am at school and forgot my flash drive but I am streaming it from Trent Reznor's ilike and it sounds awesome. I think that it is tied in with the Year Zero story but I don't have time to figure that out right now. This album is %100 FREE. It isn't Radiohead's "pay what you want" or Ghosts I-IV torrent status it is completely free. Go to the website, enter your email, enter the email of three friends to send the album link to and then it is free to download. It is available in mp3, FLAC, lossless M4A, and better than CD quality WAVE format. Everybody download this. It will be released physically in stores around July 2008.

The Wackness

I just saw a trailer for a new movie starring Josh Peck [link]. The movie looks very modern and trendy and awesome. I will definitely see it. Josh Peck looks in between his Drake & Josh self and his YouTube self. I also saw Ben Kingsly's name so go figure.

ANOTHER NIN SINGLE

Nine Inch Nails released ANOTHER single for free download. The single is available on Trent Reznor's ilike music app on Facebook [[link]. I'm not sure if the single will get radioplay like with Discipline. The singles are obviously linked and part of a new album. The artwork included with the singles were very similar and there was also an included comment: Go to www.nin.com May 5. I will be going to www.nin.com May 5.

After

just listening to the new MSI album, I think it's pretty good. That song Get It Up really got on my nerves. It wasn't just the lyrics, I really didn't like it. besides for that Pay For It was definitely my favorite song. Just download that song if you don't get the album. Never Wanted To Dance, Mastermind, and On It were also good.

Mindless Self Indulgence - If

I just got the new MSI album. One thing that I realized is that they are on The End Records now. Yes, that is the same label as all those avant-garde bands from the bay area like Sleepytime Gorilla, Stolen Babies and Estradasphere. I guess The End also has Scandinavian black metal because they have also signed Winds and used to have bands like Darkthrone, Enslaved and Star of Ash (Ihriel's band; wife of Emperor's guitarist). For some reason, I was really anticipating the album and I can't tell you that it is awesome because I haven't listened to the whole thing yet. But so far it hasn't disappointed me.

Finally!

I finally got Starcraft to work on Vista. It was hard and it still doesn't work very good, but it does work.