Let’s get a couple of things out of the way as you are grooving to this strange and wonderful song. Moribund = Stagnant and without vitality or growth Burgermeister = Town councilor, ie. Mayor This song is not, in fact about this guy: Nor this guy: But that looks like one hell of a burger. […]
Louis Fucking Armstrong. The Godfather of Death Metal. Would you believe this song was recorded in the 1940s? And that the original was released on a 78rpm slate record from 1932? Believe it, or may hornets infest your toilet tank, and explode out of it with a mighty rage when you are bleary-eyed and trying […]
Okay, so I’ve listened to some of that thar Supersister I bought. And before I progress… that’s a slight pun there… I’ll emphatically state that this is NOT the prefabricated British pop girl group from a couple years ago. No, this is Robotman’s blog, dawgonnit, and I’m a gonna blabber on about obscure progressive rock […]
dBpowerAmp is a great program. It is actually a suite of applications with different features, and the ones I use the most are the music converter and the CD ripping program. Actually, I have used the CD ripping program a lot in the past and I will use it a lot in the future because […]
Just like in Windows… an update can fuck up your favourite programs. I’ve blabbed before about how my favourite CD ripping program (Grip) no longer works, and now I’d like to bitch about how the replacement I found (Ripper X) doesn’t do as good a job as it should. Let’s start with mp3 tags. I […]
Praise be to Uncle Furry, for he hath bestowed upon me a 10 year old Thinkpad with which to bask in the glory of Windows 98 SE! Hosanna! I had originally considered reinstalling one of the virtual Windows XP setups I run as a virtual OS inside Linux. As you are probably tired of hearing, […]
What a delightful little ditty! This is about as experimental and “avant-garde” as this duo of gay dudes ever got. And I’ve never actually written “avant-garde” before. I had to look it up. And now I’ve gone and used it twice in quick succession. Can you dance to this? Would you want to? I’m not […]
More 80s! And… lord help us all… KENNY FUCKING G!!!!! So… I know what you’re thinking. How does that spindly little greasy-haired bastard have anything to do with good music? I’m thinking the same thing too. But the sax solo in this song was done by a then relatively unknown Kenny G. Did you know […]
Just a dude and a piano. This pic came up for a Google image search of “dude” and “piano”. So here it is. I’ve become quite fond of Mr. Hammill’s solo music, and I even like (most) of his 80s stuff. Some of it is bland 80s pop, but at least he didn’t have entirely […]
FUCK. This is one exciting blog I maintain here, isn’t it? I mean, where else on the vast interwebs can you go to read what some random dipshit has to say about computers, old music and his perverted sexual interest in female androids? Nowheres, that’s wheres. If you want a gateway to the new “Information […]
Hoe-kay. Ubuntu comes with a nifty little screenshot application. You just hit the “print” key (your keyboard has one, it probably says “Prt Scr” over “SysRq”) and voila, a nifty little application window comes up and asks you where you’d like to save the screenshot and what you’d like to call it. Nifty is one […]
Here’s a long and uninteresting story. Kind of like everything else on this blog. Except some of this drivel is mercifully short. Anyway, I am a fan of the 1996 game Civilization II. I play it a lot. It wastes a lot of my time, actually. I’ve spent hours playing it when I should have […]
Well, here I go buying CDs again. You know, I’ve still never ever bought mp3s? I always get the feeling that if I do I’ll somehow get screwed over when I can’t go and grab the original physical CD to re-rip the music from later. What the fuck am I talking about… I’ve bought hours […]
There are many versions of this song available. There is one studio version from this album: Which has a great album cover. Sadly, Deep Purple album covers can often suck balls, so enjoy this one while you can. The version recorded on the album isn’t anywhere as near as good as some of the live […]
So, I went yesterday from reading about the worst movie ever made to the best comic book ever made. I am of course, talking about “Sexdroids in Space”. Kidding. That’s just my personal favourite. No, I mean the Alan Moore written masterpiece “Watchmen”. I had heard people say it was good, etc, and so on, […]
So, here’s 6 guys from England once again making me feel like I don’t know anything about music and I can’t play any instruments properly. Sigh. These guys were so fucking good at composition and playing that it’s scary. And this song too is kind of spooky. Not really. But the only reason I’m talking […]
Bubblegum pop. By a 90s band, right here where I live in Calgary. This was actually a fairly big radio hit in Canada. I bought the album, because, back then, two great songs from a band would make me buy the album. The other great song from these guys is called “Heavy”. Oh, why the […]
Say it ain’t so! I mean, for years, the joke has been that Second Life is full of furries… and here we have a fine full featured friendly furry who’s never even HEARD of it. This must change. Here is the link to Second Life. And here are some screenshots from Second Life: Okay, so […]
Look at him! He’s riding the turtle! Actually, it’s a tortoise. But who cares! Look at him! And like all slow rides, this ride gets you there eventually. If you’ve been paying attention to this blog… and honestly, I don’t know who the fuck in their right mind would, I mean come on. Even I […]
Are you a Canadian? Are you a member of “Generation X”? Remember all that “Generation X” ballyhoo? Piffle. But myself being a man of 22 in the year 1996, I became quite fond of a certain number of songs which were popular at the time. The Old MuchMusic television station was the source of a […]
Back when I was (by choice) unemployed (for 13 months and spending all my savings), I had the BEST year of my life. Not working played a huge part in that. Sigh. Drifting back on topic, from Summer 2006 to Summer 2007 I got into some fine progressive rock thanks to the amazing site Prog […]
It’s not often that a rap song makes it into the ranks of my favourite songs. Public Enemy and N.W.A. have some in there, but mostly my favourite songs are done by guys like this: But this song is great. Check out the actual video too, if you want to see some Wizard of Oz […]
Ah, the Hip. Canadian. Contains two guys named Gord. How could they not be Canadian? I say I don’t give a fuck about hockey, and you’ve never saw someone say THAT before. But that’s a different Trag song. I can call these guys “The Hip” and “Trag” because they are so familiar. Unfortunately, that’s because […]
If you didn’t know it already, DRM stands for Digital Restrictions Management. Criminal cartels like the RIAA and their greedy asshole cronies will tell you it stands for Digital Rights Management, but remember: corporations want to take your rights away from you so they can have them for themselves. But that’s a separate rant. Now […]
Well, I tested CivII on my other computer. Lasted, well, up to a few minutes ago. My god, I can waste SO MUCH time with that game. It’s like crack. Crack that lasts more than 12 minutes, but crack nonetheless. So needless to say, I only have time to drink some tea, read some news […]
I’ve got everything reinstalled now and aside from virtual Windows being slower, everything is better or the same as how I had it before. My grammar sucks but that is because I’m tired. So sue me. I actually spent a bit more time setting up Windows than I would have liked. Reason? Apparently Windows XP […]