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I moved things.

If anyone is still subscribed to this, I moved the site to use wordpress and a new URL. It's now http://lee.rockingtiger.com The RSS is http://lee.rockingtiger.com/feed/

Happy New Year!

I had some DNS problems and thought my page views are getting too high so I stoped writing anything here. But those days are over. Happy new year!

Cranksgiving 2006

I crashed. I keep listening to In the drugs by Low. Yea Vicodin.

I Just Cut A New Record With My Band

Plans are to tour with The Beatles sometime in 2007

Good Coverage Of Banksy

This gal Michelle Saturn on Flickr got some good photos of the Banksy exhibit in LA.

Brad Will, A Close Friend of Mine Was Murdered By The Mexican Government

The day before Brad boarded a plane from New York to Mexico we sat in a room together preparing his laptop computer for travel. He was enthuiastic about covering this struggle of a people in a desperate situation, which he said needed coverage because "the millitary police are camped outside of town."

Brad was one of the first friends I met when I moved to New York in the spring of 2001. I discovered the Indymedia center on 29th street and showed up for a meeting. Brad was there whenever I was. He showed me around Indymedia and around the city. He was part of exactly what I was looking for. A community outside of society that created their own. Squatters, infoshops, bikes, zines, newspapers, radio stations, documentaries, bands, artists. He lived his commitment every moment I was with him. I didn't understand it at first but the more I lived with him, the more it became real. Shortly after the introduction to his world, I knew I couldn't settle for anything less.

He gave me the courage to stand in the front lines of my first street protest. He gave me the courage to get on a bike and ride through city streets celebrating nothing more than the fact that we can do it. He showed me the gardens built from nothing on the Lower East Side.

I'll miss you forever. You were too young. The last time I saw you I could tell you had grown into a person truly original and your life was just beginning.

Here's the back story, which I'd rather not get into cause it's hard enough writing this.

12th Annual Halloween Alleycat

OMG. I raced through manhattan and brooklyn in the famous halloween alleycat. Didn't do so bad, though the results will probably be late. They didn't even do prizes at the after party. The race was amazing. I kept up with the second pack off the start and despite some getting lost, dropping others and minor bonking we finished. Heidi won first gal and Ken took 1st place overall.

Personal Kyoto Protocol Goal Meter

Enter your ConEd account number and this graph will tell you how you measure up to others in your area. After 12 months of data it'll tell you how close you came to what you would be required to consume with the Kyoto Protocol. Yea! Use less power! Kill yr idols!

P.S. Here's mine. No idea what kind of parties I was having in the apartment in May.

Keeping Multiple iTunes Libraries

So now that iTunes almost does everything I would like, I'm using it. Dark Side? Maybe but as long as I can keep using ogg/vorbis I'm happy. Here's the current challenge. How can I keep multiple iTunes libraries for different locations? The goal is to take my laptop with me and never have a busted link in iTunes since the bulk of my 50 gig music collection is on a file server at home.

I don't have a solution yet but I do know that there is only one file responsible for keeping the whole index in order. By default it lives in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml. Since it's XML, it would be possible to do some text parsing and make slight changes to the library and have multiple databases. Changing locations would be as simple as moving a file and replacing it with another. Of course the Mac wankers would want some fancy GUI with a plastic button that was labled "change library". Maybe some day but for now I'll keep you posted on the shell script I hack together.

Not Since Aphex Twin's Windowlicker

Has there been a video as funny in it's objectification of ass and titties. Dougal Wilson has taken Benny Benassi's "classic foam party club anthem", not my words, and set it to slippery bitches with power tools! Did I just say slippery bitches? Holy shit. That's the only way I can describe his music video.