Some phenomenal hindsight of grunge, alternative rock, and how it became the very thing it stood against. I remember this year vividly. I was 15, at the height of my angst, and this caused me not only to re-live the period but it also provided a unique subtext I was completely oblivious to. On the radio, Goo Goo Dolls’ “Name” bled into Tonic’s “If You Could Only See” into Dishwalla’s “Counting Blue Cars” into The Verve Pipe’s “The Freshmen” into Matchbox Twenty’s “Push” in a watery bouillabaisse of quiet-loud-quiet song structures and sad-bro earnestness. This has to be the most…
>Digital Nexus
>I’ve been needing to revamp the whole computer situation, and I think I’ve finally got it all in hand for the main PC: WinXP, WinXP64 on my SATA 3G RAID Striping HDs, and VISTA64 on my single SATA 3G. I’ve got to rebuild the VISTA boot menu to include the older choices, but that’s just a matter of indicating which partition they’re on. The motherboard itself is acting wanky in the main machine. I bought an ASUS Crosshair so I could do dual 16x SLI and it appears to be having some sort of short related to the Clear BIOS…
>Before there were motion pictures…
>Before there were motion pictures – there were Magic Lantern slides (PDF)