From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #505 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, February 16 2008 Volume 16 : Number 505 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Well, fuck. [Rex ] Re: Well, fuck. [lep ] Trucktober! [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Rev. Huck vs. Classic rock, circa 1976 ["kevin studyvin" ] RE: Rev. Huck vs. Classic rock, circa 1976 [Michael Sweeney ] 911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911 9119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119 1191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191 19119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119 [] remembering mis-heard lyrics from my youth [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: remembering mis-heard lyrics from my youth ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Well, fuck. [Christopher Gross ] Re: What is it with jazz? [Capuchin ] Re: Near future reap (tech) [Christopher Gross ] Re: Well, fuck. [lep ] Re: remembering mis-heard lyrics from my youth [Rex ] movie talk [lep ] Re: Video games [Marcy Tanter ] Re: Well, fuck. [Rex ] Re: movie talk [Capuchin ] Re: movie talk ["Laura Golias" ] Re: remembering mis-heard lyrics from my youth [2fs ] Re: Well, fuck. [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:58:23 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Well, fuck. Yessir, I think it's dead and it ain't coming back. That 500GB external hard drive, I mean. So now here's the thing: iTunes still has my whole library listed on it. So, in addition to sort of mocking me, that provides a pretty good roadmap of everything I've added since my last backup in November. And I know how to replace most of it (it's the fucking re-labeling that's gonna goddamn suck, but anyway). So this turns into an iTunes question... I want to make sure I save a copy of my iTunes library in a comprehensible form before I start repopulating it. How the hell do I do that? The file that gets generated when I select "export library" is, quite frankly, complete bullshit. What am I missing (bearing in mind that printing it out would be pretty much unethical, as it consists of close to 75,000 songs)? Is there any way to just create a separate "new" library without overwriting the old one? Sortability is going to be pretty essential to my being able to reconstruct this. Fanks, kids. Rex, calm as he can be ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:57:56 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Well, fuck. Rex says: > The file that gets generated when I select > "export library" is, quite frankly, complete bullshit. would you give more details on this statement? i.e. define "bullshit", at least a bit. i haven't used itunes for awhile, but when i was using it for my father's ipod, i thought it generated a tab-delimited file which is suitable for import into excel, and other reasonable programs. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:27:12 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Trucktober! - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:37:16 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Rev. Huck vs. Classic rock, circa 1976 Sounds like a rerun of Springsteen vs. Reagan 1980. On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:31 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 2/15/08, Rex wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Michael Sweeney < > m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > News item: "Boston founder has 'More Than a Feeling' about Huckabee's > > use > > > of > > > song" -- http://tinyurl.com/26ew8t > > > ...Dude! Schooled by Tom Scholz! > > > > And this: > > "Obama frequently blares U2's "City of Blinding Lights" at his events." > > Now, if that had said "Obama frequently blares Zappa's 'City of Tiny > Lights' > at his events," that would've been utterly cool. > Or "Dickie's Such An Asshole" - but that was another president, in another life... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:44:19 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Near future reap (tech) - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:11:04 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: RE: Rev. Huck vs. Classic rock, circa 1976 Kevin wrote: >Sounds like a rerun of Springsteen vs. Reagan 1980. >On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:31 PM, 2fs wrote: On 2/15/08, Rex wrote:>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Michael Sweeney > wrote:>>> > News item: "Boston founder has 'More Than a Feeling' about Huckabee's> use> > of> > song" - -- http://tinyurl.com/26ew8t> > ...Dude! Schooled by Tom Scholz! ...Funny you should mention that -- after sending the above, I was talking to my GF about it, and mentioned the example of Reagan in '84 (it was, rather than '80) and his use of "Born in the USA." And I remember the contemporary story of it back then. A reporter mentioned to a young-ish Reagan aide about the first time the Gip started quoting the Boss. The aide hadn't heard the quote yet -- and apparently wasn't familiar with what Ronnie was gonna say...and was momentarily terrified to hear that Reagan was quoting Springsteen lyrics: "Please tell me he didn't say 'This gun's for hire'..." [from "Dancing in the Dark"] ...Back then, with the Celluloid Cowboy, ya never knew... Michael "At least he had played a cowboy in movies...as opposed to just playing one in yer careening, failing upward life" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser.msn.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:22:20 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Well, fuck. On Feb 15, 2008 8:46 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 2/15/08, Rex wrote: > > > Yessir, I think it's dead and it ain't coming back. That 500GB external > > hard drive, I mean. > > > Since I'm thinking of buying a large external drive, uh...what kind was > it, and any idea why it went poot? > Wish I could say I did... I was just renaming a file when it disconnected. Didn't realize I had a major problem for about half an hour. > > It sounds like what's going on is that iTunes lists the tracks (which are, > essentially, links to the files). If you try to play one (i.e., click on > it), it will probably tell you it can't find the track and will ask you if > you want to find it manually, right? > > So if you used a regularized file structure and naming system (or let > iTunes do that for you), then if you replace the hard drive with a new one > and give it the same drive-letter name, then when you load the tracks onto > the new hard drive, essentially the files will be in the same place, and > iTunes should just work. > That was indeed my plan when I thought I was going to be able to get all my data back. But alas. > . I'm also assuming what was on your HD was merely backup of discs or > other media - i.e., you didn't actually lose your collection but only a > copy of it? If not - whoa, that sucks. > That's the real shitty part. The backup from November contains all the ripped CD's (except fora few I've picked up since then... still, 5000 or so. What I've mostly done *since* November was painstaking digitizing of 1/4" tapes and cassettes. Thousands and thousands of unique WAV files, basically (so, yes, the original media does still exist-- other than the several pieces which died during the digitizing process, and I do still have CDR backups on most of that material). The real pain in the ass, and the reason why I hadn't backed them up, is that the only sensible, easy and consistent way to organize the WAV files was through iTunes, which doesn't rename WAV files like it does mp3's. So I didn't want to back up the WAVs because if I reloaded them into a new iTunes library, they wouldn't be labeled (trust me, it makes sense), so the idea was to back them up to CDR's as WAV files, and THEN convert them to mp3's (with permanent tags) for backup to the hard disk. I know. So I have the following shits to recover in the following ways: - -Digitized 1/4" tape: all backed up to (many, many) CDRs, as now untitled WAV files - -Actual CD's purchased: easy to re-rip - -Downloads: not too many of these, although some were painstakingly re-tagged (cf. some people's cleverly-titled multi-volume Best of 2007 collections) - -My mom and dad's whole record collection, which is backed up on Mom's HD - -Digitized cassettes. Almost all of these will have to be re-digitized - -Weird shits people sent to me. Most of which are in my e-mail account. Somewhere. - -Straight-to-drive recordings (mostly band rehearsals but also some ambient recordings and other weird seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time events). Some backed up to CDR's, some gone forever. Again, I can recreate most of it as long as I can peer into the iTunes Library of the Past and see what I added after 11/3/07. (I guess my alternative is to leave all these dead links in the library until I've replaced them all as best as I can-- I can always delete them en masse later by sorting them by date. That'll probably look hideous, but may be the only way to go.) > > > Anyway: the only option offered when I export the library is an .xml file. > I tried to open it by clicking on it; the default is IE explorer, which > opened up something that was, indeed, complete bullshit in terms of > reasonably extracting relevant data from the stream of (to human eyes) > irrelevant and illegible info. I tried opening it in Excel...was told that > it had more columns or rows than Excel could handle and that it would open > only as many as it could...which proved to be, uh, mostly complete bullshit. > > So I'm not sure what would open the resulting "Library.xml" file in a > useful format. This tallies with my experience, and the library I'm talking about here is the biggest evar. Okay, not really, but it's very very large. So, um, are you still sending out CDR's of your 2007 comps? Because... you know... Well, kids, thanks for listening to me bitch and complain. I hope we've all learned something. I certainly have, and that thing is that I am an idiot. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:50:22 -0500 From: lep Subject: 911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911911 9119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119 1191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191191 19119119119119119119119119119119119119119119119 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BATLV38B8.DTL xo p.s. does anyone else get the dreaded sfgate "maybe it's a pop-up, maybe it's not"? can it be killed? forever? - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:47:25 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: remembering mis-heard lyrics from my youth listening to oldies at work - i remembered these : trying to cross a lamb trying to get a ham playing in a traveling band (CCR- traveling band) experience in love preferred but i prefer young Chinese (Honeycombs - want-ads ) when i needed sunshine on my brain (Monkees - i'm a believer ) **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:19:16 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: remembering mis-heard lyrics from my youth 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy... On Feb 16, 2008 8:47 AM, wrote: > listening to oldies at work - i remembered these : > > trying to cross a lamb > trying to get a ham > playing in a traveling band > (CCR- traveling band) > > experience in love preferred > but i prefer young Chinese > (Honeycombs - want-ads ) > > when i needed sunshine on my brain > (Monkees - i'm a believer ) > > > > > > **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy > Awards. Go to AOL Music. > (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:44:40 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: remembering mis-heard lyrics from my youth On 2/16/08, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > listening to oldies at work - i remembered these : > > trying to cross a lamb > trying to get a ham > playing in a traveling band > (CCR- traveling band) You mean those *aren't* the lyrics? Man, Homer Simpson will be pissed... I had a friend who insisted the "real" lyrics to the possibly-forgotten song "It's Magic" by the definitely-forgotten band Pilot were "oh oh oh it's my dick." You know. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:09:38 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: NEW on DiME: The Soft Boys Maxwell's Hoboken, NJ Sept 6, 1980 _http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=184070_ (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=184070) The other early Soft Boys show that I've got (besides the 1978 Leicester one that somebody uploaded earlier). If anyone has more, we'd love to see it! I think this is a reseed from last year. "When everybody was sticking safety pins in their noses, we just wanted to eat cucumber sandwiches." - Robyn. The Soft Boys Maxwell's Hoboken, NJ Sept 6, 1980 AUD > ? > CDr > EAC > FLAC 01 Kingdom of Love 02 Out of the Picture 03 Zip Zip 04 Human Music 05 I Wanna Destroy You 06 Only the Stones Remain 07 Leppo & the Jooves 08 Queen of Eyes 09 There's Nobody Like You 10 Underwater Moonlight 11 Insanely Jealous 12 Astronomy Domine 13 Vegetable Man **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:33:54 -0600 (CST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Well, fuck. On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Rex wrote: > Wish I could say I did... I was just renaming a file when it > disconnected. Didn't realize I had a major problem for about half an > hour. Rex, do we know the nature of this problem? Data recover (and not the crazy expensive kind) might be within reach... and now that I think about it, even the crazy expensive kind might be preferable to the kind of labor you're anticiapting in re-creating some of those files. If you want to talk about options, email me off list or give me a call. J. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:45:40 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Well, fuck. On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Rex wrote: > So this turns into an iTunes question... I want to make sure I save a copy > of my iTunes library in a comprehensible form before I start repopulating > it. How the hell do I do that? The file that gets generated when I select > "export library" is, quite frankly, complete bullshit. What am I missing Do I understand correctly that you just want a list/database of everything that was in your library, to refer back to as you try to reconstruct it? If so, I think that "export library" function is the way to go. Even if you don't like the way it looks, I strongly recommend that you do that export function *right now*, just in case. If nothing else works for you, you may be glad to have it. If the problem is that you don't like the .xml (?) file "export library" gives you, then use the "export..." command to get the tab-delimited text file Lauren mentioned. You may have to create a new playlist containing your entire library first; I'm not sure about that. Another idea: You can copy stuff in the iTunes window and paste it into another program, such as a word processor. First go to the library browser and use cmd-J (ctrl-J in Windows) to select only the fields you want. Then select all the songs you want to copy (everything, in your case), and then it's a simple matter of ctrl-C and ctrl-V. If the library is too big to copy and paste in one go, simply do it in chunks. Since it only includes the fields you chose, this might be more convenient to work with than the export command, which includes everything. Good luck! - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:47:14 -0600 (CST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: What is it with jazz? On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > lep wrote: >> (i know of him from the jargon file.) > > and what he did to it shouldn't happen to a dog. The dwindling respect I > had for him (you ever used fetchmail? .... successfully, without it > choking?) vanished when he started putting words of his own coining into > it. I used fetchmail ages ago and it worked flawlessly for my tiny, tiny application. But ESR is a dupe and a tool -- preaching capitalism and guns and claiming it has something to do with "freedom". Next, he'll be telling us we should keep all our lights on all the time for "conservation". > His warblogging was intensely stupid, too. I can't believe ANYONE read a word of his after 9/11 when he wrote that shit about how all people on airplanes should carry handguns. There's a surprisingly-often-amusing little webcomic about him, Richard Stallman, and Linus Torvalds sharing an apartment. However, attempts to caricature his knee-jerk conservatism and lust for violence fail to go further over the top than his actual knee-jerk consrevatism and lust for violence. I've talked to him a couple of times at conferences. He's pretty one-note. J. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:48:49 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Near future reap (tech) On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Steve Schiavo wrote: > I always hoped HD-DVD would win the war. I have no idea what the technical merits of each format are, but the name "Blu-Ray" is just way too annoying to get my support. Oh, well, at least it's not "BluRay." - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:38:06 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Well, fuck. Christopher Gross explained: > Do I understand correctly that you just want a list/database of everything > that was in your library, to refer back to as you try to reconstruct it? > If so, I think that "export library" function is the way to go. Even if > you don't like the way it looks, I strongly recommend that you do that > export function *right now*, just in case. If nothing else works for you, > you may be glad to have it. > > If the problem is that you don't like the .xml (?) file "export library" > gives you, then use the "export..." command to get the tab-delimited text > file Lauren mentioned. You may have to create a new playlist containing > your entire library first; I'm not sure about that. chris has a very good point. there's no reason not to save the data in whatever way you can. if there are different options, i would say to go ahead and export the data in the different formats it offers. it won't hurt anything to have the files, and then end not using them. if the file is an xml format, i can tell you that it's all rage (which means i know pretty much nothing about it), so *someone* will be able to help you read the file. xo p.s. btw, excel has a really stupid idea about how much data is "too much." and they're kind of unimaginative if they run out of ways to permute letters after 26^2. p.p.s. my condolences, rex. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:56:34 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: remembering mis-heard lyrics from my youth On Feb 16, 2008 9:44 AM, 2fs wrote: > On 2/16/08, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > > > listening to oldies at work - i remembered these : > > > > trying to cross a lamb > > trying to get a ham > > playing in a traveling band > > (CCR- traveling band) > > > You mean those *aren't* the lyrics? Man, Homer Simpson will be pissed... > > I had a friend who insisted the "real" lyrics to the possibly-forgotten > song > "It's Magic" by the definitely-forgotten band Pilot were "oh oh oh it's my > dick." > I'm quite sure you've mentioned that before, because when that song came on the soundtrack when viewing "Herbie: Fully Loaded" (with the kids, of course), I was incapable of hearing it otherwise. It was played, naturally, during the "washing the car with antics montage" which stopped just shy of a Lindsay Lohan wet t-shirt extravaganza. And coincidentally, I was at a Vietnamese restaurant last night, and had the same problem with the Cars song of a similar title (wherein uh oh, as opposed to oh oh oh, it's his dick). I was about to add to the coincidence pile that my wife actually knew the guys from Pilot, but then I remembered that it wasn't Pilot, it was Sailor. Is that forgiveable confusion or not? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:01:36 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Near future reap (tech) On Feb 16, 2008 11:48 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > > I always hoped HD-DVD would win the war. I have no idea what the > technical merits of each format are, but the name "Blu-Ray" is just way > too annoying to get my support. Oh, well, at least it's not "BluRay." > I had never really quantified it in my mind to this point, but I agree completely with all of the above. I mean, WTF? Is the laser used to read the format actually blue or something? And are we really calling it a "ray" now? And even if so, is that the most salient, or for some reason coolest-sounding feature of it? Fer pity's sake, people. Don't even get me started on "Blackberry". - -Blu-Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:04:01 -0500 From: lep Subject: movie talk i haven't been out to the theatres much as of late, but i finally saw "juno." this movie is just ridiculously dear**. it's sort of in the "garden state" vein of movie, but without the being annoying part. the soundtrack is ridiculously dear as well. i'm a little embarrassed by how quickly i bought it (i like to think of myself as someone above rushing out to buy the soundtrack. oh, well.) an aside: the movie had two actors from "arrested development" in not insignificant roles - bateman (btw, is he related to justine bateman?), and the actor who played george michael. xo ** i even had a feg companion, who, i believe, if confronted, may back me up on this one. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:19:51 -0800 (PST) From: Marcy Tanter Subject: Re: Video games I'm reading a book right now titled The Ultimate History of Video Games and the guy pretty much lays out how it all developed--I can't recap everything, but basically it seems that there were only a few companies developing arcade games and then consoles and console games and when the secondary companies developed, they did have to make deals with the primaries. You could just make a game and have it play on any system you wanted. I'm still in the mid-80s so I don't know what happened in the 90s, but I get the impression that the market was fairly small until a point I have not yet reached in the book. (small is a relative term, of course, but for a time, Nintendo, Coleco, Atari and then Apple were pretty much "it" in terms of machines and then they made their own games and made deals with secondary companies.) It's a very good book and easy to read. There's a ton of info and I don't have it here with me so I can't look at it to confirm what I've just said, but I recommend the book to anyone with an interest. - --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:35:50 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Well, fuck. On Feb 16, 2008 12:38 PM, lep wrote: > > p.s. btw, excel has a really stupid idea about how much data is "too > much." and they're kind of unimaginative if they run out of ways to > permute letters after 26^2. Word. I mean, Excel. > > > p.p.s. my condolences, rex. Thanks. Trying to look at the positive side here, well, the vast bulk of this material, and it *is* vast, *is* already backed up. And as to the stuff I have to re-do... well, it sucks to have to re-do it, and some stuff is lost forevar, but... in some sick way, I actually enjoy doing this. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accumulated all this stuff to begin with. I guess it's my version of endlessly tinkering with that vintage car in the garage, or whatever other guy-stuff I don't do. Love, Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:56:41 -0600 (CST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: movie talk On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, lep wrote: > an aside: the movie had two actors from "arrested development" in not > insignificant roles - bateman (btw, is he related to justine bateman?), Um... yes. So I take it you missed all the unbelievably hilarity that ensued when she played the prostitute on Arrested Development? J. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:19:08 -0500 From: "Laura Golias" Subject: Re: movie talk Justine Bateman is Jason Bateman's sister. I really like Juno, the movie and the soundtrack. I actually am one who ran out to get the soundtrack. Laura Golias gruntydawarthawg@verizon.net >i haven't been out to the theatres much as of late, but i finally saw > "juno." this movie is just ridiculously dear**. it's sort of in the > "garden state" vein of movie, but without the being annoying part. > > the soundtrack is ridiculously dear as well. i'm a little embarrassed > by how quickly i bought it (i like to think of myself as someone above > rushing out to buy the soundtrack. oh, well.) > > an aside: the movie had two actors from "arrested development" in not > insignificant roles - bateman (btw, is he related to justine > bateman?), and the actor who played george michael. > > xo > > ** i even had a feg companion, who, i believe, if confronted, may back > me up on this one. > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." > > - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:48:17 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: remembering mis-heard lyrics from my youth On 2/16/08, Rex wrote: > > I was about to add to the coincidence pile that my wife actually knew the > guys from Pilot, but then I remembered that it wasn't Pilot, it was Sailor. > Is that forgiveable confusion or not? > In the sense that I can't recall anything at all about the band Sailor - not even their (presumably) one hit - yes. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:54:23 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: movie talk On Feb 16, 2008 1:19 PM, Laura Golias wrote: > Justine Bateman is Jason Bateman's sister. And they were both on sitcoms in the '80's. What the hell was Jason's post-Silver Spoons show? I remember that my family loved it, and there was one episode where they invented a band for the school dance, called the Dregs of Humanity, and had to fake the performance using marionette skeletons from the biology lab (years before the Dead's "Touch of Grey" video). Our reception went out before the end of the episode and this was before VCR's, so we all watched TV Guide like hawks for the rerun. When it finally came on it was preempted by a ball game or something and we never did find out what happened, but the Dregs lived on in Broome family lore for years thereafter. Of course, maybe it didn't have Jason Bateman in it at all. That's just the kind of detail I'd lose. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:05:54 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Well, fuck. On 2/16/08, Christopher Gross wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Rex wrote: > > > So this turns into an iTunes question... I want to make sure I save a > copy > > of my iTunes library in a comprehensible form before I start > repopulating > > it. How the hell do I do that? The file that gets generated when I > select > > "export library" is, quite frankly, complete bullshit. What am I > missing > > > If the problem is that you don't like the .xml (?) file "export library" > gives you, then use the "export..." command to get the tab-delimited text > file Lauren mentioned. You may have to create a new playlist containing > your entire library first; I'm not sure about that. What you actually get (in Win versions anyway) is the option of an .xml file or a .txt file. If you choose the latter, the default gets you a file called "Music.txt," which can be opened in Excel (choose the conversion options for tab-delimited). Then you can go into that and edit out the columns you don't need (like "ranking" etc.: whatever you don't use) and you'll have a list of everything that was in your library. In other words, "export..." and "export library..." are totally different. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #505 ********************************