rebootied

Cover Freak: since Copy, Right is kaput, and has been kaput since May, I'm looking for other sources. I like the stuff on the first page of Cover Freak, so I'm-a hookin' youse all up. Cover's Paradise, too.

New NIN, Discipline, as a free download:
http://dl.nin.com/discipline/nin
It's good. (via imlac)

GodDAMN I hate cheap nihonshuu. I had three - just THREE - tiny little ichi-go bottles of the stuff at a cheap izakaya, and my head is pounding and I feel like puking. The way it has been explained to me, nihonshuu is a brewed beverage but commonly the cheap stuff is fortified with distilled liquor similar to a rice-based shou-chuu. So drinking crap sake is akin to mixing one's alcohol types, and therefore will easily cause a hangover quickly.

Which is where I am today. Man, I'm NEVER drinking that crap again.

How to go from being favored to being reviled in 8 minutes: While in this ragged state, I arrived at Sakai at 9:52, so I decided to get a latte at Sol Latino Caffe in the supermarket, which opens at 10:00. I waited nearly 10 minutes for the shop to open, at which point the clerk informed me that store hours had been changed, and now they're open from 10:30.
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So here's a coffeeshop which now opens at the very moment from which I need to be in the office every morning.
In a mall where there is a patisserie which opens at 07:30 every morning with cheaper coffee.
In a mall where the MOS Burger opens at 08:00, and they at least serve their bitter swill in thick ceramic mugs.
In a mall where there is a KFC which opens at 10:00 to support everyone's mid-morning fried chicken jones.
Every other shop opens at 10:00 or earlier, but the one place with coffee that tastes right is closed to me.

I should be bringing my thermos anyway.

Other news: How to lure me away from iTunes - Amazon is offering the new NIN album, Ghosts, as unprotected MP3s for US$5.

Index of /Portal/Turret: Now just to convert these to WAV for windows-sound-events...

Listening Post - Wired Blogs:

(Y)ou can search for any artist and play their songs within seconds, for free. SeeqPod doesn't transcode the music as it streams, so you hear it in its original form as scraped from MP3 blogs, personal web pages, and anywhere else on the internet that hosts MP3s.

Or, you can use SeeqPod on an iPhone to browse the internet's music pretty much as you would the music on an iPod. Choose a letter, then an artist, and boom -- you see a list of songs by that artist that are playable right then and there (thus the tagline: "playable search").

Seven free tracks of DANGER DOOM music featuring Adult Swim characters. The first person to tell me this is old news will have their career psychically death-killed by The Phantom Limb.