The Lone Sysadmin

Some friends of mine and I have been following Alice Peacock for years. I’m not quite sure anymore how we got started listening to her, but she’s great. You may have heard her songs on the radio, or on a Hershey’s chocolate commercial. I saw her in Madison, WI last Friday. I didn’t have her newest CD so I bought one. Being me, I decided I didn’t want her to sign it in the same way every artist signs a CD, and so:

Nice!

It’s cool what happens when you ask people to do something a little bit differently.

Me: a sucker for acoustic guitar, a sucker for good rhythm.

Them: Awesome. They were a freebie download on the iTunes Store a few weeks ago, and I finally listened to them, accidentally. By now I bet last.fm thinks I’m insane, looping them for hours.

Here’s them on Letterman:

Their web site is www.rodgab.com. I’m hoping they tour to the Midwest sometime.

My brain is fried from all the flying I’ve done in the last 24 hours, so I will stall by sharing with you this old SNL clip a friend sent me. I hadn’t seen it before.

The takeaway lesson in the movie The Fountain is that you should not drink wholesale from the Tree of Life, or you will become a flowerbed.

I wonder if the sap of the Tree of Life could be made into syrup, though.

Good movie. Xibalba, the Mayan underworld, is a fairly interesting topic.

The Tool concert scheduled for tonight at the Kohl Center has been canceled due to an illness in the band. There will be no make-up date scheduled for this show. Fans who purchased tickets through the University of Wisconsin Athletic Ticket Office will receive a full refund for the concert. Fans who purchased tickets through uwbadgers.com or over the phone through the Athletic Ticket Office will receive refunds directly on their credit cards within the next ten business days.

Crap! I was looking forward to this concert. I saw them out at Coachella in April and they were great.

I guess we know what last.fm thinks of Bryan Adams, Darude, and Wu-Tang, among others.

We can also deduce that I have at least one MP3 with poor tagging. :-)

I’ve been trying to find some new music lately. I’ve managed to find a few things, and I’ve also been exploring the use of last.fm to discover new music. For some reason it insists that I like the Backstreet Boys. No, really, I don’t.

Some of the song names I ran into are awesome:

“I’ve Got A Dark Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth” by Fall Out Boy. It’s off their “From Under the Cork Tree” album, and upon investigation they apparently like “Shawshank Redemption,” too.

The other name I found was the band “…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead.” OMFG, that’s totally the name I wanted.

40 hours until Toad the Wet Sprocket.

It’s been eight years. I’m nervous. Toad is wrapped around some of my fondest, and some of my most bittersweet, memories. Of her.

I hope it’s as good as the last time.

I hope.