So, time for another rapid fire shot. I realize… twitter is basically this: a micro blog with a few thoughts here and there. However the twitterverse seems like this overcrowded dollar store. Even though I do use it @threeup I’m not much of a fan. And as you will soon find out, I am feeling verbose about these somewhat boring topics; well beyond 140 characters. (But twitter’s appeal is in brevity which is often best)

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#1 Ting Tings can put on a show. I watch SNL somewhat often, most people don’t find all of it funny, but I find enough of it funny to enjoy it. They have pretty good musicians on too. I saw Muse (perhaps my favorite band) recently who were good, but not great. However, the Ting Tings, who I recommended in 09, are quite amazing. They are an alternative variant ‘pop’ with a high pitch repetitive female vocalist who doesn’t really have an amazing voice, and this too-cool-for-school drummer, but they put in so much energy, and are walking around doing things. I think she was controlling an audio device that recorded her voice or played other pre-recorded things. They ran around, she was singing and hitting a drum at one point. In any case, you can just watch it, but I am quite impressed at their showmanship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYGiGHRVlWQ <- if this is down search for "ting tings snl" on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AnDs9oB3Gc <- just to show he can play and she can sorta-sing (and isn’t very attractive) and a seemingly slow tune has quite a few pace changes

#2 I have what I thought was normal internet, but just have been downloadin windows 7 at 1253kB/s straight from MSDN. That’s faster than what I thought I had.

#3 So a night in the near past it was raining here, and my drainage system is extremely noisy since water drops hit this metal spout thing. I dragged myself out of bed and wanted to scream. Instead I went and screamed on facebook. I came up with a solution involving cutting a piece of styrofoam to the size of the gutter and putting a rag on top of it so the water drops hit the rag. I took a flashlight and went out with these things without ever seeing this gutter thing. It worked, I felt like a handyman magician. After about an hour, it fell out, and I was awake again, this time too frustrated to go put it back, so I grabbed my blanket and pillow and slept outside my bedroom where it is much quieter. At like 7am, I woke up and went back to my bed with a sore back since the rain and stopped. The point of this story is that I was extremely annoyed, and in no other rainy house I’ve been in was I this annoyed. I’ve slept in a drippy basement for quite a few years, and then a very old freezing cold house for two more. But I was never to the point of screaming about the weather. That changed now that I’m here, in Phoenix, which has no weather (so they say).

#4 I have still been watching two korean shows, and then some other random ones some of the time. These two shows are… #1 Hello Baby: famous girl group takes care of a baby #2 Invincible Youth: random pop stars do farm work. The baby one I think gets a bit boring after episode 10 or something, the more interesting parts are when they make nasty lunches and prank each other, or act like kids (they are sheltered 19-21 year olds). Initially, the baby thing was quite cute and fascinating to my fatherhood side, but now it just seems like work, which is probably how most parents progress. The farm work one though I love, learning how to make random korean foods! They are pretty playful too and it seems like a week at camp.

#5 I was wondering if some music was available on … ugh.. the itunes store. So here I am installing this evil software that I HATE. Now, I gave it a pretty good chance for like, 6 months in 2009, but you can’t tag things or sort things the way I want to, and to me it looks ugly in excel spreadsheet and has wasted space. Zune SW is far an away my fav, and I think Windows Media Player would be second. They both let you click on words and it jumps to that category or whatever. And you can go “back” like a history, useful! They also have pretty good id3 tagging libraries and I am most meticulous about my music sorting than anything else in my life. I also hate everything apple installs, quicktime this, auto update that. Grr… go suck a lemon, apple.

So I install it and get this stupid error with no solution or prompt: “The folder “iTunes” cannot be found or created, and is required. The default location for this folder is inside the “My Music” folder.” Thanks Apple, you want me to go online to problem solve this because you can’t deal with windows7? (I know how to fix it, but still, it is stupid)