Hope everyone had a happy Halloween. Laura and I spent the hallowed eve watching The Blair Witch Project for the first time in a good long while. No trick or treaters again this year. Good thing, as we’d given up buying candy for them.
Been very busy lately. Evaluating this MojoPac software at work to see if it’s a viable alternative to lugging around a heavy laptop. It’s a bit touchy, and some things just don’t install to it at all, but it has its uses. Got a couple of new website projects with CE3, so I’m excited about those breaking the recent dry spell.
Got word that eMusic is going to be changing its subscription rates, so if you’re at all interested, now is the time to join (referral link). I’m currently in the lowest priced plan, $10/month for 40 downloads. In a couple of weeks, that will change to $10/month for 30, unless you’re grandfathered in as an existing member beforehand. I still have over thirty albums in my “Save for Later” list, so I’ll continue to chip through them.
Downloaded Greg Graffin’s solo folk cover CD (what?) Cold as the Clay as well as Craig Wedren’s newer project BABY, which he referrs to as his “disco-punk band”. Listened to Clay as I drove in this morning. Just as the rain really started to come down, the most crushingly depressing song ever, “Omie Wise“, started to play. The other tracks on the album are similarly downbeat, but the fact that they incorporate banjo in them helps soften the blow. Like Steve Martin said, “you can’t play a sad song on the banjo. It always comes out so cheerful.”
BABY is a totally different animal. I wasn’t even sure it was going to be the right album, as the description of it on eMusic read that it was “Kiss with a little more twang, or a Texas-based Bachman-Turner Overdrive”. Luckily, that was just a mixup. Sure, the first song might be titled “Giddyup”, but this ain’t Southern-fried rock by any stretch of the imagination. Parts of it sound like disco remixes of Shudder To Think songs, other parts… don’t. Fun album either way. I do wish they carried his latest effort though, Lapland.