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12:20:2002 Entry: "Ann : Back from the dead"
Back from the dead
Oh, I am SO relieved! I spent the better half of this week so far transferring this site YET AGAIN!
I am now all moved to a respectable and reliable host, my site has resolved for me (It was missing earlier today, but it just was a DNS resolution thing) and I'm set to go on vacation in a week. I'm so glad I got this straightened out before I left...the previous host was SCARING ME.
In the mean time...rented "Monsters Inc." last night. Incredible animation. Yes, I know it's a G-Rated Disney movie, not exactly the kind of recommendation that one would expect to come out of me, but do rent it...the animation is terrific, the expressions that the creatures have is incredibly well done, and hey...was that a drug reference I caught? Heh. The concept was very unique as well. Gotta love those eyeballs (they must've seen my site). But would you expect anything low quality from Pixar, who is headed by Steve Jobs?
speaking of which...
I feel a little retarded/latecomer, but I just discovered iTunes. I never bothered to use it before on my G4...just used the Audio CD player on my OS 7.x-9.x macs. I was explaining to Stan how he can listen to CDs on his iBook, and he brought up iTunes. "Hey, they even have a laser light show," he said. Had to check that out. But what opened up a whole new world to me was discovering the "Radio" function that comes with it, that lists a whole eclectic mix of various internet radio stations. So far my fave is Technicolor Web of Sound, which plays an excellent mix of 60s psychedellia. Lots of very obscure stuff. And it looks like they're based in Milwaukee. Also Perkigoth Radio is good too. Remember the 80s? I'm not sure what the "perki" stands for, but the "goth" part is fairly descriptive. Heard Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead" on it the other day.
speaking of which...
Happened to catch The Sisters of Mercy's "Walk Away" on VH1's 80s weekend the other day. We used to have that on vinyl. It just made me think, remember when Goth hardly even had a name, but it was more about the music and the mood, rather than what it's been bastardized/Americanized into, i.e., a bunch of fat tattooed bald guys with horn implants wearing pentacles? Yeesh.
And wouldn't you know it, after several days of being unable to post because of the host move, once I'm ready to post, my cable internet goes out. Figures.