So, I’m thinking of going to buy a new CD, and I’m looking for the phone number to Record Time in Ferndale. Their website is down, so I’m looking on google for the phone number, and stumbled upon an interview with the owner. This story was too good funny to pass up, so here it is:
Favorite In Store Promotion: [chop] … There’s actually one other event that sticks out in my mind: We once had a customer start jogging in circles inside our store. Puzzled, I asked, “What are you doing?” He replied, “I’m running the mile in Record Time!”
I’m running the mile in Record Time! That cracks me up.
I decided today, while at Rangoli, that I need an accent. The guy(s) that were sitting behind us had distinct British accents, and they were quite cool (the accents, not necessarily the guys). If I had an accent, I’d talk real loud in restaurants too, so everybody could hear my accent.
I went to the ‘other’ Record Time, in Roseville, as opposed to the ‘regular’ Record Time in Ferndale. I bought three CDs and spent just a little over $18. Woo.
Brazil - Dasein
The Delgados - American Trilogy
Cave In - Antenna
I’d comment on them, but I haven’t listened to them yet. And right now I’m listening to Poison the Well. I haven’t listened to them before, but I downloaded a few tracks to hear what they are like. Very loud. Very angry. Neat.
happyman smiles almost every single day,
too numb to notice that he’s walking in a haze,
he’s pushed himself here and doesn’t know what to do.
choked by the clock and he doesn’t know what to do.
I say, you say, you say its work, yeah its work all day.
happyman smiles almost every single day,
too numb to notice that he’s walking in a haze,
he’s pushed himself here and doesn’t know what to do.
choked by the clock and he doesn’t know what to do.
I say, you say, you say its work, yeah its work all day.
Happyman is mad at the world
(green grasses, picket fences, liquid lunches lost his senses)
life sucks. and then you die.
I conquered it. XHTML and CSS positioning aren’t that bad once you get the hang of it, I suppose. I started with a simple redesign, but left it open for some neat things in the future. As neat as you can get for a site with crappy content like this. :)
Note: Internet Explorer lacks transparent PNG support, so the whole look & feel of the site is different than I had intended. I am lazy, and don’t want to fix these things, so if you realy want to ‘experience’ the site (haha, rrrrrright), use Opera or Mozilla.
Thanks go out to: Jeffrey Zeldman for the inspiration to do such a thing. Dave Shea and his css Zen Garden for the technique, reference, and inspiration. And of course, the marvelous World Wide Web Consortium, W3 Schools, and Google for reference.
This design involves a large Russian(?) record, and I got the image from this stock picture by temabinastock at DeviantArt.
On the left, top 5 artists I’ve been listening to for the past week. Changes dynamically, thanks to Listen-To.com. 1448 users and growing strong, and I have yet to put $1 into it. Hooray for self-funding websites. But anyway, the top five artists. I have found a new love for Q and Not U. I don’t know what it is, but I cannot stop listening to them, and Copeland. Copeland put a mp3 up on their website; it’s an older version of Testing the Strong Ones that I am enjoying.
And, I will close this with a small musical update..
1) New Type-O-Negative: Poo.
2) New Metallica: Uber-Poo.
3) New Sense Field: Cool.
Whew.