What are you listening to right now?

aforceforgood · Post by **aforceforgood** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 2:38 pm

The soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto Vice City- it's surprisingly good, whether listening to the wave (80's, including thomas dolby, frankie goes to hollywood, INXS, etc) or the comical "talk" stations.

I won't even try to describe those.

I turned off the tv and piped the "talk" stations feed through the stereo so my wife might think it was an actual radio show when she came home, but there was zero reaction, meaning one of the following possibilities explains her behavior;

a) she's so accustomed to americans being absolutely nutso that she took it in stride,

b) she wasn't paying any attention,

c) she knew it was from the game (they do announce that they're in "Vice City" occasionally.

Think I'll do it again to try and determine which it was...

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 2:39 pm

Again... Van Morrison Tupelo Honey which is every woman on the eplaya... mmmmmmmmm...

Just like honey, Baby, from the bee....

Hmmmmmm... yes, those eplaya women... yee-oww!

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 2:48 pm

listening to a forum with His Holines the 14th Dali Lama...

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 2:54 pm

The Dalai Lama??? Okay... I guess I should be listening to that, too...

But now I'm on Taj Mahal... Good Morning Little School Girl... wadda' ya' say, Baby?...

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:02 pm

it's a DVD... it's okay... it's on Ethics and stuff... susan sarandon is amazing (isn't she always?) but thebusiness ethics part is a little wierd.... all these folks talking about how ethical their business is, and then saying "and I made money! I have a huge house now, and all these possessions!"

Yuk. makes me feel icky.

other than that, what His Holiness has to say is unbelievable, really...

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:15 pm

GuinivereElise wrote:it's a DVD... it's okay... it's on Ethics and stuff... susan sarandon is amazing (isn't she always?) but thebusiness ethics part is a little wierd.... all these folks talking about how ethical their business is, and then saying "and I made money! I have a huge house now, and all these possessions!"

Yuk. makes me feel icky.

other than that, what His Holiness has to say is unbelievable, really...

His Holiness is one of the few humans on this planet that I truely, from my heart, respect. Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela come in real close behind him.

I've read a lot of his stuff, and the man is the real deal. What he has to say about China just blows me away. The man actually prays for the people who have devistated his nation and killed millions of his people... Now, THAT'S integrety...

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:30 pm

only if you believe in prayer...

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:33 pm

GuinivereElise wrote:only if you believe in prayer...

I've seen it work... and who am I to disagree with the holiest man on the planet?

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:46 pm

Listening to the rain outside my window.

Accenting it with Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror, Brian Eno

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:46 pm

Stones....

You Can't Always Get What You Want

... yup... but you can get what you need....

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:51 pm

That thoroughly silly little crackerjack they stuck at the end of "Screwtinized"

RingO'Fire · Post by **RingO'Fire** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:06 pm

samtzu wrote:The Dalai Lama??? Okay... I guess I should be listening to that, too...

But now I'm on Taj Mahal... Good Morning Little School Girl... wadda' ya' say, Baby?...

Dude! No way!

I was listening to Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabate Kulanjan when I read your post.

Mostly, I've been listening to the sound system on my (new! ya-hoo!) Dell computer. I've spent the past couple of weeks ripping my CD collection (most of it anyway) into MP3's on the computer. I'm up to ~1,700 songs and ~7Gbyte of MP3's.

I've been putting the playlist on random shuffle, that way I get to hear a lot of songs that I wouldn't otherwise hear, because I don't necessarily want to sit down and listen to the entire CD that a particular song is on.

Now that I've got this new computer, I've got some new problems too:

(1) The 5.1 surround-sound speakers are pretty good for a computer, but I want to shake the fucking foundation of my house with the intensity of my pumping sound waves! I want my neighbors to feel the ground shaking in their basement and go..."Honey, do feel that?! What is it?" These dinky little computer speakers just ain't cuttin' it!

(2) Similar to problem No. 1, I want several sets of speakers all throughout my house, but I don't want to string speaker wires all over the damn place. I think I'm going to look into getting some kind of little transmitter thingie (I'm sure "they" must make one), so I can have several little stereos around the house tuned into my own little radio station, all playing the same music at the same time.

(3) Now that I've got all my CDs ripped into MP3s, I gotta get an MP3 player, along with a car stereo that is compatible with my as-yet-unpurchased MP3 player.

(4) Now I gotta figure out a way to get all my music that's on vinyl and cassettes ripped into MP3s

(5) Finally, I gotta figure out a way to pay for all this ulti-portable, transmitting, foundation-shaking, dream-stereo shit!

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:17 pm

Now I gotta figure out a way to get all my music that's on vinyl and cassettes ripped into MP3s

Low-tech solution recommendation: get a wire that looks like the plug to a pair of headphones on both ends...stick one end in the headphone jack, the other in the microphone jack for your computer, and a program that will record it as an MP3, or a file format that can be converted to MP3. It's worked for me before, and it's cheap (the wire cost me five bucks and the program was freeware). Just a suggestion, not an expert opinion.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:17 pm

RingO'Fire wrote:
(3) Now that I've got all my CDs ripped into MP3s, I gotta get an MP3 player, along with a car stereo that is compatible with my as-yet-unpurchased MP3 player.

(4) Now I gotta figure out a way to get all my music that's on vinyl and cassettes ripped into MP3s

Ipod with an Itrip FM transmitter is expensive but damn hard to beat.

Cakewalk's Pyro is the best software I've found for that. Stay away from anything put out by a company that starts with the letter "R".

Isn't it great to be emersed in your favorite music all over again?

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:23 pm

Ranger Genius wrote:
Now I gotta figure out a way to get all my music that's on vinyl and cassettes ripped into MP3s
Low-tech solution recommendation: get a wire that looks like the plug to a pair of headphones on both ends...stick one end in the headphone jack, the other in the microphone jack for your computer, and a program that will record it as an MP3, or a file format that can be converted to MP3. It's worked for me before, and it's cheap (the wire cost me five bucks and the program was freeware). Just a suggestion, not an expert opinion.

Love the new Avatar, Genius! Too bad it's really "not a pipe"!

To piggyback on your advice, some computers have a "line in" jack that is better for this sort of thing. I like Pyro because you can edit the waveform and play a whole LP into it and then chop up the songs and name them as different files.

Lastly, make sure that if you use either a pre-amp with your record player or run it through your stereo system prior to your computer because it has has inputs not eq'd for that kind of RIAA input and your stereo receiver does.

Cheers!

RingO'Fire · Post by **RingO'Fire** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:53 pm

Wow!

Thanks you guys! I'm definately going to take a trip to Radio Shack tomorrow to try to find a wire that will run from the stereo to the computer. I'm also going to look for the Pyro software too. Thanks for the tips!

BTW, MisterJMister, it IS great being immersed in all my favorite music again! So many times, I'll hear the opening riffs of a song and think, "Ooh, I love this tune!"

Also, I have a new favorite song (for this weekend anyway). It's the White Stripes doing Dolly Parton's Jolene. It's from a new live DVD/CD they just came out with. I read about it on this site: http://www.insound.com/mp3/

Here's the link to download the tune. They fuckin' tear it up!

http://mp3.insound.com/download.cfm?mp3id=2355

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:01 am

"I don't wanna work.....I just wanna bang on my drum all day!" (Running through my head)

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:19 am

listening to the soundtrack from the movie "Pollack"

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:27 am

Um, GE, that was mostly filmed about a half mile from my house. Springs, where he and Lee Krasner lived is almost my backyard.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:30 am

holy shit, really? it's a great movie... depressing as hell, but great.

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:35 am

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:20 pm

RingO'Fire wrote:Wow!

Thanks you guys! I'm definately going to take a trip to Radio Shack tomorrow to try to find a wire that will run from the stereo to the computer. I'm also going to look for the Pyro software too. Thanks for the tips!

Take a few minutes to look up info on the RIAA curve. It's important to know how to handle this when transferring from vinyl. Your stereo amp will take care of this but will add noise that you can avoid by connecting directly from the audio output of the turntable.

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:39 pm

Left heart catheterization, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, coronary artery bypass grafting, history and physical (etc) reports, punctuated by intermittent police sirens (ahhh, life as a transcriptionist in the city).

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:49 pm

ZZ Top, Rio Grande Mud

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:21 pm

Hold propaganda for a truck dealership:
"When you need your rig hummin' in a hurry.... "
....Ooooohhhh... phone number?....

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:53 pm

Flipper ~ Sex Bomb

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:54 pm

buckethead alien wrote:Flipper ~ Sex Bomb

I demand that you email me this song.

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:56 pm

GuinivereElise wrote:
buckethead alien wrote:Flipper ~ Sex Bomb
I demand that you email me this song.

done.

GuinivereElise · Post by **GuinivereElise** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:58 pm

wow. that was easy. i'm going to have to demand things more often.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:03 pm

buckethead alien wrote:
GuinivereElise wrote:
buckethead alien wrote:Flipper ~ Sex Bomb
I demand that you email me this song.
done.

And here I was about ready to kill--i mean poof at--I mean irritated--at BHA for making me think about "Brainwash" and getting it stuck in my head. It's almost as bad as hearing the Beastie Boys whenever Cookiepuss posts.

I regret the punkrock fringe status of my youth.