Musical Interests

A couple things that I found that maybe people who enjoy similar music might like.

On di.fm’s chillout channel, you might have heard these.  First i have the mixes by JINN.  I’m not hosting them (for the moment), but I do like them a lot.  They aren’t as wonderful as … well i’d say most if not all of what is on the mixes mirror, but that doesn’t make them bad.  Those are hard to beat really.  These actually have vocals and lyrics.  It’s weird, but they are nice.  I think it was serenity that’s the best of the three, but you can find the mixes over at JINN’s site.

Second, i found Honeyroot.  The song i caught on di.fm was Falling and i was impressed.  The cd it’s off of is Sound Echo Location.  The first about half wasn’t anything special, but it got a ton better including and after Falling.  Some of it would be damn cool if someone remade them with an industrial feel.  You will see how close it seems if you listen (i think that was the eighth track that struck me as being a perfect candidate for becoming industrial.  If anyone knows of a good electronic industrial artist that can remix, please drop me a line.  i’m thinking of checking with unmediated productions considering some of that stuff sounded similar… especially unwoman’s first album). Enjoy!

Mac things that I forgot (or just did)

I forgot a couple things on my last post (that i split onto another page because it’s … long). I also did a couple more things.

I forgot to mention auto-updates.  Windows gives you choices on how you want these to work.  Mac says that notifying you by having the update manager bounce in the bottom of the screen is the best way. It is the way that i like my auto-updates, but a choice would be nice.  and the bouncing icon just makes me think of the happynowhere apple switch movie.

I was thinking of reformatting my mac to get all the unix tools installed in the right order and such, so i went to look through what i had for software.  I found two things strange: i have a more up to date version of iLife (media stuff) on a disc in the box… and no disc for appleworks. Hm… well, i can update iLife safely i guess. Well, that’s what i thought.  It took about a half hour to install (there might have been a lot, so that’s not what annoyed me) and then killed my dock menu (that did). Now, the doc menu is a pretty useful little thing to have running so you can get to your applications easily… and minimize… and more things than you might have thought.  Considering finder was still running and i couldn’t see any easy way to start the dock again, i rebooted.  this fixed it, but it shouldn’t have happened. but now i have iWeb!

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