Winter is coming

Lyrics Sites That Don't Suck

Google is great for a lot of things, but searching for lyrics isn't one of them. The first few pages of a lyric search generally give you a bunch of ad-filled pages that would probably try to install malware if I were on a PC. Over the years I have tried to collect a few bookmarks of lyric pages that aren't crap. Here they are:

• Phish: Phish.net (has extensive notes on every song as well)
• Pavement: relight the burnt match
• Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan.com (also lets you listen to every version of each song he has released - every band should do this)
• Wilco: bemydemon.org
• Silver Jews: The Corduroy Suit
• Belle and Sebastian: belleandsebastian.com
• The Decemberists: thedecemberists.com
• Arcade Fire: Us Kids Know
• Grateful Dead: dead.net (bonus: Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics)

New Blog Location

As you may have noticed, this blog has moved to http://mielcarz.blogspot.com/, since netspace.org is shutting down next year (and blogger is getting rid of ftp support, I think). Note that this move doesn't mean I'll be posting anything more frequently than I am now, most stuff I once blogged about ends up on twitter or facebook these days.

Cable Cleanup 2009

I was going through two boxes of old cables and this is what I found:

• 9 phone cords, various lengths
• 1 phone line splitter
• 2 DSL phone line filters
• 1 USB 1.0 cable, in packaging
• 1 100ft ethernet cord (for pre-wireless mobility around the house)
• 1 6ft crossover ethernet cable (pre-wireless networking of two computers)
• 1 USB Smart Media reader (does anything even use this anymore?)
• 2 Handspring Visor USB cradles
• 1 Handspring Visor USB cable
• 1 PS2 to RCA A/V cable
• 2 old cell phone AC adapters
• 1 grounded to ungrounded plug adapter
• 1 stereo RCA audio to mono RCA audio adapter
• 2 RCA audio to RCA audio cables
• 4 headphone to RCA audio cables (I can't believe I have 4 of these)
• 1 headphone to headphone (male/male) cable
• 2 headphone splitters
• 1 RCA A/V to RCA A/V cable
• 1 RCA video to RCA video (male/male)
• 1 3 foot coaxial cable
• 1 3 foot S-video cable
• 1 DVI to HDMI cable
• 1 Discman with AC and cigarette lighter adapters
• 1 Sports Walkman with belt clip and hand strap

Some of this I have already trashed, but I can't bring myself to get rid of all of it. I guess I'm kind of an A/V packrat.

"We choose to go to the moon..."

"...we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." - JFK

Here is my 40th anniversary of the moon landing playlist I whipped up this morning. My iTunes library is sadly lacking "Rocket Man" or it would definitely be on there.

#	Name	Artist
1.	Space Oddity	David Bowie
2.	Mars Needs Women: Space Is A Lonely Place	Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
3.	Space Travel Is Boring	Modest Mouse
4.	Harvest Moon	Neil Young
5.	I Wish I Was The Moon	Neko Case
6.	Pink Moon	Nick Drake
7.	The Killing Moon	Pavement
8.	Waiting for the Moon to Rise	Belle & Sebastian
9.	Bad Moon Rising	Creedence Clearwater Revival
10.	No Moon	Brad Mehldau Trio
11.	Moonshiner	Uncle Tupelo
12.	Little Moon	Ryan Adams
13.	Sail To The Moon (Brush The Cobwebs Of The Sky)	Radiohead
14.	White Moon	The White Stripes
15.	More Like the Moon	Wilco
16.	Moonrock Mambo	Yo La Tengo
17.	Surfing On A Rocket	Air
18.	Silver Rocket	Sonic Youth
19.	Porch Song	Widespread Panic
20.	Puttin' People On the Moon	Drive-By Truckers
21.	Brain Damage - Eclipse	Pink Floyd