Archive for August, 2006
Pretty good music by Deshead
Saturday, August 12th, 2006I admit, I’m not a big fan of soft rock or slower beats. I like hard rock, metal, rap, upbeat country, and polka among others. So lately I’ve been trying to expand my musical tastes a little bit.
I heard of a new music website on BinRev radio called SongFight.org. Interesting concept. They come up with the titles and artists submit music with that title and theme. One of the good bands that came from that concept was deshead.
It looks like deshead only has 1 album right now called Waking up in August. You can buy the album in a couple of different formats. MP3/Ogg or CD
This follows the model of another good music site called Magnatune. They have an interesting payment model. For the digital files you choose how much money you want to spend between $5 and $18. For the CD the pricing is the same but they will add $5 to the price you choose to cover the labor and material of burning the CD and putting the package together. Magnatune gives half of what you choose to pay to the artist directly.
Royal Drive Children’s Parade Followup
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006I know it has been over a month since the 4th of July and the parade but I finally posted the photos.
It was a pretty good time. A few unforseen things happened.
1) Most of the parents walked with the kids so there weren’t many people on the sidelines to actually watch the parade.
2) A pickup came driving down the street during the middle of the parade. Apparently he didn’t think it was bad to be driving on the road with all these small children.
3) The speed of the parade was too slow for the bicycles.
Solutions
1) Encourage at least 1 parent to go down and sit next to the parade route to watch.
2) Pay to block the street.
3) Let the bikes go first next year and the little kids bring up the rear.
It really didn’t take a lot of time to schedule and was pretty cheap for us to organize (less than $50). I think the kids enjoyed it and i’m pretty sure they liked the ice cream and cupcakes after the parade.
