ipickmynose

World Cup fever
Did you guys watch the SA-Mexico game yesterday? What an awesome rollercoaster. I thought Bafana might actually take it for a bit there. Absolute heartbreak with the off-the-post shot near the end. I have to tell you that Cape Town was bursting with …

Comment by ipickmynose June 2010 permalink
YAYBLOG! 2.0
Wow, Jason--I'm in Green Point, just up the hill from the stadium (Thornhill Rd.) I was living in San Francisco right before I moved here. What a weird switch.

Comment by ipickmynose June 2010 permalink
YAYBLOG! 2.0
So there's this World Cup starting and given that I'm right in the middle of it--I'm living in Cape Town at the moment, about 500m from the stadium--I thought I'd make a mix of South African music for the occasion. My blog'…

Comment by ipickmynose June 2010 permalink
YAYBLOG! 2.0
@SongbyToad Good job on the Mumford session. I'm enjoying it right now.

Comment by ipickmynose May 2010 permalink
Gigging camera
@Chromewaves It really depends on the venue/ city. In San Francisco, you could walk into the smaller clubs on an average day (many on any day) with a DSLR + multiple lenses and have no problem. Only the Fillmore was a big pain in SF as far as needing…

Comment by ipickmynose May 2010 permalink
I've Been Deleted
Posted by: bondCan anyone recommend a hosting service that reacts to DMCA complaints in a more balanced manner, or has a history of taking its clients' side in such disputes? The problem definitely goes beyond google/blogger/wordpress.. Dream…

Comment by ipickmynose February 2010 permalink
NAYBLOG!
I'm moving to South Africa (Cape Town) in a couple weeks and ipickmynose is going to go dormant August 1 whether to become active again (eventually) or not is to be seen. I'm trying to get in all those posts I've been thinking about fo…

Comment by ipickmynose July 2009 permalink
Transcribing audio interviews
I transcribe audio interviews by hand. I usually use my ipod, play about 10 seconds, pause, type that 10 seconds, repeat. I've found that's about the length of time I can remember accurately, but this'll vary by person. It goes a lot q…

Comment by ipickmynose June 2009 permalink
Twitter war?!
Your critique rings true to me, but it wasn't the nicest way to put it, nor is a public forum necessarily the best place to do it. Just my two cents.

Comment by ipickmynose June 2009 permalink
NAYBLOG!
Rawkblog. I had that happen a few months ago. It sucks. Good luck getting things all fixed. Be sure to change all passwords and update to the latest version of Wordpress, etc.

Comment by ipickmynose May 2009 permalink
Hype Machine
I like getting hits just as much as anyone--and I'm not calling out EarsoftheBeholder, specifically--but do people really worry when an mp3 doesn't show up in hypem for 6 hours?

Comment by ipickmynose May 2009 permalink
YAYBLOG! 2.0
I did a somewhat silly but fun tour of John Vanderslice's garden--"Aren't these echium incredible?!"--and a less silly and fairly decent interview with him.

Comment by ipickmynose May 2009 permalink
How often do you blog?
I average--according to Google RSS reader--9.3 posts/ week, but some of those are just reporting what I played on my radio show, not full posts. I usually post once or twice a day Monday through Friday and sometimes on weekend. I like reading blogs t…

Comment by ipickmynose May 2009 permalink
Kill yourself if you listen to classic rock
In the indie world, classic rock is definitely cool right now, so I'm not sure what he's talking about. Many bands are referencing classic rock in their music. For instance: Fleet Foxes. And just about every band referencing Neil Young. And…

Comment by ipickmynose May 2009 permalink
Booking Shows...
Kata, in SF, I'd recommend trying Annie's Social Club. They were pretty good to work with when I presented a show there last year. Email me if you need to get their contact info. They put on enough shows that they have sound people, but few…

Comment by ipickmynose April 2009 permalink
Record Store Day - What did you get?
I went to Aquarius and Amoeba in San Francisco: Aquarius: Numero Group "This Record Crashes Hard Drives" 12″ the Camera Obscura 7″ the Elvis Perkins 7″ I also got Barsuk's custom Jones Root Beer Soda as a freebie as…

Comment by ipickmynose April 2009 permalink
YAYBLOG!
A couple weeks ago, I hit both my two year anniversary, which I marked with a recap and a look back, and my 1000th post, which I marked by naming my 10 desert island albums and 100 desert island songs.

Comment by ipickmynose April 2009 permalink
SXSW: Meeting other bloggers
Posted by: chromewaves 608-217-0648 give me a ring, yo I didn't see this till afterward, but I can only imagine what that call would have been like. I'm not bragging or anything, but I can be incredibly awkward. "Hello?" …

Comment by ipickmynose March 2009 permalink
Waitin' for a Superman
My favorite cover of this songs is the Iron & Wine one. It's amazing. The Pedro the Lion one is good too, but it's just a live bootleg as far as I know.

Comment by ipickmynose March 2009 permalink
YAYBLOG!
(Vanilla doesn't seem to play well with embedding a google map, so that's a static photo--click on it to get the full sized and interactive map.) I just posted my 'Indie Musicians Guide to Food at SxSW' which I compiled fro…

Comment by ipickmynose March 2009 permalink
What is the greatest Indie labels of all time?
No mentions of Numero Group yet? They're young but they've been putting out gold. Dust-to-digital is similarly badass. Of all time, I'd have to add Motown (when they were indie), Merge, Touch & Go, Subpop*, Matador*, Secretly C…

Comment by ipickmynose March 2009 permalink
YAYBLOG!
I guess I posted this about a week ago, but I posted a rare J Tillman demo tape that's really good. Tillman sent it to my friend of mine after he ran out of CD-rs at the merch table at a show back in 2003. I've been waiting years to get the…

Comment by ipickmynose February 2009 permalink
Your Blog's Date of Birth
March 26, 2007. I'm thinking about presenting a show for the 2nd birthday party.

Comment by ipickmynose February 2009 permalink
Services that may or may not aggregate properly on elbo/hypem
Turns out I got hacked and they placed hidden spam links in my page. It broke my rss feed (made it invalid) and managed to get me blacklisted from google. No wonder I wasn't getting many referrals from hypme, elbo,ws or google. Blah. I'…

Comment by ipickmynose January 2009 permalink
Services that may or may not aggregate properly on elbo/hypem
Thanks, Brandon. I was about to come back and update that I'd found that my feed was pretty much f*ed. Alright. I'll work on fixing it. Thanks for your time.

Comment by ipickmynose January 2009 permalink
Services that may or may not aggregate properly on elbo/hypem
Hmm--I just noticed that neither hypem or elbo.ws has gotten anything from my site since the end of October. (How it is that I only noticed now, I don't know.) The my site's RSS feed seems to work in google reader and Firefox reads it fine-…

Comment by ipickmynose January 2009 permalink
YAYBLOG!
Harry, that's a very nice redesign. Very sleek and uncluttered.

Comment by ipickmynose January 2009 permalink
twitter.com/THEWEBSHERIFF
The updates are protected now. (Also it's showing 0 followers, but it may just not show followers of protected accounts without permission.) Is it still going?

Comment by ipickmynose December 2008 permalink
How much influence do you think you have? Any artists you feel you've really helped break?
Posted by: EF MattI have so much influence: I picked Barack Obama as a Band of the Week in 1997.... NOW LOOK AT HIM. I have so much influence I twittered Matt's joke three weeks ago. Ha!

Comment by ipickmynose November 2008 permalink
When do ticket prices hit the ceiling?
Posted by: ryan_toolshedSo I just went to purchase a ticket for the Crystal Castles Music Hall of Williamsburg New Years thing... Unfortunately, the tickets were sold through TicketMaster. And paying 45+$ to see Crystal Castles on New Years = Not wor…

Comment by ipickmynose November 2008 permalink

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