I just made a new discovery which goes to the categories of ideas that are so obvious I should have thought about it long long ago. I discovered streamripping. This means that you can use a piece of software to record anything from a shoutcast or icecast stream into a file instead of just listening to it. One added bonus of this is that you just don't write the stream into one large file, but the software will use stream metadata to split separate songs into separate files and name and ID3 tag them automagically. It's even a perfectly legal…

There seems to be a new webradio with the old concept "rate and customise". I read about it in the paper and am giving it a whirl right now (NP: I Want To Break Free). The URL is http://www.zoice.fi, it's in Finnish only and plays a lot of Finnish music, so it might be of interest to Finnish people (or Finnish-minded for that matter).

This may sound like blatant advertising, but everything I write here is my humble opinion.

I was recently looking for a wiki farm to be used as the web page for our software development project. I have used some such before, but there have been problems. The biggest problems being that the wiki was frequently down and it was far too complex to understand for the community I intended it for.

But recently I was lucky to discover PBwiki. Their tagline is “PBwiki makes creating a wiki as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich” and it is not complete…

I recently discovered Russian rock. The few Russian rock bands I've been listening to in Last.fm produce great, basic rock groove with nice Russian folk influences. It doesn't even matter that I cannot understand the language :)

I also discovered that our local library has a nice collection of Russian rock music and I borrowed a few CDs. That's why Mumi Trol topped by last week's chart. Alisa is another, whose CDs I could obtain.

Vse eto Rock'n Roll!

The baby has been at home for almost two weeks, and it also shows in my last.fm profile. I haven't had much time for listening to music, and most of it has been when I'm away from home listening to my portable MP3 player.

I recently discovered The Knife - I already forgot how exactly. I probably heard it on some of the last.fm radio channels, it may have been the Retro-Chip Electronica group radio. Anyway, I obtained their album Deep Cuts and have listened to it quite intensively. Great shit. Somehow the Swedes know how to make kick-ass music…

I ran into this site which has some funny mash-ups (of course when looking for something completely else):
http://www.bass211.com/boots.html

Here's the complete list of the mashed up songs:

90. "ARE YOU GONNA BE MY HONEY?" - MOBY VS JET

89. "NUMB PHONE 'CORE" - JAY-Z VS LINKIN PARK VS CAKE

88. "JUMPIN SOMEONE ELSE'S FREAK" - MISSY ELLIOTT VS THE CURE

87. "PICTURES OF BREATH" BLU CANTRELL VS THE CURE

86. "WORK IT CLOSE" - BEYONCE VS THE CURE

85. "HEY RIDE" - OUTKAST VS THE PRODIGY

84. "DON'T STOP TILL YA TKO" - MICHAEL JACKSON VS LE TIGRE

83.…

Here's a list of songs that I've learned to play on my guitar at some point in my life. Mind you, I can't probably play that well anymore, singing takes up much more of my free time now than guitar playing.

Hey Joe - the intro and main riff. If I grab a guitar and start playing absent-mindedly, this often comes out
Purple Haze - the intro and main riff. No better way to vent than turning all the knobs to 10 and playing this…
Little Wing - the intro - I have an own version of this which is…

This type of list seems to be something that is a must in this website. My list should stay rather short, as I don't listen to a lot of live music. I'll write this in reverse chronological order, because it's easier to remember that way.

Apulanta - December 9 in our company Christmas party
Manhattan Transfer - November 10, got the tickets as a wedding present from friends
Club for Five - warming up for the above
Rajaton - Christmas concert in 2004. Also attended their concert years back before they got very popular.

From now on the order is…

This is supposed to be a journal about music (I guess) but I'll put some of my poetry here in case someone stumbles upon it.

It is a translation of a Finnish Google sestina that I created using the Google poem generator at http://www.leevilehto.net. I tried to keep the sestina form (i.e. the ending words of the lines).

It feels like Google poems first come to life when you translate them. Then you have to run in through your head and give some meaning to what may have been rubbish to start with.

Anxiety

Anxiety. I was totally frantic, until…

I just found out that my music is in the High Voltage SID collection. More specifically, it's my cover of "Evry Little Move She Makes" by Tony Macaulay (The Finns will recognise the melody better as Elämältä kaiken sain) that I made some time ago using SID sounds ripped from a Jeroen Tel song.

It's under /DEMOS and whoever put in in the HVSC (I myself haven't) also put some text from my homepage into the STIL entry.

Creepy. But also kinda cool.

And it also reminds me I need to make some new SID music sometimes. Preferrably something…