Thursday, February 17, 2005

 

It never ceases to amaze me. The incredible technology we have access to in the modern age astounds me. Really, I know that it sounds trite and who cares anyways? Dig, tho.

I awoke, drank coffee, and begin my daily routine of reading news at Reuters, Sfgate, and Drudgereport. I check blogs from folks like TonyPierce, Ken Layne, EyeControl and The Bossman Cometh. Somehow I stumble onto Salon, a good website for "less mainstream" news. There is a section on Salon for free downloads selected by their music guy, ("Audiofile" is the section's name) and I start downloading some tunes to my computer. FREE! I got me some Mississippi John Hurt, and the Iron & Wine song done by the Postal Service.

The reviewer writes why he likes this song verses another, or explains why you need to listen to a certain song from Dios on a snowy day.

I like his descriptive snippets, so I send him an e-mail asking if he'd accept a music submission should I send it.

I'll write to music reviewers every now and again, some respond, some don't. Mainly, its a way to get something, hell ANYTHING, nice to be said about my band. Usually, reviwers throw the comped cd's out, or maybe they sell them at Amoeba. Rarely do they respond, unless they write something somewhere....
but this guy wrote me back in less than 2 minutes.

weird, right?

I thought so.


should I be suspicious?

Nonetheless, it wouldn't have gone down, had we not these powerful computers today.

trippy? or did I smoke too much grass this morning and am stunned by such mediocrity?

posted by Hog 9:05 AM