Comments on: Friday Random Ten “Long Hiatus Make Irrational” Edition

by: squashed

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:13:15 +0100

awesome video. Was a hit between friends a few months back

a russian guy doing Bach fuga with accordion. It’s grand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBmajjf5WKE

by: Jonathan Hohensee

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:55:02 +0100

1. Jump Jive And Wail - Stray Cats
2. Dust to Dust - The Misfits
3. Wonderful Wonderful Day - Seven Brides for Seven Brother
4. That’s Amore - Dean Martin
5. Tiny Bubbles - Dean Martin
6. Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself Again - Sly and the Family Stone
7. Pity The Child-Chess: The Musical (London Cast)
8. To Them These Streets Belong - Rise Against
9. Sad Song - Super Mario PRG
Embassy Lament - Chess: The Musical (The Actors’ Fund Of America Concert)

My iTunes has the complete albums from 4 different versions of the musical Chess (Broadway, West End, Original, and Concert) totaling 95 songs. It pops up a quite a bit in the shuffle.

by: JohnL

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:30:27 +0100

Wow, the Shocking Blue. I remember requesting Venus and Hot Sands (I have the 45) back in the 1980s to see if we (with my brother) could get it into rotation on WBCN. We actually did and about a year later, Bananarama came out with their version. I take credit. Venus by SB on youtube has 626,000 hits–none of the people who answered the phones for BCN had heard of them. Are they well known in other parts of the country?

Anyway, here’s my random (duo) 10:

California Stars by Billy Bragg & Wilco
Hello by Oasis
I’ve Got A Woman by Ray Charles
Tell Me When It’s Over by Dream Syndicate
Sing Your Life by Morrissey
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On by Little Richard
I Don’t Even Know Myself by The Who
The Perfect Crime #2 by The Decemberists
Prefabricated Icon by X-Ray Spex
Let Go! by Gigolo Aunts
Roadhouse Blues by The Doors
Sex Beat by The Gun Club

by: Melanie S.

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:10:45 +0100

Totally different experience from BlackBloc. I’ve been a Netflix subscriber for over four years and I’ve never had more than 1-2% of the movies on my queue listed as long or short wait.

Netflix used to put you on a slower rotation if you went above a certain number of returns per month but I believe they’ve either stopped it, or they’ve started to tell you they do it, because they got sued for it.

by: haydn60

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:50:14 +0100

Dark Park Creeping - The Mo-Dettes Big Rock Candy Mountain - Halfnelson Where Did I Leave My Halo? - Sparks Don't Shoot Me - Sparks Change - Sparks Obsessed With You - X-Ray Spex Subconscious Nebula - Pascal Silicones, Silicones - General Electric Silicone Products Department All Of Us - Devo Get Dressed Up for Easter Day - CRC (Commercial Recording Corporation) BTW, Halfnelson became Sparks.

by: veronica

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:39:00 +0100

For what it’s worth, in a sort of perverse way, I love it when shows go on hiatus, or when a cult show gets canceled, because then the frustrated online fanfic rises to new levels of ridiculous. Hell, even the gaps between Harry Potter books were more entertaining than the books themselves that way.

10. Hold Your Head Up High - Miri Ben-Ari
9. Dreaming - Blondie
8. Umabarauma - Jorge Ben
7. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross, the Supremes, and The Temptations
8. Fuck Forever - Babyshambles
7. Rock ‘n Roll - Mos Def
6. Lullaby of London - The Pogues
5. Indigo - Moloko
4. Comin’ Back To Me - Jefferson Airplane
3. Not Even Stevie Nicks - Calexico
2. Condition Oakland - Jawbreaker
1. Sea Foam Green - Jawbreaker

bonus Because My iPod Loves Blake Schwarzenbach Track:

Sea Anemone - Jets to Brazil

by: c.

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:35:26 +0100

I’ll chime in with those who saw the streaming cast on scifi.com - SO GOOD.

I surely don’t really have any answers, but man that was cool. It made up for the crappy filler episodes of season 3… and I read somewhere that there shouldn’t be any more of those! Just pure, unadulterated awesomeness that is the story arcs…

by: BlackBloc

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:27:14 +0100

Oh, and just so you know, the reasoning behind that policy is that it’s the only way they can make a profit because otherwise their postage costs would be too high. I wouldn’t mind, really, if they just *told* you that you’d have limited service, instead of trying to mislead you.

by: BlackBloc

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:25:18 +0100

I finally joined a few months ago, and for a while everything was perfect. But recently, EVERYTHING that I really want to see gets that LONG WAIT or SHORT WAIT tag attached.

Netflix does this on purpose. The first few months is the honeymoon period, where they try to convince you to continue with the service, so they’ll send you everything as soon as you request it (or as soon as possible, anyway). Then if you’re the kind of person who orders a lot of movie, they put you in a separate queue and *purposedly* slow down your ability to receive new movies.

The ‘unlimited rental’ thing is bull. They limit it, on purpose, and give you the impression that it’s unlimited. Worse than that, they lie to you by making you believe that you do have unlimited rentals during your honeymoon period. It’s deceptive advertisement.

by: The Crapture

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:45:35 +0100

“shuffle button roulette” redux:

10. Sam Cooke “wonderful world”
9. Siouxsie and the Banshees - “spellbound”
8. Van Halen - “fair warning”
7. Prince & The NPG - “gett off”
6. Iron Maiden - “aces high”
5. Eric B. & Rakim - “know the ledge”
4. Toadies - “possum kingdom”
3. Linkin Park - “bleed it out”
2. Elvis Costello - “my dark life”
1. Joy Division - “these days”

Bonus tracks:
a. Arthur Lee & Love - “alone again)
b. Franz Ferdinand - “darts of pleasure”
c. House of Love - “i don’t know why i love you”