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Mr. Show was something I only found out after the fact but it’s one of those shows that really has a timeless humor, not rooted in dated parodies of politicians or celebrities of the day. I downloaded the fourth season awhile ago and was glad I did, and when I saw the complete collection available at Best Buy for $40 I couldn’t resist. Here’s some clips:

Pallies - content edited for television

Cock Ring Warehouse - “any cock’ll do!”

Mayostard/Mustardayonnaise

You may have already noticed signs of addiction among Mac people similar to a substance abuse problem, including:

• Extreme hyperactivity; excessive talkativeness.
• Changes in friends: new hang-outs, avoidance of old crowd, new friends are users as well.
• Frequent need for money.
• Defensiveness, temper tantrums, resentful behavior (everything’s a hassle).
• Change in personal grooming habits.

(some taken from this page)

If Think Secret’s sources are correct, Apple’s new Manhattan store will be the first to be open 24 hours, further cementing the company’s role as a dealer in so many people’s lives. Need to get your iPod fix at 3 in the morning? Apple’s got you covered. People may complain about being mistreated by Apple but when their supply runs low they come a-runnin’.

The Flaming Lips are opening up a can of worms on their next album, At War With The Mystics. Not content to do battle with pink robots, they’ve set their sights on pop music:

“There’s a line in that song that goes, ‘So go tell Britney and go tell Gwen,’ and I guess part of what I’m railing against on that song is this preternaturally happy music sung by kids and written by 40-year-old Swedish men. And in between them there’s this void. I guess the worst offender is like the Black Eyed Peas or Destiny’s Child, where they’re going, ‘I’m a survivor, I’m gonna make it,’ and I’m like, ‘Well, you’re 20, what are you going to survive? Getting a bikini wax this weekend?’”

I suppose it isn’t officially a feud until Britney retaliates which I don’t see as too likely but we can all hope. It certainly has the potential to be a more interesting spat than most rap tussles, with white trash on one side and guys dressed up in animal suits on the other. Chartwhores to the left of me, indie jerks to the right of me, with the fate of the music world in the balance.

I’ve known about MP3 blogs for awhile and tried to follow some for a bit but I didn’t end up liking most of the music so we had a falling out. Words were exchanged. But DYK that there are also MP3 blog aggregators that allow you to search for MP3s? It’s like we’re going back to our roots of piracy. No, not newsgroups or IRC channels, not that far back. More like when people had webpages full of links to MP3s in really crappy quality and it took forever to download but hey free music.
Elbo.ws has the funny URL thing going on and seems to work pretty well. The catch is that most of these places expire their downloads so you might still be out of luck but it’s worth a shot. There are others that are probably good too.

My first two hour show was last night and overall I think it went extremely well. It got a little confusing since I had two burned CDs going at once as well as a third player used to swap in Actual CDs. The two CDs were so I could manually control the breaks between songs and even do some fading if I wanted (which I didn’t do much of anyway since a lot of songs don’t fade too well) but it all worked out in the end.

I continued my covert mission to thwart the FCC’s tyranical rule by airing another dirty word. Actually it was more of a case of getting the music director’s notation mixed up (thinking stars for a track meant “really good!” instead of “don’t play! profanity! warning!”) After that happens you pray that nobody calls in to complain and naturally we did get a phone call but they were just asking about a track off the new Beth Orton album (whew).

Also it’s kind of annoying not to be able to play “commercial” music, not because I’m dying to bust out my favorite Britney tunes but the line is pretty blurry. I included a b-side from the new Strokes single and they may or may not be considered commercial. They are pretty well known I guess, I don’t know since I don’t listen to commercial radio or watch MTV or any of that. Not playing commercial music is what allows college radio stations to not broke paying licensing fees, or so I understand, but the arbitrariness (PNAW) seems a bit dumb.

Besides all that, I played some music. I can’t really remember the playlist since I was hopping back and forth between the two CDs as well as grabbing stuff from The Box randomly, most of which ended up being not bad. Also some guy IMed me to say I had good musical taste which was gratifying both in the sense of a) assurance that somebody I’ve never met thinks my musical taste isn’t crap and b) validation in that at least two people were listening, assuming it wasn’t the same person that called about Beth Orton earlier.

Now I just have to memorize everything there is to know about the radio station and then I’ll get to join the mailing list. This is what dreams are made of.

Oh it’s on now. Keith has been featuring Bill as World Person In The World for quite a while and it sounds like O’Reilly is getting tired of it. Time for a cable news cage match, refereed by Larry King.