Never-seen scene from The Next Generation (probably never shown because the RIAA was stingy with the rights to play the song in question):

Picard: "Data, what *is* that noise you're listening to?"

Data: "I came across this during my study of human musical history. It's from the 1980's. I believe they refer to it as 'Poodle Rock'."

Picard: "Poodle Rock? What an odd name."

Data: "Yes, sir. I don't understand it myself either, as I have yet to hear any poodles. This composition is from a band known as 'Def Leppard'."

Picard: "Def… Oh, never mind. Please, Data,…

New group "CSS Web Designers" is for those of you who do CSS-based web layouts (as opposed to old-hack table layouts).

It's also for those who are learning to make the switch from table layouts to CSS.

Come and discuss your CSS woes, success stories, or help others if you consider yourself a CSS expert. ;-)

As long as you have an interest in making the net a better place with CSS, you're welcome!

Table-based troublemakers will be shown the door. :-P

CSS Web Designers Group

L.A. Guns - Tales From the Strip (2005)

The Guns release a new studio album, their second since Tracii left.

I have high expectations for an L.A. Guns release. With 4 excellent releases at the beginning of their history (s/t, Cocked and Loaded, Hollywood Vampires, Vicious Circle), they did a serious ball-drop with the incredibly horrid 5th album, American Hardcore. With that release, they switched lead singers more often than Dave Mustaine changes the Megadeth line-up. Some of the other releases after Hardcore had their moments, but just didn't sound like L.A. Guns without Phil Lewis doing the screaming.

But…

Just a "kudos" to the amaroK devs for taking a great player and making it even better.

So far everything in 1.3 is running beautifully, bar a very minor nitpick or two. (I guess they gotta leave something to improve in the next release? hehe)

I actually popped open XMMS for the fun of it yesterday. Having gotten so used to amaroK now, I don't think I could ever go back to that. Even the new XMMS2 being developed seems lacking. The lack of actual updates for that program didn't help it in the least bit.

Of course, I used…

VH-1's "Metal Mania: Stripped" CD was apparently successful enough to warrant a Volume 2.

These discs are acoustic and semi-acoustic versions of popular 80's hair metal songs. Some of the versions are previously released, while others are original recordings by the original artists exclusively for these discs.

"Volume 2: The Anthems" will be out October 18th and this is the track listing (remember, it's acoustic versions of these songs, not the originals):

Volume 2: "The Anthems" Track listing

1. "Rock You Like a Hurricane" Scorpions

2. "Here I Go Again" Whitesnake

3. "Talk Dirty to Me" Poison

4. "Don't Tell…

Ya gotta wonder what's going on in the heads of people who form two bands with the same name.

Tigertailz is such a group.

Ignoring two singers they had prior to releasing albums, they've had two singers that have recorded albums. Steevi Jaimz was the singer for the first album, Young and Crazy.

He was dropped from the band, replaced by Kim Hooker. The band went on to record their successful sophomore effort "Bezerk", which happens to be one of my all-time fave hair metal albums.

Kim remained with the band after that, releasing 2 more studio albums and a…

Are you one of the elite? ;-)

If you write Perl code, whether a lot or just on occasion, whether stand-alone scripts or CGI, welcome to the Perl Coders group!

http://www.last.fm/group/Perl%2BCoders

New group Power Scrobblers created for anyone who has Scrobbled more than 40,000 songs.

Yep, those of us who listen to way too much music. ;-)

If you've scrobbled more than 40,000 tracks, become a Power Scrobbler!

Join: http://www.last.fm/group/Power%2BScrobblers

OMFG, Alice was as amazing as ever! So was his daughter, Calico, but don't tell my gf I said that. Hehe…

This is a must-see tour for fans of his 70's material. He pulled out quite a few songs from that era that he hadn't played in years, including "I Never Cry" and "Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills".

The latter of those included Calico dressed up and putting on a show as "Paris Hilton" fighting off paparazzi. Quite funny. :-)

There were 2-3 tracks from the new album, 2 from The Eyes, and 1 from each of Trash,…

1) Add entire Alice Cooper collection to amaroK.
2) Remove from the list all live versions and dupes (due to hits packages and such).
3) What's left is 1 version of every song he's (officially) released.

274 tracks = 17 hours, 46 minutes

Now working on playing hour #3.

Sweeeeeeeeeeet…

* holding tightly to my Alice Cooper tickets for tomorrow night's show *

Obsessed? Me? Nah… ;-)