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In my heart I know this is powerful, even if my ears don’t hear it like that.
Emily said that while we were listening to The Arcade Fire’s Wake Up. You should take the time to watch that video. I’ve seen it prolly a dozen times and still get goosebumps during the second song when they’re in the crowd.
I’ve been looking for a way out of hosting WordPress myself. WordPress.com is awesome gives me everything I want except for the random file storage for things I blog about. Sure, it can handle images and documents, but not audio files. I use flickr for my photos, youtube for my videos, del.icio.us for my bookmarks. I just don’t know what to use for my audio files.
I have 35 files that I’m hosting for one of two reasons. 1: Things I’ve blogged about that don’t otherwise have a home. 2: Records of very independent musicians that I don’t want to see fall into the oblivion (I Have Dreams, A New Kind of American Saint [two hardcore bands that were from Tallahassee around the time I lived in Atlanta, GA for art school] and James Miska [a friend of mine from Salt Lake City, UT]).
When Eli came over today to nerd it up with me, I saw him go to a site and download a file, called Box.net. After checking it I decided to give it the ol’ college try (or whatever). So I’ve moved all of my audio files over there. The only downside to the free account is not the 1GB limit, but the no direct linking. So now all of my files are two clicks away, instead of one. But so what, right? What’s two click to you? Nothing.
Either way, now I can make the move over to WordPress.com real soon like. It’ll probably be a subdomain, like iamshane.com, because there are other resistance army projects that don’t sit inside of my blog. The next post will have the links to all the audio downloads. I’ll also be updating the old posts to reflect the new download location for posterity sake.
I got random text message one day:
Mormon Vegan Straight Edge girls are hot!
I tried calling back right away to talk to the person to see who it was. It went straight to voicemail. So I ignored it expecting to be one of my prank calling friends from Salt Lake City.
About a week later, I called again. Voicemail, again. The outgoing message was just the default robot voice “You have reached the voicemail for 2066357611, please leave a …” So whatever, definitely a prank call, right? But here’s where it takes a weird turn to crazyville on the coo-coo train making stops at what-are-you-about-talking station and who-are-you junction.
I got a text back right after that second call that went straight to voicemail. So to me that says, I want to talk to you, but not quite reveal my identity. The text came from the number above with a +1 in front of it, meaning it’s instant messenger on a phone. The replies were fast too, a little too fast if you know what I mean. Sidekick, I’m looking your way.
We went on a bit texting back and forth. Here’s the entire verbatim transcript of our conversation.
Um… awesome? Or something.
I never learned who he was. His phone number / instant messenger / text address is 2066357611 / +12066357611, ya know, just in case you wanted it for a bored rainy day or long ride from some random town to some other random town with some random stranger who just happened to pick you and friend up on the side of the road. Or whatever.
Be sure to report back any new developments.
very interesting, indeed. i might send a text along that way to see what i can find.
anyhoo, on a different note, the icons next to the comment fields aren’t very self-explanatory, you might want to take a look at that.
also, i’m really excited for you to switch to wp.com because then i can instantly comment on your blog without having to fill in all my info.
eli 6:05 am on June 29, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
welcome. i’m glad to see that you’ve finally made it.
n8duke 6:32 am on June 29, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
yeah, welcome to the club….geek.