So it’s my new browser. Functionally its a lot like firefox. It’s fast. It’s slick, and totaly usable. It’s still in beta, but it’s looking like a pretty solid release. No plugins yet, but i can deal. It was very nice to my FF and imported everything i needed quick. I don’t need to theme it, it looks pretty nice, and the “about:” tricks are neat. Some of them i may even use. IRL yo. The task manager is awesome. Hiding Bookmarks is awesome. 

Download Chrome. 

holy shit this is going to be hilllllarious.

So in our fight to get off comcast services, we’ve made another step to getting completely to free IPTV.

Downgraded to the basic $12 package and threw my new $265 refurb dell tower behind the flat screen and am using the following:

Netflix Watch Now (yea totally worth it.)
VLC + 1 TB NAS w/ movies and media on it
Itunes (vid podcasts / rentals)
Hulu / My Media Player
Joost (getting better!)
Veoh (still awesome)
Babelgum (mehhh)
Miro (still playing with it)
Moviesister.com + Movietvonline.com (dont download, watch)
TidalTV (meh)
Orb for remote viewing (absolute must)
Tight VNC for remote control via ipod touch
Slingbox

+ wireless keyboard / mouse = media happiness

It’s awesome. Yea, theres not a program that i have found yet that can aggregate all these programs, but its a really great alternative, i don’t miss cable at all.

I wish there were more plugins for XBMC so i could use that more. This is taking the place of the xbox right now.

There is a lot of programming out there, you don’t need your cable company, they need you.

This is a video my friend matt parra made for my band grindbox back when we were in high school.

one day i will be skinny again.

This is a listing of Webisodes i created with my last band, Lokata.

#1

#2

more vids and live vid after the break..

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Nothingface -Mega Twisted EVIL Raw Nu-metal for the masses.

If they can somehow capture the rawness and evil in “An audio guide to everyday atrocity” they may gain +5 listening status in my ipod. Word on the street is that they’re back with the lineup from violence (2000) and working on a new album. Some vids on their myspace.

Nothingface - Blue Skin (Live)

SICK OF ALL THE SHIT

You know what i’m talking about, thats right. NO MORE HELLYEAH.

Crossbreed - Electrocore with so much potential.

The coolest live show ever. Allow me to paint. Black lights, dudes wrapped in flashing fiber optic cords, glow in the dark contacts, keyboardists with grinders shooting sparks off the sides of their keyboards losing their minds in a sandstorm of confetti.

I accidentally stumbled on some old stuff of their on last.fm and ended up finding out that they not only released a full 7 song EP just a few yrs ago, but they also have 2 songs on their myspace that appear to be a sneak peak for a disc that was due in 07. Listen to End of Days, its a great song.

Crossbreed - Underlined

Flaw - “Watch me fall while i go down, i’m taking all you bastards to the ground with me dead or alive, all your fuckin whole life is systematic hype still means a bit much to me.”

I always dug this band. Despite the singer having a perpetual sadness in his voice. I guess they were five bolt main for a while, but now theyre on a digital label and ready to roll.

Flaw - Payback

TRUSTCompany - The band to bridge the emo-nu metal gap.

Yep, theyre back. From the looks of their myspace theyre doing a few shows here and there and they have 2 new songs on their myspace. Theyre pretty classic TC, lots of singing in that oh so familiar voice.

Check the new songs.

TRUSTCompany - Downfall

more to come…

cause it reminded me of..

Veronica Corningstone: Mr. Burgundy, I am a professional and I would like to do my job.
Ron Burgundy: Big deal. I am very professional.
Veronica Corningstone: Mr. Burgundy, you are acting like a baby.
Ron Burgundy: I’m not a baby, I’m a MAN, I am an ANCHORMAN.
Veronica Corningstone: You are not a man. You are a big fat joke.
Ron Burgundy: I’m a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That’s what kind of man I am. You’re just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It’s science.

I get this question a lot from my friends and i usually give them an answer they don’t like.

Sevendust - Home.

Listen to the entire album with a decent system or quality headphones. Your earbuds will not give you the full effect.

Particularly Crumbled.

*Anything without Clint on it blows. It’s a scientific fact.*

Oh, Sleeper is a Christian Metalcore band from Ft. Worth, Texas signed to Solid State Records. Oh, Sleeper formed in April of 2006 after former members of short-lived rock band Terminal got together with former Between the Buried and Me guitarist Shane Blay. Eventually they found a vocalist in Micah Kinard and began practicing. As the 4 members began sledging through all the normal problems of a band start-up (no place to practice, no money and different schedules) the biggest obstacle was finding the last and final member. Countless awkward auditions still fell short of the missing position, until the thought of long time friend and previous guitar player and band mate of the guys in Terminal, James Erwin. After adding James to the lineup, the band released an EP during this time titled The Armored March, through 1×1 music. The band was discovered and quickly signed with Solid State Records in the Summer of 2007. Since then, the band has been touring and has recently recorded their debut album, “When I Am God,” which was released on October 23, 2007.

Official Myspace

Vices Like Vipers (Official Vid)

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