southern boogie
I feel awful for not writing enough but I am overwhelmed by how
hectic this year has become. I have a full time job, plus a
bartending night job, a wedding to plan and then just last week a
conference in Ottawa to attend with work. It's been pretty crazy,
then on the weekends I take care of my niece which means driving
her to soccer practice and jumping up and down on the side lines
shouting stuff to keep her spirits up. (she actually is a sneaky
little poacher that hangs out at midfield waiting for the goalie to
to kick the ball down to her end and then running in and scoring,
complete with cartwheels and high-fives.)
I have had very little occasion to even check slashdot or newspyle
for my geekynews so I am basically out of the loop. Microsoft could
have bought Yahoo for all I know (trust me, it's coming)
I installed a little app called hpodder which creates a directory
for podcasts to download to. Unfortunately it cannot load the
podcasts onto your IPod directly via GTKPod so you have to do that
manually but still it takes most of the grunt work out of putting
podcasts onto your iPod and staying current.
One of the best podcasts I have ever heard is called the
Ongoing
History Of New Music which is a fabulous show hosted by
Alan Cross,
who started out as a DJ and has since moved up to become the
program director at CFNY. If you like music at all, check out this
show.
Growing up with brothers inevitably leads to ACDC or Led Zeppelin
being hammered at you every time they get partying but sometimes I
actually don't mind.
Cactus is a
band that originally intended to have Carmine Appice, Jeff Beck and
Rod Stewart as the main attraction but that combination never got
going for various reasons.
I had never heard of the genre `southern boogie' but quite like the
name and wondered what it sounded like, even today the music still
stands up and is quite exciting and very 1972'ish, `southern
boogie' sounds something like
this...