Brad Barrish

I really want to make the right-hand column a separate blog, so that I don’t have to go in and edit the actual Movable Type template that makes this page look like it does. From what I have been reading, it’s gonna take some PHP power, but my PHP foo is nonexistent so I need some experienced pointers or a tutorial of some kind. Any takers?

I started using NetNewsWire a couple of weeks ago to get RSS feeds. My surfing and reading habits have totally changed. I spend less time browsing the sites I used to visit, sometimes several times per day. Now I am presented with, at the very least, headlines that I can browse. Sometimes I may get an excerpt as well. I’ve been able to actually read more because I’m not spending the same amount of time surfing. I can’t tell you how much I love it. I don’t watch TV without TiVo and now I don’t browse (much) without RSS. Although it’s always existed, I haven’t drawn attention to the fact that there is an RSS feed of this site as well. While I may be a little late jumping on the RSS bandwagon, it’s clearly being adopted en masse.

Not that I needed another reason to mistrust our President. And for all you conservatives thinking you’re gonna vote for Bush in November, please read this. You have several months.

Everyone hates the fact that you have to register for quite a few of the news sites… Well, I know I do. That’s why I was so happy to read about Bugmenot.com on The Morning News. Get to reading!

New Jay-Z video for “99 Problems” is Fantastic. Rick Rubin in da house!

I wouldn’t know anything about this because I was inside all day, but WOW.

I moved to Los Angeles a little over 7 years ago. One of the main reasons I decided to move here was the ocean. Thing is, I’ve never lived very close to the ocean. For the last several years I’ve been living in a two bedroom/two bath. I had originally moved to a large place so that Holly would be comfortable and I would have a little more space for an office and all of the crap that I had been accumulating. I’m a former pack rat. Alright, so maybe I haven’t cleansed myself as well as I could, but I got rid of so much shit when I moved into this new place by the beach. It’s a pretty small place, but I have the ocean two blocks away, which means cool ocean breezes and relatively clean air. I skateboard around town on the weekends and it finally is starting to feel a bit like home.

I actually moved four weeks ago, but because I had to place stuff in storage, sell a few large items, have friends go through stuff I was going to toss or donate and the fact that I had thirty days to complete the move, I took every single day. It literally dragged on and I never felt like I was done until this weekend when I did the final walk-through with my previous landlord, loaded the last bit of stuff into my car and drove off. I was kinda sad about leaving my old hood and all the great neighbors I had, but I have new ones and change is good. I may not always be able to enjoy the change as I am going through it, but at some point I look back and it all seems worth it.

I have some lingering space issues. I can’t put up all of the artwork I own. I only have room for 10,000 Maniacs to Rage Against The Machine. I have a box of books with no shelves to put them on. I have a box of stuff I haven’t unpacked yet. I hate the ideas of getting rid of music, but it may come down to that. I can part with a lot of the books. I usually only read them once anyway, save for a few reference books or nice coffee table books.

I’ll get everything worked out. There’s plenty more to work out…

We were given an assignment at work. I was dreading it, if for no other reason a lot of my CDs are still in boxes and I don’t have room to unpack them. Yesterday I started at 6pm and ended at 12am this morning. 64 songs and I could only choose 12. It was a pretty difficult task, and I don’t really think it could ever be set in stone. I thought I would share. I’m thinking about sorting out the others. They are not in order of importance, but rather sequenced so as to make the mix flow. It’s what I was feeling last night. I’m not gonna put much more energy into this. Books have been written on this sort of thing. It could drive me crazy. It could…

01 The Who - Baba O’Riley 02 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song 03 The Kinks - You Really Got Me 04 The Beatles - Eleanor Ribgy 05 Nirvana - About A Girl 06 The Replacements - Unsatisfied 07 R.E.M. - So. Central Rain 08 The Beach Boys - I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times 09 Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye 10 Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On 11 The Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump 12 Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough

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In case you were wondering, there’s science behind who will save rock.