This FTP Blogger is moving (slowly) to WordPress

A quick heads up that I'm changing the backend of this blog. It will change a couple times, in fact.

This blog is currently built on Blogger, but it uses FTP, rather than being hosted on blogspot.com. Blogger (aka Google) is discontinuing support for FTP. So I will be switching to a Wordpress backend hosted on the wonderful cloud servers of laughingsquid.

But I can't switch directly, I first will briefly have to switch to a blogspot subdomain. You will see a note about that shortly. After that I should be able to import into WordPress.

This should all be seamless. It should okay? There'll be a couple extra posts here, including this one, blabbing about this hosting stuff. And then once it's working, I will delete these and it will be like it never happened. And I can get back to not posting here regularly. ;-p

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Come see Mikl-em in Caddyshack live

Yup, I'm in it. The show runs Fridays & Saturdays in March at the Dark Room. A truly stellar cast!! I'm playing Rodney. Jim Jeske as Ted Knight. Several members of Chicken Scratch Improv, and familiar faces from past Dark Room shows like Wicker Man, Zippy the Pinhead, Life of Brian and others. You should not miss it: ONLY EIGHT SHOWS!

15+ musical things I'm thankful for, to be expanded on (and more links added) later...

(i just added a few link updates; more to come, as previously threatened...)

1. The Beatles
2. The Hair Soundtrack (Original Off-Broadway cast)
3. The Chad Mitchell Trio a few songs: Lizzie Borden, Rum By Gum, and Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight
   
4. Hearing Highway 61 Revisited at the right time
5. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (that record I can't find anymore)
6. Rolling Stone Magazine's 1988 "Top 100 albums of the last 20 Years" (and various other mags)
7. Oingo Boingo
8. Tom Waits
9. Mahavishnu John McLaughlin (esp. My Goals Beyond)
   
10. The Fall
11. The Blank Generation
12. The Richmond, VA music scene (circa 1994)
    
13. Dub
14. Steve Albini
15. Ninja Tune
    
16. Califone
17. John Peel
18. Radiohead
19. Wire
20. Bad Religion
21. The Saints
22. Future Primitive Sound Sesssions
    
23. Mille Plateaux record label (R.I.P)
    
24. Loscil
25. The Tied & Tickled Trio
26. Mark Lanegan
    
27. Venetian Snares
    
28. All Songs Considered podcast

Okay, that's more than 25, right? I'll get back to this, just wanted to belt these out, while I had my mind on it. You'll see each of these get a link. And eventually at least a mini-essay.

Happy Holidays. And shit.

The Pixies and the 20th Anniversary of Doolittle

It's the 20th anniversary of The Pixies' classic album Doolittle

I saw them live last night at The Fox Theater in Oakland; they played Doolittle all the way through, plus a bunch of tracks off Surfer Rosa. Really great. Big sound. Cool videos (short films really) for all the songs on the album.

They played 3 shows at The Fox, and they are still on tour through December (then they head down under in 2010).

I also found out that they have some free tunes for download on their site. I thought you might be interested....

Forget the Balloon Boy, now it's the Balloon Goal!

The inflationary theme continues to be a hot issue. Saturday in England, a Liverpool fan cost his own team a goal by introducing his loosely held breath into the sphere of play...

via Soccer Insider

Also here's a list of other odd goals in history.

The Trader Joe's Song--a delightful fake commercial

I mention this video in a recent post that I did on LaughingSquid as the same director also directed a few cool commercials with the Mythbusters guys in them.

But it felt off-topic and like too many videos to put in one post, so I excluded this amazingly catchy parody of the TJ-reality. So I decided to share it here instead.

Two posts in one day, this could portend grave happenings.