Earth... the initial frontier. Sorry. I should be more future minded.

I know we have been distant lately. It's not you, LJ, it's me. I want you to know that I have the utmost respect and love for you. And I really want to work this out. I mean, you just don't throw away an eight-year relationship right?

But, let's face it. Lately we've mostly been talking through my friend Twitter, and that's hardly a real relationship is it? And sure, I have been flirting with Facebook, and I'll be the first to admit a bit of a crush going on there. But nothing has happened. I swear on Friendster's grave!

I just feel you aren't completely there like you used to be. And I keep hearing all these rumors from friends that you're running around with Russian dudes... what the heck is that about??!

I dunno. Maybe we should see a therapist. I want to make this right. You're still the only one I've ever told my deep, dark secrets to... and sure, I had your memory wiped clean of those particular details, but you said that was coo... oh, yeah. I guess you wouldn't remember that. Ummmm... so anyway. Let's talk about this some more okay? I'll be back in a minute or two. I need to check my faceb... err, I need to make a phone call. To my mom. Yeah. Brb. k?

This is further confirmation that I'm woefully behind the times on Euro/Brit pop even by typical American standards... but this is about the cutest, catchiest damn song and video ever:




Can't. Get. Out. Of. Head.

Can't say I find any of Mika's other stuff terribly appealing, but this whole thing is just beautiful.

On the better safe than sorry tip, I just backed up my LJ. The "services" out there to do this are insecure as hell. So no way I'm putting my password into them. Instead, I'm using this local script:

http://hewgill.com/ljdump/

Pretty nifty and easy on OSX [Edit: I should add, this will work on Win or Linux as well, you're just on your own for installing python. Not too hard though]. You need to have python installed... but it's standard on most newer macs I think. Once you do:

1) download the script and double click to decompress
2) open up ljdump.config.sample in a text editor (TextEdit will do)
3) enter your username and pass word for lj between the appropriate tags
4) save as ljdump.config (in the same directory as the sample)
5) open Terminal
6) cd Downloads/ljdump-1.2 (or where ever you downloaded it to)
6) python ljdump.py

It'll create a folder under your user name, go though and download each entry as an xml file. Then it'll grab the comments too (which is almost as important to me).

726 entries, 8039 comments

That would have taken forever any other way.

You can then re-run this every once in a while to grab new entires, update any changes to old ones you might have made, grab new comments, etc. Now I just need to write a ruby script to pop all this into mysql for me.

Zoey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie are apparently engaged. I know about 5 guys and 4 girls who will be totally bummed and stuff for weeks*.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/148227

*and all about Ben... hey-OOO!

We saved the best for last! This is our cover of the theme to Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Available for free download at 128kbps or download up to full quality for whatever you wanna pay. Happy Holidays everyone!

We just released the first of two new 2008 Christmas singles by The Ether Family Presents... It is available for free download at 128kbps, or you can pay what you like for higher bitrates on up to lossless CD quality. We hope you like it! The last one will be up tomorrow!

Today, for your free holiday download, we bring you the 2004 medley "Melancholy Holiday/This Christmas Eve" by The Ether Family Presents... remastered to enhance the melancholia and punctuate the Fats Domino pastiche counterpoint. Free at 128kbps or pay what you like for anything above - on up to lossless perfection!

This is the next in the Ether Family Presents... FREE Christmas tune series. A cover of Vince Guaraldi's "Christmas Time Is Here" (aka that eerie Peanuts Christmas tune). We released this originally in 2001. It's been remastered, is free at 128kbps or pay whatever you like up to lossless audiophile quality.

We are posting a free Christmas song per day up to the release of our new Christmas single by The Ether Family Presents... ('cause we love yall!). This first one is from 2001. Lovingly remastered and available in lossless format for you audiophile types!

Part of my plans for 2009 is to get the massive backlog of video we've recorded over the years from various Ether Family recording sessions on-line... as well as start producing some new stuff for us and the other bands/projects on the Headphone Treats label.

So, I finally got around to uploading this little two-part "making of" video we did back in 2001 through 2002 for the How To Get Lost In A Time Consuming Ego Trip - Part 1 of 4. It documents some of the recording sessions and a bunch of silliness probably only we find funny. But still... TEFP hits YouTube and Vimeo finally. Woohoo!

God we look young.






Also available on YouTube in slightly lower quality:

http://www.youtube.com/jimmyether

If you are registered to vote in GA, don't forget to get to the polls today to vote in the senatorial run-off. This is probably just as important for Georgia as the presidential election (if not more so).

In the last 24 hours, Jimmy...

• 15:22 The daughter just requested "Salt and Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" #

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• 12:34 humbly requests that the dizziness and infernal ringing in his right ear cease and desist. Hinky equilibrium with no cold symptoms??? #

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In the last 24 hours, Jimmy...

• 23:01 NOOOOOO! They cut Annalee on ANTM. I'm ticked. This is going in my blog!!!! :) #

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In the last 24 hours, Jimmy...

• 06:58 wants to shoo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oot the whole day down. #
• 12:37 Enjoying the heck out of Q-Tip's new record, The Renaissance, while slamming out some more Ruby code. #

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Those of you already working on those 2008 best of lists, don't neglect the TIP! Just got the new Q-Tip, The Renaissance, and man oh man... so good. Also finally got my hands on his unreleased "Kamaal The Abstract" which is basically the slightly more mellow and soulful cousin to the new record. Together... ambrosia.

They both have more in common with Shuggie Otis and 70's Stevie Wonder than they do Tribe, but seriously good stuff. Git tit!

In the last 24 hours, Jimmy...

• 17:50 This just in... Yoplait light thick and creamy key lime pie flavored yogurt is the most awesome concoction to be created by man. #

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In the last 24 hours, Jimmy...

• 18:30 The radio is blaring out... it's in one ear and then it's out #

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