Wiitastic!

I'm going to attempt to hack my Wii so I can do more things with it.

The only reason I even want to is that the Wii lacks a basic function that was introduced in the LAST generation of consoles: DVD playback. There's a homebrew program I want to use for that.

I have everything set up on SD cards and currently the only step left is to rent a copy of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I already own the gamecube version but that doesn't work for this.

The main problem being that Twilight Princess was a launch game so they didn't have it in Hollywood Video and while I haven't checked Blockbuster yet I doubt they'll have it either.

Night Falls on Sussex County

I got my first successful roll of film back from Motophoto today. Then I got really drunk and almost left them in Eric's car. But I didn't.

However it's REALLY hard to scan these pictures because they keep sliding around since my scanner is on an angle or something so for now here are two.





and I made the second one into an album cover really fastlike

Cyborg Seadog Tell me What you Dream Of

I dropped off another roll of 120 film at Motophoto. Here's hoping it doesn't come back blank. If it does I'll just stop using 120 film because I'm pretty clearly getting results with the 35mm film in the same camera.

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Concert Story

I went to a Mountain Goats concert. It was at Webster Hall in Manhattan. This was a week ago and due to me being incredibly tired all the time and being one of the only managers at work I haven't been able to talk about it until now.

I spent most of the day wandering around Manhattan with Dan trying to find shit to do. We found a cheap restaurant type place that felt kind of like a Panera but not quite because they had double cheeseburgers and couscous on the menu, and had much better prices and delivered. We got yelled at by a Circuit City employee when we asked if she had scissors so we could open the memory card we just bought. We ate Chipotle and then hung out for a while at this Asian convenience store up the road from Webster Hall.

Okay so then it's 8:30 and the doors open and it's packed and all. We get an excellent spot, right at the front, seriously three feet from where John Darnielle was to stand. The opening band was The Moaners. They were pretty good, but I couldn't really hear a single word they sang. I'll check out their album later I suppose.

But the real fun is when the goats take the stage. We were right up against the stage, and I could have touched John Darnielle's shoe if I needed to for some reason. Now, while I thoroughly enjoyed the concert, I have one issue with it. The order of the songs. Every time they would get going with fast fun songs like See America Right, they would ruin it by throwing in New Monster Avenue or another slow song, totally fucking up the flow of the night.

He did play alot of good songs and pretty much avoided Get Lonely as much as he could, which is great because it's ALL slow songs and nobody cares about his slow songs.

Outstanding moments include:

When someone requested Golden Boy, and John and Peter Hughes refused and referenced the lyrics. "I have a theory that this is hell and that's why you can't hear Golden Boy"

Someone actually requested R. Kelly and then John Darnielle proceeded to say "R. Kelly is not a joke. R. Kelly is the fucking bomb." and then he sang a few lines of an R. Kelly song, but I don't know enough R. Kelly to tell you which one it was.

I don't remember the setlist because this was like a week ago.

Case of the Missing Rabbi

Here's something totally crazy and messed up. The father of WFMU DJ Nachum Segal, host of JM in the AM (Jewish Moments in the Morning), went missing on Wednesday. I heard about it Thursday morning when I was driving home from work listening to WFMU. They were going on about how he went missing Wednesday morning after leaving the WFMU studios in Jersey City and urged listeners to contact the Jersey City police if they saw anything. So I go to sleep because overnight is tiring, and when I wake up I check to see if there'd been an update, and they found the Rabbi, and his car, in the Hackensack river.

It's totally fucking crazy.

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