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miko2Although I've posted every single day in my LJ for months, I haven't actually posted very much in the way of information about what's going on in my life. You know, boring every day type stuff.
One thing is, the recent posts about Livejournal deletion policies and whatnot reminded me that I hadn't run ljArchive in many many months, not since back near the time I first downloaded it at the beginning of the year. So I just opened it and updated it. I wasn't sure it had updated, because although it said it had downloaded 85 entries and 47 comments, it was still displaying an entry from February which seemed to be the most current entry. I thought a second and decided to do a search on "Bosstone" since I'd posted about the Mighty Mighty Bosstones recently.
Bingo! Three hits -- on 7/31/2007, when I listed their The Impression That I Get as my song of the day, on 8/04/2007 when I mentioned them in passing while talking about Less Than Jake, another "third wave" ska band... and... 12/05/2002? Huh?
I scanned through this entry and read the following (note: ljArchive doesn't have a copy text function... how annoying):
"... I stopped at Half Price Books and picked up a bunch of cds, many for $1. I got Chumba Wumba's Tubthumper cd for $1. I got the Barenaked Ladies Stunt cd for $1. One-hit wonders are easy to find cheap a few years after their hit has faded.
"For $1 I got a Melissa Ethridge cd, the soundtrack for Jesus Christ Superstar (cool!), The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and an 80's music collection with things like SHe Blinded Me With Science, Too Shy, and Turning Japanese on it. Not bad for a buck."
Huh. I had no idea I owned a Mighty Mighty Bosstones cd. In fact I barely remember owning any of these cds, but there when I looked for it was Let's Face It by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Funny that I had to read about it in my own Livejournal.
I don't read as much as I'd like to, and sometimes this is part of the reason I don't write as much as I want to. (The other reason being, I'm too busy blasting villains). Anyway recently I reread Guards, Guards by Pratchett, and now I'm starting in on Men At Arms. My copy of Guards, Guards is old and starting to fall apart. This is the same book I remember reading during a barbeque at Paul's house in Ballard when it was brand new. I think I also read it when several of us drove down to the Oregon caves for a weekend. I've lent it out on multiple occasions, I'm sure. There's a reason it's falling apart.
My plan is to read all of the night watch books in order. One thing I'd noticed was that, for some reason, I can't locate my copy of Feet of Clay. I may have misplaced it or may have lost it somewhere. Another thing is that, while I only have a few Discoworld books in hardcover, these include Night Watch, The Fifth Elephant, and Thud.
There are also a couple of Discworld books that I've never actually owned myself. Thief of Time is one, Going Postal is apparently another.
So... I was up at Borders the other day and I looked up their books on cd, but again decided that they were far to expensive. Then I went looking for some of the missing Pratchett novels. They had virtually nothing in hardback, which surprised me, and their paperbacks were around $9.00 each which seemed ridiculously expensive to me. I guess I haven't bought many new paperbacks in a while. So I went home, got online, and ordered (for very cheap prices, all under $3 plus shipping/handling) hard cover copies of Feet of Clay, The Thief of Time, and Going Postal.
One thing that surprised me however was how expensive it was to get hard cover copies of some of the older books. Guards, Guards for example. I wanted to get hard cover copies of all of the night watch books but that would be an expensive proposition, so I decided not to bother for now.
I looked at their books on cd, and was also surprised at some of the prices there. There are a lot of the Discworld books on cd, but many of them run into the $60 to $90 range -- and quite a few of those are read by people other than Stephen Briggs. I doubt I'd pay that kind of price without knowing that the reader in question was at least half as good as Briggs.
I've been reading some anime fan fiction in the last week and I'm all inspired to work on my stories, except that I'm still not getting very much actual writing done. Ah well!
One thing is, the recent posts about Livejournal deletion policies and whatnot reminded me that I hadn't run ljArchive in many many months, not since back near the time I first downloaded it at the beginning of the year. So I just opened it and updated it. I wasn't sure it had updated, because although it said it had downloaded 85 entries and 47 comments, it was still displaying an entry from February which seemed to be the most current entry. I thought a second and decided to do a search on "Bosstone" since I'd posted about the Mighty Mighty Bosstones recently.
Bingo! Three hits -- on 7/31/2007, when I listed their The Impression That I Get as my song of the day, on 8/04/2007 when I mentioned them in passing while talking about Less Than Jake, another "third wave" ska band... and... 12/05/2002? Huh?
I scanned through this entry and read the following (note: ljArchive doesn't have a copy text function... how annoying):
"... I stopped at Half Price Books and picked up a bunch of cds, many for $1. I got Chumba Wumba's Tubthumper cd for $1. I got the Barenaked Ladies Stunt cd for $1. One-hit wonders are easy to find cheap a few years after their hit has faded.
"For $1 I got a Melissa Ethridge cd, the soundtrack for Jesus Christ Superstar (cool!), The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and an 80's music collection with things like SHe Blinded Me With Science, Too Shy, and Turning Japanese on it. Not bad for a buck."
Huh. I had no idea I owned a Mighty Mighty Bosstones cd. In fact I barely remember owning any of these cds, but there when I looked for it was Let's Face It by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Funny that I had to read about it in my own Livejournal.
I don't read as much as I'd like to, and sometimes this is part of the reason I don't write as much as I want to. (The other reason being, I'm too busy blasting villains). Anyway recently I reread Guards, Guards by Pratchett, and now I'm starting in on Men At Arms. My copy of Guards, Guards is old and starting to fall apart. This is the same book I remember reading during a barbeque at Paul's house in Ballard when it was brand new. I think I also read it when several of us drove down to the Oregon caves for a weekend. I've lent it out on multiple occasions, I'm sure. There's a reason it's falling apart.
My plan is to read all of the night watch books in order. One thing I'd noticed was that, for some reason, I can't locate my copy of Feet of Clay. I may have misplaced it or may have lost it somewhere. Another thing is that, while I only have a few Discoworld books in hardcover, these include Night Watch, The Fifth Elephant, and Thud.
There are also a couple of Discworld books that I've never actually owned myself. Thief of Time is one, Going Postal is apparently another.
So... I was up at Borders the other day and I looked up their books on cd, but again decided that they were far to expensive. Then I went looking for some of the missing Pratchett novels. They had virtually nothing in hardback, which surprised me, and their paperbacks were around $9.00 each which seemed ridiculously expensive to me. I guess I haven't bought many new paperbacks in a while. So I went home, got online, and ordered (for very cheap prices, all under $3 plus shipping/handling) hard cover copies of Feet of Clay, The Thief of Time, and Going Postal.
One thing that surprised me however was how expensive it was to get hard cover copies of some of the older books. Guards, Guards for example. I wanted to get hard cover copies of all of the night watch books but that would be an expensive proposition, so I decided not to bother for now.
I looked at their books on cd, and was also surprised at some of the prices there. There are a lot of the Discworld books on cd, but many of them run into the $60 to $90 range -- and quite a few of those are read by people other than Stephen Briggs. I doubt I'd pay that kind of price without knowing that the reader in question was at least half as good as Briggs.
I've been reading some anime fan fiction in the last week and I'm all inspired to work on my stories, except that I'm still not getting very much actual writing done. Ah well!
