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Artist	Song	Album	Label	Buy
Liquid Liquid	Groupmegroup [Fill]	Liquid Liquid	99	Liquid Liquid : Liquid Liquid Amazon: Single | Album iTunes: Single | Album
For Discos Only	Bitsh!T 2 (Love Shack)	12"	White	For Discos Only : 12" Amazon: Single | Album iTunes: Single | Album

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I now present our newest family member..

She is a 4 year old Saluki, that we found at the Family Dogs New Life shelter. Her background story is pretty harsh. It seems that her old owners were evicted. A few days later their landlord went to enter the premises and found her in a crate in the backyard without any food or water. No one knows just how long she had been there, but she was way underweight and sick as can be.
She is still a little bit on the thin side, but otherwise she seems fine. Totally chill and mellow. In fact the only time we have heard her bark was when another dog at the shelter tried to fight with her, and she held her own.
We still have yet to come up with a name for her. The shelter named her Cinderella, but there is no way we are keeping that. Plus she doesn't respond to it anyways.

When's the next podcast?

Twice this week I've been asked when I am doing another podcast. That shocked me since I tend to forget that anyone else bothers to check this blog.
I'm still planning on doing a regular podcast. However, I need to get a few things lined up first.

1. A mixer - The low mic volume on my test podcast drives me crazy. I used PodProducer to make that show, and for some crazy reason it causes all WAV/MP3 files to boom over the mic level no matter how the levels are set.
   My plan now is to get a small 4 channel mixer and hook it up to my Nomad Jukebox. This will also help squash the problems I was having with my system fan noise bleeding over the mic.


2. A way to record phone conversations - Now alot of people do this using Skype. The problem with this is you can only record one side of the conversation. The other side needs to be recorded seperate. Then you have to try and sync them up. It would be easier for me to get an attachment for my cell phone to connect it to my Nomad Jukebox. Then I need only edit one file. This means I also need to get a convertor for my Nokia phone, and a new headset.


3. Web space - My original idea was to use free web hosts, and start a new account for every MP3 I post. However, I learned after posting my test show that this is going to fail big time. In order to get decent sound I will need to encode at 128kb. That works out to about one megabite per minute. So a 30 minute show would be 30mb. Most free hosts don't allow files that big, and those that do cut off the site after about a gig a month worth of traffic. That means only about 34 downloads and then I would be cut off.
   So that means I need to actually break down and pay for web hosting. Ugh!

All together I figure I will need to save up at least $200 ($60 for mixer + $40 for phone gear + $100 for one year of web hosting) before I can make a serious run at podcasting. Unless I win the Powerball I don't see that happening before the end of the year.

Test Podcast

I've been threatening for awhile now to dip my toe in the podcasting pond, and now I have. This is just a quick test podcast.

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Songs played:

Artist	Title	Where to Find On The Web
The Dirtbombs	Underdog (Berbati's Pan 10-2-02)	Archive.org
Visqueen	Blue	Visqueenonline.com
Blag Dahlia	Metrosexual Man	Pitchforkmedia.com However the link to the mp3 is dead
Bob Mould & Grant Hart	Never Talking To You Again (10-21-04 Rock For Karl)	Dimeadozen.org

Show Notes:

• All background music was was taken frm the CD "Arocknaphobia" by The Black Widows. E-mail Vital Gesture Records to buy a copy.
• Visqueen will be playing Berbati's Pan on July 1st.

If you like anything you hear on this show, go out and buy the offical releases of these artists!!!

From Minor Threat to Major Crap

The DC date on Nike's Major Threat tour should be very interesting, seeing how they didn't bother to ask Dischord Records before using their famous image.

(via Pitchfork Daily Music News.)

Anyone want to go to Austin in September?

No word yet if the show will make the next seasons broadcast of Austin City Limits, but it was announced that Roky Erickson will be playing this years Austin City Limits Festival!!!
http://www.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=3547818