Being Electrocuted
February 25, 2008
Hot Water Music Reunion Show - 1/18/08
I think I forgot to mention, when I went to Gainesville, FL last month for my grad school orientation, I was lucky enough to coincide with the Hot Water Music reunion shows in Gainesville and Orlando. They played with Samiam and my friends Cutman at both. The first show at Common Grounds was actually a 'secret' show, but most people knew a hometown reunion was inevitable. I found some videos of the show on the YouTube:
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February 18, 2008
Bay Area Concert Feed Part 3: NetDrive to the Rescue
I think I found a solution. iConcertCal will save an ical file to a local drive on my PC. The problem is that Windows will not let you map an FTP location as a local drive. After searching around, I found NetDrive, an unsupported Novell product (I had to download it from a UIC download page). This allowed me to point a new virtual drive (W:\) to mattdougherty.com and move the exported ical file here. You can find it (and subscribe if you want) at http://www.mattdougherty.com/iConcertCal.ics. I created a new Google Calendar with this URL, and replaced the calendar in the gadget on this page. Hopefully the ical file will update automatically without problems.
Let me know if there are local shows you know about that aren't appearing, iConcertCal lets you add additional concerts and artists manually. Also, as a disclaimer in case something super-lame pops up, I'm letting this thing run off my (not all mine) entire music collection unfiltered. ¶ 7:57 PM 1 Comments Links to this post
Let me know if there are local shows you know about that aren't appearing, iConcertCal lets you add additional concerts and artists manually. Also, as a disclaimer in case something super-lame pops up, I'm letting this thing run off my (not all mine) entire music collection unfiltered. ¶ 7:57 PM 1 Comments Links to this post
February 17, 2008
iConcertCal + Google Calendar Gadget
Done. That took about 15 minutes. The only problem I foresee is uploading a new iCal file to my Google Calendar every once in a while. The iConcertCal iTunes plugin should check the concert databases pretty often and update the iCal file stored on my hard drive, but I can't find a way to get Google Calendar to check that file and update. Hmmm
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Concert Listings Feed
I've been missing a lot of concerts lately. Maybe this is because I sold out on the city a while back, or maybe it's because there isn't a good notification system for concerts that I might actually want to see. I've been trying to solve the problem by looking up venues I trust and wishing on a lucky penny that they have an RSS feed of their concert calendar. About half of them do, mostly those who get their booking through Live Nation. So, I created a shared feed out of those I could find and put a Google Reader Gadget up on my blog (to the bottom right). As you can see, I'm having trouble displaying the listings by concert date rather than feed date.
While digging up shared concert calendars in Google Calendar, I stumbled upon JamBase. I seriously didn't know this site was still around. They actually have a really thorough database (at least for the Bay Area) and include most of the venues I wasn't able to import into my shared Reader feed. The problem with their site is that you have to manually add concerts to your calendar, but you can export as an iCal file and import that into Google Calendar. With this solution, I would have to constantly peruse the JamBase listings and add shows to my calendar. Doesn't sound fun, does it?
Enter iConcertCal. I may be late to the train discovering this iTunes plugin, but this seems like a failsafe solution. It will actually use my mp3 library to search JamBase and other concert databases to find shows by artists I might actually like. As long as the exported iCal file can periodically update, it should work. I am going to install this tonight and figure out if it works. I'll report back.
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While digging up shared concert calendars in Google Calendar, I stumbled upon JamBase. I seriously didn't know this site was still around. They actually have a really thorough database (at least for the Bay Area) and include most of the venues I wasn't able to import into my shared Reader feed. The problem with their site is that you have to manually add concerts to your calendar, but you can export as an iCal file and import that into Google Calendar. With this solution, I would have to constantly peruse the JamBase listings and add shows to my calendar. Doesn't sound fun, does it?
Enter iConcertCal. I may be late to the train discovering this iTunes plugin, but this seems like a failsafe solution. It will actually use my mp3 library to search JamBase and other concert databases to find shows by artists I might actually like. As long as the exported iCal file can periodically update, it should work. I am going to install this tonight and figure out if it works. I'll report back.
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February 2, 2008
Blood and Guts
Happy Anniversary to Me and Brigitta!
Technically, our 2 year anniversary was January 28th, but I had to leave town on the 27th. Last Saturday, we celebrated early by going to the Tech Museum in San Jose to see the Body World exhibit, then we went to see There will be Blood. I recommend both. We gifted ourselves by framing the Alfons Mucha prints we got in Prague last year. ¶ 9:28 AM 0 Comments Links to this post
Technically, our 2 year anniversary was January 28th, but I had to leave town on the 27th. Last Saturday, we celebrated early by going to the Tech Museum in San Jose to see the Body World exhibit, then we went to see There will be Blood. I recommend both. We gifted ourselves by framing the Alfons Mucha prints we got in Prague last year. ¶ 9:28 AM 0 Comments Links to this post
