So I'm playing around with yet another video social networking site Stickam. I do like the live video chat and IMHO it has promise, although there are still quite a few bugs to work out.

Here is a quick video I uploaded for testing, it's just me playing some guitar and improvising, so please don't be too harsh

These songs we're actually written, produced, and recorded one balmy Florida night, fueled by 32's of OE (Yeah, Florida sucks, no 40's!).

Okay, I must warn you, if you intend to listen to the following tracks, do not do so at work or around anyone that would get offended by "Questionable" lyrics. Yes, this music is definately NSFW!

BiggityB***s.MP3

S.M.D.MP3

FRIGID LIKE AN ESKIMO.MP3

On a chilly March afternoon last year, Que and I sat down and decided to record one of our improv sessions, I miss those days.

bAdmArk_Cant_breathe.mp4 (2.2 MB)

bAdmArk_Cheese-e_Many_beers_in.mp4 (1.8 MB) 

bAdmArk_Demons_Spawn.mp4 (1.71 MB) 

bAdmArk_Desesperado.mp4 (1.28 MB) 

bAdmArk_Dying_Day.mp4 (1.26 MB) 

bAdmArk_Empty_Resolve.mp4 (1.7 MB) 

bAdmArk_Eternally.mp4 (1.37 MB) 

bAdmArk_Father_mercy.mp4 (1.56 MB) 

bAdmArk_Green_sky.mp4 (1.82 MB) 

bAdmArk_Hide.mp4 (1.52 MB) 

bAdmArk_hollow_footsteps.mp4 (1.88 MB) 

bAdmArk_In_the_grave.mp4 (1.54 MB) 

bAdmArk_Junk_one.mp4 (1.65 MB) 

bAdmArk_Noun_two.mp4 (1.34 MB)

bAdmArk circa 2005

So, a certain somebody has been bugging me to get some of my music online. The following 5 tracks were recorded sometime back in 2003.

Background: This was the second time I had met Rick (the drummer), an expatriate who invited me to bring my "Axe and Amp" next time I came his way. Thing is, his way was half way up the Poas Volcano, not somewhere I ventured all that often, even though I had been in Costa Rica for over a year this time.

After calling me several times, I was convinced that a jam was indeed the trick I needed to get me out of this rut.

When I got to his house, it was still in the early afternoon, around 4:20pm, so it was still nice and bright. The first time I came up to this house, had been a week prior, it was late and I already had a buzz before I got there, so I was never able to truly appreciate the spot.

Rick's house, a two story, large bay windows, and both east and west facing upper decks, sat on a hill, on this mountain, that was a volcano, the view was amazing, you could practically see from Puntarenas to Limon!

Upstairs was his "Studio", his drumset a table, a laptop, a couch. I plugged in, tuned up, and this is what we produced (this is all improvisational).

CR_Jam_Track_1.mp4 (1.9 MB)

CR_Jam_Track_2.mp4 (1.12 MB)

CR_Jam_Track_3.mp4 (1.49 MB)

CR_Jam_Track_4.mp4 (1010.47 KB)

Apparantely someone at WalMart got a little ansy about adding the Microsoft Zune to their online database. Based on some reports, for a short time yesterday, Walmart had the Zune listed at a retail value of $284.00. Question is, was this price set prior to Apple dropping the price on their 30GB iPod down to $249.00 from $299.00? Will Microsoft come in even lower for this wonderful Zune we all keep hearing about?

Walmart has a whole section dedicated to the Zune.

Only time will tell....

UPDATE

It's seems someone at Microsoft leaked the final price of the Zune - Drumroll please - $229.00. Apparantely they've decided to drop some pre-loaded content to make the price below that of Apple's iPod.

For sometime now, my wife and I have been sharing one vehicle, our trusty Land Rover Molly (Molly was the center of attention during the Rosenthal Sucks experience), so this past weekend I finally broke down and decided to go get me another car. I receive in the vincinity of ten "Pre-Approved Financing" automobile offers (where do they get my name?) so I pretty much played iny miny miney moe and decided on a Ford dealership nearby, Kip Killmon's Ford.

I wasn't really set on a particular model of car, just something small, 4-door, 4 cylinder, newer model. After a quick tour with my salesman Sam, I decided on a 2006 Toyota Corolla S-Type, silver, black interior, only 4K miles. While we did the test drive, Sam and I got to talking about music, he asked me if I had ever heard of an album by Steve Winwood by the name of "Go". I never had, he explained that it was a project he did with some other musicians, he couldent remeber their names, only that it was released around '76 or '77. He claimed that he had searched for it in numerous record stores but had no luck. He also is one of the few people remaining that doesnt have a computer or use one for work, he had never checked online.

I offered to take a look and see if I could locate it for him, since he said it was an absolutely amazing album. When I got home (In my new Corolla) I decided to use my Jedi searching skills to come across this yet to me unknown album. After a few minutes I found out that Steve Winwood did collaborate with a japanese musician by the name of Stomu Yamash'ta on an album named "Go". Unfortunately iTunes did not have this available for download, Amazon had some used copies, but I was heading back over to the dealership in a couple of days and wanted to get something for him sooner. After searching Google for "Stomu Yamash'ta download MP3" I came across LegalSounds.com an outfit based out of Russia. They advertise downloadable MP3 tracks for $0.09 a track! Yes, thats right, not $0.99, but under a dime a track! Not only are they supa cheap, they had some tracks that until now, I was unable to find. I have spent several hours going through my memory banks to drudge up some old songs I never thought I'd be able to find digitally, their library is definately filled with some obscure and rare tracks, a treasure trove for those searching for tracks not normally found on iTunes or Napster.

As far as I can tell, they are completely legit, my assumption is that they are paying licensesing fee's at Russian rates and then reselling to the international market. So until I find out otherwise, LegalSounds is my new one stop shop for rare and hard to find music tracks.