Bookeaters Video

icapants · Post by **icapants** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:32 am

Yaay pushover!

http://www.stereogum.com/archives/003196.html

Post by **Liesbeth** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:59 am

nice vid, although I still find it kinda weird that all of a sudden videos (albeit bad quality ones) are so readily available.

read on for the comments:
" He makes Christopher Cross seem edgy."

the comments also link to the Rolling Stone review. The reviewer clearly must not have been of the single KEXP-listening 30-something female variety.

junker347 · Post by **junker347** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:04 pm

umm... lets see some of that Commander acoustic action.... please?

ImLost@Sea · Post by **ImLost@Sea** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:53 am

Baseball Player: I was partying, drinking, sleeping with gorgeous women every night, until one day Ned showed me there's more to life.

Homer: (scours) You professional athletes, always wanting more.

Sorry, I just felt like adding a random Simpsons quote I was reminded of.

kathryn · Post by **kathryn** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:15 am

(Sidenote: that's my photo in the Rolling Stone review.)

Here's more:
http://flickr.com/photos/kathryn/sets/7 ... 249616417/

The guy who does Ryspace.com recorded the audio for the show, I think. He's posted a Sufjan track and promisesmore in the future.

Post by **Liesbeth** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:07 am

granted, it's only half a line, but Billboard seemed to like John's performance

junker347 · Post by **junker347** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:52 am

someone needs to start a banter audio archive...

GMM · Post by **GMM** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:32 pm

Someone did... But they didn't archive it. And the sick bastards only left everything up for a week. AND SOME OF US ONLY DISCOVERED IT AS IT WAS CLOSING. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!

Squid · Post by **Squid** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:36 am

But...there is a banter archive? I'm not aware of this one that was only up for a short time that GMM is referring to...but Liesbeth's is still very much in existence. Right, Liesbeth?

Post by **Liesbeth** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:15 am

if I am indeed a sick bastard, it is for a reason. Well, several reasons actually. One is that I don't have the bandwidth to have every bit of banter up at the same time. But even if I had, I'm not sure I would leave everything up. You know, anticipation adding to the enjoyment and all that. It just wouldn't do for the banter to become something to boringly browse through to find the fattest bits.

But since it might be a little while before I can update the banter stage in teh Library again, I could do a re-run of the old banter for a bit. LET ME KNOW IF THAT WILL STOP PEOPLE SCREAMING THEIR HEADS OFF.

junker347 · Post by **junker347** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:42 pm

ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

sour29 · Post by **sour29** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 3:14 pm

I would offer to help host, but it sounds like you've got it covered. If you do, ever need hosting help, I have something ludacrus like 50gigs of bandwidth a month. Enough that I've felt confident hosting the FLACs of live shows, anyhow.

GMM · Post by **GMM** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 3:59 pm

HELL GOD DAMN YES START RERUNNING OLD BANTER

Say, Sour29 - How about those live show FLACs? You do mean LDubs live shows, right? I don't have ANY LWs bootlegs and I really should

sour29 · Post by **sour29** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:41 am

You really should be reading some of my posts in the other threads, then. The address is no secret!

Post by **Liesbeth** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:55 am

okay, first rerun is up in the Long Winters Library, Banter of the Week.
I'm not gonna announce every one of them here, but if you want to keep up to date, I recommend the RSS feed.[/url]

philistien · Post by **philistien** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:27 pm

ok, i have a dumb question. how do i make flac play on my computer? i'm a complete plebe when it comes to computers and i've never been able to make it work. if anyone cares to inform me, i'd appreciate it ever so much.

the new girl · Post by **the new girl** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:50 pm

philistien wrote:ok, i have a dumb question. how do i make flac play on my computer? i'm a complete plebe when it comes to computers and i've never been able to make it work. if anyone cares to inform me, i'd appreciate it ever so much.

Winamp will play flac files. (http://www.winamp.com)
You can also use a program like FLAC frontend to convert flac files to .wav files if you want to burn to cd and play in the stereo, etc. Just download the frontend program/interface from that page, install, and drag/drop flac files into the window and click "decode." I'm sure there are ways to decode to other file types than wav's, but I'm not all that flac-saavy and this seems like a good way to get stuff onto cd's. (I have no idea what this does to compression/quality, but it's good enough for me...)

sour29 · Post by **sour29** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:42 am

That's *exactly* what you do! Well done!

Hot tip: if you find recent versions of Winamp unnecessarily bloated, check out OldVersion.com for an older version of Winamp. I've been using v.2.81 for years, because I've never had a damn problem with it, yet!

Hot rumour: As I understand it, newer versions of Nero convert FLAC files to WAV for you as you burn them, or something. I still trust FLAC Frontend a little more, but if you want to skip the step, that might be something to look into.

sour29 · Post by **sour29** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:21 am

Honest

icapants · Post by **icapants** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:08 pm

sour29 wrote:Honest

In a slightly offtopic reply, watching the video for honest led me to watching the video for new girl which lead me to watching thriller (yes, that thriller) which lead me to watch the simpsons vs star trek which ended with me watching the panic at the disco singer get hit in the head with a bottle.

The point? None, really. Work is slow and I like youtube.

To tie back into things that matter, a ton of LW videos have been showing up on there lately.
Yay youtube.