The GoYin Store: Buy GoYin Wholesale

The best thing that happened to me so far today (so in the last 46 minutes) happened when I logged onto the Official Elliott Smith Site for the first time in months. It looks like they have revamped it… and on wordpress! But, if you go there and look closely, they are using the same theme I am. Of course, Elliott is deceased and so its not like he chose the theme himself so its not like we have similar tastes in themes, but it made me happy.

I consider Elliott Smith to be one of the greatest song writers of this (well those of us that are 30s-ish) generation. His deceptively transparent rock style includes avante garde, atonal chord intervals and melodic/harmonic lines that beautifully intersect and make invisible spider webs. Some of his songs include “Miss Misery” which was featured in the film Good Will Hunting, “Needle in the Hay” which was featured in the film The Royal Tennenbaums, my favorite, “Condor Ave.”, “Somebody I Used to Know”, “Son of Sam”, “Baby Brittain”, and um, about 115 other songs.

Brief Bio

I’m not going to regurgitate his life history here, but you should go to the official site, Sweet Adeline, and read it. His life was pretty riddled with heavy heroin use and sordid developmental stages. It ended in the beginning of 2003 with multiple stab wounds to the chest. Although his death was originally reported as suicide, his close friends reported that Elliott was on the up-and-up at the time, and that he had shown progress in rehab. The case was reopenned to homicide investigations.

Anyhow….

If you are an Elliott Smith fan or would like to be introduced to music that is important to today’s musical landscape, check out the site. You will find tabs, lyrics, and even rare and free downloadable music files (some are mp3 some are .rm). There is enough music there to fill about 3 albums.

Kok’s Woodgoods: Brilliant or Naive? Either way, they are probably getting free publicity from folks other than me.

(This is a picture I took at Lowe’s Hardware store)

Caroline Brown is an environmentally sound sustainable gardening enthusiast, and I thought I would quickly plug her blog since I am sympathetic to the cause.

For those not familiar with the tenets of sustainable development, it is the practice of civil growth without allowing a deficit of available resources to develop, keeping future generations in mind. Check out her blog here if you are interested. It is a thoroughly written blog which shows obvious signs of tender loving care, which is more than I can say about my blog.

While on the subject of sustainable growth, Preston, Nate, and I are beginning work on an online retail store for alternative energy and conservation products. For those that are interested in sustainable growth and environmental science, I propose that there isn’t any realistic solution that isn’t market driven. In a more perfect world big business would be run by a huge group of people with big green hearts, but unfortunately this isn’t the case.

The new store will be Adombo.com. There’s a storefront there right now, but its just a beginning. Its going to change a lot in the next little while. Keep checking back!

As many of my faithful readers know, I am one paranoid android. I have a lot of sensitive and valuable data that I’ve been meaning to back-up on a remote server, most of which are music files. I was looking for a client that would back my data up automatically in the background when I was connected to the internet without me ever having to worry about it at least once a day.

I tried carbonite and box.net. My experiences were very similar to another disgruntled user, Pernell Ringlebottom. I found that comment and Peter Abilla followed Pernell’s comment suggesting Mozy.

So I tried Mozy, and it does everything that I was looking for. It quietly backs up my data during a scheduled time and its free. I just had to download the application, which needless to say is free of spyware and adware. You can also upgrade if you need more space for just $5 a month. Its a no-brainer.