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AN REM HOLIDAY WEEKEND!

Posted by Infonistacrat on Friday, July 3rd, 2009

I’m sitting here in the Detroit airport, waiting on my wifes plane to get in from Cali, and decided that instead of working, it would be better to listen to some music, write up a post, and have a little fun. I can only take work so long, and besides, everyone else in my [...]

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SHUFFLING THE iPOD, DAY 3

Posted by Infonistacrat on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Last day in a hotel room for a few days…tomorrow, I am heading home. Sometimes, even with the roughest of jobs, you get a week where the stars align, the universe opens up, and everything goes well. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it’s a beautiful thing. And make no [...]

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BACK TO THE FUTURE, I GUESS

Posted by Infonistacrat on Monday, June 29th, 2009

Well, I had the new theme up for a bit, but there were a few tweaks I just could not get worked out. Mainly, I simply could not get it to work with Wordpress Stats. There were a few other things that kind of bugged the hell out of me, that I could [...]

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BREAK OVER…LETS GET BACK TO ROCKIN!

Posted by Infonistacrat on Monday, June 2nd, 2008

9:30 AM update: I have todays post back up and in working order. I also have restored the playlists that the player depends on to work. The last thing is to upload all the files, which will take a few hours. As soon as they are done, the site will be back in perfect working order. Thankfully I learned from my last tragedy, and keep everything backed up locally.

Looks like the weekends problems are still haunting me. When they rebuilt the bad hard drives, it looks like they had to go back a long way to find a backup that wasn’t corrupted. Soooooo….that means the music from todays post was missing. I’m uploading that as we speak. But that also means that almost a months worth of posts are also missing. Fortunately, I’ve learned not to trust these amateurs. I also make local backups of both the music and the playlists. So, what that means is that for the second time this year, I have to go back and rebuild the site bit by bit. I first have to figure out the extent of the damage, and then go and rebuild. Hopefully, this won’t take too long….I swear, it’s times like these that make you want to throw in the towel!

Well, as you can tell if you’ve tried to visit the site in the past few days, I’ve been down. Or rather, my web-host has been down. I guess something pretty major happened with the hard drives. In fact, I know exactly when it happened Saturday night, as I was writing up a post for yesterday when it all went bad. I lost that post, which sucks, but at least I’m back online!

I’m going to try to get another post in today for tomorrow. I say try, because I have a few things going on that might prevent it. I have to leave for another business trip…Pittsburgh again. Plus my wifes mother is having a hip replacement today, so that has my wife completely freaked out. I swear, getting old sucks huge!

So, enjoy the rather quickly assembled post…a collection of songs by some of my favorite “wall of sound” bands in the shoe gaze tradition. Enjoy!




  1. Garbage – Not My Idea
  2. Cure – Clipped
  3. My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow
  4. Chapterhouse – Losing Touch With My Mind
  5. Cranes – Tomorrows Tears
  6. The Boo Radleys – If You Want It, Take It
  7. Swervedriver – Flawed
  8. The Jesus and Mary Chain – I Hate Rock N Roll
  9. Cocteau Twins – Fotzepolitic
  10. Lush – For Love

Posted in: 80's, 90's, Alternative.

5 Responses to “BREAK OVER…LETS GET BACK TO ROCKIN!”

  1. Michael Says:

    Sorry Dude but,your Player is not working & your Links aren’t working either.. :(

    Michael’s last blog post..Pelosi & That Impeachment Thang !

  2. Infonistacrat Says:

    @Michael:

    Thanks. I found the issue. Seems when they rebuilt the disks, they did it from a monthly backup, but failed to tell anyone. Bastards. I’m on the verge of finding another host, I swear.

  3. Herr Schmidt Says:

    Even 18 years after its release I still get a little shock when I get to see that Cocteau Twins title!
    Because in german “Fotze” is a very, VERY rude word for vagina – so “Fotzepolitic” is a rather strange term to german eyes… :)
    Just a little information besides – eryone goes for that,right?

  4. Herr Schmidt Says:

    Oh…All the best to your mother-in-law.Hope it will all turn out fine!

  5. Infonistacrat Says:

    @Herr Schmidt:

    I always wondered what that title meant. Now I have a pretty good idea. :-) A huge thanks for that information. Now I can add another word, albeit not a good one, to my limited German vocabulary from high school.

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