Monthly Archives: June 2004

Lunch at Fry’s

Posted by chad on June 30, 2004 2 comments

So my co-workers like to eat on the cheap. Each day they come by my cube around noon, that’s when I instantly ask, “Where are you going?”. Typically, it’s some Asian fast food place where you can get a large bowl or plate of rice with some sort of cooked meat and sauce thrown on it for about $4. The key here is not to ask what the meat actually is.

Anyway, today the answer was Fry’s. Well if you aren’t in the know, Fry’s is an electronic store. It use to be a grocery store back in the day, but now it caters to the uber-computer geek. You can go in pick up a huge bag of candy, a new OEM hard drive wwithout packaging, and a Playboy on your way out to the check out line. Since I had to pick up some blank CD-Rs today, I though what the heck and went along.

I chose a roast beef sandwich which was fine, but I was expecting a good deal. I don’t consider $5 exactly a deal, especially since I use to get a superb half sandwich and chips at Mr. Pickles for under $5. Long story short, don’t go to an electronic store for lunch!

Enough with the extended tracks!

Posted by chad on June 21, 2004 Comments Off

Why does the music industry think extended tracks are so cool?! You know what an extended track is, right? It’s the hidden track that is on the last track of a CD which happens to be after the actually song, typically a couple of minutes of silence in between.

Why am I complaining about this? Well wile listening to my new Black Keys album, The Big Come Up, this morning on the way to work, I noticed after 3 or 4 minutes that my speakers were no longer playing music. So I reached for the seek knob and let it advance until I began to hear sound again. Well I was surprised to find that a whole 20 minutes had passed between the last song and the 1-2 minute “artsy movement”. Now a minute or tow is okay, but 20 minutes! You have to be kidding me!

I find this to be extremely frustrating and actually detrimental to the artists. Yes, I had the curiosity of a cat and advanced forward to hear this for first time, but you can bet your house on it that I will never do that again.

So why put it there in the first place? Why not just make it a new track on the CD? If you have music that is good enough to be printed on the CD, then put it on it’s own track! If for some bizarre reason you STILL FEEL the need to position it as an extended track, do me and everyone else a favor, don’t put 20 minutes of utterly painfully silence in between!