5 posts tagged “mp3”

First, 

I'm baking one of these right now for my friend's birthday celebration while listening to Go Jimmy Go (they're a ska band from back in the day..wonder if they are still around)...anyway, I added a little extra ingredient called whisky to this pie so who knows how it will affect the taste..also had a little to help me...it's medicinal people! Just like Julia Child and that new lady who does "Almost Home Made" on the Food Network. 

I started working with one of these this week:

Yes! It's pretty fricking amazing! This is my new favorite video camera! It has so many features! I don't even really know what I'm doing but it is so nice doing something I love! Videotaping stuff! I agreed to help our AV guy and hopefully, I'll take some of the videotaping responsibilities he has. He's really unbelievably busy and I'm glad to do it but now I need to recruit some students. And also figure out how to incorporate this into an elective. Honestly, it's perfect to segue into teaching broadcast journalism since some of the course will be on video production. If I have a broadcast journalism course and I'm rotating students around to practice different aspects of broadcast journalism, I can use them for different productions and they can practice video production. 

Then today I went to my first ISLE meeting (Independent School Library Exchange) and during the meeting I volunteered to be the archivist.

So, if you don't see me ever, you totally know the reason why!!!

Anyway, and I'm the secretary/note taker for Burbank Animal Shelter Volunteers. 

Plus, I want to go dancing...

Yeah. CRACK! No, it's actually me turning into my mother. She has church groups and other stuff and this is what I have.

So, here's a totally silly song to end this post:

It was actually pretty quiet and lots of remnants of the fireworks and incense from the night before. I did see this lovely roast pig outside a restaurant though.
We call it lechon in the Philippines and it is delicious. I'm sure some people would freak out about it but it's food from my culture and I embrace it.

I also tried a restaurant called Kim Chuy which was in a little mini shopping center (there are a ton in Chinatown) and ended up having fried fish and rice. There is something about fried fish that is just comforting and I hardly eat it so it was time.

I even had time to make champuraddo. Have you had it? It's Filipino chocolate rice.
You cook it like regular rice but with extra water so it's like porridge and also add a tea/tablespoon of sugar and a tablespoon of cooking chocolate. I used bittersweet ghiradelli because I have it lying around from holiday cookie baking. I also threw in a dash of cinnamon. It's not very sweet but you eat it with milk or a little condensed milk. I have a crazy sweet tooth and I grew up eating it with condensed milk. It is perfect on a cold day because it is hot and steamy (ha ha ha - remembering a twitter interaction).

2 days off you can actually accomplish things like cleaning your little studio and laundry. Is it just me but is doing laundry at the laundromat complete torture? I swear, the owner has the worst station on the planet on. Let me just say it's like being locking in a room for 2 hours listening to Celine Dion. TORTURE! By the end of it, I'm staring at the clocking running down on the dryer so I can grab my clothes and throw them in the bag. I can't even stay there to fold because if you were stuck listening to Celine Dion for 2 hours you would want to stab your ears like me!

I also got to feed my new obsession with the Fleet Foxes album. It's really beautiful. I am sad I missed them on SNL.

and also digitize more CDs. I didn't have any Hepcat on my iTunes. I am not sure how that happened so I remedied it today.

So here are 2 songs to enjoy this evening.

The next track is from the Manhattans. It is off of a Columbia 45 that was pressed in 1973. The B side is "I'm not a run around." I really do not have much from them so I thought I would add this one.

Sticking with the 70s, this is Al Green's "You Say It" from London Records (1970). It's funky! This one makes you want to get up and dance.

That's it for tonight.

Have a great Sunday night and a great week!

 

Instead of working on my school to-do list last night and after my misadventure, I ended up opening my ION turntable and to set it up to "digitize" (as they say in the archives) my vinyl/record collection. I have not looked at my 45s in a long while but I was inspired by Headphonerecord, who sent me a HSA mix at the beginning of the year and I know I have some hidden gems in that old milk crate.

I thought it was going to be a whole lot to set-up than it turned out to be. The turntable was easy to put together just follow the directions. The difficult part that I still keep adjusting is the counter-balance weight at the end of the needle arm. I forgot that you need to adjust it with each album. It all depends on the quality of the pressing and how old it is and I am sure other factors that I am not technically schooled in. I am pretty comfortable with turntables, I own 3 of various styles but I was constantly being reminded of things I never really worried about as a radio DJ because someone before me had always worried about it.

After setting up the turntable, I inserted the EZ Vinyl Converter & Audacity disc that comes with the turntable. First, I have a MAC, the EZ Vinyl Converter is not MAC compatible. Second, after going back and forth and a little frustration, the Audacity software on the disc is outdated. Luckily, I have used Audacity at school with my students and it is Open Source and very easy to use. I ended up downloading Audacity from the website. I also ended up having to find a post about what to change the settings on my little iBook G4 so that I could record. Thank you flyingsnail! I had to change my Audio inputs and MIDI setting and I have never done that before.

At first, because I did not know I had to change all the inputs and audio settings, I would monitor the input in Audacity, it was picking up some weird feedback but it was also kind of picking up the record. After I downloaded the new Audacity and changed the audio settings, it started working and I was getting playback from my computer. It was definitely one of the coolest things I have ever done!

ADDENDUM: Oh yeah, you also need to down load the mp3 encoder = LAME LIB. I know the .aiff (MAC) and .wav (PC) are better formats but if you want to be able to play them pretty much where ever I would use the .mp3 format which still seems more universal than the other audio formats. (if I am wrong please correct me. thanks!)

So, with that little review, here are a couple of the 45s I've converted for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!

Lovefool by the Cardigans is the first single I converted from a limited edition white 45. Whoo-hoooo!

Not much planned for today except to be lazy, which is fine because I've had a pretty eventful week. I've been out of town for most of June so this week I was and am catching up with a lot of my favorite peeps. Last night, I had dinner at Tender Greens with the Kim Sisters. They are always fun times. I love that restaurant but Kathy has me intrigued about the fried chicken place a few doors down. I might have to try it soon or when Ambookgeek comes back to town.  Culver City is coming up :)

I also ended up in Tarzana with the Reolas to watch their friend play in his side project band, The Blue Band. Ok, one guy is from Supertramp and another guy used to play with Quiet Riot. Yeah! They now play blues :) hee hee. Pretty tight band too so definitely worth seeing. They have a regular gig at the Sugar Mill Saloon if you want to go and check them out. Beware of the stale popcorn though. Even though, it is IMPOSSIBLE to not eat it because there is a basket at every table and its just there. Every bite you think, "gross, this is stale" and then you just keep going back for more. It's powerful stuff - stale popcorn :)

Of course, more fun time at the Good Nite even though there was a cockroach the size of my ring finger hanging out. They killed it so its all good. At least it's not a restaurant! Tall Guy and I were talking about it and I said, "yeah it was the size of my finger" and he goes, "no it wasn't" then I held out my ring finger and I was all "Yeah, the size of my finger. hello!!!" My hands are small. I'm a small girl so really, it was not a bad description. Then we headed over and watched Wall-E with MisterJT & the Disney crew.

So, yes, I give myself permission to be lazy, watch the Dodgers/Giants game and eat White Castle Burgers before whatever happens later. :) Cheers!