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...to the show that never ends...

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Monday, March 03, 2008 23 Of Your Sparks

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So....we have had...ummmm...how many days off???...Wednesday...Thursday...Friday...ummm that would be three days off...what the hell did we do with that time?

Well, we spent Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday NOT feeling well at all... We left work early on Thursday and took Friday off and spent most of Saturday in bed...Bad cold, sore throat, body cramps...ugh - at least it was not the flu...as we are feeling a tad better...We had darlin' Nancy come over and play nurse on Friday and that was nice...

It did cramp our plans for Saturday evening. We had tickets to a Memphis Grizzlies game and reservations at a local restaurant - all set up by her boss who gave us his seats for the game.

As we have mentioned, we got the iMac last weekend and we did spend some off our time, moving all of our CDs into iTunes, giving us a nice start on reviving our music collection on-line.

OH...AND....WE GOT A CALL ON FRIDAY from Computer Labs - the folks who have our old iMac. They have it up and running!

At that point they thought they had recovered everything, but were doing a few more diagnostics to it to and would be calling back today. We have a decision to make...whether to drop in a new larger hard drive or leave the 60gb drive and just buy an external 500gb hard drive for backing everything up.

So, we have all of our music and photos and documents back. It also means we have our Photoshop and Illustrator back. Granted, they will need to stay on the old machine (they are not compatible with Leopard, the new Mac operating system).

But after pulling everything else onto the new Mac, the old one will have plenty of space...

We also tracked down the USB turntable we want ... BUT - another device by the same company came into the picture...ION makes it and it is a converter called u record that takes the outputs from either a turntable or a cassette deck and converts it to go into the computer and comes with all the same software for removing clicks and snaps when using vinyl.

Our turntables are just fine, both work great, though the one we would use for transferring - A Pioneer Direct Drive we used when we DJ'ed, needs a new stylus.

We also have two cassette decks in great shape, In the end it is about 3/4 the cost of the turntable alone, and then we would need to buy the USB Cassette. Not sure we will ever use cassettes again after we digitize them, so why spend the money.

OK, let us say one thing here....WAKE UP FOLKS....that was in case anyone had nodded off...

The iMac has given us one problem. Last week, we used SKYPE to 'call' into the Radio Happy Hour and using the same headphone/mic set we have used on the work laptop, the sound quality was unacceptable.

Not sure why it is giving us an echo - or making us sound "as though we are sitting in a bathroom" - as Doc put it...or did he say the phone WAS a bathroom???

We have checked all the settings - so we will need the laptop when doing the show...

What else....oh what else did we want to talk about? OH yeah... we have to change the title of "The Quest", the short story (found HERE) we are working into a novel...Seems there is a movie called "The Quest" already...we happened to notice it on the STARZ in-Demand selections this weekend.

It is a 1996 Jean-Claude Van Damme you to all hell you hack... OH, sorry...got carried away there. As the storyline follows what my lead character calls THE QUEST, we will just need to change the title when we are ready to submit to a publisher.

OH, yeah, so we have a century or two before we need THAT problem solved! No, really, we have been jotting some notes and want to get back into that.

OH...and that wild, fun, talented guy Roger, bestowed upon us this cool badge...THANKS ROGER!!

Well, think we have rambled on long enough...

There is all sorts of new music sitting on the computer...so we will just shuffle it all up and let you hear the first two...just because we can!

JASON & THE SCORCHERS
"You Got A Way With Me"
Thunder And Fire
A&M, 1989
The band's only outing on A&M, and their last studio album of the 1980's.

JIMI HENDRIX
"Like A Rolling Stone"
Bob Dylan
Winterland Arena, SF, CA
October 10, 1968
Personal Collection

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Brain Recharge...

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Tuesday, February 26, 2008 35 Of Your Sparks

No huge deal...just been sitting here trying to write something and still staring at a blank screen -

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind and we are just exhausted...physically and mentally and we need some down-time from composing...

Will be back next Monday - rested and ready to hit the ground running...

We will still be visiting you, just going to let the brain cells regenerate...

Coming up this week on DR. BLOGSTEIN’S RADIO HAPPY HOUR:

(Live on Tuesday February 26th at 9PM ET and forever archived at BlogTalkRadio.)

The only boxer ever to become world heavyweight champion four times, Evander Holyfield joins the Blogstein show for a no-holds barred interview.

The “Real Deal” who’s new book, Becoming Holyfield, hit the stores last week was supposed to be live on our previous program but instead saw Grease on Broadway.

We’ll find out what he thought of Grease, whether he’s a better dancer than Danny Zuko, and if his fighting days are behind him.

Also, actor Randy Tobin joins us live to pimp his upcoming release, The American Poop Movie

and actorScott Michael Foster will tell us about his new NBC series, Quarterlife, that debuts on Tuesday.

All that, plus, Dangerous Lee co-hosts, Vinny Bond drags his Big Leather Couch into the Radio Happy Hour Lounge to chat live with the listeners and Justin the Weatherman stops in with a Costa Rican forecast and we’ll take your calls at 646. 652.4804.

Join us live every Tuesday night at 9PM ET. The Radio Happy Hour Lounge-a live chat room during show time-is a whole new reason to make sure you listen live! It’s the show within the show!

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Been A Long Month & I Am Thinking...

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Tuesday, January 30, 2007 22 Of Your Sparks

CREDITS:
MUSIC CODES: Best Audio Codes
TIME: David Bowie; Composer: David Bowie
HOLD ON I'M COMIN' : Sam & Dave; Composers: Issac Hayes & David Porter

PICTURE 1: Ann Cecil
PICTURE 2: Three Square Meals

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TICK...TOCK...TICK...TOCK

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Tuesday, April 11, 2006 0 Of Your Sparks

"Due to some graphic violence, viewer discretion is advised"

Sound of a clock...

The beginning of another episode of 24. Jack Bauer (played by Keifer Sutherland) and CTU fighting the forces of evil and protecting the USA.

This season has been incredibly exciting and every week, they throw a curveball at us. President Logan, the numbskull? Well, actually he is a calculating megalomaniac who is only concerned with his place in history, and if that means putting biological weapons in the hands of a madman, so that the President can look good when he foils the plot...so be it.

Each Monday, I clear my schedule and sit down to be enthralled by this show. Never seen it? Well, in case you do not know, the show is shot in real time. The actors never get in a car and make a 90-minute drive in 3 minutes. It takes them 90 minutes. So, if they start the drive at the start of one show, they do not arrive until the middle of the show the following week.

OK, purists will state examples of times that the clock seems to have slowed down or speeded up...but for the most part they keep it real.

There are characters to hate (this season, Lynn (played by Sean Astin of Rudy fame). Characters who are always there and can make you angry or sad or happy or confused (Chloe played by Mary Lynn Rajskub).

This is one of those that is a DO NOT MISS.... and HEY, if you have never seen it and feel like you can't start up in the middle, the first 4 seasons are out on DVD and you should try them out.

More stuff to ponder:

A new poll by Time Magazine and The Oprah Winfrey Show reveals 65% of the nation believes that High School dropouts should be denied the right to get a drivers license. Now, I can see the logic they are using here, but if these people can not get to Mickey D's or Aeropostale to work, then what else will they be doing?

These lacrosse players at Duke University have really put themselves in a bind here. Losing an entire season must hurt. Not as much as the hurt the young woman received that evening if you believe the reports. I am not judging either way until the DNA testing is complete. Now if all the lacrosse players are found to not have been involved, do they then try and figure out whom else was in the house and test them? Is that possible? Now there is talk of "photographic evidence" that this woman came to the party bruised and beaten. This is going to take a while to get itself straightened out me thinks...

This one cracked me up in a big way. Seems there is a big rivalry beginning between two Kiss Tribute Bands in Las Vegas. One of the bands, led by Joey Fatale is called MiniKiss. The other is led by their former drummer Tim Loomis and is named Tiny Kiss. Interesting names you say? Well they both have those names because the members of both bands are dwarfs.

It appears the members of MiniKiss tried to sneak into a performance by Tiny Kiss so they could have a fight. Fortunately the bouncers (not known if they are also dwarfs) noticed them and had them removed from the building. Loomis insists the trouble began when he was with MiniKiss and started getting more women then Fatale and he was forced to leave to form his own band. Tiny Kiss can be seen at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.

Loomis is no stranger to these types of incidents. In 2004 he waged a war with Nelson De la Rosa, after replacing him as Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez' good luck charm.

Only in America....

Has Barry Bonds retired yet? No? Too bad.

Keep that spark of insanity kids...it helps keep you an individual.

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