{"id":441,"date":"2004-07-12T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-12T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=441"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"meeting-another-ambient-music-fan-making-cd-lists-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2004\/07\/meeting-another-ambient-music-fan-making-cd-lists-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting another ambient music fan,  making CD lists, rain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got up at 5:30 this morning, and stumbled into a conversation about Aphex Twin, specifically the Richard D. James album, which took an interesting turn.<\/p>\n<p>&lt; Bibliomaniac&gt; I am now very interested in hearing it.  I really enjoy the Ambient Works CDs.  pleia2, you heard these albums before?<br \/>\n&lt;+pleia2&gt; Bibliomaniac: yeah, we have two copies of volume 2, heh<br \/>\n&lt;+pleia2&gt; just my boyfriend has volume one though<br \/>\n&lt;+pleia2&gt; he&#8217;s really really into ambient<br \/>\n&lt; Bibliomaniac&gt; Oh sweet!  I am really really into ambient.  What other artists does he listen to?<br \/>\n&lt;+pleia2&gt; Bibliomaniac: a lot of Steve Roach, Robert Rich<br \/>\n&lt; Bibliomaniac&gt; I am engrossed with ambient.  WHOA!<br \/>\n&lt; Bibliomaniac&gt; YOu serious?  I have most all of Roach&#8217;s and Rich&#8217;s albums.<br \/>\n&lt;+pleia2&gt; %o!<br \/>\n&lt; Bibliomaniac&gt; Yeah, Vidna Obmana, too.<br \/>\n&lt;+pleia2&gt; yeah!<br \/>\n<lj-cut><br \/>\nWow neat. I think this is the first time I&#8217;ve randomly run into an ambient fan, and it was in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamemusic.us\">#GameMusic<\/a> channel that I don&#8217;t talk in much in. So I spent a while talking to him, and to my surprise I think I was actually able to hold my own in the conversation. I did mention to him that I hadn&#8217;t been learning about ambient music for too long, and several times said &#8220;&#8230;of course my boyfriend would know more&#8230;&#8221; but I surprised myself with my competence. See, I shouldn&#8217;t downplay my knowledge so much, I know more than I think I know. So while we were talking I decided to make up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/music\/MichaelCDs.txt\">a list<\/a> of all Michael&#8217;s CDs. Then, list in hand, we decided to share some music. He sent a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vipinfo.com\/jonn\/\">Jonn Serrie<\/a> albums, and was nice enough to rip them in ogg! Yay I love Jonn Serrie! Also sent some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liquidmindmusic.com\/\">Liquid Mind<\/a>, which I&#8217;ll have to check out after listening through this Serrie.<\/p>\n<p>Then since I had made a list of Michael&#8217;s CDs I decided to make a list of my own too. That&#8217;s when I realized that I have a lot of crap. So I removed a bunch of crap from my collection that I don&#8217;t listen to anymore (I should sell it or give it away), and kept some crap in because I sometimes might be in the mood for it, and ended up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/music\/ElizabethCDs.txt\">my list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I might put together some sort of database for this CD stuff. I looked around a bit and the only linux app I could find that might reasonably do this was <a href=\"http:\/\/kmusicdb.sourceforge.net\/\">KmusicdB<\/a>, which requires lots of KDE libs, and uses postgreSQL. That would be too much of a pain I think, especially since I&#8217;d want Michael to be able to use it too. Maybe on a local box running apache I can write my own with mysql and php, at least that would be easy to put on a website someday if I felt so inclined.<\/p>\n<p>There was a little bit of touchup painting to do in the spare bedroom, so I spent some time today and did that. It&#8217;s looking nice, except for behind the radiator. The wrench broke while Michael was trying to unscrew it. Yeah, wrench broke, stupid thing. So we&#8217;ll need to get a nicer new wrench and move the radiator when we have a chance. The room looks good though, the bright blue was just too much, white is good!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been raining here all day long. I almost had forgotten that it rains during the day too, since all season I&#8217;ve gotten used to &#8220;hot and sunny during the day, thunderstorm in evening&#8221; cycle. It&#8217;s nice to have a rainy day sometimes, and somewhat amusing, since now we have a moat:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/home\/our_moat.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/home\/our_moat_sm.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll make some Boca Burgers for dinner. Yum.<\/p>\n<p>*wanders off*<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up at 5:30 this morning, and stumbled into a conversation about Aphex Twin, specifically the Richard D. James album, which took an interesting turn. &lt; Bibliomaniac&gt; I am now very interested in hearing it. I really enjoy the Ambient Works CDs. pleia2, you heard these albums before? &lt;+pleia2&gt; Bibliomaniac: yeah, we have two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}