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Ok, since most people sort of laughed at me when I asked to help get the 18 referrals needed for a free laptop, I figured I'd try something else (although if you still want to sign up for that one that would be awesome, I just imagine it would take a looong time to get that many)... but anyway they have free iPod Shuffles, which I actually happen to think are pretty cool. For those times when you're just going out for a little while and know you only want to listen to a specific selection of songs, or I imagine in the summer when pocket space is more limited and a smaller device would be more practical... anyway, here's my link for the free iPod Shuffle. I only need THREE people to sign up through it and complete and offer to get one, then you only need three people, etc etc etc. Yay for the internet and free stuff!
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I can't help it, this Adam Green video for the song 'Emily' (I know this isn't really news, I just can't get it out of my head and had to mention it) is so cute, and the song is great. Just watch it over and over. It'll make your day, promise.
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I found a website with photos from the two day recording session of Glenn Branca's Symphony 13. You can spot me and Kristie in a number of photos - look for lots of curly hair! - (as well as Mike in one or two!). Oh and since I'm mentioning the Song Corporation kids, why don't you mosey on over to their site and download a the song 'The Bug Speaks' off their amazingly asskicking new record, and put a mark on your calender on February 12th to remind yourself to attend their release show at the Knitting Factory (El Jezel is playing that too!). Done? Good job!
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Because one can never have enough gadgets, and because I was inspired by Jenny P's succesful completion of requirements for her 40GB iPod (yes, after she already got a free 20GB), I'm gonna go for it and try to get a free laptop. What, you say? Is he crazy?! Perhaps! Either way, I want a free iBook. I've never had a laptop, but I've always wanted one, and I can't afford to buy one, nor justify spending that sort of money on something I don't NEED... but it would be cool to have one, and be able to perhaps work upstairs (meaning not in the basement) or at a coffee shop or something sometimes... since I work from home (OH, and I could even work at work, or at least play with Photoshop and Garageband when it's really slow). The point is, this is my referral link, click on it, sign up, complete an offer (there are plenty of free ones to choose from) and I will love you forever. I need 18 people to do this and then I get a laptop. Let's work together, kids!
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Once again, RAR is back. How many times over the years have I posted that? Well hopefully Rachel sticks around online a bit longer this time than she has in the past.
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HEY EVERYBODY! Do me a favor, wouldya? Go out and buy a copy of this week's Time Out NY. Ok, do you have it now? Great. Turn to page six. Read the article entitled "Manifest Density" (hah!) - which is about the totally awesome Overheard in NY website (and its baby sibling site Overheard in the Office). Head to Mary's site and tell her how proud of her you are that she got and article published. Hooray!
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I have (what I believe are) the first live photos of The Tender Trio. Who, you ask? They were formerly known as The Quick, and the lead singer is Royston Langdon from Spacehog and the guitarist is from Blind Melon. Check out the Tender Trio photos here. They were very nice fellows who certainly know how to do the whole rock star thing onstage.
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New Beck video! Watch the video for the song "Hell Yes" off the new album Quero which you probably already download even though it doesn't come out for two more months. ASX or REAL. I dig the part where he shuffles his feet. Cartoons are rad.
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Well as much as I like snow, I hope the suspected 20 inches doesn't show up until MUCH later tonight, more like tomorrow morning. Why? Well because there's a big ROCK PARTY tonight at Don Hill's! I mean, yes, I know it's just TISWAS, but hell, that's still quite a party - surely worthy of trudging through huge snowdrifts, right? SURE! So come on out and see Man in Gray, Ghosts of Pash, the Tender Trio (Royston Langdon from Spacehog's new band) - playing in reverse order - tonight starting at 10pm. Print this flyer and bring it with you to get in for $5.
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I forgot about Bush Blackout. Oh well. I guess I was just too busy eating these Double Stuf Oreos to be bothered with protest when I woke up this morning. But let if be known, if the shrub asked for one of my cookies, I would not give him one! GRRR!
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I've suddenly been sucked way back into the world of blogging and the internet and all that good stuff. It used to be that I'd spend hours, days, even, reading up on new gadgets and such, like widgets for websites and whatnot, then I'd play around implementing them here one subinev, sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes for a few years. For a while I hadn't been messing around with any of that very much, but in the past few weeks there have been a few things that made me sort of pay a bit more attention. You've probably noticed them on here (like over on the sidebar there)...
And THAT is THAT! INDEED!
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WOW! Crispin HELLION Glover is a lunatic! His new film (note: directorial debut, oh boy) looks pretty freaky (but potentially great)... go watch the trailer for What is it? here but be warned, it's REALLY weird. All I have to say is that it appears to involve people turning into snails and lots of naked women. Yes, snails and naked women. Thanks to Phil for the link. OH OH OH, guess what! This saturday there's that nifty TISWAS thing that goes on and Man in Gray is playing and all, which you knew... but show up early to the show, like 9:30, to catch Royston Langdon (of Spacehog) and his new band The Tender Trio (formerly The Quick, ex Spacehog & Blind Melon)! Also there will be guest DJs: Justine D. and Massimo (East Village Radio). Hotness. Bring this flyer with you to get in for $5 instead of $10. Also - GAG ME WITH A SPOON!
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Last night was the Winter Pageant's record release show at Sin-e. I have to confess here, I had never seen them before. I know, I was missing out. I knew I was missing out the whole time, too. It just didn't work out. But nevermind all that, because I finally got to see them, oh and what a way to get introduced to a band! The show was packed, teaming with antsy hipsters galore. The band performed incredibly, and I was really quite impressed by just how damn good they are at what they do. I really couldn't find a single flaw in the performance (well not from the band at least, that one monitor that was crackling could have been fixed but that's certainly not that band's fault). It was nice to see a band on stage who, even though they haven't existed for too long, are technically proficient AND creative musicians, appear confident yet personable onstage, and somehow manage to come off like total ROCK STARS (absolutely deserving of all caps there) while not seeming at all snotty. Amazing. Plus the new record that they were celebrating, Waxing/Waning is fantastic. Just go get it. You'll fall in love, I promise. Also I can't neglect the other band I watched at last night's show - A Place to Bury Strangers. There isn't much that I need to say about them. I already loved them. They're the loudest band in New York City. It's the kind of music that is SO good and SO loud that sometimes you just need to leave, lest your head might explode, but IN A GOOD WAY! Know what I mean? During their set Mary turned to me and asked how it was possible that only three people made THAT much NOISE. Well, my friend, the answer would be Death By Audio. That Oliver, he's one of them geniuses and such. (Watch as I totally kiss his butt because I see that coming soon is some pedal called 'double loop bomb' and I could never afford to BUY one of those custom boxes but oh how I want one!).
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Some guy went and called that oh-so-famous number (you know, 867-5309) in EVERY area code and published the results. Check it out. Looks like some interesting responses... and isn't it interesting that most of the times when mention of 'Jenny' is made in the voicemail, it's not a female voice? Right. Sorry for postly completely inane internet garbage, but I know at least one person (maybe two or three) who will probably go bananas for this. Link via Stereogum, who also has the mp3 of the song up for those who don't know it.
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This probably won't really work, but if it did it would be funny... go to the TRL site and write in a vote for "Whip it" by Devo. I don't know who started it but I saw it on Phil's site (congrats dude, by the way) and now Tina is in on it and surely soon enough everyone will be posting it, so hell, why not get in on the action. Go for it. If I watched MTV (ok shut up, I do, but not TRL, I swear! come on now!) I would love to see Devo played in their prime show, but I bet lots of viewers would just think it was some new weird band.
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The Weird New Jersey art exhibit opens up at the HERE gallery this sunday (6pm-9pm). Awesome. Definitely gotta check that out.
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HEY! All you radicals out there, with your plans for "sending a message" and "stickin' it to the man" on January 20th (Inauguration Day, is that a holiday? probably not), might I have a word? Of course it bothers me as well that the shrub is going to be sticking around for four more years and will be spending over $40 million to celebrate (with 9 big hullabaloos and shindigs, mind you), and I'm all for protesting in whatever way you like, be it showing up in DC to yell and scream and throw things, attending a wake for peace in New Orleans (because it's dead, get it?), or blacking out your website... and I'm perfectly happy with the idea of boycotting big evil corporations and their dependents, but here we have an interesting development. Not One Damn Dime is telling people to protest by keeping their money to themselves on January 20th. They say not to buy anything - no food, no gas, nothing. From nowhere. Not Target, not Wal-Mart, not the local independent struggling business down the street. Wait, what was that? Oh it's ok, causing a local business to be unable to pay their employees for a day and possibly making it just that much harder for them (the business-owner, I mean) to afford their rent for the month is acceptable, because you're showing those big nasty fat cats at the big corporations and in the government that you're unhappy, and you want to see their empire crumble. Mhmm. Real effective there, bucko.
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You've already seen the photos of strangers at our New Year's Eve party, well here are the rest... the pictures of the usual cast of fools.

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Wow, that was quick! Is there anybody actually making money on podcasting yet? Well apparently somebody thinks they can.
That's got me thinking, who wants to advertise on my podcast? Come on, surely somebody out there wants to pay me money to talk about their wonderful products on my show (which hasn't really started yet) when it actually goes on line (maybe tonight, actually). Perhaps not.
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Via NGR, this is a pretty cool photo project: Floating Logos - The images are inspired by signs perched high atop very tall poles in order for people to view them from a very long distance. The poles are digitally removed from the image in order to give the illusion that the signs are disconnected from the ground as they ominously float above us.
Nice!
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Alright, I've got a bone to pick, and I'm gonna point fingers. People with weblogs, WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU EMBED MUSIC IN YOUR PAGE?! Are you an idiot? It's annoying as hell! Here I am, taking a few minutes to check out some of my favorite weblogs, listening to some music on iTunes, so I've got the music nice and loud here in my 'home office' and I go to Jinners' site and some friggin music starts playing WHICH I CAN'T TURN OFF, right along with the music I actually WANT to be hearing. Do you know what happens when this happens? I close the window. I leave. I don't even read what you have to say. There are other sites I've seen that do this, but honestly I don't care because I just left and never went back, however when I actually want to read a site on a daily basis but visiting it annoys me, well that's just not good.
Ok that's all, sorry for the crankiness. I think I didn't get enough sleep last night.
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Dammit! Mclusky broke up. Bastards. What'd you have to go an do a thing like that for? Soviet Panda is all redesigned and blogging like crazy (because someone had to go and put it in Peter Panda's head that he's some sort of OG blogger, but hell if it gets him to post more, that's fine with me...).
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For those of you who have felt directionless since the new version of Subinev launched sans-show calender, fear not, for I have brought back the oh-so-useful NYC rock show calender, and this time it's a bit more complex, with each bare-bones listing being a link to an entry for the show which will include more detailed information. I'm also considering adding a special something later, so that if I attend a show and take photos, I could post them in the entry for the show instead of in the weblog... sound good? Anyway, this wonderful calender is over on the right there. Oh and for you xml fiends, you can syndicate that too (which I totally encourage, so you can tell your own readers about all these great shows). Also, bands who want me to check out your shows, leave a comment or email me and tell me about it and maybe i'll add it to the calender.
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These are all the strangers I photographed at our New Year's Eve party. Surely not all of them just wandered in uninvited by someone but I didn't know them so they're still strangers and treated as such - posting (mostly) unflattering pictures! Yay! If you can identify anyone here, please do so in the comments. And if you wanna complain that I posted your photo without permission, tough luck, drunkie, as I told everyone I photographed that they were going to wind up on the internet. It's not my fault if you didn't believe me! On to the debauchery! (note: the last one in the series is the best)

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This is a really interesting idea... A StoryBooth is a soundproof environment where you can record your story or the stories of your loved ones.
Apparently they set one up in Grand Central a few months ago, and basically people would go in, record their story, get it on cd (which was also archived at the Library of Congress American Folklife Center), then some of them were broadcast on WNYC (NY Public Radio). Check out Storycorps to hear them. I need to listen to these when I find some time (meaning after I finish getting through the tons of Podcasts I'm currently listening to!)
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How will I ever listen to all of these podcasts that I've been finding? There's a lot of amazing stuff out there - my latest find is the Insomnia Radio Podcast (subscribe), which is a really cool music show that eschews all things RIAA, and what actually caught my attention was that in the show info for the latest episode, it said that they played a Knife Skills song. Nice.
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Threadless is yet another site going with a new look for the new year, not to mention a hot contest. Designers, submit by February 1st to get in the running for the big prize. I think I already know what I'm going to submit.
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For putting more junk on the internet for you to listen to! This time it is not, however, a goofy song nor a podcast, but instead an original composition that I created in Hyperscore! I was all alone and bored tonight so I watched PBS and caught a rerun of Alan Alda's show Scientific American Frontiers entitled "You can make it on your own" (you can watch the episode here) and learned about this program (for those of you about to jump on me, yes, I know it's a few years old, but I just found out about it so it's new to me!). It's free to download and you all know just how much I love goofy little programs that let you make noise. Indeed! By the way, if anyone knows where I can get one of those Beatbugs they featured in the show... those things are awesome... sort of like my Airsynth but even weirder (and probably a heck of a lot more expensive) go ahead and hook it up. Note to the paranoid: I am not becoming some wacko electronic music freak. I swear. I'm really not into the stuff. Fun to make, not too exciting to listen to, if you ask me. But incorporate it into some good old fashioned rock n roll and now we're talking!
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I have no idea why whenever I post under the category 'Podcast' the whole right side of the site disappears. Interesting. Sucky. Yeah. Alright, I think I fixed it. Looks like I was just running out of space on the server and the rebuild wasn't happening right. Cleared that up. Mhmm.
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Anyway, here it is, the first Podcast from Subinev.com. It's only a test, really, but hopefully you'll find it at least mildy entertaining. The subject of our silly interview was Greg Hoy, from the band Hoy. Hopefully he doesn't get mad and make me take it down. Yup. Enjoy.
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I had begun to talk about Podcasting just before the old weblog here went kaboom, so I thought I should go over some of that again and add a bit for those who still find it all a bit fuzzy. I should note that I'm coming in pretty late to the game, but I'm doing my best to catch up. Let's start at the beginning - read the history of Podcasting here, and then check out the 100 latest podcasts here. If you want to get in on all the action and start subscribing to and listening to podcasts, you should get yourself iPodder(it's free) or a similar tool. You don't actually need an iPod (or any other mobile mp3 player), since really the whole concept boils down to just making an easy way to download audio files from websites that regularly post them, and it just happens that the use that makes the most sense is a sort of radio-esque format (you could just read about it here). So of course I couldn't help it, I had to try out my own podcast. It's very unprofessional, pretty silly, and possibly just plain bad, but that's for you to decide. In the future we'll actually plan out what we're doing for these things, I promise. By the way, I should mention that my new favorite podcast is The Sound of the Day (subscribe). Brilliant! I'm also listening to the $250 Million Radio Show (subscribe), which is pretty good so far... this guy really seems into the idea of giving unknown bands some exposure.
(the link is in the next post).
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Comedy Central picked up Stella (Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain from the State) for 10 episodes. Awesome. I can't wait.
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I know, I'm way behind... I'll catch up quickly though, promise.

(continue reading for the rest of the photos... I think this is how I'll handle photoblog entries, for now at least). Let me know what you think of doing it this way... does it bother anyone to see the photoblog and wordlog combined back into one blog again? I'll probably end up making it possible to view them separately (with categories) soon, but right now I like it all smashed together.
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Tom has put up a huge collage of photos he took in 2004. Look for lots of animals, girlfriends and ex-girlfriends, people doing stupid things, Tom trying to look very serious while taking his own photo, and one picture of me looking like Slash.
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I know I'm a bit behind, but other people are on top of posting photos from the big party here the other night... check out Jenny Piston's photos here (yo, check your site, your archive includes aren't working... I think the host disabled the php), and also Phil's photos (including lots of boxheads).
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The Village Voice (who recently redesigned their site to make it look all weird and boxy and colorful) ran a blurb about Man in Gray's show tonight (in the print version only, not online). Here's what they said (which I rather like):There's a cacophony folded neatly into each of Man in Gray's edgy punk songs, particularly the adept anti-war screed "Incommunicado." The female-fronted Brooklyn five-piece evokes Sleater-Kinney, Karen O, and a slew of new wavers, but stands firmly on its own 10 feet. With El Jezel and Hoy. (Southpaw)At 7:30. Rosen
The NY Press also gets in on the action with this little gem in their music listings:Defalco presents Hoy, Man in Gray, and El Jezel Defalco presents Man in Gray, a Brooklyn band that spans the space between rock and pop with grace. Tina Gray, the singer, is the gem of Man in Gray, bringing all the elements together. Also, Hoy, and El Jezel Southpaw, 7, $7.
That's a new one, and I quite like it (although the 'between rock and pop' is a bit strange, but hell, whatever). Come to the show, people!
Also, in case you didn't notice already, the MiG site got a bit of a temporary facelift. Look for a new full site over there in the coming months (like late February, perhaps).
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I can't decide if I like the Dawn and Drew show or not... yet I still keep listening to it every time iPodder downloads a new episode for me. That reminds me, if anyone out there has suggestions of good Podcasts to check out, send them my way. Especially if you've started your own... I'd like to discover more of them. It's sort of like weblogs, but instead of reading about a complete stranger's daily lives you get it crammed in your earholes while you're walking down the street or riding the subway! I LOVE TECHNOLOGY! YEE-HAW!
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Mikey redesigned Yewknee for the new year, and it's looking pretty nice. Pretty similar to the previous version, but a bit more minimialist while at the same time a bit more interesting. Expect all sorts of amazing things from that guy, surely.
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We made these two shirts (as well as a customized pair of my old jeans with the letter "B" on them). Want us to make some for you? I'm particularly fond of the "S-car-go!" shirt.
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Wow! This is great... Jenny F is going to be doing the next WYSIWYG Talent Show. Rad. I'm so there. I gotta add a calender to this thing again so I don't forget things like that (and also Shellshocked playing the Death Disco show on January 19th). Indeed! Oh and I just rediscovered Songfight today. Looks like The Mayan Empire will have to have a crack at one of those song ideas some time soon... perhaps you wonder why I'm suddenly so into recording silly little songs. No? Too bad. I've been playing around with Garageband for a while and I finally got a nice M-Audio Mobilepre so I can get good clean audio into ye olde mac with ease (and convenient mixing abilities right at my fingertips). So yes, I'm very excited. In fact today not only did The Mayan Empire write and record two songs, but I also composed one really weird track that I think will become an EMSO song once I come up with lyrics. Fun! Oh oh oh and I promise this is the last thing for tonight - well, the last two things. 1 - For the people asking to see the Sonic Youth guitar, I'll take some pictures of it shortly and put one or two up. 2 - For the random strangers who came to our new year's party, I hope you believed me when I stuck my camera in your face and said "This is going on the internet" right before the flash went off. I wasn't kidding. And whoever it was that broke the Wonder Woman mug, you, pal, are dead. I know a drummer who can spear a man in the throat at a hundred paces.
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You might have noticed this on the front page of Subinev last night, but in case you didn't get a chance to check it out, now is your chance to download Dear Internet (Song for the Internet) by The Mayan Empire. It's very appropriate. The Mayan Empire also recorded another song yesterday called Cram it in! (song for Travis Harrison), which is obviously about cramming music into your earholes (you dirty-minded little punks!). It's only 15 seconds long. I'm sure it will find its way online soon enough.
By the way, brave the snow and the MTA and make your way out to Brooklyn this Wednesday. Man in Gray and El Jezel along with Hoy are playing at Southpaw. Show starts at 8pm.
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Is this just too weird? Am I acting like some kid with a new toy? Honestly, I know what I'm doing, I'm just a bit flustered, that's all. It's a strange sensation to be starting totally fresh with my site (despite the fact that it looks VERY similar to the way it did just a few days ago).
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Ok so I'm really just sort of checking it out to see how I feel about this whole posting photos in the context of a blog thing again. You know... I think I like it.
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I suppose you want an explanation... I mean, you must, right? Well I'll try... I'm the sort of person who keeps EVERYTHING. Photos, artwork, notes, doodles, tickets, old student ID cards, stuff I find on the street, emails from people I know I'll never talk to again, and of course, every piece of junk I've ever put on the internet. What this behavior led to was the subinev.com server becoming a huge flaming pile of sloppy internet residue over the years. So I guess just because I keep everything doesn't mean I keep it orderly. While to some it may have looked like I had only been doing this since early 2002, it actually went to a few years before that, but I never got around to properly formatting or importing or whatever older archives of the various incarnations of this blog. With the recent onslaught of those evil comment spammers (aka soulless bastards who I really do wish would die, and I mean that very seriously, you with your pathetic excuses for marketing strategies), the barrage of thousands of comments across hundreds of entries on here just became too much for my poor little site to handle, and it crumbled under the pressure. I guess I always knew it would come to this, as there's really no way you can keep something that is a complete mess going forever before it falls apart. So that brings us to now. I'm starting fresh. While apparently all my past entries do still exist, Movable Type doesn't seem to want to recognize this fact, so I'm throwing in the towel for now, and starting with a clean slate (and thus, a clean site, hardy har friggin har). On the plus side, this does give me a chance to get to things that I've been thinking about for a while now - some of which may or may not include a full scale site (as opposed to the stripped-down sorry excuse that stood here for so long), new projects like a regular podcast, photo projects, some sort of 'art' (real art, fools, painting and collage stuff as well as videos, I mean), and whatever else I come up with. Not sure yet if I'll go back to the old way of having a separate wordlog and photoblog yet, but we'll see. Hopefully some of you will stick around (if this bland template didn't send you running already) to see just what happens to subinev.com in 2005.
For the curious out there (seeing as how I know there are at least a few people who take some obcene pleasure in scouring my archives on a fairly regular basis), I should let you know that I believe I will be able to retrieve the old worldlog entries and import them back into the blog, although the photos are a different story altogether. What I know about those is that IF they come back, they might retain their titles and captions, but as far as I know all the comments are dead and gone. Sorry.
They do say you're supposed to start a new year clean... well, here goes. Happy New Year, kids.
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