vhs

i've been burning a lot of dvds lately, since i generally tend to get more work done downstairs in front of the tv than i do upstairs within the distraction microcosm that is me by myself in my room, and i've found that the most preferable way of setting up the disc is to make it play just like an early vhs cassette--sure, this is in part because our dvd player barely works and has no remote so we can't select anything in a menu, but still, if i really wanted to, i could just pop it into my ps2--for i feel simplicity is best: it plays the film when i put in the disc and it stops playback when it's over.

bungle

since discovering a week or two ago that secret chiefs 3, one of my most-listened bands during my community college years and one of the few bands i've tried to see live (several times but have been unable to due to location), is coming to town this thursday, i've been re-exploring them and to a fuller extent, their composer's former band, mr. bungle.