A friend of mine has a CD burner, right, and it's been acting up - as in not burning CDs - and he asked me to help his cause out. If anyone reading this knows tons about these things or has experienced something similar, shoot off an email to Ryan and save his sanity, because we're both going nuts over this problem. Here's a summary of the situation, directly from the horse's mouth...not that he's a horse...yeah: "If it matters, Im running an HP CD-Writer 24x-10x-40x max burner and my system is running off of WinXP. The problem first started with the burner program (im running Roxio Easy CD Creator 5) not letting me record things when I hit the big Record button (the Roxio program would only allow me to choose 4x as opposed to every incriment up to the 24xMAX speed of my burner, and my burner would not allow me to burn at anything under the MAX speed). This was however easily fixed by closing the program and restarting it (when this was done the full range of burning speeds was made available), and was fairly minute in frequency, maybe occuring once every couple of weeks. This problem then escalated to having to reboot the whole computer and restarting Roxio to get things working, occuring once every week. This rebooting complication escalated to extremely frequently, to the point where my burner would actually allow me to burn things once a week maybe. Eventually this extremely annoying problem escalated to me not even being able to use my CDRom AT ALL (not merely as a burner but as a drive). It would just keep saying 'no disc in drive' whenever you clicked on the M drive in My Computer. We ended up doing a system reconfig to set the system to a date in January in hopes that this would fix things up, but now the M Drive isnt even in the My Computer folder. I did crazy troubleshooting on it, and WindowsXP seemed to think its because my drivers are corrupt. However, after going to Microsoft's site and trying to download the latest drivers to my system, I was told I couldnt because my drivers 'were the most current.' Ive also tried disenabling the drive, and re-installing the hardware with no luck as well."
So there you have it. Gives me a headache just reading all that technical mumbo jumbo.
And now, the news.
Thrice sounded really, really different in their formative years, particularly the Identity Crisis album. What a metamorphosis they pulled on The Artist in the Ambulance.
To hear some of the best screamo you've never heard - with female vocals! bonus! - check I Spoke, this band from Toronto that just decimated two shows I was at over the weekend. Unbelievable tightness, presence and message. Heeeeeeck yeah.
I would like to make it known that last night at home I was killing time waiting for a phone call(I see you Heidi) and I played a complete game of solitaire in forty seconds. This eclipses my own personal record of fifty-six seconds, set back when I was in high school(and what a student I was!...not), and I think I deserve at least some sort of civic ceremony and honorary Chairman of the Board position somewhere. Yes.
Jim Rome's syndicated sports talk show is picked up by The Team 1200 here in Ottawa, twice a day no less(noon and midnight), and I heard a Treble Charger song featured as a commercial bumper, and later on an oldschool Beastie Boys track. That's enough cred for me. I wish Treble Charger had kept writing great moody rock songs, but no, they had to jump at the dollars and become Sum 41's chaperones. I like both bands still, don't get me wrong, I just miss the songs TC used to crank out. That's enough of this.
We have some CD reviews and interviews coming in the next couple days, depending on when we can find time to slap 'em up on the ol' internet. Give us time. You'll hopefully like what you see/read.
Anyone watch Trailer Park Boys? Hilarious Canadian-produced sitcom set in - duh - a fictional trailer park. Anyway, the show's creator/co-star(he plays Bubbles), Mike Smith, used to play with Halifax rock band Sandbox. Remember 'Curious'? Minor radio/MuchMusic hit back in the mid-'90s? Them. Amazing song! As if Bubbles was in Sandbox!
Toronto Maple Leafs president/six-time Stanley Cup winning goalie Ken Dryden will be running for the Liberal Party of Canada in Toronto's York Central district. Interesting. I wonder if he'll relinquish his position with the hockey team. Lord knows they'll never win a Cup with or without him. OH! Burn. *rimshot*
I wasn't aware of this, amidst all the other Underoath news: the band are playing the entire Warped tour this year, from June 25th right through August 19th. The band's new album They're Only Chasing Safety hits June 15th. [Chamber Spins Three]
Scarlet's vocalist is apparently named Jon Spencer. Maybe it's the same dude from the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion! Um, no.
The BEST CD REVIEW EVER! Just read it.
Christian contemporary superstar TobyMac(aka Toby McKeehan) has some interesting thoughts shared here about the separation of Christian music with the 'mainstream'. I particularly like the part where Toby ditches the interview in progress to go watch Cross Movement rock stage!! [rockrebel]
Check it out: Pedro The Lion is touring. Dates over here. Note the Toronto show June 24th. Booyah.
Posted by mike at May 13, 2004 05:38 PM