16 posts tagged “music”

A few weeks ago I blogged that I was coveting Collectorz.com's special bundle which I went ahead and bought after thinking about it for a day or two.

Last week the scanner came in, so I after an initial problem with some movies not loading into the scanner properly, within a couple of hours I'd scanned about 320 movies (and manually entered about twenty movies that had the bar code covered by stickers) and created this site.  Pretty slick, huh?

I've got about thirty or forty DVDs at Ben's house that I need to pick up and scan and I'm missing about another dozen movies or so (Arsenic and Old Lace, The Day After Tomorrow, Shrek, The Evil Dead 2, etc.) which is driving me nuts, but except for any new movies I purchase, you can see my full movie collection, here, which is currently 341 movies.

I needed some help to figure out how to edit their scripts so that my own Amazon Associates ID was used, but now when you click through to one of the detail pages (like this one), any thing purchased through there will generate me a referral fee.  Feel free to make your Amazon purchases through there.  ;-)

I also scanned one book shelf of my books and ended up with this collection of 144 books.  It's mostly the ones that I've purchased over the last six months or so and still need to read, so this is far from complete.  If I had to guess, I'd say that I probably have around 500 or 600 paperbacks.

I've also got the software for CDs, but I really wanted to get the movies and my recently purchased books scanned, so that's a project for another day.  I've got this page - Kymberlie's Collections - set up as an index for these sites, so I'm sure once I start scanning CDs, they'll end up there as well.

So, I'd definitely have to say that the scanner and the software was well worth the $200 I spent.  The only thing I would really like to see different is some better documentation for their templates since right now I'm having a hard time bending them to my will.

I have a ton of stuff, but it's very particular stuff, mostly limited to books, CDs, and movies.  And I have a ton of all three.

For years I've been thinking in the back of my head that I need to get a database started of - at the very least - all of my movies so that when I'm in a store I know if I've already got such and such on DVD.  I started this all by hand (!) a million years ago, but I haven't updated in in like four years.  You can see this partial list here.

I was thinking that I would use my All Consuming profile to do this, but I'm weirdly anal about things and since I've actually not seen several of the movies I own, I hate to list them there.  Plus, I've recently started a Natuba page (Natuba is a service that lets you add all of your feeds to one central location.  Mine's here and currently lists my posts on Vox, the images I upload to my Flickr account, the books I'm reading on All Consuming, all of my Twitters, and my Netflix Ship/Receive feed, though they don't have dates in their feeds, so the items are being posted in 1969 and not being listed as they should.  I reported it to Netflix and a developer said he'd look into it) and didn't want to flood my feed with 400 or so DVDs.

I did a search last night and found Collectorz which has software specifically so you can create a database of things like books, movies, and music.  The best part is that they have a barcode scanner so you don't manually have to type anything in, just scan the barcodes on the products.

Right now, they have a special Labor Day package where you can the software for books, movies, and music plus the scanner, tech support, and CD backups for $209.95.

I'm pretty sure that not having to scan all my movies or my books alone would be worth it, but I was wondering if anyone has tried this before.  Was it worth the money?  Am I being a sucker to spend this much money on something like this?

Update: I gave in and ordered the Labor Day package.  I've never been good at self-restraint.

Audio: What was the first song you ever slow-danced to with a girl or boy?
Submitted by Rev Stan.

I've actually blogged about this before, so this was an easy one.  The answer's Breathe's "How Can I Fall?"

My freshman year in high school, we were on a band trip in Corpus Christi having our annual banquet. There was this cute tuba player Doug Ball that I had a crush on (honestly, though, I had a crush on a lot of guys. I was a bit boy crazy) and I was so happy when he asked me to dance. Ever since "How Can I Fall?" has always made me think of high school.

Hard to believe this song came out seventeen years ago.  It's still an awesome song, though.

It's still technically Friday here in Texas, so I thought I'd go ahead and participate in another 80s Music Friday.

This Friday I choose what is probably one of the best music videos of all time.  The storyline is great (I usually tear up at the end) and I think the animation style still holds up over twenty years later (OMG.  Over twenty years ago!).  There are a few other videos that always come to mind when I think of the eighties, but this is the one that I always think of first.

While browsing through my neighborhood some time ago, I came across this post by Sixbucksamonkey that has Issac Hayes during a sultry version of The Look of Love.

I've loved this song for as long as I can remember, so I had to upload my own favorite version of it.  The lyrics on this is done by Chantal Kreviazuk and she just owns it.  It's dreamy and sensual.  Plus, Chris Botti is not only an amazing trumpet player, but he's so hot.  Look at those eyes.  Mmmmm.  Man, I love a trumpet player.

After my recent post with an INXS song in it, We♥Music requested that I put their song Never Tear Us Apart up.  Since I'm so very nice (and modest!), here you go!

It's Friday and I'm off work, so here's a catchy little tune to put you into weekend mode that also has hot girls, spankings, and Welsh corgis.  Saucy!

For the mp3eme group:

Post a Track From A Musical Family
(2 or more related peeps in the band)
Husband/Wife, Sister/Brother, Cousins...whatever.
Week 7

Don't forget to note how the group members are related.

Use whatever tags you'd like but please include the following
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- family ties

Yeah, I'm late on this one, but better late than never, right?  The band that I chose for this theme is INXS since there are three brothers in the group - Andrew, Jon, and Tim Farriss.

I love INXS and have since I got Kick on cassette in high school.  I still listen to some of their older stuff, but I listen to some of their newer songs over and over again, specifically Beautiful Girl, Disappear, The Strangest Party (These Are The Times), and, my favorite of all of their songs, Not Enough Time.  I just find it beautiful with lyrics that just totally wrap me up and the music just always makes me think of flying for some reason.  Love it.

For the mp3eme group:

POST A DUET FROM YOUR PERSONAL LIBRARY
du·et
[doo-et, dyoo-]

a. A composition for two voices or two instruments.
b. A group of two singers or two instrumentalists.

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The ring tone that I hear on my phone the most, since I get more calls from Ben than anyone else and I made it his ring tone, is actually a duet since Ben and I have a song that we consider "our song" - "Islands in the Stream" by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.

I can't quite remember how we came about making this our song - I think it was because I had seen a special on the top country duets of all time, this being the number one song, and Ben had seen it too.  We started singing it to each other and since this was right before one of our big ass karaoke parties, we decided we had to sing this together.  It's now the first song of the evening when we do karaoke parties and Ben keeps saying that I ought to replace my ring tone of the original with us singing it.  On our trip to New Orleans for New Year's/Shelly's birthday, Shelly was amazed that we can do the whole song without needing any prompts.  Yeah, we're that good.

Sticking with the country theme, I totally love "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma" by Shelly West and David Frizzell.  It's so old school country and always makes me think of growing up since my parents listened to a lot of country in the early 80s.  This song won the Country Music Association's "Song of the Year" and "Vocal Duet of the Year" awards in 1981.  Old school, baby, old school.

Getting away from country, but keeping it old school, next up is Frank Sinatra's duet with Barbara Streisand of "I've Got a Crush On You."  I adore this song.  When Barbara calls him Francis, it's just so precious.  Seriously, I could just eat them up.  The whole Duets album is pretty good, but this song is may favorite followed closely by "They Can't Take That Away From Me" with Natalie Cole is a close runner up.

Night and Day happens to be one of my favorite songs.

It also happens to be Fred Astaire's birthday today, the person who made this song famous, though it's been covered by quite a few musicians.  We♥Music posted about twenty of these covers, so I thought I'd toss two of my own into the mix.

The first cover is by The Porter Project, a downtempo, nu-jazz group that did an amazing CD of Cole Porter songs.  I really like their cover of I've Got You Under My Skin, but their cover of Night and Day is good too.  It's a really great CD, especially if you like that kind of groove to your music.

The second cover is by my very favorite band ever, The El Orbits.  I've been a fan of theirs since I heard them the first time in the summer of 2004.  Unfortunately, the lead singer of the band, David Beebe, who I've had a fangirl crush on since the first time I saw them, is no longer with the band.  The band is still good, but it's just not the same.  Either way, here's their cover of Night and Day, probably the best cover of this song ever.