Ipod repair...if you care

So, after only a couple of years and just one accidental trip into a toilet about a year ago, my Ipod Video died. The weird thing is that it was working totally fine just moments before. Then I got some BS sad Ipod screen and warnings that the battery was dead. After the folks at the Apple store tried to convince us that it was dead and "time to buy a new one"...it came back to my house for a little exploratory surgery.

I am sure that tons of you have Ipods and many of you have had issues. I did my typical thing that I do with broken gear and took it all apart, gave it the stinkeye and puhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gift it back together. Guess what? IT WORKED! I did some research and found that many people have done this same thing. There are tiny little ribbon cables that come undone and a simple reseating makes them work again.

YES! Victory. Apple will not get my money (at least, not until they make some awesome new thing which I will buy the moment it comes out, only to have it crap out 1 year and 1 day later).

Here is the link on how to take that sumbitch apart:

IPOD SURGERY

Rockband Featuring You

I found this today as I was driving around in the morning. This is the Penalty Box on North Main Street, Providence. I have seen Karaoke and live bands billed here before, but never Rock Band (the most recent video game that I have made).

Pretty funny. I think it is going on tonight...maybe I will go check it out.

Rock Band...featuring me.

Picto-Review of Corleone DVD

Corleone Records were kind enough to send us copies of some of their wares, and so it is review time. For starters, we are taking a pictorial look at the Corleone DVD collection entitled "CORLEONE 10yrs EVERYTHING I OWN IS BROKEN OR BENT DVD". Maximize your browser window for full awesomeness and click here or the preview below to see the entire review.

OSS photos, finally

HUZZAH! Some photos surface form the Machines With Magnets show! Elliot Clapp, one of the many photogs shooting that night, has sent me some images and I wanted to share.

Olneyville Sound System

Armageddon Shop Show tonight, 9PM

this week

The Baroness/Witchcraft show was really good. The Middle East's sound was terrible...huge, compressed, boomy 80's drums...but the bands were great.

Tonight: Our own ST. Jude in Wooooster.























then...December 5:

White Mice return from a havok filled tour ready to slaughter. Record release party too.

Witchcraft and Baroness

Two bands that have been playing pretty constantly on my stereo these past few months are coming to Boston on the same bill. If you are looking to get your fill of elf-laden Sabbathery or math-laden art rockery, or both...this is your show. Plus props to John Dyer Baizley (of Baroness) for making some of the best album art that I have seen in a long time (Baroness, Torche, Skeletonwitch, etc).

BTW...WTF! why isn't Witchcraft coming through Providence? Why do these sweet ass bands rarely come through Providence?
Actually, the answer was explained to me this weekend and it comes down to some booking agent issues...but COME ON bands! Get it together and get out here to Lil' Rhody. Electric Wizard, Witchcraft, all sludgemasters...come on down...

Best...Shadowpuppet...EVER.

From Gerge Busch DropDead at Alex's Benefit

Final Lineup for tomorrow night

Big Show = Benefit

Still not sure of the true lineup order...but I wanted to get this benefit up on the front page again. As BobDead says on the forums:

"The show is a benefit for Alex Svoboda. Who, on August 11th 2007, was the victim of unnecessary police brutality while participating in an IWW march against Jacky’s Galaxie restaurant in North Providence. After the cops had asked the group to move to a certain designated area several officers took the opportunity to make a vicious example of Alex by beating her, breaking her left leg, pepper spraying her, and then having the nerve to charge her with assaulting three officers, resisting arrest and obstructing *justice*. All the procedes will go towards her legal defense and her never ending hospital charges. Band together!"

The bands and other artists will be selling a bunch of stuff too, which will add to the Benefit fund to varying degrees.

Oh...and did you notice...OLNEYVILLE SOUND SYSTEM is playing!