Random Inspirations

Show #11: BEST SHOW EVER!

Posted by Chris | Filed under Current Events, Don't Even Think About It, Entertainment, Just for Fun, Politics, Random, Sports, Technology, iPhone

Hosts EJ Hayes, Willie Hayes, Chris Armstrong, and… Dave Bond… eventually…

Since it takes us more than 6 months to get these shows out, all of the technology news is waaaay outdated… Especially with the cell phone market the way it is. We’ll start off with the Blackberry Kickstart – a RAZR/BB hybrid.

And Dave decides that we’re good enough for him to comingle with…

Back to the Kickstart, which is actually the flip BB, aimed at the mass market. We run through the boring specs which have already been doubled by the new versions. Look at the monkey instead.

Willie interjects with Anecdote #1: His father-in-law bought a BB, even though he doesn’t have a computer or an email address. He bought it, however, so that he can email and text his kids, which he apparently does successfully. Nice – albeit a little premature. EJ adds that he uses his BB instead of his computer to do email, even though he’s at his computer.

After the short interruption, we discuss how Blackberry should market their products so that they have more mass appeal. Hopefully RIM will listen to us. We have GREAT suggestions.

http://crackberry.com/blackberry-kickstart-8220-smartphone-review

Next up: BATMAN!!! POW! ZONK! KA-CHOW!

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/movies/18knig.html?ref=movies

Despite Willie not having seen the movie, we talk about it, without spoiling it for him. Chris offers up his one-word review: TheAnimatedSeriesGrownUp. HA! We then decide that the animated series was the Dick Tracy of our day.

Instead of talking about The Dark Knight, we end up talking about Batman: The Animated Series. We also agree that Two-Face was probably the best villain in the animated series.

We can’t help but reminiscing about our childhood and talking about our favorite characters and episodes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_the_animated_series

Moving on, again, since Willie hasn’t seen The Dark Knight at the time of recording: Christian Bale beats his mother and sister. EJ’s theory is that Bale couldn’t get out of Batman persona. “I am Batman!” “Christian, come down off the TV, man.” “No! I am Batman!”

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/bale-asks-for-privacy-in-assault-allegations/11227

Besides the fact he couldn’t stop being Batman, he was also a psycho in American Psycho (and an American – even though he’s from England) and a FREAKING NEWSIE!!! THE MAIN NEWSIE! But definitely see The Prestige.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104990/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/

Chris didn’t remember the jacked-up-ness of Batman in American Psycho, though Batman’s jacked-up-ness in Newsies is forever seared in his mind for reasons totally unrelated to the film. Fortunately, Batman’s performance in The Prestige totally redeemed himself.

NOTICE: We’re still working on bluenotestudios.com. Seriously.

EJ then busts out a great impression of Heath Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight.

The relationship between solidroots.com and bluenotestudios.com is the relayed in no uncertain terms. Also, the history of Blue Note Studios and the inspiration is conveyed.

Next NCAA Football 09: Not for the Wii.

No high-def + crappy controller + low processing power + gimmicky interface = not impacting the game.

Not impacting the game = dudes that aren’t into gaming + chicks = the casual gamer

And we reminisce about Madden days of yore (and we realized that the reason he brought up the topic was so he could relive his dominance, particularly at Dave’s expense). What kind of gamers are we? Dave is the Bills, Willie is probably the Sooners (can play when it doesn’t count, but can’t finish up when it counts), Chris is creative type – out of necessity, and EJ is Bill Parcells (controls everything).

Now that Windows 7 is about to drop, we bring up the Mojave Experient, also known as off-the-shelf Vista. Microsoft did a blind taste test to prove that Vista doesn’t have a bad aftertaste that Mac fanboys claim.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mojave-experiment/

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Blind_Taste_Test_Shows_XP_Users_Love_Vista

Willie goes on to defend(er) Vista – because he’s one of 7 people that have actually used it at the time of recording. The number is now up at 23. An invigorating conversation ensues about Vista, Mac, OS X, Microsoft’s marketing campaigns, and Microsoft as Christian Bale; leading into an in-depth dicussion of the empirical, metaphysical, and ontological aspects of each. Dave is stunningly quiet.

Willie’s Anecdotes: (they are so good, we can only give you the titles and lessons)

iPhone and the college campus. Lesson: always check your trap door. And caress your quirky girl slowly.

Obama goes to Iraq, Germany, and my soul. Lesson: Copy JFK. To a point. But not the German.

Perfect segue into the media bashing of Dave, because they are liberal fascists idealists. Actually Dave eloquently points out the differences of liberals vs conservatives and idealists vs realists. Chris admits he’s not a fascist an idealist.

Willie busts out another anecdote about a straight pin and it going somewhere it shouldn’t.

Dave loves us (and you). And he means it.

Outro: acoustic Hollow recorded at Blue Note Studios. http://www.myspace.com/hollowrock

Email us @ ri@solidroots.com. Find us on Twitter @ twitter.com/bluenotestudios. We’ll soon be over at www.bluenotestudios.com. Maybe.

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Show 10: Fine Pickens

Posted by Chris | Filed under Apple, Books, Current Events, Entertainment, Just for Fun, Misc. Things, Music, Random, Technology

E.J. promises “an action-packed show,” but you can only know for sure if you listen…

Willie seems to perhaps question the efficacy of the “Pickens Plan” for solving the nation’s energy problems. During the ensuing discussion of the potential of wind power, E.J. takes the opportunity to make a dirty joke. Willie keeps it going. Chris provides his silent, tacit consent to the filth.

Chris introduces the inherent contradictions about T. Boone faced by many fans of Oklahoma State athletics (and of affordable gas): loving his donations to the school while distrusting the control that comes with it; appreciating his call to action on the energy issue while distrusting his motives. But what else would one expect?

EJ thinks we’re going to keep our vision on this story as it un”wind”s. Stay tuned for further details. www.PickensPlan.com

“1.21 Gigawatts!”

In other news, crazy monkey grass is creeping in from Canada, destroying slinging metal things and edger attachments all over the north!

“They don’t call me ‘The Edge’ for nothin’”

Willie passes along a way for you to tell when one is going to die and whether you’ll die of a horrible disease or not. For more information, check your genome at home with PCR and cloning machines. All available via a USB connection. Willie also thinks it’s fun to pee on a stick to see if you have a “mutant genome in your genes” (or jeans).

EJ next brings up how South Park gives hope for all of the nerds out there that want to be superheroes in stopping terrorist attacks. We’re not sure what episode of South Park gives the “how-to” but there’s one out there. Trust us. Using Google Earth, Myspace and podcasts, you can stop your 4th grade classmates from blowing up the world too!

“They don’t even say ‘search for it on the Internet,’ they say ‘Google it’”

Where did Google come from? What does “google” mean? How does Google make so much freaking money?!?! Well, apparently it can all be summed up in one word: Ads. Or is there something more sinister going on? Dave joins in and give us 41 chapters worth of conspiracy to throw Google in the middle of international intrigue and cover-up.

Dave believes Google is very intrusive and this is view is that Google will be (if not already) a tool of Big Brother.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_foreign_relations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_grove
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Extraordinary_Gentleman

For Dave’s “Currently Reading” list, besides the above, check out Amazon here.

“You can get this podcast around the world!”

“Oh, I’m down the rabbit-hole baby.”

You’re now introduced to our very early reports on MobileMe, the Apple product that stole its logo from Windows Me.

“What if the cloud rains? What if they hack into the cloud?”

Dave proceeds to tempt us with, not cereal, but a “frozen thing.” Yet, he doesn’t share at all… Yet, we’re keeping our other eye on the Google/Illuminati connection.

By the way, Dave is wrong, it’s only been 2 months since the movie has been released, not 3. Not 3, Dave.

A discussion ensues about how/why the movie was filmed. IMAX has a 6-inch negative while using 6-feet per second of film. A bunch of stuff about “dumbing-down” and something about a “Blue Ray.” In case you didn’t notice, Chris zones out.

Thanks to Rush for listening to us 6 months ago, you music freak you. We’ve actually recieved another email from Rush asking when our next show will be up. Here it is, Rush.

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Tags: batman, bilderberg, dna, energy plan, genome, google, google earth, illuminati, john birch society, pickens plan, south park, street view, t boone pickens, the dark knight

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Show 7: All Business

Posted by Chris | Filed under Apple, College, Entertainment, Just for Fun, Misc. Things, Music, Random, Religion, Technology, Websites

Did you notice the new intro music? Mr. Gore is gone (for now, temporarily, permanently, who knows), but in his place is the smooth sounds of Mr. EJ Hayes.

Why you trying to kill my phone?
The level of hypocrisy here is deafening.
So I’ll take my “thanks” back.

Three statements that define this show. And once we finally get past our long-winded intro, we finally get into the heart of the discussion: the iPhone killers. *dun-dun-dun*

This ‘cast talks about the iPhone’s downfalls: no feedback from typing, lack of 3G support, lack of enterprise support (at this time), and we have the facts to back ALL of this up. We also review Blackberry’s latest attempt at driving the stake into the iPhone’s heart (not that it’s even close to being “killed” at all) is the Blackberry Bold. (MSN review of the Blackberry Bold - I know MSN isn’t exactly known for their hard-hitting tech news, but it’s the one we found that included the “touch-screen” quote)

“Technology is the new opiate of the masses.”

What a microSD card is.

How would you like to be the guy who gets to come up with this headline: “Man Dressed as Darth Vader Spared Jail for Attack on Founder of Britain’s Jedi Church.” I don’t know about you, but when I think “Jedi church,” I think some sort of Catholic ceremony with lightsabers. Apparently it’s nothing like that. I actually found video of the attack, and if this is really it, it doesn’t seem that bad. In fact, I don’t think I saw any blood, but, oh well, here it is. For the commentary from a real expert, check out this YouTube video from Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

“Give me a teaser explaining the teaser.”

Welcome to the world, Grand Theft Auto IV. You violent piece, you (Please put in your real age if you click on the link).

Sidenote: Lost is set to record.

Ok, back to GTA, the sales of GTA have eclipsed every other game and many movies released - 3.6 million units/$310 million in the initial 24 hours. Why is the game so addicting? Because you can go over to a friend’s house, sit on the floor, put in GTA, use the cheat code to get the flamethrower, run to the nearest intersection and just start turning around in a circle and torching everything in sight.

In related news, EA makes bid for Take-Two, which counts GTA IV as one of it’s assets. Can you imagine Madden: GTA version?

What’s NaNoWriMo? How do you say NaNoWriMo? Who is NaNoWriMo? Is this thing for real? Let’s go to the FAQ’s. You know what’s a “hoot”? Counting all those effing words. It’s just icing on the NaNoWriMo cake. For an artistic novella, check out Willie’s new book with the word “crap” and it’s variations.

“Chew on that.”

Check out Traveler Blues. Dave and Barrett are working their little fingers to the bone, much like all of the great British blues-rock guitarists of the 1960’s did with their guitars, to bring you the best in music.

“Get it on.”

***Lost SPOILER ALERT*** Please don’t listen if you don’t want to know.

Show 7 called on account of Lost. Happy viewing. By the way, Lost streams in HD on ABC.com.

Go over to Mark’s Myspace and tell him to be a part of the show!

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