February 28, 2007

Thin Fevers PodCast

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Indianapolis and Music and Video at 8:28 pm | Add a comment »

To dovetail on Ben’s emo post, some more YouTube goodness. Not only did I start this site, but I also have updated podcast.thinfevers.com. If you are not into the video ipod or iTunes or all of that RSS-ness, It is also available on YouTube, as is evident from this post.

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More awesomeness ensues.

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Site Updates at 8:27 pm | Add a comment »

I must welcome to the fold our first Chicago correspondent, Matt Mansueto. Matt is an all around good guy that tells some pretty amazing stories. He also apparently can really shred at Guitar Hero.
Also, please welcome Mr. Mike Dixon. Mr. Dixon has been know to record many fine bands, to name a few: usurp synapse, [...]

send me “emo” records

by ben traub | Filed under Video at 6:58 pm | 3 comments »

remember growing up, and thinking some things wouldnt last, and they do, and then they start sucking?
yea- emo is so ‘96 it hurts (when i cut.)

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February 26, 2007

I have been WordPress Crazy

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Site Updates at 9:04 pm | Add a comment »

I have launched two new group blogs. Acutally, I launched them last week, please paruse at your leisure the following:RockitBomb.comThis is what I meant to do a long time ago. A group blog/e-zine about rockmusic and stuff.IndyParents.comCreated on a whim, this will be another group blog/e-zine featuring the writings and storys of not-so-typical parents in [...]

nin follow up and links a-hoy!

by ben traub | Filed under Indianapolis and Music and Site Updates at 7:08 pm | 1 comment »

found a great fan site that is hosting the new songs as they are ‘found.’
year zero so far
also, keep a lookout for some we did two shows with the insanely not funny neil hamburger and the not so insane if you listen coke dares. weird weather and funny food.
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February 23, 2007

new NIN gets bad after starting so good.

by ben traub | Filed under Music at 8:12 pm | 5 comments »

so a few days ago im parousing one of my fave new blogs and see something about nine inch nails songs being found on usb drives in ladies restrooms in portugal. that was quite enough right there to get me reading up. the new thing is called Year Zero (bad name, good idea) and theres [...]

Endroducing…

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Site Updates at 2:00 pm | Add a comment »

A couple of more boys have joined forced. Please welcome Carl and Ben, both most awesome drummers/musicians of the highest order.
Ben currently plays drums in Thin Fevers, and used to Mara’akate, Letters in English, and other fantastic bands. Ben enjoys long walks on the beach, Marloboro Reds, and PBR.
Carl also enjoys PBR, and has performed [...]

February 22, 2007

Greetings from the Big Shitty

by Chandler | Filed under Site Updates at 10:40 am | 2 comments »

Don’t worry: I’m a recent transplant from Indianapolis, so I’m not going to be bringing any of that legendary Brooklyn Scenester Snobbery around here.

New New York Correspondent!

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Site Updates at 10:31 am | Add a comment »

I have invited some friends to help me out with RockitBomb.com. Our first victim is my friend Matt from New York city. Matt is an old school rock connesiour.
Originally from Indianapolis, Matt has spent time as a promotor, bass player, radio host, and all sorts of other stuff.
So anyway, he knows what he’s talking about. [...]

February 21, 2007

This probably should have been my first post.

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Site Updates at 11:22 pm | Comments Off

In case you are wondering what this is. This is my answer to wanting to do something like I once did. Many moons ago I created an online e-zine called ActionAttackHelicopter. It was fun. I got free rcords and got to go to shows for free. But after a while it was just too much [...]

Darkest Hour’s Undoing Ruin

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Music at 9:02 pm | Add a comment »

This is a re-post from my blog, but here it is:
Man, I have been listing to “Undoing Ruin” by Darkest Hour for the last couple of days, and I have to say. This band got really good on this record. I actually did an interview with this band in 2001 and saw them play at [...]

Joost meet Viacom

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Software at 6:12 pm | 2 comments »

Saw this on Digg and also got the following email from Joost:
Subject Line: Joost Unplugged!
Great news from the Joost Content Team. Today we’re announcing a major
partnership with Viacom. Which will bring programming and lots of
channels from Viacom’s key brands and properties available on Joost
on our imminent launch.
MTV will offer popular shows, both past and [...]

February 20, 2007

Never ask “Where should we go for lunch again.”

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Software at 9:48 pm | Add a comment »

Instead ask, “Who’s turn is it to spin the wheel?”

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Darkest Hour

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Music at 9:31 pm | Add a comment »

Man, I have been listing to “Undoing Ruin” by Darkest Hour for the last couple of days, and I have to say. This band got really good on this record. I actually did an interview with this band in 2001 and saw them play at a pool house in Indianapolis. I wasn’t too into [...]

February 18, 2007

More on Joost.

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Software at 9:29 pm | 7 comments »

I was asked for some more information on Joost, so here it is.
First off, this is really cool.

This screen shot shows the Joost Widgets on screen while you are watchin in full screen. There is a chat channel, and a ratings area, as well as some others (news, clock, etc.) This is really cool, although [...]

Learn Cocoa.

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Software at 5:39 pm | Add a comment »

I am curious, about xCode and Cocoa, so I will more than likely be checking this out this Cocoa programming tutorial that TUAW has come accross.

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Scions for a dollar!

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Software at 5:36 pm | Add a comment »

At least in second life. Joystiq reports that Toyota released some new Scion models on February 8th in the real world and second life. Late news for some, but I am going to check it out.

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Joost BETA for Mac Intel

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Software at 1:54 am | 8 comments »

I got an email yesterday notifying me of the availability of Joost BETA for Mac Intel processors. I downloaded it today onto my Macbook and it is pretty awesome so far, and here is my quick review of my ten minutes worth of reviewing.
The video jumps a little here and there, and it seems there [...]

A quick note.

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Software at 1:22 am | Add a comment »

WordpressDash has some bugs, but it seems to be working. There is a “Save Draft” option that does just that, but there is no way to come back and actually publish within the app that I can see.

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Looks like I may have found something cool

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Software at 1:20 am | Add a comment »

I am posting this from WordPressDash, a Mac OS X dashboard widget for publishing to Wordpress blogs by Paniris. You can download it here.

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For real, this time.

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Site Updates and Software at 12:52 am | Add a comment »

I gues you could say I have been putting off acutally blogging due to the fact that I have been trying to figure out how I want to blog. There are so many options.Here is my path to this blog. I decided that I would treat brianwyrick.com blog style as far back as 2004. That [...]

Old News

by Brian Wyrick | Filed under Site Updates at 12:47 am | Add a comment »

I am moving all of my news and updates post. If for some reason you are looking for something I posted many moons ago, it is probably here:http://brianwyrick.com/old_news.php

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