I am proud to announce the first episode of my podcast: The Music Chair. I am now a podcaster! I have done two interviews so far. But, one of them is till not out due to technical issues. I am excited about this project, because I love the music, the personalities, and also I realized this will help improve my speaking skills tremedously. Please go and subscribe using iTunes, and give my suggestions and feedback.

I got my microphone in the mail yesterday, now I can use it to record interviews or music. It did take some effort to set up, though, mostly because of the fact that I have a Mac and Windows setup. I have been syncing my ipod with my Mac machine, and now I want to be able to access my voice recordings from my windows laptop. This is a problem because my ipod was formated in the mac format, googling found that I can reformat it to fat32 and have it work for both mac and windows, so that's what I did. I also set enable-hard-disk-usage to true and start-itunes-when-ipod-plugged-in to false so that from windows I can get at the voice memo wav files without having to go through itunes. I still use the mac machine to sync my music, this works just like before.

We paid Ike Stubblefield's band a visit today at Pisces today. Dave Frackenpohl was there accompanying him, it was a classic hammond B3 - guitar trio, just like the Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery band, what a great sound! This is a nice location for us, and Sunday is a nice place too, so we'll definitely be caming back.

I got excited about last fm today and setup the scrobblers for both itunes and rhapsody, since, after all, I have impeccable musical taste;) So, if you would like to see what music I am listening to, click here. After that, I was still excited, and wanted to display my recently played tracks as a widget the one you can generate using widgitize. But my blog/wiki does not yet have the ability to embed widgets(it's coming, though, heh...). So I thought it'd be nice to put it on facebook. If first tried the last.fm app, but it didn't display my recently played tracks like I wanted to do. I got the Blog RSS Feed Reader instead(man, what a boring name). It did just what I wanted:


The above now shows up in my profile page. And since it supports multiple feeds, I added some feeds from this blog as well.

Update: It turns out that there's an app called What I'm Listening to for precisely what I wanted to do with last.fm, I've switched over to that. I still use blog rss feed reader to display my blog feeds.

I attended this jam session last night and it was really fun. Syl was there, whom I haven't spoke to in years. I had a lot of fun playing some straight-ahead jazz and met a lot of talented musicians as well. I'll definitely be back.