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Tonight we’ll be watching The Exorcist, which I’ve never seen before and I’m a little freaked out by. Exorcisms creep me out. I’ve actually owned the DVD for over a year and was planning on watching it last Halloween, but it didn’t happen. I haven’t even unwrapped the plastic so as to contain the demons.

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Lori, Robert, Sue, and I attended the Matt Pond PA show last night at The Loft. I very much enjoyed it. There was a fair mix of new and old tunes. When the crowd started to yell out song suggestions, I went with Athabasca, because it’s a funny word to yell and also a good song. While I appreciate the extra rockingness of the latest version of the band, I do miss the cello some. And, not just because the former cello player was hot. Still, they’re awesome.

Buy the new album, Last Light. And, when (not if) you do, get it from iTunes because it also includes the If You Want Blood EP. I picked up Several Arrows Later from the merch table.

Also, check out the haiku review of the show by Eskimo Bliss.

In honor of the season, here’s some horror/comedy/claymation.

Here’s what’s been going on, in an unordered list:

• We had a very successful APWBWGTTD event on Tuesday night. There were old people there. There were new people there. I’d say most people had fun. Photos.
• Lori and I went to see The Shins last night. We had excellent seats and they sounded great live. One of the best sounding live shows I’ve ever been to, I’d say. Plus they played Sea Legs, so I was happy.
• New SDXE stuff was deployed.

I guess that’s it.

Saturday night Lori took me on a romantic date to Wisteria. It was awesome.

We started the night with Kobe Beef Carpaccio. I’ve never had carpaccio, but wanted to try it after seeing Alton Brown make it, and it was as good as I expected with some mixed greens and shaved parmesan. For my meal I had the Grilled Center Cut Beef Tenderloin with fancy Mac n’ Cheese. I loved it so much I made funny faces while eating it. It might just be the best piece of cow I’ve ever eaten. If you enjoy cow, get this. Lori had the special of the day, Cajun Fried Catfish which tasted nice as well. For dessert, we split some sorbet (mango, strawberry and blackberry flavors) that was also great.

I would eat here again and go on another romantic date with Lori, if she ever wanted to invite me in the future.

I’ve used Winamp for many years. I think Cyanbane first introduced me to it way back in college days, probably around ‘98. It’s better than iTunes. There I said it.

The default skin for the new version is pretty nice looking (and gigantic). Usually I use a compact style theme and let the player sit top-right on my desktop with a little transparency, but I figured I’d give the new look a go. I like it so far. This version also adds album art support and other things I probably won’t use much. Basically, they’ve just continued the solid music listening experience. That’s good.

Really, the best part about Winamp has always been the global hotkeys. Being able to pause the music without the app having focus is great — especially at work. I seem to remember this used to be a 3rd party plugin, but has been part of the default install for awhile now.

Now, if only there was a Linux port…