so.there.we.were

The basic idea of the “Keyword Music Search” is that I type a keyword into my iTunes search function and then pick two or three of the best results that come up (I have over 15,000 songs and counting, so the choices are many and varied). Hopefully, this will be an interesting and novel way for me to share my musical tastes, and it kinda gives me a goal to shoot toward. No analysis or reviews and very little commentary, just songs here for you to listen to if you so choose.

So, you may remember the earlier post about poor customer service experiences with Comcast, Atlanta PD and Denon. Well, to give props where props are due, Comcast responded to my blog post and apologized for the delay and the telephone mix-up. They couldn’t change my date because of the number porting issue with AT&T, but they did waive my install charges and the guy who came to set it up was super nice and had teh internets and my phone up and running in no time.

Sidenote: After I decided to switch, my AT&T modem quit working and I couldn’t figure out why, so I called them and they overnighted my a new one to use for the few days before I ditched them. I used full disclosure with the agent on the phone and she couldn’t have cared less if they were shipping it only for three days use. The new one showed up and I plugged it in and it immediately started smoking….seriously. So, I was without internet until the Comcast install. Turns out the original modem quit working because the phone line got zapped by lightning and fried the modem. Unfortunately, it also zapped the WAN port on my Airport Extreme Base Station, meaning I had to go buy a new one today. The technology gods really hate me right now.

And now to shit on people when shitting on people is due. The Denon receiver was taken into Norman’s Electronics and “repaired.” Got it back on Friday and hooked it up today and, to make a long story short, it is actually worse than it was before. The audio sounds awful and the choppiness has spread to other channels and speakers. And now the video pass-through keeps coming and going.

Urg.

Now I’m pissed. Of course, there is no 24/7 customer support, so I will have to call tomorrow between the super-convenient hours of 9 and 5:30.

In honor of being driven to the brink of madness, mainly by Denon at this point, the keyword music search for today is “insane,” and its derivative “insanity,” because that’s my state of mind. Otherwise known as the place I’m being driven out of.

I typed the root “insan” into my iTunes and these are my song choices from the selections given to me:

Dinosaur Jr. - I’m Insane

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Red Animal War - The Insanity

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Black Sabbath - Am I Going Insane (Radio) (From ‘Sabatoge’)

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I welcome keyword suggestions for future incarnations of this series, please contact me or leave a comment below. If you feel the need to disagree with my choices, I would also like to hear from you, so that you can be promptly ignored.

(Insanity certificate courtesy of DeviantArt.com)

Enjoy while you can, all mp3s will come down when the next installment goes up…