Ryan MacMichael's blog

QotD: Home Sweet Home

What is your browser's default home page set to?
Submitted by Kelev T. Cat.

My myhq.com page.  Exciting. 

QotD: Check the Mailbox!

What magazines do you subscribe to, and why?

Herbivore, Clamor, Video Watchdog, Satya, Tape Op, Reader's Digest, Prevention, Runner's World.

Why?  Because I still like reading things in print form.

QotD: Art over Music

What are your three favorite album covers of all-time? Any honorable mentions?

Wow... tough question.  Really tough question.  One of those questions that I'll have a different answer for tomorrow.  But let's deal with today.  Be in the moment.

There are some I'd like to include for the sheer balls it took to create them and others for their unintentional humor.

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  Elton John: Captain Fantastic...
  First, let's go with Elton John's Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.  This one is not only a phenomenal album, but especially eye-catching in its original full-sized LP version.  Lots of great intricacy in the illustration and wonderfully busy.

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  DJ Krush: Zen
  Next, DJ Krush's Zen.  A lot of his cover designs are great, but this one is the one I'd most like to have blown up to poster size.  It's just beautiful.

The Unemployed

• And just to mix things up a bit, an obscure new band whose cover really caught my eye: The Unemployed.

(Lord, I can't stand Vox's WYSIWYG editor.  This post was impossible to put together.)

Digital Photo Relics

Townhouse

What's the oldest digital camera photo you have on your computer? When is it from? Let's see it!

Here's the first picture I took with my first digital camera, an Olympus D-340R.  1.3 megapixel.

The shot is from November 27, 1999 at 12:57pm and was taken in our townhouse in Falls Church, VA.  Rob had moved out by that point and my media was taking over the small downstairs area, including the dining room table that we rarely ate at.

Also visible: a piece of Huyen's artwork.

(Incidentally, the table was the kitchen table in my parents' house when I was growing up and is now in the kitchen of our house.)

Best. Fireworks. Ever.

Fireworks are lame.

The worst I ever saw were the ones in DC. Really. I mean, yeah, technically they were way beyond the dinky Bedford, PA ones I saw growing up, but they were so cheesy with the smiley-face fireworks.

I've pretended to enjoy fireworks for long enough. Time to come clean. They bore me.

Number one with a bullet

#1 song on the day I was born: Neil Sedaka: "Bad Blood" (ack!).

#1 song on the day I turned 21: "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" by Los Del Rio (double ack!).

and, to add one more, #1 song on the day I turned 30: "Gold Digger" by Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx. That's a little more like it.