To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of ‘Prodigal Son At Winterland, San Francisco, CA’ by Bruce Springsteen on the 15th December 1978 - This evening I decided to listen to the whole concert in full. Many argue this performance is his greatest ever, I’m still undecided, have a listen and see what you think!
Set List: Badlands / Streets Of Fire / Spirit In The Night / Darkness On The Edge Of Town / Factory / Promised Land / Prove It All Night / Racing In The Streets / Thunder Road / Jungleland / The Ties That Bind / Santa Claus / Fever / Fire / Candy’s Room / Because The Night / Point Blank / Mona - She’s The One / Backstreets / Rosalita / Born To Run / Detroit Medley / 10th Avenue Freeze Out / Raise Your Hand / Quarter To Three
Notes about the show: Broadcast on KSAN in San Francisco, CA. The stretch run of the Darkness tour featured several differences from early in the tour, most notably Bruce’s regular inclusion of "The Fever" and "Point Blank," as well as opening the second set with "The Ties That Bind." This show is another nomination for greatest show of all time, and another show with which you should start your collection. The performances of "Prove It All Night," "The Promised Land," and "Backstreets" are some of the best of all time. It was first released on CD by Great Dane Records as "Live in the Promised Land," and then Crystal Cat released their version called "Winterland Night," and the remasterer extraordinaire Prodigal Son released his version called "Prodigal Son at Winterland." It should also be noted that this show was another of the early vinyl bootlegs, also called "Live in the Promised Land," but the source tape was from the broadcast and does not include the last two songs. By this time, Bruce knows that radio broadcasts really help the bootleg industry, and he dedicates "Racing in the Street" to all the guys on Kingsley and Ocean Avenues (along the Jersey Shore) who will hear this show "through the magic of bootlegging." This was Bruce’s last radio broadcast until July 3, 1988.
(link) I wanted to find the weather in ‘South Shields’, but what page does ‘S’ begin on? Page 5? Who knows? The numerical list above is giving the user no indication, which is highly annoying. Why aren’t they utilising a alphabetical list instead?
i.e. a,b,c,d,e…
I got all the way to page 32, to find South Shields was not on the list
Starting today Fox searchlight is sending out its first trailer for ‘The Wrestler’ Their mission: to make filmgoers want to see a movie that looks very male. Mickey Rourke plays a down-on-his-luck, aging wrestler facing the end of his career who suddenly needs to reach out to his daughter, poignantly played by Evan Rachel Wood, and a stripper pal, Marisa Tomei.
How much of this do I really care about? – Not much, but I do care about the Springsteen track being played in the background of the trailer. I heard the track about 2 months ago, cracking stuff, watch the trailer and listen to the song.
This song ‘The Wrestler’ will appear as a bonus track on the new Springsteen album ‘Working On A Dream’, released in January ‘09.
I’ve always been the sort of person who buys art which invokes an emotional spark (it is the reason why I have Robert Olley’s Coal, Ships, Fish & Chips on my bedroom wall). I love Lowry but that’s only because of the childhood sentiments. I suppose the point I’m trying to raise is that I’ve never bought art farty stuff because I like it, but this could soon change.
The work of Jon Burgerman interests me, I’ve often wondered about wasting a few quid on buying a piece of his work. So today I asked myself why? why do I like it? I seriously can’t say! Rationally it doesn’t make sense, it certainly doesn’t go with my décor, or do I have an emotional connection, I just, well, like it. People say your décor defines you, maybe having one piece of his work on one wall in my house would define me? – Look at his work, you’ll understand or maybe you wont, maybe your not meant too?
Jon I’m just waiting on the correct piece now.
UPDATE : Just as I finished this post, I found this;
ByJon Burgerman this wallpaper is actually a colouring book. This wallpaper can be filled with your own colours as you can see in the picture, so what was I saying about my own décor? This reminds me of what Randy Pausch said about letting your children draw on their walls, I couldn’t see any children that wouldn’t be intrigued with this;
The wallpaper is available now from this store in East Sussex at £40.00 per roll.
Last week in class we got presented with a video from IDEO in Palo Alto and their unique brand of brainstorming called ”Deep Dive,” a sort of total immersion into the problem at hand. It’s one company’s secret weapon for innovation. I liked it, I liked their process, but you can make up your own mind.
Part one is below, but parts 2 & 3 can be found on Youtube.
The video might be 8 years old, but I still think it is very relevant. That reminds me, I still need to buy Bill Moggridge’s book ‘Designing Interactions’ – which has an excellent piece by Bill Verplank on Interaction Design.
Bruce was hanging out with outlaw pete thinking this was my lucky day, they had been working on a dream of getting rich by robbing the local bank. Due to the credit crunch Bruce thought that the banks would not have much to take so they went to the local wall mart to check the place out.
In the store Bruce was distracted by the Queen of the supermarket during there heist, he forgot about the outlaw plans to pillage the place and thought he would see what love can do. Outlaw Pete said “this life sucks! but Boss you got a good eye and tomorrow never knows”.
The boss takes his catch with a arm around her and says to Pete “life itself is not so bad we will rob the store in our kingdom of days and it will be a big surprise surprise as they wont be expecting us”. Right now I’m taking my baby to Jersey for the last Carnival to see the freaks to see the wrestler to see the pier, then she going to have a night with the Jersey Devil.
Not the greatest piece of creative writing in the world, but its much nicer than copying the setlist from brucespringsteen.net
Now this wasn’t the limited edition iPod I imagined, but doesn’t that box just make it look so cool to own. Snap out of it Kyle! It is an iPod Classic with 13 Beatles CDs. TUT TUT I still want one ;
Limited Edition Ultimate Collector’s Box: Beatles iPod Set. The ultimate Beatles collector’s gift. Includes a numbered 120G iPod in classic black etched with the Beatles’ logo on the front and Abbey Road on the back. Includes 13 original Beatles’ CDs, plus two masters and the "Love" CD, all with an engraved guitar pick. Packaged in a box designed by Psycho Bunny. Only 2500 available.
Catalog Item Number: 64934
Limited Edition. 2500 available. Each iPod is etched with a number.
I have just found these simplified TV remote controls from Bill Moggridge’s "Designing Interactions". It is a interesting concept, what buttons on your remote do you use daily?
After spending a few weeks online searching for a holiday my parents managed to get away to Ibiza yesterday. For the past few weeks my mum in particular has been using the web a lot to search for holidays, I don’t take much notice and let her get on with it. I wouldn’t class my parents as big spenders online, but they know how to be secure. Occasionally, they will come across a problem and seek my assistance other than that they are both very competent.
On Saturday I got a shout from upstairs asking my if I could sort out there problem. They had decided to book a holiday with Thomas Cook on their online site. After submitting their personal details (+ bank details), the site came into some difficulties. Everything had been entered, my mum had clicked on the submit button and they were presented with the screen below.
My dad mentioned this screen has been on for 10 minutes, although we still think its processing because it is still asking us to wait and the icon is still moving. It was obvious at first glance that the page wasn’t doing anything, the ‘please wait’ meant absolutely nothing and the icon twirling was just a gif image to imply the system was processing their details. You can see that Firefox had done loading and the page had just become static. Both parents were frightened to touch anything, because the believed the system was still ‘doing something’. The system became caught up on something and couldn’t progress, but gave no ‘get out clause’ in case of such an event. Even a simple message below stating if the system hangs for more than 5 minutes (?) you should contact our customer services on blah blah blah. Now if I wasn’t at home, I still believe my parents would have sat for a good few hours watching the gif image twirl about the screen, wondering what to do if this screen wasn’t to proceed. Even after explaining what was going on, they still had difficulties understanding what was happening and remember I would class them as ‘competent’ surfers. More meaningful methods of showing the state of a system should be applied instead of ‘pseudo trickery’, that will certainly stumble the majority of users.
I haven’t got a problem with it if a system works 100% of the time, but which system could guarantee that?
So, is this new iPod Nano? Who knows but it did get me thinking. Last year the iPod user interface got a fresh new update (see second image above). On the supposedly new Nano the screen is much longer, but doesn’t look as wide as the fat 3g Nano from last year (which could be a issue for the UI on the new device). The longer screen is definitely for watching for watching movies in landscape mode (for some strange reason Apple likes us to physically change the way we hold the device, depending on what task we are performing). By the way, how big are accelerometers? because I could certainly see them making an appearance in this device.
Name: Kyle J Mayne
Location: United Kingdom
D.O.B: 8th July 1987
A postgraduate Human Computer Interaction student who spends his time being a voyeur of the web. I use this site as my online notebook in which I record my initial thoughts and opinions on current issues, technology, websites and new media. Music is a big part of my life which will occasionally be included in my daily postings. You can check out my style of music on Last.FM.
Starting today Fox searchlight is sending out its first trailer for ‘The Wrestler’ Their mission: to make filmgoers want to see a movie that looks very male. Mickey Rourke plays a down-on-his-luck, aging wrestler facing the end of his career who suddenly needs to reach out to his daughter, poignantly played by Evan Rachel Wood, and a stripper pal, Marisa Tomei.
