The 4 Hour Extravaganza

Had a really good weekend so far. Friday, went up to help Jme, with the help of a mutual friend, move into her new apartment (across the street) and then finished today. After helping her, helped another friend move. Both paid us back in food, how nice of them? Anyways, here is the top 3 memorable things to occur from the past 48 hours:

3) Random picture taking (Wordless Wednesday maybe?)

2) Breaking a drum stick on Rock Band

1) Finding out a friend of mine was watching a porn and then realized, when the girl's face was finally shown, that it was his step-sister. Wow. I have no idea what I would do in that situation.

But on to the real reason you clicked on here... The Show:

All Things Rock - 7/15/09 by okarmmr

Breakdown is as follows...

Beginning: Drum N Bass remix and then some old school

33:25 - 1:30:57: Special Guest Setlist (from jeanette at Cooler Ranch of Nacho Cheese?)

1:31:31 - 2:30:10: Setlist dedicated to my brothers

2:30:32 - 3:32:38: Then & Now Setlist

End: Acoustic songs + a few bonus tracks

NOTES

*As with other ones, the volume may be kinda low, so you may have to turn it up.

*This file is REALLY big. So you may need to press play, then pause and then walk away and let it load. Also, it may slow your computer down. It may. Sorry about that.

*At the beginning, I play a Metallica song and the volume goes down. That's because I tried to talk over it but pressed the wrong mic button. So that is why it all the sudden goes down, and then comes back up. Because I am an idiot.

*The hour dedicated to my brothers is kinda harder, with some screamo thrown in. If that's not your thing, skip on (that's why I broke it down)

*At the very end is a shoutout to a very dedicated follower/listener. Is this a cheap way to get her (and anybody else out of curiousity) to listen the whole thing? Yes, and I am ok with that. Little trivia: the recording actually cut out early, so the last two songs I spliced in there. I mean, one of them was the shoutout ;)

So there it is. Listen while you clean the house, read a book, take a bath... whatever. As for me, I am about to go to sleep and wake up to a very lazy Sunday. And I can't wait.

MJ, Warped Tour, and six degrees of TBS

So since I was told, not asked, (which is so much better) to post my show, here it is. I was going to try and write a few things about my days to go with it, but i'm running late. Going to try to be in Crestview tonight and spend the holiday with the sister and brother-in-law (i've decided I need blog nicknames for them).

This is the show: It features an MJ tribute at the beginning (a mix we found a few years back), the first of a few weeks of Warped Tour previews, and a little thing I called six degrees of Taking Back Sunday. It starts with the last few minutes of my roommate's show, then I kick it off. So enjoy:

All Things Rock - 7/1/09 by okarmmr

Set list can be found here

Drip drip drop there goes an eargasm

So I first off want to thank everybody that gave me ideas. Most made it in, some sadly did not. But there will be other shows :)

With that said, here is the entire show. All three hours of it. WAIT! Don't get intimidated, it's good I promise. But just to make sure, space it out. Listen to it while you are getting ready for work/school/going out/, while you are cleaning house, or while you read interesting stuff on the internet, like fmylife, texts from last night or these wonderful blogs. Use it as background, but I promise it's good. Just push play...

ATR - 6/24/09 by okarmmr

However, here are some notes about it:
*The file is pretty big (its three hours, remember), so you may have to press play and walk away, letting it load for a minute. Also, the sound is a little low. So if you turn it up and go to play something else, you will notice the different volume level.
*My roommate wasn't able to go in, so I went in during his show, so that's what the first 40 minutes is. The first track is just one where I pressed record to talk over. The second track is a chill track I used to go into a little Coldplay mix he put together. If you don't like mixes, just skip to the 41 minute mark and that's when my show officially starts. But trust me, it's a good mix.
*It is a college radio show, so while there are no commercials, we do have to play Public Service Announcements or PSA's. Hopefully they don't get too distracting.

So with that said, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. If you listen to any of it, even like five minutes worth, tell me what you thought about. I leave you now with every band I managed to squeeze in there:

The Academy Is...
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Album Leaf
The All American Rejects
Anberlin
Angels & Airwaves
Band of Skulls
The Black Keys
Bloc Party
The Bravery
Cage the Elephant
Cake
Coldplay (30 minutes worth)
Cold War Kids
Death Cab for Cutie
Franz Ferdinand
The Fratellis
Green Day
Gym Class Heroes
Head Automatica
Incubus
Jack's Mannequin
The Killers
The Kings of Leon
Linkin Park
Manchester Orchestra
MGMT
Minus the Bear
Modest Mouse
New Found Glory
Pendulum
Peter, Bjorn, & John
The Shins
The Sounds
The Strokes
Taking Back Sunday
Vampire Weekend
Wolfmother
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I got the mic and you got the moshpit

So I would like to welcome the new followers, and anyone else who saw me shamelessly promote this blog on the music group on 20something. It's a good one to start with, because I'm basically asking for feedback.

If you are new, then one thing to know about me is that I am a college radio DJ. This is only important when it gets close to Wednesdays (the day I go on) and especially when fall semester starts again. This summer is kind of lazy -- I have only done one show -- but in the fall when everyone comes back it should be interesting. One day, we took the camera in the studio and snapped this lovely pic:



Now, it looks like im singing or gettin ready to rap, but actually I was just trying to "look hard." All I do is introduce the music. And speaking of the music, this is where you guys come in.

My show is called "All Things Rock" because that's basically what I play -- all things in the genre of rock. I have literally played Coldplay and Underoath in the same show before. It's how I get down. Sometimes I have themes (in the past I have had acoustic shows, an all female show, and warped tour artists as examples). But tomorrow, I don't really have a theme. I was going to play a bunch of screamo because A Day To Remember and Chiodos tracks came to Rock Band, but I think I am going to wait till July when Warped Tour makes its way to Atlanta. So I need your help.

I usually have a group on facebook, but i'm trying to keep my facebook/myspace world separate from my blogspot world, so consider you guys my special group. In that group I ask for suggestions on what to play and what not. Well this week, I have the bands in mind. I just need your suggestions for songs.

The only song I know for sure I am going to play is Linkin Park's new song. If I go on after my roommate, I will play Are You In? by Incubus (explanation: my roommate is an actual DJ, with turntables and everything. He may or may not come in tomorrow. On a normal schedule, he goes on before I do, but we may move around tomorrow and he might go on after me). But those are the only two, I have locked. The following are bands I would like to play. Like I said, there is no theme to tomorrow's show, but I guess nothing too crazy or nothing way soft. Kind of in the middle. Only restriction: it has to fall under the category the umbrella of rock (meaning no hip hop and stuff) and that it has to be clean, or radio friendly. So here are the bands I have in mind:

Green Day (off their newest album)
Taking Back Sunday (also off newest album)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (and also off newest album)
Franz Ferdinand
MGMT
Shiny Toy Guns
Kings of Leon
The Black Keys
Manchester Orchestra
Anberlin
Augustana
The Academy Is...
Jack's Mannequin
Cage the Elephant
All American Rejects
The Shins
White Stripes (or Raconteurs)
Cold War Kids
Toxic Airbourne Event
Gym Class Heroes
Head Automatica
The Hush Sound
The Killers
Minus the Bear
Pendulum
New Found Glory
Silversun Pickups
The Sounds

So there they are. I may play more bands than that, I may play less. I only have two hours. But if you could, offer suggestions on which song to play from 1 band, 3 bands, or all of them if you have the time. Suggest anybody else if you like, though if I don't already have them, I may not have time to get them. Tell your friends, your family, your dog to suggest. After all, this is going out to people, so why not have it be people suggested?

Oh, and if you wanna listen in, we stream online. Although i'm not sure what exact time I will go on, I know my roommate and I will be on air from 5-8, central time (if you hear some club type stuff, that means he is on). The link is at wegl.auburn.edu and just click on streaming.

Thanks ahead of time!