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Today’s song is brought to you by John Mayer: In Your Atmosphere

This person from ccf was at the library last week and listened to a few songs from this album and said:
“oh John, you can be the mayor of my music town..” ha ha ha..

Interestingly enough, the song that I was referring to at the beginning of our conversation on March 7, 08 was a song by Cake: Love You Madly.
The song is so retro-soundingly great. Check it out!

Edit: For any future linking of songs to itunes, use the following iTunes Link

Edit 2: This series of posts does not really mean song of the day, but more so for songs you love so much that it needs to be recommended.

excerpt from msn:

mr. game and watch
the other day…when i was in class talking to you
the girl that sat beside me was like like

oh..
talking to that guy again eh
you’re always talking to him

..

So as a result, teewee and I have spent the past 20 minutes (now closer to 30).. talking only about the size of MSN logs. To keep it short:

The day we talked to each other most (in recorded history) was Friday, March 7th, 2008. The first message was at about 10:30am – teewee: i really love one of the songs they have on the boutwell weddng site and continued pretty steadily until the last recorded message was at 12:00am – jon: MIDNIGHT, the time of heroes. We can only assume that we played approximately 2 hours of TF after that. Even though the words are short do the conversational nature, at 250 words per page, that day we talked enough to fill 26 pages.

The combined logs on teewee’s laptop and imac with myself add up to about 40mb or enough conversation to fill 3,800 pages.

Well, not entirely true.. as I’m still waiting on the powerbridge, but, I got enthusiastic and spent the better part of Friday evening and a few hours on Saturday hard at work. Unfortunately I’m horrible at taking pictures as I go.. so there isn’t much in the way of in-progress.

A few snags along the way:

The metal studs turn out to be furring strips and approximately 1.5″ wide.. which was sad, but since my brother was originally planning for dry-wall only installation, I figured any kind of extra support would be bonus.

The holes for the toggle bolts I bought had to be 6/8″! The part of the wall mount that attaches to the wall wouldn’t take that size, so I had to enlarge some of the holes and dremel bits away to make the bolts fit in.

The green tape on the wall (and there was a LOT of it on the wall) shows where the studs in the wall are.. I also had tape showing the top/bottom/left/right edges of the tv, as well as the top/bottom edges of the mount and tape showing the center position on the wall.

After the initial fear of screwing it up.. cutting holes in the drywall was quite fun.

Holes for everything!

Mm.. dream of wall-plate AV connectors.. achieved.

The speakers were actually more of a pain to put in than the tv. I guess I thought it was cake after putting the plasma up.. so I didn’t measure 5 times.. and had some problems aligning them.

It’ll be a lot cleaner once I get a proper powerbar, a smaller sub, and commission a media console. I’ve been sketching a few ideas out. It’ll be pretty much the same height as the one in the photo, but wide enough to cover up the A/V wallplates. Right now there are two power cables coming out on each side, but it’ll be cut down to just one power cable eventually.

I’ve also decided the rear surrounds add so much to the movie experience.. and so will be investigating options. Currently there’s.. buy flat speaker cable and run it around the wall and paint over it.. or run it on the ground under the rug. Decisions.. decisions..