• Friday Five

    Ickmusic’s Friday Five: April 11, 2008

    / April 11, 2008

    Let Your Fingers Do the Walking Through the Shuffle.


    “I spend too much time raiding windmills… “- Toad the Wet Sprocket

    Today is a vacation day for me and in lieu of leaving the faithful fivers without an outlet to share what’s getting them through the day (or night as it may be) may I present the cliff notes version of today’s Friday Five. Here’s what came up in my shuffle before signing off today…

    Onto the shuffle!

    Here are this week’s tracks:

    1. Kiss – Love Gun (from Double Platinum)

    Classic guilty pleasure.

    2. Michael Jackson – Man in the Mirror (from The Essential Michael Jackson)

    How did no one cover this song during this week’s American Idol? Speaking of, how about that Jason Castro?

    3. Toad the Wet Sprocket – I Will Not Take These Things for Granted (MP3) (from Fear)

    I usually write the summary for the Friday Five before Friday (to ensure that I can get it done before the end of the day) and I swear it’s a great irony that a Toad track would come up in the shuffle today. This is a brilliant song from one of my favorite bands.

    4. Chet Atkins & Tommy Emmanuel – Road To Gundaghi/Waltzing Matilda (MP3) (from The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World)

    Continuing the tradition he started with his classic Chester & Lester records with Les Paul, this is the sound of two masters of the guitar doing what they do best.

    5. A Perfect Circle – Judith (from Mer de Noms)

    A heavy (in every sense of the word) track to close out the five.

    So what’s coming up in your shuffle today?

  • Miscellaneous

    Ickmusic.com: The Unavailable Weeks

    / April 11, 2008

    Question for the regulars. Have you had problems over the last few weeks with my web site timing out, or being unavailable? Has it happened more than once for you? And most importantly, is it getting to the point where it’s a nuisance for you?

    I’ve been on a new host, Hostmonster, since mid March. While their customer service is great, I’m having trouble with my web site staying up 24×7. I wanted to get some feedback from you all to find out if it’s noticeable.

    Bear with me, I’ll get everything going full time. If I have to jump to another host, so be it.

    UPDATE (4/14): Okay, I moved back to my old host (IPOWER) – Hostmonster’s customer service was great, but the site would be down multiple times every day. iPower’s customer service isn’t stellar, but at least they keep my site up.