Crash Premonition Data Disaster Mix

It's been a trying week for Windows and me

Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (live)



During the course of attempting to burn some routine and suggested "Backup Discs" for my lately unstable year and a half old HP laptop, I came upon a missing Hal.DLL layer error...

Armored Saint - Unstable

After spending a few days in DOS hell trying to poke around, recoup, learn and wonder...

Foo Fighters - Long Road To Ruin



The next thing ya know, and using the tips helpfully supplied by HP and the $30 recovery disc set they charged me for, I ended up destroying all my stored data.

So not only was I was unable to restore my operating system partition, but a good year and a half of data was lost...countless hours of whatnot.

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

I'd have a funeral for these bits and bytes... but fuck If I even know what the proper ritual should be...

I was feeling kinda sick to my stomach about this, but was grateful and took some solace that I at least had my 500 gig backup drive working...

Sure the ol bitty had lost most of it's installed software,personal files, settings etc

But at least we were up and booted, and given a few hours of tinkering things could be working eventually...

Compute - Brand New Start (hageus mix)

But on Thursday, while this agonizing process was happening, some clod hopper dusting the living room knocked my backup drive to the floor... and then I lost everything...

Thursday - The Other Side Of The Crash (demo)

the last thing I saw was an error message and I went to pick up the drive off the hardwood and it would only make a whirring buzzing sound...

There went everything...

All the remaining files I had managed to back up that weren't destroyed off the laptop were on that drive... and it was now dead...

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU****************************************KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!


There goes my ability to earn a living this summer...

and 40,000 song music collection, video files, personal photos, work projects etc

Oh Well...


The Honorary Title - Everything I Once Had


The Cowboy Junkies - A Common Disaster ( live 1996 Vancouver)

Soon - Everything's Ruined


Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch



Gwen Stefani crash instrumental



Vector Lovers - Crash Premonition



Skin Contact - Reset (System Crash Mix)

Guess I'll go get fucked up...

nice...

There aren't a whole lotta other options on my list...

It's just where... i've got an invite to a house party down south a few miles in Pacifica, and another to a punk show right here in the city...

I think I'm probably safer on my own turf, less commute issues...


See ya in da pit...


but I will say this before I go...


This kind of disaster/problem is not for the faint hearted...



Seems every 500 days or so ( sometimes less ) I lose everything and have to start over...

But two catastrophic data deletions in one day is a bit much...

I keep comparing & contrasting and buying windows machines and keep getting spanked...

I know the Apple faithful are chomping at the bit to say I told you so...

But I can't join their cult just yet, especially when I'm always a grand or so shy of their glory...

Windows toys always seem cheaper, and perhaps because Bill Gates was the only guy to send me a Christmas card one year...maybe i'm sentimental.

So I guess I'll keep plugging along...

or unplug this pesky beast and get my ass outside...

i'ts beer thirty-ish for sure

Kraftwerk - Home Computer (live)

Fall Out Boy - You're Crashing But You're No Wave

Taking Back Sunday - Your Own Disaster

From Autumn To Ashes - I'm The Best At Ruining My Life

Donnie Iris - Do You Compute?

Alberto Gets A Lawyer

I'm sorta pressed fer time...headed out the door...

Tonight I'm turning down my free passes to some shindig at the local disco hosted by some company that's attempting to lure me into their nefarious networking & PR mess and gonna go catch some toasted wacky east coast noise from Sound of Urchin...

sadly it's one of those bands I set up with a show for years ago, but being a busy event monkey means I never got a chance to see em then...

and time marched on...

but they have ditty's saved up for every occasion...

Sound of Urchin (live at the Knitting Factory)- Jack & Diane pt II

I'm headed to LA Thursday night...

Likely won't be back in bloglandia until next week so ...

Who knows what show I'll see when i'm down in LA...but I can GWAR-an-f*ck-in-TEE it that it won't be Genesis at da Hollywood Bowl...

Genesis - Turn It On Again

Maybe I'd go for Lewbowski Fest at the Knitting Factory...

who cares


In other news...

yer welcome to read my rants at Sf Metroblogs, which is occasionally where I thrust opinions that are more SF Bay Area localized than sort of random spew I spit here...

For example:
Tonight's rant:

Elk Semen Weekly enters THC SRO hotel fray: BeyondChron retaliates with praise for Tweedy

10/11/2007 07:45 AM

Lil Mike: Months after I reported here that local blogger Jeff Webb was documenting the dangerous conditions and inept management policies at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, Matt Smith of the SF Weekly has now jumped on the story with a long sordid accusation filled article on the THC's "Vice Hotel" racket... more at [ths link]

If not read on to more nationally significant issues below:

"ethically challenged" former U.S Attorney Alberto Gonzalez has hired an attorney to represent himself during upcoming hearings. Maybe the lil' weasel has finally realized asking himself for advice wasn't working out so great...



Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another (Rhythm Scholar Full Deception Remix)

Liars Workshop - Facts are Biased

Suicide Commando - Bind, Torture , Kill


Taking Back Sunday - Liar ( It Takes One To know One)

KRS-ONE "Illegal Business" (mp3)
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