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Christopher Hammond
07.14.04
This morning while getting ready I had directTV on channel 817, which is the alternative music station.
A catchly little tune came on by Chronic Future, called Time and Time Again. After a quick google search I found Chronic Future's web site.
Here's a link to the video for Time and Time...
Christopher Hammond
07.15.04
Chronic Future will be at the Creepy Crawl on the 22nd, I'm gonna head down, drag a friend or two along with...
Christopher Hammond
07.15.04
I found some old pictures I took back in April of 2000 at Pop's in Sauget Illinois.
Papa Roach was doing a tour right before Infest came out, Greg and I went, had a blast. I talked to Dave and Jerry a little bit before they played, it was nice to be able to do that, I'm sure nowadays that would be next to impossible. It's good to see they've blown up though.
Here are the Papa Roach...
Christopher Hammond
07.16.04
I went to Best Buy last night with Russ and picked up Chronic Future's Lines In My Face So far I am liking what I hear. I've listened to it probably 4-5 times since I got the CD last night. It was actually cheaper to buy it at Best Buy, $9.99, than you could download it from ITunes or Napster,...
Christopher Hammond
07.17.04
Check out this flash animation, some people have a hell of a lot of talent!
Transformers...
Christopher Hammond
08.20.04
Russ and I went and saw Metallica's Some Kind of Monster last night at the Galeria here in St. Louis, Missouri. It was kind of weird that the only place in town playing SKOM was the movie theater at the Galleria. I would have expected the Tivoli, High Points, or Frontenac to be playing such a title over the Galleria theater.
SKOM is a documentary on Metallica, ranging about two years, covering the development and struggles of recording the St. Anger album.
It was a decent 2 hours, though it felt like it was 3+ hours when watching it. Watching Lars and James go at it you can't help but laugh at how silly these two grown men are, fighting like little kids. It was a cool progression though throughout the movie watching them grow. I'm still not a fan of the St. Anger album, but I did break it back out today to listen to it again for a while.
Have you seen SKOM yet? What'd you...
Christopher Hammond
08.23.04
Just watched the Fall to pieces video from Launch.
Check it out here.
What do you think? It appears to have a weird split in the middle of the video, half color half black and...
Christopher Hammond
08.26.04
Body Count Guitarist Dennis Miles died of Lymphoma on August 17th.
I still have my cassette tape of Body Count, with the uncut Cop Killer version on it. I believe I also have their second album on tape as well? I may have to dig through the collection this...
Christopher Hammond
08.26.04
News has been going around the net about the Banned Corvette ad. Maybe it's just viral marketing, and if it is, it's working. Here's the ad in quicktime format. Pretty cool, but the quality leaves more for the wanting...
Christopher Hammond
08.31.04
I am having the worst time trying to listen to the new Papa Roach CD on my PC here at work. It looks like there may be some sort of copy protection on Getting Away With Murder.
I'll post more tonight after I...
Christopher Hammond
09.01.04
Well, I figured out a bit more. Track 1 on the CD Getting Away With Murder from Papa Roach will not play on my machine here at work. Trying to play track one on either iTunes or WM Player 10 is not possible and brings both applications to a crawl.
The rest of the tracks play fine. I'll try the CD at home tonight, I didn't get a chance to test it last...
Christopher Hammond
09.02.04
It appears that my claims that Papa Roach's Getting Away with Murder is copy protected were false, thank goodness.
I finally got to test the CD out on my home PC and am able to play all the tracks without a problem. So something with the data on the CD must be causing problems with track one on my machine at work. Just another reason to hate the machine I run on at...
Christopher Hammond
09.20.04
Interesting mix of Jay Z and the Beatles. A friend of mine pointed this out today. It's available for download at
http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html
“DJ Danger Mouse remixed the vocals from Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles' White Album and called his creation The Grey Album. He sent about 3,000 promo copies out, and was soon served with a cease-and-desist notice from EMI, who owns the rights to the White Album master. Danger Mouse complied with EMI's order, but Stay Free! (sponsors of the Illegal Art Exhibit) and other fans and activists continued distributing the record over the Internet. EMI sent legal threats to many of us as well but has since backed down, at least for the time being.
Just when we think our legal troubles are behind us, SONY/ATV -- who owns the rights to the Beatles' compositions -- sends our internet service provider (ISP) a DMCA takedown notice (3/1/2004). Fortunately, we have secured legal representation from the EFF and Kurt Opsahl, and have moved our website to the Online Policy Group, a nonprofit ISP devoted to free speech. Here is our response to Sony/ATV. Stay tuned!...
Christopher Hammond
09.28.04
If you haven't seen Shaun of the Dead yet go see it! It is an excellent movie. Funny as heck, and even a little jump out and scare you here and there. The movie is about two british guys who fight off a town full of Zombies, while the world faces an epidemic onslaught of Zombies. This is definitely a see it in theaters type of movie, or on DVD with 5.1...
Christopher Hammond
10.21.04
Can anyone tell me where Wil's headline for this blogpost is from? (Without reading the comments!)
“i shine, i'm freshly minted...
Christopher Hammond
10.23.04
I just got two tickets to see Papa Roach and Chronic Future at Mississippi Nights on Friday November 5th!
The last time I saw Papa Roach was in April of 2000 right before Infest was released, Greg and I saw them at Pops in Sauget. I missed Chronic Future last time they were in town at the Creepy Crawl.
This should be an awesome show! Now I need to find someone to go with...
Christopher Hammond
11.06.04
More to come later, here are some...
Christopher Hammond
11.08.04
Well, this is the first post about a great weekend!
Friday night Roger and I went to Mississippi Nights to see Papa Roach, Trust Co. and Chronic Future. When we got there we noticed the guys from proach were standing out on the side parking lot talking to fans. So we parked and walked around there to say hello. I said hello to Jerry, the guitar player, and told him we'd met before, at Pop's in Sauget Illinois in 2001, and that I went to school with his brother. He faintly remembered meeting me, or at least acted like he did.
After saying hello to Jerry I walked over to Jacoby, the lead singer, and said hello, told him I went to high school with his wife. To which he replied, “She's here, on the bus.” So I went over and waited by the bus until they were done with their signing, which I came to find out later was an invite only signing. I guess Roger and I just looked like we belonged there? :)
After the signing Jacoby got Kelly off the bus, she came out and said hello, asked what the hell I was doing in Missouri (I know, it's not the most exciting of states, but it's been home for 9 years now). Roger and I went in and watched the first two bands, I am not much of being right up in the crowd, so at Mississippi Nights it is nice because we could grab a chair in the back and still be able to see.
Later in the evening I noticed Kelly was inside watching Papa Roach play, I went up to her and another girl (kelly is in black, jennifer in the striped shirt) at the bar to say hello. We talked for probably an hour to an hour and a half. We got caught up on all sorts of things. Kelly just had her second son, 6 weeks ago, named Jagger. Her and Jennifer had flown out and met up with the guys in Wichata the night before, they were on tour with them until Monday and then were heading back to California and the kids.
Jennifer also went to Vanden High School and was in our class (95). Jennifer married Tobin, the bass player for Papa Roach. Jennifer also has two kids now. All the kids (4) were staying at Kelly's mom's house while they were out on tour with the band. Kelly told me about everything that's been going on, how life still is very regular for her, even though she's married to a rock star!
It was a great evening, getting caught up with Kelly and Jennifer, getting to hang out with the band members afterwards. I didn't know this, but Dave, the drummer, is married to a Tyler, as in one of Steven Tyler's daughters, Mia to be exact. Seeing things from the otherside, you realize how real people are, even though they look so far away, they are just regular people to, it's nice to see that.
Best of luck to the band, and to Kelly, Jennifer and the kids. I hope to see them all again soon, who knows, maybe they will show up at our 10 year reunion next year at Vanden!
Here are some photos taken that...
Christopher Hammond
12.09.04
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/09/nightclub.shooting/index.html
"According to witnesses, the gunman initially shot the band's guitarist, Dimebag Darrell.
Darrell, 38, and his brother, Vinnie Paul, 40, formed Damageplan after Pantera -- a group they formed in the 1980s -- broke up last year. Their father is Jerry Abbott, a country and western songwriter and producer."
Today will be a Pantara Day of Music in...
Christopher Hammond
12.20.04
So the alarm comes on this morning and I hit snooze the required 3-4 times per morning. It's blaring 105.7 at 7AM, which has the king of all that is bad, Howard Stern, on in the mornings. I absolutely cannot stand the guy, IMO Howard Stern is just a dork who surrounds himself with people lower than himself so they can boost and praise him.
This morning I actually listened to the show for a bit though. He had Jonathan Davis from Korn on this morning, talking about Jonathan's childhood and family life. It was kind of interesting, as I've always been a HUGE Korn fan, ever since Kevin Corcoran (sp?) gave me a tape of their first album back in 94. I knew he had a screwed up childhood, but to hear him talk about it was definitely interesting. ...
Christopher Hammond
11.21.05
So you're wondering how to get yourself an Xbox360 before Christmas? Here's a few tips.
Take 1:
On November 21st, head to your local Best Buy, Wal Mart or Circuit City, Target, Kmart.
Take warm clothes, some food, and a comfortable folding chair, you're going to be there a while.
Wait, wait, wait, until 8am on November 22nd.
Go in the store and buy one! If you're lucky enough to be one of the few in line that will get one.
Take 2.
Bid on one on Ebay.
Take 3.
Try finding one on Black Friday. (yeah good luck with that.)
Take 4.
Wait till after Christmas!
Any of your own tips on how to find a 360 before Christmas? Post them...
Christopher Hammond
11.28.05
Well, it's almost 1am and Thanksgiving weekend is almost over. I'll be getting up and heading back to the grind in the morning. Though this coming week will probably fly by for me. Natalie and I are headed to Vegas Friday evening. I bought a flight/hotel package early last week to take her out of town for the weekend. We leave on the 2nd of December, which is the date we've set as our wedding day for 2006, so this trip will be a little celebration of the year anniversary before our wedding.
I've never been to Vegas, bar a trip with the family when I was 12 or 13, so I look forward to getting to see all the Casinos, and of course see how much money I can come home with! Here's to hoping it's more than I started with! We've also got tickets to see the Blue Man Group, who I've always wanted to see, and Natalie's never heard of. They're at The Venetian, which happens to be the hotel we're staying at.
Other news. The Xbox 360 is going well, solo I've been playing Project Gotham Racing 3, it's got some great online action, and the single player so far has kept me entertained. Head to head I've been playing my future brother-in-law in some NBA Live 06, which is a great game to play when the other guy is in the room. After making a great play you can hit the replay button and rub it in their face. Other than those two games though I haven't touched much of the other software I picked up for the 360. I've also yet to get it working on my network to be able to stream files off my PC. Hopefully I'll get that working, I think it may be related to my PC being on a domain, but we'll see.
More news to come soon, lots going on in the Hammond...
Christopher Hammond
12.26.05
Christmas was good this year! Natalie and I both spoiled each other rotten!
I just installer her new car stereo into the F350. The stock stereo was hurting! It only had AM/FM, no CD or Tape! I got her a nice Sony CD Player for the dash, two new kicker speakers for the front doors, and an XM Roady2 for the must have Satellite radio. There's no Sirius in this household, down with Howard Stern and Sirius Radio! I installed the CD player this evening and made sure everything worked. It's a very clean install, you have to love Crutchfield for including everything you could need to install a radio ordered from them. The new CD player went right in the old unit's place courtesy of the Crutchfield mounting hardware.
I also picked up some fine jewelery from Krekeler Jewelers for Natalie's Christmas gifts. Thanks to Jeff for all the help picking a few nice things out!
Natalie spoiled me with some new Oakleys, a cool North Face Jacket, and the Klipsch floor speakers I'd been asking for! The new speakers sound amazing in front of the 50" plasma! I've ordered the Klipsh C-3 center channel speaker from Best Buy using some great gift cards I received. Sometime later this year I'll get the new receiver and 4 surround sound speakers to complete my new and improved home theater setup.
My parents sent me money to purchase an aircompressor and some tools for the garage, so I was out looking at Sears today. I did realize however, I'm going to need to take the truck next time I go, as the air compressors won't fit in the 350Z!
Thanks to everyone for the great Christmas. Natalie and I spent our first of many Christmas' together, hopefully next year we'll be able to see our parents though, it was my first Xmas away from my family :(
More to come in...
Christopher Hammond
01.04.06
At CES this evening it was announced that the Xbox 360 will get a HD-DVD external drive attachment later this year!
Good news for 360 Owners. Now if they would just upconvert regular DVDs as...
Christopher Hammond
02.05.06
What was Detroit thinking? That had to be one of the worst National Anthem Renditions...
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