Things I Think You Should Know

I started my weekend by swapping out my iPhone 3GS for a Motorola Atrix 2.  Two things about the Motorola Atrix 2:

1.  It's friggin' awesome.

2.  That is all.

But, no, seriously.  I never wanted an iPhone.  The reason I got the 3GS is because my old HTC Tilt was literally discharging its battery before my very eyes.  The only AT&T Android phone available at the time was the original Droid, which did not impress me.  The iPhone 4 hadn't been officially announced yet.  We were still about six months from the first Windows Phone.  The 3GS, in short, was the only game in town.

I found the iOS and its attendant stuff both good and bad.  I loved it at first, but slowly got more and more frustrated with its limitations.  So once I learned I was in the renewal period and the Atrix 2 was available for a hundo, I jumped all over that shit.

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My iPhone 3GS is now getting a second life as an iPod Touch.  My iPod Classic tends to crash when I plug it into my computer, forcing me to restore and reload the damn thing from nothing.  It's deeply annoying.  But the iPhone is way smaller in terms of storage than the iPod,[1] so I'll probably use both, depending on the situation.

Also, for anyone who actually uses an iPhone or, I'm assuming, iPod Touch as an mp3 player, I've noticed that if I have a single album with multiple artists it splits the album up by artist.  The iPod Classic does not do this.  If I have an album with different artists I WANT TO HAVE THEM ALL ON THE SAME FRIGGIN ALBUM.  Anyone know how to fix this?

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I went to see Flogging Molly on Saturday.  It was a hell of a show, easily one of the five best main sets I've seen.  In no particular order, these are the best shows I've seen:

Flogging Molly, 2012 Green 17 tour at the Aragon
Green Day, Superpages.com Center, Fair Park, Dallas in 2010
Soundgarden reunion tour, UIC Pavilion, Chicago, July 2011
Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, either the Gruene Hall show in 2010 or my first Joe's on Weed Street show, back in 2006-ish
Local H in West Dundee, IL back in, like, 2004.  Assuming the show was as awesome as I remember.

Also, this year the Flog is closing out the Green 17 Tour in Tempe, Arizona.  You know who else will be playing at that show?  A little Arizona band known as Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers.  Awesome.

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Meanwhile, you need to become acquainted with Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears.



This one might be a bit NSFW:



They bring da funk in the best possible sense of that word.

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Oh, and if you've been managing to read this blog without learning about the Lost Immigrants, you no longer have an excuse.  For the record, the Live & War in Texas selection?  I was at that show.

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[1]I bought the 32GB iPhone 3GS, which totally seemed like overkill at the time.  Now it turns out it's almost justified.