You Know What Lets Give One To Last.fm, Too!

I woke up this morning to start my daily playlist of playing whatever the hell comes up on random remembering songs I forgot I liked. In this process I always go on last.fm just to see what everyone else is currently listening to/obsessed with. (Yeah, I get a little embarrassed too when you look at my previously played tracks and the same song comes up about 15 times in a row but [I think] I'm ok with it.)

ANYWAY

As I click to look at someone's profile while I'm listening to music, some other strange sounds start coming up aside from the song that I'm currently listening to. I stumble, and many the times I have stumbled on a site that plays videos right away, or plays songs right away, or tells me congratulations I just won a free [insert random object here]. But I wasn't stumbling. Did I leave another window open? No... Is there a virus? Is this AIM being stupid again? No, MACs are better than that. Then where the hell is that sound coming from?

Then I realized. Hm.

It's coming from a banner on the side of my last.fm pages. On my profile page, on musician pages. Every page. Granted, they don't appear for you or your friends if you pay to be a subscriber... but I am not a subscriber. Normally ads don't bother me. In fact last.fm banners have previously been non instrusive and sometimes interesting (movie soundtracks, upcoming concerts etc.) UNTIL NOW.

Why the hell would they put a banner up for a Beck's beer that has random noises to it and NOT EVEN GIVE YOU THE OPTION TO MUTE IT? Is this their way of trying to get people to subscribe to the site? Not a very good ploy, for me anyway. If anything I'd stop using it. Sure, what's $3 dollars a month to not have this shit come up behind my songs and ruin them? Who cares, I'm not paying it.

Last.fm, please get off your shit horse and take that nonsense off your page. Unnecessary. You guys have lost points today. Congratulations.

Click here to air your grievances and push to have them ban audio banners. The audio banner isn't on this page. That'd be too ironic.

Oh Did I Forget To Mention Something?

Janet Jackson canceled the rest of her tour last week. No interest in rescheduling oh, the 7 or 8 shows she initially "postponed"


http://www.janet-xone.com/2008_11_01_archives.html#537318708815134513

Hey J, if you read this. Thanks for taking one of the single events I've been looking forward to for most of my life, dangling it in front of my eyes, then throwing it away. I appreciate it, really thank you.

Signed,

1 less devoted fan.

I wish I could take all your CDs I bought and give them back to you.


















And then come back for them later when I wasn't so angry anymore.

Phillies Win, Comcast FAILS.

Last night watching game 3 of the World Series, Comcast was not so Comcastic...

Around midnight the picture started to get a little pixelated and the sound started dropping out. No biggie...Comcast does that all the time. I gave up completely on trying to watch SNL because a cast member would deliver a joke and the punchline was dropped because the screen froze and/or the audio failed. Again, no big deal...I can watch it tomorrow on Hulu.com (However I just read that it was announced last night during the Weekend Update that Amy Poehler FINALLY POPPED last night and gave birth to Archie Arnett. Thank you Comcast.)

BUT THEN the unspeakable.

The entire channel went to black. Hindsight the lost picture was only out for about 15-20 minutes. But sitting on Twitter I knew that my TV wasn't the only one vomiting on itself, and that because of the missing picture, I had then missed the 2 biggest plays in the game: Chase Utley and Ryan Howard's back to back homeruns. Perfect. Awesome! Great. The most exciting part of the game was now lost in the universe because I couldn't see it on my television. I can only imagine what kind of histeria ensued at all the bars last night at that moment, but I'll leave that to imagination.

So after a little while the picture came back and everything was back to normal. Everything, that is, except Comcast customers taste for their cable service going completely sour. Not a good time for an epic fail on their part with the entire city watching the same channel. I googled 'comcast world series' this morning and dug up this article , with a quoted apology from Comcast spokesperson Jeff something or other:

" A little before midnight we detected a equipment failure that resulted in disruption to most standard definition broadcast channels, including FOX. The issue was detected immediately by our internal monitoring tools. However, it took anywhere from 15 to 25 minutes to restore.

We sincerely apologize to our customers and know many of them were watching the World Series"

So today, as I watch game four and longingly look at the Verizon building from my window that doesn't provide FIOS to this part (or any part?) of the city, I'll be crossing my fingers that the picture doesn't go out. But if it does, I'll remember that they will sincerely apologize for it tomorrow.

Well It Appears I'm Suddenly Free This Thursday.

Just like I've long feared since I heard Janet Jackson not only postponed (I KEEP SAYING CANCELED!) her Montreal show last minute, and after she postponed her Boston show, JANET JACKSON HAS POSTPONED HER PHILADELPHIA APPEARANCE AT THE WACHOVIA CENTER FOR THIS THURSDAY.

"More details" at a later date. Whatever that means.

I'm highly upset because this would have been my first concert of hers on a huge scale. She pulled this same crap in 2001, but canceled completely. Perez Hilton made it sound like she was trying to get out of her tour because the sale weren't as good as she had hoped. He's an asshole though.

UGH!

from janetxone.com:

Philadelphia show postponed, tour to resume in Greensboro
The upcoming show of the Rock Witchu Tour scheduled for October 2 in Philadelphia has been postponed, according to a press release sent out this evening from Janet's publicist. The tour will resume in Greensboro, the announcement said.

The full release:

Janet Jackson Postpones Concert Dates Due to Illness

Two upcoming dates on Janet Jackson's Rock Witchu Tour have been postponed due to illness. Janet's stops in Boston (October 1st) and Philadelphia (October 2nd) will be rescheduled. The Rock Witchu Tour will resume in Greensboro, NC on Saturday October 4, 2008.

Janet was treated in Montreal where she was scheduled to perform on Monday September 29th, and is recuperating.

Information regarding the rescheduled dates will be made available as soon as possible.

http://www.janet-xone.com/2008_09_01_archives.html#1411942397061214738