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Okay, this is the last MINI post for a while, I promise. During tonight's Lost I saw a new commercial for the Clubman. Of course, I usually skip the ads with the DVR, but this was worth checking out. The Clubman (in Hot Chocolate, naturally) is sitting at the bottom of a life-sized pinball machine and uses the rear doors to paddle the giant ball through the machine. Unfortunately, I can't find the video online either at YouTube or the Mini website.
I've finally turned my Mini Lust into action. Earlier this week I went to MINI of Peabody and put in an order for a British Racing Green (with silver roof & rear pillars) Clubman S. Unfortunately, after last week's launch they were flooded with orders before I got there, so we'll have to wait until the beginning of May to take delivery of ours. I've waited a few years to get one, so I think I can make it through a few more months.
So, no more MINI talk here for a little while, but I'm sure it'll creep back in here a bit more regularly around mid-April. Let me know if you come across that pinball commercial.
Update: Okay, it just took a quick stupid Google search. Check out the video here.
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If anyone is looking to add to your record collection, there's a pretty good deal over at eBay right now. I'd be hesitant to bid on this myself unless I could be sure that it would include at least one copy of Radiohead's Drill EP.
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Last night we went to Peabody to see the unveiling of the Clubman, the newest model in the MINI Cooper line. The event was catered with lots of English beer and wine, and things like ravioli and mini hot dogs and hamburgers. We milled around for a while until they opened up the doors and let us into the service center, where they had set up a few hundred chairs, a curtain, and a big disco ball. After parading a few of the old, familiar MINI models by us (like a fashion show), we got to the Clubmans. They had four different ones, all of which looked great. Before this, Maura and I had really liked the British Racing Green color, but the new exclusive-to-Clubman Hot Chocolate looks pretty delicious. After the fashion show, we ogled over the cars back in the showroom for a few more minutes and then headed home. It wasn't a bad way to spend the evening. Now we just have to make our final choices from the long list of options and decide when we're going to go place an order for one of our own.
I'll have some pictures of the event up soon. For now, here are a few other things to check out.
Remix your own R.E.M. video.
You can download a lot of Smashing Pumpkins shows directly from their website. I saw them once, in 1999, but haven't been too interested in their recent revival.
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For the most part, I've used this blog as a place to let the world know about things I think the world needs to know. Not that I expect that many people will see it or that many will find it too interesting, but I like to put it out there anyhow. I'm thinking of you, my dear readers (I hope that making that plural is accurate). Well, maybe it's time for me to be a bit more selfish. As part of my recent quest to de-clutter many parts of my life (most notably the floor in my study), I've been looking at my browser that always seems to be overflowing with tabs that I'm going to get back to look at again sometime soon. "Soon." I think that I'm going to try a new experiment where I save/archive these links here, on driveblind, rather than in my broswer tab bar. That way, I'll be able to go back through them when I have the time or desire, and maybe some of you will find something interesting there, as well. The seed for this idea comes from, in a small part, from Brad at Bradley's Alamanac, who mentioned to me once that the origination of his blog was so that he had a place to keep all of his thoughts, ideas, and concert news before he forgot about them. It just happened that it got to be really popular - it certainly helps that he's very gracious with his regular postings of excellent concert recordings that he makes.
This might also mean that there will just be more junk on the site, but I think it's worth a try. I'm also thinking of this as a way to increase the frequency of my updates here, but I really want to avoid posting for posting's sake.
So, here's the first batch of tabs that I can close, finally.
Thom Yorke will be guest DJing on NPR's All Songs Considered tomorrow.
Mark Ronson has done a pretty cool cover of Radiohead's "Just" and has a very appropriate video to go along with it. Fortunately, he doesn't try to hide what he's saying.
This would look cool on the back of my MacBook Pro, but there are probably better ways to spend my money.
How to take care of your car in 75 easy steps. That reminds me, I need to bring the Beetle in for an oil change tomorrow.
If this is a map of web trends, then driveblind.net is a 2-mile walk from the nearest bus stop that will connect you to the commuter rail line that runs its trains twice a day.
Polyethylene was my email alias when I was in college. Looking back, it was a really bad choice (I had to spell it out to everyone), but I really liked the Radiohead b-side from which I'd taken it. So I thought it was cool. I should check out the local band with the same name. They list Radiohead as one of their main influences, so maybe we've had similar inspiration.
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There have been talks of the Beatles on iTunes and The Beatles remastered, for years now. I just saw this quote from mastering engineer Greg Calbi in a CNet article:
They're not being remastered just for iTunes; they're being remastered because they got a deal with iTunes. I was partially involved in the discussions leading up to the remastering sessions; most of the Beatles catalog hasn't been remastered in 20 years.
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I just found out that some of my photos have been selected for an online travel guide, Schmap. They just found some of my photos on Flickr and have linked to them (with my permission), but it's pretty cool to have some out there. I haven't really looked through this travel site beyond admiring my photos, but maybe I'll think of it before our next trip. The two that were selected were:
Boston, #9 Park
Sydney, Bridge Climb
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This guy made a seamless transition from Christmas to football playoff season with his house decorations. Cars passing by on Medford St. were honking for most of the day before the Super Bowl. Alas, he had completely dismantled the whole showcase by 11:30 Sunday night. Now, we'll just have to wait for St. Patrick's Day.
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It was only a football game. Yeah, I was pretty bummed that the Patriots lost last night, as well. I didn't expect my party to end with Giants fans cheering in my living room, but that's what happened. When they left my house in Somerville, I'm sure that they were very proud to be wearing their Giants sweatshirt and beaming from their team's exciting win. You probably didn't want to see that, but what good did getting in their faces and calling them names, kicking a rear view mirror off his car, and eventually throwing a few punches, do for you? Does that make the Pats loss any more bearable? I feel so bad that my friends were jumped leaving my place. The best that I can take away from the game last night is that the Patriots are still going to be one of the teams to beat next year. They might be back on top, but if this is how the fans react to a loss, as heartbreaking as it is, I'd much rather see them finish 8-8 and finish their season in December. It's only a game.
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