Hiphopnerd

Obviously, I've been lazy with the site. The layout & color scheme are the movable type default. There aren't any graphics of any sort to be found. I haven't added any non-blog content. But it struck me just now that I actually like this default layout and color scheme...the blue greys are kinda nice. So maybe that's the problem- i need to make my blog look horrific, something like orange & neon green, so then I'll want to work on fixing it up...

Sometime last week, this site was hacked. The style sheets had been edited to include links to spam sites, and to automatically download some malacious files. If you visited last week (not that anyone's been visiting, what with my uber-frequent posting), and saw the header read something like 'hiphopnerd cracked oshehm" instead of just plain "hiphopnerd", you should prob run a virus-scan on your computer. Hell even if you haven't visited, you should probably run one...it's something I know I do far too infrequently.

Now, hopefully that won't ever happen again.

Earlier today I asked Ryan- "so what are the chances Gnarls Barkley and the other cd's I ordered from sandbox are waiting for me when I arrive home today?" I haven't ordered from either sandbox or hiphopsite in forever, and didn't recall if they shipped new releases the day of release or a few days earlier. Not that either site has been particularly speedy in my experiences...so I definitely wasn't expecting to have a box of new music today, although Ryan was a bit more optimistic.

Obviously, I was wrong...and there was a beautiful brown UPS box full of fresh music on my doorstep. So props to sandbox on a quick & timely shipment. Anyway, here is today's haul:

Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (plus t-shirt)
Ugly Duckling - Bang For The Buck (plus Einstein's Open Mic disc)
People Under The Stairs - Stepfather
Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol 1-2: Movie Scenes (plus bonus 45)

All new releases. Which is significant because I've been pretty much exclusively buying older releases lately...filling out my collection. We're in the middle of the fifth month of the year, and the only 2006 releases I'd bought before these were J Dilla's "Donuts" and Aceyalone/RJD2's "Magnificent City."

I certainly haven't had time to listen to much of this new stuff yet, but I'm looking forward to my commute on the L the rest of the week. And speaking of the iPod, here are the current stats:

8403 songs
42.13 GB