AN ALERT FOR ALL DRUNK ASS, INCONSIDERATE, CLOSET-GAY, ED HARDY-WEARING, DOUCHEBAG BASTARDS (AND TUPPERWARE BREASTED, I-CAN-SEE-YOUR-RELIGION, DRIPPING WITH “THE AIDS”, TRAMP-STAMPED WOMEN)

Stop coming to concerts that I attend.

Seriously.

I am trying to hear a quiet part of the Nine Inch Nails show. Do you honestly think I give a fraction of a FUCKING FUCK about your life? I did not pay hard-earned money to hear you whine to your friends about shit. I did not drive hours on end to hear you and your drunk friends screaming “WOOOO!”, followed by “What is this song? I’ve never heard it.”

FUCK OFF!

Here - enjoy what I have all over my NIN recording from last night:

douche
Live, Irvine, California, May 20th, 2009 (play mp3)

Today, I grabbed Nora, and my little digital recorder, and drove to Irvine. Yes…Irvine. Definitely not my first choice for a concert venue, but at least I got to see Nine Inch Nails.

As you can see from the picture above, the 5D MkII would have been wasted where I was sitting (and you thought I had hookups for tickets - HA!). There would have also been the risk of me using the 5D MkII as a weapon against the drunk Ed Hardy / Affliction ASSHOLES who felt that their conversation was much more important than my enjoyment of the show. Between asking them to shut up, and telling the drunk fat bastards who kept seat hopping in front of me and Nora to move so she could see, the concert experience was not “great”. Great set from Trent, but the assholes, mixed with the crap seats and the lack of closed circuit screens for about 90% of the show (thanks a lot, Irvine), made the experience a bit “meh”. I won’t even mention the three hours of 405 traffic, or the fact that my stomach was not in the best of shape for the duration of the show. Oh well…at least I got to see Trent. Plus, my recording of the show turned out a hell of a lot better than I expected it to…at least, until the assholes started running their mouths off. Again…oh well.

Terrible Lie
Live, Irvine, California, May 20th, 2009 (sample - play mp3)

Thanks to Trent Reznor for allowing fans to record. Sweet!

I just received a DVD-R (actual DVD-Video format, not just a data disc) of some video to upload.

Stupid disc would not rip for crap! “DVD Player” would play the disc, but it appeared to be playing nothing. The Finder window for the disc said “0 items”! Using the Terminal to read the disc got me this:

BRAT:SONY_DVD_RECORDER_VOLUME brat_mac$ ls -al
ls: .: Permission denied

WTF!

How about the permissions of the disc? Hmmm:

d–x–x—

WTF! Why would a DVD-R standalone burner burn a disc like this!!?!?

Fine. Brute force:

BRAT:SONY_DVD_RECORDER_VOLUME brat_mac $ cd VIDEO_TS
BRAT:VIDEO_TS brat_mac $ ls -al
total 5921600
dr-xr-xr-x 2 brat_mac brat_mac 456 Jan 2 2004 .
d–x–x— 3 brat_mac brat_mac 88 Jan 2 2004 ..
-r-xr-xr-x 1 brat_mac brat_mac 12288 Jan 2 2004 VIDEO_TS.BUP
-r-xr-xr-x 1 brat_mac brat_mac 12288 Jan 2 2004 VIDEO_TS.IFO
-r-xr-xr-x 1 brat_mac brat_mac 98304 Jan 2 2004 VIDEO_TS.VOB
-r-xr-xr-x 1 brat_mac brat_mac 36864 Jan 2 2004 VTS_01_0.BUP
-r-xr-xr-x 1 brat_mac brat_mac 36864 Jan 2 2004 VTS_01_0.IFO
-r-xr-xr-x 1 brat_mac brat_mac 1073709056 Jan 2 2004 VTS_01_1.VOB
-r-xr-xr-x 1 brat_mac brat_mac 1073709056 Jan 2 2004 VTS_01_2.VOB
-r-xr-xr-x 1 brat_mac brat_mac 884240384 Jan 2 2004 VTS_01_3.VOB
BRAT:VIDEO_TS brat_mac $ cp VTS* /Volumes/*Mode

Logic on this: All DVDs have a “VIDEO_TS” directory, so I changed directories to where
the disc said there was nothing, and - viola! - there WAS something! A simple copy command (cp), and now I have the DVD.

A huge F U to Sony for making a machine so user UNfriendly!

I want my 20 minutes back!

So, to all of you hitting this blog from a Google search for “SONY_DVD_RECORDER_VOLUME” won’t rip, try this (on a Mac):

* put the disc in
* open “Terminal”
* Change directories to the disc (most likely “cd /Volumes/SONY_DVD_RECORDER_VOLUME”, without the quotes)
* Change directories to the VIDEO_TS folder (”cd VIDEO_TS”, without the quotes)
* Copy the VOB files to another drive (”cp VTS* ~”, without the quotes - that would copy the VOB files to your home directory)

Hope I saved you some headaches!