Monthly Archives: February 2009

February 26, 2009

Last Chance for Karma Downloads

By chitowngeorge

UPDATED – (I accidentally posted before I was finished writing it!)

If you haven’t gotten around to downloading Days Go By or Basement Sessions from iTunes, this is your last chance.  I’ve decided to pull the digital distribution of both albums.

This was a two part decision.  First, I’ve been thinking about it for a while now.  Since the band is no longer active, and I don’t want to continue trying to keep track of sales of the cover songs (for licensing purposes), it just seems like the time.  It was nice having it out there, and it was a incedible looking at the sales data and seeing that people in different states and different countries had purchased our music.  Think about that.  People who had never heard of us, in different parts of the world, had somehow found us on iTunes and liked what they heard enough to buy our music.  That’s a great feeling.

Secondly, I’ve been contacted by another band that wants to change their name to “Call it Karma”.  I’ve asked the other former Karma members, and no one has a problem with this, so why not?

Of course, I’m going to leave the physical CDs for sale until they sell out (fat chance, especially for the EP – I’ve got cases of those lying around), so the music will still be out there.

The other side of this decision concerns this website.  A while ago I snagged the domain georgekrueger.com, which currently points to here.  However, the site is configured as george.callitkarma.com.  I’m going to change that (probably this weekend), and I don’t know how it is going to affect the RSS/Atom feeds. They may suddenly stop working.  So, if you’re subscribed to either feed, make sure you check back to update your links to the correct feed.

Comments Off | posted in Call it Karma, Music, Personal

February 25, 2009

Deer Creek, Afterall

By chitowngeorge

Well, we finally got tickets for Deer Creek.  Yay!

Actually, I should say Carrie got tickets for Deer Creek.  She won’t tell me where from or how she got them, but they’re 2nd row!  (I’m sure she didn’t pay scalpers prices for second row seats, so she must have used one of her contacts from when she was in the hotel industry.)

Needless to say, I’m pretty excited!

Also, this will be our first time “following” Phish (okay, it’s only two shows, but still).  We’ve gone to back-to-back shows at the same venue before, but haven’t traveled between venues.  So, we’ve got a fun weekend planned.  (Luckily, this is the weekend after the semester ends at the school where I work, so the timing works out pretty well.)

Comments Off | posted in Music, Personal, Phish, Travel

February 18, 2009

The Other New Pepsi Logo

By chitowngeorge

Maybe the horrible new Pepsi logo is the “New Coke” for the new century, and this is “Coca-Cola Classic”:

What is it?  It’s Pepsi sweetened with real sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.  I can’t wait.  I hope this is a new trend of food and drink manufacturers ditching HFCS for real sugar.

4 comments | posted in Food and Drink, News

February 17, 2009

New Toy

By chitowngeorge

I finally broke down and bought an iPhone over the weekend. I actually can’t believe that I waited this long. It’s both immensely useful and entertaining (and I haven’t even downloaded any games yet!). In fact, I’m writing this post on it now. (Unfortunately, I can’t find a decent blogging app that works with ExpressionEngine, so I’m doing this through the web interface. But, that works fine in Mobile Safari.)

Hopefully, my typing on this thing will improve, as right now it’s slow going with plenty of mistakes!

1 comment | posted in Apple, Personal, Tech

February 10, 2009

Chocolate Oatmeal Stout

By chitowngeorge

I haven’t posted any beer-related stuff in a while, so I thought I’d do a quick update in that regard.

The other day we bottled my Chocolate Oatmeal Stout.  This was a recipe based on a previous Oatmeal Stout recipe I did.  It was way back when I first started brewing, and was the first batch I did that was based off a recipe and not just an off-the-shelf kit.  I revisited that recipe recently, and decided to shake things up and add chocolate to the recipe.

I’m very optimistic on this one.  The Oatmeal Stout it’s based on came out really great, and when we were bottling this version it just smelled wonderful (you could really smell the chocolate).

This weekend I may revisit a Fuller’s ESB clone I did a while back (it’s the one in the BYO 150 Classic Clone Recipes).

So, that’s pretty much that.  Still brewin’, still learning and experimenting. 

Comments Off | posted in Beer

February 9, 2009

New Pepsi Logo

By chitowngeorge

I’m sure you’ve seen the new Pepsi logo by now.  If you’re like me, you hate it.  I can’t put my finger on it exactly, but it’s just ugly.  I think it came about in one of two ways:

  1. It’s the result of corporate committee think.
  2. Sometimes designers will come up with one really good design that they really like for a project, but they have to submit more than one idea for consideration.  So, in order to push the suit-wearing “decision makers” towards the correct choice, they’ll submit the one really good design with some really bad designs.  In this case, the “decision makers” chose one of the really bad designs instead of the one the designer wanted them to.

I honestly think #2 is what happened here.

Anyway, this is exactly the same thing that I think whenever I see the new logo:

(From Suckatlife.com.)

2 comments | posted in Art, Bad Business, Design

February 9, 2009

Change of Plans

By chitowngeorge

So, with all of the ticket snafus caused by Livenation, we ended up not getting tickets for Deer Creek.  I signed up for the Phishthoughts.com Tickets Exchange Board, but that has led nowhere.  So, I wound up going to eBay.  Much like Livenation, I had previously swore I would never use eBay again*.  Sigh.  Desperate times call for desperate measure.

Well, long story short, I ended up getting tickets for the June 21 Alpine Valley show.  They’re really good seats, and since it’s the last show of the tour, hopefully it will be a killer show.

*That’s another story entirely.

Comments Off | posted in Music, Personal, Phish

February 3, 2009

Bonnaroo ‘09

By chitowngeorge

It looks like both Phish and David Byrne are playing Bonnaroo this year.  Oh, man.  I’ve never gone to Bonnaroo.  But, just the chance that David Byrne might sit in with Phish for a couple of songs has me contemplating dusting off the credit card for the VIP package.

Comments Off | posted in David Byrne, Music, Phish

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