While looking up whether the Clash spelled their track hate & war with and ampersand or word Google gave me this from "The Drunk Report".

Why Liberals Hate War…

War never solved anything? My fat ass it didn’t. In the last four years two wars have liberated two countries, and we are in the process of getting those countries on their way to prosperity and self-sufficience. In terms of the cost of life, especially when you look at the numbers for previous wars, we have suffered quite a low number. While the death of any man or woman is tragic,…

Past MB Journals here.

Holy Cow I took a long time getting this done. Of course if you're like me your library is growing so fast it's hard to keep up with "new acquisitions" so you're always entering new albums. If you're a real MB nerd now you may even be adding disc IDs for the CDs of your friends and family. But if you're getting CDs from the library and entering them you've got an addiction. That's ok though, it's perfectly healthy to enter every CD that passes through your hands, Disc IDs are a piece of cake and…

Maybe I'll do this weekly.
Oricon's homepage.

Singles:
1 WaT
Ready Go! (46,295)

2 BoA
Winter Love (42,481)

3 木更津キャッツアイ
Seaside Byebye (34,759)

4 Inoue Akira & M.I.H.Band
wish (28,584)

5 the GazettE
Filth in the beauty (28,074)

6 Koda Kumi
Yume no Uta / Futari de… (26,465)

7 Otsuka Ai
Ren'ai Shashin (24,237)

8 KREVA
The Show (18,250)

9 CHEMISTRY
Tookage feat. John Legend (17,216)

10 ORANGE RANGE
Sayonara (16,592)

Albums:
1 絢香
First Message (350,580)

2 Kobukuro
All Singles Best (95,750)

3 ZARD
Golden Best (79,672)

4 Remioromen
Flash and Gleam (51,318)

5 Sarah Brightman
Diva: The Singles…

Last night I saw DragonForce live for the first time, they've only been touring in the US since the beginning of the year and last night was the first time they played Salt Lake City, touring with HORSE the Band and All that Remains. I'm not going to give a blow by blow of the show, if you came here because the relationships to these artist you already know that they rock. But I'm relatively new to the scene so I'll give you my overall impression.

The show was at the Avalon Theater, a converted movie theater in south…

This is going to be a book so settle in. Believe me the formatting looked better in Word. I also notice the last journals like to keep it narrow no matter what the screen width. I apologize, it makes my eyes bleed too.

It took me a while to get this typed so you've already had plenty of time since the last journal to explore the MusicBrainz database and start tagging music. MusicBrainz has a ton of info in it already, it's quite astonishing, but you'll always find one disc it doesn't have at all or far more likely, only…

Editing MusicBrainz is a book so that journal is going to take longer. Till then here's some CDs that people decided to part with and I snapped up.
Eat the Rich
^^Best track of these 6 tracks (I wanted to get the formatting error out of the way first).

Get a grip.
Somebody must have recently parted with their Aerosmith collection since there were a ton of CDs in the 3.99 bin (I recently did the same with my Beatles collection, I traded mine for 6 CDs of Led Zeppelin and Janice Joplin). But that's all good news…

Mar-2007 Edit: Picard's replacement PicardQT is in testing and it's alpha versions are already far more stable and superior to it's predecessor. I'd recommend trying it out. This guide isn't completely obsolete, both programs are similar; but it's definitely worth the upgrade and new learning curve. Plus the abilities to add plugins adds alot of possibilities.

This is the easiest part and something everybody here should become familiar with to make sure their music libraries stay up to date. But before we get into it there are a couple things to mention about MusicBrainz . First is that the majority…

A lot of people seem to be confused on how to use MusicBrainz both as a simple tagger or more advanced by adding their favorite bands. Having gone through the whole process myself I thought I'd make a few journals that help the average last.fm user get integrated into using MusicBrainz.
It's broken into 4 phases, starting with the most basic involvement all the way to being a part of the community that decides MusicBrainz standards. I don't know everything about MusicBrainz but maybe I can take away some of the mystery and confusion that scares off new users.

Phase…

Another week, another 6 CDs out of the $4 rack. I went in thinking maybe I'd get 3, and ended up with 9. So I spent 10 minutes trying to decide what three I wouldn't get because I was trying to keep it under $25.

Fat Music, Volume 5: Live Fat, Die Young
I've got about three quarters of the Fat Music collection, I might as well go for a complete set. The big bonus here is that I have basically all songs for NOFX and Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, two of my favorite artists. The few…