At home, I've got an old server, that was given to me by an client, which permanently lies in a closet. It runs Windows XP and has all my files (music, pictures, videos, apps, etc). I have Hamachi running on it, and I share my music using iTunes, so that my girlfriend and I can listen to my music (80+ gb) from anywhere, using Hamachi and iTunes. I also have Orb installed so I can stream all my media to my phone.

- BAM! -

 Thats when I got the idea. Doesn't the iPhone run a stripped down version of OSX? Couldn't there be an application that does some sort of "VPNing" so that I could potentially stream any of my songs (or photos, videos, etc) to my iPhone from my iTunes at home?

I already do this on my smartphone, that runs over Cingular's Edge network (with an unlimited data plan). I've got a Cingular 3125 and I've got Orb on my server at home. Now, streaming media to a phone drains its battery pretty quickly, I can get about 2 hours of streaming before my phone dies, but since the iPhone will have 8 gb (or 4 gb for $100 less) of storage, I could use it to sporadically view pictures or stream a video to conserve battery.

Another issue with this is that not everyone can just leave a PC on 24/7 (for so many reasons), but what if instead of streaming directly from a user-owned PC, a specialized service could stream from their servers. That service could gather a list of mp3's on my computer, and since I own them legally (hopefully), and stream these files, using their servers and bandwidth.

OK…maybe I'm just going way beyond…but hey…services like Lala.com already exist out there that do something similar.  Any comments?

What is it with the popular belief that if a band becomes commercially successful, they become a sell-out and that their music is not worth listening to anymore because millions of people now listen to it, and oh-God-forbid, it is played on the radio.

Yes, I know, Ive read the recent stories of radio DJ’s being payed of to play songs over and over, but does that really mean that if people listen to a song over and over, they are going to like it over time? Is the human race really that stupid?

Yes, songs are overplayed and many times killed by radio. Songs that you thought were good the first hundred times you heard them, but by the 500th time, you just change the station. Songs overplayed to the extent that if you listen to that song again, you might stab yourself with a dull knife (…and the reason is youuuuuuuuu…). Ok, now its in my head…where’s that knife…

I’m not talking about lip-synced pop music. I’m talking about mainstream rock (in its many variations). If the band you like has been an “underground” band for many years, they suck. Any band that tells you that they want to be underground forever is just bullshitting you. They’ve been underground because the music they play sucks. I really don’t care how much you like their music, in the real world, a bands quality is directly proportional to the catchiness of they tunes, the uniqueness of their guitar riffs and the sound of their bass.

All of today’s mainstream bands were underground in their beginnings. They all played in tiny venues, lived in their vans while “touring”, and had 7 people in their audience. It may be redundant to state this, but it seams unclear to some people who think that a bands just become instantly successful.

Also, what’s up with people who stop liking a band because the band became famous and commercially successful? What’s up with people being proud of having an array of bands that no ones heard about in their list of favorites? I think that it is now cool to like bands could just be a made up name. As a matter of fact, I am now becoming a fan of the…ummm…the Computer Screens! They are da bomb. Wait, are we saying ” da bomb” anymore?

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