Robert Vrabel

I bought one of the most amazing products yesterday.  The Apple Airport Express.  I am specifically using it for Air tunes which allows you to wirelessly play music to any device that you hook into it.  I connected it to my wireless network and plugged in a audio cord into my receiver.  Next all I had to do was open iTunes from ANY computer on my network and select “Play over Airport Express”.  Next thing you know my iTunes is playing wirelessly to my main set of speakers!

To top it off, the iPhone 2.0 firmware came out recently which allows for applications to be installed on the iPhone.  Apple has put out a FREE “iTunes Remote Application” which connects to your computers iTunes which you can control volume, playlists… anything you could as if you where sitting on your computer using iTunes. This basically turns you into a MOBILE DJ!  I can now stream music from my laptop to my main set of speakers, and then control it from ANYWHERE in range of my wireless network.

This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen, this will come in handy so much when throwing a party and a song comes on that you want to change or if someone requests a song. All you have to do is pull your iPhone out and control everything! How great is that!

Driving home from work yesterday something just hit me like a ton of bricks. I looked up at my visor and noticed all of these burned music CDs i used to listen to. It made me realize that i have not touched any of them in over 6 months nor have i turned on my CD player in my car in over 6 months.

What am i doing instead? Listening to my iPhone in my car. I had a line-in input installed which i connect to my iPhone to listen to all my music. It really made me realize that Music CDs are a thing of the past for me now. I doubt i will ever use my CD player again in my car. I think its time to retire the old visor attachment of Music CDs and the booklets of CDs that are eating up my trunk space.

Emily and I went to the Foo Fighters Concert last night at Joe Lois Arena in Detroit. This was one of the greatest things i have ever been to. I have been a huge fan of the Foo Fighters ever since i first heard them when i was around 12 years old. They played an amazing 2 hour set and an additional 3 encore songs. They played non-stop good songs the whole entire time and they didn’t even play all of there best songs because they have so many!

My favorite part of the concert was them dropping an acoustic set on the middle of the floor from a stage that dropped from the ceiling. A long time ago i downloaded an acoustic version of “Ever Long” which the moment i heard it, i said “This would be amazing to hear in real life.” Next thing i know, his last acoustic song was a solo of him singing this song which at the end of it turned out into the rock version of it. Simply Amazing. I can’t imagine a concert that would top this one as they have so many good songs. If you ever get an opportunity to see these guys do your self a favor and go, they put on a hell of a rock show.