Lesser known German inventions

You thought the Japanese inventions were bad? Well, wait till you take a look at these less then brilliant inventions.Why is it that I just know the fly guard will not work when speeds are in excess of 2 mph?
Thanks to Matt Seto for the Link.

It's Offical, WOXY is back!

Head on over to www.woxy.com and tune in right now. The stream is free and better then ever. Here's the latest info:

So what's changing? Not a lot right away. All the good stuff you've come to expect is all right here... Mike and Shiv, the boards, live Lounge Acts and lots of great music. It's now completely free to listen, and we'll be jacking up the quality of our streams even higher within the next couple weeks.

What can you expect for the future? We're working on opening up additional WOXY Live Lounge studios around the country in order to bring you more live Lounge Act sessions. Next month, you're going to be able to program your own radio station over at La La using tracks pulled from the massive WOXY.com music library. And that's just the beginning.

While you're listening to the sweet, sweet WOXY, make sure to head over to see our buddies at La La (www.lala.com), register for an account and check out what they have going on. La La members are pretty crazy about their music, so we're all going to get along quite well.

I did check out LaLa and created an account. The site allows you to build a netflix type of account listing your CD's (no obligation) and allow you to specify CD's your looking for. They will be supporting a tie in with Woxy and allow folks to build their own radio playlist. What a wild ride this has been.

Back to the Future of Rock and roll!

I had pretty much resigned to and accepted the fate of www.woxy.com. It was time to move on and find some other way to get my Indie fix. So I had an instant heart attack when I heard that WOXY was coming back. This had better not be a joke, I don't think I could handle it. But checking out www.woxy.com main page and boards it appears to be true!!

WOXY.com lives...

Could it be true? Does lightning strike the same place twice? Apparently it does. It is indeed the real deal Â? WOXY.com will be back on-the-air soon and better than ever! Seems like we're proving ourselves to be master escape artists in eluding the icy depths of the deadpool. We're ready to kick out the jams and hope you are, too. In the meantime, please do join us on the boards, and if you haven't done so already, make sure you sign up for our email list to the right.

More details very, very soon...

- Mike, Shiv and Bryan Jay

Sure enough, the boards are active, all centering around a post titled White Knight by Bill Nguyen:

Hey folks, we'd like to save woxy. You can learn more about us at lala.com, but we're very well funded and humbled by the great work the people here have done. Please tell the fab four at woxy to contact us.

As can be expected, many Woxy members have heard or wish for such talk during this roller coaster of a ride and took it with mixed emotion. But it appears that Bill Nguyen is legit, and honestly wants to save woxy. You can Google Bill Nguyen to learn more about this 35-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur and his background. Here's a recent Cincinnati Enquired article that sums it all up.

So WWW.WOXY.COM indeed lives!! More to come this week, but it appears things are shaking to happen on 10/10/2006.

WOXY.COM signing off today

Today is the last day to catch the www.woxy.com stream. They will be shutting down at 5:00 pm est.

I've actually received a lot of feedback from folks that said they just don't get it. Comments such as:

• I can truthfully say without a doubt in my soul, that I have never heard of any of those bands.
• Me too never heard of any of them are they local bands?
• Awwww.. man the music selection is teh suck!
• Many of the songs sound raw, like they are played by high school bands
• Is this one your commie hippie things?

lol...see, this is the crap I have to put up with for offering something that is fresh, independent, modern rock that is not mainstream. Actually, I have to say that for exactly the above reasons (excluding "teh Suck" and hippie comment) I highly recommend Woxee. But in a nutshell, it's all about diversity folks. Yeah, they play stuff that I once thought was ghey (Flock of Seagulls), or stuff I would never sign up to listen so such as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson or even Bob Dylan. But guess what, Woxee has played them. But foremost, Woxee prided themselves in finding the Indie or unsigned bands worldwide and giving them the airtime no one else would provide.

But it can be said that Woxee is ahead of their time and not for everyone. If your interested in mainstream, common thought, corporate sponsored rock, well...you have over 1000 Clear Channel stations to select from, enjoy.

Goodbye WOXY

I meant to post this sooner, but it's been a busy week. But Cincinnati's own www.woxy.com is signing off for the last time this Friday. Sad but true.

If you have no idea what WOXY, or as we like to say locally "woxee", is all about, then go to this post to get more info.

There stream is free for the rest of the week. So enjoy it while you can and soak in the complete fresh indie music you will just not hear anywhere else. And while the web site is still up, download all the Lounge Acts you can get your mitts on. Todays was just absolutely awesome. A group called Ra ra riot that includes strings not as an after thought, but as a building block. So check those and the other outstanding lounge acts here.