The Lewis Show

Go away, Earl, just go away.

I almost let my new weekly app post slip by the wayside already. I took some time to try to figure out what I was using on my phone last week, but really all I was really using were the same music apps that I mentioned the week before. Another successful week at the gym and I am loving my phone and loving the album art with said music on said phone! But I don't have nothing for you this week. Besides a poor choice of double negatives, I wanted to just give a quick listing of a couple of apps that I use absolutely every day. There's no theme, just a couple of commonly used apps. If there is a theme, it's that these are paid themes. It's important, Android users, to support developers because they need reasons to put apps on this platform and not cop out and just develop on the iPhone. So what's worth the money for me? Beautiful Widgets for Android on AppBrain Beautiful Widgets has been mentioned before, but it has to be by far the most commonly used application...

I figured it was time to attempt another weekly segment. I'm going to start highlighting the apps that I've used on my phone over the past week with the help of AppBrain. I mentioned them a few posts back, and the service has only gotten better since my remarks. Now I can easily share the apps that I used with some handy embedding from their website. This week as Janine and I started back into our gym routine, I started using the Pandora and Last FM apps again. They work fine, as long as there's a good, consistent data connection. Our gym is not in a part of Richmond that has a great connection, so it's been spotty. Some days have been great, and some have been unusable and completely frustrating. There's nothing like trying to restart a stream while power walking or rowing. I've never been much of the stock Music app user within Android. It's fine, I just find it lacking, and honestly as with most iPod refugees, the stock application just lacks style. I...

You know I'm not going to pass up an opportunity to catch Swedish Metal whenever it hits Richmond. Soilwork came into town to play some new material and we could not pass this show up. In an ideal world, all great shows like this will be on a Saturday, but one of the great perks about living in Richmond is being able to catch great stuff like this at any time. The new album is called The Panic Broadcast , I like it, everything they put out is great and worth checking out. What I wasn't expecting was some good, old fashioned music discovery. Apparently, I've been under a rock these past few months or years and haven't heard about any of the bands playing before Soilwork, but I was both surprised and even blown away. Death Angel, thrash, I'll let this clip of them playing in Wacken in 2004 speak loudly for itself. Tour Flyer Now that I've shown more videos in one month than MTV will all year, I figured I'd throw in one more from the headliners. ...

I figured for posterity events of last week deserved a better post than just a few crappy pictures from my cell phone. Mayhem Fest came to Virginia Beach last Wednesday. Janine and I were very fortunate to land some tickets for these sweaty festivities thanks to our good friends! So I figured with five of us going, (Sam, Jessi, Ben, Janine, and I), I should do what any heavy metal ringleader should do, rent a mini van. This actually worked very well back in 2002 when I had to carry a large crowd to see a show in northern Virginia. We got to Virginia Beach about an hour into the show, sweated, stood, sat, rinsed and repeated all the way to the last performance of the night. I quickly realized the top bands of my day are all pretty much the same as they were in 2006 when I last saw most of these bands. I'm very happy for these bands, but I was reminded I need to really try to keep discovering new acts. It felt like even more of a throwback to see the top two head...

Hatebreed preforming, way over there... Shadows Fall aka I'm really far away aka walking ads for sunblock. Rob Zombie brought the pyro! Korn brought the nostalgia. They've been doing this a lifetime!

I really did purposefully forget to post yesterday being the last day of the month. I figured I had my 31 posts, I'd just post today and recap my month of blogging. It's very hard to do this on a daily basis. My brain is fried in such a great way. I also realized some things that should help me out considerably. I've been trying to produce content. I am no content producer. My creative capabilities are slim. I've always been that person in the room that can carry a conversation, but very rarely am I able to start a conversation. I guess that makes me a pundit or a commentator. I need to own my skill sets. I figure I'll give my take on things I see, things I read, and appreciate the people that to like to read my insane ramblings. And I am thankful for my readers. I can see the people who visit the site and even those who read my feed and I am eternally grateful. I hope to live up to my own hype some day. And now, since I didn't do it all month, it's...