help me fill my new HD

[brendu]

so i just installed a WD scorpio blue 500 for my MBP and I want your suggestions on music, videos, tv shows anything worth me getting to make use of this thing...

 

[GoCubsGo]

No use for apps just download porn.

 

[dukebound85]

surely you have exisitng content right?

 

[brendu]

haha no need to download porn... and yeah i have plenty of music and some movies as well.. Im just looking for something new... open to suggestions.

 

[GoCubsGo]

How I Met Your Mother.
That show cures cancer.

 

[Ke1ington]

30 Rock.

Tina Fey is pure genius. Alec Baldwin is effin awesome in this show too.

Tracy Morgan is annoying tho. He's the only downside.

 

[HappyDude20]

so i just installed a WD scorpio blue 500 for my MBP and I want your suggestions on music, videos, tv shows anything worth me getting to make use of this thing...

I have the same HD! I have about 300 GB's left as I secure empty trash every week. But I add about 15GB's of home video recorded content weekly, but of course delete it after uploading to YouTube to regain the HD space.

I have about 10GB's of music in iTunes, 15GB's of movies in iTunes, 30GB's of Podcasts, 80GB's of movies in my Movies folder in OSX, about 12GB's of files in my documents, and about 6GB's of personal photos in iPhoto.

You're gonna love your new HD!

 

[Peace]

I'd say Grateful Dead but you probably don't know who they are.

 

[killerrobot]

Apparently I can't say pir****ay or download to****ts, so I guess I should say download everything new you can LEGALLY, through Amazon. That should fill you up quick.

 

[techfreak85]

Re-Rip your cd music collection In Apple Lossless.

 

[brendu]

I'd say Grateful Dead but you probably don't know who they are.

seriously?..... got a good bit already, granted they are indeed before my time, who doesn't like them some dead?.. i mean come on now...

i had its always sunny season 1&2 so i grabbed season 3 today and ive been enjoying that... thinking of what should come next....

 

[TheOnlyJon]

Re-Rip your cd music collection In Apple Lossless.

I'm a fan of this suggestion, but it take SO long. I keep telling myself that I'm going to do it but it never gets done haha.

 

[Tomorrow]

I'm still trying to figure out why porn is out of the question....

 

[happyfrappy]

I'd highly recommend CBC Radio's Spark podcast and CBC Radio 3 Sessions podcast.

As far as music, some albums I'd recommend:
Amy Millan: Masters Of The Burial
Bat For Lashes: Two Suns
Charlotte Hatherley: The Deep Blue
Charlotte Hatherley: New Worlds
Elliott Brood: Mountain Meadows
Howling Bells: Radio Wars
Jane Vain and The Dark Matter: Love Is Where the Smoke Is
Jets Overhead: No Nations
Joel Plaskett: Three
Lou Barlow: Goodnight Unknown
Metric: Fantasies
Sarah Blasko: As Day Follows Night
Stars: Sad Robots
Wintermitts: Heirloom

...ah yes, you can easily predict what else is on my iPod
/admits to avoiding RIAA labels as much as possible, as far as I know Bat For Lashes & Sarah Blasko are the only two on RIAA labels(if you're on a total boycott of the RIAA).

 

[Surely]

I'd highly recommend CBC Radio's Spark podcast and CBC Radio 3 Sessions podcast.

As far as music, some albums I'd recommend:
Amy Millan: Masters Of The Burial
Bat For Lashes: Two Suns
Charlotte Hatherley: The Deep Blue
Charlotte Hatherley: New Worlds
Elliott Brood: Mountain Meadows
Howling Bells: Radio Wars
Jane Vain and The Dark Matter: Love Is Where the Smoke Is
Jets Overhead: No Nations
Joel Plaskett: Three, Truthfully Truthfully, Ashtray Rock <- A fantastic album
Lou Barlow: Goodnight Unknown
Metric: Fantasies
Sarah Blasko: As Day Follows Night
Stars: Sad Robots , Set Yourself on Fire, In Our Bedroom After The War
Wintermitts: Heirloom

...ah yes, you can easily predict what else is on my iPod
/admits to avoiding RIAA labels as much as possible, as far as I know Bat For Lashes & Sarah Blasko are the only two on RIAA labels(if you're on a total boycott of the RIAA).

Dude, how could you leave out Arcade Fire (Funeral <-this is the best album of the 2000's!)), The Sam Roberts Band (Chemical City, Love At The End Of The World), and The New Pornographers (Mass Romantic, Twin Cinema, Challengers)?!?

 

[andalusia]

I have about 10GB's of music in iTunes, 15GB's of movies in iTunes, 30GB's of Podcasts, 80GB's of movies in my Movies folder in OSX, about 12GB's of files in my documents, and about 6GB's of personal photos in iPhoto.

This isn't a 'Post What You Have On Your Hard Drive' thread. But thanks so much for sharing.

OP, why not just enjoy the free space you have and the lack of a limit at the moment. Once it's filled it'll run and you're gonna want a bigger hard drive again.

 

[Schtumple]

Ok, based on what I have in my TV & Films folder.

American Dad
Family Guy
Big Bang Theory
Scrubs
Futurama
The Simpsons
South Park

Watchmen
28 Days Later
The Truman Show
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
Bruce Almighty

(I'm afraid I've watched so many films all their names have blurred and those are the only ones that stick out)

UK based/humor:
Garth Merenghis Darkplace
The IT Crowd
Spaced
Frequently Asked Questions about time travel
The Informant

Stand up DVDs (UK based):
Bill Bailey
Frankie Boyle
Ed Byrne
Dylan Moran
Andy Parsons

(Non UK)
Tim Minchin

Hope that helps.

 

[MinorBidoh]

Some of my recent video findings with a thumbs up of approval. TV Shows and movies, nee porn needed on my camp either.

TV
Natures Great Events 2009 & Life 2009. If you like David Attenborough.
The Wire
Mad Men
Dexter
Lock Stock (The Series)
Generation kill
Black Books
BlackAdder
Spaced
The Mighty Boosh
Monty Python's Flying Circus and their movies.


Movies
12 Angry Men
Battle Royale
Big
Bronson
Casshern
Interstella 5555
Dark City
Dr. Strangelove
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Felon
Film Noir (an animation)
His Girl Friday
King Kong (1933)
North By Northwest
Payback
Plunkett & Macleane
Rounders
Seven Samurai
Some Like It Hot
The Libertine
The Little Shop of Horrors (1957)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Thirst
Where The Wild Things Are
Zatoichi

Looking back at this list, I see many are quite dark or gruesome. Besides, I'd say they are all worth the watch. Some are firm classics, others are offset to the well beaten track.

 

[happyfrappy]

Dude, how could you leave out Arcade Fire (Funeral <-this is the best album of the 2000's!)), The Sam Roberts Band (Chemical City, Love At The End Of The World), and The New Pornographers (Mass Romantic, Twin Cinema, Challengers)?!?

I was trying to keep my suggestion list with fairly 'recent' albums, also I'm sure Arcade Fire & New Pornographers are mainstream enough everybody has heard of them at some point.
...oh well, guess I really don't care what is played on regular radio(I own an XM Radio w/lifetime subscription)

 

[CaptMurdock]

Naw. Go old school: the entire catalogues of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who...then some Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Ford, Orson Welles...don't forget the Three Stooges...