I'm coming to terms with Starbucks as a place to buy music.
Well, not really, it still weirds me out.
So, in celebration of this here is a track from a summer show by Sonic Youth. This is all I've heard of their current remake tour, but I dig it.
This is Eric's Trip
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Level Four: Begin
I have no idea where this disc came from, it showed up with no return address or any info. But, I tracked down the people who made the album:
http://www.myspace.com/thefourlevel
http://www.breakbeatscience.com/46621.html?id=snFo5kCo&mv_pc=1426
Sorry, I'm not feeling the hyperlinks today.
Good shit, it's kind of synthy-electro-pop with female vocals.
I don't know how you would even get if you wanted to, they only printed around 150 copies. But, if you have interest let me know and I'll let you listen to mine.
http://www.myspace.com/thefourlevel
http://www.breakbeatscience.com/46621.html?id=snFo5kCo&mv_pc=1426
Sorry, I'm not feeling the hyperlinks today.
Good shit, it's kind of synthy-electro-pop with female vocals.
I don't know how you would even get if you wanted to, they only printed around 150 copies. But, if you have interest let me know and I'll let you listen to mine.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
On the iPod
I've been listening to the Cribs CD Men's Needs, Woman's Needs, whatever nonstop all day.
Check it out if you can.
Check it out if you can.
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Woe?
I haven't been taking pictures lately because my Nikon, freshly out of warranty season by a few weeks, decided to take the last train west. Something in the motherboard fried and then the flash died. So, that little picture game went tits up until I get a new camera.
Since there are no more pretty pictures to look at for a bit, I'm reposting a Miami Herald article that ran today written by Martha Brannigan. To sum it up, the richest of the rich are getting richer and richer right now, and we, yeah you and me, are scraping pennies out of the bottom of jars to clean our clothes.
Enjoy:
The 223-foot vessel, with a glass elevator spanning six levels and a dance floor, epitomizes the over-the-top, if-you've-got-to-ask-the-price- you-can't-afford-it sector of the boat market. And the sector is red hot.
As the housing slump and the sputtering U.S. economy spur consumers to cut back, much of the boating industry is in the doldrums. The number of powerboats sold is expected to plunge about 10 percent this year, and many exhibitors at the show, which opens Thursday, are cautious about prospects.
Yet builders of superyachts -- boats 80 feet or longer -- have full order books with delivery dates well into the next decade.
''The megayacht market is very resilient,'' says Frank Herhold, executive director of the Marine Industries Association of South Florida, which owns the Fort Lauderdale show, the world's largest in terms of exhibition space. ``It looks like full speed ahead.''
Behind the boom: an explosion in the number of rich people, who covet ever bigger and fancier yachts to round out their opulent lifestyles. On top of some 4,500 superyachts in operation, 700 are under construction, straining capacity at many of the world's shipyards.
''The personal wealth of the world is growing by quantum leaps,'' says Buddy Haack, a Fort Lauderdale-based representative for Lürssen Yachts, a 132-year-old yacht maker based in Bremen, Germany. It's the company that constructed the Kismet for an Ohio auto-parts magnate. ''Demand [for superyachts] is stronger than supply. We're backed up until 2013 for a deliver,'' Haack said.
RICHER AND RICHER
The number of ''ultra-high-net-worth'' individuals -- defined as those with at least $30 million in assets, excluding their primary homes and consumable goods -- rose 11.3 percent last year to 94,970, according to the 2007 World Wealth Report released in June by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini.
Forbes magazine, in its 2007 survey, tallied 946 billionaires worldwide. That includes 178 new ones and 17 who returned to that rarefied realm after falling short for a period. Two-thirds of the billionaires are richer than last year, the magazine said. And what's a billionaire without a really big boat?
Ten years ago, a 165-foot yacht was huge. Today, 250- to 300-foot is increasingly common. Many are bigger. That means more amenities: submarines; helipads; gymnasiums; big bars; movie theaters. Some have 35-foot tenders that are fancy boats in their own right.
Since there are no more pretty pictures to look at for a bit, I'm reposting a Miami Herald article that ran today written by Martha Brannigan. To sum it up, the richest of the rich are getting richer and richer right now, and we, yeah you and me, are scraping pennies out of the bottom of jars to clean our clothes.
Enjoy:
The 223-foot vessel, with a glass elevator spanning six levels and a dance floor, epitomizes the over-the-top, if-you've-got-to-ask-the-price- you-can't-afford-it sector of the boat market. And the sector is red hot.
As the housing slump and the sputtering U.S. economy spur consumers to cut back, much of the boating industry is in the doldrums. The number of powerboats sold is expected to plunge about 10 percent this year, and many exhibitors at the show, which opens Thursday, are cautious about prospects.
Yet builders of superyachts -- boats 80 feet or longer -- have full order books with delivery dates well into the next decade.
''The megayacht market is very resilient,'' says Frank Herhold, executive director of the Marine Industries Association of South Florida, which owns the Fort Lauderdale show, the world's largest in terms of exhibition space. ``It looks like full speed ahead.''
Behind the boom: an explosion in the number of rich people, who covet ever bigger and fancier yachts to round out their opulent lifestyles. On top of some 4,500 superyachts in operation, 700 are under construction, straining capacity at many of the world's shipyards.
''The personal wealth of the world is growing by quantum leaps,'' says Buddy Haack, a Fort Lauderdale-based representative for Lürssen Yachts, a 132-year-old yacht maker based in Bremen, Germany. It's the company that constructed the Kismet for an Ohio auto-parts magnate. ''Demand [for superyachts] is stronger than supply. We're backed up until 2013 for a deliver,'' Haack said.
RICHER AND RICHER
The number of ''ultra-high-net-worth'' individuals -- defined as those with at least $30 million in assets, excluding their primary homes and consumable goods -- rose 11.3 percent last year to 94,970, according to the 2007 World Wealth Report released in June by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini.
Forbes magazine, in its 2007 survey, tallied 946 billionaires worldwide. That includes 178 new ones and 17 who returned to that rarefied realm after falling short for a period. Two-thirds of the billionaires are richer than last year, the magazine said. And what's a billionaire without a really big boat?
Ten years ago, a 165-foot yacht was huge. Today, 250- to 300-foot is increasingly common. Many are bigger. That means more amenities: submarines; helipads; gymnasiums; big bars; movie theaters. Some have 35-foot tenders that are fancy boats in their own right.
Monday, October 08, 2007
Mini Kaoss Pad
I've been looking at these things for a month or so now and have resisted buying one.
Freezepop
Two things for you all today.
First, I was blog surfing, just following links and I came across the epitome of sample warehouses online.
The UbUweb 365 project, which seems to kind fo fallen apart from it's original idea, hosts a plethora of mp3 samples from PSA's to obscura. Here ya go.
Next, while blog surfing I stumbled upon a band that is already gaining popularity.
Freezepop has quickly become one of my favorite Synthpop bands currently playing. All of their songs sound vaguely familiar, and the voice of Liz Enthusiasm is intoxicating.
Their track, "Pop music is not a crime," reminds me a little of Brian Kelly's "She is Dancing" from the Basquiat soundtrack. It's just a few lines that have the same cadence and rhyme scheme I guess.
And, Fort Lauderdale's You Tube of the Now!
This one features Chris Carraba from Dashboard Confessional looking embarrassed as some other idiot tells a random girl outside Revolution how to dogsit Cash, Carraba's dog.
Enjoy, I guess:
First, I was blog surfing, just following links and I came across the epitome of sample warehouses online.
The UbUweb 365 project, which seems to kind fo fallen apart from it's original idea, hosts a plethora of mp3 samples from PSA's to obscura. Here ya go.
Next, while blog surfing I stumbled upon a band that is already gaining popularity.
Freezepop has quickly become one of my favorite Synthpop bands currently playing. All of their songs sound vaguely familiar, and the voice of Liz Enthusiasm is intoxicating.
Their track, "Pop music is not a crime," reminds me a little of Brian Kelly's "She is Dancing" from the Basquiat soundtrack. It's just a few lines that have the same cadence and rhyme scheme I guess.
And, Fort Lauderdale's You Tube of the Now!
This one features Chris Carraba from Dashboard Confessional looking embarrassed as some other idiot tells a random girl outside Revolution how to dogsit Cash, Carraba's dog.
Enjoy, I guess:
STOLED
I am stealing this from The Stranger's blog because it is amazing.
Robbie from IMtheDEVIL said, "This is beyond ridiculous."
What do you think?
Robbie from IMtheDEVIL said, "This is beyond ridiculous."
What do you think?
Friday, October 05, 2007
I made a mistake earlier, I said Tiger Army, I meant Dropkick Murphy's
It's official, the Britney train has wrecked.
I never thought you could pinpoint the exact moment of career death. But, just watch her new video. It's the same 25-seconds looped with added flashes and laser effects to cover up that it's the exact same clip. Looks like they slapped together whatever images of her they had, then got someone with a nice ass and filled in the rest.
The comments are gold, so don't forget to pan down.
It's official, the Britney train has wrecked.
I never thought you could pinpoint the exact moment of career death. But, just watch her new video. It's the same 25-seconds looped with added flashes and laser effects to cover up that it's the exact same clip. Looks like they slapped together whatever images of her they had, then got someone with a nice ass and filled in the rest.
The comments are gold, so don't forget to pan down.
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