Thursday, June 26, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Champions of the Chess world.
"Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Playing chess is mu lust and my life! It gives me joy, it improves my
brains and intelligense, it improves the contact with other people and
it fullfills my sportsmentality!
Regards,
Jan van den Bos
Comments: 0"
From:http://www.chesshere.com/blogs/bujin/article/181/
How am I so smart and others so stupid? I just don't understand sometimes.
I do understand though that people are BAD DRIVERS in Barcelona. Two days ago I was riding my Bycicle up Via Laietana from my flat to work at 9:45 in the morning and was NAILED by a dickass trying to sneak into traffic. Most importantly my bike is okay. Nothing much happened, and I'm just a little shook up, I did though fly across his hood and skid across the pavement. I had only gotten out of bed 20 minutes beforehand, and I was not ready for the chaos that ensued: Being slung like a rag doll onto the sidewalk, being shouted at in Catalan, struggling to break out of the morning fog and the accident haze to bring spanish into the forefront to tell this asshat bad driver that I don't understand his catalan and we have to speak spanish. Which is a struggle as well, just speaking. The worst part though is being stood over and pointed at by an old woman shouting "Sangre! Sangre!" and pointing at the bleeding scrape on my hand.
And for now a forray into the world of webcomics:
Score for using the internet in place of my lack of a sense of humor and creativity.
Parker 1 Internet 0
It gives me joy, it improves my brains
Playing chess is mu lust and my life! It gives me joy, it improves my
brains and intelligense, it improves the contact with other people and
it fullfills my sportsmentality!
Regards,
Jan van den Bos
Comments: 0"
From:http://www.chesshere.com/blogs/bujin/article/181/
How am I so smart and others so stupid? I just don't understand sometimes.
I do understand though that people are BAD DRIVERS in Barcelona. Two days ago I was riding my Bycicle up Via Laietana from my flat to work at 9:45 in the morning and was NAILED by a dickass trying to sneak into traffic. Most importantly my bike is okay. Nothing much happened, and I'm just a little shook up, I did though fly across his hood and skid across the pavement. I had only gotten out of bed 20 minutes beforehand, and I was not ready for the chaos that ensued: Being slung like a rag doll onto the sidewalk, being shouted at in Catalan, struggling to break out of the morning fog and the accident haze to bring spanish into the forefront to tell this asshat bad driver that I don't understand his catalan and we have to speak spanish. Which is a struggle as well, just speaking. The worst part though is being stood over and pointed at by an old woman shouting "Sangre! Sangre!" and pointing at the bleeding scrape on my hand.
And for now a forray into the world of webcomics:
Score for using the internet in place of my lack of a sense of humor and creativity.
Parker 1 Internet 0
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Battle Toads 4 lyfe, NUKKA
WeGame.com - Gaming Videos
BATTLE TOOOAAADDS
Further:
Grooveshark
Grooveshark in a word: Awesome.
Grooveshark is a new database-driven music sharing portal that will surely rip the fucking face off of the steadily declining music industry (or help atleast). I promise: I have the ability to see into the future. And as a legitimate soothsayer I can tell you this. Start-up companies such as these are a razor-tooth filled gaping maw into which the "Big-Music" industry will be ground into wet paper mache. It's time for us, the all powerful gen-internet to usurp control of the things we love from the big money machines. Not that making money is a bad thing...certainly not. It's just that the money needs to go to the right places, and it is up to us to divert the flow back to their proper place. It's been too long the robber barrons of the big music distribution companies and record lables have been stealing what is rightfully the artists.
Also in future news: I will marry the internet because we are in love.
Here is how it works:
First and foremost, membership to grooveshark is free, and worth every cent of the nothing you pay to become a member. The users of grooveshark take the music that they have downloaded, ripped, or generally "purchased" and use the grooveshark cliet to upload the files into their catalog. From here, as a user you can stream for free whole albums, individual songs, or playlists that other users have created. This in itself is something wholly revolutionary, and I havent even gotten to the good part yet!
Just last thursday I found grooveshark and was playing office DJ on a sunny wish-we-were-on-the-beach-instead-of-the-office afternoon. We turned this humble DVD-laden office into a riteous dance hall. Playing everythign from Bon Jovi, The zombies, The Beach Boys, Vampire Weekend and even tracks from the newly released Fleet Foxes album (which is amazing I must say). from then I was hooked.
Now the twist: not only can you stream anything you can find on their extensive catalog for free, EVERYONE GETS PAID! USERS included! Here is a company that is within legal bounds by respecting copyright law, provides DRM free music, provides a smart, clean and simple web-based music player AND PAYS it's users to participate in the community! HOLY SHIT THE WOLD IS ENDING! 25 cents a song is what users get for sharing; which is exactly the amount that they themselves take. Beautiful.
These guys are still Beta, but still watch out Last.fm, Grooveshark has you in it's sites and has the tools to seriously fuck you up.
Now... all that being said, don't quit your day job if you think you're gonna become a millionare because you've had a broadband connection since you were 12, and 500Gb of worhtless music ranging from N'sync to Enya. Grooveshark pays in store credit, good for purchasing music from other users. This though is ingeous. Incentive for sharing, incentive community involvement and with enough of both all the legally free music you can get your hands on.
Now. The best part (IMHO) : THE COMPANY IS RUN BY GRADUATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA; BASED IN GAINESVILLE.
never before have I been so proud.
Thank you grooveshark for potentially rocking the face of the music distribution world, and making me proud of my home.
I oficially Love you, am addicted to you, and henceforth cannot live without you.
My Suggestion: apply for a restraining order.
BATTLE TOOOAAADDS
Further:
Grooveshark
Grooveshark in a word: Awesome.
Grooveshark is a new database-driven music sharing portal that will surely rip the fucking face off of the steadily declining music industry (or help atleast). I promise: I have the ability to see into the future. And as a legitimate soothsayer I can tell you this. Start-up companies such as these are a razor-tooth filled gaping maw into which the "Big-Music" industry will be ground into wet paper mache. It's time for us, the all powerful gen-internet to usurp control of the things we love from the big money machines. Not that making money is a bad thing...certainly not. It's just that the money needs to go to the right places, and it is up to us to divert the flow back to their proper place. It's been too long the robber barrons of the big music distribution companies and record lables have been stealing what is rightfully the artists.
Also in future news: I will marry the internet because we are in love.
Here is how it works:
First and foremost, membership to grooveshark is free, and worth every cent of the nothing you pay to become a member. The users of grooveshark take the music that they have downloaded, ripped, or generally "purchased" and use the grooveshark cliet to upload the files into their catalog. From here, as a user you can stream for free whole albums, individual songs, or playlists that other users have created. This in itself is something wholly revolutionary, and I havent even gotten to the good part yet!
Just last thursday I found grooveshark and was playing office DJ on a sunny wish-we-were-on-the-beach-instead-of-the-office afternoon. We turned this humble DVD-laden office into a riteous dance hall. Playing everythign from Bon Jovi, The zombies, The Beach Boys, Vampire Weekend and even tracks from the newly released Fleet Foxes album (which is amazing I must say). from then I was hooked.
Now the twist: not only can you stream anything you can find on their extensive catalog for free, EVERYONE GETS PAID! USERS included! Here is a company that is within legal bounds by respecting copyright law, provides DRM free music, provides a smart, clean and simple web-based music player AND PAYS it's users to participate in the community! HOLY SHIT THE WOLD IS ENDING! 25 cents a song is what users get for sharing; which is exactly the amount that they themselves take. Beautiful.
"Additionally, members will be compensated with store credits for community participation such as fixing bad song tags, flagging unwanted files, and reviewing concerts."This makes me, an eternally nit-picky ID3 tag fixer (both music dork and geek), weak in the knees. Finally. Finally. Finally.
These guys are still Beta, but still watch out Last.fm, Grooveshark has you in it's sites and has the tools to seriously fuck you up.
Now... all that being said, don't quit your day job if you think you're gonna become a millionare because you've had a broadband connection since you were 12, and 500Gb of worhtless music ranging from N'sync to Enya. Grooveshark pays in store credit, good for purchasing music from other users. This though is ingeous. Incentive for sharing, incentive community involvement and with enough of both all the legally free music you can get your hands on.
Now. The best part (IMHO) : THE COMPANY IS RUN BY GRADUATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA; BASED IN GAINESVILLE.
never before have I been so proud.
Thank you grooveshark for potentially rocking the face of the music distribution world, and making me proud of my home.
I oficially Love you, am addicted to you, and henceforth cannot live without you.
My Suggestion: apply for a restraining order.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Spain FTW
Spain controlled Sweden in game Game 3 of Group D 2008 Eurocup. It was spectacular. winning goal almost two minutes into overtime.
Watch out Greece. You stand no chance.
Watch out Greece. You stand no chance.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
For the Love of God an Science someone please Buy me a Macbook Air
Whoo hoo! Finally I make the time to sit down and update this thing about the other thing in which the foundry of this thing is based! (What a mess of nonsense that is!)
But seriously...I started this blog with the aspirations of going to Primavera Sound and spending time in Barcelona and blogging the whole thing... Though as per usual, things never go as planned. It's hard to blog without the appropriate tools... For now, all I have is afterhours at the office in which I work to spend hours alone wasting company electrictiy and company bandwidth.
Not entirely different from how I would be blogging normally here... just a few key differences:
- Instead of wasting electricity that I get for free because I work here, I would be stealing someone else's wireless and/or electricity, 440 watts of unadulterated theft.
-here: no porn, no torrents
:( :(
Though I have another grand dilusion of writing a Gonzo blog one day... IE spending great amounts of time with a microphone duck-taped to my head while wearing yellow tinted glasses, a dealer's cap, golf shoes and smoking a cigarette through a plastic filter and somehow using everything recorded to self publish into a steaming pile of blog.
Though unfortunately I'm not a part of the Acid generation, am in fact NOT a Doctor of Journalism nor do I have a desire to end up with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Thoes are the obsticles
Tally ho, on to primavera sound:
day 1 - Thurday
Who I saw:
The Microphones
To be honest was a little boring live... though absolutely excellent otherwise. Fantastic lyrics, calm strange sounds. For fans of Neutral Milk Hotel, The Mountain Goats or Devendra Banhart
Edan with guest: Dagha
Fucking Superstars man. Listen to this. Pure lyrical god; beautiful beautiful dorky rhymes about computers, star trek, great music and tits. boy do I love tits. Sampled from King Crimson to The Beatles.
LISTEN
Explosions in the Sky
my oh my oh my... There is nothing that can be said that describes an explosions in the sky show. In the state I was in combined with the tender tendrils of sound coming from this four piece.
EPIC journey would be one phrase, though cannot capture it. I was reduced to nothing, on the ground praying to ever see something as beautiful as what I was hearing. I couldn't even open my eyes, much less stand.Seeing this band is an essential must for anyone who calls themselves a human being. nuff said
Eric's Trip
was cool. nothing to write home about though. nice guys, nice music.
Midnight Juggernauts
almost as good as explosions...though not nearly as celestial or epic. Much more electronic, which takes alot away from the exclusivly human generated beautiful sound that explosions generates. Dancy. astral sounding. More vocal as well, but more of a voice as an instrument vocals rather than saying anything of any real value. Worth the time though.
Vampire Weekend
You need to pull your head out of your ass if you don't know this band. phenomenal. Rather poppy, and will be wildly successful if none of them die of drug overdose. Walking down the stairs into the deathtrap of a stage they played in, fighting tooth and nail the sea of people at 3 o'clock in the morning, still riding the waves of Explosions on my delicious pleasureboat, listening 'mansard roof' is one of the clearest and most beautiful memories (clearest mainly) I have of the entire festival (outside of the swirling pool of the festival in its entirity I have only a few).
Day 2 - Friday
Who I saw:
The Felice Brothers
phenomenal, especially you concider yourself kin to the southern way and/or love great americana folk music.
Subterranean Kids
Hardcore spanish-language punk. From their energy and stagepresence I thought they were crack incarnate. A+
Polvo
Another rock enstrumental ensemble. Another close religious call. goes to prove God Speaks through Rock Music.
Man Man
How to describe Man Man... Gyspy circus Viking-opra surf rock doo wop. that's the closest I'll come. Man Man is close to one of my favorite bands on the planet. I saw them twice at PS. FUCK YEAH. On top of that, I took a shot with Honus Honus. and I can't stop Listening to their new album Rabit Habits. FIND FIND FIND. If you don't believe me: listen to Top Drawer and The Ballad of Butterbean on their myspace (linked).
Dr. Octogon
okay, I'm black on the inside... but these guys are white on theirs. so it works out in the end, us being converses.
Why?
also great: just listen.
El Guincho
El Guinch is a new discovery of mine. Spanish DJ that also plays a drum (yes single drum) and sounds very much like Panda Bear from Animal Collective. Fantasitic, and makes me dance like snoopy.
Holy Fuck
Europe has turned me onto electronic, what can I say... Though I'm still a folk-hearted country boy.. I've been told that ladies love a man that can dance. And Holy Fuck is just one of thoes bands that can make me do just that.
Ellen Allen
Pure unadulterated German Eurotrash. don't tell anyone you did, but take a listen... I was there, so I had to go see what All the fuss was about... that's the only reason I swear.
Friday after the festival came to a close (7am) I was reduced to a rambling,drunken, bleary eyed loon that wanted nothing but water... and in order to find this water I made my way to the sea. Upon arrival I found a whole group of people in search of the same, though we were between a rock and a hard place. For a warm Morning, the water of the Mediterranean was excruciatingly cold, and was salt water and therefor anathema to thirst. So, as people in the condition we all were in usually do...we intermingled. I ended up walking a distance of about three miles down the beach with an english DJ that runs Rebel Radio and his girlfriend. We had stopped at a bar clearly inhabited by raging drunks. (who else is at the bar at 8 o'clock in the morning drinking wine by the jug?) breakfast for us included a bottle of red wine and 1/3 each of a red candy heart. and then, madness ensues. We all wound up in the Parc de Cuitidella, which houses the spanish version of the Arc de Triomf. These trying times are a vauge blur of pedantic electronica, wrestling with a dog, chasing cars, chasing DJs, and sleeping for hours in the park.
Day 3 - Saturday
Who I saw:
Times New Viking
see EITS and Polvo
Silver Jews
Originally a side project started by Steven Malkmus, great band.
Deerhunter
Shellac
Les Savy Fav
Animal Collective
The only band here that could rival the sheer power of Explosions in the sky. The Lights, The music... holy shit were these guys good. The second 'Fireworks' started, I was in my happy place... well to be honest I was already in a happy place. But THAT was the entire moment I had been waiting for. That very instant justified all of the money, the killing, the drug trafficking (jokes, jokes, Jokes all around...save the money).
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Stephen malkmus is a genius. a fucking genius.
Other Parc Forum Pics:
Three days in the shit
El Guincho – Antillas
EL GUINCHO
Holy Lord Primavera Sound
Well the highlights of primavera sound would be:
day 1:
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
-Seeing stephen up close at the Sala De Myspace booth
-Polvo
-Man Man
-Taking shots with Honus Honus from Man Man
-Meeting Wayne Cohen from the Flaming lips in the crowd for Stephen Malkmus
-Explosions in the Sky <3 <3 <3
-Fuck Buttons
I'll update more on this with pictures and a day-by-day acount of the festival, which I assure will not dissapoint. This blog thing is not as easy as you would think to update on a regular basis, seeing as how I handicapped. as soon as I can find a monet to do it in, for now I've been busy putting it off.
EDIT:
So apparently I can't. For any and all who try and embed videos into anything, especially Blogger blogs: FEAR AND HATE THE IFRAME TAGE. So far I have come across a few embeddable video players that use this horrific code... But, it eats whatever it can get its hands on... which include the rest of my blog. The NBC media player uses it, and some random streaming video site I found ("TVclips.com") which I used to post the entirity of fear and loathing in Los Vegas on my blog here under the heading "because I can".... sadness.
EL GUINCHO
Holy Lord Primavera Sound
Well the highlights of primavera sound would be:
day 1:
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
-Seeing stephen up close at the Sala De Myspace booth
-Polvo
-Man Man
-Taking shots with Honus Honus from Man Man
-Meeting Wayne Cohen from the Flaming lips in the crowd for Stephen Malkmus
-Explosions in the Sky <3 <3 <3
-Fuck Buttons
I'll update more on this with pictures and a day-by-day acount of the festival, which I assure will not dissapoint. This blog thing is not as easy as you would think to update on a regular basis, seeing as how I handicapped. as soon as I can find a monet to do it in, for now I've been busy putting it off.
EDIT:
So apparently I can't. For any and all who try and embed videos into anything, especially Blogger blogs: FEAR AND HATE THE IFRAME TAGE. So far I have come across a few embeddable video players that use this horrific code... But, it eats whatever it can get its hands on... which include the rest of my blog. The NBC media player uses it, and some random streaming video site I found ("TVclips.com") which I used to post the entirity of fear and loathing in Los Vegas on my blog here under the heading "because I can".... sadness.
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