I came back to New York. This is me paraphrasing. It was a bummer. :-p
CTK invited to play the NAMM show in Anaheim, CA. So. Sweet. Might go to Disneyland and beat up Mickey Mouse.
Work is getting ridiculously busy as everyone is trying to blow their remaining budget on stupid projects.
MBB playing this Friday at Don Pedro's in the Burg de William WITH The Naked Heroes. Sweet.
Decal'd my laptop because I'm a huge Metal Gear Solid nerd.
I've kind of been obsessed with the movie "Bronson" (2008) lately.
Best way I can describe it is it's like mashing up "A Clockwork Orange" and "Napoleon Dynamite". Based on the real life of one Charlie Bronson, it's not a great movie per se, just really entertaining. Plus the cinematography was great.
Below is one of the best scenes. Context: Bronson has been transferred from one of many prisons to an insane asylum. He misses prison though, as that is where he feels at home, as opposed to the "loony bin" where they drug him up.
And yeah, the Pet Shop Boy's doing "Its a sin" is just a huge bonus. Try to not to laugh at the dancing. There's a metaphor in this scene about the struggle to be yourself that I really like, even if its heavy handed.
Never heard of her till "An Education" came out and heard the outgoing song during the credits. Maybe it's having to hear it 4 times a day, but it's really grown on me, even if the lyrics are...well kind of painful (in the emotional sense, not quality of writing).
Damn good voice though
Don't have the attention span to commit to coherently formed sentences much less structure for a blog entry, so why not just get to the brass tacks?
* Cortez The Killer - We played Crash Mansion on Thursday 10.29.09. This got a better crowd than I had expected and I thought was a satisfactory show. Felt good. The traffic however sucked balls
* My Black Boyfriend - Played a Halloween show at RockStar Bar in Williamsburg. You could tell it was Halloween because the show was scary - Scary how empty the place was. It was $ guaranteed, so fuck em. There was also no sound guy so we had to track down how this place had the PA cables run. The place sounded terrible too. It was a joke. Never playing that place again.
* Video Games - Bought 3 games as part of Best Buy's "Buy 2 Get 1 Free" promo. Picked up NHL10, Resistance 2, and Borderlands. Only popped in Borderlands, enjoyable, took a few minutes of getting used to, now into it. By no means perfect, but it is solid.
* Gambit - I'm playing a show for Lyle's pop-project on Nov. 13th before I go to London. The first project I've been involved that isn't straight rock music. This is considered "Gambit Beta" for Lyle to perform these live. I don't think he'll use the same lineup in the future as this will be a test run as some playback tracks are required. I'm enjoying this as it is a different approach for me and takes a bit more thinking than I'm used to.
God if there is one thing I hate more than hippies it's dirty Hipsters*--that bane of urban youth, sprouting from that modern Big Sur wannabe Brooklyn (main difference is the dearth of actual talent in Brooklyn) If the word douche-bag had any meaning, it would be reserved for hipsters.
Having said that, this video is almost really funny. I mean it's funny, but not like the funniest thing I've seen this week. Still, it rags on hipsters (pun), so it is worth a post and my endorsement.
* I was going to say I hate everything that has "hip" in it, but that would unfairly include Hippos. Who doesn't love a good ol' hippo? Hippos are much more pleasant and non-douche-baggy than hipsters.
So after quite a few happy months of using the MSI Wind U100 Netbook, I decided to move onto something slightly larger but also much more powerful.
The Wind was able to do my podcasting, video encoding, photo editing as well as daily web browsing and was a blast to use, but that Atom processor is a bit weak.
The Acer 1410 basically straddles the line between Netbook and Notebook (and because of this, sales haven't been great) and in doing so, it basically fixes every little complaint of Netbooks.
In comparison, the Acer has an 11.6" HD-ready screen, while the Wind has a 10", lower resolution matte one. That extra 1.6" and resolution makes a huge difference, especially for photo editing. On top of that, it has a 250gb HDD (vs 160gb), 2GB of RAM up to 4GB (vs 1gb up to 2 for the Wind), a full sized keyboard vs a 92% and most importantly a Intel Core Solo processor which even at 1.4ghz rocks a 1.6ghz Atom.
In turn the unit is 3.1lbs, which is about 1/2lb heaver than most netbooks but the kicker is it gets better battery life (5-6hrs), so you know...win. Throw on Windows 7 and it just rocks--fast, easy to use, great on the eyes and good battery life.
All of this for about $50 more than a new Netbook makes the Acer a much better choice for those who use it as a main computer.
Dear Rose ... facebook was wrong!
In any case I am embarrassed!
How could I forget Robert Frost (1874-1963) wrote this!
THE ROSE FAMILY
The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose
But the theory now goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose --
But were always a rose.
So their new double album came out this week ("Embryonic") and the review have been some of their best in years. It's quite the experimental album, which for them says a lot. Most of the songs have a somewhat dark tone to them, but this one features Karen O. (yeah yeah yeahs) and is quite fun.
(Ignore the comments at YouTube...obviously n00b Flaming Lips listeners)
The album was also released as limited Delux version (which I got, see below): 2 CDs, 1 DVD with high fidelity recording of the album (sweet), giant lithograph of the album art and a furry box to keep it in (lulz). You can buy just the album at amazon.com for $7.99 (really?), so go get it now (link).
