Party like it’s my birthday ..
We are celebrating @ the Otto-Wagner-Pavillion tomorrow at 22 pm. Join us!
And then …. 3 weeks off to Bulgaria .. happy holidays :)
Spring Festival 2008
It sucked .. big time!!! I wanted to see 3 artists, namely Juan Atkins, the Bug and Luke Vibert. I allready knew that the Bug had a double booking for this day so there were only 2 left. We arrived thursdays at 2.30am in the Postgarage in Graz and we still had to pay the full 25€ entry just to find out minutes later that Juan Atkins won’t play. They didn’t even bother to put a sign in front of the door announcing it. Same shit happened saturdays. We asked one of the Spring guys when Luke Vibert is going to play and he told us that he is allready in Graz and that he will play in a few hours. So we stayed in the Postgarage waiting. Most of the sound was really crappy, so it was a kind of torture to do so. At 6am i met Stefan Auer (the guy behind Zeiger and the organiser of this festival) and i asked him about Luke and he told me that he is sick. Those bastardz! Luckily, i had a really nice time with my girlfriend and some old friends from Graz, otherwise i would be really, REALLY pissed.
Big up to the local DJ’s from Graz though. They organised a counter party where you had to pay 3€ for the whole day. Would have been the better choice!
Maybe we will go to the Wilsonic festival in Bratislava .. sounds promising as well ;-)
Jamie Lidell / Joakim
They will play at the Posthof in Linz. I will play warmup together with fino from 10-12pm. And .. i updated my upcoming shows page .. me lazy bastard :)
Mobile Music Workshop
The mobile music workshop takes place atm at the university for applied arts in vienna (sterngasse 13, 1010). So if you are in the area, just drop by!
Comics
I want to share some daily comix which i read constantly.
xkcd.com and dilbert.com are my daily dose of nerd stuff and the other is wulffmorgenthaler.com, which is just plain weird.
Also, a friend of mine started a weblog which is about ruby code and lyrical spam called sick.snusnu.info
Krochen!!
I was wondering the last year or so about a new trend in vienna. I saw a lot of kids dressing up in golden sneakers, wearing neon-colored caps and palestinian scarfs running around in vienna .. there is now a official name for them called “Krocha”. Wikipedia makes it official now ;)
I started surfing around a bit and found websites like this one where they present their style of dancing called jump-style. Next thing i found was a dance style called shuffle .. and it fuckin’ rocks.
The funny thing about it is that i get so nostalgic when i watch this kid jumping .. takes me way back to my old rave times. We didn’t have the funky sounding names for it (like melbourne shuffle, jump-style ..) but we had better XTC :D
Seems i’m getting old … baaam euda!!
Imdb search bookmarklet
A adaption of the google bookmarklet, nothing special, but i use it a lot (useful when browsing joox.net :)
(just drag the link to your browser bar, it should appear there as a normal bookmark. then just browse a website and if you find a title of a movie or movie actor for example, highlight the words and press the boorkmark. won’t work on sites with frames i guess)
Graffiti Research Lab
I had to write a little report on the GRL guys (in german unfortunately). You can find it here, enjoy!
Unreal and Kwari
I play UT2k4 for about 2 years now and i still really enjoy it. It’s a fast paced first person shooter like Quake or Warsow with different game types. I play most of the time either TAM or InstaCTF (both also in an austrian clan). Because UT3 was released a few weeks ago the 2k4 communtiy is a bit weak at the moment, so i am looking for alternatives. Warsow looks really promising, it’s fast, it has insta .. and it’s open-source and free!
Another interesting approach i found is Kwari, an ego-shooter which is about real money. Still not really sure how it works, but i downloaded allready 78% and i will try it immediately.
