Prodigy are now online here. I don’t know what I’m going to do about the movies yet. I’d like to post them but having a sort-of permanent hosting site for them is difficult. Well, perhaps I could try Google video or something. Anyways, Ultrafest was awesome. I actually had to take my shoes off at one point because my feet hurt from jumping around so much. ...
PK can rock out now.
On the weekend I got to see Coldplay and Fiona Apple play in Orlando. Actually, ha, let me correct that. I got to see a bit of one Fiona Apple song - “Fast as you can” - and you can bet I was running as fast as I could to get to my seat when I arrived at the venue. It turns out we had a bit of bad luck with the traffic that night. What should have been a 15 minute drive to the venue turned out being over an hour drive. Whilst sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic we had to get to exit 83B on the I-4. Fiona would have already started her set, and being support act, would only be playing for 45 mins or so. Anyway, we came up to exit 82A… 5 mins passed … exit 82B … another 5 mins gone … exit 82C… at which point I stated “ha, wouldn’t it be funny if there was an 82D exit!” Nobody in the car really appreciated the humour. ...
There are online here. I kind of stuffed up the gamma in Photoshop… things were a bit iffy there for a while. Also the pictures were taken from the same perspective the whole night. There were lots of people in the club and some stupidly placed VIP tables. It was the best spot I could get. Hey has anyone seen “The IT crowd”, a British take on geekism? I’ve just watched 5 minutes of the second episode before posting this. It’s not that bad! It reaches out to the geek lust buried deep within my tricuspid valve.
I have just rediscovered a group that I first listened to 5 years ago. Ah, I remember fondly the days blasting out some ‘Muse’ in one of the project labs at my university, trying to figure out how to warp pictures into spherical coordinates so I could form a panorama. Those were the days *sigh*. Fast forward to today and I have rediscovered them. Recently I played Muse’s first album and thought “damn those guys are good”. They have since released two more albums and both are effin fantastic. Definitely some good listening, definitely one of my favourite bands.
Woohoo! This is one thing I’ve been looking forward to for a while: the CD release party for Santos Renuentes. Awesome. To those in Australia reading this, you have approximately 5 hours to get down to South Beach. Sorry for the late notice…
Santos Renuentes have finally released their self titled debut album! It’s in stores now all around the US, but in short supply as there were only 5000 initial albums pressed. Here is a link that contains their first single and music video, “Marcha”. This video is on rotation on local latin MTV-like station “Mun2” alongside Coldplay and the Darkness to name a few. For me the great thing is that the CD sleeve contains all the words to the songs which will help in my learning of Spanish. I can’t wait until the CD release party next Wednesday night at Macarenas in SoBe. Awesome.
First off, BIG PROPS to Johanna, who was visiting from Puerto Rico, for taking these pictures at the Ozomatli concert in South Beach recently. BIG PROPS to Arlene for passing them on to me. BIG PROPS to me for posting other people’s pictures!! But I know there are a couple of Ozomatli fans out there who read this little site-o-mine so I had to share them. Asdru shouting it out to the crowd. Take particular note of the shirt he is wearing… Yes, it says ‘Womadelaide’. I get bagged for harping on about Australia and in particular Adelaide all the time, but anyone who bags me hasn’t been to Australia yet and just doesn’t understand… Wil-dog on the bass. Jabu - awesome vocals… Shef with DJ Spinobi in the background… Raul and Jabu… This part was awesome: after the set had finished oZo came into the crowd and continued to play, battling with the DJ’s at the nightclub who were trying to spin some musak… Ende!
Nah, just messing with ya. I think it unlikely that Coldplay would visit the fine city of Adelaide for one of their tours in the near future. I thought there was hope though when I received a Coldplay newsletter stating more shows in Australia, only to find that they were scheduling more shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Bugger. At any rate, I’m not in Adelaide and I got to see Coldplay a month ago. They were pretty damn awesome of course and I don’t know why I didn’t mention that fact on my blog. Perhaps I did… I dunno. Here are some shoddy pictures from the concert taken with my phone camera: ...
You wouldn’t believe it, but I finally got the movies from Ultrafest from my friend. You need Apple Quicktime to view these files. The files are of a Drum and Bass tent, Moby, Oakenfold (I think it was anyway) and a quick location shot. Click on this link to get to the files. If you don’t feel like waiting to download them (who would?), you can log in using the username “iwannalook” and the password “letmein” (without the quotes). Someday I’ll find a hosting site that’s a bit more friendly. Someday. ...