yeah February 19, 2008
Posted by joehumanity in tech.Tags: fail, technology
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i’ll put up that link tonight. Connection was INTERMINABLE last night. Thought it might have worked, but no.
sleep waking February 18, 2008
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A robot acts out your dreams by interpreting REM and brainwave activity. Beautiful. Haunting. Terrifying. The music’s great too.
doubleplus ungood February 14, 2008
Posted by joehumanity in e/n.Tags: drinking, idiots, war, work
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haaaang overrrr! i have the ever-entertaining quantum hangover. This is where you’re so hungover that you can’t tell how hungover you are, and any attempt to gauge it will make you feel more ill. So you just sit there, in a state of perpetual briny limbo, wondering if you could keep down a bacon sandwich.
I’m working in Yokosuka today, which is one of the US naval bases here in Japan. They’re called the “Self-Defense Force” because of Japan’s pacifist constitution, which I think is amusing as they generally cause more trouble than they prevent. *cough* Okinawa! *cough*
rage against the machine, two kinds of February 11, 2008
Posted by joehumanity in e/n.Tags: anonymous, gigs, music, rage against the machine
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last night (or rather evening, gigs in Japan start at 6pm and finish promptly at 8:30) I went up to Chiba to the cavernous Makuhari Messe Conference Hall to see RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE HGLAGBLAFGHGUG. Only saw them once before, at Reading Festival (UK) in 2000, so it was great to see them again after so long.
Set list:
Guerrilla Radio
People of the Sun
Bombtrack
Testify
Vietnow
Bullet in the Head
Down Rodeo
Bulls on Parade
Tire Me
Know Your Enemy
Sleep Now in the Fire
War Within a Breath
Encore: Freedom, Killing in the Name
So there we go, a nice balance of the three studio albums (although nothing from Renegades). The one gripe I have is that the setlist is ostensibly the same as the one from 2000 as there’s been no new material (obviously). It also felt like too short a set, considering there was no support band. But I’m nitpicking. The gig was awesome, the band were on top form, Zack was full of energy and the crowd was demented. Thirty seconds into Guerrilla Radio some cheeky fucker had already jumped onto my back to crowdsurf. After three songs I had been swept back to the rear barrier and was pretty much lodged there for the rest of the gig.
Some videos (not taken by me):
Sleep Now in the Fire (I reckon this little improv bit will be a new song someday)
Bullet in the Head
Part 2: Anonymous held their Scientology demonstrations yesterday too, pretty well summed up here. It seems like they all went off without a hitch, with around 3-4000 people worldwide showing up. The V-mask effect worked well.
a link February 5, 2008
Posted by joehumanity in e/n, tech.Tags: links, music
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Wow. A huge selection, a mixture of live and cd tracks, you can’t queue up songs but what the hell, it’s free.
on the go February 1, 2008
Posted by joehumanity in Firsts.Tags: mobile, stupid questions, work, yukari
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this one’s from my mobile. I’m at work in Atsugi with 10mins left of my lunchbreak, 5 lessons left to teach and a 9pm finish. It’s Friday! woo.
I changed the theme to make it readable by mobile, gray on black wasn’t really very good at all.
I’d like to say hi to Yukari, who might be reading. Hi, Pea!
Nothing interesting to report yet. It gets better this evening.
Thought of the day: if Siamese twins want to get a train, how many tickets do they have to buy?
