Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Time to die.


A Bluer Monday (a LeeDM101 mashup) from Reborn Identity on Vimeo.

Musical snippets don't get much play here anymore. Instead, I tend to post videos and links on Facebook. However I have are a few links floating around the deserves a less ephemeral treatment.

From the forthcoming American version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo comes Trent Reznor's latest piece of brilliance, a cover of Led Zepplin's ' ( Read more... )

I should have been playing Dresden Files right now, but the bug that took advantage of my con-weaked immune system had other ideas, so instead I'm catching up on my neglected Google Reader.
Mostly, several recent Zero Punctuations. This one's a classic (I wanted to embed it, but The Escapist's embedding appears to be borked ( Read more... )

Adam Fish from the anthropology blog Savage Minds posted a discussion from face book about whether Remix Culture is over-valued in arguments against stricter copyright laws: Remix is a Myth. Vociferous consumer and re-poster of mashups, my position on this should be clear, but they raise some provocative questions about the role of small elite ( Read more... )

A small group of went to Bootie LA featuring DJ Morgoth from Germany at the Echoplex last night. As usual, it was great fun: three hours of dancing, hoo-rah! Unfortunately, we left before DJ Morgoth played his Rammstein mashup, Du Hast Mich Again, but his drum-and-base-influenced European style was definitely to my liking ( Read more... )

I've downloaded three albums recently, and listened to them all over the last couple of days. Each is currently on their second listening. I was going to review them all in one post, but I seem to have more to say about them that I expected, so I'll draw it out.

( Britpop Rebooted by The Reborn Identity )

Aside from a few moments of procrastination, I've been rather busy working on a epigraphic network project and consequently neglecting my Google Reader, so there will be some pre-Christmas catching up before the post-Christmas Greek translation preparation.

Reflection of Puppets (Sisters vs NIN vs Metallica)

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Two interesting musical works: a RATM/Electric Six mashup and the Legend of Zelda theme played on Heineken bottles; both via Radio Free Hipster.

If you like 80s music or mashups, check out this mashup album full of 80s classics: 10000 Spoons - A Boot Up The Eighties. Track nine features an inspired blend of INXS and Survivor of which I'd love to hear a longer treatment.

I went to San Diego for the Sevens over the weekend. Rain was forecast and while it didn't eventuate, it was cold and pretty windy where we were sitting on the first day which exacerbated my cold and accelerated the loss of my voice. As in Wellington, the NZ performance was patchy, with a loss to Kenya on the first day putting us on the hard side ( Read more... )