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I'm switching journals.
OK - surprise time! Part 2 of my transmitnow review is on a separate blog. It's still under construction (need to replace the buttons, etc.), but if anyone wants to read my blog posts I'd like to let you all know that I'll be posting to dmckafka (friend me!) rather than here. But don't delete desert_thunder from your friends lists quite yet - I might ( Read more... ) -
Transmitnow block party review; or "DMC Kafka is mad with power." (Part one.)
So on Saturday I attended the all-day music festival known as the transmitnow block party. And, in keeping with my time-honoured (sort of) tradition of giving mini-reviews to a great deal of things in one go, I'm going to review all the bands I saw. And, since I like his poor spelling and grammar so much, I'm bringing my alter-ego Stanley " ( Read more... ) -
Album non-progress report: 12/01/06
So I got bored today and made a tape of improv tunes to maybe possibly show someone tomorrow at the transmitnow block party, and it's mostly as bad as my improv stuff always is, but - get this - I was able to finally make Why Hip-Hop Sucks in '06 into an actual song! It's a mostly-instrumental piece, with the only vocals being repetitions of "Ahhhh ( Read more... ) -
Eh Seth?
You know you want this. Shit, I want it. And so would anyone else who appreciates ridiculously expensive records. Hot damn, just look at that sucker! It's like every record collector's dream come true. Some part of me really hopes that Lou Reed or any of the other surviving Velvets will pop in and win the auction, though. Pretty unlikely, but it ( Read more... ) -
Marie Antoinette: Pre-movie.
Remember all those ages ago when I posted pre-and-post-movie impressions of V for Vendetta? Well, apparently tomorrow sometime this week I'll be seeing Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. Which is an interesting film right from the start, with the story's controversial central figure still a hot topic of historical debate some 213 years after her ( Read more... ) -
So I'm bored.
I've been neglecting my LJ hardcore as of late. And that sucks, because the one or two people who actually read this journal insist that my entries are interesting or something. And if I'm not updating, then I guess by extension I'm letting them down. So, people who read my journal: I present you with... A Guide To What I've Been Doing Instead Of ( Read more... ) -
On clothing.
As charismatic as N*E*R*D frontman Pharrell Williams may be, I still have a hard time accepting that even the most braindead of fashion victims would actually lend his ridiculous designer clothing labels Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream the faintest hint of credibility. I mean, yes the fashionable elite will wear just about anything so long as ( Read more... ) -
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So since it would appear that Maid Cafe de GO! is temporarily down, I figured I'd actually write a blog post. But not just any blog post... A review of the shit I bought in Europe! And some shit that I didn't buy! Oh yeah! Divided by country!
Netherlands:
OpenMinded "Liquid Honey" doujinshi - EUR 6,00 ( Read more... ) -
Boredom does things to your mind.
So I'm back from Europe, and I'll write a report on that later but for now... Well... I was thinking of ways to practise my katakana for some reason or other, and I got the brilliant idea to write down the names of all the CDs I own, converted into the Japanese katakana alphabet. And since I have no desire to save the file on my computer yet I also ( Read more... ) -
Wow.
Leaving for Europe tomorrow.
Wow.
Schedule looks like this:
October 25 & 26: Amsterdam
27-29: Enschede (Abunai!-con '06)
October 31-Novermber 5: Germany
6-8: Paris
9-11: London
Should be amazing, to say the least.
And that's really all I have to say...