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  • Muse Found, Though A Bit Rusty

    So this morning I decided to record myself spinning and do up a little mix. This was pretty much my first time touching my turntables in at least a year (with the exception of around 15 minutes over the weekend). Overall it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. I’m definitely not as tight as I was before, but that’s just practice. And I still love that feeling of just blocking out everything else and spinning for a while. I just have to make sure and close the door to my room so that I’m not seen bopping about and looking silly.

    Anyways, here it is: I Know You Want It (it’s in AAC, cope) (Oh, and you might have to right click and do save as).

  • Finding My Muse

    So I finally got my turntables set up again. It’s been over a year since I spun. And pretty much all of my records are stashed away still. So I’ve decided to celebrate with a mix. This morning I went down and just randomly grabbed records from the ones that were easily accessible and I’ll see what I can do with them.

    The interesting thing is that a lot of what I spin has changed since I first started. There’s a lot of old progressive trance in there that I probably wouldn’t touch these days. Some of it is pretty good, but I’m sure there are more than a few things I picked up over the years that are trash. So it is definitely a tossup as to the quality of the tracks I’m working with. I guess this is a good time to go through and weed out any of the records I’ll definitely never spin.

    Hopefully I’ll have a new mix up within a few days.

  • Transparent Screens

    I haven’t posted a Boing Boing link in a while, but this one was just too cool. I’d try it, but I don’t have that much interesting behind my computer.

    Transparent screen illusion: set laptop’s wallpaper to a photo of the wall behind it

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    Transparent Screens is a Flickr photoset of laptops whose deptop wallpaper has been set to a digital photo of the walls and windows behind them, so that they appear to have totally transparent displays. The effect is striking. Link (via Boing Boing) (via Waxy)

  • Music of the Moment

    Lately I seem to have this bad habit of buying CDs and then letting them sit around for a few months before I open them up to listen to them. The latest was Derrick Carter & Mark Farina Live at Om. I really have no idea why I waited so long and now I’m kicking myself. I’ve been bopping around to it all morning. I think I like the Mark Farina mix a bit more out of the two, but they’re both great. Now I just need to put it on my ipod.

  • Steamboy (and once again Hartford sucks)

    Steamboy opens this weekend for a very limited release. For once something is showing in Connecticut. But, why the heck is it New Haven and not Hartford. Once again, Hartford shows how lame it is. It would be nice to someday get something like this when it was released and not 6 months later at the local university.

    It opens up in more theaters on the 25th, we’ll see if it makes it to Hartford by then.

  • Scrapped Princess on DVD

    One of my more favorite shows from the past few years, Scrapped Princess, is finally coming out on DVD on 4/26/2005. From the web page:

    Pacifica Cassul is known as the “Scrapped Princess.” According to prophecy, she is the poison that will destroy the world on her 16th birthday. In order to avoid being killed, she must secretly wander the lands along with her two siblings who vow to protect the princess every step of the way. But being the Scrapped Princess means you must stay one step ahead of your enemy. Just how long will they journey before time runs out?

    They’ve also got a trailer in Quicktime and Window’s media linked to there. Definitely one to check out if you haven’t before.

  • Edited Manga

    DC comics recently got into the manga biz with their CMX imprint. I’d been kind of excited as they were picking up two titles I was really interested in getting: GALs and Tenjou Tenge. TenTen was just released and already it sounds like a disaster.

    TenTen is a fighting manga. It tends to be quite violent and has quite a bit of fanservice. In japan I believe it had a Mature rating. CMX, which uses the slogan “Pure manga — 100% the way the original Japanese creators wanted you to see it,” chose to edit the series and release it as a teen title. Needless to say the manga community isn’t thrilled. Many bloggers and comics news sites have already posted about it. It will be interesting to see if DC has any response.

    I’m also posting about it because it hits one of my biggest peeves with some manga releases these days. The habit of tweaking art so that they remove things that might be inappropriate for whatever age group they are targeting. One of my favorites is Hikaru no Go. Where at the end of the first volume we have someone putting a blob of gum down on the center of a Go board. In the actual manga, it’s a cigarette. Of course this leads to the second volume where someone is upset about the character “putting out his dirty gum on the Go board.” Please, just translate, don’t start tweaking things like this. If there is content that isn’t appropriate for an age group, don’t market it to them.

  • Reason #4 I Dig World of Warcraft

    One of the things I love best about World of Warcraft is its sense of humor and pop culture references. I started a new undead character today and while running through starting area ran across three zombies. Their names: Daniel Ulfman, Karrel Grayves, and Stephen Bhartec. Every once in a while Daniel says things like “You really couldn’t blame him…”, “No one lives forever…”, and “Where’s the rest of the guys?”

    I couldn’t stop chuckling about it the whole time I was playing. Brilliant.

    Edit: And I just had to kill Samual Fipps.

  • The Guide

    Amazon.com currently has a new version of the trailer to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on their home page. I’m now not quite as nervous about the movie as I had been. It’s a decent trailer. Though I really hope a better video quality one gets released soon.

    And for some additional information on the movie, here’s an interview with the screenwriter who had the job of producing a final script. It’s a pretty interesting read.

  • Oh. My. God.

    Okay, someone needs to stop coming up with ideas for reality shows. This is getting ridiculous.

    New Fox Show: Adoptee IDs dad for $100K

    NEW YORK (AP) — The Fox network said Tuesday it will air a special next month, “Who’s Your Daddy?”, where a daughter given up for adoption as an infant attempts to guess the identity of her birth father for a $100,000 prize.

    Activists in the adoption community immediately attacked the special, which will air for 90 minutes on January 3.[cnn.com]

    I don’t even want to think about what will be next.