Time for that weekly ad. I’m psyched for things this week. Mario’s one of my favorite local DJs. And the last time he played for us things were particularly quiet. Hopefully this time around things will be a bit more energetic. Once again there’s no cover charge this week (how can we do this! we must be INSANE!), so you have no excuse to not come down and enjoy the night. You know you want to try one of those raspberry chocolate martinis.

Changmian and Dubcoast present

*~The Analog Lounge~*
The relaxed side of things. Join us every Wednesday for a mix of
music styles in the lounge at Vertigo, with lots of mellow mixed in.
This week we welcome back one of the very first DJs we had to the lounge.
You know him, you love him, you wish you were him:

MJ [AudioDreamControl : Satellite : Galanta.net] MA

Also! For the second week in a row there is NO COVER CHARGE!
And that’s not all. Downstairs you can enjoy Anitya with their special guest:
PAUL TAYLOR [Spun Records UK/Ibiza]

The Analog Lounge with resident dj’s
Gregory Blake (Changmian) Boston
Special Pete (dubcoast music) CA
Peter Ellis (ttb) Boston
Pete Yagmin (Changmian) Boston

Wednesdays
@ Vertigo (upstairs)
126 State St. Boston, MA
617-723-7277
10pm – 2am
21+ with ID
$5 cover (gets you into both the Lounge and Anitya) (FREE THIS WEEK)
No dress code
www.changmian.com
www.dubcoast.com
www.vertigoboston.com
www.mapquest.com (directions)

Upcoming Guests:
04/23 – DJ Headrush [wbrs : djheadrush.com] MA
04/30 – Defixio [Redlight : punkrocktechno] MA

To view our calendar online (with support for you iCal and Mozilla
calendar folk):
http://ical.mac.com/gblake99/The32Analog32Lounge

I just got done watching Scrapped Princess and I enjoyed it. As has been described earlier on this blog it’s a show about a princess who is prophesied to destroy the world when she turns 16. Luckily, the show starts off with a fairly light feel. I found the show really enjoyable. Just enough of a glimmer of the plot, interesting characters, nice animation. It all fit together quite well. And, it’s a Bones show. So far I like these guys a lot. This is definitely one I’ll be watching more of.

I also just finished up the second Ghost in the Shell episode for this month. While I found the first one a little enh, this one I enjoyed a lot. I think because it really kind of fit a lot of what I think of as the cyberpunk feel. While lots of cyberpunk stuff seems to really concentrate on the action side of things, GitS also pays attention to all the background parts. There’s the whole behind the scenes part to that genre. Where money rules everything. Yes, the episode was a little predictable, but it worked for me. And it also had one of the more interesting weapons I’ve ever seen. We’re now just over halfway through the series and I’m starting to wonder how everything fits together. The last two episodes haven’t seemed to fit into things as much, but more and more I’m getting a feeling that the Tachikoma’s are definitely a part of the story.

We need more elected officials like The Great Sasuke.

Masked Wrestler Wins Japan Assembly Seat
TOKYO (Reuters) – Who is that masked man? One of Japan’s newest politicians.

A professional wrestler who fought his way to victory in local assembly elections under his ring name and wearing his trademark mask has vowed the mask will not leave his face even after he enters the staid halls of Japanese politics.

“This is my face,” the wrestler — known as “The Great Sasuke” — was quoted by the Nikkan Sports newspaper as saying of his black and white full-face mask with bright scarlet streaks and golden wings by the eye holes. [Reuters] [via BoingBoing]

Too Cool. It says he now hopes to demonstrate “superabundant power” outside of the ring. I want superabundant power.

Ever thought you’d make a good romance novel? Well now you can be a character in a romance novel.

At Torrid Romance, we offer personalized romance novels that allow readers to put themselves in our characters’ shoes. We have all desired, at one time or another, to be somewhere else, someone different. Our goal is to tickle our readers by placing them in these fantastic situations they would not ordinarily be in.

Using the physical and material traits provided by you, the hero and heroine in the novel of your choosing are reshaped to your personal details – you are the characters. Our books are tasteful gifts between friends, family, and lovers alike and are equally suitable for many a varied occasions – a birthday, an anniversary, a wedding. [Torrid Romance]

Hey, they may be onto something here. I wonder if I could use this as a pickup line. “Hey babe, I’m a character in a romance novel.”

I was just at the store and saw a large SUV completely blocked into by smaller cars on either side. The driver of the car couldn’t get in. I was especially amused when I noticed that the parking spot was clearly marked ‘compact cars only’. I guess since he didn’t have the largest SUV he must have thought his was compact.

I just got through the first disc of Sugar. This show still makes me smile every time I see it. It’s cute and silly and fun. The DVD itself is beautiful. The colors seem really vibrant and full. Once again I’m amazed at how much better DVD releases are than divx.

For those who don’t know about Sugar, it is the story of Saga and how she finds a little snow fairy named Sugar. All the seasons and weather are influenced by season fairies, there’s ones for sun and rain and wind and so on. For some reason Saga can see Sugar and ends up getting involved with Sugar’s goal of becoming a full fledged season fairy.

This is one of the few shows that I think would be fine for almost any kid. There’s nothing here at all that I could see parents having issues with. I’m actually kind of thinking about getting a copy of it for my nephew at some point.

Too funny. Captain Christopher Pike’s Livejournal. Thanks to Random for the link.

This morning Dave posted about using OPML for directories. This got me wondering, are blogrolls something that could be offered up in OPML? Would it make sense to do? Or would it be a kind of “why not?” type thing. (I’ll probably email him and ask since I’m not sure he reads over here).

With my time off I figure it wouldn’t hurt to look into stuff like this because I think it sounds kind of neat.

Updated:: Silly me. I know I should have gone and looked around online for stuff on this before posting. I found a few posts on it:

• Jake Savin: Blogrolling.com now supports OPML
• Brent Simmons: Blogrolling.com OPML files
• Loebrich Archives: Blogrolling and auto-discovery collide in my head

Needless to say there’s a bit out there about it. One idea I have (that probably exists), is some kind of small web app that lets you start from an OPML blogroll list, and then lets you crawl through OPML enabled blogrolls (including links to RSS fields if possible).

As will be mentioned in countless places today. Apple released beta2 of Safari.. I’ve been using it for my morning browsing. So far it looks pretty smooth. And it does have tabs, and all sorts of other keen features (and it’s still fast). Apple definitely seems to be getting it right with this little app.

James Reston: “This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.” [Quotes of the Day]