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New Star Wars collectible: Uncle Owen & Aunt Beru
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Sep. 25th, 2008 @ 06:44 pm
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WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Song of the Moment: Friendly Fires - Jump In The Pool |
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Sep. 14th, 2008 @ 11:17 pm
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I OLO'D
Song of the Moment: Sigur Ros - Festival |
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Large Hadron Kegger - The Large Hadron Drinking Game
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Sep. 12th, 2008 @ 02:47 am
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Sick of all these 'enlightened' scientists trying to explain things that human minds can't comprehend using brand new scientific methods?! Fed up with hearing 'The Big Bang' proposed as scientific fact rather than just one of many theories as to the creation of life?!! Then why not drown your sorrows in a family friendly drinking game! My current drink of choice - ice cold Dr. Pepper.
The rules are simple. Take a drink of your favorite beverage whenever one of the following occurs: - A proton crosses the border between Switzerland and France.
- A magnet quench in a superconducting magnet causes all the liquid helium to boil away.
- A Higgs boson is detected (2 drinks).
- Scientists learn the secrets of the universe and go insane (2 drinks).
- A miniature black hole forms (2 drinks if it absorbs Switzerland).
- Strange matter is created (weird, unusual or eccentric matter doesn't count).
- A petabyte of data is generated.
- Someone sings the chorus of the LHC Rap.
- The Super Proton Synchrotron reaches 300 gigavolts (2 drinks if it hits 400 GeV).
- The Compact Muon Solenoid finds something that completely alters our understanding of the fundamental forces of the universe.
- Flight 19 suddenly appears over Geneva.
- Particle superpartners are found to have natural supersymmetry.
- An intern confuses muons with gluons.
- The experiment goes awry and someone ends up with superpowers.
- Aliens show up and make us turn off the LHC before we implode reality.
- Scientists go back in time (2 drinks if they create a paradox).
- Someone says "Big Bang."
- Particles crash into each other (2 drinks if there are Batman-tyle visual sound effects, like "Pow!" and "Zap!" when it happens; feel free to construct your own).
- Someone says, "What's a hadron?"
- Scientists access another dimension (2 drinks if that dimension is occupied entirely by Donna Summer impersonators; 3 drinks if denizens of said dimension eat the scientists; note that these two conditions are not mutually exclusive).
- Someone on TV questions the amount of money spent to build the LHC.
- Someone on TV worries that the LHC will destroy the world.
- The world ends (drink whatever you have left).
- Scientists prove string theory (3 drinks because we'll all pretty much have to take their word for it).
- Someone uses the term "beam pipe" in a pickup line.
Phew, that should tide me over. Ignorant atheist dumbasses......
Song of the Moment: InMe (finally!) |
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One, two, tree, ASIAN DRUM SOLO!
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Sep. 8th, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
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I wet myself.
It's the way he goes skitzo at the end! Awesome.
Song of the Moment: New KoL record |
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Post #114857 in which Peanut covers Rihanna
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Aug. 19th, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
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I don't know why I do these things...
The Incomparable Peanut - Umbrella (Rihanna)
Also, vote for my fantasy Xbox gig!!
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Hot on the news that award winning comedy 'The Office' is set to be adapted to yet another regional version, this time in Russia, let's take a look at the other countries where it's been adapted.......
Canada - "La Job"
Chile - "La Ofis"
France - "Le Bureau"
And in my opinion the best 'foreign' adaptation (up there with the orignal, I reckon), America - "The Office - An American Workplace"
Aug. 3rd, 2008 @ 01:03 pm
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Truck has been and Truck has gone. But Truck XII is only 361 days away! Here are some of the photos:
(for full-res images, visit the Truck XI Set on Flickr)
And here are some videos:
Truck Festival Walkaround
Danny & The Champions feat Truck Monster
Chasing Earth Dolphins
Flame Lantern
Ulrich Schnauss Walkaround
Walter Schreifels - Used For Glue
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly - I Spy
The festival was different for me this year in many ways.
Firstly, I wasn't accompanied by my good friend and Truck-friend-introducer-come-job-getter Mitchell Monaghanan. However, I felt I should 'break away' to quote one miss Kelly Clarkson and try to 'shine' on my own. Unfortunately, car-less, tent-less, homeless and generally unable to do it easily on my own, I decided to enlist the help of bandmate ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) teajaybee .
The second difference this year was that, instead of being 'in charge' of a consignment of hired / borrowed backline, we were to be helping out a local hire company with the distribution and maintenance of their backline, and also any general errands we could give a hand with. On arrival, it appeared that the service of the new team of 'backline technicians' wasn't quite as 'personal' as the service Mike and I had provided in previous years (not only distributing equipment but tuning, testing, tweaking and generally overseeing the gear, rather than just giving it out and then leaving). So, in lieu of this, I decided to just keep doing what I'd been doing for the past two years, keeping an eye on everything, which seemed to work well (i hope).
Thirdly, the festival seemed to have a slightly different 'atmosphere', with more merch stalls and a slightly different stage setup. The merch stalls didn't seem to affect things too much, which is good. Also, I feel the new stages were good. Losing the Trailer/Lounge Stages and gaining the Beat Hive (or Disco Tent as some called it) worked well, as the electro folk were catered for, more hip-hop acts appeared on the bill, and the nu-rave types could still go and be cool in the Barn. I absolutely loved the Truck Stage's new canopy and generally 'massive' feel, so that was good.
So, the bits that really matter - THE ARTISTS!! I'll try and put them in order from greatest to just plain great:
- GCWCF - impressive as always, despite technical problems. It was kind of cool to see him play the festival where he first became known to a lot of people.
- Danny & The Champs - I'd only seen Danny solo until the rain-soaked Bryngawr festival a few weekends ago - if they were good in the rain, they were great in the sun!
- Fighting With Wire - It'd be easy to draw comparison to the likes of Biffy or even early Foos...so I will! RAWK!
- Johnny Foreigner - Birmingham's finest! Angsty emo indie toned down to acceptable levels by a Casio SA-21 and a Boss delay box.
- Rolo Tomassi - They were loud and awful and I loved it!!
- The Winchell Riots - Great indie, a great comeback after last-year's Truck performance left me let down and hanging around...
- Okkervil River - great discovery. Old indie band from Texas.
- The Minnikins - Again, I'd only seen Gabe solo up until this point, but his wife (?) Ruth is also a great talent! Note to FoH engineer - MORE LAP-STEEL.
- Ulrich Schnauss - great ambient electro come techno, although you couldn't hum it...
- Walter Schreifels - the Rival Schools dude - can't BELIEVE i missed 'Used For Glue'.........
- Youthmovies
- Frank Turner - Not quite as annoying and whiney as his album makes him sound. A more folky Get Cape, even tho he probably inspired Sam Duckworth. I dug him.
- Green As A Primary - quirky math glitch electronica.
- Post War Years
- Munch Munch - Scener kids play Glassworks.
- Thomas Truax - hilarious as always!
- Noah & The Whale - Hotly tipped, apparently - I liked them but, in the words of Paul Daniels, not a lot.
- Paris Motel - Didn't ACTUALLY see them this year (did they cancel?), but they get a mention because they're ace and the lead singer (Amy May) played with Cerys Matthews at rainy Bryngawr the other week and I recognised her! So they must have been good...)
In conclusion, I loved Truck. I 'let it in', and it enveloped me with its giant, brown, furry arms. Can't wait for next year!
Jul. 21st, 2008 @ 10:58 pm
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Get cho SoundCloud accounts here:
http://soundcloud.com/guestlist/ghacks
I only have 50 to share, so only sign up if you'll use a site that allows you to easily share and annotate your own music.
Good work!
Jul. 11th, 2008 @ 09:21 pm
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Jul. 11th, 2008 @ 12:25 am
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This is the weirdest / worst thing I've ever seen on YouTube...
Soviet scientists in the mid-20th century kept the severed head of a dog alive via an "autojector," a primitive heart and lung machine. The dog reacted to sounds, opened its eyes, ate, licked its lips, and was, for all intents and purposes, alive.
WTF.
Just got back from School Of Language gig. Not quite Field Music, but almost as good! :-)
Jun. 26th, 2008 @ 01:44 am
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Jun. 11th, 2008 @ 03:06 am
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New Weezer video is actually pretty good!
May. 29th, 2008 @ 12:52 am
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This video is disturbing...
May. 27th, 2008 @ 08:16 pm
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It's official. I'm addicted to Muxtape.
Here's my third Muxtape:
http://peanutismint2.muxtape.com/
This time, the theme is 'Soundtracks that make me cry'.
Anyone who can name the film of every track will win a prize. If you tell me that 'Jurassic Park Theme' is from the film 'Jurassic Park', you will not get a prize.
May. 25th, 2008 @ 05:46 pm
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In other news, new Indy is the best film ever.
May. 22nd, 2008 @ 03:05 am
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No, not the contents of a cheese-induced dream I had, but actual real life happening:
What a random.
May. 11th, 2008 @ 02:40 pm
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Several days ago, a volcano that had been dormant for 9,000 years near the coast of Chile erupted spectacularly, hurling liquified metals and lightning many miles into the sky. The results, which you see here, are called a "dirty thunderstorm," and are quite rare. Nobody is certain what causes them, but according to National Geographic it's believed to be "the result of rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the plume collid[ing] to produce static charges—just as ice particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms." Want to see a photo of the volcano plume from space?
The volcano spewed debris twenty miles up into the atmosphere. It erupted on Friday, May 2, and erupted again yesterday. Over 4,000 locals have fled, but luckily everyone was able to get away safely. The lava isn't the fast-moving kind, but rather a slow-moving creep of material. So nobody is being menaced by a rapidly-moving wall of liquid rock. Photographs via National Geographic.
May. 8th, 2008 @ 08:17 pm
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Sheer genius.
See more here
Hope '08 going really well. God's doing some truly awesome things in our region. PROPER tiring tho! Last day tomorrow.
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May. 4th, 2008 @ 11:55 pm
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Yes, it's here. So glad I don't have to work till Thursday. Can't believe I managed to stop playing long enough to post this!! But before I go back to the streets of Liberty City, let me just share with you this truly amazing retrospective video of the previous iteration, San Andreas.
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This must have been from the PC version or something, because all the filters, camera angles and effects look really good, much better than I remember anyway.... If it had looked this good when I played it back on PS2 release day, perhaps I would have finished it! :-) I dunno, maybe it's just the great 'The Who' soundtrack, but I think it's a great video.
Right, back to Mr. Bellic...
Apr. 29th, 2008 @ 10:54 pm
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