Kablammo!

Just when I finally decide to break my New Year’s resolution, this wondrous invention comes along. Wow.

Song of the Moment: «Sunset Spirals» — Xploding Plastix

In other news, it’s funny how everything can be going so fine and then one drunken email sends it all down the shitter. Ah well, such is life. At least it was well-written, sort of.

Song of the Moment: «Röyksopp’s Night Out» — Röyksopp

I learned an important lesson yesterday: when you’ve been drinking, and you haven’t been sleeping, it’s not a good idea to fuck around with your hard drive’s partitioning. Unless, of course, you don’t want to actually be able to access 60 GB worth of TV shows, movies, music, and games that you’ve collected.

In other news, I could really use some help getting a Samba share up and running, not that anybody who reads this probably knows how. Ugh.

Song of the Moment: «Fade Out In» — Palo Alto

Assuming they get Natalie Portman to participate, I am in full favor of this turn of events.

Song of the Moment: «Eye in the Sky» — The Alan Parsons Project

Time for another idiotlist!

Pilgrimages I need to make in my lifetime:

• Thermopylae .
• Cannae .
• St. James’ Gate, Dublin .
• The Duomo, Florence .
• Abbey Road .
• [List incomplete]

Song of the Moment: «Bag of Flesh & Thyme» — Kashmir

Today’s update is brought to you in the form of a series of links, each of which is worth examining and/or following.

• He looks like Fatboy Slim
• Quite possibly the awesomest music video ever .
• This thing is so goddamn entrancing
• I am afraid; very afraid
• Is there anything photography can’t accomplish? .

Sorry that this is two updates in a row in some kind of stupid idiotlist format.

Song of the Moment: «Sports, Not Heavy Crime» — Xploding Plastix

OK, the world has officially gone mad, as of last April, when the following pictures were taken:

• One
• Two

Look at the pictures carefully. I’m not going to continue until you’ve looked at them.

For reals.

Now you may be wondering if you really saw what you thought you saw. Yes, yes you did. A polar bear attacking a submarine. Wow.

Song of the Moment: «Everything Zen» — Bush

Hey, Stupido Shop:

I think I love you. For serious. Not only do you actually stock albums by CMX and Kashmir, unlike any store in the USA, but you evidently ship worldwide, and promptly too. I’ve had to wait longer for merchants from the Amazon.com Marketplace to send me textbooks from one state over than I did for you guys to send those CDs I ordered halfway around the world. They got here less than a week after I ordered them! I seriously hadn’t even started waiting for them to arrive yet, since I figured they couldn’t arrive for another week at least.

My one regret is that I decided to place my order when the dollar was at an all-time low against the euro. Ah well, such is life, and this regret is in no way even remotely the fault of the good people at Stupido.

Thanks again, guys.

While I’m thanking people and entities, I’ll thank internet filesharing on behalf of myself and the artists mentioned above. There is no way in hell I’d have ever heard of these undeniably awesome Danish and Finnish bands if some Danes and Finns hadn’t put mp3s of their work up on the intarweb for other people to download. And if I hadn’t heard of them, I obviously couldn’t very well buy their music.

For the sake of completeness, I’m also thanking CMX and Kashmir for their work.

Song of the Moment: «Tämän Runon Tahtoisin Unohtaa» — CMX

Today’s update comes to you fresh from the slush-covered streets of the Big Apple in the form of a big ‘thank ye kindly, sirrah’ to P-Mack (Ed: P-Mack — Thank ye kindly, sirrah!) and then some pictures I’ve taken over the course of the past week.

• Two au pairs and an illegaal
• Wacky trapeze-centric antics from Webster Hall
• Still life: church with stoplight
• Some very lonely looking bicycles
• Snow falling on cedars Second Ave
• Snow-covered cube
• Same cube, different angle
• The Foundation Building looking strangely majestic

Song of the Moment: «El Salvador» — Athlete

“Hang in there,” indeed. The NY Eesti Haridusseltsi koosolek ja hääletused, which was just as boring as it sounds, had been scheduled to take 2 hours. Three and a half hours later, I’d had enough and decided to just go downstairs and get some dinner. That’s where I met two au pairs and an illegal immigrant, cool people all around.

In other news, Webster Hall is actually a pretty decent place; it’s just too bad that drinks cost $8. Eight bucks for a beer! Cheesus, that’s worse than at a baseball game.

In other other news, it turns out the Esto population of Allentown, PA is at least double what I thought it was previously. Maybe even triple. Who knows?

Song of the Moment: «Snakedriver» — The Jesus and Mary Chain