still trying to figure this one out.
rephrasing : this is awesome, but its worth watching a few times.
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Because Akira is awesome; Because Daft Punk is awesome; Because Kanye West is awesome
Kanye West Stronger. With Daft Punk, and Akira (the movie)… Yeah, one of the better videos I’ve seen in a while.
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duran
This makes things so much better.
Bringing back 1994… in force… Hit the jump for the awesome.
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Diamonds ‘07
John Digweed is one of my favorate DJ’s out there in the world of dance music. And I’ve always looked for his shows when he’s state side. This past Saturday he was in NYC at PASHA.
Thankfully, the show wasn’t all ages, as the last time I went to Crobar NYC, and had to deal with an army of 18 year old soprano wanna bes the whole night who looked like they had stepped out of an episode of Dragon Ball Z. The mixed audience, of at least 21 years old was much better, and much more respectful. Its amazing how much a person grows up between 18 and 21 years old…
The one thing I need to call out as the best part of the night though, was the sound system.
I’ve been going to clubs to see these DJ’s that I like for a long time. I’ve been to Avalon in Boston, Crobar in NYC, Fluid in Philadelphia, etc… Some of them have had good sound systems, sometimes they sucked, but the sound system at Pasha was possibly the most amazing audio experience I’ve ever been in. Standing 20 feet from the DJ booth, my brother and I were able to hear each speaking clearly. The music was loud, very loud, but it was so clean that while the two of us did have to raise our voices near yelling, what we were saying was clear and easy to understand. The sound system was so precise and clean that there was no extranious noise that would drown out the frequencies of our voices while the frequencies of the music shared the same space. Both of us were stunned.The club its self was cool, I only saw half of it, as there are apparently 4 floors, but this event was only on two of them. You walk in to a main bar area, with a large opening that looks down on to the main dance floor. On one side of this floor there are two shower stalls of glass, in which dancers preformed all night long. Can’t complain about that.
Downstairs was the main dance floor, with another raise platform for dancers, and then a large open area for the teeming masses of party goers.
Drinks were expensive, as I expected, but the air was clear since smoking is now banned in NYC night spots. Plenty of people were sneaking it, but it wasn’t overpowering. The HVAC system as well was really powerful, so there was plenty of fresh air. A problem I’ve seen at other clubs is that the air gets stale and stifling really quickly, not so at Pasha.
Over all, I guess, I still love the music, but the crowd gets worse every time I go to one of these. Not in the annoying Dragon Ball Z freaks, but just in the attitude. Age usually means these people don’t bother you as much on a fundemental level. But I’m sick of standing in line for an hour, even though I already had tickets on will call, with people who didn’t have tickets, and wondered who the hell John Digweed is… “Never heard of him, is he a big deal?”
Once I got inside though, I could tell there were a lot of people there who were there for Digweed, and not just the club name. So it wasn’t TOO bad I guess.Next time I go though, I need friends to be there with me. My brother, who was along for the evening is a blast, and I love spending time with him, but he just got off a plane from Tokyo, and was pretty jet lagged
A crew of diehard Digweed fans who I knew personally probably would have been the key to the evening.
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duran
So I Guess the Casino Hearings Were a Complete Sham After All — By Hannah Miller
This is cross posted from an email I got from a friend, all about the casino situation in Philadelphia.
Happy Holidays.Dec. 23, 2006
So I Guess the Casino Hearings Were a Complete Sham After All
By Hannah MillerFor the last 15 years, I’ve been an activist and a reporter in various capacities, and pretty much dedicated those 15 years to trying to stop rich people from screwing over poor people.
One of the things I have learned is that there are an incredible number of ways that rich, powerful people screw over poor people. They cheat us. They steal from us. They sue us. They take our homes. They pollute our air and water. They lie to us. They lay us off. They fire us from our jobs if we try to unionize. They scare us into thinking we have no power. They control us any way they can.
There are, in fact, an infinite number of ways by which rich people screw over poor people. But never, ever, once, in the last 15 years, have I seen anything as egregious as what happened this week.
The awarding of two slots licenses to Foxwoods and Sugarhouse over the most extreme community objection, the worst and most haphazard planning and design, criminal penalties levied against Foxwoods for illegal campaign contributions, and on and on, meant one thing and one thing only: that the rich and the powerful do not give a damn about the people who live on the Delaware River, and they never have, and they were lying to us along when they pretended to be listening.
Like many of the other people who worked on this, I spent hours in Gaming Board hearings, organizing protests, getting signatures, etc. Although all the casinos had powerful political interests connected to them, there were degrees. By far, the two most directly tied to State Sen. Fumo – who wrote the gaming law – were Foxwoods and Sugarhouse.
It was great that we had all those nice hearings.
It was great to see all the fantastic work done by NABR and the ILA and Anne Dicker and Vern and Mike and Matt and PennPraxis and Inga Saffron and the homeowners of Pennsport and the homeowners of Fishtown and the Trump architects who redesigned their entire casino to accomodate community input and that one amazing Pinnacle architects from somewhere in Europe who very obviously had no idea how dirty our politics are and thought this was actually a merit selection process.
It was great. Really fun.
We had yet another great big happy civic debate that was completely irrelevant, because our politicians just don’t care.They were going to do it no matter what we said.
What the Gaming Board said on Wednesday is that they are going to built slots parlors on the river whether we like it or not. They are going to take our homes from us under eminent domain whether we like it or not. They are going to build a new onramp to 95 right at the corner of Reed and Delaware whether we like it or not.
It was rumored that Frankie Dicicco told one of the South Philly civic associations a long time ago that it was going to be Foxwoods and Sugarhouse, a done deal. I don’t know if Frankie actually said this, but I think for many many months a lot of us were afraid that the rumor was true (since he would know) – that it really was a done deal all along.
The people who live in these neighborhoods don’t have a lot. Most of us, if we own anything, we own our homes, and the connections to our neighborhood and our families.
Have you ever seen an old dying man reach out to grab a cracker and munch it?
That’s what happened on Wed.
And that cracker?
That was us.—
Usually when developers get the go ahead on a multi-million dollar project, they hold a gigantic press conference where they have a golden shovel and all the local politicians show up, and everyone gives a speech to announce how great this project is for the community, etc.
Usually they have a big happy ceremony on the site itself to show how great it is that they are coming. But these guys didn’t do any of that. They didn’t dare show their faces. They knew they would get booed. They know we all hate them.
It’s a minor point, I know. One fewer press conference in history.
But that’s how I know that something really really stinks to high heaven. Seriously. I never thought I would live to see the day that Ed Rendell passes up a ribbon cutting. But the world has really changed.
If any of us have learned anything from the casino battle, there has been one horrible, miserable, aching truth that overrides it all.
It is that the people who are supposed to be protecting our city have betrayed us, and do not care about the wishes, hopes, future, or needs of the people who live here.
The people of Philadelphia were completely alone in our fight against the casinos. Our elected officials did not care about us.
Our city council.
Our state delegation.
Our mayor! Our mayor!!!!
And not to mention…our once-Mayor Rendell!None of these politicians stood up against the casinos.
These people, corrupt and wizened and greedy as they are at the top of whatever towers they live in, feel not the burden of responsibility – they feel not the desire to serve – they lack even the most basic human emotion that holds us here with our families and our friends – they have turned their back on their own home, and sold out their family, and betrayed their own people.
They are unfit to serve. They are unworthy of this city. They have betrayed us all.
And as far as I am concerned, they are no longer Philadelphians.
They should just pack up and go.
But people like that don’t leave easily.
We’re going to have to run them out of town.Hannah Miller
http://www.nabrhood.org
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I won an award!
$115 dollars worth of supplies later, and I won an award for best costume
more pictures will come soon, but heres the first taste.
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Joe
Yay! Good going, man!
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Colin D. Devroe
Congrats!
But, $115? Holy crap. Were you “playable”?
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Magical Ship of Birthday Prom Dreams – a photoset on Flickr
This past weekend I was in NYC for a good friend’s birthday party.
It was on a tour boat that went around manhattan… open bar… free food, dance floor, seating lounge… etc etc… simply put, an amazing time.a photo is worth a thousand words… So here’s 770 photos. you do the math. — Magical Ship of Birthday Prom Dreams – a photoset on Flickr
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new music thanks to fluid.
I keep talking about it, but I can’t help my self.
I’m really lucky to be living here in Philadelphia with a club like Fluid being as successful as it is. The small size combined with the rich talent that flows through it is a rare find.Last night I went to yet another “Last Wednesday” event, this time it was featuring the tour of Magda and Richie Hawtin on the min2MAX tour.
I wish I had some way of recording snippits of the mixing from last night, or had somewhere to link you two, since the sound from Magda was something that I hadn’t quite heard before, and I’m going to look pretty hard for something on disk that she’s got for sale.
Richie Hawtin I’ve heard before, but never seen in person, his performance was good, though I think he took his artistic license a little to far. At somepoints he seemed to be more interested in exploring new noises then maintaining the beat… I know I was trying to keep my tempo up, but kept finding it lost in his beat changes.
The crowd was dense, but not obnoxious, and I’m always glad to see good numbers there, even though its a small venue. And being a wednesday night, you can’t argue with the quality of people in general who are there. Most are for real, true blue lovers of the music.
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ESSENTIAL MIX — GABRIEL & DRESDEN EM 2006-05-07
Every once and a while, I find a mix that kicks my ass.
This is one of them.http://www.freshlymixed.com lets you subscribe for their archive, after which you can download their entire archive if you want, and I highly suggest doing so.
I’ve been rewinding, starting over, and re-doing this track for the last hour, so many different excellent points that just make me want to stand up and you know, wave my arms.
You can find the tracklisting here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/essentialmix/Shit like this makes me happy.
alright, its 22:30. Time to find some fun.edit: damn last.fm plug is fubar. I’ll fix it tomorrow.
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shadi
I want to download this mix
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Joe are discussing. 
Partially Insane 11:55 pm on February 25, 2008 Permalink
Absolutely ridiculous. And I don’t think that’s actually the running man. At least it’s not what I remember as the running man. Plus he pulled out some late 80’s moves for sure.