Friends, I'm selling this phone that I'm not using. If you're interested, or if you know anyone interested, you know what to do. Thanks!

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FOR SALE:

Nokia E61i

- good as new, never been used
- qwerty keyboard
- 2Mpx camera
- mp3 player
- quad band
- comes with FREE 1Gb micro SD

specs: http://www.nokia.com.ph/A4530151 review ( Read more... )

Someone's got a new gig.

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And so, after tonight's recording session and a couple more weeks of frenzied mixing, I'l be done. (I'm gonna be asking for some opinions again soon, freeimprov, and thanks particularly for that exciting compressor trick you pointed me at; I used it on all the vocals.)

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I listened to the Brian Blade Fellowship's new album today for the first time. Within a couple minutes I had a big smile on my face. It's goodI want to be this kind of drummer ( Read more... )

Mazinger Z 1969.

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Ran myself ragged this past week. I did the same last week, but it caught up with me. All these simultaneous work projects, plus gigs, rehearsals and mixing resulted in a quick bout with colds. I feel better now but my head's all clogged up. Will buy a banig of decongestants later ( Read more... )

I've an acquaintance who is constantly asking me questions similar to the following:

• Keep my poplar snare or buy the 14" Zebrawood that the guy on the list is selling?
• 16" K Custom Dark crash or 16" Paper Thins?
• Sell my New Beats and buy 13" K/Zs?

I just keep replying, "Well, have you tried em out? Which of em do you like better?" Each and every time ( Read more... )

Time was when I used to stagger out of Club Dredd at 3am, crawl into the laboratory by 5 and sleep beside a jug of hydrofluoric acid, with a canister of cesium capsules on a shelf a couple of feet above my head, with a physics class in two hours. Or perhaps exhausted, sleepless, badly scratched up and drunk at 11am, with a long drive and half a day ( Read more... )

Helen plays at the Liquid Jane album launch. 10pm onwards at Big Sky Mind.

and also:

Drum n Bass night at Kampai:


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I may eat my words, but this month, January 2008 - I would like this to be the last month I ever attempt to build a nontrivial, non-Ajaxified website without a third party CMS. I'm learning a ton of stuff, but it just takes way too much time.I ate my words ( Read more... )

At the mall yesterday, I stood in front of a video kiosk and watched the trailer for Dragon Wars, three or four times. It looks so irredeemably bad that I have to see it. Here are some reviews.

To quote reviewer Uri Lessing: "There isn't a person on the planet that can suspend that much disbelief. This is not a movie to watch for escapism. This is ( Read more... )