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Bye Bye 20six!
This blog is now officially dead...it's been fun. To help me practice on css and stuff I have decided to move to another blog provider, blogsome, until I can afford to buy some webspace myself...blogsome allows you to use wordpress and is also free...so is generally more customizable than 20six...
So...from now on, my blog will be:
http://electricpig.blogsome.com
Big Up
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Snow
It's been snowing! I took the opportunity to go to my local park and take some snaps. Starting to think that I really have to get a new camera soon though...a digital SLR is what I fear is called for...anyhoo...i like the last one best...
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! Long time without posting. Went back to London for the Christmas period which was very nice. Got up to all the usual mischief and saw all the usual suspects. Except Bil and Sid who abandoned me to go to Dubai. I mean for God's sake, ME or heat, wealth and crazy architecture? No point even answering that question. Anyway, not going to bother writing about London, as it was as nice as it always is. I did, however, get shafted by those fuckers at Virgin Atlantic on the way back in Japan, who insisted (for the first time in like 6 trips between London and Japan) on weighing my hand baggage. I usually use the hand baggage as a very useful way of transporting small heavy things, specifically my records. This means that my bags are always over the 6 kilo weight limit...by quite a lot. Anyway, this time they weighed it and it was like 20 kilos, so I had to take a lot of the records out, all of the ones that I had left at home last time and was really itching to have in Japan. Really annoying, even more so as I could have easily just gone upstairs and put them all in the bag again, but I didn't think of that at the time as I was too busy being late for my flight. Anyway it really pisses me off when some fat fuckers who easily weigh more than 20 kilos more than me are allowed on the plane and yet I am not with my little record bag. There should be mandatory liposuction or stomach stapling or something for fat people before they are allowed on planes. And, come to think of it, why are Americans allowed so much luggage to the US? I guess just because their bigger "bulk" requires wider, heavier clothes...that and the fact that they rule the world. Anyway, it really pissed me off, especially as I now have to go another x amount of time before I can get my hands on those records again.
More exciting than all of this is the project I worked on yesterday...a planetarium. There is this series of science magazines for adults in Japan called "Otona No Kagaku". Having seen what their planetarium edition looks like in the webpage of Kozyndan, I really wanted to get one. Anyway, the shops had all sold out so I had to order it from their webpage. I ordered it on Tuesday and it came last night, which is pretty damn impressive! I think the delivery man was a little confused as, due to the webpage order form, I had to write my name in Kanji (Chinese "pictograph" characters that the Japanese use), which strictly you can't do if you are a foreign devil like myself. Anyway, got to work last night, and after a few hours of screwing in nuts, folding and sticking plastic and screaming at Japanese instructions, I finished and tried it out, and amazingly it works really really well! The only slight problem is that my bedroom is probably a bit light, even for all the lights off, but if you take it into the bathroom, it looks amazing! I'm gonna go and try to buy a brighter bulb for it tonight and see if that makes any difference, but still, amazing value for £10! Here's some pictures. Can you guess which are the ones I stole off their webpage? Yeah, still haven't quite worked out how to take good picture of it myself!
 
 
 
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My Summer 2005 Vintage Mix For Your Delectation
Finally winter has arrived in Japan. Getting colder and colder by the day! I love it! This weekend I finally managed to record a mix that I have been mucking around with for about 5 months. My mixer is now only operating thanks to the healing power of gaffer tape, so it's taken longer than it should have done to actually get it recrded and sounding alright, so for anyone who wants to have a listen, it can be downloaded HERE. The tracklisting goees something like this:
1: Immaculate: Break & Hydro: Quarantine Recordings. (Tease: Trippy: Silent Witness & Break: Commerical Suicide)
2: Rainman: Silent Witness & Break: Commercial Suicide.
3: Bastion: D-Bridge: Bingo Recordings.
4: The Race: Break: Commercial Suicide. (Tease: Tightrope: Matrix & Fierce: Metro Recordings)
5: Pipe Dreams: D-Bridge: Bingo Recordings.
6: Without Answers: D-Bridge: Soul:R Recordings
7: Portrait: D-Bridge: Bingo Recordings. (Tease: The Mist: Tactile: Function Recordings)
8: Diffusion: Break: Subtitles Recordings.
9: Dolls: D-Bridge: Bingo Recordings.
10: Love's Ugly Child: D-Bridge: Soul:R Recordings.
11: Twilight: D-Bridge & Fierce: Quarantine Recordings.
12: Special Black: Influx UK: Formation Recordings.
13: Siren: Spirit: Inneractive Recordings. (Tease: Spaced Out: Tactile: Timeless Recordings)
14: Dream Sequence: Break & Hydro: Quarantine Recordings.
15: Locked Out: Break: Subtitles Recordings. (Tease: Apache: Matrix: Virus Recordings)
16: Singular: Break & Fierce: DNAudio Recordings.
17: Body Move: Tactile & Trace: Commercial Suicide.
18: Close To Zero: Silent Witness & Break: DNAudio Recordings. (Tease: Phantom Force: Phantom Audio)
19: Sacrifice: Noisia & Upbeats: Renegade Hardware Recordings.
Enjoy! Feedback would be appreciated!
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Lomo Experiments
I had a film in my camera that was almost finished, so I decided to rewind it and take some more photos over the top. I guess I didn't rewind it quite right, as the film wasnt exactly in line for the second exposures, although it almost was for some?! These are probably the best ones I got, which I am quite happy with. The darker shots are older and from a trip out to Karaoke and clubbing, and the lighter ones are in the park near my house. I wonder how they would have looked if the lighter ones were first and the darker after...possibly not as good...not too sure.
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Jah Shaka
Had a nice long weekend. Because of Culture Day on Thursday, my school decided to give us Friday off as well for a four day weekend extravaganza. On Thursday night, went to the yearly visit of the mighty Jah Shaka sound system at the Liquid Rooms in Ebisu. Really nice to hear some loud, bass-heavy dub again, and to see the same people that were there last year. Also had a video of Jah Shaka's visit to Hiroshima in 2004 (presumbably around the time of his last visit), playing on a screen behind during the end of his set which was quite interesting. Or at least it was until a scene of him looking at some photos of A-Bombs exploding. He was shot in silhouette from behind and unfortunately his dread-filled hat made him look suspiciously like an exploding A-Bomb himself. I giggled in the crowd, as did quite a few others.
Then yesterday, I decided to visit the Tokyo International Forum, which I have seen loads of photos of in magazines, but have never visited myself. Really interesting building, more vast that a lot of Tokyo's architecture and full, at least yesterday, of a discout fashion goods sale, which I didnt bother going into. Still, nice to do something for free. Continuing this cost free entertainment idea, I wandred over to the Tokyo Dome, home of...er...a baseball team. There's a cool theme park place next door which I always see from my train on the way to work and I wanted to check it out in more detail. Looks good, particularly the free-fall ride and I've always liked the roller coaster that looks like it's smashed a hole in the building next door. Going to actually have to ride on them next time I have any money...
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