Today is the 8th of the 8th 2008 - yep 08/08/08. It’s considered a lucky day in Chinese culture which also coincides with the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games.
Yes, some people have been waiting for such a day to happen again since July last year (and after tomorrow they’ll have to wait even [...]
The last couple of weeks have been busy, a little stressful but at the same time really productive and enjoyable - it is surprisingly good to be getting back into work and finally getting back on top of things after our recent holiday.
Last weekend we went to watch the Lions (AFL) at the Gabba. I [...]
A few days ago I wrote a post on Music makes me remember and to be honest with you it wasn’t what I was originally going to write about…
I was going to talk about music and started to write an intro on the topic [...]
I really like music. If I’m having a crap day it can improve my mood, it can de-stress me when I’m worked-up about something, it can enthuse and invigorate but can just as easily relax and calm.
I also tend to associate songs/albums/artists with particular events. Here are some examples…
In highschool I was dating [...]
Last weekend Kristy and I went to our annual dance festival - Summafieldayze. Basically it’s a 12 hour session of dance music and plenty of eye candy down at the Gold Coast.
This year it featured Bob Sinclar, Mylo, Darren Emerson, Plump DJs, Hybrid, Judge Jules, Freestylers, Martin Solveig, Axwell, Mousse T, Tocadisco, Bodyrockers, Switch, [...]
Been listening to Ministry Of Sound’s Sessions 3, Clubbers Guide to Summer 2006 and also listened to Gnarls Barkley’s St Elsewhere a few more times and I have to say that it’s really growing on me.
There’s one quirky track called “Transformer” that at first I wasn’t too keen on, but really like it now… along [...]
It’s funny how downloading music has evolved over the years.
A few years ago if you really liked a song, you’d find a decent copy of it and download it. Once everyone started getting broadband it was easier to download the artists whole album instead of trying to sift through all their songs to find [...]
Recently got a copy of Massive Attack’s best-of album - Collected.
Notice I say “best of” instead of greatest hits… and I say this because Massive Attack have a lot of excellent tracks which fall into the category of B-sides or general album tracks that haven’t been released as hits. This 2CD compilation is truly [...]
Recently I got 4 new albums:
Ministry of Sound’s Clubber’s Guide to 2006 - a pretty good mix of dance music, but nothing amazing
Ministry of Sound’s Housexy Spring 2006 - didn’t do much for me… think I’ll get me a copy of the latest Funky House Sessions instead and see what that’s like
Gnarls Barkley’s St Elsewhere [...]
Lately I’ve been working on a ZenCart-based online-shop for a friend of a friend and one of the more mundane tasks involved with setting-up any online shop is the adding of products… so far I’ve added about 150 products leaving only about 150 more to go.
As the work is fairly tedious, I’ve started listening to [...]