This was a really interesting documentary I found on The Prodigy through Synthtopia. It centers on their subliminal messages, marketing, and influences. Its a 50 minute 4 part youtube. Well worth the watch.
So like i mentioned a few weeks ago, I sold my old 15 inch MacBook Pro on eBay. eBay, which essentially requires you to use its wholly owned subsidiary paypal, got 7.14% from the transaction. Now I’m not against eBay trying to make money, and the do provide a valuable service and should be compensated for it, but WTF. 7 percent! That’s loan shark prices. eBay will claim they only take 3 to 3.5 percent, but then they get the rest by making you use paypal. How about giving users a free paypal pass when selling on eBay? Maybe then I won’t have to start looking for alternatives…
Walter Charles
Meet Walter, the newest addition to the Charles clan. I adopted Walter from the local SPCA in Monroe, CT. He is approximately 2 years, but we don’t know for sure. He’s a Sato, which is apparently a Puerto Rican term, meaning “street dog”. I’m not sure what exactly he is, but he appears to be a good ‘ol fashioned mutt. He is 42 pounds, and all brown except for a white chest and paws that are spotted. He’s also a big softie with a great heart. He’s much more well behaved then I was expecting, but we got a few thing to work on. He’s super cool, and everybody loves him.
There are lots of dogs out there in need of good homes. All the animals I’ve ever had were adopted. If you are thinking about getting a pet, adopt. Give a poor animal a good home. It’ll boost your karma a few points. More picture after the jump.
DJ Bites Headphones in Half!
On Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Room 960 in Hartford, CT played host to the annual club event known as the White Party. For one night, club-goers get dressed in white from head to toe and gather to dance to the music of Randy Boyer, Kristina Sky, and Mike Charles. Mike kicked off the night with a 2 1/2 hour set that slowly rose to a boil, before cooling to a simmer and handing the decks off to Mr. Boyer. It was during the boiling point of his set that madman Mike Charles chose to further instigate the already anxious dancefloor by biting his headphones in half [pictured above] right at the peak of one of his signature house tracks. The crowd responded with frenzied excitement after witnessing the sacrifice to the dance gods and the tone was set for evening. Mike had to finish his set using Randy’s headphones which met a much more humane end. After the night had ended Randy headphones were released back into the wild.
Extreme Sheep LED Art
I’m not even going to attempt to describe this one. Just check out the video above, think about the amount of effort this must have took, then imagine Daddy Charles making an endless slew of sheep f*cker jokes.
So right now I’m in the middle of the what will eventually be know as “The Great MySpace Purge of 2009″. After joining Facebook, where I actually know the people on my friends list, I realized exactly how useless my MySpace page had become. Last month I started out with 2000+ friends, but now I’m down to 900 and I’m not finished. It was necessary, it had to be done.
I started to notice patterns as I have mercilessly deleted page after page of what I think may have been people at one time, and outlined the patterns in the chart above. Please note that I’ve shown very little discretion [get it] during this process, so if you were deleted by accident, I’m sorry, please send me a friend request with a message letting me know you are human.
Kick Fire Ant Butt
So for the last few days I’ve been down is southwest Florida, looking at property in Naples. The local radio station has an advertisement for Antstop Orthene Fireant Killer, because there is apparently a lot of them down here. The radio commercials are absolutely hilarious and I was able to find a couple on the net to share with you:
and one more after the jump… Read more
So if you’ve listened to the newest episode [23] of The Electronic DanceCast then you probably noticed a new announcer man telling you “You’re in the mix on The Electronic DanceCast” and other various bumper type phrases that occur once or twice a show. Well man behind that golden voice is someone I consider my friend, Mark Kaplowe of Kaplowe Studios. Read on to hear to odd story of how we met, how he has helped me tremendously in the marketing department, and how a guy who rarely makes new friends [me] made a new one.
So a funny thing happened to me this evening. A promoter emailed me this evening and asked:
“If you could pick one of your mixes that you feel portrays your music the best, which would it be?”
So this was actually a pretty difficult question to answer and my initial reaction was that they all portray me in one respect or another. I didn’t think I could get off the hook that easy, so I gave my best, honest answer. Click through to read more on this.
Einsteinian Quotes
”I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Man that guy was awesome.