Stephen Colbert can really sing

Amazing.

320 views is quite a lot of views!

Wow, Huge in Japan's one and only music video is still ticking along! Check it out: "Huge In Japan - Magpie (Live)"



And if you're after a copy of our EP, contact me through the link to your right.

Dylan genius, Ticketek/TSB Arena/Chugg Entertainment not

7 June 2007

• 9:00am - Bob Dylan tickets go on sale
• 9:19am - 'Bronze Reserve' Bob Dylan tickets purchased for myself and four friends
  

10 August 2007

• 7:30pm - Arrive at TSB Arena, keep walking walking walking down the side to our block of seats
• 7:35pm - Locate seats, sit down. "Wait a minute, we're actually behind the banks of PA speakers"
• 8:30pm-10:00pm - listen to the genius of Bob Dylan, well at least his band because could hardly hear a word the man sung. Naturally he has reverb on his vocal channel, but by the time this bounces of the back and corners of the Arena and gets back up front to our ears, the vocals are just one big muddle. Great view though!

Take-home lessons for the kids out there

• Concert promoters, ticketing agencies, venue management will ALWAYS screw you wherever they can (in this case by selling tickets that did not so much require a 'restricted viewing' warning but rather a 'restricted listening' warning...none was forthcoming at purchase time and some would say the listening is quite an important part of music)
• Never, ever, skimp on important concert tickets. Get the second-cheapest or higher. Don't expect the cheapest seats to actually really be part of the same concert experience as the rest.
  

Bruce Willis/Robert Duvall WILL save us

From asteroids that is. Remember the dual-threat asteroid-doom movies of 1999? You may have tried to forget Armageddon but Aerosmith's epic theme song "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" sticks to your heart like bad cholesterol. And you can't forget Deep Impact because that was that other asteroid movie of 1998 and you're positive there were two.

Well it turns out that, as usual, the folks at NASA are watching everbody's backs. Slashdot reports that TopSpin rights that Flight International reports (god I love the blogosphere) "scientists at the Marshall Space Flight Center have developed designs for an array of asteroid interceptors wielding 1.2-megaton B83 nuclear warheads. The hypothetical mission for these designs is based on an Apophis-sized Earth impactor 2 to 5 years out."

What's an Apophis-sized Earth impactor? The scenario is based on the REAL Apophis asteroid, which on April 13 2029 "will pass closer to earth than geosynchronous satellites orbit." Wowzer!

10 weeks to go...

...until I hand in my four research papers. Things are going very well indeed. Just gave another seminar on one paper, which means I've done 80% out of 400% of assessment.

Now just one seminar to go on Friday 17th. That last one isn't marked so no more assessment until final deadline!

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