i saw this and it was awesome

ill tell you more about it later, but i saw these boats race out of boston harbor, it was incredible, and there was an enormous oil tanker right in the middle of it all

Fog and flub mar start of yacht race

and here's the photo gallery which you should def check out. these boats have like 12 people on them or something and they're on the ocean for days and weeks at a time and there's like no space

Volvo Ocean Race

hrm

hey, i'm taking a little time off, i'll be back atcha soon

oh yeah and i saw the limits of control and it was very disappointing.

on the other hand, the celtics are playing great, and the weather's nice.

k cya

hey, a couple things

first of all, ladies and gentleman, i present to you, The Hunt for Gollum (2009)

Watch it on TheHuntForGollum.com

pretty terrific! let me know if you like it, it's worth watching, 40 minute independent movie, that looks a lot like lord of the rings, except for the bad audio mixing (all the human characters whisper and are hard to hear). besides that, it looks scarily like the real lord of the rings. good times!

kentucky derby and celtics game yesterday were awesome

weather on saturday was nice, i went out to the basketball court and some guy who just wanted to shoot jump shots with me went and got his shoes and threw down a dunk from way above the rim. pretty sick, i didnt see it coming, hopefully see him out again there soon



oh yeah, and WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS

cool live headhunter video

not that i watch a lot of internet video, but i like this one

Headhunter LIVE AV Dubstep / Techno Performance @ Stuk, Belgium from VectorMeldrew.

Edited version of the first ever Headhunter live dubstep/techno audio visual set that took place at the Stuk arts centre in Belgium on the 14th February 2009. This set was part of the artefact festival.



Visuals performeced live by Alex Donne (http://www.vectormeldrew.com)

night vision

hey, i'm gonna try blogging again. lemme right the ship...

this is a cool rusko album cover.

yeah, it's been a good week. last sunday we grilled! fantastic. serious charcoal grilling. grilled up a ton of food. i grilled chicken and cheeseburgers. wonderful. looking forward to more of it this summer. (summer? could it be?)

yeah it's nice outside. but of course tmrw im getting my car serviced, so ill be stuck inside reading a book for an hour or two (actually not such a bad thing, reading time is a precious commodity these days)

i've found a couple books that i wanna get on interlibrary loan (buying books is not sustainable, but im not sure how easy these are gonna be to get from natick or wherever they are)

The Inner History of Devices, by Sherry Turkle

America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat, by Harvey Blatt

i dont think theres much point in linking to books that i just THINK are cool but havent actually read yet. doesnt show much initiative on my part

yup. last two celtics games have been awesome. actually, the second game was one of the most exciting games ive ever seen. (then donny marshall reminded me that ray allen and ben gordon were guarding each other, so they might have just been LETTING each other hit all those ridiculous shots)

oh yeah i briefly posted about the limits of control a while ago. this is the new jarmusch movie, i think its getting a limited (! hah) release on may 1st, and I hope this includes boston. i cant wait to see it.

its the boston independent film festival this week. i blew it and didnt get tickets for Children of Invention, but i'm gonna rally and go see Breaking Upwards on sunday night with kate and chris and rob, so thatll be good. then its just a gametime decision on whether or not i go see a movie tmrw. unclear at this point

hmmmm, what else is going on.

warm weather

indie film festival

celtics

i need a haircut, bad.

i wanna go bike riding in the fells tmrw but not sure im gonna pull it off.

k ill tty tmrw

a good day (in some ways)

a good day (except the celtics lost, we're not gonna talk about it)

i got to go to the red sox game. Sam took me and it was fun. there were really drunk ppl in front of us (surprise). before we left i realized i had unconsciously been kicking the person in front of me. oh well.

the sox beat the orioles, 6-4. i've got a couple photos i could upload from my phone. good times tho, not cold or rainy. except the seats were so small, like, about as wide as my laptop. so i had to stand up after every half inning. i made it tho, and the T was crowded but bearable.

the Dartmouth freshmen heavyweight crew beat bu and rutgers. this is the first time that any Dartmouth crew has beat BU in a while. definitely a long time since the freshman did. we did my freshman year, so hopefully this is a sign of good things to come.


row2k link of this image

The Big Ticket Stub

The mood had lightened enough Friday for second-year forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis to joke about his role as the replacement for “The Big Ticket,” Garnett’s nickname, in Saturday’s series opener.

“I’m not the Big Ticket. I’m the Ticket Stub,” Davis said with a grin. “So don’t count the Ticket Stub out. You might need the ticket to get into the game, but you leave with the ticket stub because you’ll never forget this game. You need it as a souvenir.”

the funniest photo i've ever seen

BY FAR

ok maybe twitter can be kinda funny and not a poor substitute for blogging

here's a tweet that made me think that maybe, just maybe, twitter could contribute something positive to this world

# retweet myself from oct 13th: 'goal for the day: be a good person in a non-ironic fashion.' today: same goal, but stated ironically.6:59 AM Apr 10th from twitterrific

i like to watch movies with subtitles on

is this weird? do you do this? like, even if a movie's in english, if there are subtitles i'd rather watch it with them on. i feel that i catch all the dialogue and it's easier remembering peoples names and stuff. i don't do this when i watch movies with other ppl tho, just if im starting it by myself

Navy SEALS snipers?!?!

Q+A: How the U.S. Navy ended Somali pirate drama



oh yeah and the captain was from Winchester too, believe it or not. Massachusetts. i hope you read about the anti-piracy classes taught at the maritime academy that the crew had taken. incredible. i followed this story from the first day it broke. thank god it ended well, just not for the pirates

more than a dozen ships are still being held by pirates, with more than 200 crewmen. some of the ships have been held since last fall while ransoms are being negotiated

in the frozen fish aisle

can you get it outta your head? didn't think so. that "heartless" beat and autotune is just too good

JFX Bits #3

another free release, now this is what i'm talking about

here's a direct link to a comp with hip hop and dubstep and other music and bassnectar and ghislain poirier and such things, hope you like it

Jarring Effects - JFX Bits #3 compilation

and here's the release page Jarring Effects

it's good i don't look at this blog every day

which blog?

fail blog

...

DO NOT MAKE OUT WITH THE FISH

COOL ALBUM COVER

SO COOL IT DESERVES ITS OWN POST

IGNORE THE YANKEES HAT. THIS GUYS FROM BRITAIN.

J@kes

The Limits of Control (2009)

The Limits of Control (2009)
directed by Jim Jarmusch

watch the 480 p here apple movie trailers the limits of control

focus features the limits of control

while i'm up

yo i gotta give you the breakdown before i go to sleep. celtics won in double overtime. complete insanity. celtics scored 8 points in a row, starting with 1:49 remaining in regulation. larry brown did not call a timeout during this entire time, which i believe gave away the game. all the bobcats needed was one stop or one bucket and they didnt get either. i wouldn't mind if the bobcats make the playoffs cause they're a fun team to watch. but BOY did they blow it tonight

yeah i went to enormous room for deep end, which is a wednesday dubstep night. went with paul and farah and erik. it was terrific. listened to Pandaia spin tunes. heavy beats. indoctrinated everyone with the dubstep rhythm.

hope you're feelin the SelfSays album, shoot the man an email

here's a boston photo. that little piece of bridge is my favorite part of boston to drive -- the little curve above the charles

selfsayswhat

yo, gotta post about some futuristic hiphop. gotta listen to this man, SelfSays, here's the link

you can download his album on the website, Something Out Of Nothing, here's the album cover too

it's good beats and good rhymes, nice basslines and drums, smooth flows, dig it

too many future hiphop beats these days sound like flying lotus or j dilla. this is neither, definitely its own sound, great instrumentals and synthy beats. also mastered really well and encoded at a quality rate. great sampling and looping

SelfSays

check out the myspace too, there's a good funny video on there, SelfSays myspace

this album is awesome

Jah Wobble and the Chinese Dub Orchestra

Chinese Dub

it's freaking good, lots of genres, east meets west, dubby, rockin, asian, it's really fun to listen to!

and i just learned that jah wobble is married to a zither player, which is pretty cool.

yah good music. weather=bad today. it was a fine day, just the weather was super nasty. oh yeah big story from yesterday. ill help you piece it together -- macklin and roy got free celtics tickets. they showed up at boston garden after paul pierce twittered that he was giving away tickets, if you read up on these links you'll get the idea. but yeah they were two of like 10 ppl or something to get tix to paul's private box.

and the suite number? i'll give you one guess...

534. haha, yup

paul pierce's twitter page (AWESOME)

celtics blog (necessary reading)

another boston globe sports blog

Paul Pierce Gives Away Celtics Tickets Via Twitter

headphones

yo whats up. so i finally found a decent pair of headphones, Creative labs EP-630 is what theyre called. here's a link to a guy thats selling them for only 15 bucks with 5 dollar shipping, i would say you should def get these because theyre on the cheap and theyre really good. the list price for these is more than twice 15 dollars

here's the link, click on the used ones (scroll down) for 14.99, creative labs ep-630

yah i cant wait to get those in the mail. aright i gotta get to bed soon, ill talk to ya, peace