"the blood brothers make music that will save us all". - Henry Rollins. That's about as much description as you need. such a shame they're not around anymore.

trip roundup

i never got around to finishing up my trip blogs. i traveled around a lot more in europe and therefore had less access to the internet and no home base to do blogs from. i'm writing this now in 2009 as i have decided to revive my blog, focusing more on music this time around. i've been bringing across previous posts/reviews from other sites, but i decided i'd better give some closure to this story before i move on. suffice it to say the rest of the trip was as awesome as the beginning. i'm not gonna go into too much detail about actions, but musically i got to see some great things. a local band called The Bookhouse Boys in London, and Krafty kuts in Brighton. I don't have any photos of either, but here's a video clip from The Bookhouse Boys, I thought they were fantastic.


I also went to the O2 wireless festival over 2 days in Hyde park in London, where I saw some fantastic acts, including:


Saul Williams


Jay-Z ("best rapper alive")


Jaguar Love (featuring former members of The Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves)


Beck.
Morrissey headlined the second day, but he turned out to be a bit of a wingeing old bore really.

oh, and here's the massive box of stuff i purchased overseas and sent home.

dammitdammitdammit

Wednesday, December 28, 2005 · Showtime/Doors 7:30PM
Thursday
With special guests Blood Brothers, Me Without You and Circle Takes The Square.
An all-ages to enter, 21 to drink event.

$20 + applicable surcharges

goddamn americans. how fucking cool is that? unfair. that's gotta be one of the best lineups ever. and thursday are previewing stuff off their new album too. who wants to fly me over there, then back here in time for my greenroom gig on the 29th? huh huh? i'll even pay the $20 for your entry. :)

poor

Mudvayne
+ 2 x NIN
+ Billy Corgan
+ Team Sleep
+ theredsunband
+ Blood Brothers (which I may not even be able to go to)

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= OMG... where the POOP am i gonna get this money from?

(or perhaps more importantly, once i spend this money, where am i gonna get more from so i can still do other things?)

anyone wanna come to team sleep or billy corgan with me?

also, if anyone in melbourne knows a drummer who can commit to rehearsing to make a band which draws pretty strongly from all those above artists (and respective other bands they all might be involved in), can they let me know? ta. ;)

we are the six nightmares of the masquarade.

seriously, could today get any better?

nine inch nails tickets on special presale. second row? no problems. AND i'm gonna go see them in brisbane too with much thanks to jo for helping me decide it was a good idea. i'm looking forward to spending some time with you guys.

and then i walked out to check my mail. oh what's this? why, i believe it's the 5.1 surround version of with teeth i ordered.

and just to stop the day from getting completely NIN-ed out, the blood brothers tour has been announced. i'm bouncing around to blood brothers (too exciting to put on nin yet, haha).

you'll never see, your wife and children
again, so tell us what was going through your head
when you looked into their eyes
and said "no thanks,
i'll take the hooker again".

(oh yeah, it's the first day of my holidays too. i'm so gonna
enter all the competitions i see today, i'll win everything).

copyright and creative commons

went to see some free talks today by some of the leaders in terms of thinking about copyright laws and reforms, including Lawrence Lessig and Joichi Ito, both of whom were very good
and interesting.

you can check out a flash presentation of a Lessig lecture from 2002 here, talking about the idea of free culture. it's a bit old, but still really interesting.

since then he's extended his ideas to found the creative commons system of licensing (some rights reserved, rather than all rights), which is really interesting too, and something i'm gonna try to take advantage of, if my band ever gets anything recorded.

then we went to this awesome little function room/gallery/warehouse/everything place to do an interview with Mark Pesce on open source television. coolest room i've seen for a long time. their
lounge area is made up of train seat from the old carriages that have been refurbished. they've got about six rows laid out as they'd be on the train, with window sized cityscapes painted on the wall.. so cool.

now that my political propaganda is out of the way, i'm listening to squarepusher. yay. i've also been watching robot chicken and voltron. new garbage album is kinda boring (aside from the
title track), new limp bizkit album is guiltily enjoyable (if only fred durst wasn't so annoying...), and jakalope are really growing on me. murder by death are still amazing, as are circle takes the square and the blood brothers.