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The Camera Flash Experiment

A while back I wrote about taking part in a mexican wave of camera flashes over the Brooklyn bridge during my visit to New York last year. Well, I just came across the summary/photos of the night. You can get all the info on the Improv Everywhere website:
http://improveverywhere.com/2008/05/29/the-camera-flash-experiment/

to make up for the sins of yesterday...

to make up for the song i posted yesterday, here is the coolest song i know right now.

anyone who can learn the words is welcome to join me for multiple repetitions at golden plains over the weekend. ;)

THE worst song/video ever made.

i know it's a big call, but this is officially THE worst song ever made. this is it. it's pretend hip-hop with pretend screaming, topped off with a large dose of auto-tune. all done by kids with fashion fringes and neon clothes. who drive around in land rovers even though they're probably not old enough to drive.

and the video is just the icing on the cake. it looks exactly like what a bunch of 13 year olds would make for a song like this. notice the two guys who always follow the other two around and seem to be in the band, even though they do nothing (except one always has girls under each arm - huh?). especially watch out for the guy in the blue shirt who looks like the daggy kid the other guy's mum's forced them to hang around with. his dance moves are a highlight. and why do they start choking a girl in the bridge? also notice how most of the girls look incredibly bored when they're dancing in the background. in fact, there's so much to notice that's wrong, you may need to watch it a few times. (a giant pig?)

"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.

fear and loathing in las vegas (and new york)

i'm back in new york. but not for long. i'm leaving to go to london tomorrow, which is a bit sad. i'm excited about going to europe of course, but i'm not ready to leave here either. it's been awesome fun. still, at least there's more adventures to look forward to.

las vegas was cool. a lot more fun than i thought it would be. the casinos are huge and bizzare and kinda scary, but they light up at night like you wouldn't believe, and there's all sorts of insane attractions inside them - roller coasters, canals in venice, an eiffel tower, lions.... you wouldn't believe it. and we spent most of the time drunk with these enormous, gigantic monster drinks - 100 oz margaritas (that's basically 3 litres!) went to the grand canyon one day, which was great too. and we got to see an elvis wedding. i wouldn't wanna spend too long there though.

then we came back to new york. we went to another baseball game, the empire state building, statue of liberty, got a group photo in times square and and spent the rest of the time just hanging out together and going to bars because the tour was almost over. i've been back at shannon's for a few days and we went to a broadway show and coney island. then i'm outta here tomorrow. which is a bit sucky. obviously i could write heaps more, but i kinda still need to pack. so that will have to be it for now.