NY Asian Film Festival

Asian Movies All Over the Map, NYtimes

NYAFF is June19th–July 5th at the IFC (Independent Film Center, not Hong Kong's Int'l Finance Center, just in case you were momentarily confused)

complete schedule & list of films on Subway Cinema.

Cut Copy ::: Bright Like Neon Love

Cut Copy, from Melbourne, Australia

Bright Like Neon Love 52mb .zip

Genre: Electro-pop, Synthpop, 80s sound, dance-punk

Release Date: 18.mai.2004

Label: Modular Interscope

Rating: Quite Good. 8.1–metacritic.

Popmatters review

1 Time Stands Still
2 Future
3 Saturdays
4 Saturdays (Reprise)
5 Going Nowhere
6 DD-5
7 That Was Just a Dream
8 Zap Zap
9 Twilight
10 Autobahn Music Box
11 Bright Neon Payphone
12 Dream

4 song sample .rar 24mb

from album "Bright Like Neon Love": Future, Going Nowhere
from album "In Ghost Colours": Lights and Music , Feel the Love

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Jag är nitton år gammal nu!

deutsch: Ich bin neunzehn Jahre alt wie die von heute.

But nothing exciting about yhdeksäntoista, just

on my way to the big 21.

Big Mistake—NASA's Attack on the Moon

Stop the violence against the moon. —Alan Black

booties

kaylee tankus–black peeptoe bootie

jeffrey campbell–palace bootie

I'm not much into fashion, really. But I've not been doing much these past few days, (because there's simply not much to do here at this time. I need another book to read, don't feel like watching TV series, and don't have a car) and have been passing the time shopping online.

Realised that I quite like dark shirts and the sort of sophisticated/casual style. Haha. and thought I that I should look into nice black shoes to wear with my APCs, since I don't have any type of those shoes: flats, booties, heels, whatever non-sneakers.

I would so buy these two pairs..if I had the money. arrghh money. x___x;;; Spent a lot this month already on furniture and last month on other stuff. Blah.

But too expensive for me, and final sale (30%off) so if they don't fit I won't be able to return it and I'm too lazy to sell stuff online. I usually hate/would not give a thought to buying shoes that are so low (at least in the front)/close to the ground. I want at least half an inch platform in the front part, too. But I really like how these two pairs look. Anyone know of places which sell similar shoes but at a more affordable price?

304050sale @oaknyc

The Thermals:::The Body, The Blood, The Machine

The Thermals, from Portland, Oregon

The Body, The Blood, The Machine

Genre: Indie Rock, Post-Punk-Pop

Label: Subpop

Release Date: 22.Aug.2006

Rating: SEHR GUT.

8.5—Pitchfork: Best New Album 2006

1. Here’s Your Future
2. I Might Need To Kill You
3. An Ear For Baby
4. A Pillar of Salt
5. Returning to the Fold
6. Test Pattern
7. St. Rosa and the Swallows
8. Back to the Sea
9. Power Doesn’t Run on Nothing
10. I Hold The Sound

"Portland, Oregon natives the Thermals have been hovering on the periphery since their 2003 debut, delivering solid records to undersized acclaim. The band's third album, The Body, The Blood, The Machine, conjures an America piloted by some sort of Christian-fascist regime. [..] The Body's story is just vague and gruesome enough to be weirdly terrifying, totally Orwellian, and grander, louder, and more electrifying than anything the Thermals have spit out before. [..] Foster's drums and Harris' weird vocal syntax (which contains echoes of the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle) are nicely propulsive, and The Body, The Blood, The Machine cuts off before it runs the risk of getting too repetitive. But the results of its 38 minutes are still chilling. Harris' imagined landscape is severe and grisly, leaving us all to sprint for cover, curling under desks, hands over heads, fingers crossed: These tracks land like bombs." —Pitchfork

DL: 33mb .zip | 61mb .zip VBR | 64mb .rar VBR

cool trippy cell phone effect

The short message: Don't text me.

More:
My cell phone screen has been on a month-long acid trip and shows no sign of coming down.

My plans are to stick with this ultra-thin phone that you all are jealous of and to wait til the end of my at&t contract, which happens to be in half a year, so I can snag a new iPhone3Gs for not so high a price.

So for the time being, you should understand that should you text me, you may not receive a text back from me, because I may not even be able to read your message first of all. Thank you for your time.

[Samsung U600 aka Ultra Edition 10.9—10.9 for 10.9 mm thin]

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iPhone Upgrade
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wtf?!

German Solar Power

Deutsche planen größtes Solarkraftwerk aller Zeiten

read article google-translated.

Ein Konsortium von 20 deutschen Konzernen will eine Solaranlage für rund 400 Milliarden Euro in der afrikanischen Wüste aufstellen. Sie soll in zehn Jahren den ersten Strom liefern und in der Lage sein 15 Prozent des europäischen Strombedarfs zu decken. An der Spitze der Investoren-Gruppe steht die Münchener Rück.

The Liquid Lounge

I found a German forum with promotional drum'n'bass mixes.

The kind of dnb I really really like: "liquid, deep, soulful dnb".

Or I just like to call it "chill dnb". It's not the only type of dnb I like, though; the rock-ish type if dnb is good, too, like Pendulum, but I don't like jungle. If it weren't for jungle turning me off to dnb a few years ago, I would have been into dnb much earlier.

theliquidlounge@breakbeatz.de

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DJ Sophina :: A Mad Tea Party [03.2009]

download//70mins 158mb 320kbps

1. Electrosoul System - Form of Life [Kosmos]
2. Trisector - Morning Rain [Med School]
3. Seba & Krazy - Inkasso [Secret Operations]
4. Mutt - It's Pouring Once Again [Horizons]
5. Naibu - Screens [Fokuz]
6. Specific - Tell Me [Phunkfiction]
7. Madmen & Poets - Afraid of Jazz (Lenzman Remix) [Phunkfiction]
8. Zero Tolerance & Survival - Cold Blood [Revolution]
9. Electrosoul System & Sunchase - Alluvion [Camino Blue]
10. Data - Blowpipe [Lucky Devil]
11. Marcus Intalex - Astro Dance [Soul:R]
12. Martsman - Disharmonic Anti-Anthem [Offshore]
13. Luca - Break and Enter [Samurai]
14. Loxy & Ink - Amazon [Shogun Audio]
15. Saburuko - A Darker Side [Inside]
16. S.P.Y. - Seeing Through Shadows [Advanced]
17. Serum & Bladerunner - Snake Fist [Creative Source]
18. Loxy & Isotone - Ancients [Cylon]
19. Cern - Satellites (Phace Remix) [Syndrome Audio]
20. X-Plorer - Depth of Sound [Low 5 Audio]
21. Phobia & Jubei - Guillotine [Coded Music]
22. Stu C4C - Oblivious [Def Ltd]
23. Damage Inc - Overload [Advanced]

Pride Parade

Gay Festival in China Pushes Official Boundaries, NYtimes

shanghaipride

Coming up:

The 39th annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade is June 28, scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m., traveling west along Market Street from Beale Street to Eighth Street.

Pride Parade, celebration has a political bent, SFchronicle

+++BoA is set to headline at the SFprideparade! Only 25 min set, though. But yahh, get all crazy homo-excited with your asianpop fan friends and go and see her! Haha I was definitely a BoA fan when I was in my little K-pop phase. xD

University Entrance Exams

Be glad we only have the easy-peasy SATs and ACTs here in America and not the super-hard college entrance exams that kids in China and Japan have to take. Exam cram school, studying 14-16 hours a day for a whole year. Way too extreme.

China’s College Entry Test, Gao Kao, Is an Obsession, NYtimes

A student on his way to the exam hall. The test lasts nine hours.

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I moved into my new living room on Saturday. Got nice furniture from Ikea. Scandinavian design FTW! I'm on Genesee Ave. by Regents Rd. in La Jolla. Pictures to come when I convince myself to not be lazy and to upload pictures.

Rockets in a Coma – Psycholover

Watch in HD.
But not good to listen to it too much, the vocals/verse gets annoying. Probably just her accent though. They're from Greece, in case you're wondering what's up with those seemingly unintelligible YT comments.
Rockets in a Coma –Elektra & Java Kid.

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HELLA PWNED MY FINALS YESTERDAY,

then spun for a couple hours at Beer, Beats, and Board Games (BBB) @Porter's Pub on campus.

And realised that breaks does get kinda boring, well also because I only had two breaks cds. But yeah, not going to get very into breaks. Spun breaks for an hour then switched to trance.

Drum'n'bass is up next!

Live105's BFD 2009

pretty much rocked. =)
wasn't feeling it too much at first, but then later at the main stage, yeeah.

Yes, the weekend before finals, but:

BFD vs. sitting in my dorm studying on such a nice day?

Definitely glad I went.
Pics in a few days, after finals are over.

or flickr pics:

Mute Math

Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Other news: check out the new Berkeley Bowl West!
8th and Heinz (near Ashby Ave.)

GDJB with Markus Schulz: World Tour—HK

Global DJ Broadcast with Markus Schulz: World Tour — Hong Kong [04.06.2009]

01. Dakota – Chinook
02. Dakota – Johnny The Fox (Barnes & Heatcliff Remix)
03. Rank 1 – L.E.D. There Be Light (Wippenberg Remix / Markus Schulz Edit)
04. Arnej – The Ones That Get Away (Minimal Drum Dub / Markus Schulz Big Room Reconstruction)
05. Dakota – Sin City
06. Wippenberg vs. Marc Vision – Chakalaka’s Time Gate (Markus Schulz Mashup)
07. ID
08. Fabio XB & Ronnie Play Featuring Gabriel Cage – Inside of You (Cosmic Gate Remix)
09. Ummet Ozcan – Time Wave Zero
10. Mark Norman – Coffee Break
11. Super8 & Tab – Elektra
12. Thomas Sagstad & Tyler Michaud – Renegades (Elevation Remix / Markus Schulz Edit)
13. Cosmic Gate – Sign Of The Times (Markus Schulz Coldharbour Remix)
14. Richard Durand – Into Something (Fall Down Mix)
15. Jester Music Featuring Lavoie – Dressed in White (Markus Schulz Coldharbour Remix)
16. Markus Schulz – The New World
17. Rex Mundi Featuring Susana – Nothing at All
18. Jochen Miller vs. Armin Van Buuren – Lost Vocal Connection (Markus Schulz Mashup)
19. Sander Van Dien – Aurora (Markus Schulz Rework)
20. Breakfast – Remember
21. Ferry Corsten – Twice in a Blue Moon

220mb download//mirror

deepgoa.wordpress

etd.POP

busy with homework and everything. Week10 right now. Next week is Finals and then 1st year of college will be over. kinda fast.

POP was great. awesomeawesome lighting.

not gonna write a whole blog entry, need to stay focused on schoolworkz and stuff.

So here're some links to videos of POP for your vicariousness, you're welcome.

Deadmau5's intro, that was when they put the lighting to full awesomeness.

next Deadmau5 part, more awesome lighting.

FERRY CORSTEN's intro.

Deadmau5,

but without the lovely mau5head: just your smartass skinny white Canadian dude.

(etd.POP:::23.Mai.2009)

The Treasured Mix

Hej!

I'm spinning on the Treasured Mix radio show tonight!
from 9-10pm on KSDT.
Trance!

(lols I haven't practiced in like 3 weeks.. and I'm going to be spinning songs that I haven't mixed before. ahah. Hopefully I won't get nervous and trainwreck. That would be badddd. Das wird schlimm.) And it'll be like my first real mix. I don't think my track selection's great at all, though. I'm alternating between CDs on one side and USB drive on the other. which means one song old-then one song newer. Ahah. I need to burn new cds.

Red Bull Air Race

is what I missed out on this weekend.

And my essay is still a mess and unfinished.

Oh well. There's always next year and the next, until I graduate.

To watch an Air Race, not to finish one essay. ahah.

Red Bull Air Race > San Diego

Maya Lin

Maya Lin's "Storm King Wavefield" on permanent installation at the Storm King Art Center in NY. She's the artist who won the commission for the Vietnam War Memorial in DC. She's also the one who made that hill out of small wooden rectangular blocks which went on exhibit at the De Young in SF a while ago. I did not get to see that exhibit, but some people who've seen it were definitely like "pshht 'art'". I wrote a paper about that wooden hill, actually. Well, just as an example. What constitutes "good" art, real vs nature, stuff like that. That was an interesting Culture, Art, & Technology class. The CAT class I'm in now is pretty boring, or at least not interesting to me. Eugenics, medical stuff, maybe some ethical issues, whee.

Need some cash?

Need some cash? Help me fold laundry - m4w - 30 (North County)

Date: 2009-05-05, 3:54PM PDT

I'm serious. I have folding laundry. I'm generous and I would like a sexy woman to come help me. If you're interested, respond with pictures.
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LOL!

craigslist is entertaining. kind of. Funny stuff amidst all the junk.

camera

adding a few things to my wishlist:

DIANA+ camera

rolls of expired film

maybe Canon G10. (DSLR!)

Fuck my money in my bank account HALVED.

Last couple weeks have been such a drain.

And now I want to make more purchases.

Way to be an economist and try to lessen the current recession.

You should, too! Go buy more stuff! Preferably domestic goods and services. 

liking the eastern span so far

Sleek indeed. But are they going to demolish the old span?

That would be sad. Everyone would get nostalgia.

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Apparently I don't get the infamous asian glow and I have impressive tolerance for someone who doesn't drink. Yay. (Not sarcastic.)

I want to go to both BFD and Independence Jam. 

I will study so hard before that weekend, because after that weekend: Finals.