Monthly Archive for October, 2006
anyone needing any explanation (this is not to be unnexpected) can read either this article on stylus titled Top Ten Things About “Rasputin” By Boney M or the song’s songfacts page.
from the piece on stylus:
- It’s a disco song. About Rasputin. And that’s it.
- And now, some balalaikas
- How you like bass?
- Yes, it’s the double disco handclaps
- “But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear”
- It’s a little thing I like to call ‘vocal interplay’
- “And he really came”
- Once more for the ra-ra’s
- “Hi, I’m Ed Winchester”
- “Oh, those Russians…”
… maybe I took it a little too far, but I was curious and some people pushed me further and well here it is.
but seriously speaking I wouldn’t recommend anyone not already aware of or infected by the song involve themselves unnecessarily
threadless is having another one of their flash sales now through wednesday.
a big happy birthday to olga, we had a pretty chill get together last night and it was a good time.
also, since I’m naturally backlogged on news, the cat empire (oct6) was very awesome and a great night, I’m sorry to anyone who wasn’t there for their second encore. and don’t forget, guys, to keep up the fight against ticketmaster!
there’s a little bit of new stuff gradually trickling onto flickr, I’m working on it … hope you like some of it, your comments and feedback are always appreciated.
morgan, dehbi and I saw shortbus thursday night at the bytowne, I was really impressed with it. even if you were to ignore the very tastefully done not-fake-unless-intentionally-so real sex throughout the film (not something I would condone or recommend), it’s got a very good feel to it. It’s also very much about new york city itself and it’s got a certain timeless nature to its feel which dhebi pointed out in saying that it doesn’t really feel like it has a beginning or end, although it does a good job concluding itself at the same time .. it’s definitely tough to describe this film, but I’d highly recommend seeing it unless you’re upset by sexuality. In fact, now that I think about it, it’s ending is very beautiful.
It’s showing at the bytowne until sunday (tomorrow)
plaxo is up to it’s usual mischief, spamming on my behalf for youtube. I’m real sorry to anyone (pretty much everyone) who got an email yesterday from me via youtube … the world shouldn’t have to put with things like this. spam is annoying and I hate to contribute to it.
so I got my tickets for the cat empire (friday night at barrymore’s) yesterday and I’m very glad to say that I bought them, in cash none the less, at the bar of the venue (barrymore’s) and not through ticketmaster or, as we (the revolutionaries) will now refer to them, the most evil mofos on this planet.
[23:46] Olly“: how much did the tickets come down to by the way?
[23:47] ‘jeevs,: just $17.50 per head
[23:47] Olly“: ok cool
[23:47] Olly“: keep the change : )
[23:47] ‘jeevs,: lol
[23:48] ‘jeevs,: it was a great excuse to go to barrymore’s afterschool (ben came along too)
[23:48] ‘jeevs,: and I’m pretty sure it save me whatever ludicrous fees ticketmaster would have charged me
[23:48] Olly“: yeah i’d think so
[23:49] ‘jeevs,: yea ticketmaster is the devil
[23:50] ‘jeevs,:
they would have asked four bucks per ticket convenience charge + another couple dollars just so that I could have the pleasure of printing them out[23:51] Olly“: so you could waste your own ink too
[23:51] Olly“: hehe
[23:51] ‘jeevs,: lol
[23:51] Olly“: and kill more trees!
[23:52] ‘jeevs,: yea so that’s like $14 more in fees just to ticketmaster
[23:52] ‘jeevs,: y’know the people behind ticketmaster …
[23:53] ‘jeevs,:one day they woke up and said y’know what if I got a five bucks for every single person who went to any concert in N.America that’s not in someone’s basement … I’d be filthy rich
[23:53] Olly“: well it works out
[23:54] ‘jeevs,: lol
[23:54] Olly“: its a good business
[23:54] ‘jeevs,: no it’s a monopoly
[23:54] ‘jeevs,: a sickening grotesque vat of crap
[23:54] ‘jeevs,: evil crap none the less
[23:55] Olly“: dont they say that the lady that does voice message on phones gets a penny every time its played? she’s got a good salary too
[23:55] ‘jeevs,: no she’s just annoying I think, so people made up a reason to hate her
[23:55] Olly“: well that too
[23:56] Olly“: the thing is though if there is no business like yours and you create it and since you’re unique you’re a monopoly, its not really your fault is it? And its clever what they do. its convenient for some.
[23:56] ‘jeevs,: that’s not the case though
[23:56] ‘jeevs,: there are some ticketmaster competitors
[23:56] ‘jeevs,: and they’re probably better at what they do
[23:56] ‘jeevs,: but it’s cyclic
[23:57] ‘jeevs,: everyone sells through ticketmaster because everyone buys through ticketmaster
[23:57] ‘jeevs,: it’s so set in stone , that it’s going to take some big boulder to get dropped on it before it gets replaced
[23:58] Olly“: why dont you buy ticketmaster and fix it up for them ? : P
[23:59] ‘jeevs,: no.
[23:59] ‘jeevs,: I will destroy them
[23:59] ‘jeevs,:I will start (have started) a ticketmaster boycott
[23:59] ‘jeevs,: and hopefully they won’t notice until it’s too late
[00:00] ‘jeevs,: and then they’ll wander where all their slavelings went
[00:00] ‘jeevs,: wonder
[00:00] ‘jeevs,: and it’ll be too late
[00:00] Olly“: sounds like a plan
[00:00] ‘jeevs,: sounds like a paradigm shift !
[00:00] ‘jeevs,: the revolution starts now
[00:01] Olly“: we will be remembered, in, history! as those who took down ticketmaster!
[00:01] ‘jeevs,: or yesterday, rather, when I chose to skip the convenience charge and the print-out-your-own-ticket, and actually walked to my bar&venue to buy my tickets with my beer
[00:04] Olly“: you should make a facebook group. spread the revolution
I will now proceed to pretend that I didn’t hear you say that Olga, and I will pretend to be too cool to use facebook to start a revolution, but then I will likely conform to the masses (my only weapon against the ticket master) and then leverage them through their own facebook to achieve my goals
let the revolution begin,
may ticket buying never be the same again
I woke up one day and said I will keep my five dollar bill, thank you very much mr ticket master, and I will walk the extra half dozen blocks to my venue … and, even more importantly, I will save others the pains of ticket-buying with ticketmaster by buying more tickets than I need and then reselling them at the price that is already printed on the ticket and maybe a beer or some other payment-in-kind.
