well according to the rules I can't post any pictures on teh interweb, until after the worldwide tour is over. which is tonight. i heard word that Vancouver will serve for the Official Tour DVD which is neat and provided for an extra interesting show.

okay this is neat: they got on some time between 8:30 and 9:00. the band played until 11:30. they completely rocked it out. it was insanity. they are better live than they were last time i saw them at the pop mart tour. their stage set up needs to be seen in person, which i suppose only leaves you tonight to attempt. it is amazing........

favorites.. a new one .. city of blinding lights (which they also shot the video for in vancouver on wednesday and partly last night) .. was brilliant live. in fact a lot of the stuff off the new album .. well, you realize that they're great live songs, decent album songs (for U2). that being said, the new ones they played were incredible. other fav's for the evening .. Running To A Stand Still (of course, how could they not). . One, Zoo Station, oh i can't decide, they were all so good. the set was clearly carefully planned out, rocked hard at the beginning, desceneded BPM into some of their really powerful plodding stuff, went epic with Running to a Stand Still, and revved things back up with Where The Streets Have No Name. yeah it was stupid good.

i have to shake my head at how good this show was last night.

wow.

okay enough of that. lotus tonight, hush tomorrow night to see Steve May!

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at lotus on friday night!

woo hoo!

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so i went on possibly, my favorite photoshoot to-date. the conditions were far better than dreamed of, the locations were SO on, and the guys are a blast to work with. clicky on top one for large. oh, and check out their ratherniceindeed™ website, www.sickbeats.ca. yeeeeeeeeeees.

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have i ever mentioned on here that i like to meet new people? i do. especially when i am out on my own. it's why i don't listen to music on public transit or while waiting for public transit. so that i am open to it. i don't necessarily start it, though that's been known to happen ocassionally.

i have another picture from the same dark city shoot but it isn't of the city and i isn't dark and i didn't want people to associate the two, so maybe i'll post it next week. it is the cool.

the picture at the top, well, you guess it, clicky for bigger. whenever i walk up keith road to anand's place, it reminds me of aberdeen in scotland. lots of houses that look like this, except stonier.

anyway i owe nothing more to this night so i will say good night and hit le hay. i didn't drink any coffee.

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the dark city.

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weird cool dream: i dreamt last night that there was a tsunami that came up the north shore and threatened to wipe a lot of stuff out. and it should haveve, but it didn't. pretty much everything was just really wet. yeah. and then my dream went in reverse and i was on a BC Ferry when the tsunami was coming in. and we went over this huge wave, I wasn't sure if we were gonna make it. but we did, it was nothing more than exciting. weird.

awesome new program for the mac: adiumx. if you aren't a mac user, you probably don't care about this. but you should be jealous of such a beautiful program. this, like Fire™, combines several different programs (i use iChat and MSN) into one superprogram. except this does it right. Fire was just a pain. although it did integrate IRC and this one doesn't. but i don't care. what i do care about is that i don't have to use the horrendous version of MSN Messenger for mac anymore, which the luddites at Microsoft update every 2 years or so to bring it in line with the version of MSN Messenger they're developing for Windows 3.11 users.

something else: quentin asked me on sunday if i wanted to move downtown with him and for some reason i was hesitent. then i realized i was comfortable on the north shore. comfortable?!?! i have spent the last 6 months complaining about it. now i like it. perhaps because i seem to have really gotten things together in the last month or so. i don't really want to say on here why things are in order but i do know, 100%, why things have changed. and it wasn't particularly obvious to me at the time when i was making the decisions i made, but now it is clear - clear like the filtered water i drink every morning. oh yes, very clear. mmm water. mmm filtered water.

so anyway, that thing about comfort i think relates to the dream i had last night. yeah. shaking things up is exciting.

i wonder how high up on the ridge i live on the north shore? it is at the top of the hill in a bit of a tower. charles was mentioning, when we were cookin' something-or-other the other night, that it takes the water longer to boil at my place because of the higher elevation. so like, hmm, how do i figure out how many feet above sea level i am? is there like, some way to tell? hmmm..

shameless material stuff i still want:

• 12" Powerbook with a tonne of ram and the biggest HD you can get
  
• Digital SLR with a nice Speedlight Flash of some sort
  
• Car of some sort
  
• Oxygen 8 (for the sheer portability factor

nonmaterial:

• travel. lots and lots of travel.

please. let me go with a new powerbook, digital SLR and a car to go in. and that keyboard thingie. i want to drive across north america, take pictures, and make music. oh and I could perform on that baby too. hook it up, yeah. thats what i want to do.

that is all for now.

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clicky to get download. 1280 x 1024 resolution. something to remember the night by, or live vicariously through. enjoy!

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presented by progressive entertainment.

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presented by ph1.

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so i was feeling a little dramatic last week when i decided to sell my only U2 ticket. i have decided to hold on to it. thanks for your interest as well, i appreciate that, but i have come to my senses.

i hung out with devon last night. she is a source of constant entertainment and informed me she has a new website, and after 5 minutes of searching i can't find it. mebbez i suck at this internet thing.

okay folks, here is my secret shame:

i am trying to figure out my own attraction and henceforth addiction to shite family restaurants. i have been preferring places like dennys and smitty's over trendy coffee joints for ages now. add boston pizza to that list, they got free refills. my latest haunt seems to be brothers in gas town. i don't know why. it's like it is so bad and tacky that it becomes good again. why can't i feel that way about horrible music?

well, i gotta pick my battles. or something.

it looks like i have 10 days and 10 seconds of music on my system.

james holden tomorrow night, chloe the following night. yes!

music: Habersham & Phil K - Cloudbreak

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Hush in Victoria on Saturday night was insane. really, as usual. DJing with Braeden is one of the most natural tag team combo's I have ever been involved with, if not the most. the same CD got us into DJing -- Sasha & John Digweed's Northern Exposure 2, East Coast Edition. It's mostly trancey breaks, so go figure, we played none (save one at the end) on Saturday night. But the time before .. well we played plenty.

The response to the progressive we were playing was off the hook, so we kept on playing it (even though I brought mostly breaks in my record bag). the biggest treat of the night for me was when we dropped the new Formulate remix of AFK - Dreamcache. have a look at the crowd response. (4.23 megs, dot AVI)

that video is a bit of a teaser because it cuts off just before the beat drops again..

what a fabulous past few days. have a look:

and then we went to Denny's...

Sara had her graduation fashion show on Thursday evening:

Progressive Entertainment presented Kasey Taylor (AKA Ocean Wave / Katai) of the monstrous Vapour Recordings on Friday night at Lotus with Kevin Shiu:

and randomly:

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i am selling 1 ticket for the sold-out-in-five-minutes Thursday, April 28th U2 concert.

$54. though i am sure it is worth more than that by now.. must be able to pick it up from north vancouver.

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here's another new website i made over the last few months, just launched this week:

woot. clicky for site. he'll also be in from australia at Hush (in Victoria) on Saturday, April 30th. yeah!

i am happy 'cause

1. charles is coming over for the James Holden and Chloe shows next week
2. i finally get to meet chloe
3. kasey taylor from the awesome vapour records is here on friday
4. me and charles are gonna make choons!
5. saturday night is gonna be huge in victoria at hush -- spinning with Braeden is consistently one of my favorite DJ experiences
6. thursday night is sara's fashion show and i am djing the after party at tribeca which i hear is a cool place
7. i migrated 6 blogs from mt 2.64 on a BerkeleyDB to mt 2.661 on a more robust, faster MySQL db. and it is working. this will decrease spam initially (since there is a new address for the comments cgi .. not security by any means, just not found by the spambots yet.)
8. i made the template for pacific front recording business cards tonght. i thought it sucked and was lame but i just had another look and it is classaY! woot.
9. went for coffee with jay and talked photography for a good hour and a half! that was fun. it is nice to meet someone with the same kind of enthusiasm for photography as many of my friends in the photogroffee kroo.

okay i think that's enough for now!

bye bye bye

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here are some photos from my last visit to Hush in Victoria. note the off-the-hook-status of the club.

lifted from the Hush website:

am i excited? yes. expectations: par-ty.

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here's a new website:

which you can get to through the newly renovated project page (in the navigation at the top of this page!) or click here on projects. these are the big ones i am involved with right now outside of work hours. and a few other collaborative efforts but they don't have websites yet.

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i think this is the first time in a very long time that i am posting pictures the same day i have taken them. i don't know why that may have been but i think it's more a reflection of my lifestyle than anything. these are the three shots i took today.

the fire hydrant one is all about the complimentary colors, the perspective, division into (approximately) thirds, depth of field, and the fact it is a weird-ass fire hydrant. cool i say. the fire hydrant is about 50 feet from my building. i took the shot on the way home from work.

the hole-in-the-tree is from Victoria Park (in front of my place too, taken before going to work this morning) and it is all about the little plants growing inside what looks like would make for an excellent owl-home. green (life) in the greyness (abandonned by the owl). hoot hoot. woot. zope.

the last one, well this arrived in the mail today courtesy of DJ Emit. that is tim for any of you following along at home. wow, way to make my day! thanks tim you rooooool. how cool is that shirt?!!??!?!?!?!?!?! note the blue-orange/brown combo.

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here is a massive picture post from my last weekend in victoria (the 4 day weekend). shots are included from hush, lisa's b-day party at the mint, a barn party named animal farm, a miniphotogroffee, and more..

click on the bottom one for largey.

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rewire is so cool! this is how you connect Reason to Ableton's Live. Pretty cool huh!? me and thor are going to use said configuration to insert a new bassline in our choon.

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me and thor made this thing out of icecubes at quentin's the other night

i have spent half the weekend figuring out how to install scode for moveable type.

okay here is the list of dependencies (top down):

• moveable type (blog software)
  
• scode (image-comment verification system)
  
• GD (Gif or Graphic Designer) and GD.pm (Perl Module)
  
• zlib (compression library), libpng (ping image generation library), libjpeg (you guess what this is), freetype2 (typing on graphics generation tool)
  
• fink, apt-get, cpan (application-getters and installers)
  

inherently if there is something wrong with the code in one of the bottom items, it's going to cascade upwards into the other items.

some notes:

1. fink is sorta broken. by sorta i mean sometimes it searches and installs out-of-date software that is incompatible with everything you're trying to do.
   
2. this is not easy to attempt at 3 a.m.
   
3. some of this software that fink, cpan and apt-get retrieve requires patching, and the patches have to be current otherwise they are not going to work. they did not work. help pages like this are nice to find, however it is out of date, so the instructions no longer work.
   
4. this is not easy to attempt at 5 a.m.
   
5. GD says it installed. GD.pm says it did too, but with some cryptic errors that I have not seen documented anywhere. scode sayz 'no, it is not installed and i hate you!' ahem.
   
6. this is not easy to attempt at 8 a.m.

i'd really like to get GD and GD.pm working properly on my system because it would be fun to play with graphics generation. especially cool considering i can use my existing truetype font library (it's huge, trust me) to generate graphics with php commands. that will be leet.

so i slept for a while, spent from 2 until about 30 minutes ago trying to get it to work. i think it is fair to say i got nowhere with it and i have uninstalled the scode (which has prevented you from leaving comments).

blah.

so the blog is obviously back. what happened was that a DNS server moved to another IP and I guess they aren't supposed to do that, since they're the ones telling everybody where everything is. hooray for the new dns1.davin.ws. all rejoice.

pictures will appear later when i am not so sick of computers! these things are supposed to serve us, not the other way around ..

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