Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Pets pets pets
As I was saying when I first started to write on this blog, I love everything that moves and has a fur: cats, dogs, hamsters, squirrels and much more. I even love fishes, hippos (which I still think they are peaceful animals), big cats (they fit the small/furry category anyhow J), and so on.
My fest real pet was Lisa, a very white, evil and fun cat. I still have it and it’s still my number one pet. But, a few more pets have made room into my life. My boyfriend’s dog, Jimmy, for example, it’s amazing. Jimmy is one of the funniest dogs I have ever seen. He is very afraid of cats and tiny dogs but he loves chasing and barking at very, very, big dogs. The fun part is the when he is struggling to bark and annoy the big dog, the poor guy looks kind of weird at him, almost thinking: man, this little guy here is as big as my tail, what does he expect? So, everybody is ok, Jimmy barks, other dogs ignore it, some start chasing him and cats will always make him very scared. That’s why I had to live Lisa at my parents. And, because I felt so very sorry that I don’t have a pet of my own at V’s place, I bought some.. pets. J
A few months ago, in October – November if I’m not wrong, after I saw a nice show on pets on tv I said I had to gave a guinea pig. I went to the pet shop to get one, but unfortunately all that they had we’re two tiny hamsters – Roborovski. I was so desperate in buying something alive, I didn’t think much and I just bought them.
I uploaded some pictures of them on the blog, a few posts behind.
The sad part of the hamsters live is… the death of Lola, one of the hamsters. When I clean their cage, I usually place them in a small aquarium, but this time it was special because one of them was already living in the aquarium because they had a huge fight a week ago. I had to place one in the aquarium and one in the bathtub. The one in the bathtub… Lola that is, after I finished cleaning the cage I lifted it and Lola climbed on it, but on the bottom of the cage. I did not see it climbing and hanging of the bottom of the cage and I believed that it simply escaped from the bathtub inside the house. I left the cage down and I started searching for it. After a few minutes of searching I lifted the cage again and I saw it. It was dead. I killed it with its cage. It was a very depressing and terrifying moment. I cried for two days. It was a very cold windy winter night. All the streets were covered in snow and I just wanted to bury her, I couldn’t throw it away just like that. I made a small coffin out of a box where Tibi’s father kept his transistors, spelled Lola’s name on it and a few best wishes and we went to the park to bury it. At the park we asked the guardian to allow us to bury it, and he was kind enough to do it. While we were burying Lola some other guardian started screaming at us because we were destroying the park. My hamster is 4 cm long and he was very drunk. He wanted to give us a ticket but eventually Tibi and Adi convinced him that my 4 cm hamster had couldn’t possibly destroy the park.
Since tomorrow is my birthday, my best friend from childhood, Mirela, thought it was more that ok to get me a nice gift. She got me another hamster. I named him Victor, don’t really know why, his face seems like a Victor one. He is the smallest hamster I have ever seen in my life. Is not even half of Ebola, my other hamster.
I think they are getting along very well, they’ve socialized in the bathtub, they even shared the same wooden house and they didn’t start a fight. They were fooling around a little bit but nothing too suspicious. I’m still a bit afraid that they will kill each other and I’m not keeping them in the same cage if I’m not home to separate them in case they do start a fight.
So, I can’t wait to go home and put them together again and look at them playing for hours J.
I’m really happy with my new hamster! He rules! J - Pictures soon! J
My fest real pet was Lisa, a very white, evil and fun cat. I still have it and it’s still my number one pet. But, a few more pets have made room into my life. My boyfriend’s dog, Jimmy, for example, it’s amazing. Jimmy is one of the funniest dogs I have ever seen. He is very afraid of cats and tiny dogs but he loves chasing and barking at very, very, big dogs. The fun part is the when he is struggling to bark and annoy the big dog, the poor guy looks kind of weird at him, almost thinking: man, this little guy here is as big as my tail, what does he expect? So, everybody is ok, Jimmy barks, other dogs ignore it, some start chasing him and cats will always make him very scared. That’s why I had to live Lisa at my parents. And, because I felt so very sorry that I don’t have a pet of my own at V’s place, I bought some.. pets. J
A few months ago, in October – November if I’m not wrong, after I saw a nice show on pets on tv I said I had to gave a guinea pig. I went to the pet shop to get one, but unfortunately all that they had we’re two tiny hamsters – Roborovski. I was so desperate in buying something alive, I didn’t think much and I just bought them.
I uploaded some pictures of them on the blog, a few posts behind.
The sad part of the hamsters live is… the death of Lola, one of the hamsters. When I clean their cage, I usually place them in a small aquarium, but this time it was special because one of them was already living in the aquarium because they had a huge fight a week ago. I had to place one in the aquarium and one in the bathtub. The one in the bathtub… Lola that is, after I finished cleaning the cage I lifted it and Lola climbed on it, but on the bottom of the cage. I did not see it climbing and hanging of the bottom of the cage and I believed that it simply escaped from the bathtub inside the house. I left the cage down and I started searching for it. After a few minutes of searching I lifted the cage again and I saw it. It was dead. I killed it with its cage. It was a very depressing and terrifying moment. I cried for two days. It was a very cold windy winter night. All the streets were covered in snow and I just wanted to bury her, I couldn’t throw it away just like that. I made a small coffin out of a box where Tibi’s father kept his transistors, spelled Lola’s name on it and a few best wishes and we went to the park to bury it. At the park we asked the guardian to allow us to bury it, and he was kind enough to do it. While we were burying Lola some other guardian started screaming at us because we were destroying the park. My hamster is 4 cm long and he was very drunk. He wanted to give us a ticket but eventually Tibi and Adi convinced him that my 4 cm hamster had couldn’t possibly destroy the park.
Since tomorrow is my birthday, my best friend from childhood, Mirela, thought it was more that ok to get me a nice gift. She got me another hamster. I named him Victor, don’t really know why, his face seems like a Victor one. He is the smallest hamster I have ever seen in my life. Is not even half of Ebola, my other hamster.
I think they are getting along very well, they’ve socialized in the bathtub, they even shared the same wooden house and they didn’t start a fight. They were fooling around a little bit but nothing too suspicious. I’m still a bit afraid that they will kill each other and I’m not keeping them in the same cage if I’m not home to separate them in case they do start a fight.
So, I can’t wait to go home and put them together again and look at them playing for hours J.
I’m really happy with my new hamster! He rules! J - Pictures soon! J
Friday, May 23, 2008
Future dreams
While I was having a conversation with a friend I realized that we live in 2008. Nothing unusual so far. When we started talking about the future and 2010 came into the conversation I got very confused.
When I was young, only nine or ten years old, I watched Star Trek like a maniac. I was fascinated. I loved their outfits, Data was incredibly funny – and he still is – and the fact that they could teleport was amazing. Growing up with Gene Roddenberry’s movies can have a huge impact on your life as a child, no doubt about it. Star Trek, as Star Wars, teaches you, as a child, in a very subtle way, what are the real priorities in life. They teach you how to separate the good things and a good judgment from a bad one. Star Trek has a very powerful view on the future, a very optimistic one. The future, in Gene’s eyes, is how it actually should be. I’m not talking about the flying cars, and the space ships and traveling with the speed of light, I’m referring to the mentality that people should have in 200 years from now. The sad part is that we are approaching very fast those years Gene dreamt about in Star Trek and unfortunately things aren’t like that at all. I remember one episode from the first series, the one with Kirk (I think so, It was long ago). They found a strange vessel in space with three or four people trapped inside that vessel. They were very ill during life time and decided to get frozen and be thrown into space, so they could be discovered after hundreds of years, when they could have a chance of healing their diseases. That eventually happened and when they were found, they couldn’t believe that they were alive after hundreds of years. They were cured by the wonderful doctor on board, the funnies doctor alive, J and apparently everything was ok. BUT… they did not understand that they were now living in a world where cancer was eradicated, AIDS as well, hunger, wars and money were not the major problems of the earth. Earth was now a place where everybody lived in peace, without thinking about financial issues and about diseases. Some of them understood, or at least were enough open-minded to try to understand the new world they live in, except one. After the doctor healed his terrible illness, all he could think about was his bank account and his clients. Even if everybody tried to explain to him that every single person he knew was dead he couldn’t believe it. So, eventually he was beamed down to Earth and that was the end of it. We still don’t know how that guy managed with his new… life, but the idea is that the Earth is not at all heading into that king of life. Unfortunately, we still lie in a world controlled by guns, wars, irresponsible leaders (Bush), money and most of all, hunger and extremely complicated diseases. Not to mention that we are actually killing out planet by using cars and cars and cars and polluting it.
I wish I could be born somewhere in 2400 year, so I could see the next technological revolution. I wish I’ll see flying cars, no gas emissions, suspended buildings, clean oceans and especial, space ships. I’d love to travel in space. I heard that Americans are trying to built some elevators in space, so people could travel into space by elevators. I hope I won’t die before I get to see that finished.
When I was young, only nine or ten years old, I watched Star Trek like a maniac. I was fascinated. I loved their outfits, Data was incredibly funny – and he still is – and the fact that they could teleport was amazing. Growing up with Gene Roddenberry’s movies can have a huge impact on your life as a child, no doubt about it. Star Trek, as Star Wars, teaches you, as a child, in a very subtle way, what are the real priorities in life. They teach you how to separate the good things and a good judgment from a bad one. Star Trek has a very powerful view on the future, a very optimistic one. The future, in Gene’s eyes, is how it actually should be. I’m not talking about the flying cars, and the space ships and traveling with the speed of light, I’m referring to the mentality that people should have in 200 years from now. The sad part is that we are approaching very fast those years Gene dreamt about in Star Trek and unfortunately things aren’t like that at all. I remember one episode from the first series, the one with Kirk (I think so, It was long ago). They found a strange vessel in space with three or four people trapped inside that vessel. They were very ill during life time and decided to get frozen and be thrown into space, so they could be discovered after hundreds of years, when they could have a chance of healing their diseases. That eventually happened and when they were found, they couldn’t believe that they were alive after hundreds of years. They were cured by the wonderful doctor on board, the funnies doctor alive, J and apparently everything was ok. BUT… they did not understand that they were now living in a world where cancer was eradicated, AIDS as well, hunger, wars and money were not the major problems of the earth. Earth was now a place where everybody lived in peace, without thinking about financial issues and about diseases. Some of them understood, or at least were enough open-minded to try to understand the new world they live in, except one. After the doctor healed his terrible illness, all he could think about was his bank account and his clients. Even if everybody tried to explain to him that every single person he knew was dead he couldn’t believe it. So, eventually he was beamed down to Earth and that was the end of it. We still don’t know how that guy managed with his new… life, but the idea is that the Earth is not at all heading into that king of life. Unfortunately, we still lie in a world controlled by guns, wars, irresponsible leaders (Bush), money and most of all, hunger and extremely complicated diseases. Not to mention that we are actually killing out planet by using cars and cars and cars and polluting it.
I wish I could be born somewhere in 2400 year, so I could see the next technological revolution. I wish I’ll see flying cars, no gas emissions, suspended buildings, clean oceans and especial, space ships. I’d love to travel in space. I heard that Americans are trying to built some elevators in space, so people could travel into space by elevators. I hope I won’t die before I get to see that finished.
Sorry for writing so much nonsense and for my spelling/grammar. That’s why I made this blog in the first place, to improve my English, so feel free to correct me at anytime.
Sebastien Tellier is competing for Eurovision
Techno artists are strange, very strange. Some of them wear weird outfits and perform live acts using only a PSP (Jori Hulkkonen). Some make demented videos that involved Indian people (Laurent Garnier). Meanwhile, even if their actions are… let’s say, unusual, their music remains the same and people still dance on it and everything is cool. BUT, when we talk about French weirdos like Mr. Oizo or Sebastien Tellier, things change. I’ve just discovered a track he made soon after Flat Beat, and I thought it was made in 2008. His sound is unique and simply insane. The main idea is that in this track, at a certain point, the rhythm changes completely, and from a very classic 4/4 techno it becomes …hip hop. He is one of the most inspired artists in dance music and I may say that he is one of my favorite producers ever. Sebastien Tellier is, also, freaky. He released not long ago a track called Divine. It’s not techno, it’s not house, it’s not.. anything. It’s more close to pop that to electronic music, but since we live in a time when everything is electronic, he fits the profile. The thing it that he made this track for Eurovision, a very lame European competition. Romania always tried to win this contest but ofcourse that our lame composers have no chance. They simply suck. Except Moga and a few more that have talent and try to make something special, the rest of them are incredibly stupid and boring. I just don’t understand how this extraordinaty producer wants to participate at Eurovision. I just don’t get it. Laurent Garnier was asked by a magazine what he feels on this matter, and he said that he hopes Sebastien will win the competition.
So, here we are, in 2008, with Sebastien Tellier, one of the most talented electronic music producers competing for Eurovision. Hell must have frozen.
I hope he wins!
You can listen to Sebastien Tellier's track here: www.myspace.com/telliersebastien
23rd of May - Robert Moog's birthday
On 23rd of May 1934 Robert Mood was born. He died in 2005, unfortunately. This guy invented the greatest synthesizer in the world: Moog.
In 1953 at age 19, Robert Moog founded his first company, R.A. Moog Co., to manufacture theremin kits. During the 1960s, the company was employed to build modular synthesizers based on Moog's designs.
In 1972 Moog changed the company's name to Moog Music. Throughout the 1970s, Moog Music went through various changes of ownership, eventually being bought out by musical instrument manufacturer Norlin. Poor management and marketing led to Moog's departure from his own company in 1977.
In 1978 after leaving his namesake firm, Moog started making electronic musical instruments again with a new company, Big Briar. Their first specialty was theremins, but by 1999 the company expanded to produce a line of analog effects pedals called moogerfoogers. In 1999, Moog partnered with Bomb Factory to co-develop the first digital effects based on Moog technology in the form of plugins for Pro Tools software.
Despite Moog Music's closing in 1993, Robert Moog did not have the rights to market products using his own name throughout the 1990s. Big Briar acquired the rights to use the Moog Music name in 2002 after a legal battle with Don Martin who had previously bought the rights to the name Moog Music. At the same time, Moog designed a new version of the Minimoog called the Minimoog Voyager. The Voyager includes nearly all of the features of the original Model D in addition to numerous modern features
Source: http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moog -> click to find more information on Robert Moog.
10 reasons why you should listen to Radio Gguerrilla
1. They are the only ones promoting Portishead's latest album – Third
2. It’s the ONLY Romanian station that played Jamie Lidell (Multiply if you want to know which track exactly)
3. They are not afraid to play U2 – One at 10:30 in the morning
4. They care about the environment.
5. They brought back on air Zona Libera – the weirdest radio show ever made in Romania
6. They had a campaign where the guys from the management of radio guerrilla were dressed only in a pink fur coat, as shepherds. The catchword was: radio cu …oaie (if you don't speak romanian you can't really understand. e-mail me for explanation - raluca@fwdagency.ro :).
7. I found out on Radio Guerrilla that Curb Your Enthusiasm is on HBO on Saturdays.
8. Radio Guerrilla is the only radio station that resembles Pig Radio – Italy.
9. Eliberadio has the best website in Romania.
10. Almost nobody listens to it.
http://www.radioguerrilla.ro/ / http://www.eliberadio.ro/
2. It’s the ONLY Romanian station that played Jamie Lidell (Multiply if you want to know which track exactly)
3. They are not afraid to play U2 – One at 10:30 in the morning
4. They care about the environment.
5. They brought back on air Zona Libera – the weirdest radio show ever made in Romania
6. They had a campaign where the guys from the management of radio guerrilla were dressed only in a pink fur coat, as shepherds. The catchword was: radio cu …oaie (if you don't speak romanian you can't really understand. e-mail me for explanation - raluca@fwdagency.ro :).
7. I found out on Radio Guerrilla that Curb Your Enthusiasm is on HBO on Saturdays.
8. Radio Guerrilla is the only radio station that resembles Pig Radio – Italy.
9. Eliberadio has the best website in Romania.
10. Almost nobody listens to it.
http://www.radioguerrilla.ro/ / http://www.eliberadio.ro/
Or, to be more exact, they play the coolest music, and that's what a radio is suppose to do in the first place.
Enjoy!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
OK Corral tonight @ Next Level
Tonight, starting from 23h, DJ Optick's show on Radio21 will have a special guest: OK Corral.
OK Corral wil play live from 23h 'till 00h. You can listen to Radio21 online at www.radio21.ro
Stay tuned and listen to ok corral!
OK Corral wil play live from 23h 'till 00h. You can listen to Radio21 online at www.radio21.ro
Stay tuned and listen to ok corral!
Sunday, May 18, 2008
ok corral - planetarium ep
Because i saw on extreme tracking that i have new visitors on the blog, visitors that checked out my blog because they searched on the internet ok corral, i have to say a few things about this project.
OK Corral is a Romanian based project made by Vania and Thornado, two DJs from Romania which are currently listed in the dj rooster of the booking agency I work for – Forward Agency. They also manage their own record label, groove ++, and their first release was on groove++, called Anakin ep. The second one will be out on 4th of June @ Great Stuff Recordings – Craft Music – Craft 034. Planetarium EP contains three tracks: Concerto, Planetarium and Eartrain. This is their first release on vinyl, as groove ++ releases digital only.
Also, one of their tracks will be included on a great stuff compilation that will come out very soon. It’s a huge surprise and i can’t say anything at this time, but i will very very soon.
If you want to listen to their tracks, see photos or for any other informartion check out http://www.myspace.com/ookcorral!
OK Corral is a Romanian based project made by Vania and Thornado, two DJs from Romania which are currently listed in the dj rooster of the booking agency I work for – Forward Agency. They also manage their own record label, groove ++, and their first release was on groove++, called Anakin ep. The second one will be out on 4th of June @ Great Stuff Recordings – Craft Music – Craft 034. Planetarium EP contains three tracks: Concerto, Planetarium and Eartrain. This is their first release on vinyl, as groove ++ releases digital only.
Also, one of their tracks will be included on a great stuff compilation that will come out very soon. It’s a huge surprise and i can’t say anything at this time, but i will very very soon.
If you want to listen to their tracks, see photos or for any other informartion check out http://www.myspace.com/ookcorral!
Friday, May 16, 2008
VOTE FOR OK CORRAL!
Because I noticed that very few of the people I know actually voted in the Heineken competition as I asked them, I find myself in the situation where I have to post again and again with the same entreaty. Please, vote for OK Corral in the Heineken thirst competition 2008. Prove that you do like good music and show OK Corral that they still have a reason to stay in this competition. I feel that heineken thirst is more about who has more friends, not about who makes better tracks or who is a better dj. I feel deeply sad because you people don’t find a bit of free time to create an account and vote for them. It only takes you two minutes to place you vote.
So, I’ll say it again: if you like ok corral and their track yellow fever, please vote here: http://www.heinekenmusic.ro/thirst2008/consumer/dj/2
We need your support and yes, every vote counts.
One deep sincere thank you to all the voters.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Whitest Boy Alive
One day, when I was sick and tired of all the shitty music I listen to at work, I remembered about Whitest Boy Alive. So, the natural reaction was to listen to their latest album. Burned and Done with you are absolute genius tracks.
Also, I’m listening to Kings of Convenience. I don’t know what I can save you from, I’d rather dance with you and The Passenger are great. This last track is more than weird. The melodic line is freaky, he sings very low, and the last part reminds me of Sepultura. Very nice guitars on this track.
Also, I’m listening to Kings of Convenience. I don’t know what I can save you from, I’d rather dance with you and The Passenger are great. This last track is more than weird. The melodic line is freaky, he sings very low, and the last part reminds me of Sepultura. Very nice guitars on this track.
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