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Steve put together a Yahoo! playlist for Guitar Hero 2. We're having some pre-holiday fun with the game in the FeedBurner office right now.
Coz and I like to come up with examples of how "there is no top" when it comes to financial or social status -- no matter how well-off you think someone is, you can be sure that he or she is thinking that about someone else. The Ellison-Clark yacht pissing contest and how Bill Gates wants to get into Augusta have been a couple of our favorite examples.
I think my new favorite example might have been from last week's Wall Street Journal, from the "Crunch Time for Fractional Jet Owners" article. They're basically talking about how private jet travel has picked up in the past couple of years and how it's getting harder to book a jet around the holidays. Here's the prize-winning quote:
Companies are hoping to mollify higher-end fliers who are annoyed by the new crowds of private jet customers. Richard Gadbois, the president of a real-estate development company, owns a fractional share of a jet with Flight Options. (His share, which he splits with a friend, equals about 140 hours of flight time a year.) Though he's hooked on the conveniences of flying privately, such as skipping long airport lines, Mr. Gadbois says he has noticed more delays in recent years. "The problems stem from people who buy 25 hours and think they're now a jet owner and the red carpet should roll out," says Mr. Gadbois, who lives in Newport Beach, Calif.
Ohhhh! Snap! How money is that? Some slob throws down a measly $100k for 25 hours and they think they're special? They think they're a "jet owner"? Ha! That poor soul has just had his world-view transformed by the Gadbois effect.
The wonderful thing about the Gadbois effect, though, is that there is no situation in which it doesn't apply. You know there was some guy somewhere that read that article and muttered to himself "fractional ownership is an oxymoron".
I really haven't had too much time to play any games, but Guitar Hero II is different. It's nice to go and play a set at the end of a day. This past weekend I had my brothers over and we were doing both face-off and cooperative. What a blast.
I had a nice surprise today when I unlocked "Freebird". Yes, it's all been leading up to this. I sure have a long way to go before I'm close to this guy:
Also, the first song I purchased when I had the cash was "Trogdor". Truly a burnanating experience.
Don't ask me why, but it's taken me this long to start watching Entourage. And I've been big fan of Jeremy Piven since Cupid, so there's really no excuse. Anyway, I'm now about halfway through the second season (right after Sundance) and it's really such a great show. Of course. Like everyone said.
I'm pulling the same thing with Battlestar Galactica ... I watched the initial mini-series and then got about four episodes into the first season before I decided that it had to be a "me and Christine" show. We haven't watched a sci-fi show together since Farscape, so this'll be great. Soooo ... we're going back and watching that from the beginning now.
I figured by the time we're done with all of this, we'll be able to hop on the Heroes bandwagon and start watching that.
Hat tip to my brother Christian for recommending this one to me. This is an absolutely insane mash-up experience. You get a new surprise about every 20 seconds listening to this album. Very entertaining and very creative. I've included track #3 "Hold Up" below, but tracks are pretty meaningless on this album.
Sometimes an album grabs you and you just keep listening to it over and over again. That's recently happened to me with Mew's album And The Glass Handed Kites. Of course, I've always been a sucker for cohesive albums, and it's really best to think of this album as one long haunting song. Some great help from J Mascis on one of the tracks. For those of you with Y! Unlimited, you can find it here.
How did I miss the "my new filing technique is unstoppable" series from the "get your war on" guys? These are hilarious.
Wow, what a nice surprise tonight! I was just cruising around
listening for music, as usual, when I came across the album "The
Audience's Listening" by Cut Chemist. It totally blew me away! I didn't
know anything about him, but I guess he's a DJ for Jurassic 5. This
album reminds me a bit of some of The Avalanches stuff -- really great
scratching and samples. I included one of my favorite tracks below.
Thank you Boing Boing. I'm looking forward to this compilation from Baby Rock Records in particular:
I mentioned in the "My Sweet Banana" post
yesterday that we were listening to some Japanese music stations to get
us in the mood for some group Internationalization work at FeedBurner.
Earlier in the day, the music was very "Japanese Idol"-like, but then
towards the end of the day we were slammed into a bunch of music that
sounded like Happy Happy Hardcode-esque
rave music. Being fans of the >155BPM genre, we were intrigued,
especially since we didn't recognize any of the music, and the lyrics
had a very Engrish feel to them.
After some research, I now realize we had been unwittingly
transported to the world of Eurobeat music. I love stumbling into
rabbit holes like this. It turns out (according to this history)
that Eurobeat (and it's slightly slower sibling Eurodance) is
exclusively produced in Italy,
but then only released in Japan. It starts out on vinyl and then ends
up on compliation discs. So, for example, the My Sweet Banana song from
yesterday was found on the compilation "Super Eurobeat: Vol. 170". Yes,
170.
That's so cool that there's this whole big genre that I had no idea existed. Steve, you're heading to Japan next week. Would you mind picking up a few compilations for the office? And some Dir en grey too?
