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The Top 10 discs that get us through the night...

1. Deerhoof - "Friend Opportunity" (Kill Rock Stars)
2. El Perro Del Mar - "El Perro Del Mar" (EMI)
3. Lily Allen - "Alright, Still" (Regal/Parlophone)
4. Cat Power - "The Greatest" (Matador)
5. Kanye West - "Late Registration" (Roc-A-Fella)
6. Gorillaz - "Demon Days" (Virgin)
7. M.I.A. - "Arular" (XL)
8. Kaiser Chiefs - "Employment" (B-Unique)
9. Bright Eyes - "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" (Saddle Creek)
10. Mos Def - "The New Danger" (Geffen)


Kickin' It Ol' Skool on Our Stereo...

1. Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Exodus" (Island)


Favorite Kicks ...
Grand Theft Auto
Adidas "Adi Color Winner" -- Fresh high-top sneaker design from the German tennis shoe maker.


Favorite Video Game on Our PlayStation...
Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (Rockstar Games) -- The greatest GTA eva'! It's been out for over two years and we're still freakin' playing it!



Overheard...

Guy talking into cellphone on West Broadway in Soho, NYC:

"Hey man, can you hear me? Got a new cell phone -- it's a Treo, man! That's right, a Treo. Yeah, the Palm Treo 650 and it's aaaawesome ... uh ... hello, can you hear me? Hello? Hello ... Shit!"

MASSIVE

Supercore:
Ivan Corsa
Princess Lower
East Side:
Reiko Oishi
OK Computer:
Typhoon
Lost in Translation:
Ken Taniguchi
Sources Direct:
Rob Samra
D. Carter Witt
Damon Smith
Adrian Tharani
Jess Eddy
Gravy to Potatoes,
Luke to Darth Vader:
Lao Tzu


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Hardware:
Apple Macintosh PowerBook G4 + G3 Computers w/ OS X

Toshiba Satellite Laptop w/ Windows XP

Krups Il Caffe Duomo Espresso Machine



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TECH GEAR
Mobile Devices We Like:
T-Mobile Sidekick and Sidekick II
Easy to use, unbusinesslike and not too techy-looking, we like the Sidekick 'cause it's easy on the thumbs for typing and is probably the most comfortable cell phone and text-messaging device in terms of keyboard size and design.

Palm Treo 650
The treo 650 is to the Sidekick what Prada dress shoes are to Adidas sneakers. Despite that analogy, the Treo will not win points for style compared to many cell phones, though the Treo is well-designed and nice on the eyes. The Treo is a so-called Smartphone and runs an OS for its Palm PDA functionality. Part phone, part PDA and part e-mail and Internet-enabled handheld computer, the 650 comes in slightly different versions for Cingular, Verizon, and Sprint. The best part of the 650 is its keyboard and high-resolution color screen.

TEST
November 15, 2005

Midnight with Japanther

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If you count yourself among the New York City noise music massive, there is a good chance that you were in the Lower East Side around midnight last Friday for the Japanther show at Tonic. Japanther's performance was among the most transformative club gigs we'd seen in a while. For Japanther fans, it was probably the most transformative since, well ... since the last Japanther show in NYC. As Williamsburg's finest underground electro-noise punk outfit, Japanther recall bits and torrents of Osaka-style noise and sugary indie-rock melody, sewn together by severe, unapologetic punk riffs, catharthic vocal assaults, electronic-effects, fuzz, distortion and speed. Modified hardware is employed, including that Japanther staple of telephone receivers jerryrigged to microphones to create the squawky, distorted gate for all vocals. The Japanther show was a beautiful, untainted moment of noise-punk performance.

Essential Links

Japanther Website
Japanther "Hidden" Web Site
Tonic New York City Web Site

Posted by Supercore at November 15, 2005 01:14 AM

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