Picked up a copy of this weeks Tokyo Notice Board from Nissin Supermarket this afternoon and was very surprised to find myself mentioned on page 49.
So yes, by way of answer, we do wonder what happened to Mr. Withers. If he would like to send us a message via the contact page, maybe we could have a coffee and catch up. That would be wonderful.
Well, you may have noticed the sites design has changed. It felt like an update of the design was in order - and there was a new release of wordpress (the software that powers this site) so I thought I would combine the two.
It has broken a few things - the youtube plugin I was using doesn’t seem to work properly, but then I should be writing posts and not just slacking off and posting videos;)
I didn’t post for a while, many reasons of course. One was that firefox got a bit bogged down - running too many extensions. Firefox extensions can be useful but they do impact on performance. Removing them has made using firefox much faster. I also thought that the youtube videos were slowing down the site, but it turned out that removing the extensions fixed the problem.
BTW, the skin I am using at the moment on this site is based on Fluid Solution.
One of these days I will have to get a windows machine so I can test what things look like for most people. But I think I will wait until they opensource Vista…
One of the things I have been doing recently is writing product descriptions for DJ gear, particularly for sale on ebay. Now, most of the product descriptions out there are pretty boring, so I thought I would give the process a new twist. It does make a difference - people invest time in reading about the products, and that leads to increased sales.
Here are a couple I have written today (I am posting these more as stories than as product descriptions…). The first one transposes Brad and Janet of Rocky Horror fame:
Vestax PCV-275 DJ mixer
Once upon a time all was dark and all was silent. A crowd of expectant punters grumbled and mumbled across the dance floor. Brad could feel a cold sweat upon his brow. He had no mixer. And without a mixer there would be no tunes. And with no tunes there would be a riot or worse.
Just then a voice from the great beyond boomed down to him “I have been to the mountain and I have found thee a mixer - a Vestax PCV-275 DJ mixer.” A bolt of lightning flashed across the forest, raining chubachubs down on the punters and striking the dj booth with all the force of ancient magic.
Once the smoke and the hubris had cleared, there lay the Vestax PCV-275 in all its magnificence. Cables snaked their way across the desk. And boom! the bass kicked in. With its 3 channels (3 decks/6 line/2 mics) with 3 band eq, and kill switches on each Brad knew he could save the party and the day.
The crowd went wild as he mixed in the melody line. Pulsating bodies felt the power flow.
From close by Brad could hear Janet moaning “Oh Brad, Oh Brad.” The Vestax PCV-275 had won the party.
And this one, with a bit of a Robert Louis Stephenson theme:
Vestax PMC-08PRO Hybrid Digital Mixer
The ship had broken upon the rocks the night before in the most terrible storm ever witnessed by woman or beast. Demarnia’s life had been on the line as she slipped in and out of consciousness, half wrapped around a friendly piece of flotsam.
Waking at dawn, damp and dazed on a sandy beach, Demarnia took a few minutes to gain her bearings, and also to realize that she was being watched. She had landed on the mystical island of the SlipMatt, and she was soon surrounded by the acid head freak SlipMatteans.
“You, our graceful visitor will play for us. Play well and we will spare you. Spin sh*t and you shall die,” a SlipMattean who appeared to be some sort of leader politely informed Demarnia.
Still groggy from her ordeal Demarnia looked around in panic. The expectant faces, the horror! the horror! They carried her from the shore on a bier of heavily scratched Rotterdam 12 inches up over a rise, through the forest for some time and into a clearing. The clearing had a heavily stomped floor and a white tent.
They laid here down inside the tent. She slowly got to her feet and got her bearings. On the desk was a brand spanking new Vestax PMC-08PRO Hybrid Digital Mixer. Demarnia could feel her confidence rising. This 2 channel digital mixer with its analog AD/DA conversion and digital signal processing at the lowest latency rate and the highest performance level was truly the greatest thing since sliced wholemeal bread. The cutting edge fader technology for extreme scratching - the most sensitive crossfader on the planet - would save her salty skin.
She got a groove going, she mixed in some funky beats. The SlipMatteans started to get into the mood. With the DSP EQ and the Vestax PMC-08PRO’s isolator features she made that grove sing, the deepest of deep and warm wafted out through the crowd and bang, bang, bang. Was that the sharpest kill ever!
Two hours passed like a Jesus and Mary Chain set. The SlipMatteans supplicated themselves in awe. The leader came forth with a crown of daisys.
Demarnia was spared. And they booked her for the next full moon party. All thanks to the Vestax PMC-08PRO Hybrid Digital Mixer.
The sheep story I posted a couple of days ago is about as well founded as the Chinese cheese industry. You can find out more here… Sheepish Discovery.
The thing that made me suspicious was the idea of a Sun reporter getting a quote from the Sapporo police. That is unheard of.
The idea of Japanese people falling for a scam like this - well that falls easily into the realm of the possible as anyone who knows about the ore-ore sagi scams will tell you.
While some websites would regret publishing something made up like this, here at blizzardboy we dont. It was a good laugh.
Suomi Kings Freakdance Records is 5 years old and it is time to party!
From their website:
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DIGIPAK REISSUE NOW AVAILABLE!
Freakdance is celebrating its fifth year in existence, and we’ve got some HOT STUFF back in our stock - Faerie Dragon Records from Hong Kong has licensed Puoskari’s “The Audio Hustler” album (cat.nr. FDCD04) exclusively and the album is now available again as a digipak CD.
Get your own copy from the mailorder - section!
You can check out some tracks by Puoskari at mikseri.net. Rockin’
Shouts from Chooch and Psymeg:)
