so to start with, there’s always the fall back topic of music. recently i downloaded Girl Talk’s latest album (that’s legally kiddies, you can choose to pay $0.00 if you want). i was talking to tricky about it last time he was here. Girl Talk often gets called a mashup artist, but i like to think of mashups as two or maybe three songs mixed together as a version of one of the songs. girl talk is more like “lets chuck together 10s samples from 100 tracks and make a 4 minute ’song’ from it”. i would probably call him a Sample DJ. that being said, i quite like it, and being the wannabe music nerd that i am, i find great pleasure in picking the samples used in each track (wikipedia of course has a list to check against).

whilst listening to the album, it reminded me that i pretty much have no idea how mashup artists or Sample DJs do what they do. i mean, i understand that they get bits from songs and put them together, but i can’t fathom how they manage to juggle things like song keys, tempos, melodies and timing etc to get it sounding so neat. and do they have access to the mixed song’s master tracks so they can single out just the vocals or melodies etc, or are they able to split up the normally released track into various parts? and how does he do it live?

it does somewhat annoy me, because i can understand how someone might be a really good guitar player and be able to play scales and solos be great at that, but i don’t even know the basics of how someone would start mixing it up. i’m guessing it’s mostly on computers and maybe there’s programmes that do a lot of hard work for you, but i’m even ignorant about that.

anyway, here’s a clip of some girltalk if you were interested and don’t know what he sounds like (watch out, there are bad words), and you too can rip him off choose how much to pay and download it from his site if you so desire.

unfortunately nothing of note has really been happening, or if it did, writing it up made it sound lame.

we’ll try to be more productive in the near future, but hopefully this will tide you over till then.

also, check it: we got a favicon. (cheers tricky.)

having seen very few B-grade movies, i was surprised at it’s incredible lack of quality, but it was still enjoyable — if only for laughing at the dodge. i still managed to get scared/shocked a few times, and yelled loud enough to scare everyone else.

the bear was pretty rad though. it was able to throw people 20 odd metres, crush jeeps and even had opposable thumbs.

possibly the best part was after the movie was finished when huw gave us a lift home. we were still a bit on edge so i grabbed him (i was sitting behind him) and yelled really loud. he jumped pretty good… probably not the safest thing to do to the driver, but it was worth it.

in conclusion, i thoroughly recommend Grizzly Rage.

Four pieces of ‘beef’
Four pieces of ‘cheese’
Two pieces of bacon (The bacon was genuine enough)
0 lettuce and tomato

I also included some Huw Bizzle additions, including a few chips and some onion rings shoved inside the burger.

With chips and a drink I finished the meal quite satisfied. And Burger King also has free refills, so a couple of extra cokes went down well.

The meal made me quite tired and needing to go toilets, but was still awesome as.

I did my own no-stops trip to Albury on Friday, lets ignore the fact I flew. I slept with Joel’s pants that day (ask me about it some other time) before going to youth group and sleeping over at Winky’s. Hit the slopes on Saturday. For the first 3 hours up until lunch I was terrible. People tried helping me, but all eventually grew too impatient to wait for me. After lunch though, I was rocking it. I kinda learnt how to slow down and more importantly learnt how to go faster for longer without stacking it. I developed an awesome strategy. All the good skiiers go down the runs zig zagging (thats how you slow down). I went down in a straight line for as long as possible before I couldnt hold it any longer or was getting a little too close to trees or fences. The strategy was heaps fun but I pulled up a bit sore by the end of the day. Near the end of the day, me and KimRad saw some chick nearly die. She slid on her bum about 20 metres before crashing into a metal sign. She was out cold and there was lots of blood. After that I wasn’t so keen on my go fast then stack it strategy.

On Sunday was Winks’ mega party, it went for like 13 hours, with a two hour break in the middle for church. Church was awesome, we sung carols cause the sermon was on Jesus’ birth. I tried remembering the lyrics without reading them but failed. If it were like 8 years ago I would have been able to do it. We stayed up heaps late on Sunday night and I watched Juno again but fell asleep, waking up with Tristan being a big spoon to me.

On monday we went to Eksdale, as you have already heard from Winky. It was way rad, and I proved myself as a sweet-as manual driver. We got heaps dirty but because Eli’s place only has a bath, no shower, I went to bed dirty and woke up dirty. The drive back to Albury was fun. A nice fun road, pumping up some quality music. That Tuesday we hung out with TT in her break and I met up with Van Dizzle and had the same old conversation with him.

The flight home on Wednesday was pretty breezy with no major hiccups.

p.s. the videos are a heaps quitet so turn the volume up

we found this massive bog blog log that was in our way and decided to try and moove it, it was sortof in 3 bits so me and huw sortof snapped a bit off then eli got at it with the car… aww yeah

rope snap… YEAH!

AWESOME

there was heaps of supplies in the ute, huw found the hammer, and found a rock blocking the road and had to remove it, it was like 2m massive but i only got the last bit, possibly fo shore the radest est video eva.

the ropes that were in the car were fo sure up for the job

i did this mad kick with both feet and kicked this massve oak tree over but didnt get it on video, so we tried it again but i wasnt as commited in this one and failed so i pushed it over. eco systemsez arrrrr over rated.

chi#sakay, nature was a big theme in the whole event, got some rad footage, we pretty much watched nature for ABO ut 5 hours, this is one of the highlights, second only to probably the snow and huw and his hammer. i hadago with the hammer on some tree as well, i got about halfway through it then accidentily let go and missed the tree at the same time and the hammer wehnted flying, i thought i should stop wher i was upto. we drove over some rock then eli had the great idea to push it off the road and down the side of the hill, it went about 50m then hit a tree, started going again and nocked over this other tree good. i was heaps pumped, probably the pumpedest i was in my whole life. did you see me, is this real???

eli was doin “these ones”

i was pretty stokesed by the trip, oh and we got to see the water tables at Xdale, how good were them videos, did you see them?