Author: daveg

Last Dark Energy radio show this Saturday

Say it ain’t so. Due to some “changes” at 2SER recently, the Dark Energy guys will be calling it a day. Your show will be sorely missed guys. I know that for me and many, many other people, you’ve made Saturday night radio an absolutely luxurious pleasure over the last 8 years and introduced to lots of music that we probably wouldn’t have been able to get any other way. So much pleasure and luxury that would make Rocco proud! So many good times and musical pleasure.

Just a quick note that after 8 years on 2SER FM, Dark Energy will be calling it a night this Saturday 16th.

We will be doing an extra long show this Saturday… We are going to bring out the best for this one.

Dark Energy DJ’s:
James Bond
Florian
Colour/Wavelength
The Sentinel/Patrick HAF

Cost: Free
Where: 107.3 FM
Time: 11:30pm – very, very late.

Ready to Jack?

Jack Your Body flyer

In case you haven’t heard (or perhaps weren’t listening at the time) I’m putting on a hip house and acid house party tonight with popfrenzy and a bunch of other people. Its down at the Mandarin Club on Pitt St in the City, it kicks off at 9pm and its only $6 on the door. Prizes and stuff for best outfits and dancers. 😀

Telstra Bigpond Unlimited* Plans finally capping users

Well, well. After having this broadband service with Telstra Bigpond for a while, Telstra have changed from “perhaps we’ll cap you when you go over 10gig” to “we will cap you when you go over 10gig”. Not super-happy about it, but hey, I was expecting to happen one day. They’re stating that they’ll cap accounts to 64kbps (that’s a small b, so bits). People over at Whirlpool are bitching that they can’t get downloads up to 64kbps, but hey, you’ve gotta remember tcp overhead as well. So far, 64kbps seems ok for checking my emails and general web browsing, although I think alot of this is helped along by my proxy server. I might look into ADSL2 later on in the year when pricing starts to get a little more competitive.

Get, get, get BUSY

Get busy, now hear me,
do your funky dance and get dizzy,
do it right now, not later,
if you wait too long you might fade out,
I’m a rapper, you’re the dancer,
clap yo hands, move yo feet fast to my new sound
cause I’m getting down comin straight from the north side of Chi-town…

Get Busy – Mr. Lee

We’ve got a guest

Holly the cat

There’s this gorgeous little cat that’s been hanging around our house for almost a week now named Holly. She’s only got three legs, but is extremely friendly. The last couple of days that I’ve come home from work, she’s been waiting next to the kitchen door for me. I’m not quite sure what I’ve done to deserve all this attention from her, but since she’s such a nice cat, I don’t really mind. It does worry me though as to why she’s been hanging out so much. I know where she lives. Her collar has been taken off and then put back on again in the last week, so somebody must be taking care of her. But in the evening won’t go home. She just stands at the kitchen door, meowing until I let her in. I drove past the owners house tonight and it looked like there’s noone home at the moment, so perhaps she’s just lonely and wanting some attention.

Sneaks

For Rozie’s birthday I bought her a pair of the Adidas Superstar 35th Anniversary Andy Warhol edition. Then on Monday this week I got myself a pair of the Lee Quinones edition Superstars. Love ’em, although a lot of people ain’t feeling it and I have to admit, the whole range didn’t turn out as cool as I was expecting. Photos to come.

Coming to Sydney Soon

A couple of my favourites producers/musicians are hitting Sydney soon. First in is Carl Craig. He’s playing at the Gaelic Club on Saturday 26th March. Then on Saturday 16th April Recloose is djing down at the Basement. Highly recommended for some deeper vibes. Then apparently over the Anzac Long Weekend is my favourite NZ band, Fat Freddy’s Drop a hitting it up.

Why Don’t You…

…skip celebrating Valentine’s Day (which Saint Valentine has very little do to with love) and wait until tomorrow and celebrate Lupercalia, the “annual Roman festival held on February 15 to honour Faunus, god of fertility and forests.”

The religious ceremonies were directed by the Luperci, the “brothers of the wolf”, priests of Faunus, dressed only in a goatskin. During Lupercalia, a dog and two male goats were sacrificed. Two youths were anointed with the blood, which was wiped off with wool soaked in milk, after which they were expected to smile. They afterwards ran round the Palatine Hill with thongs cut from the sacrificed goats in their hands. These were called Februa. Girls would line up on their route to receive lashes from these whips. This was supposed to ensure fertility.

Kid Koala & P-Love

Rozie and I went down to the Clare on Broadway last night to catch Kid Koala and P-Love for the Cyclic Defrost Issue 10 launch since we were too stingy to go and check out the “Short Attention Span Theatre” at the Gaelic Club last Thursday. The Clare isn’t a big place and it got packed out pretty quickly. By the end of the night it was stinking hot. They completed rocked the joint by dropping, cutting, scratching and juggling stacks of great breaks, hip hop, rock and some 80’s funk. I remember hearing Digital Underground’s “Humpty Dance” (who are coming out to play at the Sydney Luna Park soon), “The Power” by Snap, “7 Nation Army” by The White Stripes (like who doesn’t play that these days ;-)) and “Supersonic” by JJ Fad. There was stacks of other great tracks which I can’t remember right now, but it was a great night out. Glad we made the effort to get down there.