By the way, this is amazing, it actually works, and saves quite a bit of storage space:
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
How to Disappear Completely and Order a Grande Skim Latte
Nobody really cared that much when Paul McCartney signed to Starbucks' new record label. But now, rumors are going around that Radiohead may be signing with Starbucks as well. Before today, I could never have imagined running down to Starbucks to pick up a new Radiohead CD, but with the music business completely in the toilet and nothing in the foreseeable future to turn sales around, I have a feeling this may actually end up being one of the less bizarre music related stories this year.
Friday, March 23, 2007
The gym by work just replaced a bunch of their treadmills with Tread Climbers. What is a Tread Climber, you ask? Well, it's a cross between a treadmill and a stair climber, silly. And you know what? I tried one out, and after 20 seconds I was positive that I was going to have an embarassing, perhaps paralyzing incident if I stayed on it any longer. These things are insane, have made it even more difficult to get on a treadmill after work, and need to go away now. I hope a pack of wild baby elephants go on a rampage and destroy all of them so I can have my beloved treadmills back. That is all.
Monday, March 12, 2007
The Roxy closed for good Saturday night.
Although rumors of its eventual demise had been going around for years, like cockroaches and Cher, I always felt the Roxy would outlast everything. The many nights I spent there were a mixed bag, sometimes transcendent, sometimes downright awful, always memorable (if I was actually sober enough to do so). So, in saying goodbye to the Roxy, I'd like to take a stroll down memory lane.
Veronica - Someone to Hold (Johnny Vicious Remix) - Razor and Guido's remix to Kim English's "Unspeakable Joy" may have been a more obvious choice for the biggest Roxy anthem of all time, but it's really this gem from 1998 that should take the cake. Excessive peak hour hard house to the nth degree, over 12 minutes in length, going from vocal anthem, to a deafening helicopter build-up, to a serene flamenco ballad, this song was epic with a capital E.
Robbie Rivera - Feel This - I first went to the Roxy to check out Victor Calderone, whom rumor had was giving Danny Tenaglia a run for his money. It turned out Danny didn't really have all that much to be worried about, but Victor had certainly mastered seamlessly weaving a night of very, very dark and apocalyptic tribal, and I cannot think of a single set of his at the Roxy during which he did not drop this track at least once. Easily one of my favorite house tracks of all time, it is as timeless as it is influential.
Pete Heller - Big Love - It's fitting that the first YouTube video I found of Roxy's closing night was of Peter Rauhofer dropping this classic. Beyond the music and the dancing, Roxy's largest contribution to my life will always be the fact that I met my partner there on a chilly December night eight years ago. Pete Heller's "Big Love" always signalled that the night was truly about to begin, and my partner and I would always make a point of dancing to this one together, singing and staring deeply into each other's eyes amidst the lights and the beats.
This video is actually making me a litle verklempt today.
Although rumors of its eventual demise had been going around for years, like cockroaches and Cher, I always felt the Roxy would outlast everything. The many nights I spent there were a mixed bag, sometimes transcendent, sometimes downright awful, always memorable (if I was actually sober enough to do so). So, in saying goodbye to the Roxy, I'd like to take a stroll down memory lane.
Veronica - Someone to Hold (Johnny Vicious Remix) - Razor and Guido's remix to Kim English's "Unspeakable Joy" may have been a more obvious choice for the biggest Roxy anthem of all time, but it's really this gem from 1998 that should take the cake. Excessive peak hour hard house to the nth degree, over 12 minutes in length, going from vocal anthem, to a deafening helicopter build-up, to a serene flamenco ballad, this song was epic with a capital E.
Robbie Rivera - Feel This - I first went to the Roxy to check out Victor Calderone, whom rumor had was giving Danny Tenaglia a run for his money. It turned out Danny didn't really have all that much to be worried about, but Victor had certainly mastered seamlessly weaving a night of very, very dark and apocalyptic tribal, and I cannot think of a single set of his at the Roxy during which he did not drop this track at least once. Easily one of my favorite house tracks of all time, it is as timeless as it is influential.
Pete Heller - Big Love - It's fitting that the first YouTube video I found of Roxy's closing night was of Peter Rauhofer dropping this classic. Beyond the music and the dancing, Roxy's largest contribution to my life will always be the fact that I met my partner there on a chilly December night eight years ago. Pete Heller's "Big Love" always signalled that the night was truly about to begin, and my partner and I would always make a point of dancing to this one together, singing and staring deeply into each other's eyes amidst the lights and the beats.
This video is actually making me a litle verklempt today.
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