>I’m going to Barcelona on Thursday night…taking the night train. The people I’m going witih want to get the cheaper seats, but i think its a better idea to pay 12 bucks extra to get a sleeper car.. and our own beds, since the train leaves at 10pm and gets in to barcelona at 9am… what do you think?
Then, on Monday, I’m hopping on a plane to go to Milan, Italy…. stay tuned for pictures from the field..
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“In a radio world marked by conformity, Radio 1190, a signal affiliated with the University of Colorado at Boulder, provides a refreshing blast of individuality. The DJs at the outlet, whether they’re working standard shifts or specialized shows, are distinguished from their professional counterparts by a love of fresh, outside-the-mainstream sounds, and their unpolished exuberance is infectious. As a result, Radio 1190 is wonderfully old-fashioned and exceedingly contemporary at exactly the same time.”
-Westword 2003 awards
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Last Saturday about 15 of us from CEA went to Antequeria, a historical town about an hour west of Granada. We spent the day exploring ancient ruins and hiking in an incredible national park…. some of the coolest geology I have seen in a while. Also, Sunday night i went to a bullfight in Granada. It was awsome. So the basic deal with the bullfight is…
-They really pack everyone into that arena…no space around you, but it gives the whole thing that authentic feel.
-There are 6 different fights, 6 different torreros (matadors)
-The bull is released from his cage into the ring, where a group of 4 amature ‘rodeo clown’ type matadors wait with pink capes. These guys arent very brave, and end up running from the bull and vaulting the wall to get out of its way. These dude serve to tire the bull a little, or perhaps to get it warmed up.
-Then dudes with these colorfull barbed, hooked steel spears come out. They wave the spears around and get the bull to charge them. The dodge the bull, and as its passing, slam the sharp spears into the bulls back. Since the spears are barbed, they stay lodged in the bull, and blood starts gushing everywhere, dripping off the bull.
-Next, 2 horses with riders come out. The horses have this thick woven wooden armor on, and the riders have polished metal javelin size spears. The tips of these are sharpened, but not barbed. When the bull sees the horses, he immediately charges a horse at full throttle. Its amazing to watch, cause the horse actually knows how to react to this, and instead of running, the horse leans into the bull to handle the blow…the horse sometimes has to lean in as much as 35degrees to avoid getting knocked over by the charging bull. Also, when the bull is goring the horse, the rider takes his javelin and plunges it into the bulls back.
-Then then matador comes out. He’s all dressed in a really cool outfit, and has a special deep red cape and a sword. The matador dances around and does the whole bull-charge-cape-prancing thing for a while. Its really cool to watch, almost like a matador-bull tango. This goes on for a while, untill the bull starts to get tired, both from running around so much, and from blood loss.
-At this point, all the other ‘rodeo clown’ matadors come out and corral the bull against the wall.
-Then the matador gets his ultra sword out, and when the bull lowers its head, the matador charges the bull with the sword, stabbing the bull right behind his head, severing the bulls spinal cord and arteries in its neck.
-At this point, since his spinal cord has just been severed, neural communications between his brain and the rest of his body are cut off, and he collapses to the ground.
-I’m assuming that the bull doesn’t die instantly. He’s just been running around and stuff, so no doubt he’s got some adrenaline going. When they cut his spinal cord, they are only breaking the communincations. They arent killing his brain instantly, so I think that the bull probobly lies on the ground for a few minutes, concuious, but unable to move or feel, his breathing stopped, his heard slowing to a stop, and his body slowly dying of oxygen deprivation.
-Maybe I’m wrong, but who knows… i hear when you’re beheadded, your head lives for a little while after its severed from your body….
-Ok, back on track…
-After the ‘kill’ the bull, they tie it to 3 horses, and drag it around the ring, then take it away to be cut up and sold after the fight.
-The matador then takes a victory lap.
-This happens 6 times with 6 bulls.
-There’s a ‘7th inning stretch’ which happens between the 3rd and 4th bull, but nobody sings ‘take me out to the ball game’
My weekend was great, be sure to check out the pics!!!
Also, if you want to order any printed pics from yahoo photos, let me know which pics you want and i will unlock them for you!
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Last weekend I went to Cordoba and Sevilla with my CEA group. It was a lot of fun, we saw the Mezquita in Cordoba and the Alcazar and Cathedral in Sevilla. The Cathedral in Sevilla is the 3rd largest in the world.
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This past weekend, I went, along with pretty much all of Spain, to Carnival in Cazdiz. Cadiz is a little nothingness town on the southwestern coast of spain (no, not the southwestern coast of the Ibearian penninsula, that would be lagos, portugal). Rooms in hostels and hotels were sold out months in advance, so we ventured down there with no place to stay. We found a bus company that ran a shuttle down there… 20euros there and back. So saturday afternoon Thai, Emiko, Ola, Per, Chrissy, Lindsay and I hopped on one of the many busses going to Cadiz. We arrived around 6, had some food,and then the partying began. It was pretty amazing, the entire town was filled with people dressed in every possible costume. There were stages with music acts set up in all the large plazas, and bars on the streets. The whole entire town partied all night, and in the morning, those without beds (which was about half the people there) woke up in the streets or on the beach. I think the most incredible part was waking up on the beach in the morning, unbelievable dirty and sandy, and walking around town, just looking at the wreck of a city. Anyway, I’ll let the photos tell the rest of the story…
..::17 NEW PICTURES::..
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**This post was re-posted from my first blog in college, ILikeLasagna.com**
Ok, today Chris and I hopped a bus up to the Sierra Nevada mountains. It was awesome. We got up there to the ski area, had some breakfast and coffee, then got tickets to ride the gondola. So we went to the top of the mountain, and rented snowmobiles. We cruised around for a while on those, which was awesome, then went in for some lunch. After lunch we didn’t have enough money to rent skis, so we decided to just walk and stumble down the whole ski mountain…it was incredible. Check out all the pics from our trip!
Got a cell phone today… my new number, in Spain is (country code for Spain = 34) plus my cell fone is 610-87-46-28.
So if you’re dialing internationally, you have to dial the country code plus my fone number. If you’re calling from within spain, just dial my phone number.
Fotos will be online tonight!
Hola Hola Hola…Finally, i have arrived in Spain…So after traveling for 10 hours and warping 6 hours into the future (to spanish time), i have finally arrived. I got into the Madrid airport this morning at 7am, and caught a ride to my hotel in the city. So far i?ve met two of my classmates…Liz and Rob, and since we have the day free, we?ve just been bumming around madrid…..hehe, we went to this little local cafe this morning for a drink, and ordered hot chocalates for each of us….it was amazing..spanish hot chocolate is not just swiss miss dissolved in water…this is some hard core shit…its got the consistency of tomato soup….pretty powerful. Tonight we?re meeting the rest of the group at 730 for a group dinner, and tomorrow morning we leave at 8am to go to Granada to get settled in. I?ll post pictures and whatnot as soon as i get my whole internet/digital camera thing worked out……
oh, right now im at this internet cafe called easyInternetcafe
First of a four part series…incredibly stupid animations, complete with sound!!! Check out the first one, the banana… (give it a second or two to load on slower connections, and make sure your sound is turned up)
Incredible Salad Dressing…
excelent, my brother just showed me this site. Also, if your tired, maybe you should check this out…
Simple and addictive: the incredible worm game… click to make the worm go up, release to make him go down, dont hit the sides or walls…..play the game!
oh yeah, in other news, I just got back from a Spinning class taught by my mother, and now I’m going to go crank out some 12’s at Rockquest with my little brother.
One of the very very few excelent things about Cincinnati is Skyline Chili. It’s a Cincinnati institution, pretty much. It’s basically their special chili served with spaghetti, cheese, onions and beans, or over a hotdog with cheese and onions on top. Skyline Chili is, as Sean would say, “the nectar of the gods”. So for my second night back in the ‘nati, I ate at skyline with my brother. I had the usual, a 5 way, cheese coney and a rootbeer….
See a video of skyline in action….
Ok, so I just sat in my car and drove 1200 miles in 21 hours. Amazing. So after packing up my life in Boulder, I’m chillin at home in Ohio for a few days untill I leave for Spain on February 6.
Yeah so, I have a lot of shit. In packing and storing all my stuff in Boulder, I managed to completely fill a 10X10X5 foot storage locker (500 Square Feet), plus the entire back of my 4-Runner, plus the roof racks on top of teh car, plus a huge duffel strapped to the top of the ski rack. It was amazing. Driving home was uneventfull, and Kansas sucks to drive through. So for the next few days I’ll be chillin in Cincinnati, hanging out with my family and getting ready for Spain.
Oh, so if you’re wondering about The Acid Lounge (my show on Radio1190), fear not, it will still be on every wednesday from 11-1. Now, Chad Wescott, the former underwriting director of Radio1190 and leader of the Lowland Apartments crew will be taking over The Acid Lounge in my absence. Don’t worry, Chad is the man and has a superior taste in music.
Thats all for now… ill keep ya posted on whats about to go down in spain asap… i should find out who im living with soon
A touching story…
>setlist.
..::The Acid Lounge::..
1/22/03
Artist – Song
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Les Hommes – In Spring
Thievery Corporation – All That We Percieve
Dzihan and Kamien – Stiff Jazz
Jazzanova – Fredime’s Flight
George Benson – The Ghetto/El Barrio
The Troublemakers – (album) Doubts and Convictions
Zuco 103 – Outro Lado
Bebel Gilberto – Bananeira (Rae & Christian Remix)
Nuspirit – Helsinki
Les Baxter – Road Song
Les Hommes – Six and Eight
Mr Scruff – Get A Move On
Mondo Grosso – Show Me Your Love
Jamiroquai – Virtual Insanity
Lemon Jelly – His Majesty King Raam
Supreme Beings of Leisure – ???
Ok so I’m gettin ready to go off to spain…. I’ve been packing up my life here in Boulder for the last week… its incredible. I have almost gotten halfway through my room..ive taken about 3 carfulls of stuff over to teh self storage place to store it in case i decide to come back to boulder. Also, its been weird saying goodbye to all my friends here in Boulder. I’,m going away for a while, and I’m sad to leave them, but im also really really excited to meet new people in spain. Finally, Malinda finally came back from her travels abroad. It was awsome seeing her…she had been away for a year..but it seemed much longer. We hung out some and got some dinner 2 nights…it was really great seeing her. She was pretty much my first friend here at CU (back in 2000, hehe), and we have been friends ever since. She’s great. (yes, i know ive said this about other girls on this blog, but really, Malinda is the best, really.).. She’s super smart, really witty, funny, interesting, easy going… great to hang out with. She’s also super ultra pretty, and athletic. It’s frusturating for me that she came back now..cause im leaving in a few days, and she just came back, so we dont have much time to hang out. I don’t know what she thinks of me, if she things im just some guy, or a friend, or maybe even more? But I really like her….I guess if it was meant to be or whatever, I shoulden’ worry about leaving. I wonder what she’ll think if she reads this? Whatever, she’s a great girl and a great friend…I dont think she’ll think im weird or whatever. i just dont know….
..::this is what my room looks like now::..
(I’m packing)
oh yeah, i found this video
surfing the internet…..this is such a great idea…i can sympathize with these dudes….since we have a ton of religious people shouting all over campus here at CU…. the video
>setlist
..::The Acid Lounge::..
1/15/03
Artist – Song
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Ultra nate – Twisted
Zero 7 – Destiny
Space Raiders – Beautiful Crazy
Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground
George Benson – The Ghetto/El Barrio
Thievery Corporation – Air Butacata
Quantic – Life in the Rain
Tosca – Busenfreund (Walker Moestl Dub)
Mr. Scruff – Get a Move On
Kelis – Suspended
Handsome Boy Modeling School – The Truth
Zero 7 – Waiting Line
DJ Shadow – Organ Donor
Pelican City – Northside
Tosca – Honey
Herbalizer – Sensual Woman
Charlie Hunter feat. Norah Jones – More Than This
Jimmy Smith – The Organ Grinders Song
You’ll notice a new and improved disclaimer on the site, and some more restrictive coding. Why? Well, I can’t tell you why, but I wish it didn’t have to be like this.
On another note, I’m in the final stages of gearing up to go to Spain! I’m ultra psyched about it. The hardest thing so far has been cleaning up my life here in Boulder so I can cleanly depart the country. Also, I’ve been contemplating packing and what to bring along and what to pack it all in. I think the current plan is I’m going to try to pair down and fit it all into my 7000 cubic liter Dana Designs Astralplane and a small backpack. I think it will be easier to travel that way, and it will make me bring only the bare essentials.
Gotta go… going to King Soopers with Pinky to get some bread, cheese, batteries, a spatula and some other late night essentials….
>Playlist
..::The Acid Lounge::..
1/8/2003
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Artist – Song
The Herbalizer – The Sensual Women
Llorca – The Novel Sound
Hajime Yoshizawa – Endless Bow
Rae & Christian – Blazzing The Crop
Blue States – Diamente
Space Raiders – Beautiful Crazy
Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground
Smoke City – Underwater Love
Goldfrapp – Lovely Head
Jimmy Smith – The Organ Grinder’s Song
Billy Fury – Wondrous Place
dZihan & Kamien – Stiff Jazz
Today I snowboarded in Telluride, Colorado. I think this is something like my 12th year coming here, and it just gets better every year. The snow was pretty good, and I got a chance to go to Prospect Bowl, this new area of the ski mountain. Also, I ran into Pam East, an old friend from Telluride Academy.
I’m out of time now….more on my trip later, including some photos and whatnot…
Today I skiied with my family in Vail. The snow was nice and soft… Tomorrow we’re going to Beaver Creek, and after that we’re spending a few days in Telluride. Check back later for a photo or two.
>setlist.
..::The Acid Lounge::..
12/26/02
Artist – Song
Tribe Called Quest – Description of a Fool
Barry White – Playin your game baby
Quasimoto – Real Eyes
Cinematic Orchestra – Channel 1 Suite
Thievery Corporation – Indra
Nicola Conte – Bossa Per Due
RJD2 – Part 2
Ben Butler – Closer
Tosca – Busenfreund
Jazzanova – Fedime’s Flight
The Baldwin Brothers – That’s Right
Pepe Deluxe – Woman in Blue
Groove Armada – Little by Little
Zero 7 Waiting Line
Charles Webster – Butterfly/Ready
Ivy – Undertow
>setlist.
..::The Acid Lounge::..
12/18/02
Artist – Song
Bent – Swollen (Marsh Mix)
Superpulse – Devious Cha Cha
Gorillaz – New Genious
Al Green – Light My Fire (originally by The Doors, Al Green cover remixed by Groove Armada)
Barry White – Playing Your Game, Baby (Remixed by Groove Armada)
Charles Webster – Ready
Thievery Corporation – Lebanese Blond
Ivy – Undertow
Urban Species – Spiritual Love
Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery – Road Song
Deja Move – Bye Bye
Fila Brazilia – Spill the Beans
Boards of Canada – Julie and Candy
Soulstice – Wind
The Angelica – Another Skin
Afterlife – Childhood
Jakatta – American Dream
Superpulse – The Paris Match
Morcheeba – Glad to Have You
Zero 7 – Waiting Line
DJ Shadow – Organ Donor
Pelican City – The Northside
Dzihan and Kamien – Stiff Jazz
>Ok, so I just finished up the final exams of the first semester of my junior year in college. Its incredible. This was probobly the hardest and most stressfull round of exams to date..but I made it, and I actually think I did well on a few of them. Anyway, during studying for exams for almost 2 weeks solid, I think I pretty much lost my mind, and started composing poetry on the little note cards I was using to study for Biopsychology.
Below are the poems I wrote during exam week. They’re a little out there, probobly because my mind was fried. Also, they’re in chronological order, covering about a day or so (but written over a week). Hope you like them. If you have any poems of your own, please send them to me or post them as a comment!
>Excelent, Brooke has fun with some coffee….
