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The Simpsons are going to Paris!

(Only substitute ‘The Simpsons’ for Alternate.org, and Paris for New York.)

“He threw a hand grenade at the security forces, but it exploded beside him,” the official said.”

Not a solid throw by this young Al-Qaeda suspect.

It didn’t take long for the “axis of evil” to throw the Bush administration off course.

Okay, so I’m heading out to NYC this weekend, and so I’m looking for something cool to do, and I run into a post somewhere about a good DJ I’ve actually heard of playing one of the nights I’m there. Now, of course the only sort of experience I have with being out is mostly confined to Denver’s arcane rule that at 2AM, any and all alcohol serving must stop.

In New York, the aforementioned DJ doesn’t even start playing until 3AM. Ah, what life in a real city must be like.

A man tries to break into the cockpit of flight to Argentina “kung-fu style” in order to “talk to the captain.” ( My advice, knock). Then the co-pilot wacks him blunt ways over the head with an ax. For all the shit I go through at the airport on the rare occassions that I fly, this illustrates that it really makes no difference at all. This security thing is a farce. Guys wth C4 in their shoes and people just plain fucked in the head will always sneak on board. Detaining old women and making me toss my nail files before I get on the plane is all for show.

If you’re in Denver, like to listen to chill electronic music but don’t want to deal with ravers, MileHighHouse Productions is who you have to look out for. Recently profiled in Denver’s free weekly, and a collective of which I am a part, MHHP consistently throws hella cool gigs all over town. Come down to next Moday’s Textiles at 1515 Market at 10pm and I might just buy you a beer.

You read it right. Me.

Although in the real world, I think he just couldn’t think of anyone or was too shy to say ‘Jason Kottke.’ Anyway, say hi to the 37Signals guys for me, will ya, Paul?

Does anybody remember the mlife ads from the Super Bowl? Not only were the ads perplexing, but the website is too. I made my obligatory website research check and I still have no idea what it does.

French Club President, Bombardment Society Founder, Bee Keeping Society Member, rocker? Max Fischer has been plugging his new movie “Slackers” on the tube, and somehow managed to get his band to play Letterman. Talia Shire’s son is a smart kid, quick with the wit, and of the actor-to-musician kids out there, his band isn’t half bad. Much better than Tina Yothers’ band, (Though not as good as Theo’s).

When you’ve had such memorable, defined roles, is the possible anonymity of music your only escape? I mean, J-Lo wasn’t really much of an actress before she went headlong into music (*coughAnacondacough*), so it’s not that weird for her, but these other kids, I’m struck by how surreal it is to watch them rock out. It’s not fair, but in many ways, we the public see them more as their roles than for the people that they are. Guess thats a compliment to their craft. Oh well, just enjoy the strangeness.

I’ve wanted to do something, as a musician, for years. I’ve always enjoyed songwriting, especially of the rock variety, but I’ve been interesting in DJs and remixing, but I’ve never thought that they were truly using the medium as well as they could.

Well, it happened. Listen to the second song, and anything else that catches your fancy. Apparently, this is a huge thing in London. I enjoyed the Avalanches’ record this year, because it hinted at this kind of music (and in many ways did it better). While a lot of it can definitely be described as novelty, the potential here is mindboggling, to me. Via MeFi.