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Monday, December 31, 2007
Anssi Kela shreds in Finland
5:42 PM

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Friday, December 28, 2007
If You Open Your Mind Too Much Your Brain Will Fall Out
9:19 PM

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fail
2:11 AM

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Thursday, December 27, 2007
High Mud Leader
11:32 AM
I love a fairly obscure German band called Knorkator -- they're vaguely similar to Rammstein, but with a weirder singer, funny lyrics, and a far more varied style.

Anyway, I just recently realized that they put out an album of sort-of-traditional-German-type songs under a pseudonym, High Mud Leader. In true Knorkator fashion, this is a near homophone with the phrase "heimatlieder", which means "homeland songs", kind of folk songs about a region.

The songs are quite funny, especially since they're German folk-style songs, but realized with sequencers, and as such are completely off-kilter. Even if you don't speak German, they're quite funny.

Here's my favorite, the first track:


The lyrics:
Chorus:
Deutschland ist schön, Deutschland ist schön
Mit seinen schönen Flüssen und seinen schönen Seen
Deutschland ist schön, Deutschland ist schön
Mit seinen schönen Tälern und seinen schönen Höhn

Und die Wälder sind so schön, und die Felder sind so schön
Und die Städte sind so schön, Und die Blumenbeete sind so schön
Wo die schönen Bäume steh'n, kann man schön spazieren gehen
Und all die schönen Mädchen sehn, so wunder wunderschön, ja

Chorus

Im Winter liegt der Schnee so schön, und im Frühling schmilzt er schön
Im Sommer kann man schön baden, im Herbst kann man's schön sein lassen
Es sind auch die Tomaten schön, besonders in Salaten schön
Da schmeckt der Schweinebraten schön, so wunder wunderschön, ja

Chorus

Und im Bayern ist es schön, und im Schwarzwald ist es schön
Und im Rheinland ist es schön, und in der Pfalz ist es schön
Und in Thüringen ist es schön, und in Hessen ist es schön
Und in Mecklenburg Vorpommern ist es schön, so wunder wunderschön, ja
Und in der Lüneburger Heide, da ist es schön, so wunder wunderschön, ja
Und in der letzten Ecke der Lausitz, 30 Meter vor der polnischen Grenze,
ja da ist es schön, so wunder wunderschön, ja
The translation (by me, so beware), for those who don't speak German:
Chorus:
Germany is beautiful, Germany is beautiful
with its beautiful rivers and its beautiful lakes
Germany is beautiful, Germany is beautiful
with its beautiful valleys and its beautiful Höhn[*]

And the forests are so beautiful, and the fields are so beautiful
And the cities are so beautiful, and the flower patches are so beautiful
Where the beautiful trees stand, one can go walking beautifully
And see all the beautiful girls, so wonder-wonderful, yes

Chorus

In the winter the snow lies so beautifully, and in spring it melts beautifully
In the summer one can bathe beautifully, in the autumn one can lie beautifully[**]
There is also the beautiful tomatoes, particularly in beautiful salads
There the pig roast tastes beautiful, so wonder-wonderful, yes

Chorus

And in Bavaria it is beautiful, and in the Black Forest it is beautiful
and in the Rhineland it is beautiful, and in Palatinate it is beautiful
and in Thuringia it is beautiful, and in Hesse it is beautiful
and in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern it is beautiful, so wonder-wonderful, yes
and in Lüneberg Heath, it is beautiful there, so wonder-wonderful, yes
and in the last corner of Lusatia, 30 meters before the Polish border,
yes, there it is beautiful, so wonder-wonderful, yes
So, I don't really know whether anyone but me will find this funny, but the fact that they keep smashing shit in there at the end just kills me every time. But then, i like Weird Al, too.

[*] I can't for the life of me figure this out (which is also par for the course with this band). It's an area of Germany, but I can't see that it's a German word outside of that name. Is that where they're from? Some other reference? Who knows. They throw a lot of German region names at the end; maybe it's a precursor of that....

[**] I don't quite understand this line either. So much for fluency.

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Thursday, December 20, 2007
ultimate donny, of gil mantera's party dream
10:40 AM

DSC_0205, originally uploaded by DJ Empirical.

gmpd played on tuesday. i opened. it ruled.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
testing a flickr code generator
10:47 AM
theoretically this should be a flickr slideshow:

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dje at poison room
12:46 AM

dje at poison room, originally uploaded by DJ Empirical.

photo stolen from stinden. :)

i played the "naughty or nice" show on saturday. not bad overall, though the detroit techno militia isnt really my thing. stinden played some dnb to start us off, then me with the electro, then vinny bricks with the hard techno (also not really my thing).

the librarian killed it as usual with his dark minimal, followed by the DTM guys. as i said not bad overall.

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Sunday, December 16, 2007
cinderella balloon
7:57 PM

cinderella balloon, originally uploaded by DJ Empirical.

It looks like an upside down model of the female reproductive system...

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Friday, December 14, 2007
DSC_0376
6:48 PM

DSC_0376, originally uploaded by DJ Empirical.

only at a basement show.

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the black fives live, 2004
5:32 PM

the black fives live, 2004, originally uploaded by DJ Empirical.

i think we needed a few more power strips.

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Thursday, December 13, 2007
help out my dude Ruckus Roboticus!
6:27 PM
seriously, anything you can do to help is great!

from his email:

Hey There,

Would you please do me a huge favor? Would you please vote Ruckus Roboticus as the best guest mix of 2007 on Solid Steel Radio? It should only take a minute. The deadline is Friday, December 14th, so if you are willing to help, don't delay!

Simply email this address:

solidsteel@ninjatune.net

With this subject:

Re: Solid Steel Best Mix of 2007 Competition

And in the body, state that the best guest mix of 2007 was by Ruckus Roboticus. Include your name and mailing address because by voting you are entered into a drawing to win free music & records from Solid Steel radio.

And if you happened to miss the guest mixes of 2007, you can rest assured that Ruckus Roboticus indeed had the best mix of 2007 ; ).

I hope I can count on your support!
Sincerely,
Dan "Ruckus Roboticus" Haug

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dje with gil mantera's party dream and more
11:27 AM

gilflier, originally uploaded by DJ Empirical.

exciting.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
the campest film i own
1:54 AM

even campier than the spice girls movie.

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
still going through 2007 releases for eval
11:34 AM

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Monday, December 10, 2007
stuff stix
5:21 PM

stuff stix, originally uploaded by DJ Empirical.

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still more 2007 thoughts
3:58 PM

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still more top of 2007 considerations
2:37 PM
here are some more thoughts on 2007 releases

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more top ten of 07 thoughts
10:23 AM
i'm going through my hd to see what other 07 records i may have forgotten.
more later.

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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
first snow in cinci this season
3:23 PM

snow, originally uploaded by DJ Empirical.

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D'Arby's
3:22 PM

tttd2joke, originally uploaded by dr_mcdeviltoast.

yeah.

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Saturday, December 01, 2007
i heart daler mendhi
3:54 AM
talkig to a new desi friend of mine tonight, the topic of daler mehndi came up, and we both started sing his hit:



he pretty much rules. you can't look at that dude and think anything other than he's loving life.

of course, i dont speak hindi, so i was just sort of faking it, but whatever. :)

i got home and was thinking about it, and i know daler is known for his videos as well as his songs, so i thought i'd look a couple up. some of these things are so brutally pixelated that it's almost painful, but still. for example, i quit like this song, but man.... that shit is terrible quality.

anyway, i'm tired. here's one of him on a tv show.

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