A Rush Bargain

Check out this cover art! I think it is just brilliant, love the deep red color and simplicity of it. I am also pretty sure the content will be really good as well.
Thanks to two nice websites I was able to order this DVD box set by the band Rush for only 99 Swedish Kr.
It is called Replay x [...]

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Buried Treasure – Vendetta – Brain Damage

Do you like trash metal played by Germans with sleeveless jeans jackets and teenage moustaches? Then the band Vendetta is worth checking out. Do not let this hideous cover art scare you away…
I had the album Brain Damage on cassette tape when I was younger and a few years ago I managed to find it on CD. [...]

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Playstation Portable Slim

Yesterday I bought a PSP Slim and it is a nice little device. Today I will be looking more in to what it can do.
I managed to get the WLAN working so I checked out my blog on it and it looked OK. It did not fit entirely on the screen so there was a lot [...]

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Bob Sinclar – Paradise

Bob Sinclar – Paradise
No, I did not get this album because of its cover… but it helped.
This is an album from 1999 filled with a nice blend of disco and house by Bob Sinclar, or Christophe Le Friant as the producer and DJ is called in real life.
It is truly Grovacious as I read in one review.
Going back [...]

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Canadian Music

Yesterday I received two CD:s in the mail and when I looked closer I realised they were both by Canadian rock bands.
The first CD was the remastered version of Saga’s first album which I have been meaning to get for a long time. This was one of the first records I ever got on vinyl when [...]

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before Something Bad Happens… # 991

Inspired by Steven Jay Schneider’s book “1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die”
# 991
Artist: David Gray
Title: White Ladder
Year: 1999
I first heard David Gray on a local radio station a few years ago and remember really liking his voice. To me there is kind of a a melancholy and sad quality to his voice but still filled [...]

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Number One

- Now let´s all get drunk and play ping-pong!
Who would not like to be part of a secret society where you can hear those words spoken by its leader?
This is Number One, in the TV series The Simpsons, he is the head of the Stonecutters and is voiced by Patrick Stewart. Not much is known about Number One, [...]

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Learn to record

 
Tonight I might actually try to record two movies on to my DVD recorder. TV6 is showing The Vanishing from 1993 with Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland & Sandra Bullock.
Followed by Dazed and Confused from 2003 by Richard Linklater which includes a whole bunch of cool music and familiar faces.

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Chess and Hip Hop?

This morning when I was reading the paper and drinking my coffee I saw an article about this website called www.wuchess.com. The site is designed for chess enthusiasts addicted to hip-hop music and is a collaboration between the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and Chesspark.
“WuChess understands that it is important that today’s youth develop life strategy skills, so [...]

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Music + Humor = True!

I have been watching the first three episodes of the TV series “Flight of the Conchords” and it is just amazing. It is extremely funny and I am loving every second of it. I have heard many of the songs featured in this TV show before, but seeing and hearing them in context to the stories, [...]

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