This is a -mostly- private livejournal account. If you're not logged into LJ and not on my friends list, you can probably only see random postings from eons ago about such topics as ZOR temples, DJ nights and other junk.
If you feel like going old school with me, make an LJ account or logon and I can add you. I don't currently feel like using FB for the purposes of blogging because: A) there are too many stupid games on Facebook which annoy me B) too many advertisements C) I use FB for too many other purposes (such as press) and don't want to clutter things up with my rants... but yet I need a venue for rants, so this is going to be it.
We're getting alot of punks to these nights, in addition to the typical darksiders. So what you can expect is a fine mix of industrial, noise and punk-- with a definite hint at the retro "option" feel. Check out previous playlists, should give you a good idea.
The Cure- Catch Sisters of Mercy- Something Fast Bauhaus - 3rd Uncle Screams for Tina - In Her House Modern English - Melt With You Tears For Fears - Shout Book of Love - Your Eyes Adult - Shake Your Head Ascii Disco - Hey Front 242 - Headhunter Kraftwerk - Robots Faderhead - The Beat Has Started Velvet Acid Christ - Wound Namnambulu - Faces Nitzer Ebb - Chant Tragic Error - Klatsche En Die Hande Ministry - Just One Fix This Song is a Mess and So am I - This Song is a Mess and So am I Caustic - Decadent Tongue Alien Sex Fiend - Zombified Virgin Prunes - Baby Turns Blue Dead Milkmen - Instant Club Hit T Raumschmere - The Game Is Not Over Rapture - Sister Savior (DFA Remix) The Cure - The 13th Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up !!! - Hello? Is this thing On? Stochastic Theory - What you Weren't System Syn - Postscript Spetsnaz - Nothing but Black Stromkern - Histories The Normal - Warm Leatherette Dead Kenedys - Holiday in Cambodia The Replacements - Kids Don't Follow Bogus Man- Bogus Man Skinny Puppy - Addiction Afrika Baambaata - Planet Rock Hashim - The Soul
At this point it was 1:30AM, almost everyone was cleared out... so I said fuck it.... put on a Descendents album and sat around with rev.norb.
YES, they dragged me out of the game developer closet. Somehow.
Come to this event and reminisce over what used to be a goth/darkwave scene in GREEN BAY that was BETTER than Madison's.
Let's get some Peter Murphy and mope around just like it's 1995. Wait, well just for kicks I'll play some of that new shit too. You can BET that Caustic is being played, some Covenant, Hungry Lucy and I wouldn't be FORTRAN77 without playing LCD Soundsystem.
Hey everyone. So for the past almost 1.5 years I've been busy building a gaming company from the ground up. We're about to ship our first game, Screwjumper
The company name is Frozen Codebase, we're a band of industry vets and geeks and located in Green Bay Wisconsin, where beer is still cheap. www.frozencodebase.com
I have my lovely wife to thank for her patience though this difficult time. Thank you sobriquet42, you are absolutely amazing and beautiful. :>
Anyway the reason I'm posting now is that we're having a launch party THIS FRIDAY night! (November 9th) in Green Bay- This is occuring at XCettera, a nearby restaraunt and bar. There is actually a small dance floor and I expect roughly 100 people. Our teamsize is only 21 developers but we're inviting a ton of area dorks. This is going to be a blast.
What I'd really like to do is PAY A DJ! But not a stupid wedding DJ, I want someone who kicks ass. So if you know anyone from the Madison scene who wants to do this, please tell them to post here... I'm open to pretty much any genre which is tolerable. Also again... we can PAY!
Chris and I had a blast DJing this. Have fun in Barcelona, Adrian and Tiara.
(Grand March) - Billy Idol - White Wedding (First Dance) - Anggun - Snow on the Sahara (Father/Daughter Dance) - Eagles - Take it To the Limit Pink - Get the party started Fischerspooner - emerge Vinylshakerz - Bangkok remix Cars - Just what I needed Peter Gabriel - some sappy slow song Barenaked ladies - millino dollars Billy Idol - inspiration 4 Polka Songs (no idea, I just played the tracks in order off of some Shopko CD) Johnny Cash - ring of fire Shout - some dude from the 60s Timewarp Stromkern - standup Clash - Rock the casbah Lowlife - everything Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia my reflection Cure - Never Enough Cyndi Lauper - Girls just wanna have fun Beegees - Staying alive Contours - so you love me Dexys midnights something or others - Come on eileen Scissor Sisters- Comfortably numb Cure - love song Peter Schilling - Major tom Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime Pogues - Sally MacLenanne Dead MilkMen - Punk Rock Girl Depeche mode - enjoy the silence New Order - bizare love triangle Flock of seagulls - Iran House of Pain Jump Around Petshop boys - its a sin Peter Murphy - cuts you up VNV Nation - beloved Depeche mode - It's no good TMBG - birdhouse
Note: It was SO hard to fit in all the requests. Dancing didn't start until 9:40pm and they cut me off at 11:50pm. The waitstaff should have cleared those tables faster, oh well- it was a blast anyway. Sorry Tiara, that I didn't fit in covenant, the killers or roxetter. Those were on the essential list and never got airtime.
We're coming back to Wisconsin! This is full circle for me. One of the first cities I lived in out of highschool was Green Bay. I moved away from there in later 1995. It's been 10 years and alot has changed, but now I will be moving back to good ol' GB.
Couldn’t find my jacket this morning, so I picked up the closest thing- a ratty old army surplus jacket. Actually it might have been my fathers, one of the many things he managed to keep from the navy when he got discharged. It's so beaten but still so useful, wide deep pockets, a hood, and of course my added features (vintage '88 alternakid street ware): smurf patch and black painted on U2 lettering on the back. Leaving today was hard. I guess there is something about being pregnant that makes a woman's face radiant, like smoother but at the same time brighter. Well Jen had that about her today. And then there is my little boy who gets up immediately and wants to "play cars dad" and "watch bubbles (incredibles"). He has so much energy, it reminds me of when I had all that same energy. Heh
I drive out and look out at the ocean thinking about where I live as I page through the radio stations and decide I'd rather not listen to any Vancouver stations, I settle on the only CD I have in the car: Pet Shop Boys: Disco. The 2nd CD I ever owned, 2nd to Nitzer Ebb: That Total Age. It still works thankfully, unlike most my other compact discs from that era. A strange mixture of my present life and past merge yet again as I get up to the border crossing. Border crossings are still strange to me, even though they occur at least twice per day and never take more than 5 seconds. It must have something to do with constantly reminding myself what a strange and unique place I live in. 30 minutes from downtown, a world class city. But in a different country, a town without a mayor, where everyone knows your who you are.
As I fumble for my passport (they never ask for it, but I have it always on hand just in case) I notice that in the deep pockets of my army coat is hidden a pack of clove cigarettes. Sam Pjorno (sic), or as we always pronounced "sam porno". These are from way back, or at least before I left wisconsin. Chris probably bought them for some night out at inferno and I ended up with them.
Here I am now, listening to crusty old petshop boys. In fact I STILL love Suburbia so much, I play it over and over and over again during my 35 minute commute. While I do so I light up a clove, sitting here in my custom destroyed army coat from 1988, smoking a cigarette listening to PSB I think back to a time with my best friend (and future best man!)... we would do this all the time. Buy a pack of cloves at the local bookstore in gool ol' Manty. Then hang out on the beach, regardless of time of year. We'd get high on our youth, basically. If it was summer maybe we'd be camping and chanting the words of "standing on the beach... gun in my hand... starring at the sea".
The days of youth, are so energizing to the present. At least the good memories are energizing, so powerful.
Back to the present, thinking about my life, the place I live, my wonderful family. Nothing could have turned out better.
Current Music
pet shop boys - suburbia (over and over and over again)
This time it's not nu- new wave, it's old new wave. And I'm talking obscure as fuck.
There's a good message board that has pointed me in the right direction so I don't claim that I discovered all this crap on my own. www.nwoutpost.com is a very cool site.
After finding some clips of this all out of print music I decided to pick up the following (using the wonders of Ebay):
Hilary - kinetic The Expression - the expression minor detail - minor detail ( to replace a crappy tape I had of this from a while ago) polyrock - above the fruited plain invisible zoo - nighttime blanket of secrecy - walls have ears Gino - socio
As if the stuff I already own isn't obscure enough. (let's face it- who the hell knows even what comsat angels are, or endgames, chameleons UK, plastic burtrand. All these bands have faded out but STILL appear on comp discs somewhere so you do hear or see them on play lists from time to time.
I haven't taken "Tim" out of the car CD player for the last 2 weeks, which is really unlike me.
I think it's because there's just something refreshing about listening to the best Minneapolis band ever. Especially when the weather is shitty (for west coast standards) and I'm 2000+ miles from "home".
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