“Andain is Josh Gabriel, Mavie Marcos and David Penner. Their blend of soulful, dub-inspired music combines live instruments, stunning vocal performances and emotional electronics.”
Told ya.
Google News
January 14, 2005 no comments
Needs to flippin’ not give me 50 sources all with AP articles and one other — on page three — that was actually written instead of reprinted from a wire … because I wanna know what Ali G was doin’ at a rodeo. 
Iraq WMD Search Ends
January 13, 2005 no comments
With nothing found. Glad we fuckin’ liberated that country though after killing 100,000+ Iraqis, 1,000+ Americans, and spending 200 billion dollars all on the pre-text that Saddam possessed ehm. I’d be pretty annoyed if I had my country leveled over something that didn’t exist and kinda makes me wish I had that bumper sticked: Bush Lied, People Died. Oh wait, I’m a Fundamentalist Christian now — four more years!
George W. Bush Made Me
January 12, 2005 one comment
Well, the elections are over and I’ve been thinking: 51% of the voting public must be onto something that I’ve been missing. All this time I’m thinking that illegal and unnecessary wars, negative job growth, tens of millions without health insurance and massive National Debt were bad things.
I figured that recruiting the head of an energy company who was so corrupt that he bilked the state of California alone out of billions of dollars to help decide the energy policy that would impact the very state he was robbing is a blatant abuse of the trust of the American People. Don’t get me wrong; it is a blatant abuse, but now I’m wondering if there’s really anything wrong with it. After all, the people who committed these acts of governmental mayhem were Fundamentalist Christians and Fundamentalist Christians are Gods Chosen so all this stuff must be okay.
Gods Chosen seem to be able to side step truth, law and just plain ignore the welfare millions and still get to Heaven while as a Liberal Democrat I’ve been laboring under the burden that these things were problems that had to be solved, not to mention that even if I could solve these problems I’m gonna burn in Hell anyway. An illegal war that kills thousands was a violation of human rights…that Americans who can’t afford to go to the doctors office is a tragedy…discrimination is against the law and had to be stopped…the rape of the environment is a terrible thing and has to be corrected…it was horrible. Why go through all that angst and guilt and still be condemned to the Fire when I can become a Christian and not worry about any of it? All’s ya gotta do is read your Bible.
There’s a certain charming moral flexibility that allows Fundamentalists to abhor the taking of a life that hasn’t begun but has no problem backing a President whose policies have resulted in the killings of 100,000 Iraqi’s, a great many of them innocent civilians, women and children, as long as it’s done in the name of God and Freedom.
Fundamentalists can profess to care about others and still support a man who sends millions of good paying jobs overseas. They can ignore Healthcare Reform while forty three million Americans, quite probably some of them Fundamentalists themselves live every day without any at all, three million more than when their candidate took office. They can respect the sanctity of life so much that they will ban the use of stem cells to cure deadly illnesses.
You can profess to love your fellow man, taking in comfort in the fact that God shall surely be sending billions of Unsaved Souls to Eternal Damnation and Hellfire no matter how kind, peaceful and loving they may be, because we’re the Saved Ones, baby. And since the vast majority of the peoples of the world are Unsaved, then Heaven has got to be a roomy place, you know, comfortable for me and all my Christian Brothers and Sisters. (On the other hand, I’ve been talked to by those shining young men and women before and fifteen minutes with them can seem like an eternity…can you imagine what an eternity would feel like? This may become a real downside to this thing. I’ll work on it and get back to you.)
So, what’s my point in all of this? That aside from the hanging around with other Fundamentalists thing being a Christian is pretty cool. So, as soon as I can scrape up some tithe money for the ante, I’m in the game. Four more years!
Next Project
January 10, 2005 no comments
The acapella will do what I say.
Gifts For Men
January 9, 2005 no comments
Buying gifts for straight men and dumb heteroqueers is not nearly as complicated as it is for women. Follow these rules and you should have no problems…
Rule #1
When in doubt - buy him a cordless drill. It does not matter if he already has one. I have a friend who owns 17 and he has yet to complain. As a man, you can never have too many cordless drills. No one knows why.
Rule #2
If you cannot afford a cordless drill, buy him anything with the word ratchet or socket in it. Men love saying those two words. “Hey George, can I borrow your ratchet?” “OK. By-the-way, are you through with my 3/8-inch socket yet?” Again, no one knows why.
Rule #3
If you are really, really broke, buy him anything for his car. A 99-cent ice scraper, a small bottle of Decker or something to hang from his rear view mirror. Men love gifts for their cars. No one knows why.
Rule #4
Do not buy men socks. Do not buy men ties. And never buy men bathrobes. I was told that if God had wanted men to wear bathrobes, he wouldn’t have invented Jockey shorts.
Rule #5
You can buy men new remote controls to replace the ones they have worn out. If you have a lot of money buy your man a big-screen TV with the little picture in the corner. Watch him go wild as he flips, and flips, and flips.
Rule #7
Do not buy any man industrial-sized canisters of after shave or deodorant. I’m told they do not stink - they are earthy.
Rule #8
Buy men label makers. Almost as good as cordless drills. Within a couple of weeks there will be labels absolutely everywhere. “Socks. Shorts.Cups. Saucers. Door. Lock. Sink.” You get the idea. No one knows why.
Rule #9
Never buy a man anything that says “some assembly required” on the box. It will ruin his day and he will always have parts left over.
Rule #10
Good places to shop for men include Northwest Iron Works, Parr Lumber, Home Depot, John Deere, Valley RV Center, and Les Schwab Tire. NAPA Auto Parts and Sear’s Clearance Centers are also excellent men’s stores. It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t know what it is. “From NAPA Auto, eh? Must be something I need. Hey! Isn’t this a starter for a ‘68 Ford Fairlane? Wow! Thanks.”
Rule #11
Men enjoy danger. That’s why they never cook - but they will barbecue. Get him a monster barbecue with a 100-pound propane tank. Tell him the gas line leaks. “Oh the thrill! The challenge! Who wants a hamburger?”
Rule #12
Tickets to a football game are a smart gift. However, he will not appreciate tickets to “A Retrospective of 19th Century Quilts.” Everyone knows why.
Rule #13
Men love chainsaws. Never, ever, buy a man you love a chainsaw. If you don’t know why - please refer to Rule #8 and what happens when he gets a label-maker.
Rule #14
It’s hard to beat a really good wheelbarrow or an aluminum extension ladder. Never buy a real man a step ladder. It must be an extension ladder. No one knows why.
Rule #15
Rope. Men love rope. It takes them back to our cowboy origins, or at least The Boy Scouts. Nothing says love like a hundred feet of 3/8″ manilla rope.
I get get all my old, no longer relevant e-mails after I weed them out from the spam. Like, this one:
Dear Austin H,
CONGRATULATIONS!
Stoned (The Austin H Edit) has entered the Production - Female Vocals Top 10 at Broadjam!
Stoned (The Austin H Edit) has entered the Ohio Top 10 at Broadjam!
Stoned (The Austin H Edit) has entered the Electronic Top 10 at Broadjam!
Stoned (The Austin H Edit) has entered the Midwest Top 10 at Broadjam!
Stoned (The Austin H Edit) has entered the Electronic - Downbeat Top 10 at Broadjam!
Stoned (The Austin H Edit) has entered the Production - Mid Tempo Top 10 at Broadjam!
Click on the link below to check it out.
The Broadjam Staff
Substance!
January 8, 2005 no comments
An acquaintance I met through the wonders of the Internet dance community has done a few that things I was previously unaware of: released a new track that DJ Tiesto occasionally plays, signed another song to Armada Records, can’t keep those damn pesky deejays (Armin van Buuren, Markus Schulz, Perry O’Neil, Ozgür Can, etc etc) off his back … and has picked *ohp* I won’t say what for the #5 slot on his November/December playlist.
But wait, there’s more! While I was catching up on old mail, I stumbled upon one that I found quite interesting. I can’t post too much, but:
Hi,
Ive listened to your track - andain_-_here_is_the_house__austin_h_s_extended_love_remix_
Im interested in signing this to my record label.
Cool shiznizie has been goin’ on in the music world without me. After I got that e-mail letting me know the Andain remix had hit number one regionally (Ohio) and nationally (under Electronica, Trance), I was pretty happy. The Andain remix is killer largely in part because of the amazing, time tried and tested work that Josh Gabriel and Dave Dresden performed. Josh’s decision to bring his long time production group in for the vocals — that’d be Andain, it’s a group — is something I never would have seen after hearing the first cut of the remix with the original Depeche Mode vocals. So yeah, I (illegally) got to work with one of my two favorite female artists and that’s, well, fallen to the third place. It never made it to the top ten general electronica, the parent genre of trance.
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That’s okay though because two of my productions are now dueling each other on the regional top ten. It’s really weird because I’ve only followed two songs through from beginning to end; you wouldn’t believe how many I’ve got stored up waiting for some lovin’. So my other favorite female artist is Dido. Her work has touched my life in so many different ways, and she appears — even after all of BMI’s fabulous marketing — to still have her feat on our planet. I’ve decided I’m going to quit rambling (kinda tired) and just get to the point: the Austin H Edit of Dido’s Stoned is sittin’ pretty in fifth place on Broadjam’s top ten electronica songs, holding steady at first place for downbeat electronica, and definitely pulling a fast one on me.
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I thought it was weird when I someone e-mailed me just to say, “im in awe this is by far the best track on broadjam. its perfect.” There’s uhhlot of music on Broadjam — it’s, uhm, a big site — some 20 million people go there everyday. Random people still post on the thread that started all this.
Right, I went to search for my old blog post that has the link to the Dido track and uhm, what’s going on … what is this?! Audioscrobbler has a flippin’ Austin H artist page. They’ve even got a track listed, that I swear I didn’t give to more than five people. The ‘top’ fan of the Dido track, palmtrees, also seems to like extended love.
Mmm, fun with Google. Glad I could pleasure some of yas. ;-*
What?! Smoke?! You, you are wrong mistah! Psht. We make crank phone calls to MCI and record them using iTunes. We’re safe though…don’t worry. If they knew who Ali G was, they’d definately had thought it was him ringin’ on their tele! :-O