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This is about two years old.

The mixing is mediocre, along with excessive eqing and flange in spots. The song selection, though, is the culmination of a few of years obsessed with electro, not helped by attending Felix Da Housecat’s birthday bash in Chicago at Crobar. Senom and I got to hang out in the DJ booth!

A couple I know here in Halifax are off to bigger and better things. They have created a website with all kinds of details on the condo they are trying to sell.

The site has a very nice, simple, CSS-centered style. I especially like the digitally stitched picture of the living room on the front page!

I just saw The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky. I never saw Requiem for a Dream, but I did see Pi.

The most striking thing about The Fountain, I thought, was its narrative clarity. It takes a bit of thinking, but, as with movies I enjoy the most, with a bit of reflection, one sees it is internally consistent. In short, it is a story within a story; and the story within the story includes portions of the containing story.

The other thing that struck me about this movie was its central preoccupation with a significant philosophical claim. It presents an accompanying argument through a mixture of dialogue, imagery, and fantasy. I’’ll leave it to the reader to identify the claim and argument.

The Fountain is an ideal movie. It belongs to a very small percentage of big budget films that require, and reward, serious thought on the part of the viewer.

While I enjoyed Pi, I found The Fountain superior due to its greater clarity.

This is old, but it is so funny — and so true.

It’s April 7th. ???

There is never less than a foot between them.

This guy, who apparently has a background recording music, performing, and sound engineering, is the latest in creating his own software for triggering loops and effects with a wiimote.

Like the much-loved Lunchbox Battles, this software makes sure that everything is correctly quantized to a preset loop.

Unlike Lunchbox, this Wii guy (Rolo) claims that by setting one loop to master, all other loops will be granulized to match. Since it’s mac only, I can’t test this.

If you do watch his video, count the times he says “wiimote”. And, yes, I did hear about this at Engadget.

This is, currently, my most favorite YTMND.

It has all the hallmarks of a great YTMND: superimposition of images, an over the top movie clip, and hip hop beats. And it’s wicked funny.

After watching it a few times in Firefox, you may need to reload it to sync the audio and video.

I just posted a new mix. It is available at

www.philogia.com/MarchMix.mp3

Yes, it has some rough spots, but blah blah too busy blah excuses.

They must have worked out ok, because there wasn’t any left after
Meredith’s thanksgiving party. Big up to Meredith and Joel for hosting
a great party with a great turkey.

If you want to create your own sugarfest, the recipe for the
marshmallow sweet potatoes can be found here.