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If you have a user account here and use it to maintain a personal calendar, now is the time to stop using it and instead get busy on Capsi. It is now ten times better than this place! You'll get your own journal, picture albums, concert statistics.. you'll love it. The only reason to stay here is if you enter a lot of free-entry calendar dates containing non-concert events. I will add free-entry events to Capsi soon though and when that happens the entire gigs and calendar sections of this site will be removed once users had the time to migrate.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

MMS updates

Software

I have almost finished support for MMS updates to my journal! The parsing code works brilliantly and I just have to add a proper scheduled routine to actually insert the picture(s) and message as a journal entry and possibly integrate it all with my photography page.

Hopefully I'll have it all figured out before all my gigs in the near future!

Apologies for being such a geek lately but I like showing off cool technology!

New journal categories

Software

I've added a few new journal categories and have re-categorised existing entries in order to match them. The new topics are:

  • Sports. Mostly football updates from the pub (go PSV!) but don't be surprised if the occasional baseball entry apears.
  • Gigs. Planned nights out, previews, reviews.. and as soon as I finish MMS updates even live coverage from all the (punk) rock (and roll) shows I attend.
  • Birds. No, not because of the flu epidemic but because even though I am bendy I will always fancy lasses best. This category is not for personal entries though, it is mostly a place to dump typical drooling journal content about star crushes (celebrities, porn actresses, Buffybot, that kind of stuff). I even was a nice guy and blurred Kate's nipples on the category icon, not that anyone would ever consider this journal family-friendly.

Enjoy!

All well that ends well

Gigs

December is almost over, so it's time to cheer up and forget about all the childhood traumas, lost loves and sunshine deprivation haunting me. A new year is coming and it's going to be rad!

The Britain gigs are still pending (not sure I can get time off from work for HIM and not sure I can get a standing ticket for Kerrang), but either way: I found half a dozen of gigs for January which should be enough to keep my 50-a-year target.

Fun with technology

Software

It's 11pm and I'm still at work. But that's not what I'll moan about.

I've been trying to get a standing ticket for Kerrang XXV at the Brixton Academy in London, a show that is completely sold out. Solution: eBay! Paying twice the face value sucks, but I have never seen Bullet For My Valentine live yet, need to exchange presents with someone very special and cancelled a skiing trip that week to see another show anyway, one I can't make because it is midweeks and I'm saving days off. Oh, and maybe I'd just very much like to see Rachel again.

Filled with optimism, I tried to pay for the tickets with PayPal. But I forgot my password. Oops. No problem, I know my security questions so they can e-mail it. To an old address I no longer have access to. Oops. No problem, they can send it over by phone. To old numbers I no longer have access to. Oops. I swear I'm not making this up.

But despite my frustration over tight security, I have to hand it to them: I was pleasantly surprised to see a US Mail option. I'm quite sure it won't arrive until tickets (and flights or hotel rooms) are ten times more expensive, or the gig is over, but at least I'll be able to access PayPal again at some point.

Billy Corgan at Paradiso

Gigs

Last night Billy Corgan rocked Paradiso, Amsterdam. And it was a lot of fun!

True, Billy solo is not The Smashing Pumpkins. Never has been and never will be, end of the debate. But it's Billy Corgan alright: complete with alternative guitar solos and a trademark creepy voice. Oh, yeah - and a fabulous stage setup this tour. What looked like a set of bathroom tiles turned out to be an old-fashioned disco wall in all sorts of colours. True video images were not possible at an estimated resolution of 100x40 pixels but it was still fun to see Billy and his band perform in front of what is best described as a bunch of Winamp/Noatun visualisations.

Supporting act were Gliss. Never heard of them before, but I walked out with a shirt and CD. And I might see Billy Corgan again at the Forum next week just so I can see Gliss again. They're very, very nice. Sort of a spacy, modern The Cure. Or something. Check them out!

(To avoid repetition all references to sex, drugs and alcohol have been removed from this entry. Just be glad I kept the rock and roll in!)

Garbage at Paradiso

Personal

Did a bit of drinking, dancing and smoking in celebration of Garbage performing at Paradiso, Amsterdam for their "Bleed like me" 2005 world tour.

And I'm not sure what to say. The musical performance was top-notch, as was the sound. Heavy beats joined with upbeat rhythm delivered a very swinging set.

However, the show itself was a bit bland and I had expected more, despite the very old audience (at 27, I was young). Shirley Manson - 38 already, can you believe it?! - wasn't really swinging at all. In fact, I suspect I wasn't the only one who was stoned last night. The other band members hardly ever moved at all, except for some courtesy walks to each other.

Again, the music was great. But the energy was missing. I couldn't help but thinking: this is not 2005. And, "thank God, I'm still a lot younger than these folks". Had a good night out and enjoyed the show, but the reason was nostalgia. Not hip, young, wicked randomness.

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