Latest CD Purchases

Are you a big CD buyer? Or an iTMS downloader? I’ve found myself dabbling in both worlds, but I tend to stick to the CD’s. I’m attracted to the packaging of a record, if you don’t have the new Tool album, get it. The packaging is amazing; it even comes with some 3D glasses. Anyway, back to my new additions to my collection.

Artic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

England’s latest rock export, these four young lads from Sheffield have sure burst onto the scene in the last year. This album has been put up there amongst Radiohead and The Beatles, also been ranked #4 in UK’s best albums as it also debut at number 1. Not bad for their first album.

Kanye West – Late Registration

It was an eventful 2005 for this man, accusing George W. Bush of hating black people after Hurricane Katrina hit St. Lois. Releasing an amazing album which was praised by Rolling Stone magazine as their album of the year. I’m happy with this purchase as it is a great album to listen to and even dance too.

José González – Veneer

With a name like this you would think this guy is Spanish or Mexican, but no Jose is from Sweden. I love telling people this when I talk about him. You have probably heard a song of his, if you have seen the brilliant Sony advert for their Bravia products. You know, the one with all those bouncy balls, going down the streets everywhere. Well that’s how I heard of him. His songs are very beautiful, it is just Jose and his guitar, really great.

Snow Patrol – Eyes Open

For some reason, I thought this band was from Australia, I don’t know why, but I was wrong. They are from Ireland; this purchase was what I like to call a guesstimation purchase. My reason for this is that this is a band that I really don’t know much about; hence I thinking that they were an Australian band. And what I do with these guesstimations is that I take a chance on the band see what happens from that. Well what I can say is that I’m very pleased with this guesstimation purchase.

Josh Pyke – Feeding The Wolves

Now, Josh Pyke is defiantly an Australian, this is just an EP release that I’ve heard a lot of on Triple J (Australian youth radio station). My favourite tracks on this album would have to be Private Education and Middle Of The Hill, which he amazingly pulls of a song that does not have a chorus. Be sure to check him out if you have the chance.

64 Bit

Last night, I upgraded my OS to a 64bit version, which is Windows XP. And so far i'm pretty happy with the result. I've had this PC for 4 months now. For those interested, I have an AMD 64bit 3700+ processor, 1GB RAM, nVidia 6600GT 128MB Graphics Card. I forget the motherboard model, but its a Gigabyte, and it has the ability to run SLi (dual graphics cards). So this machine should last me a while, i've noticed lately that the PC technology hasn't really been moving that fast, with only some movement in the Graphics Card area and now, the dual core processors are making a foothold into the market in laptops.

I was quite suprised when i finished installing WinXP on my machine, most of my devices had been installed and I really didn't have to install any drivers on, with an exception for the on board sound. So tonight i'm going to give it a real test run with some work in Photoshop, but I doubt it will make THAT much of a difference, since it's still a 32bit program, but you never know.

Hopefully sometime this year I will be getting an Apple MacBook Pro, as I'm a huge fan of Apple, and it will be great to have a laptop so I can take my work anywhere I go. Also with wireless capabilities at home, it will make some work way more pleasant, and there are more possibities to do more at church aswell with a laptop, to start recording the messages for podcasting, once we have our church site up.

Well, this is all i'm going to discuss at the moment, stay tuned dudes!!! 

The Shed

Well, Saturday night was spent tearing it up on the concrete at a huge indoor skate park, in Cranbourne, which took us about an hour and a half to get to. I had fun riding around on my BMX and even had a few stacks, nothing too bad so don't worry. So check out these photo's, most of them are of this one guy who came with us, he was really awesome and was pulling off some really good tricks.

Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

Well after watching this video, it’s making me kick myself for selling my Nintendo DS, but hey I can just get another one, they are pretty cheap. But yeah, watch this video for this new Zelda game and you’ll see why. And when are they going to bring out the Twilight Princess

Video Link

Some New Swag

Picked up some new shirts, they were on sale!!! Whoop! Whoop!

Alun Davies

Well, last night I had the privilege of seeing Pastor Alun Davies speak at Brimbank Christian Church. Alun is the vice-president of Assemblies of God Australia and the president of the Victorian Assemblies of God group. This was the first time hearing him speak, so I really didn’t know what to expect. I really should get some recording device to record preachers so I don’t have to write notes, because I really don’t like writing down notes at events like this. So I have a vague recollection of what he spoke on, I know it sounds really bad right?

Ok, well from what I remember I will try and tell you what he spoke about. Because this was sort of a night for people of leadership in church’s the main topic of his sermon was Vision, and to fulfill God’s destiny that he has planned for you. And not to look at your vision as a small one, but a bigger one, that you will grow into and grow out of as well, so when you grow out of it you look to God to make it bigger as you go. Alun also spoke about not to have a blurred vision but a clear one so you can see into the distant path before you and see where you are going with God.

So, it was an awesome night, and being the first time seeing Alun, I look forward in seeing him again someday soon. Last night I also caught up with a guy I went to university with that I had no idea was a Christian. We were in the same class when I attended, but I was only there for half a semester before I took on the job that I have now. It was great to see him kicking on for God and involved in his church, which was Brimbank Christian Church.

Today I bought the new Hillsong United CD titled “United We Stand” from iTunes, I am listening to now as I write this, and so far I am impressed, well how can you not be impressed with United, they have the anointing of God on them, and they are producing awesome music for Him, the artwork (well the front cover) I like a lot. I have always been impressed by their package production; the last album production was awesome. The bonus DVD that came with it, the opening for the live worship they have on there is amazing work, soon one day I wish that I will be able to produce work at that standard.

Haven’t really touched this that much.

Well as you can see from the title, I really haven’t touched this place in long time, and by touched i’m mean written in, hahahaha. Well I guess i better do a bit of an update. The summer holidays were really busy for me at work, alot of stuff was done at school (where I work). And I managed to get myself to Big Day Out, which was pretty cool, it was my first one, and hopefully first of many. Check out my photos at my flickr joint, here’s the link: Big Day Out Photo’s

And just a few days later I got myself to The Mars Volta side show from the Big Day Out tour. Now that was an amazing show, 2.5 hours of intense awesome music. And they only did 8 songs too, so that was about an average of about 18 minutes a song, pretty sweet ey?? That’s all the live music i’ve gotten myself to, but I’m going to see Broken Social Scene tomorrow night at The Corner Hotel.

In other news, well there really isn’t much other news. Hmm, well i’ve been doing alot of planning for my site Studio (Prisoner), the new way i’m displaying the name, what do you think? What I plan to do with the site will pretty much be the same but have some more features like a “Gig” page that will highlight some shows you should check out should you be in the Melbourne area.

Other website stuff, i’ve been given the job of working out a site for my church, so that should be fun, i’ve been doing alot of research on how i’m going to get this site to function properly and how we can use it to its full potential. I’ve also got to get a site up for youth now that we have a new name.

Well it’s getting late and I must get to sleep otherwise i’ll be really tired at work tomorrow. eep.

Peace out!

Tickets

This morning at 9am, tickets for Sigur Ros went on sale for their 3 east coast dates in Australia, I purchased 2 tickets to the Melbourne show at the Palais Theatre on April 11th 2006. Last Friday I also got 2 tickets to The Mars Volta who are playing on February 2nd at The Palace. So 2006 is shaping up to be another great music year for me, but i don’t think it will top 2005 for me.

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

Last night I ventured out and catched a session of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. (I love living a 1 minute’s drive from a cinema complex) I thought this was probably the best Harry Potter film out so far, they can only get better right? Ok, so I haven’t seen the 3rd one, but what am I missing out on, not much. Now when watching this movie, I thought it was missing some things, like at the start when they were at the “World Cup” of that game they play on the broom sticks, they only showed the entrances of the teams that were playing. And also at the end of the movie when that little punce face of a kid with the blonde hair who has always picked on Harry, SPOILER HERE: when his father was part of the evil group to bring back Valdomore. Harry did nothing about it, or tell anyone that he was part of it. That just kind of annoyed me. But overall, I enjoyed the movie.

New Place

Well I have decided to take advantage of the free Worpress blog thing they have got going on at WordPress. I have made this place to use as a personal blog so i can keep the personal stuff away from Studio*Prisoner which will just now concentrate on music.

So I say, welcome!!! Make yourself at home.

Josh