Tuesday, November 13, 2007

interpretor

just wanted to let everyone know that today i realized i could finally somewhat understand my asain physics teacher. I think after 2 semesters of chemistry, 3 semesters of calc, and now a half a semester of physics, ive finally learned to comprehend asain accents. I think techniquelly im through the equivalent of chinese 2. Uconn should give me language credits for taking all these freakin math related classes.

oh yeah right.....almost forgot....im leaving tonight for florida. Our club team has finnished pretty strong this year with a final record of 10-3-2 including our tournament losses at regionals. our only losses this year came against umass (2) and rutgers in teh regional tournament. We upset brown and BC, big rivals of ours, and beat a yale team we havent beaten since the club team was created. Overall a pretty solid year. Im looking forward to seeing how we stack up nationally this year, i like our chances to get outa group play this year, because nationals really bring the best out in us. Hopefully everyone is feeling healthy as injuries have plagued us the past few weeks. Wicked pumped for the trip, in part because i feel like i play very well under pressure in net. Sometimes i feel like pressure packed games can get the best of me playing on the field at times in certain sports, but for some reason i really enjoy the pressure in net, i feel like it keeps meet at peak focus the entire game. I really feel like i stop thinking and just react. plus i get a sweet trip to warm ass florida for a 100 bucks.

Monday, November 12, 2007

british punch

british people are even polite while gettings snuffed....funny stuff...

Friday, November 2, 2007

" Heima-which translates as both "At Home" and "Homeland"-- chronicles a series of free concerts Sigur Rós played in their native Iceland over the course of summer 2006. Combining both the biggest and smallest shows of their career, the entire tour was filmed, and now provides a unique insight into one of the world's most fascinating and inscrutable bands captured live while exploring their natural habitat like never before. The film is currently being edited by Nick Fenton with direction from the Oscar-nominated Dean DeBlois.

The culmination of more than a year spent promoting their hugely successful Takk... album around the world, the Icelandic tour was free to all-comers and went largely unannounced. Playing in deserted fish factories, outsider art follies, far-flung community halls, sylvan fields, darkened caves and the huge horseshoe-shaped Asbyrgi canyon (formed, legend has it, by the hoofprint of Odin's six-legged horse Sleipnir), the band reached an entirely new spectrum of the Icelandic population; young and old, ardent and merely quizzical, entirely by word-of-mouth.

Material from all four of the band's albums is featured, including many rare and notable moments. Among these are a heart-stopping rendition of the previously unreleased 'Guitardjamm', filmed inside a derelict herring oil tank in the far West Fjords; a windblown, one-mic recording of 'Vaka', shot at a dam protest camp subsequently drowned by rising water; and first time acoustic versions of such rare live beauties as 'Staralfur', 'Agaetis Byrjun' and 'Von'. "

I thought this was a pretty sick idea, from a pretty cool and very unique band. not the type of music your really gonna party to but some good music if your just chillen surfin the net, or relaxing and blazin. Check the trailer out here...