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G U S T E R – Satellite (Music from the movie Martian Child)

February 6, 2008

G U S T E R
http://www.myspace.com/guster

I just got done watching the movie Martian Child for the second time in just 2 days. My son just loves this movie. And why not. Great actors such as John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Joan Cusack. Also staring as Dennis aka the Martian Child (Bobby Coleman). They all make this a remarkable film, and even more so a great family film, I highly advise checking this movie out as well as music from GUSTER. ~Peilo

Guster 

Questions often asked of Them:

Q: Do you guys have any pre-show rituals?

A: Yes.

Q: How do you guys write your songs?

A: We write about what we know. We’re stenographers…we transcribe life and put a little melody under it.*

Q: Are you guys a Christian band?

A:Rather than answer this one with a simple yes/no, we suggest you check the following sources for clues: 1) Brian’s last name — “Rosenworcel.” 2) Any photo of Ryan where you can see his profile. 3) The Guster Backstage Contract Rider, where we stipify that “the dressing room must be furnished with plenty of borscht, noodle kugels, potato latkes, gefilte fish and homemade rugulah for dessert.”

Q: do you guys name your instruments?

A: yes


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NORTON / / / / / /

February 6, 2008

NORTON / / / / / /

This is a great album. I have listened to it non stop and I’m amzed at the quality of unknown music out there. I stumbled across this site by accident one day searching for something, of course I don’t remember what I was searching for, I’m nerdy I’m always googling something.

But anyways one day I come across this site and couldn’t help but to start downloading the tracks…they were free, who wouldn’t. Then I played one and was in amazement. This was some good tuneage. Music, Fresh, and new, and sounded like nothing I had heard before. A real pleasure. Relaxing, subtle, mellow and ambient with some very unusual Melody’s and rhythms.

A must hearn and from a guy just learning to DJ, every new sound opens your eyes and mind to new and exciting ideas, be open and try something outside your BOX. ~Peilo


Norton

are addicted to remixes.
In 2005 they released a remixed version of their debut album only
with remixes made from Portuguese musicians.
Now, not even a year has passed since they released
Kersche they present a new remixes release.

Kersche Remixed is, as the name announces,
a remixed version of Kersche. People from all around the world –
were putting new visions, new sounds, new atmospheres
in Norton songs.

In this record you travel around the world. From Iceland with

FM Belfast
, side Project of Örvar Smárason from
Múm, to Malaysia with Muxu, Germany with Corwood Manual,
Hidden Letters, Nuukand Trondheim,
Portugal with Loto, Stereoboy and Daily Misconceptions,
Sweden with Lost Room, U.S.A. with Cars & Trains and
Transient, England with Will, Switzerland with And Me and Netherlands with
You Echo. The pack is complete with the wonderful reworking on Kersche cover made, onceagain by Meedchen. Mastering by Andreas Bonkowski
(Siva.). A warm thank you to all people involved.

All tracks are encoded as VBR .mp3.

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Lucid Absinthe Supérieure: Genuine absinthe available in US

January 16, 2008

Absinthe: The American Remix – New York Times

absente

My Review~ Well I tried Absente over the New Years, and well I’m not the biggest connoisseur of liquors, I can tell you this. It was pretty good stuff. It had this very unique color and had this strange lingering aftertaste that was quite pleasant. It was a fairly refined drink with a smooth draw, tastes like candy when mixed with just sugar water 🙂

Like black licorice, and then it had this weired sensation like you were drinking the devils brew. You could actually feel it on your tongue. It was probably just psychological, and based on me knowing it’s long and colorful history, so I don’t doubt it.

Priced at around $40 for a 1/5 it isn’t the cheapest stuff on the shelf, nor the most expensive. “But it is good stuff” ~Peilo

 I had worked mass amounts of hours over the holidays, and went from being on days to working midnights. I worked 84 hours X-mas week, which I had never worked that many hours in a single week before (it sucked) I couldn’t get back to a normal schedule for the life of me.  I was already out of my element when I started drinking the stuff for sure but still.     🙂 lucid

I would love to tell you it produced real hallucinations, but it didn’t. It did however exponentially enhance the music I zoned out to before bed ~ My Last Mix of 07′. Speaking of mix,  I mixed my absinthe with Redbull and sugar water. ~ But anyways back to the real story, not my review—>

In praise of the opaque green liqueur beloved by his creative contemporaries, Oscar Wilde once posed the rhetorical question, “What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?”

The prosaic answer, at least for Americans, has long been one of legality: sunsets can be freely enjoyed, but absinthe was forbidden because it contained thujone, a potentially toxic compound.

Intrepid drinkers have worked around the ban by ordering imported bottles off the Internet or smuggling them back from Eastern Europe. Now they have a third, less dodgy option: Lucid, which is being marketed as the first legal, genuine American absinthe in nearly a century.

Lucid Absinthe Supérieure: Genuine absinthe available in US~

Absinthe, What is Absinthe? About its Science, Chemistry and Structure
Prohibition is finally over!

Introducing lucid, Absinthe Supérieure. lucid represents a breakthrough product for the U.S. market, as it is the first true, Grande Wormwood-based Absinthe of its type since before prohibition. Unlike imitators in the U.S. and many of the so-called “Absinthe” products that litter the international markets, lucid is crafted directly from select whole herbs, including Grande Wormwood, and never from cheaper assemblages, macerations, extracts or oils. ABSINTHE INFO
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