KMFDM and Ernest Jasmin

Well i thought i would put both of these in one post since theyre both about music.
Ernest Jasmin is a writer for the news tribune who writes about music and has been to and reviewed many of the same shows i have. His blog can be found here. He also wrote about Saul williams.... Anyways i was reading his review of when he saw Marlyn Manson recently because of how in the newspaper he spoke of a "near death experience" (a long knife attached to the mike... meh). Anyway so wat this is about is that i found a typo and it got on my nerves. Jasmin was speaking of how manson had warmed up backstage with a song by bauhaus which was called Bela Lugosi's dead but he spelled it Lugozi's... yea it majorly bugged me
The other thing i wanted to speak of is KMFDM. They are an industrial band formed in paris and now based in the US. Their latest album came out in november i believe, if not it was sometime last year. but the remix album for it came out yesterday. I enjoyed it as many band members and people from other good industrial bands had remixed almost every song from the previous album. I discovered KMFDM off of ETS and as i was lurking there last week they were talking about some of the songs. the album had apparently leaked on some small torrent sites but i was too lazy to find it and decided to just wait a little while. i checked the pirate bay friday night and there it was. it was nice to have it a couple days early ^_^

Yea i think thats all of my random music junk im gonna blog about for now =D

Online Purchases

Well Andrew Fry asked us today how much we would be willing to spend online. There were multiple things that it depended on for me. For one thing i would be willing to pay more if it was a website that had good customer service and that i had heard good things about or was popular. Websites like amazon.com or apple.com. I also have a feeling that if i get my identity stolen online that i would be more reluctant to buy things from the internet. also if i had a large amount of money i would be happy to spend more. right now though probably less than $100 unless i was getting an ipod or computer, both of which i already have.

Bill Kaufmann

Last Wednesday Bill Kaufmann from Corplogoware and the online good will store came in to talk to us about e-commerce. He passed around few interesting charts and booklets. One of the booklets had a list of somethings you might find in the online store and how they were sorted. it had criteria for almost everything you could think of. Flipping through the pages, one of the sections was on cameras and they had rules on how to sell old spy cameras, I thought that was pretty neat. One of the charts he passed around also detailed their profit for last month in comparison to other months and their budget. According to the chart they were at their best January. He also spoke of how some very valuable things are sometimes sold on the online good will store. The branch in Oregon sold a painting for many thousands of dollars.
All in all it was an interesting meeting, unfortunately he had to leave early, so we were unable to go have coffee.

Saul Williams update and Shoes ^_^

Well I have checked Neumos website since my last post about Saul Williams and his spot has been updated with information on the concert. First things first, it is an all ages show so I shall hopefully going just a soon as I can buy tickets. On the same page it has a link to tickets which are only $15 each so I don't to have to save tons of money between now and then. Doors open at 8 and concert starts at 9. So yay >_<

Also I ordered some new shoes Saturday off of zappos to replace my old pair of Dr. Martens because they had been my dads and were very worn down. I got another pair of Docs which it said would be at my house by today, but they actually got here yesterday.
Here is a pic of one.
These ones also have the bonus of being steeltoed and about 3 inches farther up on my leg. Unfortunately, because they are so new, the leather is very stiff and because of that I have gotten blisters and scrapes on my feet even after wearing thick socks. I walk enough though that they shall ease up on my feet soon.

-Cris

Exit 133 & Derek Young

So yesterday during class, instead of doing what we normally do, we met with founder of Exit 133, Derek Young. We met with him in class and walked down to cutters point to have coffee. I had a watermelon italian soda........ Anyway, he just told us a bit about Exit 133 and then he was open for questions. Basically Exit 133 is a blog website dedicated to Tacoma. It has multiple sections including a forum and a and b sides. The forum is useful for readers to discuss topics without clogging up the comments section. The a side is what the page defaults to when the site is loaded, the b side is a collection of alternate posts with a different "feel" to them which many people don't always read. Derek also explained to us how Exit 133 came to be. He said he started it as a way to keep in touch with family and close friends when there was a health related issue. The blog made it much easier for him to stay in touch with people as people who live far away could easily access it. Andrew said that that is a common reason for people to start a blog.

Saul Williams Tour

So I got an email a couple days ago from the saul williams website announcing tour dates. It said that he is coming to Seattle at Neumo's. Now I'm not sure if it will be an all ages show and until recently Neumos had not updated their website. Now when I click on Saul Williams all it says is more info. coming soon. Well if it is an all ages show I will definitely being going to it.