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Marathon gig 16.8.07
BSB and FB band played for the runners in Helsinki Marathon, on the helipad in front of Nokia House, Espoo.An audience of 6000+, and we made them run :)
Here I am (black shirt):
And the whole gang: (Full size)
We had assumed “somebody” had gotten clearance for the helipad, but: “never assume anything in rock'n'roll wunderland”.
Despite some initial confusion that got us almost packing our stuff back into the van, we stayed where we were, and the gig was serious fun.
No choppers were seen during the day.
Maybe it was too windy (or too loud...)
We even made a brief appearance in the TV documentary one month later (16.9).
BSB gig 20.6.07
Kaivohuone night club (Helsinki)
Full size image Sound and light and occasional life-saving pieces of Gaffa tape by Eastway.
From right to left:
- Kimmo Viheriälä (guit, voc)
- Jani “Rock Rock” Moilanen (“invisible”, drums)
- Janne Vesterinen (bass, voc)
- Tommi Salmela (voc)
- myself (keys+voc)
Snowboarding!
Need I say more?
I've been snowboarding for many years, and try to spend at least one week a year in the alps. I'm into “alpine” snowboarding, not “freestyle”. “Freestylers” jump around... “alpine” snowboarders tend to go in straighter lines, although usually a bit faster.
Also my board knows how to jump (and oh boy, how does it jump...), but then something has gone horribly wrong.
Being realistic, it is unlikely that a snowboarder will outrace an alpine skier. But that doesn't stop us from trying.
Here's my board: After using ordinary bindings for many years (two broke), I switched to F2 step-in bindings. Never going back... It's just so much more convenient.
These boots are not made for walking, they are actually quite uncomfortable. The inner boots are “Thermoflex” material, they are fitted to the feet by heating in an oven.
Now they fit very well, but it took a couple of days before the feet got used to the boots. I suspect that also the material yields slowly even without the oven treatment, just like ordinary shoes.
The difference to my old “Raichle” boots with standard bindings is like day and night - the F2 bindings and boots are very precise, nothing moves.
Just for fun, I once mounted them on my trusty old freeride board (carbon fiber, manufactured by Hammer, and a great board that I'd buy again any day), and tried how much force I could now put on the edge.
Well... it was more than enough, it broke the board during a hard turn.
The experience was surprisingly painful, in fact as surprising as it was painful...
Said board had been run over the nose by some good-looking and completely out-of-control snowboarder lady a couple of years ago, and that's where it broke now. Maybe it took some damage already back then.
Free music
Some links to live recordings that can be downloaded freely (and legally, with permission of the artist).Most have a button on the left: "Download VBR".
It downloads the whole show as one archive in reasonably good MP3 quality.
Little Feat live at Ultrasonic Studios, 19.9.74 Almost legendary, from the archives of an FM station. (X)
Grateful Dead
Zero
The Wayword sons
Donna Hopkins band
Drive-by Truckers
Calexico
String Cheese Incident
Free software
Below a couple of open source programs that I use regularly- Rockbox Open source firmware for portable MP3 players
- Inkscape Vector drawing program
- Linux
- Gimp Bitmap drawing program
- MSys/MinGW Unix tools for Windows
- Octave Matlab without license hassle
- Open office (Star office)
- Maxima computer algebra system
- Emacs, for just about anything else. Except psychotherapy.
© Markus Nentwig 2007-2008
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