Vote for Funky J in the ITM top 50

Yes, you can vote for me in the inthemix Top 50 DJ Poll.

Last year I ranked about 4,369 and this year I want to get even higher! =)

Take a listen to one of my mixes or come along to Mojo West on Hindley Street on the 2nd and 4th Friday of the month, or even listen to my radio show on Radio Adelaide 101.5 fm
(although I don't mix on the radio - no decks...)

W00T!

the Breakfastaz are playing in Adelaide on the June Long Weekend!

I am more excited about this than anything that has happened in AGES!

Along with Krafty Kuts and the Freestylers, the Breakfastaz make up 90% of my DJ sets. I am so very keen to hear and see them perform live... it's going to be massive!

Also, Krafty Kuts is playing in July at the same venue, and I am so keen for that too!

I don't care if it is like when Deekline played and it was essentially me and 5 mates on the floor, this is going to rock!!!

argh! Dial up!!!

Argh! I've returned to dial up from home!

This is a terrible, terrible situation! Everything is so incredibly slow, I'm just not used to it. It's been about 5 years since I first got high speed internet, and I have become so accustomed to it.

I think this is part of the reason I've never got my license - I know once I start driving, I'll NEVER want to go back to walking / public transport...

It's only until Friday, but that's still a long, desperate wait. At least I have Foxtel to keep me occupied.

But this week just gone I saw Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith at the midnight screening, and thought fairly highly of it. It's easily the best in the new triology, and possibly better than Jedi. I need to see it again to give a more thorough review, but my intial impression is 8/10

I also was taken to see Henry Rollins stand up routine, and that was hilarious. Rollins is a master ranter, and funny as hell. Big shout outs to Maz and Nige for the ticket.

Moved!

At the moment I'm internet-less from home because I've just moved house, so I'm posting from work.

Work's also moved offices, and is still being finished, so there's lots of paint fumes... expect ratbag to come up with some awesomely freaky games because of this :D

I've got no desk for my PC at home either, coz it won't fit up the stairs... but I'm in the process of rectifying that with an axe and some glue.

I should have a 12MBS ADSL connection from home in a week or so, so I endevour to finish off posting all my articles to the website, and fixing it up a little more.

The Bali 9

This report on mediawatch about the Bali 9 and the arrangements made by Channel 9 for "exclusives" makes me sick.

http://abc.net.au/mediawatch/

[DIRECT LINK]

How DARE anyone at channel 9 call themselves "journalists".

These people who work for Channel 9 would have done a similar course to what I studied, and yet they have no ethics, no morals, are just filthy, disgusting leeches.

We all know Ray Martin is a bastard from his attack on John Safran [video1] [video2], but you've got to wonder if it isn't a corporate policy to stomp all over common decency and respect for journalism...

Yet another report about games & kids...

But this one actually states games are good for kids!

Guardian Unlimited - A good sport

I particularily like this quote: "It's like broccoli is good for you, but 15 kilos a day probably isn't" on playing too much games...

Great to see some positive news about gaming for once, and hopefully the $90 Million that Hillary Clinton is going to pay some lucky schmucks echoes these findings - although I seriously doubt it because you don't pay someone $90 million dollars to have them turn around and tell you that your beliefs are wrong.

Sciolism Update

You'll notice a bit of an update to the page...

This is to make fit in the theme of the whole FunkyJ.com website.

I've also rearranged a few bits and pieces, and added a "Now Cranking" box that displays what I'm listening to on my computer when I'm online... pretty cool hey?

AWESOME NEWS!!!

I have awesome news...

But I'm not allowed to tell anyone... THIS SUCKS BALLS!

But it's damn exciting, and hopefully I'll be able to position myself into an opportunity of a lifetime!

Trust me, I'll let you know as soon as I'm able too!

I haven't been this happy in ages!!!

iTunes Australia opening tomorrow?

There's this from Russel Crowe

and then there's this

One thing though... In the SMH article it says "iTunes is the only site where iPod users can legally download songs"

I'm not sure that this is entirely true... What about Bigpond music, NineMSN's music service, and free artist driven sites like MP3.com.au and the like?

Guess-the-google!

This fun and surprisingly addictive little web game by Grant Robinson presents a bunch of photos and asks you to guess what google keyword was used to generate the file... Enjoy!

Guess-the-google

The Zen Garden

Ease your mind in the Zen Garden without hurting your back!

The Zen Garden

Hacker attacks music file sharers

According to this report - Hacker attacks music file sharers - a worm disguised as a DVD ripping program is making it's rounds on P2P networks.

Apparently it looks through your harddrives and removes any and all MP3 files.

Am I being majorly cynical, or could this be the work of the RIAA and MPIA in order to punish file sharers?

For why would a hacker, who generally in principle, is for music and DVD copying, write this? Why would a hacker, who hacks and uses tools to get around copyright and reverse engineer do something like this?

I know there are people who are simply writing virus for the fun of it, but this one seems far more nefarious in nature...

Moving time!

Yup!

This blog has moved again!

This time it's moved for good! It will now be a part of FunkyJ.com

There will be less reviews - they'll go into the main section of my site - and more of me crapping on!

Oh, and I should add that I'm going to be moving house again soon.

Unlike last time I moved, I'm looking forward to it!
I love my current housemate to bits, and she's been very good to live with since breaking up with my ex, but she wants to move to the 'burbs so her cats can have a nice grassy lawn to play in.
I, on the otherhand, prefer city life. It's great for me - nearly everything I do is in the city, and seeing as how I have no car and license it's central to buses etc.
The house I'm moving out to is SOOOOO cute! I don't normally think architecture in terms of "cute" or whatever, but this house is so cool!
I cant' wait to move, but I will miss my current flatmate heaps...


as we say... FOC!

NEW WEBSITE!

funkyj.com is now back up and running a full CMS featuring all my articles and reviews.

I haven't uploaded everything just yet, but should hopefully have it all there by the end of April.
I've still got about 100 articles to copy and paste and format...

Not sure if I'll keep this blogger site or merge it in with the other... I'll let you know ;)

Another year older...

Yup, another year older.

This year I just had a party with Grif at Mojo, and it was a lot of fun! I ended up getting quite drunk, and left a trail of destruction through the house though...
Good thing my flatmate is cool and just laughed at me.

Something that I didn't expect was my ex turning up and staying for the whole night.
I really appreciated that. Shows that despite the break up she still cares. Possibly.

Similarily, something I didn't expect was to go to her birthday and have an awesome time.
I ended up staying the whole night (not like that) and really enjoying just simply being friends. There was none of the usual paranoid regret I have had in the past at all night parties like that, and even the following days I had no come down from it, which was very good for my heart and mind.

I'm happy to say that I think the worst of the break up and feelings is over. I can now move on, and I'm glad to say I've still got a friend out of it.

The Jam goes fortnighly!

Adelaide's only place to hear hiphop, breaks, dub, dubstep, two step, garage and dancehall, The Jam, is now on the SECOND and LAST Fridays of the month!

I am so excited to have a fortnightly gig, but that means I have to buy more records :D

Big Day Out 2005

WHOA! What an awesome day.

I've been going to the Big Day out since it first hit Adelaide in 1993, have only missed two (the so called 'final' one in 1997, and then again in 2003) and this was one of the better ones I've been to.

It was the first time in the history of the BDO in Adelaide that it has sold out, and there were 30,000 people going off bigtime!

The highlights for me were Wolfmother, Zero Kelvins, Concord Dawn, Freestylers, Beastie Boys, Hilltop Hoods and Chemical Brothers

For a full, comprehensive review of the day, with a contribution by yours truely, visit dB Magazine

Mature Video Games in the Minority

Mature Video Games in the Minority

Great article about "Mature" video games

Crazy weekend

Well, what a crazy, alcohol fueled weekend!

Friday night was a going away party for one of the guys leaving work.

He's going to China to work on games over there. Hopefully in a few years time I'll feel confident enough to take on a role like that. I've only been working at Ratbag for just over a year, and although I can do testing fine, there aren't many testing jobs about the place. Once I get into level design things might be different.

Anyway, it was at the Grace Emily, a cosy little pub in the city, and I got very pissed and unlike last time I was there, throughly enjoyed myself.

On Saturday, I was invited to an old school friend's birthday. I was only invited on the Friday, and their house is ages out of the city, and as I still rely on public transport I thought it just wasn't worth it... If I had a little more time, I woud have saved money for a cab!

Anyway, I stayed home, had a drink or two, watched foxtel, and my flatmate went out to a dinner, bringing peeps back with her, and then inviting more along the way.

It was a pretty damn crazy night, between about 8 of us we polished off 12 bottles of wine!

I passed out at around 4 or 5 am, and apparently some guy got a wicked blood nose (thru natural cause - we aren't violent people ;) and my wonderful flatmate cleaned it all up, and then continued to do the whole house before I got up! It helped that she was geared up to do it...

Needless to say I'm feeling pretty seedy right now :-S

Next week is the Schutzenfest (aka the Shit Faced Festival) and I might head along, although it tends to be a VERY expensive day, and I have little money...

However, if a certain someone goes, I'll probably go too...

Happy New Year!

I'm happy to say that 2005 looks indeed to be my year.

It's amazing what the space of 5 days can do for you... My post on the 29th was an indication of how bad I was feeling, but now none of that matters.

I had two awesome nights on the 30th and 31st Dec with some new, interesting people, and the symbolic new year has lifted my mood considerably.

Nothing too exciting happened, but something happened to get me excited about this year, something to get me excited about life in general once more!

It's a new dawn, a new day, a new life for me, and I'm feeling GOOD!