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FROG EYES - tour info

2007-03-14T17:13:51Z

Yes, I know Frog Eyes has been mentioned a lot as of recently, but they have announced tour dates

and their new album, Tears of the Valedictorian (May 1st Absolutely Kosher Records), is amazing.

Frog Eyes - 2007 Tour Dates
3-16 - Austin, TX - SXSW Merge / Absolutely Kosher Day Party at Pok-e-Jo’s
3-17 - Austin, TX - SXSW Absolutely Kosher showcase
4-14 - Victoria, BC - Logan‘s Pub
5-01 - Seattle, WA - Crocodile
5-04 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
5-05 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
5-10 - Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves
5-11 - Austin, TX - Emo‘s
5-12 - Houston, TX - Proletariat
5-14 - Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
5-15 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
5-16 - Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
5-17 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda‘s
5-18 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
5-20 - Boston, MA - Middle East
5-22 - Montreal, QC - La Sala Rossa
5-24 - Toronto, ON - Sneaky Dee’s
5-25 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
5-27 - Chicago, IL - Schubas

Download <- I posted this before, but for those of you who haven't heard it yet. DO IT!
Bushels

Artic Monkeys w/ Be Your Own Pet - Tour Dates

2007-03-13T17:26:06Z

Arctic Monkeys - 2007 Tour Dates
03-29 Tokyo, Japan - Zepp Club
04-27 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella)
05-01 San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre *
05-02 Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre *
05-03 Seattle, WA - Showbox *
05-04 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom *
05-07 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
05-08 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre *
05-09 Pontiac, MI - Clutch Cargo's *
05-11 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus *
05-12 Montreal, Quebec - L'Olympia *
05-13 Boston, MA - Avalon *
05-15 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom *
05-16 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
05-17 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory *
05-19 Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle *
05-20 Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live *
05-28 Landgraff, Netherlands - Pinkpop
06-01 Nürnburgring, Germany - Rock am Ring
06-02 Nürnberg, Germany - Rock im Park
06-16 Dublin, Ireland - Malahide Castle
06-17 Dublin, Ireland - Malahide Castle
06-22-24 Somerset, England - Glastonbury Festival
06-29 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter
07-06 Balado, Scotland - T in the Park
07-21 Valencia, Spain - Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
07-28 Manchester, England - Lancashire County Cricket Ground #
07-29 Manchester, England - Lancashire County Cricket Ground #
08-11 Osaka, Japan - Summersonic
08-12 Tokyo, Japan - Summersonic

* with Be Your Own Pet
# with Supergrass, the Coral, Amy Winehouse

DAFT PUNK - CONEY ISLAND!!!!!!

2007-03-11T00:41:26Z

DAFT PUNK

Have announced they will be touring this summer (including a set Keyspan Park, NY).
Opening acts will include The Rapture, SebasatiAn, KavinSky; thus a serious pre-robot dance party.

Get ready because if any one saw them at Coachella or any of their more recent USA performances then you know all about gigantic spaceship-pyramids and the best dance-party light show ever conceived by man... or robot.

Daft Punk - 2007 Tour dates
06-10 Inverness, Scotland - Loch Ness (RockNess Festival)
06-14 Paris, France - Bercy
07-21 Los Angeles, CA - Sport Arena *
07-27 Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre *
07-29 Seattle, WA - WAMU Center *
07-31 Denver, CO - Red Rocks *
08-03 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza ?
08-05 Toronto, Ontario - Arrow Hall *
08-07 Montreal, Quebec - Bell Center *
08-09 Brooklyn, NY - Keyspan Park *

* w;/ The Rapture & Sebastian & KavinSky

Modest Mouse - New Video & Album

2007-02-26T21:07:28Z

Modest Mouse (one of my all time favorite bands) Has been very very busy. Johnny Marr (the Smiths) joined the band. They put a new album together (We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank) which is not too far from amazing. Oh and they have a new video that they just launched.

WATCH Dashboard video

Yo La Tengo tour dates

2007-02-26T18:22:20Z

download Little Eyes
Don't Have to Be So Sad

Yo La Tengo | 2007 Tour Dates
Feb 22 - Club Quattro Nagoya
Feb 23 - Big Cat Osaka
Feb 24 - Drum Be-1 Fukuoka
Feb 27 - Amplifier Bar Perth
Mar 1 - Metro Sydney
Mar 3 - Laneway Festival Brisbane
Mar 4 - Laneway Festival Sydney
Mar 6 - Corner Hotel Melbourne
Mar 8 - Fowlers Live Adelaide
Mar 10 - Golden Plains Festival Meredith
Mar 12 - Concert Hall @ Mosaic Music Fest. Singapore
Apr 5 - Tipitina's New Orleans, Louisiana
Apr 6 - Warehouse Live Austin, Texas
Apr 7 - Stubb's Austin, Texas
Apr 8 - Granada Dallas, Texas
Apr 10 - Cain's Ballroom Tulsa, Oklahoma
Apr 11 - Granada Lawrence, Kansas
Apr 12 - Pageant St. Louis, Missouri
Apr 13 - Vogue Indianaplis, Indiana
Apr 14 - Barrymore Madison, Wisconsin
Apr 16 - Southgate House Newport, Kentucky
Apr 17 - Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, Ohio
Apr 18 - Majestic Theatre Detroit, Michigan
Apr 29 - Webster Hall New York, New York

Led Zeppelin REUNION TOUR?!?

2007-02-13T00:03:13Z

rumors for a tour next summer
and a half promise toward cheap tickets

read here : http://www.therockradio.com/2007/02/2007-led-zeppelin-tour-wishful.html

!!! SECRET show MAXWELLS hoboken NJ

2007-02-09T18:35:32Z

Yep. Tomorrow Feb 10

doors @ 6PM, FREE, ALL AGES

you may have to print out
http://www.myspace.com/secretshows
in your top 8. Some of the secret myspace shows worked like that
and the same ppl are running the !!! show.

this is all i know, and im in a rush.
sorry for limited details.

Frog Eyes - new CD

2007-02-08T23:43:44Z

Frog Eyes are putting out a new record , Tears of the Valedictorian, May 1st ( on Absolutely Kosher Records ).
Bushels is an explosive track capturing all elements that are frog eyes. Loud, Odd, Clever, and Captivating

1. Idle Songs
2. Caravan Breakers, They Prey on the Weak and the Old
3. "Stockades"
4. Reform the Countryside
5. The Policy Merchant, the Silver Bay
6. Evil Energy, the Ill Twin of...
7. ...Eagle Energy"
8. Bushels
9. My Boats They Go

Download
Bushels

Feist announces new album

2007-02-07T04:26:32Z

Her first album has now sold well past platinum
and she is on her way to release another fantastic work of art

A Reminder will hit stores on May 1st.

Download - [live new songs]
Sally's Song
So Sorry

Steve Jobs urges music labels to drop DRM copyright software for unprotected music

2007-02-07T03:02:39Z

Jobs posted a letter on Apple's website today urging for labels to drop DRM and sell music with out copyright protection.

...Since Apple does not own or control any music itself, it must license the rights to distribute music from others, primarily the “big four” music companies: Universal, Sony BMG, Warner and EMI. These four companies control the distribution of over 70% of the world’s music. When Apple approached these companies to license their music to distribute legally over the Internet, they were extremely cautious and required Apple to protect their music from being illegally copied. The solution was to create a DRM system...

[Entire Letter | Source: Apple.com http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/]
Thoughts on Music

With the stunning global success of Apple’s iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music purchased from iTunes can be played on digital devices purchased from other companies, and protected music purchased from other online music stores can play on iPods. Let’s examine the current situation and how we got here, then look at three possible alternatives for the future.

To begin, it is useful to remember that all iPods play music that is free of any DRM and encoded in “open” licensable formats such as MP3 and AAC. iPod users can and do acquire their music from many sources, including CDs they own. Music on CDs can be easily imported into the freely-downloadable iTunes jukebox software which runs on both Macs and Windows PCs, and is automatically encoded into the open AAC or MP3 formats without any DRM. This music can be played on iPods or any other music players that play these open formats.

The rub comes from the music Apple sells on its online iTunes Store. Since Apple does not own or control any music itself, it must license the rights to distribute music from others, primarily the “big four” music companies: Universal, Sony BMG, Warner and EMI. These four companies control the distribution of over 70% of the world’s music. When Apple approached these companies to license their music to distribute legally over the Internet, they were extremely cautious and required Apple to protect their music from being illegally copied. The solution was to create a DRM system, which envelopes each song purchased from the iTunes store in special and secret software so that it cannot be played on unauthorized devices.

Apple was able to negotiate landmark usage rights at the time, which include allowing users to play their DRM protected music on up to 5 computers and on an unlimited number of iPods. Obtaining such rights from the music companies was unprecedented at the time, and even today is unmatched by most other digital music services. However, a key provision of our agreements with the music companies is that if our DRM system is compromised and their music becomes playable on unauthorized devices, we have only a small number of weeks to fix the problem or they can withdraw their entire music catalog from our iTunes store.

To prevent illegal copies, DRM systems must allow only authorized devices to play the protected music. If a copy of a DRM protected song is posted on the Internet, it should not be able to play on a downloader’s computer or portable music device. To achieve this, a DRM system employs secrets. There is no theory of protecting content other than keeping secrets. In other words, even if one uses the most sophisticated cryptographic locks to protect the actual music, one must still “hide” the keys which unlock the music on the user’s computer or portable music player. No one has ever implemented a DRM system that does not depend on such secrets for its operation.

The problem, of course, is that there are many smart people in the world, some with a lot of time on their hands, who love to discover such secrets and publish a way for everyone to get free (and stolen) music. They are often successful in doing just that, so any company trying to protect content using a DRM must frequently update it with new and harder to discover secrets. It is a cat-and-mouse game. Apple’s DRM system is called FairPlay. While we have had a few breaches in FairPlay, we have been able to successfully repair them through updating the iTunes store software, the iTunes jukebox software and software in the iPods themselves. So far we have met our commitments to the music companies to protect their music, and we have given users the most liberal usage rights available in the industry for legally downloaded music.

With this background, let’s now explore three different alternatives for the future.

The first alternative is to continue on the current course, with each manufacturer competing freely with their own “top to bottom” proprietary systems for selling, playing and protecting music. It is a very competitive market, with major global companies making large investments to develop new music players and online music stores. Apple, Microsoft and Sony all compete with proprietary systems. Music purchased from Microsoft’s Zune store will only play on Zune players; music purchased from Sony’s Connect store will only play on Sony’s players; and music purchased from Apple’s iTunes store will only play on iPods. This is the current state of affairs in the industry, and customers are being well served with a continuing stream of innovative products and a wide variety of choices.

Some have argued that once a consumer purchases a body of music from one of the proprietary music stores, they are forever locked into only using music players from that one company. Or, if they buy a specific player, they are locked into buying music only from that company’s music store. Is this true? Let’s look at the data for iPods and the iTunes store – they are the industry’s most popular products and we have accurate data for them. Through the end of 2006, customers purchased a total of 90 million iPods and 2 billion songs from the iTunes store. On average, that’s 22 songs purchased from the iTunes store for each iPod ever sold.

Today’s most popular iPod holds 1000 songs, and research tells us that the average iPod is nearly full. This means that only 22 out of 1000 songs, or under 3% of the music on the average iPod, is purchased from the iTunes store and protected with a DRM. The remaining 97% of the music is unprotected and playable on any player that can play the open formats. Its hard to believe that just 3% of the music on the average iPod is enough to lock users into buying only iPods in the future. And since 97% of the music on the average iPod was not purchased from the iTunes store, iPod users are clearly not locked into the iTunes store to acquire their music.

The second alternative is for Apple to license its FairPlay DRM technology to current and future competitors with the goal of achieving interoperability between different company’s players and music stores. On the surface, this seems like a good idea since it might offer customers increased choice now and in the future. And Apple might benefit by charging a small licensing fee for its FairPlay DRM. However, when we look a bit deeper, problems begin to emerge. The most serious problem is that licensing a DRM involves disclosing some of its secrets to many people in many companies, and history tells us that inevitably these secrets will leak. The Internet has made such leaks far more damaging, since a single leak can be spread worldwide in less than a minute. Such leaks can rapidly result in software programs available as free downloads on the Internet which will disable the DRM protection so that formerly protected songs can be played on unauthorized players.

An equally serious problem is how to quickly repair the damage caused by such a leak. A successful repair will likely involve enhancing the music store software, the music jukebox software, and the software in the players with new secrets, then transferring this updated software into the tens (or hundreds) of millions of Macs, Windows PCs and players already in use. This must all be done quickly and in a very coordinated way. Such an undertaking is very difficult when just one company controls all of the pieces. It is near impossible if multiple companies control separate pieces of the puzzle, and all of them must quickly act in concert to repair the damage from a leak.

Apple has concluded that if it licenses FairPlay to others, it can no longer guarantee to protect the music it licenses from the big four music companies. Perhaps this same conclusion contributed to Microsoft’s recent decision to switch their emphasis from an “open” model of licensing their DRM to others to a “closed” model of offering a proprietary music store, proprietary jukebox software and proprietary players.

The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.

Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. That’s right! No DRM system was ever developed for the CD, so all the music distributed on CDs can be easily uploaded to the Internet, then (illegally) downloaded and played on any computer or player.

In 2006, under 2 billion DRM-protected songs were sold worldwide by online stores, while over 20 billion songs were sold completely DRM-free and unprotected on CDs by the music companies themselves. The music companies sell the vast majority of their music DRM-free, and show no signs of changing this behavior, since the overwhelming majority of their revenues depend on selling CDs which must play in CD players that support no DRM system.

So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none. If anything, the technical expertise and overhead required to create, operate and update a DRM system has limited the number of participants selling DRM protected music. If such requirements were removed, the music industry might experience an influx of new companies willing to invest in innovative new stores and players. This can only be seen as a positive by the music companies.

Much of the concern over DRM systems has arisen in European countries. Perhaps those unhappy with the current situation should redirect their energies towards persuading the music companies to sell their music DRM-free. For Europeans, two and a half of the big four music companies are located right in their backyard. The largest, Universal, is 100% owned by Vivendi, a French company. EMI is a British company, and Sony BMG is 50% owned by Bertelsmann, a German company. Convincing them to license their music to Apple and others DRM-free will create a truly interoperable music marketplace. Apple will embrace this wholeheartedly.

-Steve Jobs

[Entire Letter | Source: Apple.com http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/]

innandvari @ 2007-02-06T17:41:00

2007-02-06T22:41:23Z

I need a 9-5 job

sigh

Apples In Stereo & Bloc Party reviews

2007-02-06T03:38:28Z

Apples in Stereo's new album New Magnetic Wonder is very well recorded.
Parts of the album have so many layers and different instruments you almost wonder how they can fit that many little instruments into such a tiny CD, but they pulled it off quite well. All in all the album gets the thumbs up from me.

Apples In Stereo - Tour Dates
02-08 - Lexington, KY - The Dame
02-09 - Cincinnati, OH - Top Cat's Club
02-10 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
02-11 - Buffalo, NY - Buffalo Icon
02-12 - Pittsburgh, PA - Diesel
02-13 - Washington, DC - Black Cat
02-15 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
02-16 - Philadelphia, PA - Northstar
02-17 - Boston, MA - Paradise
02-19 - Montreal , QC - Main Hall
02-20 - Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace
02-21 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
02-22 - Columbus, OH - Little Brothers
02-23 - Chicago, IL - Subterranean
02-24 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theatre (Late Show)
02-25 - Madison, WI - UW Memorial Union
02-27 - Ames, IA - Maintenance Shop
02-28 - Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground
03-01 - Kansas City, MO - Record Bar
03-02 - St Louis, MO - Duck Room
03-03 - Columbia, MO - Blue Note

I wish i could say the same for Bloc Party's A Weekend In The City. I'm not too sure what exactly has happened since the release of Silent Alarm but what ever happened it wasn't good. Their new album is boring and dull. The instrumentation gets the silver medal if Silent Alarm got the gold. The lyrics aren't interesting. If you can get past that the album is heavily over produced, it sounds like M83 is playing behind all the songs. There is synthesizer and electronic harmonies all over the tracks. Unless they added a few members don't expect them to sound like the new album live. Uniform is the only song worth checking out. The interesting thing about this new album is it has a plethora of B-Sides, 90% of which are better than the songs on the album.

innandvari @ 2007-02-02T22:41:00

2007-02-03T03:42:35Z

Just got my promo copy of Bloc Party's A Weekend In The City

I'll have a review up in the next few days

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Led Signs Scare Boston Bomb Squad

2007-02-02T06:43:46Z

As some of you may have heard, Aqua Teen Hunger Force did a promotions campaign in major US cities by displaying Neon LED signs depicting the Mooninite characters. The signs were put in random places, buildings, streed signs, overpasses. Of all the cities that the promotions campaign took place, Boston was the only to freak out and think that terrorists had planted WMDs through out their cities. A bomb squad was sent in, arrests were made. They even used a robot to deactivate the sign.

Yes, They sent a Bomb-squad Robot to deactivate a Light Bright.

News Link
News Link 2

Fox sticks it to Youtube

2007-02-02T05:23:54Z

Fox subpoenaed YouTube over "Simpsons," "24"
according to Reuters the FOX subpoenaed Google for the identities of the individuals who uploaded episodes of the Simpsons and 24 to their website.

Sounds like napster allover again; everyone's doing it, but five or ten people are going to be in real deep shit.

#5 Xiu Xiu Dates

2007-02-02T05:13:47Z

March 2007
25 - Phoenix, AZ @ Paperheart
26 - Tucson , AZ @ Solar Culture
27 - Santa Fe, NM @ College of Santa Fe
28 - Oklahoma City , OK @ Conservatory
29 - Austin, TX @ Emo's
30 - Baton Rogue, LA @ Red Star Bar
31 - Birmingham, AL @ Bottle Tree Cafe
April 2007
01 - Murfreesboro, TN @ Casa Burrito
02 - Durham, NC @ Duke Coffee House
03 - Wilmington, NC @ Bella Festa
04 - Washington, DC @ THE ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL
05 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
06 - Philadelphia, PA @ The First Unitarian Church
07 - Cambridge, MA @ T.T. The Bear's
08 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
11 - Montreal, QC @ Lambi
12 - Toronto, ONT @ Lee's Palace
13 - Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig
14 - Bloomington, IN @ WUIX Culture Shock, Indiana University Campus
16 - Denver, Co @ Hi Dive
17 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
19 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room
20 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
22 - San Francisco, CA @ The Bottom of the Hill
23 - The Bottom of the Hill San Francisco, CA
24 - Troubadour Los Angeles, CA

DOWNLOAD - Bog People

#4 Secret Bloc Party Track, T-Shirts for Charity

2007-02-01T03:37:23Z

Bloc Party has a new secret song, streaming from a Canadian website. Interestingly enough, the song happens to be titled secret as well.

www.exclaim.ca/blocparty

Yellow Bird Project - Charity T-shirts
YBP is a new charity project designed to sell exclusive band shirts and filter the proceeds to a charity of the band's choice. Stars, Wolfmother, Rilo Kiley, and Devendra Banhart are just a few of the bands currently participating in the project. The Shirts are a little pricey, but it is for charity, and the designs are well done.

Rilo Kiley - One of the yellowbird bands
www.yellowbirdproject.com

#3 some tour dates

2007-01-30T18:29:14Z

Amiina| 2007 Tour Dates
Mar 21 @ Café Montmartre, Madison, Wisconsin
Mar 22 @ Varsity Theatre, Minneapolis
Mar 23 @ Lakeshore Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Mar 25 @ Cambridge Room - House of Blues, Cleveland, Ohio
Mar 26 @ Magic Bag, Detroit, Ferndale, Michigan
Mar 27 @ Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Mar 28 @ Le National, Montreal, Quebec
Mar 30 @ World Café Live, Philadelphia
Mar 31 @ Remis Auditorium, Boston
Apr 1 @ Club, Washington DC
Apr 2 @ The Wordless Music Series, New York City, New York
Apr 6 @ MusicNOW festival, Cincinnati, Ohio

Deerhunter | 2007 Tour Dates
Mar 2 @ Drunken Unicorn w/ Grizzly Bear, The Papercuts Atlanta, Georgia
Mar 3 @ Music Farm w/ Sparklehorse, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter Charleston, South Carolina
Mar 4 @ Variety Playhouse w/ Sparklehorse, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter Atlanta, Georgia
Mar 16 @ Emos - Pitchfork SXSW party
Mar 18 @ Mink w/ Black Lips & The Ponys, Houston, TX
Mar 31 @ George Street Grocery, Jackson, MS
Apr 26 @ Mercury Lounge, NYC

SoniMinoS | 2007 Tour Dates
Feb 1 @ Crocodile Rock Cafe, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Feb 2 @ The Penny Arcade, Rochester, New York
Feb 9 @ Teanek BotB, Teanek, New Jersey
Mar 2 @ The Rail in Boundbrook, Boundbrook, New Jersey
Mar 20 @ Club Deep, Asbury Park, New Jersey
April 20 @ BAM Fest, Bonaventure, NY

#2 New Clap Your Hands & Shins Video

2007-01-30T04:31:54Z

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Some Loud Thunder Jan 30

The band teamed together with producer Dave Fridmann (flaming lips, mogwai) for Some Loud Thunder. The album opens with a boomy distortion-heavy intro which almost sounds like they wanted to break your stereo. If the listener can get past track 1, the rest of the album is rather accessible. It may even recruit new fans who brushed them off as being too repetitive or droning after their first release. In my opinion the album is good but I have yet to find their next "Home on Ice", I can only hope the album will grow on me.

tracks to listen for:
Love Song No. 7
Underwater ( you & me )

The Shins video for Phantom Limb is this week's video-o-the-week (yes each week ill pick out a cool video [Suck it])

The idea of children acting out horrible events in history is clever
but holy shit does the band look bored
the last time i saw them was at cony island before they went to record Wincing
at the cony island show they seemed out of it and unenthusiastic, but no where near as boring as in the Phantom Limb video. I hope this is all a coincidence and I'm just paranoid.

#1

2007-01-29T19:16:36Z

this is my first entry.

Just testing things out

1...2...3...

gotta wake up the sea legs