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Preez Do Not Dulink from the Slooshie Masheen!

Listen to English of a menagerie of accents at the speech accent archive. Or add your own.

Cool.

1400AM (Yut Say Ling Ling)

Big Rick prompted of some of the recent dealings with AM Radio in the San Francisco Bay Area. Namely, Air America's working on getting airtime on 1400AM--a station I associate with lots of Asian programming.

A copy of my comment on ba.broadcast:

My mother listens to 1400 exclusively; she understands English but the Chinese programming on the station is a kind of link to the rest of the community for her. There's a fair amount of political commentary, and from what I gathered, lots of middle-aged (and perhaps even elderly) Chinese immigrants call in regularly to participate in discussion.

Both of my grandparents who only understand Chinese only listen to 1400 and watch Channel 26. If the Chinese programming on 1400 goes away, it will, indeed, be a great loss to the Chinese community in the Bay Area.

Also, they have funny English lessons that teach idioms; and my mom would recite them back to me sometimes, heh.

I'm not sure how worried I should be about this yet, since it seems like there are still talks going on. And Big Rick has some follow-up on the topic:

Let's say they could get their shows on a bigger signal. Yes people would still have to find them but they would be easier to find. The signal would be better and reach farther and they would have more listeners. Could they have a lot of listeners? Yes in this market I think they could.

Folks in the Bay Area might wanna get the word out about this to Asian folks.

William's Hung

Wow, William Hung has a CD on iTunes. Good lord, that's one nasty rendition of Rocket Man. Oh, shit, looking at the iTunes pop charts right now, he's #2 with She Bangs, #6 with I Believe I Can Fly, and #9 with Rocket Man.

I've also heard word of a video out.

WiFi at SFSU

SFSU doesn't have enough links to its Wireless Network page. Just googling around, and found the SFSU Wireless User Group and some more info at Sameer Verma's page.

Can't wait to use WiFi on campus when I get back.

Opening Day in Japan

Haha, I'm not sure if they're showing it in the US or not, but I just finished watching Tampa Bay woop the Yankees, and now they've go the after-game festivities. The TB coach and the game MVP, Julio Lugo, are all being pushed around; and they're both totally confused. It's quite hilarious. And again, the film Lost in Translation comes to mind again. These assistants keep telling them to go here and there, and they're pushing them with their hands on their backs, guiding them around. Ah, so funny.

And now, it's time for the press bombardment of Matsui.

Ah, it was a pretty sad sight to see as the Yankees were down 3-8 in the 9th and Matsui was the next one to bat; everyone was cheering for his next at-bat. Unfortunately, Jeter never made it to 1st, and three outs ended the game. In fron of everyone too! Ah, kawaisou!

Cherry Blossoms

They're comin' out! The delicate flower that depicts the true sensibilities of the Japanese people: the Cherry Blossom. The changing of the seasons and the beautiful colors of nature...

What the fuck am I talking about! Anyways, this is at Kyoto Imperial Palace. Picnic at the park! Saikou!

[updated, 03.30.2004: put up a couple more pictures]

Here's a pretty view of the whole tree.

And, to get a little better sense of the place, here's a picture with people walking 'round; there were quite a number of people taking pictures and picnicking on such a gorgeous day in Kyoto. Blue skies, and not a cloud in the sky!

Google's (Slightly) New Look

If you're a daily Googler like I am, you'll have noticed that recently, Google's changed its look a bit. The little "tabs" used to distinguish other different searches are gone, which makes them just links now. Also, there's a very prominent pointer to Froogle, Google's new shopping search. I kind of like the nice clean new look.

Haven't seen it yet? Next time you do a search for "hashed brown mitsubishi toilet" you will.

If you haven't seen it yet, Google's got Google Local now, which is a kind of specialized search for stuff around your neighborhood. I was reading the FAQ and found this funny bit:

Does this work everywhere? Can I find a noodle shop in Nagoya?
Google Local only searches for locations in the United States right now. However, we plan on expanding this service to other parts of the world once we work out the kinks in this beta product. In the meantime, we recommend Miyoshiya for noodles in Naka-ku, near downtown.

That's a sign to me that that's a good company: a company that talks like a human being. It's the way of the future.

Ah, the great Google: putting librarians out of their jobs one search at a time.

Free Culture, Free

I'm a bit late, but here it is.

Lawrence Lessig's new book,
Free Culture is out. You can get it free in a flurry of formats, and folks have started getting it into audio format. That's hilarious, and amazing!

I got it the first day he had it up (thanks to RSS!), and have wanted to comment on some that I've read since: I'll do it later. :)

As always, props to Prof. Lessig.

A Cup'o Cocoa

Alright, the coding bug has hit me again. (no pun intended, har har!)

A couple weeks ago, I started learning Cocoa, following Apple's well-written "how to make a currency converter" tutorial which comes with Project Builder (which is *free*--as in beer!). I was astounded at the speed of development; I've always been deterred from coding windowed applications (command-line geek, I be!), but this slick thing's blown me away.

So, now I'm getting my hands dirty with Objective-C, hacking at my first real Cocoa project. I've run into some snags along the way; I'm just starting to get into XML, and Cocoa's lack of any XML libraries isn't helping any bit. So, I started peeking down at the Core Foundation, and I was having oodles of troubles telling my left from my right. I finally did some searching and finally found XMLTree which does pretty much what I want: make an easy-to-use interface to the Core Foundation's XML functions. Unfortunately, there are still more problems, and I'm not familiar enough with all of this yet to fix everything. pewt!

Anyhow, that's what I've been using brain cycles on lately.

Feed Me My RSS!

Maybe you've heard about it. RSS is the Internet technology that's kick-ass and makes keeping updated about news and goings-on on the Net quick and easy. Some are hailing it as the "new web." Well, I finally (finally, finally) got on the bandwagon to see what the hoopla's all about.

For those who don't know, RSS is typically used to take news from websites and pulls them all together to make them easily readable in a single place. The whole idea is that information comes to you rather than you going to retrieve it.

I just wanted to have someplace where I could read news headlines without having to go through each of my bookmarks. I downloaded a bunch of clients, trying to see what I liked; the ones that show headlines in OS X's Dock I didn't like very much: I wanted to see at least some text from the stories. When I came upon NetNewsWire (OS X, the Lite version is free), I was pretty much happy, and I've been using it since. (I haven't tried out any Windows/Linux clients yet, sorry!)

Pretty much all my news I read now is through RSS; I still occasionally browse through Google News on my browser, though. Also, nearly every blog, with the exception of Xanga blogs, I can get syndicated to me. What does that mean? It means I don't have to go through my bookmarks every day to see who updated their site: I'm told when a site is updated. That means I don't have to check Jeremy's site every day to know if he's posted his next bi-lunar log entry.

I haven't found too many non-technical introductions to RSS; the best one I've got is at the Law Library Resource Xchange: RSS for Non-Techie Librarians.

Hey, once you get started with RSS Aggregators (that's what they call these readers), you can add me first:

RSS 2.0, scribbles
RSS 2.0, scribbles: comments

Fixing Fink on tar

I don't know exactly what I did, but I fubarred fink on my iBook:

dyld: tar version mismatch for library: /sw/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version of user: 5.0.0 greater than library's version: 3.0.0)

It looked like it was a problem with libiconv, but it was tar that was spitting errors; which confused me all to hell--it turns out to be kind of a combination of both. I still have absolutely no clue where these numbers, 5.0.0 and 3.0.0, are coming from. Anyhow, tar wasn't gonna work, and trying to apt-get -f install or fink selfupdate wasn't gonna do any good without trying to use the broken tar.

I finally figured it all out by manually untarring libiconv and compiling it into /sw; wherein the running of tar worked once more. And thus, fink works once more!

The Only Kick There Is

Larry Lee shares a photo of Former Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson kicking a Shaolin martial artist from China. And Ed Tam notes:

a kick is a kick, and he had to do it like the karate kid

The Scriptures of Carol

Carol Marshall is a friend and playwrite (in no particular order, really). However, I haven't read enough of her scripts; so, for my convenience and yours, here's the ones I could find:

Intel There Was You
Stumped
On a Ledge

Collaborative Anarchy

Collab : MultiUser Flash Development. There will be noise. There will be chatting. There will be a real-time community whiteboard. There will be a whole ass-load of bandwidth usage. And there will be French people speaking French.

I warned you.

via MetaFilter

My Room, with New Sofa

This sofa was on my back:

You may be wondering why this one's blue and the one in the other picture is white. The white one's Hiroko's, and I helped get hers to her apartment. Mine is blue, and is sexier!

I've got some more photos of the rest of my room, so maybe you can get a better feel for the size of the place.

[updated: 03.24.2004, added 'action figure' photo]

That's right, kids: that's a Back To The Future 2 movie poster on my wall. Booyah!

Ah, my sexy iBook on my desk. I sit there a lot (in fact, I'm seated right now!), and I get a view out the window, and I can watch TV/play PS2 while reading my e-mail. Sexy.

Here's the so-called "action figure" that was first noted by Estella Tse in the "iBook" photo. It's actually... Nemo(!), Nemo's dad, and a Tuna Sushi with arms and legs. You can win these sushi figures at a local sushi boat place, and they've got one for each dish. This whole thing's hanging down off my light; it's common in Japan to have a light on your ceiling with a line on it to turn it on/off. So, I decored it with my usual sillyness. Was annoying at first, and now I'm used to it. =)

Avian, not Avarian

Someone searched for "avarian influenza" on Google and found... ME! I've never considered myself an expert on Avarians, but I'm ranked #1 on Google (unfortunately, not for what Google suggests me to search instead: ovarian influenza--drat).

So, doing some research, I realized that I had a typo--well, more like a braino. When chattering up about Yoshinoya, I said "Avarian Influenza." Really, I think this should be "Avian Influenza."

The World of Khoras tells us:

The Avarians are an avian/humanoid race that have evolved in the Thunder Peaks of western Ithria. An avarian appears to be a perfect blend of bird and human. An Avarian stands about five feet tall. Their thin body structures and hollow bones make them exceptionally light.

Wow, bird men. When they sneeze while they fly (with having Avarian Influenza and all), do they get pushed backwards?

And the Wikipedia lets us know about Avars: "The nomadic people that conquered the Hungarian Steppe in the early Middle Ages, the European Avars." OR "The modern Caucasian people mainly of Dagestan, Caucasian Avars."

Avarian Influenza is a deadly disease coming from the genes of the white man! It's another conspiracy, I tell ya!

Shit, I've been using the wrong word for a few weeks.

But, maybe the US Court of Appeals has been too.

Sumo Education

Big Rick is a fan of Sumo, and he shot over a great link about the history of the sport. In fact, the site has a whole lot more info than I can digest right now.

Anyhow, it's all his fault that I've found myself watching Asashoryu either competing or in the news every night now. Good lord, there was an amazing match two nights ago with him and his competetor (OK, I still haven't gotten to learning anybody else's name yet) each balancing on one foot at the edge of the ring.

I wish I could understand the announcers and scoreboards they display on TV all the time, though.

Also, Sumo wresters eat nabe every night; that's some good livin'! I just made some for myself last night! Mmm!

Keeps going, and going, and...

Kelly Cheng was another friend from my Berkeley SPC tutoring days.

I was a semi-regular lurker on Kelly's forum a while ago. Then, I started getting headaches reading it because the conversation never moved anywhere. Really, I tried my best to post some reasonable logic when I got really agitated, but that didn't seem to help (I think I just upset the natives).

Talk usually went something like this:

A: Girls are bad and do stupid things and blahblahblah rantrant.
B: Yea.
C: Uh-huh.
D: Hey, no they're not they're OK.
A: No, you're wrong, girls are bad and do stupid things and blahblahblah rantrant.

Today, I dusted off an old link to his page, and... lo' and behold... it's still the same. Someone find Kelly a girl already!

Sofa Angel

The other day, I bought a sofa at a local shopping center. Amazingly, it only costed something like 25 smackers! The only trouble: getting the beast back to my apartment. Well, where there's a will, there's a way:

Picture this: me riding down the street on my bike, grinning incessantly, and taking up a whole lane... with a sofa on my back. Ah, good times.

WorldBuilder

Well, that ain't good: another web-based game you can use to waste time with.

Happy News

We need more of this: uplifting news.

Spark is a new magazine about the good things that are going on all over the world, and the people working to create a brighter future for us all.

You Look Like a John

Ever wonder about the relation between people's faces and their names? I did.

Now, there's a site that has a little fun with the idea. 0tv's Guess My Name game. Most people are getting the names matched with the faces correctly on the first try. Faskinating.

via B3TA.

Martian Forest

Are there Trees on Mars? Is that a fallen tree? Hmm, could be a stretch.

Why I Like Scheme

Why I Like PLT Scheme, an article at kuro5hin.

I learned Scheme at Berkeley, about a year after I'd learned rex (some strange mutant variant of Prolog) at Harvey Mudd. Learning rex was some hard shit for me at the time, but doing so helped me a whole cartload when I'd run up against Scheme later. Actually, learning Scheme was a breeze; my mind was already prepared to think recursively.

Anyhow, Scheme has become my choice of language. Development time is so much incredibly faster, programs are easier to read (really, the parentheses eventually disappear in your mind), and everything is just so consistent and beautiful!

What really brings Scheme to the dinner table, though, is a little thing called lambda. lambda brings us further in abstraction. Really, I think computer science is basically about abstraction, and with each step of abstraction we get further and further away from the actual computer and closer to a seamless natural and intuitive way of making the computer do what we want it to do. Scheme makes is easy, and it makes it pretty.

I like Scheme.

Poor Yoshinoya

Beef bowls are to Japanese like fast-food hambugers are to Americans: cheap, fast, and kind of edible.

After the US beef ban since this mad cow business, chain beef bowl restaurants such as Yoshinoya haven't been able to do too much. There were some attempts at making chicken bowls first, and then the whole Avarian Influenza outbreak just freaked everyone out about anything with feathers, and that got cut out too. So, these guys had to restructure their menus around the joys of pork.

In my opinion, still tastes about the same.

May not be the same case for most Japanese, though. 70% have stopped going. These are dire times for fast food beef in Japan's drowning economy.

Danger, Will Robinson

Stolen from that sexy USC med student--Dave Patterson's--AIM profile: an important website covering the extreme dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide.

From the FAQ:

What are some uses of Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Despite the known dangers of DHMO, it continues to be used daily by industry, government, and even in private homes across the U.S. and worldwide. Some of the well-known uses of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:

• [...]
• in abortion clinics,
• as a major ingredient in many home-brewed bombs,
• as a byproduct of hydrocarbon combustion in furnaces and air conditioning compressor operation,
• in cult rituals,
• by the Church of Scientology on their members and their members' families,
• by both the KKK and the NAACP during rallies and marches,
• by pedophiles and pornographers (for uses we'd rather not say here),
• by the clientele at a number of homosexual bath houses in New York City and San Francisco,
• historically, in Hitler's death camps in Nazi Germany, and in prisons in Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Libya, Iraq and Iran,
• in World War II prison camps in Japan, and in prisons in China, for various forms of torture,
• by the Serbian military as authorized by Slobodan Milosevic in their recent ethnic cleansing campaign[...]

Sissyfight!

What's the matter, gurlfriend! Ain't you sissy enough to fight me?

Grab, Squeeze, or Tease. Cower or Lick your Lolly. Or just tattle on everyone in the yard!

Joyce Fong has a Blog

And here it is.

Former tutor-mate from the SPC.

Canary in a Coal Mine

It never ceases to amaze me how much English I really don't know. While reading my daily dose of Doc today, I came upon this unfamilar phrase:

[...]that's a dead canary in the coal mine.

Times like this makes me feel I need to get out more.

BTW: The Phrase Finder is an awesome site.

Fun with Vietnamese Restaurant Names

Pho shizzle mah nizzle!

Sgt. Jerry Pietrzak

A friend from San Francisco State University, Jerry Pietrzak, has a guest post on Alive in Kyoto about his time serving in Iraq. I'm glad that he's finally going home.

Jerry was actually the biggest reasons that I chose Kyoto University of Foreign Studies over Waseda University in Tokyo.

Freckled Freaks

00:35 [ Estella] man i have more freckles now
00:35 [ Estella] this sux
00:35 [@Ivan] :O
00:36 [@Ivan] wash your face VIGOROUSLY each day like grandma used to do it :P
00:36 [ Estella] i dont think that can get rid of freckles tho =~(
00:36 [ Estella] check out what the first link is on google for "how to get rid of freckles" lol
00:38 [@Ivan] omg if i get rid of my freckles i'll be popular!
00:38 [@Ivan] i want to get rid of my freckles too!!!

C to Japanese Translation

There's an article on kuro5hin titled Japanese for Nerds (I). Being the kind of guy that I am, I obviously had to take a gander there.

You gotta love geeky C-type function to Japanese translations like these:

1. Neg(Neg(Neg()), which is naku naku nai
2. Cond(Neg(Neg()), or naku nakereba

This reminds me of when I was first learning the language: I thought of it as just learning more syntactical structures--much like learning syntax for a programming language.

Commenting folks on kuro5hin are, as most commenters are nowadays, critical. Come on, folks, he's only put down one page to give a general idea of how he's presenting the language!

Negi Rice

Last weekend, I went to a (famous?) ramen shop near downtown--I forget the name, doh! Anyhow, Hiroko ordered on the side something called negi gohan (onion rice). It looked quite easy to slap together, so I whipped up a bowl of it last night.

Crap we need:

• Rice
• Negi (green onions)
• Kaiware (err, Japanese sprout?)
• Soy sauce
• Dried Katsuo (bonito flakes)

How to do it:

1. Cook the rice.
2. If the negi isn't cut yet, do it now. It should be cut into little rings with the thickness of something like a dime.
3. Cut up the kaiware. This stuff is usually sold in a box with a block of nasty white root stuff on the bottom of it. Cut that off, wash the remaining green stuff, and cut down the stem every half-inch.
4. Pour a small puddle of soy sauce into a bowl.
5. Take a half-handfull of katsuo, put into bowl, mix together with soy sauce using a spoon.
6. Now, fill a bowl of rice about halfway to 3/4 up.
   
7. Spoon up that katsuo shiznet, making sure to drain a little soy sauce along the way, and layer it on top of the rice.
8. Taking a mix of negi and kaiware, layer a bunch of that on top of the katsuo that you've so delicately placed.
9. Eat that shit!

Fast, easy, and delicious!

Seaman Ship

apophenia has word from Wirefarm about an ad shown in Shibuya. The intent? To recruit Japanese to join the Navy? Very much different from Army Of One ads I remember seeing in the States!

Japan Today's banterish crowd also has things to say about it. Including the following by pgran:

In true Japanese style, it takes 7 sailors to guide a helicopter in for a landing (as depicted in the recruitment poster)

Still Kind of Alive

I've been sick. I hope it isn't some mutant feathery influenza disease.

Japanese medicine is this strange pop-rock stuff--without the pop. I'm glad I packed some Tylenol with me (thanks, mom!). Trying to drink lots of orange juice.

I recently got Gran Turismo 2. Yea, it's a really old game for the original Playstation, but I still have loads of fun playing it. That's what I've been doing a lot of lately. A preview version of Gran Turismo 4 is out here in Japan, called 'Prologue,' and I have a yearning to get it once the final version is released.

The days are just slippin' by as I work to recover my health, now.

With a Little Big Help

Big Rick emailed me with scans of exactly what I was looking for: Live 105 playlists from the 90's.

Time has been scarce due to excessive partying. Major updates to the playlist are coming up, though!

Kudos and karma to Big Rick!

Thierressius, on CNN!

If anyone has CNN and a video capture-capable computer, Thierry Nguyen (fellow Pinkhouse alumni, Voltron crew member, re-newly SF resident, and just general pederasticator) is getting 3 minutes of time on air to talk about some PS2 game at something like 4:45pm PST. If anyone can, try to get a recording of it and send it over this way!

I hope he struts one of his zany geeky T-shirts!

BTW: I got a Japanese PS2 a few months ago, but not many games.

Searching for Ivan Tse

Conrad recently informed me of my same-named alter egos on this big blue sphere. I'd already taken a few peeks at them before, but let's do a little more of an extensive survey.

I'd like to first take a look at how search engines are handling my name.

Seriously, how can any search engine hope to compete with Google.

Now, as for these alter egos of mine, let's take a quick look at them too.

Water on the Red Planet!

First, I saw it blogged by the Rovers. Then, I checked with the news.

The Mars rover Opportunity has discovered powerful evidence that water once drenched the surface of Mars and made the planet habitable for life during some unknown epoch in the distant past, NASA scientists announced Tuesday.

The 3 Day Plan, Details Part I

Let me tell you about this past weekend.

It 's hard for me to recall everything that happened, but there were lots and lots and lots of pictures and videos taken.

As I said before, we hadn't planned before on making this a huge 3 day trip, but things kind of ended up that way being that we were planning on going to Osaka for three days in a row anyhow.

When I say "we," I mean me, Bryan, Liam, and Kawago. Kawago's kind of like the honorary Japanese dude that hangs out with us, and he's been having a blast clubbin' with us. He's even been gettin' some crazy-assed dance moves down, and has recently gone down to the ground to do some footwork. Maybe he's slowly mutating into a bboy!

The first day, we hit Club Neo, a trance/house place in Shinsaibashi, a prominent area of Osaka just packed with bars and clubs. We've been getting to know people in the scene since we've been going to so many of these places so often, and we knew one of the DJ's, DJ Yuta, playing that night. We had free cake, and free nail painting (see pictures). Other than some weirded out fellow crawling over the floor (we think he was probably on E), it was a great start to the beginning of The Plan.

After the place closed we had to wait 5 hours until Spa World would open. Spa World is a huge 6 story building in Osaka full of baths, spas, jacuzzis, and just general awesome body-relaxing pools of water. Not only that, but they have rest rooms where people can sleep. Spa World is the glue that binds The Plan together.

So, for the first day, we waited 5 hours in the train station. Oh my holy passion, that was horrible. We'd be sleeping on the chairs at the station and the station attendent would come by and tap us and say something. It was so bad: we were tired, post-sweaty, and just plain uncomfortable. I never want to have to do that again.

But entering Spa World is like entering heaven, and by the time we went into the first pool, it was all worth it. We went into the outdoor jacuzzi, and then a waterslide (damn Liam for suggesting that, I was sleepy!), and another jacuzzi, and finally we slept.

Waking up, refreshed, we went to a few more spas and pools. Man, that place is incredible. We stayed there from 10am until 9pm. Then, it was off to go to our next club...

Live 105

I kind of felt like listening to some old Live 105 Modern Rock today, err... last night (my sleeping schedule is fucked). What I've been really looking for lately is some kind of playlist that Live 105 had back in the 90's, during my high school days. Listening to that stuff makes me rather nostalgic and all.

So, I slapped into Google that I wanted to find "90's Live 105." I couldn't believe it when out popped Big Rick Stuart's webpage where he talks about the crazy shit that ended up turning my favorite station on the dial into a sack of rotten eggs.

Then I started listening to some of Big Rick's airchecks. Damn, that brought things back, and I remember what an absolutely fucking hilarious guy he was on the air. I think I actually heard a few from the 1998 aircheck he's got there.

So, I'm gonna start getting down a list of Live 105 songs that I remember from its great days of glory before CBS bought them out and brought the whole thing to stupid rock sludge hell.

[Updated: 3.30.2004, finally all of Big Rick's contributions are up]

Ivan's Live 105 90's Playlist
(updated when memory serves and with help from YOU!)

311 - Beautiful Disaster
Beck - Loser
Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in L.A.
Bush - Glycerine
Bush - Swallowed
Cardigans - My Favorite Game
Collective Soul - Heavy
Collective Soul - The World I Know
Cure - Wrong Number
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
Everclear - Father of Mine
Everclear - Santa Monica
Everlast - What It's Like
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Foo Fighters - Walking After You
Frente! - Bizarre Love Triangle
Garbage - Stupid Girl
Goo Goo Dolls - Name
Green Day - Basketcase
Green Day - Good Riddance
Green Day - She
Green Day - Welcome to Paradise
Green Day - When I Come Around
Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
Mono - Life in Mono
MxPx - Chick Magnet
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
No Doubt - Don't Speak
No Doubt - Just a Girl
Oasis - Wonderwall
Presidents of the United States - Peaches
Radiohead - Creep
Radiohead - Karma Police
Rancid - Ruby Soho
Rentals - Friends of P
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Stone Temple Pilots - Big Bang Baby
Third Eye Blind - Losing a Whole Year
Toadies - Possum Kingdom
Tori Amos - Silent All These Years
U2 - With or Without You
Weezer - Buddy Holly

These were donated by Big Rick
EMF - Unbelievable
Divinyls - I Touch Myself
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
Sting - All This Time
The Fixx - How Much Is Enough
Daniel Ash - This Love
Replacements - When It Began
INXS - Bitter Tears
Charlatans UK - White Shirt
Trash Can Sinatras - Obscurity Knocks
Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me
Pop Will Eat Itself - X Y & Zee
Havana 3AM - Reach The Rock
The Hollow Men - November Comes
Bootsauce - Scratching the Whole
Screaming Trees - Bed Of Roses
Jane's Addiction - Obvious
Enigma - Sadness Part 1
Jellyfish - That Is Why
Boom Crash Opera - Talk About It
Scatterbrain - Down with the Ship
The Sisters of Mercy - Detonation Blvd.
Book of Love - Alice Everyday
An Emotional Fish - Grey Matter
Lush - Deluxe
The Beautiful South - My Book

James - Laid
Beck - Loser
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
Nick Heyward - Kite
Cracker - Get Off This
Pearl Jam - Daughter
The Other Two - Selfish
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Nirvana - All Apologies
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Kirsty MacCoel - Angel
Bjork - Big Time Sensuality
The Lemonheads - Great Big No
Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
One Dove - White Love
The Cure - Purple Haze
Blind Melon - Tones of Home
Redd Kross - Emmy's Fantasy
Sinead O'Conner - You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart
Cocteau Twins - Bluebeard
Crowded House - Locked Out
Green Day - Long View
Tori Amos - God
Swerve Driver - Last Train To Satanville
Frente - Bizarre Love Triangle
Pet Shop Boys - I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing
Liz Phair - Never Said
Possum Dixon - In Buildings
Rage Against The Machine - Freedom
Alice in Chains - No Excuses
Meat Puppets - Back Water
Course of Empire - Infested
Chapterhouse - We Are The Beautiful
Slow Dove - Alison
Might Mighty Bosstones - Simmer Down
Wild Hearts - Sucker Punch
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - Lean On Me I Won't Fall Over
Dig - Believe

Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth
Sinead O'Conner - Emperor's New Clothes
Midnight Oil - Forgotten Years
Eddy Grant - Gimme Hop Joanna
The Cure - Pictures of You
Billy Idol - Cradle of Love
The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
Morrissey - November Spawned A Monster
The Pretenders - Never Do That
Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields
Adrian Belew - Pretty Pink Rose
World Party - Way Down Now
Hunters & Collectors - When the River Runs Dry
Happy Mondays - Step On
The Beloved - Time After Time
Revenge - Pineapple Face
Social Distortion - Ball & Chain
Lenny Kravitz - Mr. Car Driver
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Show Me Your Soul
Ultra Vivid Scene - Staring At The Sun
The ???? Lips - She Says [Come Around]
Drama???? - Wondermamaland
Sidewinders - We Don't Do That
UB40 - Kingston Town
Something Happens - Hello, Hello, Hello
The Mission U.K. - Sea of Love
Ian McCulloch - Candleland
Julee Cruise - Falling
Strawberry Joys(?) - Get Me To The World On Time
Hummingbirds - Blush
Concrete Blonde - Joey
Real Life - God Tonight

The Cure - High
U2 - One
Nirvana - Come As You Are (Lithium)
James - Born of Frustration
Ian McCulloch - Lover Lover Lover
The Charlatans UK - Weirdo
Cracker - Teen Angst
The Spent Poets - Dogtown
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
E - Hello Cruel World
Happy Head - Fabulous
Soup Dragons - Divine Thing
Teenage Fanclub - What You Do For Me
Peter Murphy - The Sweetest Drop
The Might Be Giants - The Statue Got Me High
Peter Case - Dream About You
David Byrne - She's Mad
Dramarama - What Are We Gonna Do?
The Church - Ripple
Tears For Fears - Laid So Low
Ride - Leave Them All Behind
Lush - For Love
Curve - Fait Accompli
Senseless Things - Everyone's Gone
The Beautiful South - We Are Each Other
Jesus & Mary Chain - Far Gone And Out
Social Distortion - Cold Feelings
Miracle Legion - Snacks & Candy
Yothu Yindi - Treaty
Lightning Seeds - Sense
Jah Wobble - Visions of You

If you've got any additions, suggestions, or corrections to make, please please please let me know!

Back from The Plan

Just got back an hour ago from Osaka. Took a shower, and now I'm hitting the bed. It's 8:14am. Damn, that was a fucking bad-ass 3 day non-stop party, and it went better than expected. Details and pictures later.