2005 - A Year in Review
As I sit here listening to Prahlad's "It's up to you", I've decided to do a quick wrap up of everything that's happened to me significantly this year. Tell us what significantly happened to you if you like,
2005 started out for me with continuing the holiday job of Telemarketing, saving up money to waste on shit I didn't really need. Early in Jan, I went to my first Big Day out, and later that week was crushed hardcore by a massive ammount of sweaty men while the Beastie Boys played. MOST INTENSE experience ever. (Not in a good way).
Later on, I made my way to Uni, where I wasted alot of time, used my iPod alot, and got Broadband (Welcome to the 21st Century for me), and a Wireless router
.
The year for me musically can be summed up as this (Like, not what I'm into but what's on teh nova)
Emo/Punk ZOMG bullshit
Overplayed/Novaplayed pop ala Black Eyed Steffani
Random (The Frog), Akon, etc, often featuring really annoying samples (Madonna's ABBA riff for example)
2005 also featured the start of Public Transport, originally an idea that I had that Art and myself should perform Beastie Boys covers on various forms of Public Transport (Puttin' Shame on your Game on the 518 for example).Because of my workload at Uni, this never really happened, I think Kramer and Art did one song on a bus somewhere. Public Transport the Band went on to have a Wiki page that was so frequently vandalized it was deleted, and Art and Kramer played at the Ryde battle of the Bands @ HCCR while I listened via my phone at a train station.
2005 also was a year of the radio for myself, as Art randomly came on MSN one morning and told me that he had a spot on a Shoutcast server, I thought what a cool idea, having just got broadband, and setup a server myself, this lasted a few months with myself, Augusto, Art, Tom and once or twice Blizzard and Kalev broadcasting, and some other guy who is a friend of Tom's who couldn't work out the incredibly simple Shoutcast controls. Shoutcast was an incredible ammount of fun, Art and myself actually printed up flyers around Rozelle which got us a total of zero extra listeners. The main downfall of the Shoutcast was it's success, as my ADSL's upload is only a humble 256kbit, i.e. at minimum quality we'd get between 9-11 listeners working properly. Because of this, the whole service collapsed, as we tried to move over to a server located in Israel of all places, and it just didn't work, we haven't broadcasted since on the net, even though the facilities are now available again via a kindly donated box in the US.
Following this, Art took a course @ 2RRR the local community station, and after it was complete, we begun podcasting , this was around August 05, initially we just were learning how to use the equipment and practice, however we are still no closer to having an actual show
We've had alot of fun there, and built a small but dedicated group of listeners, who we appreciate immensely. The main change for myself really was having to own music to play it, as we can get bashed maens by the ARIA/RIAASL for not owning SoulDracula legit, hence Ashwoods, "Smell", Martin's and Rozelle markets have become regular weekend hangouts for Art and myself trying to get new material.
2005 was also the year of the New Radicals, the Scatman John, Soul Dracula, Prahlad, Westpac Jingle and Eiffel65, most importantly, 2005 was the year of peace, can you make sure that our human rights increase I have no expectation of anyone other than Art to get that, Meaning that 2005 was a wonderful year for second hand music.
2005 was the year of the iPod and Mp3 player Tell me I'm wrong, I won't agree with you, nearly everyone got interested in the iPod this year (I got mine in Dec04, so I'm kinda included), 2005 is the year of the 512mb iPod Shuffle, the 4gb pink iPod Mini blasting Simple Plan from the girl sitting next to you on the bus' ears. I must be some reverse reblel, because I went backwards and bought a Minidisc player, totally 90's and in total 90's style it lasted like 10 weeks and died.
2005 in movies has continued the remake theme, as we all know, there have been some great movies this year, but honestly overall only three or four of the ~30-40 movies I saw at an actual cinema really did anything for me.
My taste in music has also significantly changed over the last 12 months, I've nearly done a complete U-Turn from 24 months ago (be ba bado be ba ba ba do HERE IT IS), moving from doof, to pop, to rock, to the 90's.
2005 started out for me with continuing the holiday job of Telemarketing, saving up money to waste on shit I didn't really need. Early in Jan, I went to my first Big Day out, and later that week was crushed hardcore by a massive ammount of sweaty men while the Beastie Boys played. MOST INTENSE experience ever. (Not in a good way).
Later on, I made my way to Uni, where I wasted alot of time, used my iPod alot, and got Broadband (Welcome to the 21st Century for me), and a Wireless router
.The year for me musically can be summed up as this (Like, not what I'm into but what's on teh nova)
Emo/Punk ZOMG bullshit
Overplayed/Novaplayed pop ala Black Eyed Steffani
Random (The Frog), Akon, etc, often featuring really annoying samples (Madonna's ABBA riff for example)
2005 also featured the start of Public Transport, originally an idea that I had that Art and myself should perform Beastie Boys covers on various forms of Public Transport (Puttin' Shame on your Game on the 518 for example).Because of my workload at Uni, this never really happened, I think Kramer and Art did one song on a bus somewhere. Public Transport the Band went on to have a Wiki page that was so frequently vandalized it was deleted, and Art and Kramer played at the Ryde battle of the Bands @ HCCR while I listened via my phone at a train station.
2005 also was a year of the radio for myself, as Art randomly came on MSN one morning and told me that he had a spot on a Shoutcast server, I thought what a cool idea, having just got broadband, and setup a server myself, this lasted a few months with myself, Augusto, Art, Tom and once or twice Blizzard and Kalev broadcasting, and some other guy who is a friend of Tom's who couldn't work out the incredibly simple Shoutcast controls. Shoutcast was an incredible ammount of fun, Art and myself actually printed up flyers around Rozelle which got us a total of zero extra listeners. The main downfall of the Shoutcast was it's success, as my ADSL's upload is only a humble 256kbit, i.e. at minimum quality we'd get between 9-11 listeners working properly. Because of this, the whole service collapsed, as we tried to move over to a server located in Israel of all places, and it just didn't work, we haven't broadcasted since on the net, even though the facilities are now available again via a kindly donated box in the US.
Following this, Art took a course @ 2RRR the local community station, and after it was complete, we begun podcasting , this was around August 05, initially we just were learning how to use the equipment and practice, however we are still no closer to having an actual show
We've had alot of fun there, and built a small but dedicated group of listeners, who we appreciate immensely. The main change for myself really was having to own music to play it, as we can get bashed maens by the ARIA/RIAASL for not owning SoulDracula legit, hence Ashwoods, "Smell", Martin's and Rozelle markets have become regular weekend hangouts for Art and myself trying to get new material.2005 was also the year of the New Radicals, the Scatman John, Soul Dracula, Prahlad, Westpac Jingle and Eiffel65, most importantly, 2005 was the year of peace, can you make sure that our human rights increase I have no expectation of anyone other than Art to get that, Meaning that 2005 was a wonderful year for second hand music.
2005 was the year of the iPod and Mp3 player Tell me I'm wrong, I won't agree with you, nearly everyone got interested in the iPod this year (I got mine in Dec04, so I'm kinda included), 2005 is the year of the 512mb iPod Shuffle, the 4gb pink iPod Mini blasting Simple Plan from the girl sitting next to you on the bus' ears. I must be some reverse reblel, because I went backwards and bought a Minidisc player, totally 90's and in total 90's style it lasted like 10 weeks and died.
2005 in movies has continued the remake theme, as we all know, there have been some great movies this year, but honestly overall only three or four of the ~30-40 movies I saw at an actual cinema really did anything for me.
My taste in music has also significantly changed over the last 12 months, I've nearly done a complete U-Turn from 24 months ago (be ba bado be ba ba ba do HERE IT IS), moving from doof, to pop, to rock, to the 90's.
posted by MC Survey at
2:01 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home