if you’re a little bit bored as the summer turns into autumn - go check this out: sigur-ros.co.uk - managers tour diary. it was done by the manager of sigur rós over the bands most recent tour in iceland a few weeks back (and the bands final tour for a long time). at the moment (wednesday night) there is ten entries from the tour on it, we will publish the final three over the next few days.

(they filmed the whole tour and will release it on dvd at some stage in the near future (trying to predict a sigur rós release is pointless)).

gets darker earlier these days - a little nip in the air - the ground has some brown leaves on it. listening to max richter - fantastic stuff.

hurrah! rté are gonna broadcast some of electric picnic online next weekend.

was listening to a stream of dara and baz dj’ing on power fm the other day - they played one song by group called “burial”. i got their latest album and its simply astounding. unbelievable stuff.

bleep.com mp3 + flac purchase link

animal crossing: the movie. coming this winter in japan!

i went to the shop a few hours ago to get some food - the two people in front of me in the queue each paid 20,85€ for their shopping. i stood there for a few seconds in awe!

new laptop has finally arrived, its fantastic. i do have to get used to the change in lifestyle it brings - i got so used to closing everything in a computer in one location and then opening up and relogging in to everything again in a different computer in a second location that its gonna be a big thing to get used to the fact that i can bring it all with me.

i am slowly but surely on the path to developing technological tourettes syndrome. at the moment any time i get within 20cm of a product i have paid a lot of money for (camera, phone, desktop computer) it begins to die - and i curse uncontrolably at it under my breath. now - every time i take a picture on my cameraphone i wait for the “out of memory” notice to pop up and stab me in the heart so i counteract with a tirade of curse words. its cathartic but ultimately pointless as the phone can not understand me.

my desktop computer died a few weeks back - i spent some time on sunday getting it back working again using an old hard drive (the two that were in it when it died were unaccessable for the time being). so after a few hours of messing around with primary and secondary ide cables, windows 2k and windows xp pro i eventually got it working. the first of the previously unaccessable drives i went trying to access was found to be completely kaput. unreadable. nada. nolla. the second one (a 1yr old 160gb drive) was readable up to a point - thankfully i got most of that stuff backed up onto an external hd disk drive. so i went back to retiring those “unaccessable” drives - and went back to using my original 30gb drive - all was well until this a little while ago. so feck it.

my camera has had a dusty sensor for a while - its a second hand dslr so thats to be expected. the autofocus stops working the other day so i take it to get fixed. 3 weeks its going to be gone. 40euros to have it checked, and then 82euros per hour to have it fixed - (im presuming that the dust is causing the autofocus to not work). delightful.

when desktop died i took the big step of ordering a new laptop. so i went around one day to the few apple suppliers here in helsinki and asked how much it was for what i wanted (standard macbook pro with slightly faster hard drive), they all came back around the same price but all said it would be a few weeks before it could be delivered as it had to be hand crafted by some dude near shanghai. so that was meant to take 2-4 weeks. its now 3,5 weeks and im getting tetchy (que “red dwarf” joke). thing is that the dudes i ordered it from have no idea when apple will deliver it. none. they know when a delivery person rolls it in the front door of their shop.

at least the weather is warm