jóse gonzález played his second helsinki concert last saturday night in semifinal club. the venue is about a tenth the size of the main venue in the place (tavastia) where he played last time, so everyone was packed in. even though im pretty tall and was only a few rows from the front i couldnt see him for about half the gig. we got there at around 21 and it wasnt till around 2300 that the support band come on stage, an pretty bad three piece light metal band who sounded like placebo. eugh. anyway it was midnight when josé came on stage and he did about an hour, pretty much the same set as last time and it was fantastic. he finised up with the track “remain” from his veneer album. he played it for his second or third encore and just before he started he said that its been a while since he played it. a really cool concert.

on monday evening was the lawrence lessig talk. he talked about the copyright wars. he spoke a bit about the creative commons movement (which i think he helped to found) and how it helps to redress the imbalance in copyright laws back to the people and away from the lawyers. i need to read up more about creative commons, they just launched version two of their licence and there is rumours that the bbc is gonna open up a large part of their archives with this type of licence. hurray.

in far more important news i cleaned up a lot today, got turned down for a job and had a pretty unsettling dream. i applied for the evening version of the course i want (its 1630-2030, four days a week, for two years). i’ll find out about that next week. fingers crossed. i also ate an ice cream and thought of a cool thing to do when i get my digicam next month. i also learned how to do that aligned image thing in the previous post, in the past i would have the image and the text underneath it, but now i can have the text beside it!. welcome to the 1990s darren.