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May 11, 2006
OCEANIC FLIGHT 815
Just as I was completely losing interest in LOST, they have turned it around and sucked me right back in again!! Its difficult to comment, as I don't want to spoil it for the people that aren't on the same episode as us here in the US, but last nights was a winner. Answers are slowly coming (I think the writers realized that they better start making sense before they had no viewers left!) and the tension is mounting nicely again. Mr Ecko is a GENIUS character - a man of few words, but enormous pectoral muscles!! And of course, now there is a hatch full of Heroin, I expect everyone to immediately develop huge habits and start robbing each other of their Dharma Initiative regulation Corn Flakes. That, and 24, have me glued to my screen on Mondays and Wednesdays. How sad!!
I have also begun looking into this new HD DVD thing thats coming out in August. Being Technology Boy, I will, of course, have to have the latest technology as soon as its released. But I smell a VHS/BETAMAX thing developing here. Two incompatible technologies, Blu-Ray and HD DVD are being released, but only one will emerge as the winner. Whoever goes the other route will be left with a dinosaur technology and a collection of movies gathering dust, and laughed at whenever visitors come over for dinner!! My money is on Blu-Ray ..... backed by Sony (the HUGE corporate wheels of that company will refuse to lay down and die), I believe that they will be the ones to lead the march into the next gen of Home Theatre. For those of you who understand such things - imagine being able to watch movies at 1080p!!! For those of you who are scratching your head at my previous sentence .... never mind!!!
CFR this week will be hosted by Mr Matt Sorum (I have NO IDEA what he said last week on the radio to piss anyone off ... that man is the nicest musician I know!! If he said anything to upset you .... GET OVER IT!!!) and he will be dragging a friend down to fill my seat while I jet off on a well deserved vacation. Now that Dave is busy on tour and with the Panic Channel, I doubt that he will have the repeat shows being posted. So do we want to take that over here? Is anyone in a position to record the show each week and host it? If you are, drop me an email and we could design a player that re-broadcasts the shows for anyone that missed them? You will need to have some server space, and take the time to upload the show and send me a URL, and I would then link it up each week. Just a thought. And while I remember, this picture was taken years ago at the Borderline in London - It was a Stimulator show, and we are playing with Jim Davies (Pitchshifter/The Prodigy) who got up with us during the encore. He would be the man behind me with green hair - that boy can play a mean guitar!!
No Freddy or Diablo news that I can post right now. I can tell you that Freddy has a bunch of stuff happening in August and September, and that details will appear on the new site (www.campfreddy.net) as soon as we confirm them. And Circus Diablo are waiting until I get back from Hawaii to continue the drummer search, to finish the acoustic song (and also to write a few more tunes together), to prepare for an 06/06/06 announcement, and our 'people' are beavering away at making the planned European jaunt happen in November. I will be thinking about absolutely NONE of this for the next ten days, as I get my R+R in beautiful Maui. I have a bunch of dives planned, a video blog or two while I am away (to keep my connection with you lot!!) and not a whole lot else. mmmm...... I can taste the salt water as I type....!!
As usual, your captions had me in stitches. Its a wonderful thing. And I have to say that I LOVE how the CD Community is growing - Its pretty vibrant in there and I would like to extend our reach. So this is a call to everyone in The Family to reach out and touch all the other relevant forums and communities and spread the word about ours. Fuel, The Cult, Camp Freddy, The Almighty - there are a ton of fans out there that we can reach - so lets have some Circus Diablo web banners submitted - lets tell people where they can come to feel the love. Its your house, so lets build it well people!! Looking forward to the rest of this year - maybe we should have a Chat Room built into the community so that live chats can occur. I'll talk to the man who can. For now, thats it. I will be hitting ALL your questions in the first V-Blog from Hawaii - I wont have time to post before I leave as I have an all day photoshoot today, a huge birthday party tonight at Six Flags Magic Mountain, and the MAP Awards thing tomorrow. So adios amigos - I'll see you all on the beach.
Peace
Billy
Posted by vivelerock at May 11, 2006 06:45 AM
Comments
Man you are up early. Good to see. I am a big supporter of bringing the CF archived shows over here. Unfortunately, I am too technologically stupid to do it. So, if someone does do it, you have my full 100% support and praises. Seems like there's a lot of exciting stuff going on Billy! Have nice holiday.
Q
Posted by: QQQ at May 11, 2006 08:16 AM
Like Q, I too am technology challenged. But it's ok, my friends love me anyway!
And a chatroom at the community would be AWESOME!!!!!!!! I think that would be so cool. I am trying to spread the love over the net for the CD community. I'm trying to recruit! Honest!
I hope you and Jen have a fabulous time in Hawaii! Don't forget to bring us all home presents ;-) And there will probably be 1000 more pictures in the "caption contest" thread by the time you get back!
Robin
Posted by: Peebs at May 11, 2006 08:32 AM
Lost jumped back in the race again (thank god)...yeah. Class show last night. And 24...we were "THAT CLOSE" to getting rid of you know who. DAMN.
Enjoy Magic Mountain & Maui. Damn... need a baggage carrier????
Posted by: Kate at May 11, 2006 09:02 AM
You and Jen have a fabulous vacation. Agreed, Lost brought me back as well, I was getting bored with it.
xoxo, tina (peeking out from behind a stack of papers) ;)
Posted by: tina at May 11, 2006 09:37 AM
Billy, have a blast in Hawaii! I know u and your wife will have an awesome time~~~~I love Maui but sadly haven't been there in years. boohoo.....Matt has always been so deliteful to listen 2 and we all know he is a very nice guy, too. Sometimes ppl just trip, ya know? I am sure we are all a little guilty of it now and again.
rock on every1 and peace!
-clk
Posted by: Carly at May 11, 2006 10:19 AM
Have fun in Maui!!!
Posted by: Cori at May 11, 2006 10:53 AM
Teeeeenaaaa weeennaaa bo peeena.
Glad to see you back!!
Where have you been??
Posted by: DAve C at May 11, 2006 11:25 AM
I AM ADDICTED TO CAMP FUCKING FREDDY!!!!!!!! radio, live shows, and every other damn thing "they" do~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ps: if u haven't seen them, I feel sorry for u-
"Camp Freddy is one of the BEST shows you will ever witness." -anyone that matters.
Posted by: Carly at May 11, 2006 11:28 AM
Man, I'm dying without my CFR from last weekend! Maybe we can ask over at the Panic Community and see if someone over there would be able to host it, if no one here is able to.
Posted by: Curt at May 11, 2006 02:02 PM
Hey Billy, I put up a post on the Panic Asylum about some help with recording and hosting CFR for the upcoming weeks. Hopefully someone will be able to help.
Curt
Posted by: Curt at May 11, 2006 03:11 PM
I hope someone can put up the CFR radio show. I listened to it at Dave's a lot. I am techno amish soooo..
Lost has totally rocked the past two weeks . Ecko is my favorite character.
Much Love, Terri
Have fun on your vacation!
Posted by: Terri at May 11, 2006 03:29 PM
ALOHA!
kinda sums it up all in one word huh?
Posted by: beth at May 11, 2006 07:27 PM
Billy,
Where is it you are going?
Maybe you will run into my daughter who just got married in Kona and is staying at Mauna Lani. If you run into a beautiful Hawaiian newlywed, Constance that's her!
Proud Mama Neida
(small world-you just never know!)
Posted by: Oneidafish at May 12, 2006 11:02 PM