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How come it’s always the birthday entries that make me want to write my wittiest entries? Maybe because I feel that yet another year has gone by without me being voted Funniest Man Of The Year? Or because I still haven’t been chosen to host the Oscars?
Whatever it is, please make it stop. I don’t want to be witty on my birthday. I just want to grow old with dignity.
PS: Count the holes. Yes, exactly 26 candles. How’s that for a birthday cake?
Muse finally have a new album out. The first song on it is named “Take a bow”. If any one of you who were around when people still listened to Madonna’s musical output are still alive, you’ll surely remember that she in fact had a song by that name. It may be a coincidence, but I don’t think so. So I’m obviously thinking that it was indeed their wish for people to see this connection, post about it on their blogs and then actually compare both them and Madonna by reviewing both their work and lives in not more than 1000 words. Their wish shall be granted!
Style
Muse: British guitar rock, interlaced with loads of synthesizers and catchy tunes.
Madonna: Well, just about every style out there. Some people call it “reinventing”, I call it “jumping a bandwagon”.Albums
Muse
Four albums, each new one a tad better than the other. A feat almost impossible to pull off, they have.
Madonna
20 albums in 23 years. And all of them sucked. Except for that one of course, you know, the one that made all those alternative radio stations hail Madonna for being such a pop-chamaeleon. Well, the album still sucked.Personal
Muse
Prototypical rock band. Charismatic singer, destroy stages, drinking and stuff. And the inability to form coherent sentences, just like me. Ok, that was made up.
Madonna
Total Diva. Is into a derivation of the Kabbalah. Destroyed Guy Ritchie’s career by marrying him and forcing him to cast her for his movies, even though she wouldn’t know acting if it jumped in her face and bit off her nose.
Now, as you can see from my unbiased review of both artists, Madonna truly does suck.
Muse, on the other hand, is quite possibly one of the best bands to ever walk this earth. Thus, I won’t feel bad by telling you that you must buy their new album, otherwise you’ll rot in hell. And you can guess what hell will sound like.
I’ve been wanting to write a little bit about Fluxiom, Vienna based file storage and sharing app for a few days now. I was always too busy, and now Michael Arrington from TechCrunch is stealing my thunder. Read his review and you’ll have a good idea of what mine would have been like (only without the number crunching in the end…my research would have stopped after comparing prices).
The only thing I might have added was that the service I’m currently using, namely Box.net, seems to be doing it all right: They’ve got sharing, they’ve got tagging, there’s a mass upload feature (through a Java applet…Michael Arrington seemed to have missed that when he wrote in his review that no other service provides mass upload). The good thing about this approach compared to Fluxiom’s? No need to zip!
They are also a lot more generous with their space, giving away 1GB for free, and 5GB once you’ve referred five friends (which isn’t that difficult, really).
I’d have really loved to like Fluxiom (they are from Vienna after all), but as they are that outrageously priced and their basic plan doesn’t even provide the features that would actually make them different from Box.net (full-text search, version check), I’d be crazy to actually pay that much money.
As you are a vivid reader of my blog you are well aware of my forays into the world of sports, precisely into the world of running. While it may seem cumbersome and boring to some, running actually quite appealed to me from the start.
For someone who’s not exactly overly competitive, a sport requiring neither a team nor an opponent seemed perfect. Although early dips into the sport were accompanied by near-death experiences, I kept to it. Hell, I even created a damned sports category on here.
At this point, people usually describe how they’ve overcome their initial reluctance to exercise regularly. Well, I won’t step out of line here either. I did overcome my reluctance. But I didn’t overcome the fact that apparently my hip joints think differently. I don’t know why it is that way, and if it’s maybe due to me not exercising for the better part of 25 years, which has left me with hip joints ready to be replaced by shiny new titanium ones, but I simply can’t go on running. After my last two tries, I couldn’t walk or get up straight for a week. Which is not desirable when you do in fact have to get up everyday (and sometimes walk).
So, no more running for me. I did some research and asked people who know about things, and have thus decided to pick up riding my bike, as it is, apart from swimming, the sport that’s easiest on joints. Vienna does sport some great places to go biking, so almost everything’s sorted out already. What is not sorted out is the lack of my bike. Unfortunately, bikes do come in quite expensive shapes, and expensive is something I at the moment cannot afford.
So, in order to find a cheap bike, I checked out craigslist.org, but unfortunately, the Vienna branch isn’t really well developed. To be precise, it’s really quite pathetic. So, in a joint effort to both pick up some speed on the Vienna craigslist branch and my plans on getting in shape again, I’ve posted a classified in the bicycles section. Go there and answer my ad if you’ve got a bike (you want to get rid of, of course…no need in telling me that you’ve got a bike if you then don’t want to give it away). Please also keep in mind that although I’d like a cheap bike, it should still sport the most vital parts, so I can actually ride it.
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