Another hefty weekend

imaginary tree
Originally uploaded by mrlederhosen.

Life sure is busy at the moment. Daylight savings finished on Saturday night and it coincided with my 11pm to 1am radio show, so in effect I was DJing from 12 to 2am, and then I had to drag my tired butt to work this morning at 8:30! And that was following a huge Friday night on the town and a big night on Saturday for my friend Brad's wedding. To compound it all, I seem to randomly wake up at 5 am every morning and take an hour to get back to sleep, ensuring that I spend most of my waking time feeling like a zombie.

Anyway.. last night it felt like my Ambient Zone show went really well! It's been a long time since I've talked about music. There is so much great music out there, here's a list of a few standouts that I have recently acquired, just from the top of my head. There are heaps more but these are the ones I can think of right now:

Pub - Legless
Pub - Single
Monolake - Hong Kong
Benge - I am 9
Secede - Vega Libre
Susumu Yokota - Magic Thread
Yagya - Rhythm of snow
Scanners - movie soundtrack

Clint gets married

Where is she?
Originally uploaded by mrlederhosen.

Hehe, Michelle was going to be 'officially' 15 minutes late, but I took this pic at about the waiting for 40 minutes mark. Clint's looking a little concerned that she might have done a runner..

Clint and Michelle have been going out for soooo long, and as a result this wedding has been anticipated for a long, long time! It was great to have all of his friends and family there, a great time was had by all.

On a different note, Adam is famous for his end-of-the-world-is-nigh farts.. look at the coincidentally located microphone, I had not planned for that!

Congrats to Clint and Michelle!

10 years later they are finally married!
Originally uploaded by mrlederhosen.

Hopehenge

Hopehenge
Originally uploaded by mrlederhosen.

Here is a bit of nerdy transport planner humour from Thailand. I work with a Thai guy and he keeps me up to speed with the latest architecture, developments and construction in Bangkok.

A train line was supposed to connect Bangkok to the old airport, but it was never built. The Hopewell company had the contract to construct it, but they went bankrupt and/or there was political scandal that involved the government of the time, and this coincided with the Asian stockmarket crisis, so construction just stopped one day and multi-millions of baht were wasted. There are now hundreds of these monoliths dotted throughout Bangkok, at a cost of around 1 million dollars each!

A few ideas have been raised to finish the mystery train line to the north of the city with a combination train and above ground freeway, but I'm not sure what the status of this project is. When I was in Bangkok last year I saw a few creative uses of some of the pillars, some people had swings hanging off one of them, some had created a market area under the base of a few, and I even saw some shanty housing built around at least one of them. (There could even have been an urban rock climbing wall!)

It was kind of cool to see how people utilised these abandoned Stonehenge like pillars. I always thought it would be great to built a birds nest style apartment on top of them, and create funky Roger Dean (aka those old 'Yes' album covers from the 1970s) styled bulb-shape buildings that could serve as a type of fancy community in the air. Though I'm sure the realities of Thai poverty and property owners probably wouldn't allow for that to happen even if someone did try to do it..
..but still, I think it would look cool. Maybe I'll make it a pet project of mine when I am president of the world.