Whew! All my exams for this year are done! Now for an evening of watching Dexter and eating unhealthy food, and then it's off to my parents' house for Christmas. Which reminds me: I need to put up the website's holiday decorations soon!

Here's one musician's perspective on flying with guitars:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo[/youtube]

Welcome to the site, Taipeifan! It was pretty surprising to hear of a show in Asia all of a sudden. Did people at the festival in general recognize Dave?

In the past, they have played in Scotland at least twice: 1993 and 1994 , both times in Glasgow. Recently, however, the only international gig that I remember is the one in Lima 2009 . On the other hand, I hear that show went very well and that they gathered quite an enthusiastic crowd, so you never...

Regarding police states, it's a fact that the US and Western Europe have in the last decade passed laws like the Patriot act and the FRA law . That in itself doesn't make them police states in the usual sense of the word, because people aren't arrested or censored for the slightest offense. It does ...

That's what I get for using space characters to pad things out instead of CSS padding... It seems Safari and Firefox were handling those space characters differently somehow (even though I was using jQuery to do the sorting). It's working in my Safari on Windows now. How about yours?

... Runaway Train! At least judging from the number of records that it appears on: 15 in total, including Grave Dancers Union, the Runaway Train single, and any compilations that include it, either as a studio recording or as a live version. Of course, that shouldn't surprise anyone, but some might ...

Regardless of which Benny it is, that's definitely an interesting piece of trivia. And I agree that the cover looks really bizarre.

So this weekend I watched the zombie movies Outpost and Diary of the Dead . Outpost was an okay movie, even though it had a very unusual dramatic structure: the action didn't begin until very late in the movie, and when it did begin it was followed by off-and-on periods of downtime. Diary of the Dea...

If you want to watch a zombie movie on Halloween but don't want to scare yourself too much, I recommend Dead Snow. It has a few scary scenes but it's basically a comedy. The plot is as follows: a group of young Norwegians are attacked by nazi zombies.

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