The guy behind the “Hot Chicks with Douchebags” site, aka Douchebag1, got interviewed by a US radio station. It’s hilarious. The following are some snippets from the interview.
How to determine if a guy is a douchebag:
popped collar, excessive bling, douche face
sideways peace hand gesture
wearing sunglasses or a visor indoors, 10 degree hat tilt
Godskitchen 2007! How was it? The music was hard and I loved the sets by Richard Durand, The Thrillseekers and M.I.K.E. (Push), especially Richard Durand’s but overall, I felt the music was better at Godskitchen Perth 2006. Though this year, I socialised more and I danced just as hard and just as much. And plus the following really made my night:
Three random strangers, one of whom I’ve met last year recognised me from my Youtube clip of Godskitchen Perth 2006, the one that got featured by inthemix. What a buzz. You’d see photos of two of them below.
A bunch of pretty girls walked up to me and starting dancing with me, just like that. One of them whom I’d assumed is the leader of the group said, “I saw you dancing so happily there by yourself, I thought that we should come and join you.” Woohoo!
Another girl came up to me and said, “You are a good dancer.” That made me even more high, yeah.
Then there was this funny incident: a girl with an awesome cleavage bent over to fix her top and caught me looking at her boobs. She pretended to be offended, smiled and then gave me a nipple tweak! Ow. But it was so worth it. Hahah!
Lighting was not as bright as Armin van Buuren’s gig in June so I didn’t get as many usable shots as normal - in my first round of culling, I deleted 458 pictures from a total of 637. When the lights did come on strong, I was filming it on video. Bugger! But what I did get, I’m pretty pleased with. So, on with the pictures!
In my group for the night was Simon, Wendy and Lydia. Wendy and I are not as close as before but we’ve past that awkward stage where we can’t be in the same place together.
I like Lydia’s outfit.
These two women below are the ones who recognised me from last year’s clip. Thanks for making me feel so good for recognising me! I forgot your names - sorry! If you see this post and/or the clip on Youtube, please email me - mooiness at gmail dot com!
Mooiness rave report staple: perfect strangers. If you see yourself in the pics here, you can download them and more at my Flickr set.
A couple in skirts.
My batteries ran out an hour into The Thrillseekers’ set - bummer! But hopefully what I did capture on video for you (13:53) would convey the atmosphere of the night adequately. I got a buzz from watching it. ‘Twas an awesome night!
Today I was deep in thoughts revising the disaster-plan for one of our servers (one down, more to go!). It involves being really paranoid and thinking up all kinds of nasty things that can happen - being hacked, loss of data, hard disk dying, loss of power etc, and then thinking up the recovery procedures for each of those nasty things. Joy. Except it wasn’t. Being paranoid is really stressful and tiring.
Shiny happy people laughing
Meet me in the crowd
People people
Throw your love around
Love me love me
Take it into town
Happy happy
Put it in the ground
Where the flowers grow
Gold and silver shine
If the TV that you have now is the biggest and thinnest that it’s ever going to get, you’d be pretty chuffed about it. The technology wasn’t going to get any better than this, and you already have the best there is.
If Louis Vuitton had only one new design for their handbags every five years, trend followers and fashionable women everywhere would be happy for at least that long. Instead of having to chase after new designs every passing season, contentment is a 5-year cycle.
If the woman whom you are with now is the most beautiful and most perfect for you ever - your own Aphrodite, your personal Helen of Troy - any other women wouldn’t even get a second look from you. You don’t crave or lust for others, you are infinitely satisfied with what fate has bestowed on you.
Happiness means having less choices. Or put it another way, the old saying that “ignorance is bliss”.
These interesting ideas were inspired by Sam de Brito’s post today titled “Too many options?” In it, he quotes psychologist Dan Gilbert who said,
… “natural happiness”, which occurs when things in life go our way (we fall in love, win Lotto, we get what we want) varies little from “synthetic happiness”, which our mind generates when we have no choice but to accept the cards we’ve been dealt.
Which basically means that we may think that we are happier because we have so many options, but the truth is that there isn’t much difference if we had less choices because happiness is what we make of it.
There’s also the mention of “disposable relationships” which I wrote about previously - that phenomenon is precisely because we are taught by modern society that we only have the one life so we deserve the best, therefore we innately feel that we can always do better. We have the choice and means to change things if we don’t like it.
The theory is all well and good, and almost religious like in meaning but society still thinks that “synthetic happiness is of an inferior kind”, as Dan Gilbert explains,
“Why do we have that belief? It’s very simple. What kind of economic engine would keep churning if we believed that not getting what we wanted would make us just as happy as getting it? A shopping centre full of zen monks is not gonna be particularly profitable because they don’t want stuff enough.”
In another words, “it’s the economy, stupid.” Our world today cannot function if no one craves and lusts after the next best thing. It is this constant need for the new and better that also propels technology forward. If prehistoric cavemen thought everything was hunky-dory way back then, we’d probably still be like that today.
Though being easily satisfied has its advantages. Remember the pure joy and fun with the simplest things in life when you were a kid? You were happy because you had all the things that you could possibly imagine then - nothing more, nothing less. At least you were until you saw that ad on TV for that toy that you must have.
If you are a video-gamer, even just an occasional one you might have heard that Halo 3 was being released today. It is the most hyped video-game to be released this year on the Xbox 360, having pre-sold a million copies. Because I never owned the original Xbox I never played Halo or Halo 2, so I didn’t get sucked into the hype that is Halo 3. Though I did read that when Halo 2 was released, it “set a record in 2004 for first-day sales of any entertainment product, generating more than $125 million in the United States in its first 24 hours.”
To put it very simply, it’s a first-person shooter and the story is about humans fighting aliens. But when Bill Gates goes to a local games store in Seattle for the midnight launch, you know that it is more than just a video-game to Microsoft. Hence all the hype.
As far as electronic goods go, the hype surrounding Halo 3 may even surpassed that surrounding the iPhone when it was launched because it’s a global phenomenon rather that isolated to the US like the iPhone was. Check out these scenes in NY and in New Zealand, where owing to its time-zone is the very first country in the world to get Halo 3.
While I may not have got sucked in by the hype, I love the artistry that go into a good product trailer. And the ones for Halo 3 are quite well-done. The first is from late last year, and the second just a few weeks ago. I especially like the second one - it’s CG made to look like an elaborately detailed diorama, with beautifully hand-painted miniatures.
Food - meat-eater or vegetarian as long as I’m still allowed to eat what I like
Outlook on life - the simple things are the best!
Mix and match any of the above! Other than that, I guess it goes without saying that pride in personal hygiene and presentation is a must. Oh and you mustn’t be one of these kinds of women.
My parents are away on holiday. My brother and cousins were out. My friends had other plans. So what’s a bored clubber to do being home alone on a Saturday night?
I grabbed a couple of Ballantine’s from the fridge, turn off the lights, turned up the sound and fired up an Armin van Burren DVD, “Armin Only: The Next Level“, on the big screen.
Result? Me imagining myself at a rave, jumping up a sweat and having a grand old time. The short clip (2:27) below will give you an idea of what I watched. If you like dance music, trance and going to raves you will want to buy the DVD. I salvaged my Saturday with it.
“, on the big screen.
