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I’ve really, really been getting into the Spanish/hispanic thing lately. I’ve started listening to a lot of the music, local bands like Minimal and now branching out to some other groups like the superstar Mexican group Cafe Tacuba. My fav song from them so far: Eres. Even if you don’t know a lick of Spanish, it still sounds damn good.

Wow.

One of my best friends over here in the US, Omar, and his wife, Jessie (who is also a best friend), just informed me that they are six weeks pregnant. I was informed of this via a text message today that said:

(news)We’re pregnant, talk soon!”

It took me a little while to recover from falling off the floor. Awesome, awesome news. Congratulations again Omar and Jessie! I know you never read my blog but what the hell I just had to write this down anyway!

This adds to the list of friends over here and back in Oz who are pregnant or who have had kids recently:

Plugger and Kate
K9 and Debbie
Cepi and Arlene
Javi and Glenda
Todd and Heidi
Susan and Rick

Wow. Just wow. The ground is covered in babies.

I’m currently chillin’ in Miami airport waiting for my flight to Managua, so thought I’d upload a video of a recent night out at “the fifth”. It’s a very SoBe sort of club. Very expensive too (da, that’s SoBe as well). The music was a bit dodgy earlier on, but once the DJs decided to do away with the “hey, we’re a club, let’s play hip hop” cliche and actually play some decent dance music, then things got a little better.

Here is a pic of one of the dancers at the club:

Here is a short video clip from the club:

I’m lying here on my bed (no work today due to the storm) listening to Hybrid’s latest studio album, “I choose noise”, which got released today. In a word, it’s fan-friggen-tastic. It’s everything I hoped for in an album of this genre (think a symphony having a head-on collision with break beats). Listening to it is like diving into a massive pavlova and finding Tim Tams at the bottom. It’s available for download in a “quite unlike iTunes” non-restrictive audio format, called MP3, from their label, distinct’ive records.

Not only that, but BT is also releasing his new album today, “This Binary Universe”. I had to order the album the old fashioned way and wait for it to be delivered. I couldn’t find a digital download (a.k.a.: torrent) to appease the consumer-whore in me that can’t wait for delivery by the postman. The really cool thing about this album – apart from the fact that I know it’s going to be cool because BT is the ultimate in his field – is the fact that one of the discs is recorded in full DTS surround sound! It makes me want to fly back to Oz and give it a listen on my old faithful sound system. I wonder if my subwoofer is still doing a decent job back in Adelaide… ahh yes, I can feel it now.