This Saturday my astronomy club, the RASC Niagara, will be holding a public starnight at Firemens Park in Niagara Falls. It begins at 7 and goes until 10. If it's clear there will be good views of Mars, star clusters, galaxies, and a little later in the night (after 8:30), Saturn.   ¶ 11:57 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  You can put your name on a comet. Sort of. Eventually this satellite will punch a deep crater in Comet Tempel 1. Here's a page with the goals of the mission, which is basically to study the structure of comets and the origin of the solar system.   ¶ 1:23 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  A dirty truth revealed or just someone with a grudge? http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/ You make the call....  ¶ 4:28 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Swoon 023 - November 24, 2003
Amon Tobin - Reanimator (Ninja Tune)
Radioactive Man - Trespasser (Rotters Golf Club)
Wagon Christ - Tomorrow Acid (Ninja Tune)
Plaid - New Family (Warp)
Amorphous Androgynous - unknown (Virgin)
Christian Kleine - Carez (City Centre Offices)
B. Fleischmann and Ms. John Soda - Here She Comes (Morr)
Ms. John Soda - By Twos (Morr)
Deadbeat - For Palestine (~scape)
Static - Disquiet (City Centre Offices)
Moonface - Spirals (Bedrock)
Medway vs. Pete Gawtry - La Fin du Monde Pt. 1 (James Niche mix)
Andry Nalin - R.O.P. (Sounds Good)
Maetrik - Shadows (Treibstoff)
Dark Boogie - Abduction (Peace Division mix) (Product Deluxe)
Night Society - Nu Religion (Reform)
Scanners - Shiver (Steve Lawler mix) (debunk)
Rui da Silva - Cosmic Mind
Gazor - Overlight (Blue Haze mix) (Minimal)
Indigo Child - Underwater
Deadbeat - For Israel (~scape)
Monsters from ID - Spatial Lobe (Signal)

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  Swoon 022 - November 17, 2003

Christian Kleine - Guitar Interrupt (City Centre Offices)
B. Fleischmann - Take a Day Off (Morr Music)
Ms. John Soda - Solid Ground (Morr Music)
Plaid - Mfaus (Warp)
Momu - Donner Pass (Sunsicle)
Pmt - Gyromancer (Acetate)
Unkle - Eye For An Eye (Mode mix) (Mowax)
Astrom - Nasty Bitch (PMS mix) (Pure Music)
4 Toasters - The Real World Pt. 1 (Twisted America)
Tony Estrada - Close (Distraekt)
Sasha - Lupus (Jimmy van M vs. Cass and Slide mix)
Quirk - Yebo (Brancaccio and Aisher mix) (Automatic)
Dimas and Martinez - Death of My Soul (Beat Freak)
Paul Rogers - Krafty (G-Pal mix) (Sumsonic)
Inkfish - Acting Out (Tribe mix) (Not On Label)
Scanners - Femme Fatale (Grayarea's Damaged Goods mix) (Debunk)
Art of Trance - Cambodia (Rising High)
Art of Trance - Orange (Platipus)  ¶ 10:49 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Morr Music's winter tour is coming to Buffalo this Thursday. Christian Kleine, B. Fleischmann and Ms. John Soda will be performing at the Soundlab.

There are bunch of music videos at the Morr Music site. My favourite is Tied & Tickled Trio's Revolution.   ¶ 2:09 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  I am often asked about meteor showers. This week's Leonid shower is happening on the night of Tuesday, November 19. Here's a good link showing when the best time to observe is, and how many meteors you can expect. For people here in St. Catharines, 2:30 a.m. will be the peak.   ¶ 9:33 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  I went to a very good concert last night in Toronto. It featured Plaid, Luke Vibert, and Chris Clark. They are all Warp Records artists. A video for Plaid's Zeal is here, and one for Luke Vibert's I Love Acid is here. I Love Acid is pretty much a cartoon of a breakdancing cat, set to acid music of course. In its own way, Zeal may be one of the scariest videos Warp has ever released. I think it would definitely be too much for much.   ¶ 3:38 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

 

Swoon 021 - November 10, 2003

Circulation - Aqua (Circulation)
Hakan Lidbo - Straight Up (Trigger)
Hakan Lidbo - Bitmapping (Trigger)
Akufen - 1re Tournee (Musique Risquee)
MRI - Amethyst Pop Stars (Force Tracks)
DJ Shine - Pipidrumstalker (nice+smooth)
Matthias Schaffhauser - Some Kind Of (Kompakt)
Jackmate - Chicago Toronto (Resopal)
Guy Gerber - Electric Mistress (Rainbow mix) (Alternative Route)
Rhythm Plate - From The Vaults
Delay - Cene (Vertical Form)
Pantytec - Elastobabe (Soul Capsule Plastic remix) (Perlon)
Logic Box - Home Car (Visitor)
Patrick Turner and Jay Tripwire - Common Loon (Movim)
Silencer feat. Nikita - Taking Hold (Circulation remix) (Critical Mass)
Justus Kohncke - Jet (Kompakt)
Lawrence - Gilbert (Kompakt)
Tomahawk - Is Music (Beautiful)
Plaid - AWOTP (Warp)
Closer Musik - Departures (Kompakt)
Jan Jelinek avec the Exposures - Davos S (~scape)
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  My astronomy club, the RASC Niagara, is having a public star night at Starbucks at the Fairview Mall, on Saturday, November 8, to show people the total lunar eclipse. We'll be in the parking lot outside of the Chapters/Starbucks. Come out after sundown for views of the Moon, Mars, galaxies and other things. Weather permitting, of course, although the forecast does look good, if cold. Everyone's welcome, and there is no charge.   ¶ 2:50 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  I have uploaded my pictures of the amazing October 30, 2003 aurora display. (Northern Lights). They can be found in my webshots photo album Aurora, Oct 30, 2003. The first twelve were taken in St. Catharines, Ontario. The next nine were in Niagara on the Lake.   ¶ 2:46 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

 

Swoon 020 - November 3, 2003

Manual - Summer Haze (Morr Music)
Jello - Damask (Peacefrog)
Dynamo - Auftenhalt 2 (DIN)
Morgan Caney and Kamal Joory - Crispy Leaves Underfoot (City Centre Offices)
Jackmate - Wolfen (Resopal)
SCSI-9 - Lovers Provider (Force Tracks)
Medway and Sean Cusick - Neutrix (SAW)
Spincycle - Flashlight
FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes (Josh Wink Acid Dub) (City Rockers)
Psychosomatic Climax Machine - It Seems Silly To Care After All This Time (Worthy)
Mecca - Hot (Amani vs. Teapot Dub)
Alaska - Wonderful (Infusion mix)
Futuristic - Tonight (Moshic mix part 2)
Hardline - J'Adore (Peter Bailey mix)
Orbital feat. David Gray - Illuminate (Medicine mix) (ffrr)
Chemical Brothers feat. The Flaming Lips - The Golden Path (Ewan Pearson mix) (Astralwerks)
Plump DJs vs. LFO - Low Frequency Bootilator (Less Is More mix)
Psycho Radio - In the Underground (Hooj)
Martin Bulaz - Mutanz (4mg)
Polygon Window - Audax Powder (Warp)  ¶ 11:14 AM 0 Comments Links to this post