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autumn and oktoberfest

Zachary Pfriem — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:05:57 +0000

Oktoberfest ended up being quite a wet one this year. After quickly finishing my 8 tokens on not-to-impressive beers, we decided it was a good idea to retreat. Meeting some friends at the Triangle we ended up having a pretty good night just hanging out, eventually heading to the George and Dragon to finish the night.

This was the first Oktoberfest that did not have the sun shining on me, and definitely the first that the sun was replaced with rain. Autumn, however, it is my favorite season. I welcome the constant changes throughout the two to three month stretch of time. The leaves, the smells, the fresh mountain like air, clean streets, open spaces on the bike rack of the bus, cozy afternoons with coffee in hand and loved ones engaged in quiet household dialog, concerts, harvest moons, halloween, thanksgiving, and the seasonal beers.

More photos at flickr, HERE

Holga and the Puget Sound

Zachary Pfriem — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:42:16 +0000

Went fishing and crabbing with Dad recently and decided to bring along my Holga, my most neglected camera in the bunch, I am fairly happy with the results:

2 dry me cap

Zachary Pfriem — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:08:02 +0000

haunt

Zachary Pfriem — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:46:47 +0000

the spirit demons that haunt me are faceless men in black suits and baller hats
their limbs are thin and long, they hang over me in my sleep
i have dreamed them into existence on multiple occasions
waking to have their faces three inches from my face
i blink and they are gone

Summer Time!

Zachary Pfriem — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:54:51 +0000

It seems apparent that this blog has become a receptacle of compilations and playlists, and not much else. This is fitting, as my mood is highly influenced by my musical tastes, or is it the other way, that my music tastes are influenced by the moods I am in, probably both. Anyway, this next compilation is one for summer, as solstice is upon us, of which I will be celebrating as I usually do by watching naked people ride bikes through Fremont followed by cold beers into the evening.

I hope you enjoy this one as I feel it really captures the soundtrack to our summer months of hanging out and enjoying each others laid back company. Yes, it begins with weirdness, Animal Collective, however, don’t we all feel a little awkward in Seattle as the grey blanket is pulled from the sky, to be replaced by a burning orb of light, once our eyes adjust to this new found light, we want to get out and frolic in the grass, which is portrayed with Fleet Foxes. The rest of the summers attributes are whimsically laced here within, including the song by Extra Golden, Obama, of which we will all hear plenty about this summer and into the Autumn months. Enjoy.

Summer Time in the Sun

1. Animal Collective - Water Curses
2. Fleet Foxes - English House
3. Foals - Balloons
4. Crystal Castles - Vanished
5. Black Lips - Veni Vidi Vici
6. French Kicks - Abandon
7. Hazelwood Motel - Break Myself In Two
9. Ladytron - Black Cat
10. Health - Glitter Pills
11. Tokyo Police Club - In A Cave
12. No Age - Eraser
13. Extra Golden - Obama
14. Thao Nguyen - Bag of Hammers
15. Bishop Allen - Click, Click, Click, Click

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High Schoolers Driving Cars

Zachary Pfriem — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:46:12 +0000

I have so many memories driving around, listening to all the great music that was actually on major labels while I was in high school. With my birthday coming up next week, turning 26, it has been 10 years since I was liberated with the concept of an automobile. This accelerated my ability to do illegal and mischievous things around town, it also provided me with a faster means of high tailing it out of bad situations. Anyway, during all of this I was most likely in either Mike’s or Alex’s car, and occasionally in Matt’s lil’ Festiva (the go cart) as I myself did not have my own car until college.

There was always a soundtrack to rollin’ around, usually hip-hop in Alex’s Accord, while in Mike’s GMC pickup it was usually a mix of rock and anything else, with ample amounts of Sublime.

So enjoy this mix, preferably while driving around, remembering what it was like to finally be free to go where you wanted, when you wanted, and then realize that it costs you about a dollar a mile now, and rollin’ around isn’t fun anymore.

Cheers!

High Schoolers Driving Cars

1. 2Pac - Amitionz As A Ridah
2. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
3. Aaliyah - Back and Forth
4. Beastie Boys - Body Movin’
5. Beck - Devil’s Haircut
6. Daft Punk - Da Funk
7. The Fugees - Fu-Gee-La
8. Nada Surf - Popular
9. Nirvana - Serve the Servants
10. Outkast - Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)
11. Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution
12. Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack
13. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
14. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Ain’t No Fun
15. Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days
16. Stone Temple Pilots - Pretty Penny
17. Sublime - Smoke Two Joints
18. Sublime - Pawn Shop
19. Weezer - Buddy Holly
20. Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
21. Pixies - Debaser

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My Legend

Zachary Pfriem — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:23:34 +0000

As a fan of Bob Marley, I have found all compilations/best of albums done to date lacking. They lack a certain progression, and comparison of how Bob Marley would write politically motivated songs, which were always backed by powerful religious and spiritual embodiment. I have decided to create a Best of album for Bob Marley based on what I find to be his most powerful and moving words, not solely based on the most popular and top selling songs, as most best of albums are. The majority of these songs are of the political spectrum, ones that fueled a rebel movement in Jamaica focusing on love and nonviolence. Cheers.

My Legend

1. Natural Mystic
2. Running Away
3. War
4. Concrete Jungle
5. No More Trouble
6. Midnight Ravers
7. Exodus
8. Them Belly Full
9. Work
10. Jammin’
11. Blackman Redemption
12. Redemption Song

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dove and palm oil

Zachary Pfriem — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:15:02 +0000

Oh greenpece, you are always there to point things out in such clever ways, however, you could have done a better job bastardizing the song LA Breeze by Simian.

Here is the original Dove Commercial.

And here it is, the Dove Parody over palm oil production.

It’s Snowing! So…Free Music For All!

Zachary Pfriem — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:59:47 +0000

So, I made this playlist with the idea that it can brighten up any mundane task, such as washing dishes, vacuuming (headpohones), or working out, whatever, this playlist is The Spice of Your Mundane Life!

WOOT!

Enjoy!

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The Spice of Your Mundane Life

01. Feist - My Moon My Man [Boyz Noize Remix]
02. The Rapture - First Gear
03. Uffie - Pop The Glock
04. Simian - LA Breeze
05. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
06. Pete Shelley - Homosapien
07. The Rakes - Terror!
08. MGMT - Electric Feel
09. Yeasayer - Sunrise
10. Ghostland Observatory - Vibrate
11. Death From Above 1979 - Blood On Our Hands [Justice Remix]
12. Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
13. LO-FI-FNK - The End

3 degrees…

Zachary Pfriem — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:54:58 +0000

I posted this on my work blog (not public), thought it was worth reproducing here:

Upon my random perusing of wikipedia.org, I found an interesting path of correlation. It was when looking at the entry for DOOM (video game) that I found this path: DOOM was built on the DOOMengine which was based on the NeXT platform, the first port of NeXT to MSDOS was for DOOM, ironically, the NeXT engine was developed by the company NeXT Software Co., the company that Steve Jobs formed after leaving Apple back in 1985. Furthermore, NeXT evolved into OPENSTEP, and elements of OPENSTEP made their way into OSX. So in a way, DOOM and OSX are long lost cousins.

The Apple portion summed up, good quick read