Tom Reynolds

PERFECT TIMING!!!

The Best of Bootie 2006 mashups mix is out. It’s pretty frikin’ awesome(like last years!)

Download it here [right click "Save As"]

More info at BoB 2006 site here

Here’s the track listing:

1. A plus D – Bootie Intro

2. DJ Moule – Black Sabotage (Beastie Boys vs. Led Zeppelin) – Paris, France

3. DJ M.I.F. – Tricky Sandman (Run-DMC vs. Metallica) – Denmark

4. DJ Jay-R – Sweet Sovereign (Lady Sovereign vs. Eurythmics vs. Shiny Grey) – Oakland, USA

5. Divide & Kreate – Temperaturized (Sean Paul vs. Yaz) – Stockholm, Sweden

6. Party Ben – Hung Up On Soul (Death Cab For Cutie vs. Madonna) – San Francisco, USA

7. A plus D – Love Will Tear You Apart (She Wants Originality) (She Wants Revenge vs. Joy Division vs. Bauhaus) – San Francisco, USA

8. A plus D – Sexy Peek-A-Boo (Justin Timberlake vs. Siouxsie & the Banshees) – San Francisco, USA

9. Arty Fufkin – Crazy Logic (Gnarls Barkley vs. Supertramp vs. Rockwell) – Melbourne, Australia

10. Max Entropy – Short Skirt, London Bridge (Fergie vs. Cake) – Philadelphia, USA

11. DJ Axel – Real Back Poppin’ (Cheryl Lynn vs. Fat Joe vs. Nelly) – Los Angeles, USA

12. A plus D – Beethoven’s Fifth Gold Digger (Kanye West vs. Beethoven vs. Walter Murphy) – San Francisco, USA

13. team9 – The Money Song (Hard-Fi vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers vs. Flying Lizards vs. Abba vs. Jay-Z) – Perth, Australia

14. Go Home Productions – Don’t Hold Back, Sweet Jane (Chemical Brothers vs. Velvet Underground vs. U2 vs. Sugababes vs. MARRS) – Watford, UK

15. DJ Topcat – Dec. 4th, Oh What A Night (Jay-Z vs. Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons) – Seattle, USA

16. DJ Topcat – The Safety Booty (Bubba Sparxxx vs. Men Without Hats) – Seattle, USA

17. Pilchard – Fox Problems (Jimi Hendrix vs. Jimi Bo Horne vs. Eric B & Rakim) – Royal Berkshire, UK

18. Lenlow – Work It Out (Beyonce vs. Dave Matthews vs. Jurassic 5 vs. Deee-Lite) – Boston, USA

19. Victor Menegaux – Going Back To Dani (Notorious B.I.G. vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers) – Seattle, USA

20. The Kleptones – Careless Or Dead (Bon Jovi vs. George Michael) – Brighton, UK

21. Divide & Kreate – Always With You (Willie Nelson vs. U2 vs. MARRS) – Stockholm, Sweden

Huge congrats to Artie Fufkin and Team 9 for getting 2 Oz-made mashup tracks on the compilation!!

Bill Shatner wants to wish all of us a Happy New Year.

He and I share similar New Year’s resolutions:

not to fall off our motorcycles… (though he says “again”. I’ve never fallen off)

Your results:
You are The Flash

Fast, athletic and flirtatious.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

Based on the life expectancy of a white, Australia male, I am halfway there- 35 today.

Here’s how I went (Rachel insisted on this photo and was the creative director and photographer…):

A fine mix of apparel, technology and reading material. The Sennheiser noise cancelling earphones and the Albert Jacka book are fantastic. As is the new (sore back saving ) windsurfing harness- though it won’t get ut into use this week as the traditional windy Boxing Day came a day early.

Speaking of weather, Mt Buller yesterday:
Not bad considering it’s summer and a week ago they were fighting fires that threatened to engulf the whole place. As my Grandmother might have said : “The Lord works in Mysterious ways”

James Brown, the legendary US singer known as the “Godfather of Soul,” has died at the age of 73, his agent said early today.

A sad way to finish Xmas day in Australia

James Brown dead at 73- The Age

Some youtube goodness…

Sex Machine:

Popcorn:

From jalopink.com

Just wait until 58 seconds in. Up to that point, the video is your standard 996 GT3 tailing an Aston Martin DB9. But then… I am not going to ruin it. You will laugh. And scratch your head. Sorry about all the German. A Merry Kwanza to you. Enjoy.

Holy. crap.

Monday:
Where? Elwood Beach
Weather? 15-35+ knots south west
Using? *NEW* 5.3sq m KA Kaos sail, Torquay 272 board
With? Duncan
For? 1 hr
Rating? 1 out of 5
Why? Gusty as hell. Over powered, then nothing. Weed and crap in the water- cathiung on my fin making progress difficult. Happy Xmas Hughey, ya miserable bastard! (the new sail is really good though)

I did rather well this year!!

…as did Rachel

…and Caboose

Our tree before we went present mad!

For those of us in sunny Australia, the name Barack Obama means very little.

I know about him thanks to my ever-so-politcally-aware brother Stephen, who is a very enthusiastic supporter of Obama and suggested that I watch the following speeches from the Democratic National Convention back in 2004:
Part 1, 9:35

Part 2

Some background on Obama:

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama Sr. of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas. His parents met while both were attending the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student. In his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama describes a nearly race-blind early childhood. He writes: “That my father looked nothing like the people around me –- that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk –- barely registered in my mind.”

He’s an amazing speaker, a prodigious writer and a true thinker. I hope that if he can’t be president (addressing whether the USA is ready for a black or female president is the stuff books are made of), he can still be an influential politician who delivers to his country a world view and can engage in the odd piece of navel gazing (or shoe gazing, I’m never sure which is better).

He’s starting his run for president early. I was prompted to post about him as the US papers are reporting about him a lot lately:

• The NY times: Obama Offers Flavor of Potential Campaign
• The Washington Post: Obama Takes First Steps in N.H.

Monday:
Where? Elwood Beach
Weather? 25-30 knots south
Using? 4.7 sq m sail, Fanatic Rip
With? Tone, Carlos, Donny, Duncan.
For? 2.5 hrs
Rating? 4 out of 5
Why? Whoa, howling. My old 4.7m KA Killer is crap. It has a tear along the leech, rigs too flat or too full, has light switch power (ie either on or off) and frankly can’t handle high winds as well as my bigger 5.3m. Anyhoo, the sailing was great. Cranked out my first big loops for the season, and got to see Donny throwing out a few massive forwards and showing that with our combined age of 70+ we still pwn teh w4v3s when it’s really windy . One incident stays in my mind. I was heading out through the shore break- powered up and planing at full pelt, when I hit a wave and jmped about 15 feet up. I didn’t have a trick in mind, but at the apex I decided to do the old Mark Angulo “look back” where you bring your knees up and lay your head right back and look at the water. All was going fine until I straightened up. I had turned up into the wind, stalling the board’s forward momentum and so we (the rig, board and I) fell to earth. Onto my arse. OUCH!