Moeilijk

I was just sent this. It is the greatest piece of film ever created. Never has the screen been so alive with human emotion and suffering. Also, it's from the streets. Not cobblestones. We're talking streets where you can get shot while you're getting shot.



"The Oscar, in all known categories, goes to..."

posted by Eye-D Tuesday, October 12, 2004

 
"I was on a bus that flipped over 17 times..."

Things are just straight dying on me. I was in England for a week and when I came back home my laptop's charger was deader than 4 o'clock in the morning and I'd lost a 200gb harddrive.  I collect comics in digital format and on that harddrive I had about 135gb worth of those.  The rest consisted of my entire hip-hop MP3 collection. Wait... It gets better... In that same week my studio machine stopped making noise. I had to completely reinstall the operating system plus all the software. Most of the tracks I was working on somehow sound different now. I'm going to sit here for a bit with a can of Dr. Pepper and figure out how to fix all this.



The drive is now used by Raisin Toys as a playground. Note the can of Dr. Pepper.

posted by Eye-D Wednesday, July 21, 2004

 
Steven Seagal!

One of the best actors in the entire world, Steven Seagal, is currently appearing in a commercial for one of my favorite soft drinks: Mountain Dew. Haters are always hating on Seagal for being limited inasmuch that he can only play the same character over and over, but you know you love that bad-ass character. I fucking love Steven Seagal and I fucking love Mountain Dew and so do you. And you know it. Click here to watch the awesomely terrible commercial.



Me and Steven at MILFcon '02

posted by Eye-D Thursday, June 24, 2004

 
New Mixage

After continued pressure, bitching, moaning and whining from what seemed like at least 30% of the entire planet I have completed the long-awaited February 2004 Drum & Bass Mix. (Don't tell me it's March, nimrod... I am well aware of that.) I'll warn you in advance that I was forced to make a cut in the mix as one of the tracks isn't yet able to see the light of day. (At least not at the glorious 128 kilobit MP3-rate.) The cut is pretty obvious. If don't notice it you are probably not fit to breed. So anyway, you may peep this mountain of realness by clicking here. I will upload the full version as soon as the pressure's off.



"Sorry it smells like jizz."

posted by Eye-D Tuesday, March 16, 2004

 
P.O.R.N. & Darkcore

Last month we played two hardcore events as The Outside Agency. It had been years - literally - since we had played a hardcore event on the European mainland. The first event was P.O.R.N., thrown by Akira and the Pendeho Records crew. This was our first event since 1998, so we pretty much got a chance to redefine and reintroduce ourselves to our audience. Akira had a lot of faith in us and gave us two hours. (Thanks, dog.) We seemed to have done okay since everyone was extremely enthusiastic about our set. We played everything from super slow to super fast hardcore, breakcore, new TOA material and old hardcore. Never a dull moment, if you ask me. Pictures from P.O.R.N. can be seen here. Someone also sent us this sweet piece of video he recorded with his camera in which we can be seen rocking out to Hand Throw by Venetian Snares. Respect to the audience for being able to handle this.

The next weekend we played at Darkcore. Whereas the P.O.R.N. concept is aimed at the speedcore side of things, Darkcore goes for the slow darkness. We feel at home in both of those worlds even though they can be very dissimilar. We adapated ourselves to the crowds while remaining in the gray area of educating them. Fun yet again. We were able to start off much slower here and ended not quite so fast as we did at P.O.R.N. No pictures of any kind have been made available yet. At least not of us.

As a side note: We seem to be the first in the Dutch hardcore world who rock Final Scratch. It seems to confuse the hell out of people.



WHOA! DUDE! THEY'RE USING FINAL SCRATCH!!!

posted by Eye-D Monday, March 15, 2004

 
Megaman vs The Emergency MC vs The Freedom Track vs CD Track Number Two

Atomly sent me a link to an archived set of mine that was recorded in April of 2003 at Part Time Suckers Radio on WNUR in Chicago. It features some of the freshest stuff I could get my hands on at the time and some of the stuff still hasn't been released. There are many funny moments in the set; with me, Kid Entropy and everyone else present clowning around like it was our fucking job. Download the set here and peep the track-listing here.



"Never trust a Dutchman who does not smoke the reefer."

posted by Eye-D Wednesday, February 11, 2004

 
The Hotness

Eye-D: 24 is dope now, money.
atomly: Yeah, I've watched the last few
atomly: it's gotten awesome again
Eye-D: Dude...
Eye-D: Nina Meyers.
Eye-D: I would bang that shit so hard.
atomly: SO HARD
Eye-D: Damn straight?
atomly: damn straight
Eye-D: You feelin' me?
atomly: I'm too busy feelin' Nina
Eye-D: I will turn this into a website post.
atomly: Include this headshot: http://24.tv2.dk/saeson1/img/personer/nina-meyers.jpg



"Hi, my name is Sarah Clarke and I am hotter than the sun."

posted by Eye-D Wednesday, February 11, 2004

 
Subsonik

The DJ Hidden & Eye-D tag-team jamout hit Subsonik in Groningen on January 31st. It was the funnest! All sets that night were recorded and are available at Nautic Radio. This happened without our knowledge or consent, but what is a world without piracy? (Don't answer that.) The audio on one of the channels was all kinds of fucked up so I decided to edit out our set, fix the sound and share it back out. Click here for the MP3. This post will be expanded with a track-listing and pictures when I feel like it.


Har har, motherfux0rz.

posted by Eye-D Tuesday, February 10, 2004

 
Laptop Motherbitch Son of a Ass (sic)

I own a Dell laptop. Or at least... I'm pretty sure I do. I wasn't sure for a while. I have been without the machine for quite some time now. It has been repaired (again) (so they claim) and is waiting for me in Atlanta. For those who like horror stories; this is what happened to my laptop while I was trying to get it repaired by Dell (as detailed in my answers to a technical support survey I received because I made so many calls to Dell).

I shipped a machine with a malfunctioning motherboard to Dell in early December of 2003. Your people seemed very helpful, took note of my problem, recognized and and advised that a simple call with a shipping address from my friend (who would accept the machine on my behalf while I was in Europe) would be enough to get the repair process on the way.

When she made this call your people claimed to have no knowlegde of my call and made her go through all the steps that I had already gone through before. She is less vocal than I am and suffered through almost an hour of one of your Indian employees' lack of grasp of the English language and his unwillingness to believe that the motherboard was malfunctioning. This particular individual was only willing to (finally) send an airbill when pressed to speak to his supervisor repeatedly.

The airbill got sent and the repair was done. However, the machine was shipped to the WRONG address. Amazingly enough it was sent to the address of a friend in Atlanta, who alerted me to the machine's presence there.

Upon inspection it became clear that some of the connections that have to be made when replacing a system board, were not made. Hence the machine was still not fully functional. I placed another call to your people to have the machine sent back in for this fairly simple repair.

During this call I was given an improper Airborn Express account number, which meant that I could not ship the machine back. I e-mailed the employee (Betsy Knutson) who helped me, but she has to this day not responded to this e-mail, so I placed a second call.

This time i got a new ABX number. This number also failed to move the Airborn Express people to send it out, so a third call to you was placed a while back. (Incidently the call this survey pertains to.) The individual I spoke with now said that Airborn Express is supposed to send a box and that I was fed incorrect information the previous two times. He was extremely apologetic and ensured me that a box would be sent out asap. It is now more than 10 days since that call and I have yet to hear about any boxes showing up. I am currently back in Europe and have not had access to my machine for over a month and I am fucking pissed off about it. I hope you can sympathize with this emotion after one month without my machine and approximately seven service calls. I have lost count.

17. What does Dell Technical Support currently do well, and what can be improved?

Handling of the calls is extremely curteous, except in cases where your Indian call-center is used. My experience with that end has been thus that I simply hang up the phone and redial until I get someone on the horn who does not sound Indian. Believe me, I am no racist, but I like technical support calls to be helpful, not a painful, agitating and unhelpful experience. The Indian call-center has been nothing but an expensive annoyance.

When I do get someone with good communication skills on the line they are always very polite and willing to help, but in my experience their willingness does not live up to their capabilities to get anything done right. I refer you to my answer to question 12 for my reasonings.

Me on February 22nd, 2004

posted by Eye-D Tuesday, February 10, 2004

 
U Can't Touch This

My-my-my-my music hits me, so hard. Makes me say, oh my Lord
Thank you for blessing me, with a mind to rhyme and two hyped feet
It feels good when you know you're down
A superdope homeboy from the Oaktown
And I'm known as such
And this is a beat, uh, you can't touch


"She's a very cheeky girl."

posted by Eye-D Wednesday, February 04, 2004

 
Harder than Steve Austin

We have two shows coming up as The Outside Agency this month. P.O.R.N. 2004 (February 13th) and Darkcore 2004 (February 20th). Because of our last few hardcore releases and our recent launching of Genosha Recordings people here seem to actually have developed a desire to book us now. It is a very odd and somewhat disturbing feeling. We'll have to see what comes of it. I think both of these parties are going to a great deal of fun. PORN will be a speedcore-themed event and Darkcore will drum up music in the vain of the recent 'industrial revolution' in hardcore. We promise two very different sets catered to the unique identity of the specific events. The majority of all material will be unreleased stuff from ourselves and other artists on Genosha. First chance to check out Genosha 3, 4 and 5. Come check us out if you're in the neighborhood. Don't sleep.



"You fucking pick up that fucking gun and I'll fucking punch you in the fucking balls, motherfucker."

posted by Eye-D Tuesday, February 03, 2004

 
Word!

I played at Disko 404 / Guerilla Breakz in Graz, Austria a few days ago. It was the hotness.

I had to get up at 5:30 in order to make it to the 6:06 train to Brussels, so you'll imagine my surprise when I woke up, looked at my alarm clock, and noticed it was exactly 6:06. Way to go biological clock. You may think waking up 30 minutes too late isn't that big of a deal, but it is when you have to fly out of Belgium. If I'd have gotten on the next available train I would have missed my flight. Fortunately for me the webmaster supreme was still up and semi-functional and he let me borrow his car to drive to the airport. Belgian trains take a really roundabout route because I got to the airport two hours before my flight.

The flight itself was sweet and without problems. I closed my eyes whenever I could on the trip, at the airport, driving, etc. I'd only had about three hours of sleep before driving off, so that seemed like a plan. I was met by my hosts in Vienna and we quickly sped off to Graz. It was a fun ride, too. We listened to lots of heavy, heavy breakcore, I updated their English slang and got my Austrian-German slang updated in return, and I introduced them to the shotgun rules. You could say that by that time my work in Austria was done, but I still had to play, too.

I brought an entire box of Ruff-Teck records to sell at the party, but my hosts and some of the other DJs wanted them so badly that I was out of them before the event even started.

The event itself was very, very good. I spent most of my time in the breakcore room, which was packed full of hot girls and good music. The most noticeable performance in that room was without a doubt Justice Yeldam and the Dynamic Ribbon Device (Lucas). He makes noisecore with glass. No shit. He was one-half of the Australian delegation present at the event. The other half, DJ Bunnyatakk (Jules) walked around in a Slayer shirt, which immediately endeared me to him. We spent some time running around (as much as he could on crutches) trying to bring the slayer back to Austria. I don't know if we succeeded, though. I got a ride back with them to Vienna the next morning after we finally managed to get Jules up. They dropped me in the middle of Vienna from where I'd have to find my own way to the airport in about 30 minutes, which I managed to do. Go team.

So, Graz, apparently is the home of Arnold Schwarzenegger. They love him there. There's a stadium with the man's name on it in huge bling letters. I saw it. Word has it that the city of Graz is going to build him a statue of him as the Terminator with a laser eye. That, right there, is the best shit ever.



Pictured above: the stand-in model for the statue.

posted by Eye-D Wednesday, January 28, 2004