Great Start

An amazing start to the Year, first of all huge thanks to the Old One for providing more coincidences than mortal man could wish for. Like your style, oh yes.. Love it :)

We've had the Double S Monday (a week ago today) which coincided with the reddest skies we've ever seen. Walking down Talamanca Beach just after 5.30PM having first met up with our amigo and numero uno hombre Pedro we were treated to the most amazing skies, so red, so beautiful. As that fella Einstein said "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." Amen to that. We met another friend Miguel at the end of the beach and while we stood there in awe he told us that the skies here are very very red in January and February. Where's my Digi Cam when I need it? Some things just aren't meant to be captured digitally I suppose.....

Which leads me on to



95% of our Universe is made from Dark Stuff....

"Now that we have begun to map out where dark matter is, the next challenge is to determine what it is, and specifically its relationship to normal matter," Dr Massey said (Source - Independent Online Article)

We know where it is we just need to find out WHAT it is? Como? Que?

"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious." - Einstein

It's a Wonderful Life

Coincidence? Que Va!

Keep On Keeping On with those coincidences, we love 'em!

Peace & Love

Migz & Jinny

Late (Last Resort)

Late, but still....

Big shout out to Anders! I've been meaning to post this for a while but with moving house (again!) my blogging has suffered recently.

For those new Dwellers who are not aquainted with the sublime Trentemøller album "The Last Resort" I can only urge them to check asap. I've been a fan since his Naked 025 EP and blogged the album release way back in October (being a bit of a vinyl junkie I had to have both the CD & Vinyl versions of the album) but his Essential Mix was also voted the best of last year. Result amigo!

News Just In....

Even though they used the Timetable Manoeuvre and the illegal Flan Gun, The Steep Step Gambit & The Giant Winter Solstice Blubber we did not surrender! Keep on Keeping on! Thanks to the Langoliers and the breath taking Peace, Beauty and Tranquility of this magical place for helping us through.

Peace & Love to All

Solstice Celebrations, Happy Christmas, Eid ul-Fitr I don't mind what day we do it on, just let's all get together in Peace one day soon folks.

Peace and Love to all.

Quote: Einstein

"Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man"

Albert Einstein

Focus - Negative Theology

Focus..

Negative Theology - it is recognized that we can never truly define God in words. All that can be done is to say, it isn't this, but also, it isn't that either. In the end, the student must transcend words to understand the nature of the Divine. In this sense, negative theology is not a denial. Rather, it is an assertion that whatever the Divine may be, when we attempt to capture it in human words, we must inevitably fall short.

Sunlight sparkling on wet stones as far as the eye can see...

Working Class Hero

Working Class Hero
by John Lennon






As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and class less and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

Can You Imagine

Imagine this & it may well come true. It did for us...



Spent most of today in the sunshine (again), in November! Had lunch at our favourite bar on the beach then took a walk into town. There's something about the sunshine that just makes you feel SO much better. I was just about to blog the Playlist for this week and I thought I'd just check the weather out in the UK (a place we no longer call home) seeing as today was glorious in Ibiza. I thought my legs would never dry! Wet & very windy... mmmmmmm. Let's see, do we miss anything at all about that fear filled little nation with it's shitty weather? Answers on a postcard....

I'll give you a clue....

No :)

Peace & Love
Migz

Quote: Noam Chomsky

"I think, legally speaking, there's a very solid case for impeaching every American president since the
Second World War. They've all been either outright war criminals or involved in serious war crimes."

Noam Chomsky

Soundtrack Heaven?

Ah the joys of the blog. The joys of life! So much music, never enough time to blog it all. With the advent of the Blog Beta I switched over as any self respecting tech lover would. Never one to miss an opportunity to upgrade my technology the man like Ramirez. Just one slight problem, because the "List Wizard / Editor" is so easy to use I found myself constantly updating my Soundtrack list on a daily basis - which was fun, but far too time consuming. If it's a choice between playing music or documenting which music I'm playing it's no choice at all. So to cut to the chase, Soundtrack is now back to once a week. But many thanks to the Blogger team for improving the technology - now all I need is a spell checker - surely there must be one?!@£$??

Quote: Noam Chomsky

"I think the issue, to come back to my original comment, is not simply disinformation and the Gulf crisis. The issue is much broader. It's whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism, with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose step on command and repeat the slogans they're supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home. We end up serving as a mercenary enforcer state, hoping that others are going to pay us to smash up the world. Those are the choices. That's the choice that you have to face. The answer to those questions is very much in the hands of people like you and me."

Noam Chomsky

Why Work?

"The 40-hour workweek is the bane of civilization. It is a cancer which eats at the human spirit, until the only thing left is an over-weight, underachieving, prime-time addicted android which vaguely resembles a man, yet lacks the exuberance and creativity that is seen so clearly in the eyes of a child. Society takes humans and turns them into workforce-robots. We are the most recent incarnation of the Stepford generation. We've been literally brainwashed into believing that a strong "work ethic" is a virtue, which will somehow magically infuse us with a sense of pride and accomplishment. This is the most pathetic load of dung I've ever heard. Has anyone ever stopped to consider the possibility that if humans had more time to devote to ourselves, we might not need to artificially instill ourselves with false pride, based on the magnitude of our bank books, but rather on our intellectual and spiritual accomplishments. I can not count the times I have met some so-called "successful person", only to find that he or she possessed the I.Q. of sewer rat, with values to match. These types can usually be found congregating in and around government offices and state capitals.

Material wealth is not an indicator of one's success on this earth; happiness is, at least for me. Don't get me wrong, I love money. I adore it and all the things it can attain, but not at the expense of my soul. I believe true fulfillment can only come by being brutally honest with yourself, and staying true to oneself. Being forced to wake up each morning at an un-godly hour and mindlessly conform to a society which is suffering from acute brain atrophy is certainly not the path to self-fulfillment. There has to be a better way. Do I have the answer? No, but at least I have recognized the problem, and surely that is the first step towards rectification."

Craig Mannelli

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Being Gay Carlisle

"Where would we put it?" Look frantically around the balcony, painfully blank expression etched across your painfully stupid face as your tiny intellect tries to work out:
(a) What is the Internet?
(b) Is it small enough to fit on your balcony?

All the gear no idea.

"A Big Yellow Banana..." Indeed

"It took us twenty five years to do up our last property..." Mmmmm. Cities are constructed quicker, are you plain lazy or just stupid? Don't answer that.

"Pop down to Sydneys for breakfast..." Only if I can take my Glock with me (or a BFG)

To be continued.

Pacha: Copyright Shovell

Well Well :)

Another superb weekend..

First off a masssive thank you to Copyright Shovell for providing the weekend soundtrack. The guys played Pacha on Saturday and even though the "Winter" crowds are not as numerous as the Summer throng they ripped the roof off. Set highlights for the Ramirez' were the live rendition of the guys own "One Drum" with of course SUPERB live percussion from the drum warrior himself & BucketHeadz - "The Bomb (These Sounds)" - as expected a fair few Defected tunes graced the Decks (an all CDJ affair from what I noticed with lashings of Pioneer EFX for good measure). The joy of living in Talamanca - Pacha only 10 minutes walk away! Love it!

For Spencer

Sitting on the beach in November. Surely this can't be right. A deserted beach at that, yet the temperature is still 70º and the sea is like a beautiful turquoise mirror. The sunlight dances across the tips of the slowly breaking waves and the only link to my previous life is the voice in my ear. I'm drawing spirals in the fine golden sand as we talk, the smell of the sea - the enticing aroma I now class as the scent of home - washing over me. I laugh as he, in his inimitable style recounts the tale of a recent meeting between himself and the person who "introduced" us. Spencer always makes me laugh, he's always had that ability and I guess he always will have. I told him recently - and it's a fact that had only occured to me a couple of days beforehand - that he'd managed to stick with me through two of my life's most stressful events. Events that sent people I'd assumed were friends running for the hills. As I feel the soft sand move easily between my toes I realise that all that is so far away now, it really is a previous life. I still have moments of doubt - who doesn't? But now, here on my dream Island with the sun sat way above me in a perfect blue sky and the sound of the sea gently adding it's rhythmic soundtrack I feel happier than I've ever felt. I look to my right and the gorgeous soul I call Juanita is smiling back at me. It doen't get any better than this...

Here's to you Spence..
Love & Miss Ya

Migz

November 6th Soundtrack

• Miguel Ramirez - "No More Working For The Man (Ibiza Mix)"
• Miguel Ramirez - "Vurt"
• Trentemøller - "Snowflake"
• Hot Chip - "Just Like We (Breakdown) (DFA Remix)"
• Trevor Loveys - "Turn It Up"
• Switch - "Get On Downs"
• Trevor Loveys - "Say What"
• Jesse Rose & Trevor Loveys - "Heavy What"
• Stereo MC's - "Two Horse Town"
• Faithless - "Mass Destruction (Tom Middleton Mix)"
• Isolee - "Madchen mit Hase"
• Layo & Bushwacka - "Life 2 Live (Loco Dice Remix)"
• Loco Dice - "Cellar Door"

Tits & Acid

Tits & Acid Two of my favourite things :)

But seriously, probably one of the most In Yer Face tracks I've heard this year. Simian Mobile Disco have unleashed an absolute monster with this. From the get go it takes no prisoners then just layers electro mayhem on top of old school beats & stabs until it climaxes in a most over the top fashion with a break that'll leave the floor wondering what the f*ck just hit them. After finding this gem in the pile of whites & promos I sift through on a weekly basis I was moved to dig out my other SMD stuff I've not played for a while. Genius! Grab one if you see it :)

Quote: Noam Chomsky

"If the US is unquestionably authorized to bomb another country to compel its leaders to turn over someone it suspects of involvement in a terrorist act, then, a fortiori, Cuba, Nicaragua, and a host of others are entitled to bomb the US because there is no doubt of its involvement in very serious terrorist attacks against them: in the case of Cuba going back 45 years, extensively documented in impeccable sources, and not questioned; in the case of Nicaragua, even condemned by the World Court and the Security Council (in vetoed resolutions), after which the US escalated the attack. This conclusion surely follows if we accept the principle of universality."

Noam Chomsky