Yerba-Mate’s and Guarana’s primary ingredient is caffeine.

March 20th, 2008

i wasn’t aware of this since i’m not a follower of energy drinks.  not that this is new information, but anyways, from wikipedia:

Mate products are sometimes marketed as “caffeine-free” alternatives to coffee and tea, and said to have fewer negative effects. This is often based on a claim that the primary active xanthine in mate is “mateine”, erroneously said to be a stereoisomer of caffeine. As it is not chemically possible for caffeine to have a stereoisomer, this claim is false. “Mateine” is an official synonym of caffeine in the chemical databases.

According to the Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank, when guaranine is defined as only the caffeine chemical in guarana, it is identical to the caffeine chemical derived from other sources, for example coffee, tea, and mate. Guaranine, theine, and mateine are all synonyms for caffeine when the definitions of those words include none of the properties and chemicals of their host plants except the chemical caffeine. Natural sources of caffeine contain widely varying mixtures of xanthine alkaloids other than caffeine, including the cardiac stimulants theophylline and theobromine and other substances such as polyphenols which can form insoluble complexes with caffeine.

Micromusic Episode 03

March 16th, 2008

starPause recently ran off to prauge to rock some VICEAUDIO soundsystem at CONFUSE party which was part of SPERM festival. he recorded all the artists performing on the BLIP stage there and we will be podcasting each performance in the comming weeks.

the first installment is the last performer of the night: 1a2v1 who performed in candy-culture full-color three-dee party-vibe. the SPERM festival flier has some nice words:

New czech project brings new life to local club environment: underground 8-bit sounds by Jaro Haro are met by fitting like a glove visuals by VJ Kolouch creating perfect lo-fi experience.

and you can leave the boy comments @ http://www.myspace.com/1a2v1live

 
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Some pictures

March 16th, 2008

Pictures of the works from “Los Disappeared” can be found in the store. And theres more pictures of the opening from Pascal Wassum. More pictures of the opening from Joe Boyle.

quote of the day

March 7th, 2008

“ducati owners are renowned for their lack of kilometres”

Po’ Boys aren’t Hamburgers, but…

March 5th, 2008

I’d just like to mention that I just had another Po’ Boy sandwich at Brenda’s on Polk St. and they are freakin’ delicious.  Delicious enough to be an honarary hamburger and thus deserve a hamburger post.
Brenda’s French Soul Food
652 Polk St. @ Eddy St.
http://frenchsoulfood.com/

Micromusic Episode 02

March 3rd, 2008

Starpawz vs. K9D

 
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Every Sunday is DJing, Podcast and BYOB day

March 2nd, 2008

We’ve always hung out with friends on Sundays at 20 GOTO 10 and this is the 2nd week of our MicroMusic podcast so I’ve decided to officially make Sundays the hang-out, drink beer and listen to music day.  All are welcome, and if you want to DJ just shoot us an email.  Every Sunday 3-6PM.

Our New Podcast!

February 24th, 2008

Hello people,

We now have a podcast that we do every sunday from 20 GOTO 10 by Starpause. Its a mix of micromusic and different trippy types of good jams. Subscribe by copy/pasting http://www.twentygoto10.com/blog/?feed=podcast into itunes or whatever you use or use this link.

This is the first attempt at getting this going so expect more stuff and better levels in our future episodes.

Micromusic Episode 01

February 24th, 2008

Set by Starpause

get_down_da_fonk_me by goto80
fly me to new york by cassetteboy
This Is Sick (Yeah! Woho! Remix)
oceanview by jon_bro
bubble goggles by hello
blitter baiter by k9d (poke remix)
starpaws (zerozillion rmx) by rob hubbard
trick jack by sweet exorcist
freetown by force fetus
the end of my life by timeheater
minapolacid by lusn
un by call
delux ecs (open funk sores) by goto80
gluefunk by ixtlan
simple machines by call
zoolook 89 by commodore64orchestra
chroson dival jr. by rabato

 
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free software is ugly

February 17th, 2008

sometimes i cant look at anything visually pleasing without convincing myself its far too commercial.

sometimes i imagine stabbing my own eyes out in protest to this non-sense.

maybe i should grow a unix beard and support free software.