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[QUOTE=Rawrmune;1104208]I was just playing around with Kayak.com and I found a $438 round trip from San Francisco, California to Asuncion, Paraguay. Makes me want to take a vacation right now. :O[/QUOTE]

From San Francisco to Asuncion ????

That is a very long distance.

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^ Yes but to fly to anywhere else in South America it's like 1000. Such a great deal! I've never been to South America before.

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Fri night hung out with friends and and met some girls from Slovenia, and last night (sat) went out with wife and college roommate who brought his GF from Astonia. Worked all week with dudes from Korea and Canada. Been a very international week :).

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[QUOTE=Rawrmune;1104229]^ Yes but to fly to anywhere else in South America it's like 1000. Such a great deal! I've never been to South America before.[/QUOTE]

Ohhh so, you gonna fly, I understood wrong, I thought you were going to travel in kayak from SF to Asuncion. lololol :lol:

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^^ Thats neat, the world seems to be getting smaller and smaller.

^ :D Oh no that would be crazy haha. I don't know if that is even possible. Kayak.com is a site where you can look for cheap airline flights.

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Great news! I got accepted to medical school at Florida Atlantic University. I'm going to be a doctor! :D

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Dude congrats!!!!!!!

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Thanks florida! :D

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^Congratulations fella, Awesome news

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[QUOTE=Rawrmune;1104474]Great news! I got accepted to medical school at Florida Atlantic University. I'm going to be a doctor! :D[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;gBkOlgU3MYY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBkOlgU3MYY[/video]

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:lol:

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Thanks Nick!

[QUOTE=Krystyan;1104561][video=youtube;gBkOlgU3MYY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBkOlgU3MYY[/video][/QUOTE] :lol: Great movie.

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Getting buried....

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" the evolution of technology has allowed humans to make some of the absolute worst music in recorded history"

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[URL="http://n.pr/175uhEr"]Fossil Find Points To A Streamlined Human Lineagen.prA group of 1.8 million-year-old skulls suggests a single species can actually have a lot of variety.[/URL]

What an amazing find for these folks...I can only imagine their excitement.

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I miss being in love

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So there was this slightly introverted high school student who had never asked a girl to a dance. It's his senior year and he feels that he should go to prom. So he musters up the courage and asks one of his friends. She says yes. Now he has to prepare for the dance. The next day, he goes to buy his tickets, and there is a huge line. So he waits, and waits, and waits, then he finally gets the tickets. The next day, he goes with his date to go get a dress. When they get to the store, there is a huge line going out the door. So the wait, they wait, and they wait. Finally, they get to the front and buy a dress. After this, they go to men's warehouse to get him a suit for the dance, and there is a huge line going out the door. So they wait, wait, and wait. Finally they get in and buy a nice suit. The next day, he remembers that he needs to order a corsage. So he goes to the local store and there is a huge line. So he waits, waits, and waits until he gets his order in. Now it's the day before prom and he wakes up and realizes that he forgot to order a limo, so he calls up the limo rental place. All the lines are busy so he decides to go into the place. When he gets there, he sees the line stretching out the door and around the corner. So he waits, and waits, and waits, until finally he was lucky enough to get the very last limo. So now it's the night of the dance and when they get to the prom, the school is doing mandatory drug testing, so there is a huge line getting into the prom. So the wait, wait, and wait. Finally they get to the front and they both pass their drug tests. Now the dance was going pretty good for about a half an hour, until he really, really had to go to the bathroom. So he takes off to go, and he sees this huge line going out of the bathroom. He waits, waits, and waits until he finally takes care of his business. When he comes out of the bathroom, he notices that a crowd has formed around his date. She had just randomly passed out. Someone says to him, "hey, you're her date, go get her some punch." So he goes over to the punch table and thank god, there is no punch line.

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[QUOTE=Rawrmune;1104474]Great news! I got accepted to medical school at Florida Atlantic University. I'm going to be a doctor! :D[/QUOTE]

Congrats ;)

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Thanks! :D

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[QUOTE=Rawrmune;1104799]So there was this slightly introverted high school student who had never asked a girl to a dance. It's his senior year and he feels that he should go to prom. So he musters up the courage and asks one of his friends. She says yes. Now he has to prepare for the dance. The next day, he goes to buy his tickets, and there is a huge line. So he waits, and waits, and waits, then he finally gets the tickets. The next day, he goes with his date to go get a dress. When they get to the store, there is a huge line going out the door. So the wait, they wait, and they wait. Finally, they get to the front and buy a dress. After this, they go to men's warehouse to get him a suit for the dance, and there is a huge line going out the door. So they wait, wait, and wait. Finally they get in and buy a nice suit. The next day, he remembers that he needs to order a corsage. So he goes to the local store and there is a huge line. So he waits, waits, and waits until he gets his order in. Now it's the day before prom and he wakes up and realizes that he forgot to order a limo, so he calls up the limo rental place. All the lines are busy so he decides to go into the place. When he gets there, he sees the line stretching out the door and around the corner. So he waits, and waits, and waits, until finally he was lucky enough to get the very last limo. So now it's the night of the dance and when they get to the prom, the school is doing mandatory drug testing, so there is a huge line getting into the prom. So the wait, wait, and wait. Finally they get to the front and they both pass their drug tests. Now the dance was going pretty good for about a half an hour, until he really, really had to go to the bathroom. So he takes off to go, and he sees this huge line going out of the bathroom. He waits, waits, and waits until he finally takes care of his business. When he comes out of the bathroom, he notices that a crowd has formed around his date. She had just randomly passed out. Someone says to him, "hey, you're her date, go get her some punch." So he goes over to the punch table and thank god, there is no punch line.[/QUOTE]

Lost me at the line for a drug test before entering the dance :lol:

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got sick last night... wife just got over being sick... achy and a slight fever, but any fever still sucks, doesn't matter if it's just a small one :lol:.... I'm not very good at being sick, it sucks!

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Hope you feel better Florida! Get lots of rest.

DJ Mag Top 100 Results [URL]http://www.edmtunes.com/2013/10/dj-mag-top-100-djs-2013-results/#[/URL]

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So the week I am out of town on vacation, Hernan Cattaneo comes (Friday) and Sasha (Saturday). :( Such bad timing.

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[QUOTE=Rawrmune;1105074]So the week I am out of town on vacation, Hernan Cattaneo comes (Friday) and Sasha (Saturday). :( Such bad timing.[/QUOTE]

Sorry! Enjoy your vacation though.

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Thanks! :D I will be off in France that week.

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[QUOTE=Rawrmune;1105074]So the week I am out of town on vacation, Hernan Cattaneo comes (Friday) and Sasha (Saturday). :( Such bad timing.[/QUOTE]

Hernan always seems to hit San Diego around this time of year. I saw him at BELO (sp) years ago... he was TOP

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I actually moved back to San Francisco Bay Area after college. :D I've only been able to catch him once out of the past three times hes been around, my schedule never seems to line up.

Anyone see Timo Maas before? What kind of music does he play? Is he worth seeing? $5 presale tickets so seems like a good deal.

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[QUOTE=Rawrmune;1105198]I actually moved back to San Francisco Bay Area after college. :D I've only been able to catch him once out of the past three times hes been around, my schedule never seems to line up.

Anyone see Timo Maas before? What kind of music does he play? Is he worth seeing? $5 presale tickets so seems like a good deal.[/QUOTE]

LOL yeah in 2001....

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

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:lol: 12 years ago.

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[QUOTE=Rawrmune;1105198] Anyone see Timo Maas before? What kind of music does he play? Is he worth seeing? $5 presale tickets so seems like a good deal.[/QUOTE]

Start a thread and ask imo.... I'd say go, could be good... in the meantime:

[URL="http://soundcloud.com/timo-maas/sets/dj-sets/"]DJ Sets by TIMO MAAS on SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds[/URL]

[[COLOR=#d3d3d3]QUOTE][FONT=Lucida Grande]2013 should be a vintage year for Timo Maas. Over the next 12 months, he’ll release his long awaited new artist album, Lifer, featuring Mikill Pane, Placebo’s Brian Molko, U.N.K.L.E’s James Lavelle, Katie Cruel and more; he’ll celebrate 10 years as a resident at DC10 in Ibiza; welcome new artists to his Rockets & Ponies imprint, help Cocoon commemorate their 100th release and continue to reinforce his reputation as one of German electronic music’s most colourful characters.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]For a small town in Lower Saxony, Bückeburg punches well above its weight. It’s home to a helicopter museum. It was also where Bach spent the greater part of his life and where one can find the beautiful Bückeburg Palace, where Prince Alexander of Schaumburg-Lippe still lives. It is also the hometown of our hero Timo Maas, who is – somewhat unsurprisingly – buddies with the prince.[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]Has it really been 14 years since Maas’ music burnt itself indelibly on our synapses with the all-conquering remix of Azzido Da Bass’ ‘Doom’s Night’? Indeed it is. Or, as Timo chuckles: “The spot on the ass of my career!”[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]He is, of course, joking. The Maas remix made him an international DJ celebrity and propelled the track into the pop charts in both Germany and the UK, leading to remix offers from Madonna, Depeche Mode, Fatboy Slim, Muse, Kelis and many more. Maas and then studio partner Martin Buttrich had returned from the Miami conference in 1999 inspired. “We were so motivated, we started writing music off the back of these amazing memories and produced a string of things in quick succession, including ‘Doom’s Night’. A few months later all the UK garage guys picked up on it and then all the other stuff we’d done in that short burst of activity came out too. But with the success of this fucking record on the garage scene it blew up. This record changed everything!”[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Long before he charmed the pants of dancefloors worldwide, he was DJing back in his native Bückeburg and nearby Hannover from the age of 13. He’s been at it for over 30 years now. “I went from music lover and tape recorder to DJ for local occasions to DJing in local discotheques at 15,” he recalls. “By the age of 17 I was playing in clubs.”[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]Timo was present when the eruptions that created fissures in the club scene arrived. He recalls hearing ‘Pump Up The Volume’ for the first time: “When M/A/R/R/S came out it was the initial explosion. What the fuck is that sound?! Then I bought Phuture’s ‘Acid Tracks’ from my local store. What kind of trippy, weird stuff are these guys doing?” But many Germans were simply not ready for this brave new world. “Trying to play this sort of stuff in the clubs was difficult because the people didn’t understand it. They’d say play something from the charts, but don’t play this weird shit.”[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]As the German rave scene gradually extended is borders to include Hannover and its environs, Timo was one of the primary architects. Alongside raves, Maas held down a residency at a mixed night in the fantastically-named Men Factory. “The gay scene was still musically very upfront then,” explains Timo. “At the time gay clubs were dark and mysterious and I was playing things like Underground Resistance, Steve Poindexter, some really cool stuff.” When DJ Gary D heard him play in Hannover one evening, he invited him over to The Tunnel in Hamburg, then one of Germany’s leading clubs. “I went to Hamburg and drank Jagermeister with him,” he quips. “And the week after I was a resident with him there.”[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]The first stamp in Timo’s DJ passport came in 1995, with his debut appearance at the Lakota club in Bristol. ““I sent my first record out with a mixtape to promoters and two came back and invited me to play, one of them was the Lakota,” he recalls. “I had a residency there for three years through Leon Alexander who later became my manager. I was playing regularly with people like System 7 and Carl Cox and in the back room it was drum and bass guys like Reprazent.”[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]If ‘Doom’s Night’ blew up the spot, then his solo albums – and we are now on his third – are where he’s forged a reputation for brave collaborative choices and cinematic sounds. Although Maas has been widely described as a purveyor of techno, tech house or a whole load of other genre prescriptions, the striking thing about his music is the effortless ease with which it morphs chameleon-like from one style to another. His latest album, for example, runs from the almost Beatles-esque raga of ‘Visions’, which features the sitar work of fellow German Torsten de Winkel – the pair having been introduced by our old friend Prince Alexander of Schaumburg-Lippe.[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]For those that have followed the trajectory of Maas’ albums, Lifer contains yet more wildly divergent collaborators, from Brighton chanteuse Katie Cruel (now signed to his own Rockets & Ponies label), who weighs in with the haunting ‘Articulation’, the gritty rap delivered by Mikill Pane on ‘Grown-Up’, through to Placebo singer Brian Molko’s contribution to ‘College 84’, while James Lavelle delivers a primo vocal on the dramatic ‘The Hunted’. “This is the only vocal outside of U.N.K.L.E. he has ever done,” says Timo. “So I feel quite honoured. Out of everything on the album, I think it’s probably the nearest in sound to the old Timo Maas material, especially around the time of the Loud album. We’d never met each until recently when we played at a festival together and we realised we were mutual fans of each other’s work. Originally the idea was to produce a track together. But after he’d sent me something, I just said, ‘You know, I’d really like you to sing.’ And I absolutely love what he’s done. It’s perfect.”[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]This eclectic approach makes for a great listening experience, yet Maas insists he has also found room in his extensive club sets to play many of the tracks from his album. “Well, I do play certain tracks off my album, in fact I’ve played many already,” says Timo. “But it’s not just dance music, it’s also a way of expressing myself more with my production partner, Santos. I’ve never only produced dance music. It’s only my third full artist album, but I’ve always done this. I don’t pay too much attention about anything fitting into a genre. I love so many different styles of music and I try and interpret them in my own way. This is how it comes out.”[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]One sure measure of Maas’ studio success has been the vast array of games, movies and TV shows that have looked to his music to provide soundbeds and the appropriate atmosphere. “Well, we work with great sync-licensing people, but with all the albums it’s been the same situation. They are all relatively timeless and they have this cinematic quality. This is what the new album has in common with the first two. And, as a gamer myself, sometimes in the studio, you do think, ‘Wow this bit would sound amazing on a racing game!’”[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]Yet it is still his club work that informs and drives much of the desire in the studio. “I come from DJing,” he asserts. “For me it’s the connection to the world outside. It’s where I can experiment, where I hear about things, it’s just so important to what I do. How can you have a feeling for clubs when you are not going to them?”[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Lucida Grande][COLOR=#d3d3d3]Indeed. In clubs, as in the studio, there’s only one way to describe Timo Maas: lifer.[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#d3d3d3][FONT=Lucida Grande]Bill Brewster[/FONT][/QUOTE][/COLOR]

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[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/artistalife/used-abused-special-by-timo-maas[/soundcloud]

I would suggest going with an open mind and seeing where the night leads you... You're in San Fran for fuchs sake, 75% of us wish we lived in a city with as much dj talent as you have at your disposal :lol:

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^ :D Cool thanks for the music. I will take a listen. I've heard of him but never really listened to his music before. I am actually about an hour away from SF but the drive isn't too bad. :)

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OMG it looked like a very young Bono from U2 @ first. It's a BOCA supporter that also happens to be a great DJ

:D:D:D

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Kangaroos are weird, think about it. They hop around upright? That's kinda fucked up :lol:

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How about people doing jump rope? :)

So I found out I am still a student at UCSD, even though I thought I graduated in June. Turns out the form I filled out for my degree application was not the right one, so I'll have to send it back in. Serious mind fuck to think that I am now technically still a college student.... I guess I won't feel bad using student discounts with my old student ID card. :D

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Had a blast tonight :lol:.. I haven't been to a rave/ish type event like that in a LONG time...( i worked at the event ). Highlight of the night was meeting and hanging out with Bunny from Rabbit in the Moon. Had to stay mostly in a certain area in front of the same stage.. so I had to listen to Dubstep, Drum & Bass, Trap and hip hop beats blaring for about 10 hours :lol:.. ears ringing. Walked to the House tent and not sure who was spinning, it sounded decent... walked to the trance stage and heard Dash Berlin, for the hell of it. Tomorrow I will see Digweed though. :)

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[QUOTE=Rawrmune;1106333]How about people doing jump rope? :) [/QUOTE]

Yah but. that's not our primary way of getting around, we walk :lol: ... Kangos just jump. :lol: