I went to this tech conference with Keith last night.  It was a really strange scene, some young, hip looking kids, but mostly older dudes in full tech garb (khakis and polo shirts, optional v-neck sweater preferably blue or red).  It was somewhat informative at first but the discussion quickly turned into a ‘reasons why the NYC tech scene isn’t what the SF tech scene is’.  Pretty much everyone in the room was involved in one or more start-ups, and they kept talking about ‘angel investors’.  I’m not ashamed to say that I had to go home and wikipedia that shit to figure out what the fuck they were talking about.  Its was open forum, but there were a few key speakers sitting at a huge conference table and people were are all gather around them.  Everyone’s throwing buzz words around like web 2.0, VCs, co-working, silos, etc.  They’re getting all animated and passionate talking about their business ventures and ideas about the future.  I look around and I see a few people taking pictures and at least one guy shooting video.  Anyway, the whole time I’m watching all these people talk about all this geeky shit I can’t help but think how funny it would have been to just break out and start taking last nights party-esq pictures.  Walking around the room getting in peoples faces, trying to get these entrepreneurs to take their shirts off and show some nips.  “Yeah, great, yeah, now pour the beer on his head!”  Next time.

Frog Eyes began life as Blue Pine but soon became Frog Eyes after gaining other musicians, and released their first album, The Bloody Hand, in 2002. However, even after their widely praised 2003 album, The Golden River, the band remains relatively obscure when compared to contemporaries like The Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade (whose vocalist and keyboard player, Spencer Krug, is a former member of Frog Eyes, coincidentally).  These tracks are from ‘Tears Of The Valedictorian’, which is scheduled for release 5/1/07 on Absolutely Kosher.

http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/169803-01-001.mp3http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/169803-01-002.mp3

BTW, my sis asked me to put the JT record back up, and since its not on the insound server anymore I figured it be cool.  So, if you wanna bring sexy back, go to www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/ and download the tracks I put yesterday.

-mark

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