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An M.I.A. Birthday

Nov 5, 2007
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Well, I have posted these pictures and videos in various ways on the internet already, but I might as well organize it all here. I went to Borders in Austin, TX on my 30th birthday (11/3/2007) to see M.I.A. signing CDs. I actually got there way before she did. She was supposed to be there at 4pm, but she got there closer to 4:40pm. Here are the pictures from that event ...

M.I.A. signing stuff at Borders in Austin, TX

Mark and M.I.A. at Borders bookstore in Austin, TX on 11-3-2007

I told her that I was going to her concert that night (at Hogg Auditorium on UT campus in Austin), and that it was my birthday so she signed my Kala CD booklet like this ...

I used my little Canon PowerShot SD750 to take video and some pictures of the concert. The videos and pictures did not come out that great, but you can make out what is going on.

Here are some pictures of the concert ...

M.I.A. performing "Bamboo Banga" in Austin

M.I.A. - Bamboo Banga at Hogg Auditorium

Here are some videos (this is not all of them because most of them cannot be uploaded because they are larger than 50MB. Give me a break, VOX! Who has videos nowadays that are smaller than 50MB?) ...

Here is a video of M.I.A. singing "20 Dollar" that I could not upload to VOX or YouTube (I don't know why I couldn't get it to upload to YouTube ... every other video was uploaded to YouTube ... even really large ones) ...

Here is a link to the YouTube Playlist I made of all of my M.I.A. concert videos ...

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6B05B2A2FB6447CF

I can also embed it ...

There are 23 videos of the concert on YouTube that I uploaded. The coolest one is the Sunshowers video, I think.

M.I.A.'s opening act was The Cool Kids who did not impress me that much, but maybe they sound better on their album. Rye Rye also performed with M.I.A. She is a young girl from Baltimore who raps very quickly.

OK, that's all I got for now.

Laura Hoch - My Town (and some M.I.A. stuff)

Oct 26, 2007
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A nice person emailed me this song. I had never heard it before, but a friend of mine would always tell me about it because she liked it. It's not bad. I have posted about it before.

Laura Hoch - My Town (Download)

07 My Town

Laura Hoch

This is from an album called "Call It What You Want This is Antifolk".

In other news aka M.I.A. news, Diplo posted two other versions of the song he did with M.I.A., "Paper Planes", for the album, Kala. You can listen to the songs, download them, and read about them at his Mad Decent blog here.

Here they are, too, just in case ...

M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Original Chorus version) [DOWNLOAD]

Paper Planes (with original chorus)

M.I.A.

M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Gauchito Version or Guacharaca Mix) [DOWNLOAD]

Paper Planes (Guacharaca Mix)

M.I.A.

According to M.I.A.'s MySpace bulletin, on November 3rd she will be in Borders bookstore near Westgate in Austin, TX around 4pm to sign stuff I guess. I am going to buy another copy of Kala for her to sign. Woohoo! She will be performing at Hogg Auditorium on UT campus later that day/night. I hope everything goes according to schedule. This will all be happening on my birthday, which is pretty cool.

Here is a remix of "Boyz" that I downloaded a while back, but I guess I never paid attention to it. It's not bad.

M.I.A. - Boyz (Rene Goulet's Backside Bump) [DOWNLOAD]