Room 5 next week

28 January 2010 | 11:56 am by kristeraxel

Hey, I'm doing my first show in FOREVER at Room 5 on Feb 12th (next Friday). You should come because it's a benefit for Haiti relief and I will play at least one new song.

http://room5lounge.com/
323.938.2504

Krister Axel performs at Room 5.

Friday, Feb. 12

I don't know exactly when I'm playing because lots of people are going to be there to perform but if you want you can call them day-of-show and ask. Either that or just show up at 9pm and get a few hours of awesome.

map link

prehistoric beer

21 January 2010 | 5:34 pm by kristeraxel

Lacking any knowledge of chemistry, prehistoric humans eager for the intoxicating effects of alcohol apparently mixed clumps of rice with saliva in their mouths to break down the starches in the grain and convert them into malt sugar.

These pioneering brewers would then spit the chewed up rice into their brew. Husks and yeasty foam floated on top of the liquid, so they used long straws to drink from narrow necked jugs. Alcohol is still consumed this way in some regions of China.

from: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,668642,00.html

jesus rifles

20 January 2010 | 9:30 pm by kristeraxel

Say it isn't so! Crusades, anyone?

from: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-military-weapons-inscribed-secret-jesus...

quoted:

The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.

John 8:12, referred to on the gun sights as JN8:12, reads, "Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Trijicon confirmed to ABCNews.com that it adds the biblical codes to the sights sold to the U.S. military.

a funny little blog post comment not written by me

12 January 2010 | 2:43 pm by kristeraxel

Posted by: dsf3g | 05/18/09 | 5:44 am

Back in the 7th grade for a time my friends and I got into Dungeons and Dragons. Our DM made the mistake of thinking that it could be cool to give us a magic book that contained all the spells of all levels that we could read and cast at any time. I admit, it was kinda fun, since we basically became invincible. But it became a huge headache for the DM since we could disintegrate anything he threw at us, and he eventually found a way of taking it away from us. Sigh.

Read More http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/05/misson_architect_abuse#ixzz0cRO4pc73

new Axel song player widget

28 December 2009 | 12:00 pm by kristeraxel

Behold!

http://kristeraxel.com/krister_axel/

happy holidays 2009

20 December 2009 | 5:37 pm by kristeraxel

Happy Holidays everyone.

it begins again

19 December 2009 | 12:32 am by kristeraxel

I have been archiving incarnations of my personal web site and blog posts since 2005 now, and I am once again shifting gears in my personal engine of feeds and re-posting mechanisms. :)

Tumblr now is my vehicle for blog posts and I'll just copy over the same copy every time I write something. It's not ideal but it will work for now until I find time to automate the re-posts. At the end of the day, I spend way more time writing it than anything else. The reason I like Tumblr is that it will automate the tweets and the Facebook posts, and that saves me a lot of time right there.

When you are in the top million it really makes you want to keep stepping up your game.

I finally signed up for tumblr

18 December 2009 | 4:43 pm by kristeraxel

So there will be another mirror of posts from TheAxelVault - in addition to kristeraxel.com which generates the majority of Krister Axel traffic, my blog posts will shoot out to tumblr as well. It can't hurt. Plus it's fun to play around with a new UI. Maybe I'll think of something fun to do with it. Let's hope this works out better than my little stint over at vox.com which was horrible.

Tumblr seems clean and functional. Very nice. The page will look much better once my Zimbalam distribution goes live on Christmas day. Awwww.

http://kristeraxel.tumblr.com/

I will also have a new release in the next year, with 4 songs that were produced by LOONER and honestly are some of the best I've ever done.

trickle down my arse

17 December 2009 | 12:43 pm by kristeraxel

quoted from: http://crookedtimber.org/2009/12/17/bookblogging-the-failure-of-trickle-...

"The trickle-down theory can be examined using the tools of econometrics. But, at least for the US, no such sophisticated analysis is required. The raw data on income distribution shows that households in the bottom half of the income distribution gained nothing from the decades of market liberalism. Although apologists for market liberalism have offered various arguments to suggest that the raw data gives the wrong impression, none of these arguments stand up to scrutiny. All the evidence supports the commonsense conclusion that policies designed to benefit the rich at the expense of the poor have done precisely that."