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Today I listened to to some music from the so-called “Ku-ku academy” (looks like everything they’ve made), and was really disappointed. Not because I can’t stand some of the styles (I can appreciate the good music, even if it’s chalga), but because their music is flat, boring and uninteresting. It’s full with electronic effects, in 20 songs there are two-three rhythms, and I really don’t want to comment on the vocals… I got really annoyed by the folk part – even Bulgara’s mp3, that’s circulating the Bulgarian internet, and is badly done, is some orders of magnitude better than all that these people have made. Looking at the bulgarian music right now I’m thinking that everyone has become mediocre, influenced by the chalga, and nobody does anything serious (somewhere I found an interesting interview with Ivo Papazov about that, look it up).
(at 14th Balkandji will be playing at “Fans”, at least they’re worth listening to).

We’re still discussing the demonstration against the software patents. I meanwhile keep thinking what else can we do from here, can we exercise some political pressure (at some moments I think would there be any effect, if for example Bulgaria says that it won’t join EU, if there are software patents (I have the need to dream, too)). The problem is that I really have no idea about the political situation, and I wonder if there’s someone that can enlighten me?

marla continues to be heroic after a day of torment – firstly Delian started uploading the raw video from the Monday’s lecture (he uploaded only 6GB, because after that the machine that he had left to do it, got into suspend), and I started encoding it on the spot, to see how does it look like (turns out that the format from the camera is understood only by the CVS version of ffmpeg, did I mention how much does this annoy me? I had to fix a bug of theirs – they had operation before the definitions of a variable, which made the old compilers to choke on it). I hope that tomorrow night it will be ready and uploaded somewhere.

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