The Stig ?

The Mysterious "Tame Racing Driver"

Some say his breath smells like talcum powder and that he is unaware of his own feet...

Some say he wears flannel teddy bear undies and feels a strong urge to migrate with geese...

Some say his fingers bend the other way and that he is afraid of forks...

Some say he ate Beethoven's cat and that under his helmet live a family of dolphins...

Some say he was raised by trees and that he has an innate fear of crayons...

Some say he climbed Everest - while sleepwalking - and that he holidays on the sun...

Some say he knows where Lord Lucan is and that he eats his cornflakes through a straw...

Some say his heart ticks like a watch AND that he's confused by stairs...

Some say that he was born with a helmet on his head, and all furniture in his house are carbon-ceramic..
All we know is, he's called "The Stig".

Li Tobler

Many of the surreal, unearthly women depicted in Giger's works are based on Li.

Even long after her death, Li lived on in Giger’s creations.

Li I by H.R Giger (1974)

Jack Point

Cover to an old issue of the Judge Dredd Megazine.

“The Simping Detective” – Frazer Irving

Ours...

Taken from Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 speech to Congress, the "Four Freedoms"

 

Artist Norman Rockwell created four vignettes to illustrate the concepts.

"America's most beloved illustrator"

 

Norman Rockwell

A State Of Trance 449

 25.03.2010 (click to play)

Tracklist:

01. Omnia & The Blizzard – Metanoia (Original Mix)
02. Motionchild & Will Holland feat. Tiff Lacey – Arctic Kiss (Andy Duguid Remix)
03. Phynn – Hello Love (Original Mix)
04. Tritonal feat. Soto – Forgive Me, Forget You (Ashley Wallbridge Remix)
05. DJ Governor – Shades Of Grey (Original Mix) [Tune of the week]
06. Gaia – Aisha (Original Mix)
07. Bart Claessen – Weert (Original mix)
08. Andy Moor ft. Carrie Skipper – She Moves (Original Mix)
09. Nitrous Oxide feat. Aneym – Far Away (Club Mix) [From ASOT2010]
10. Ben Preston Feat Susie – Remember Me (Daniel Kandi Flash Tribute Remix)
11. Sebastian Brandt – 450 (Original mix) [Future Favourite] Official ASOT450 Track!!
12. Jer Martin – 10 Minutes 2 Midnight (7 skies remix)
13. Static blue & Sequentia – Sacrifice (Dan Stone Remix)
14. Moonpax vs. Snatt & Vix – Winter of Love (DJ Eco Remix)
15. Andy Tau – Static (Sonic Element Remix)
16. Aly&Fila feat. Denise Rivera – My Mind is With You (W&W Remix)
17. John Askew – Blackout (Simon Patterson Remix)
18. ID – ID
19. George Acosta feat. Fisher – Tearing Me Apart (DNS Project Remix)
20. Luminary – Amsterdam (Smith & Pledger Remix) [ASOT Radio Classic]

Glory Days

Glory days well they'll pass you by

Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye

Glory days, glory days..

..Now i think i'm going down to the well tonight
And i'm going to drink till i get my fill
And i hope when i get old i don't sit around thinking about it
But i probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of, well time slips away
And leaves you with nothing mister but
Boring stories of glory days.

Superbad

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they always worked for me."

Wish You Were Here

..

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?

..Took a drive in the dirty rain
To a place where the wind calls your name
Under the trees the river laughing at you and me
Hallelujah, heavens white rose
The doors you open
I just can't close..

A State Of Trance 333

Recorded Live At the Sand Amsterdam (click to play)

 

1. Fragma – Toca’s Miracle (In Petto 2008 remix)

2. Paul van Dyk & Starkillers & Austin Leeds feat. Ashley Tomberlin – New York City (Vandit/Positiva)

3. Mazzy Star – Into Dust (John O Callaghan remix)

4. Starkillers – Killer

5. Arno Cost & Norman Doray – Apocalypse (Original mix)

6. SiA – The Girl You Lost To Cocaine (Sander van Doorn remix) (Doorn Records)

7. Jaytech – Pepe Garden (Red seven recordings)

8. Andrea Doria feat LXR – Beauty of Silence (In Petto remix) (Blu Fin)

9. Lenny Kravitz – Believe in Me (Mind One dub)..

click to view complete track-list

The Gravity Express

Gravity Train

Ever heard of a gravity train? the concept is a solid one and has been around for almost 400 years.
Imagine a supertrain zooming through underground tunnels at tremendous speeds. 

This train could be left to accelerate using just the force of gravity, since, during the first half of the trip (from the point of departure until the middle), the downwards pull towards the center of gravity would pull it towards the destination. During the second half of the trip, the acceleration would be in the opposite direction relative to the trajectory, but (ignoring the effects of friction) the speed acquired before would be enough to cancel this deceleration exactly (so that the train would reach its destination with speed equal to zero).

The Great Space Elevator

"If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button."

Plans are afoot to create an actual elevator that ascends all the way into space, suspended by a paper-thin ribbon made of carbon nanotubes.

Travis Bickle

"You talkin' to me? 

You talkin' to me? 
You talkin' to me? 
Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? 
You talkin' to me? 
Well I'm the only one here.."

Tweedle-dee & Tweedle-dum

 

To those who see no difference – “gullible boobs”

Bing Bong

I'm a cold blooded killer on the table.

Thriller

Thriller Inspired Headphones (2002)

Spread

 

Viral

October 2000

89th floor - 875 North Michigan Avenue 

..Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow..

~ Mr.Tambourine Man ~

Ferrari Dino

Ugur Sahin's Dino concept.

Kafka's Monkey

Young Vic - Red Peter 03/06/09

A Report To An Academy 

"Honored members of the Academy! You have done me the honor of inviting me to give your Academy an account of the life I formerly led as an ape."

A Confederacy Of Dunces

One of the funniest books ever written has got to be A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. 

The title is a quote from Jonathan Swift: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." It would be approved by the unlikely protagonist Ignatius J. Reilly. The grossly overweight, ridiculous Reilly considers himself a misunderstood genius who is always about to burst forth onto the world to put it all right, if only all the small-minded fools would follow his bizarre instructions. 

"Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out of the car and showing her which was the Men's and which was the Women's, so I let her pick them herself. I worked out a system. The law of averages. I laid money on her and she came out about fifty-fifty."  — John Kennedy Toole (A Confederacy of Dunces)  

Punish The Monkey

 

It’s a quiet life from here on in
You’ve dropped your poison cup
The telephone is ringing
But you’re not picking up
Time’s up, Sell out Flunkey
And everybody knows
they’ll punish the monkey
and let the organ grinder go.

Subterranean Homesick Blues

 

..Ah get born, keep warm

Short pants, romance, learn to dance

Get dressed, get blessed

Try to be a success

Please her, please him, buy gifts

Don't steal, don't lift

Twenty years of schoolin'

And they put you on the day shift

Look out kid

They keep it all hid..

1997

 

Favorite Pink Floyd album.

Relentless

Thank you. Tonight ladies and gentlemen, i shall eat a rubber tyre to the orchestral interlude 'The Flight of The Bumblebee'.

Come Fly With Us

PIA print advertisement from the 1960s.

Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love.

Women have a more subtle instinct;

what they like to be is a man's last romance.

 ~ Oscar Wilde

Chewie

Spinda Caveel: Who was that big furball that ruined my coat?
Zan Pike: You don't get out much, do you? That's Chewbacca, the most famous Wookiee in the Galaxy.

A State of Trance 2009

Armin’s special selection of exclusive, unreleased tracks, new remixes, and top notch trance numbers.

Tracklist - CD 1 (On The Beach)

1. John O’Callaghan feat. Lo-Fi Sugar - Never Fade Away (Andy Duguid Mix)
2. Sunlounger feat. Kyler England - Change Your Mind
3. M6 - Paradise Lost
4. Ron Hagen & Pascal M - Riddles In The Sand
5. Mat Zo - The Fractal Universe
6. The Blizzard with Gåte - Iselilja (Sunn Jellie & The Blizzard Dub Remix)
7. Monogato - Miami Vibe (Omnia Remix)
8. Josh Gabriel presents Winter Kills - Deep Down
9. Myon and Shane 54 feat. Aruna - Helpless (Monster Mix)
10. tyDi feat. Audrey Gallagher - You Walk Away
11. Andy Moor & Ashley Wallbridge feat. Meighan Nealon - Faces
12. Rex Mundi feat. Susana - Nothing At All
13. Jerome Isma-Ae - Shaguar
14. Dash Berlin with Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren - Man On The Run (Nic Chagall Remix)

Don't Believe

Siddhartha

Waldo

Countless hours of my life have been spent looking for this punter. Try and find Waldo. He's got on a distinctive red-and-white striped shirt, bobble hat, and glasses, but be careful, this illustration contains "red herrings" involving deceptive use of red-and-white striped objects. 

 

Godspeed.

1994

Favorite Green Day album.

Rolling Blackout

I just lost an hour's worth of work because of an intentionally-engineered electrical power outage.

We NEED to:

A – Use less energy.
or

B – Find new energy sources

Okay, those of you who chose A are stupid hippies who don’t realize that Thomas Edison was the greatest inventor ever invented.

We need to update how power flows, build more power plants, and find new ways to produce energy.

New Energy Sources: 

1. Giant Hamster Wheels - Put a bunch of dudes in and dangle one of those shiny new L.E.D tele's in front of them. We'll run like there's no tomorrow. We love fancy gadgets. Plus we need the exercise. Bonus: our drool can be recycled into clean drinking water. 
2. Wind Mills - You’ve heard about this. But we can’t rely on nature alone.  Feed my dog bbq baked beans. He can power Islamabad for a year.
3. Solar Power - It hasn’t worked in the past, but that’s only because I wasn’t on the case. Take the light from the sun, use a giant mirror the size of Baluchistan, point it at Iran and shine the s**t outta their eyes! While they’re blinded, we take their oil.
4. Power The Country On Smiles - Asif Ali Zardari's dollar smile is what i'm talking about; 100% organic & homegrown - neo-bling. Pack it away once you've powered Punjab and Sindh and bounced some light off of Nawaz's head into Baluchisan & parts of NWFP (comes with an air-tight, all-natural, zip-lock cover).

 Top Ways to Prevent Blackouts:

1. Uninstall Microsoft Windows as the power grid’s operating system.
2. Senate passes a reverse-curfew law whereas all children must stop playing video games and GET OUT of their homes and be on the streets causing trouble like they’re supposed to.
3. Limit the electricity used to power Sheikh Rashid's late night extravaganzas. 
4. Old people – it’s enough already with the life support.

Behemoth

I managed to find one of Mikhail Bulgakov's novels online; The Master and Margarita.

In the story the Devil visits Stalinist Moscow to see if he can do some good.

"Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus." — Mikhail Bulgakov (The Master and Margarita)

"'I shall sit down,' replied the cat, sitting down, 'but I shall enter an objection with regard to your last. My speeches in no way resemble verbal muck, as you have been pleased to put it in the presence of a lady, but rather a sequence of tightly packed syllogisms, the merit of which would be appreciated by such connoisseurs as Sextus Empiricus, Martianus Capella, and, for all I know, Aristotle himself.'
'Your king is in check,' said Woland.
'Very well, very well,' responded the cat, and he began studying the chessboard through his opera glasses.
'And so, donna,' Woland addressed Margarita, 'I present to you my retinue. This one who is playing the fool is the cat Behemoth...'" — Mikhail Bulgakov 
(The Master and Margarita)

Click here to read the book online.

Everlong

..and I wonder
when I sing along with you
if everything could ever feel this real forever
if anything could ever be this good again
the only thing I'll ever ask of you
you've got to promise not to stop when I say when
she sang
breathe out so I can breathe you in
hold you in
and now I know you've always been
out of your head
out of my head I sang
and I wonder
when I sing along with you
if everything could ever feel this real forever
if anything could ever be this good again
the only thing I'll ever ask of you
you've got to promise not to stop when I say when..

Bob Dylan - Full Discography

1962 - Bob Dylan, 1963 - The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, 1964 - Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964 - The Times They Are A-Changin, 1965 - Bringing It All Back Home, 1965 - Highway 61 Revisited, 1966 - Blonde on Blonde, 1969 - Nashville Skyline, 1970 - New Morning, 1970 - Selfportrait, 1973 - Dylan, 1973 - Pat Garret & Billy the kid Soundtrack, 1974 - Planet Waves, 1975 - Blood on the tracks, 1976 - Desire, 1976 - Hard Rain (live), 1978 - Street Legal, 1981 - Shot of Love, 1983 - Infidels, 1985 - Empire Burlesque, 1986 - Knocked Out Loaded, 1988 - Down in the Groove, 1989 - Dylan & The Dead (live), 1992 - Good as I been to you, 1995 - MTV Unplugged (live), 1997 - Time Out of Mind, 1998 - The Bootleg Series - Vol. 4 "The Royal Albert Hall Concert '66", 2001 - Love & Theft, 2002 - The Bootleg Series - Vol.5 "Live '75 - The Rolling Thunder Review", 2004 - The Bootleg Series - Vol. 6 "The Concert At The Philharmonic Hall '64", 2006 - Modern Times, Bob Dylan - 2006 - Blues (Bootleg), Bob Dylan – Tell Tale Signs The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 (2008), 2009 - Together Through Life, 2009 - Christmas In The Heart.

Paul Van Dyk - Vonyc Sessions 172-SAT-10-12-2009

 

Download: Paul Van Dyk-Vonyc Sessions 172-SAT-10-12-2009