Happy Birthday, groundctrl! :)

And, oddly enough, guess who I happened to see at the airport last night?  groundctrl himself! :)  In RL he's one of those people who are quite pleasant and easy to talk with. 

Polemic

In the process of making a post to kryptyd I had to poke around to refresh my memory on the name a band which my brother (Hawk)'s friend Dougly mentioned in August, and I found this interview with them, and, reading it, I think I just came across a mention of Dougly...

(to set the scene: they're telling the reporter about how a German record label put one of their songs on a compilation CD.)

Peter: "The joke is that we never even got one CD from the label. We found out later that, by mistake, they had written Slovenia where Slovakia was supposed to be... The first time we got the compilation into our hands was from a friend of ours, an American who had bought it in Boston. He was a total ska fan, who liked our music so much that he tried to contact us by all possible means, and finally he came to Bratislava. He knew how to sing "Baba Ryba" word by word phonetically, although he didn`t understand the text at all (ha ha). Later we brought him along for a few concerts around Slovakia. Fans were taken a little aback by him, because he was one of those three hundred pound, hard-to-overlook guys..."

Pretty sure that'd be him, although I think he's slimmed down a bit, he couldn't have been much over 200 when he was here in August. :)

( Also happy with what they had to say about Skinheads )

The band is Polemic, and here's a link for them.

http://www.polemic.sk/index.php

(Unfortunately there's now a band in the US with the same name, and also some company or other.  Bleh.)