Grant Cerny

Well I put most of the description into the “Oh Mama” post below but here is an image that will probably help clarify

From their website at http://www.expresso.net

So I went to the gym today, against all odds, and mounted the Expresso Cycle again, to complete my last uncompleted tour in the “Advanced” section, called “Oh Mama”.  It had me riding up 60 degree inclines and shooting down 60 degree inclines reaching over 40 MPH on a bike.  Pretty thrilling considering that I was on a stationary bike in a YMCA.  Oh, and by the way, last weekend I biked through an asteroid belt.

For those connected to me on Facebook I have probably chewed your ear off already about the Expresso Cycle.  It sounds like a coffee-making-routine when I write it like that but it’s really a very engaging fitness machine which has a computer screen to show you competing on tours and adjusts the tension according to the degree of incline at any given point on any given tour.  Add to that, a “Chase” video game where you collect coins and matching dragons and try to beat your best score by getting various speed and point boosters that expire in 30 seconds (read: interval training, ssssh).

As you can tell I am fanatic about the Expresso Cycle.  I recommend anyone to check it out (www.expresso.net) and if your gym doesn’t have it, tell them to get it.  I am at a YMCA.  If you’re at a NYSC or Equinox or Lifetime Fitness or equivalent, they have no excuse not to match up to the YMCA.

Back to the point of this post.  Last time I was at the gym I chased dragons on the Expresso Cycle and achieved my current goal – Double Century, i.e. I had rode the bike for 200 miles.

Today, I got on the bike and found that my next goal was… 500 miles.

OK… I have got a lot of riding to do.

So, in the below posts I had used the Streampad player for Wordpress, and uploaded my own audio. Then I figured I’d just use my existing Tumblr songs here, and so the bottom bar you see below is pulling my songs uploaded to Tumblr. I removed links to the songs in the posts below, but may put them back onto the Tumblr list (not sure if the Oakenfold session isn’t too large however).

Morphine, \”Honey White\”

The Devil always wants some more angel foood

Soulwax – E Talking

Soulwax – I believe they are Belgian.  I haven’t ever seen them but I love their beats.

About a year ago I was in a meeting in a conference room – very nondescript stuff – and then heard a heavy bass and a really great rhythm – and realized it was coming from our studio that shared a wall with the conference room.

Later that week I saw Rafael (our sound engineer) and asked him who it was.  He said “Soulwax!  And they told us to throw out that mix, because they thought they were off.”

Even though I had only heard it through a wall, I told Rafe that I thought it was awesome.  He agreed.   But there is no arguing with artists.

Anyway, this one is part of the weekend I never lived.  But fun to think about.

Paul Oakenfold, Essential Mix, Live in Havana

I used to listen to the Essential Mix on Radio One FM when I lived in Oxford and spent hours in the darkroom rockin out and making latest photo prints.  That’s how I got introduced to Paul Oakenfold – whom I’d like to actually meet some day if circumstances conspire.

This set – Live in Havana, is over an hour long I think – I got it off of Napster in 1999 and over the course of the next two years listened to it about 500 times while working out and driving and then… somewhere in the early 2000s…. lost it in the flotsam and jetsam of digital media management.

So a month ago, it occurs to me “I’m sure Oakie would love to have this set on the web for his fans” and I do a simple web search.  Easy!  but I’m confident that Oakie would want it this way.  You can’t find this stuff to buy, I’m pretty sure. Anyway, enjoy!

To start the blog off right, how about a favorite anthem – AC-DC, \”T.N.T.\”

I’m not actually sure what a Power Load is, but I’m pretty sure that I want to be able to confidently bellow “I’m the Power Load!  Watch me exploooooooooode!”

oy!  oy!  oy!

Man, setting up WordPress is easy!  Why didn’t I do this a long time ago?

Anyway this is the new blog section of my eponymous website.

To set some expectations.

• I plan to post when the mood strikes me.
• I plan to post music more frequently than original insight.
• I might get creative occasionally, and I might drop some big words that come uncontrolled from my subconscious
• Apart from those general agreements, who knows what the future will hold

OK cool?  cool. cool.

(Note to copyright holders:  if you would like any music posted or links to web-hosted music taken down, please e-mail me at “g” “grantcerny.com”)