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x czech president Vaclav Havel

jamyoung — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:24:39 +0000

the x- president Vaclav Havel has died, 75. He was interesting political figure, i watched a clip on youtube where he said it was as if he fell of a bridge into the job, also saying he’s neither left or right. more artist than politician. its quite hard times for Czech’s with this, at the moment [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlJS-l97eyU

jamyoung — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:00:26 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlJS-l97eyU

price rise in organic nuts

jamyoung — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:18:31 +0000

I noticed that the price of organic nuts has gone up more than 20 percent in the supermarket in the last month. The amount of crowns that i get for one US dollar has been fluctuating a lot lately, from around 12, to now 19 within a six month time frame for one US dollar. [...]

EMI music publishing suck

jamyoung — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:45:08 +0000

out of copyright image found un-known author glass negative, a photo by jamtea on Flickr. A while back i complained to privacy about APRA rights organisation for music artists in Australia for giving an email i wrote them 10 years ago to EMI music publishing. EMI music publishing then provided the mail to another company [...]

paris pool

jamyoung — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:01:33 +0000

paris pool, a photo by jamtea on Flickr. I was at the hacker space in Prague, htttp://www.brmlad.cz and met Amir Taaki, he’s formed this new form of currency with a bunch of tec heads. The idea is brilliant, it creates the means of an un-controlled decentralized form of transferring funds from one person to another. [...]

Pardubice

jamyoung — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:52:23 +0000

Tea house gig tonight was good, a nice bunch of people in Pardubice. Although none of these tea house gigs are packed, and i’ve played some of these songs a lot, the songs seem to be getting more dimensions. In the last couple of months i’ve also been getting some guitar tips from a good [...]

touring around

jamyoung — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:17:58 +0000

Busy the last weeks, playing shows in Brno, Karlovy Vary, Litomysl, Decin, been good to play shows in so many different places, so close together. Catching trains to most places, and bus’s sometimes. Knowing exactly how to get to a venue when i arrive, saves a lot of time and hassel, makes these tea house [...]

show in Mohlinice

jamyoung — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:33:55 +0000

out of copyright image found un-known author glass negative, a photo by jamtea on Flickr. last night i played music in Mohlinice, small town quite close to Olomouc, played at the tea house, its on the town square. This is the first show of a tour I do around Czech, in the next month i’ll [...]

Bubenska Street Prague

jamyoung — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:31:42 +0000

Jamison Young when using attribute Eric Balaire, a photo by jamtea on Flickr. While in Prague in the same day i bumped into Eric Balaire a couple of times. I showed him around the building where i have some storage space, and he took some pics. Now i’m using some of them for promotion. Eric [...]

video clip for blue car

jamyoung — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:07:20 +0000

honey and hay fever

jamyoung — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:06:08 +0000

For many years i’ve had a horrible problem with hay-fever. For years i have taken stuff for the problem, and it always has a side effect, and its a chemical. Anyway, i read on the net that you if you take honey in high doses prior to spring and during spring and summer, then the [...]

into the stars

jamyoung — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:29:55 +0000

Japan Meltdown

jamyoung — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:14:52 +0000

With the blue sky outside and the nice spring weather here in Prague, its hard to imagine the world that we are climbing into after this melt down. Yet it seems its kind of grim, from the information i’m finding on the web. It looks as if the global food chain is going to be [...]

live recording

jamyoung — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:42:11 +0000

czech bureaucratic process

jamyoung — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:55:00 +0000

from a czech train a photo by jamtea on Flickr. lately i was thinking about the system here in Czech as often it gets a little on my nerves, with each bureaucratic process, all the needed information, I’m kind of used to it though. My conclusion is that a lot of it left over stuff [...]

Songbook PDF

jamyoung — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:29:47 +0000

This pdf has a couple of bugs, yet this is basically the way the songbook shall be printed. Each page of the book has a link where you can listen to the tune, as the tunes get recorded in better than sketch format, they’ll be able to be downloaded . Took more time than i [...]

new track in studio

jamyoung — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:18:43 +0000

After ages of staying out of the studio, i make a small production. I recorded it with Geoff Tyson. I’d like to record more, yet not possible at the moment. What i have done with this track is get other players to put tracks down, the plan is to get friends i’ve met on travels [...]

use of Data

jamyoung — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:25:27 +0000

from a czech train Originally uploaded by jamtea I was angry at the lady who works on the Czech trains today, it reminded me to find out about data use issue. So i email letter bellow. letter… I was wondering about a privacy issue for trains.. and data the Czech train company records, and who [...]

travel

jamyoung — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:49:04 +0000

On short weekend tour in Austria, Germany and Swiss, i try to write something each day. I got up early today, around 4 and caught the train to Linz, from there onto Feldkirich, not as much snow on the ground as last time i trained it through. Tonight I play at April Cafe nice cafe, [...]

shoes in lindau

jamyoung — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:04:53 +0000

a shoe story: I was in Lindau at cafe 37, where i play some tunes next month.. so, I started to talk to the man next to me at the cafe, he was born in Lindau and back for a re-union. Anyway, he must have noticed that my shoes are not so great. It turned [...]