a binary (peace)

so i was at a new years eve eve party tonight. i didn't pay attention to much other than the music. girl talk. girl talk has been around for awhile now and i really understand why it appeals to certain people. personally, i find him to be very, very shit. pretty easy to do, what gregg does. pick 20 tracks of within a 20 beats per minute range, fade them in and out. an idiot could do it, and he cannot be anything other than. when a track falls below or is above the 20 bpm threshold, a la 'the weight' in here, speed it up/slow it down. 'oh the chipmunks voice, so neat.' right, if you're on your deathbed don't expect me to bless you. it used to be that la bouche and ace of the base typified shit dance music, now that sounds like gold. you don't need to buy all these singles, gregg gillis will give you the 5 seconds that matter. well we don't need gregg gillis to tell us what he listens to. as if he thinks the occasional radiohead sample will win us over. hmph.

PISS POOR SAMPLING


GOOD SAMPLING



lee scratch perry. the first track on the first real dub album. hear it on vinyl before you die. 1973, who needs pro tools? he did it with the mixdown, bitch. itll make you see colors. AND hes fucking bat shit crazy. watch him on youtube. 4




entroducing... the first album made entirely by samples. and the one thing that is not is a major label advertisement. can't go wrong.

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/81/herman_daly_person_of_the_year.html

had to read one of his books for my natural resource econ class this year. and anyone who hasnt read silent spring, should. be sure to follow the link on to daly's article.

colony collapse disorder

should see it, it hates communism AND abortion. ....



http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/business/worldbusiness/30gazprom.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1230603481-IX+Cx0E6fmjGwXZs2noLyA

krugman was okay today as well. fish, of course, was not. no one cares about his geriatric holiday travel.

neighbors are out of town. alarm went off. walk inside to turn it off. squirrel sitting on doll house like a lothario or stavrogin. i am not impressed. whats the point of a chimney if you don't use it?

progeny

i use a webcam to make sure no one is sneaking up behind me.

back

been gone a while i think. dunno why. excited about leaving for an indefinite amount of time is probably the main cause of it. exciting it is. had a dream my flight was delayed for 3 weeks. i never complained. subtle. the airport was not unlike the FL wright building used in Gattaca, (marin civic center). i wrote a quick story on it, may post when the time is right. absurd of course.

ive started reading 'the double' by dosty. so far so good.


prediction: when an individual becomes 'tabloidized' they have four paths, the winehouse, the vanilla ice, the branjelina, or the spears. the first is indicative of the slow burn. the second is invincible. the third the one hit wonder. the last has the ups and downs, trivial and staged. which will match to 'dear leader?' the winehouse, of course. rahm emmanuel as crack. the economy as blake.

shocking

so i got an a in my honors econ class, taught by a chicago school'er; who when asked me of my opinion of communism heard the responses 'noble but misguided' and 'a production of the society.'

he agreed with both. though in the second he didn't understand the minutia at the core of my answer, and the first he understood only in part. kinda my point though...

every answer i gave in there was nothing short of a tongue-in-cheek criticism of his whole ideology. most of my group, kids who actually buy into his doctrine, got b's, as do most students in his classes traditionally. theres nothing better than getting inundated with emails 'what did you get in dougan's class? i got a B!,' from the typical clemson honor's college kids (christian-right-out of state). sorry guys. in a way i have to respect dougan. he doesnt hand out a's to kids who blindly fall in behind him, it seems. news to me, i was expecting a c and had assured myself of it. i figured hed be more than happy to hand out happy letters to the little tramps.

its a conspiracy maybe. the b they all got will inspire them to go pinochet on my ass.


anyway, i win.



song i cant embed. its good!



i owned you too then.



It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? -dostoevsky


i watched transsiberian last night and it was really good. movie of the year!
had the guy from most of amenabar's films, he did well.

in other news

we can only hope that kanye's autotuner malfunction on snl will signal the death of that machine. i hope.

pretty sure i saw sofia coppola today in charleston. i looked at her with the 'i think i know who you are' look and she looked back with the 'he thinks he knows me' look. i could be very very wrong though. she was walking out of gucci though.

this is her husband. and her brother.

i is

who really is the canary in the coalmine?

i know but im not telling, thatd ruin all the fun.

lemme figger this one out

quick one cause its exam week. (rather it wont be)




i had my first crushes on natalie merchant and alanis morissette . i was six, they were much older. i wasnt deterred.

life just unfolds, especially for the solitary.



to echo md, we are the other to ourselves.

foreheads were bigger in the early 90s.

early 90s, we had alanis, natalie, maclachlan, etheridge, fiona, osborne, indigo girls, to name a few. why no longer?

times were different then. blame the blogs (and me) and yourself. oh and sony and warner.

coup

canada is having one

in honor of the occasion-
oops, link fixed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7754115.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/05hm.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1228528801-RXcpm3ldnct5i2orvEkuCA

vowell

hooray for mcsweeneys people. read her books!

some stuff

Efterklang - "Cutting Ice To Snow" from Herzliya Films on Vimeo.






Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.


Gobbledigook from Sigur Ros. from Bill on Vimeo.

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/11/18/clearing-up-this-mess/#more-1154

i always forget that i like monbiot.

http://content.grammy.com/grammy_awards/51st_show/list.aspx

not gonna rate it cause its bullshit, as usual.

Both Klein and Lewis are skeptical about Barack Obama. “I’ve been at rallies and seen him speak, and I feel that feeling that one feels,” Lewis says. “It is thrilling. And it’s churlish not to allow yourself to be thrilled. We crave inspiration, and it’s a bleak life to always be dissecting things. But the main feeling that Obama creates in me is fear, because I see people fooling themselves. If you actually look at his policies, what they reflect is the triumph of the right-wing political paradigm since Reagan, and I think he could set things back dramatically, because for young people who are getting engaged in politics for the first time, for them to be disillusioned is very, very damaging.” Because Klein doesn’t expect much from any politician, she doesn’t spend time wishing Obama were more progressive. “I don’t want to appear too cynical, but when I first saw the ‘Yes We Can’ rock video that Will.I.Am made, my first response was ‘Wow, finally a politician is making ads that are as good as Nike’s,’ ” she says. “The ‘Yes We Can’ slogan means whatever you want it to mean. It’s very ‘Just Do It.’ When you hear it, you catch yourself thinking, Yeah! We’re gonna end torture and shut down Guantánamo and get out of Iraq! And then you think, Wait a minute, is he really saying that? He’s not really saying that, is he? He’s saying we’re going to send more troops to Afghanistan. He’s telling regular people what they want to hear, and then in the back rooms he’s making deals and signing on to the status quo.

~MacFarquhar,New Yorker

these looks fun

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3595894809/

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3294232857/

things you don't notice, until you do.

those things that are painfully obvious only after they become apparent. in some ways a great feeling, but not entirely.

trends

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/12/02/the-worst-cinematic-trend-of-the-year.aspx

so then it isnt really a trend, is it?


so hopefully you guys have read abbey's 'the monkey wrench gang', if not, read and watch whale wars on animal planet.



a lesson in politicization. low politics my ass, this is where the real battle is being fought.



* On industry: "In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time."[3]

* On Anarchism: "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners."[4]

* On terrorism: "The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws."[5]

* On off-road vehicles: "The fat pink slobs who go roaring over the landscape in these over-sized over-priced over-advertised mechanical mastodons are people too lazy to walk, too ignorant to saddle a horse, too cheap and clumsy to paddle a canoe. Like cattle or sheep, they travel in herds, scared to death of going anywhere alone, and they leave their sign and spoor all over the back country: Coors beer cans, Styrofoam cups, plastic spoons, balls of Kleenex, wads of toilet paper, spent cartridge shells, crushed gopher snakes, smashed sagebrush, broken trees, dead chipmunks, wounded deer, eroded trails, bullet-riddled petroglyphs, spray-painted signatures, vandalized Indian ruins, fouled-up waterholes, polluted springs and smoldering campfires piled with incombustible tinfoil, filter tips, broken bottles. Etc." (Postcards from Ed, pp. 66-67).

* On sport hunting: "Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and aesthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one."[6]

* On reason: "Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried."[7]

* On truth: "Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."[8]

* On the Bible: "A knowledge of the true age of the earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do. And if some of the Bible is manifestly wrong, why should any of the rest of it be accepted automatically?"

* On the wisdom of crowds: One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork." (Seldom Seen Smith, in The Monkey Wrench Gang)


~dutifully stolen from some website.





took this from a documentary that was on pbs a while back, quite a good one



there be trailerage.

ha, a funny

http://wonkette.com/404680/barack-obama-has-a-special-gift-for-americas-leaders

oh my my

i had a really good idea last night but i forgot it. it was really good too. Damn you, school. ive been listening to nothing but assorted afropop over the last week or so. quite fun. as a corollary, when will the 'rap' artists figure out the autotuner does nothing but homogenize. however, perhaps that is what they want. it was cool the first time, but kanye's latest is the bggst sack of shit ive heard since the killers latest, which i guess was last week. but thats ok, cause its all just noise anyway. since im on the topic of shameless dissing, now for a shameless promotion. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/147283-various-artists-i-love-dubstep . what an awful review though. pitchfork writes their reviews like a goddamn mad lib. but anyway, its rinse fm,, so its awesome. kinda stupid to not have kode9 and spaceape, but what can you do. oh and who caught four tet in the credits of 'quantum of solace'?



3 of the best in the business, been waiting for this to show up on the tube so i could post it. cant remember if ive talked about au revoir simone yet. think of the virgin suicides and youd be close, in every discernible way. look up the song on pitchfork's forkcast, the low end sounds better.

ta.

MISREAD

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=097a31f3-c440-4b10-8894-14197d7a6eef&p=1

good god. kirsch got it wrong, all wrong.

i think im going to retire, early.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1945960.ece

200th post party

unfortunately, itll be underwhelming.

ratemyprofessor.com and the death of the university

which teacher is the easiest?
which teacher is the hottest?

shows what we value.

anyway.

the skinny jeans of our youth

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/11/14johnston.html


i love mcsweeneys and i also love zizek. what more can i ask for. quite alot actually, as johnston falls kinda short. its still an A+ though. i got so happy reading this its really quite disturbing. only one post until my 200th post party. ill make it especially epic.

Ut pictura poesis

kinda

a paradox

this one is on composting

we compost (ideally) what we dont eat.

do we not feel some guilt for not eating that though?

we understand that we compost what isn't fit for further consumption

Who is to make that claim though as biomass is biomass

Anything that is biotic is basically edible

It just might make us kinda (very) sick

we can even eat abiotic things

like mcdonalds

or water





yay i made a normal distribution from words

i might stop with titles

so the somali coast guard caught a saudi tanker violating territorial waters today. should play out interestingly. hillary as secretary of state? ill talk more on that when i can.



for some reason i can only embed 30 seconds. solve that problem on your own time

i cant get enough. the show is growing on me. in fact a new mega- (meta-?) blog is in the works. the ambiguity of the band name and how it leads to how the listener 'views' the music. should be a doozy, think about it. no age.

zizekey

http://www.lacan.com/article/?page_id=3

my friend slavoj weighs in.



yay wolf parade

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/74ab11da-b415-11dd-8e35-0000779fd18c.html

and the money wins again.



so awesome.

teen creeps

one of the 10 best shows i ever seen

concept shows

so snl last night was all about prop 8, which i found fun.



etc.

kleinmeister

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081201/klein

woody

''
The day before his senior year as a playwright student at the University of North Carolina, Joe Pug sat down for a cup of coffee and had the clearest thought of his life: I am profoundly unhappy here. Then came the second clearest.

Pug packed up his belongings and drove the longest route possible to Chicago. Working as a carpenter by day, the 23 year-old Pug spent nights playing the guitar he hadn't picked up since his teenage years. Using ideas originally slated for a play he was writing called "Austin Fish," Pug began creating the sublime lyrical masterpiece that would become the Nation of Heat EP.

The songs were recorded fast and fervently at a Chicago studio where a friend snuck him in to late night slots other musicians had canceled. He was short on money, but his bare-boned sincerity didn't require much more than a microphone and it dripped off of each note he sang.
''

john is post- post-

can such a thing a post-partisanship exist? no, because it merely rearranges already-existing partisan behaviors into new basins. an individual's marginal viewpoint may lead them to conclude the system moving above partisan politics, but it is merely an illusion,for such a total destruction is not possible. more here but im le tired.



yay lou.

john feels like a poor spielberg flick

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1085059/Pictured-The-robot-pull-faces-just-like-human-being.html

its like gigolo joe

voting with your feet

ive been distracted recently by things that warrant my attention only if i choose to accept a certain path. thats the problem with it all really, isnt it? we know where we want to be, we're quite sure of a path that leads there, but we are often much too completely tied to our status quo. what is the reason for this? i would of course argue that it is that Sisyphean complex, the comparable tranquility that comes from the assurances of the burden of repetition. but tonight id like to challenge one self-evident conviction with another.

The story of NYC's The Walkmen is one of particular interest for us in this search for meaning. Born out of the 'next big thing' Johnathan Fire*Eater, the walkmen became obsessed over the recording process, believing that the creation of the art lay in the manipulation of the sounds, rather than the creation of the sounds in and of themselves. Holed up in a self-owned studio (Marcata) in Harlem, full of vintage and analog devices, the Walkmen set out to create something unique, but traditional. the climax of that album the track 'Everyone who pretended to like me is gone'

constructs a motif that may come to define the walkmen-one distinctly of loss and alienation, but from a perspective often untold. for the protag in 'everything,' he has been, as is often the case, thrown out of a relationship. the difference here is that part of him returns to the 'ship, not just mentally, but physically. the protag returns, against his own best advice to the other, but not to resurrect the relationship-that is clearly dead, but merely for some tortured pleasure. 'i made the best of it' refers not to the time spent in the relationship itself, but to also encapsulate the return.

The single off of the follow up to their debut, a song called 'the rat', presents something not altogether dissimilar, but not to alike. The walkmen are plagued by a shortcoming of many bands-the lack of two lead singers. The rat is sung by leithauser, but structurally it is a dialogue between two, with each line alternating speakers.

the song tracks the progression of an argument, one of those finger-pointing arguments, where each party blames the other. Going out, that ritual of concession and diminishing returns, has taken its toll. they still are 'going out' or have been until just recently, but the awkward silences have taken toll on this couple, acouple that is one of those that keeps only to themselves. 'that' couple, the couple of the single dates and generally 'antisocial' behavior. the curious piece is that the couple still maintain some affection towards one and other, though it is likely born out of a stubborn refusal and fear to end things totally. the choice is not going out alone, going out in the couple, or not going out at all. rather it is going out as usual, coupled, and being alienated from the other. maybe it is that this fear is only short term, judging by the way the music, dark and bothered, still offers hope-especially after the refrain. both parties will not leave or end the thing completely, as shown by them beating on both sides of the door/wall. the door and wall are different in that they are located in separate places in the apartment, though of course on the same plane. picture one party inside banging on the door, the other outside banging on the wall, unhappily, but necessarily, in order to preserve the Thing. they would both rather have the one come inside. What have the walkmen done? compile a complex dialogue of a relationship approaching end? No, too much hope is offered. What could this song refer to then? This dialogue/course of events happens regularly, monthly even.

http://wonkette.com/404283/bill-kristol-relaunches-warlord-club-website

oh noes

executive orders

bush used them, and it was creepy and undemocratic

obama will use them, and it will be to shorten the process (it would pass both houses, dont you know?) and have be thought of quite positively.

whatever. democracy, pfft.

thetres

http://wonkette.com/404220/fat-hated-burnout-considered-leading-candidate-for-treasury-secretary

and so it begins.

four moreyears. four more years.

beg

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/opinion/06whitehead.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

vanity-obssessed,consumption-driven society.

rackem

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/kvh

i might make my own tonight. or i mgiht not.

karl rove is back

yay karl rove, err david axelrod. the quietman of the campaign. the ? factor. the big mystery.

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/05/o-rahm-ba.aspx


UH OH. looks like we got some fun times ahead.

i love wonkette. bbc america- archaic tea sippers with glasses on crooked try to make sense of our, as they candidly point out, quite absurd electoral process.

'we have a poll close in 9 minutes time in nevadar, which im told is pronounced nevadah, where the desert as well as las vegahhs, reno, and utah are located.' no lie.

bbc america's hologram 'green box' is way cool. it has like a bridge and such. too bad no one is watching bbc america.

bbc reminding us, along with john bolton!? that they dont actually count absentee military votes unless they feel like it. call this another american electoral question.

why is john bolton on the bbc? a said day for the neocon.

fun

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/11/04/shenanigans-r-us.aspx


wonkettes live blog is gold

fox news election day edition parte uno

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/15681/If-Mos-Def-Were-President

http://wonkette.com/404120/a-childrens-treasury-of-todays-hilarious-fox-news-clips#more-404120

watch these, thyll mmake your day. wait for 10pm though, when sean hannity will surely slit his wrists on air. according to wonkette.

black panthers, theyre still around? badass.



heres a better one. street justice. indefatigable. don't fuck wit it, ya here. the woman shouting 'obama' in the background is classic. street promotion.


1.15 hours to go.

not much too write about tonight (which means ill write for 2 hours). i do have a thing or two to say, however. it feels like the night before xmas from one of my earlier years. tomorrow should be a funny day. john judis of tnr has picked a cabinet, which to me is reflective of the sheer 'obamaness' of this whole thing. condi rice to stay on as sec o' state? (judis clearly considers it) does she not hold the title of neoconservative/neorealist in chief? romney? thats would remove the 'socialism' stigma, but in so doing will show that obama never wanted anything close to socialism. al gore! id like it. it would likely give me a bureaucratic job.

i want to put in like 20 election songs and be all cool like that, but instead






1998-2005 british indie may be one of my favorite era's of all time.

wake up

political system as a market- without a doubt. they finally figured out we could consume it for 3 years and really never tire of it. allows governmentality and affairs to operate behind a thick veil. fuck.

part II

alex cockburn- the nation friend of t. may's via 'counterpunch'


stole it from the nation's subscription side


against obama


A climate of intolerance? An ugly mood at the McCain/Palin rallies? Ever alert to the brownshirt menace, liberals read press reports from Ohio and Wisconsin with a frisson. So where have they been these past few months? Try going into a typical progressive household to make an argument against Obama and for a Nader vote. A couple of lifelong radical friends of mine whisper to me that in their homes and workplaces they've given up straight talk about Obama altogether and feel free to talk, sotto voce, only in public parks.


In these last days I've been scraping around, trying to muster a single positive reason to encourage a vote for Obama. Please note my accent on the positive, since the candidate himself has couched his appeal in this idiom. Why vote for Obama, as opposed to against the Palin-Wurzelbacher ticket?

Obama invokes change. Yet never has the dead hand of the past had a "reform" candidate so firmly by the windpipe. Is it possible to confront America's problems without talking about the arms budget, now entirely out of control? The Pentagon is spending more than at any point since the end of World War II. In "real dollars" the $635 billion appropriated in fiscal 2007 is 5 percent above the previous all-time high, reached in 1952. Depending on how you count them, the Empire has somewhere between 700 and 1,000 overseas bases. Obama wants to enlarge the armed services by 90,000. He pledges to escalate the US war in Afghanistan; to attack Pakistan's sovereign territory if it obstructs any unilateral US mission to kill Osama bin Laden; and to wage a war against terror in a hundred countries, creating for this purpose a new international intelligence and law enforcement "infrastructure" to take down terrorist networks. A fresh start? Where does this differ from Bush's commitment to Congress on September 20, 2001, to an ongoing "war on terror" against "every terrorist group of global reach" and "any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism"?

Obama's liberal defenders comfort themselves with the thought that "he had to say that to get elected." He didn't. After eight years of Bush, Americans are receptive to reassessing America's imperial role. Obama has shunned this opportunity. If elected he will be prisoner of his promise that on his watch Afghanistan will not be lost, nor the white man's burden shirked.

Whatever drawdown of troops in Iraq that does take place in the event of Obama's victory will be a brief hiccup amid the blare and thunder of fresh "resolve." In the event of Obama's victory, the most immediate consequence overseas will most likely be brusque imperial reassertion. Already Joe Biden, the shopworn poster boy for Israeli intransigence and cold war hysteria, is yelping stridently about the new administration's "mettle" being tested in the first six months by the Russians and their surrogates.

After eight years of unrelenting assault on constitutional liberties by Bush and Cheney, public and judicial enthusiasm for tyranny has waned. Obama has preferred to stand with Bush and Cheney. In February, seeking a liberal profile in the primaries, Obama stood against warrantless wiretapping. His support for liberty did not survive its second trimester; he aborted it with a vote for warrantless wiretapping. The man who voted to reaffirm the Patriot Act declared that "the ability to monitor and track individuals who want to attack the United States is a vital counterterrorism tool."

Every politician, good or bad, is an ambitious opportunist. But beneath this topsoil, the ones who make a constructive dent on history have some bedrock of consistency, of fidelity to some central idea. In Obama's case, this "idea" is the ultimate distillation of identity politics: the idea of his blackness. Those who claim that if he were white he would be cantering effortlessly into the White House do not understand that without his most salient physical characteristic Obama would be seen as a second-tier senator with unimpressive credentials. As a political organizer of his own advancement, Obama is a wonder. But I have yet to identify a single uplifting intention to which he has remained constant if it has presented the slightest risk to his advancement. Summoning all the optimism at my disposal, I suppose we could say he has not yet had occasion to offend two important constituencies and adjust his relatively decent stances on immigration and labor-law reform. Public funding of his campaign? A commitment made becomes a commitment betrayed, just as on warrantless eavesdropping. His campaign treasury is now a vast hogswallow that, if it had been amassed by a Republican, would be the topic of thunderous liberal complaint.

In substantive terms Obama's run has been the negation of almost every decent progressive principle, a negation achieved with scarcely a bleat of protest from the progressives seeking to hold him to account. The Michael Moores stay silent. Abroad, Obama stands for imperial renaissance. He has groveled before the Israel lobby and pandered to the sourest reflexes of the cold war era. At home he has crooked the knee to bankers and Wall Street, to the oil companies, the coal companies, the nuclear lobby, the big agricultural combines. He has been fearless in offending progressives, constant in appeasing the powerful.

So no, this is not an exciting or liberating moment in America's politics such as was possible after the Bush years. If you want a memento of what could be exciting, I suggest you go to the website of the Nader-Gonzalez campaign and read its platform, particularly on popular participation and initiative. Or read the portions of Libertarian Bob Barr's platform on foreign policy and constitutional rights. Cynthia McKinney is now making nutty claims about 5,000 post-Katrina executions; otherwise I'd include her.

Do you really want to be on the same side as Alan Dershowitz, Colin Powell and Christopher Hitchens?

the racist white folk/whatever happened to iraq/national security edition

im fairly certain i could vote at least 3 times in this election. early voting- thank god theyre doing it, and hopefully its being done in the right places (racist). if there have been 10 hour waits for voting in the last several days, then what should we expect tuesday? is this true though? could it rather be to discourage?

to my point though-

they show endless lines of predominately african american voters talking about '10 hour waits' etc etc. On tuesday, my dad (state officer) only gets 2 hours off to vote. hourly-wage workers? will they be able to afford time off? if this election was closer (of course polls can be wrong) we could be (are) at serious risk for severe voter disenfranchisement and fraud. if obama loses, rodney king would look like kids stuff, you can be sure. and i may well join in. 1 million expected in grant park, chicago, for obama's election night rally. who knows what could happen?

we really do everything we can to make voting (and the whole electoral process) completely nonsensical. How to make it work-national holiday, and you get your thumb dipped in 2 week paint. its not like we havent thought up such a procedure before; because, if i remember correctly, we instituted that in iraq.

for a visual rhetoric exercise, watch cheney's ''endorsement'' of mccain. its well known the two of them hate each other.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/klein

yay






I done spent my last three cents
Mailing my letter to the president
I didn't make a show, I didn't make a dent
So I'm swinging over to this independent gent

Stetson Kennedy
Writing his name in

I cain't win out to save my soul
Long as Smathers-Dupont's got me in the hole
Them war profit boys are squawking and balking
That's what's got me out here walking and talking
Knocking on doors and windows
Wake up and run down election morning
And scribble in Stetson Kennedy

I ain't the world's best writer nor the world's best speller
But when I believe in something I'm the loudest yeller
If we fix it so's you can't make money on war
We'll all forget what we're killing folks for
We'll find us a peace job equal and free
Dump Smathers-Dupont in a salty sea
Well, this makes Stetson Kennedy the man for me

-woody guthrie
channeled by bragg and wilco

eh stupid american

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/01/masked-avengers-prank-cal_n_140023.html

tra la la

Traditionally Christian, Aberdeen's largest denominations are the Church of Scotland through the Presbytery of Aberdeen and the Roman Catholic Church. The last census revealed that Aberdeen is the least religious city in Scotland, with nearly 43 % of people claiming to have no religion[27] and several former churches in the city have been converted into bars and restaurants.[31]

word

free-market greenpeace

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/world/africa/31pirates.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

consumption junction, whats your function?

i am a proud potential consumer of my own life, gleefully skipping between one target market and another. sometimes with my knowledge, but perhaps often not.

reality tv? yes, the characters are 'actors', but then are we any different? do we not act to our ideal image? is that not how we satisfy our 'needs', needs that are nothing more than fetishes. identity fetish.

laclau, baudrillard and miller for are on th emenu this week

quickly, as i have some work to do.

-social networking by old white men via ham radios as the predecessor to facebook/myspace.

-when i changed the facebook language to pirate speak i couldnt function. the signs changed. i couldnt even relate to the physical locations of the buttons being the same.



been awhile since ive watched this

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/27/tnrtv-chait-s-puppet-show-featuring-mccain-amp-palin.aspx

freak.

i just slept til 315 pm. weird...

an oopsy poopsie

y2k happened. we just didnt know it. we didnt know it because they gave us a drug or something. the ultimate irony of Postmodernism. the sign becomes real. i dunno. going to bed now.

ill sell it to michael bay so he can add some boom booms and chase scenes with the cast wearing nifty jumpsuits a la 'the island.' come to think of it, they show figure well.

hope is what we aim for.

awesome blossom. there is hope yet. funny how people interpret these things though.

i might write in http://goldblumphilos.ytmnd.com/ though

line by line, sign by sign

Victims themselves of a close encounter
Desperate abducters, constructers become infected, vexed
By an alien virus, so alien, so viral
Living spaceapes, creatures, covered, smothered in ripe tentacles
Stimulating the audio nerve directly
You wanna come flex with me

Hallucinating senses individually, insiduosly
are in any combination, rhymically
Shifting gears, focus upon intensity
wait, big people a talk nobody try fuck with i-man clarity
Mind starts slippin to familiar tracks
Bending warping, interfering with the facts
Sensory language leaves us with no habit for lying
We are hostile aliens, immune from dying

Don't Harass me for not behaving correct
I only want to slide my arm round your neck
Interpretation, electro-chemical stimulation
The sensation you feel is entirely real
All that we share is our struggle for silence
We don't wanna bother with no arms house business,
no shooting no violence
sensory language twist snake like a limb
Flexible, versitile, curious like twins
Transparent in the way that it moves
With sufficient memory
To cut clean through you..

Victims themselves, from a close encounter
Desperate abductors, constructors, becoming infected, vexed
By an alien virus, so alien, so viral
Living spaceapes, creatures, covered, smothered in writhing tentacles
Stimulating the audio nerve directly
You wanna come flex with me

Hallucinating senses individually, insiduosly
are in any combination, rhymically
Mind starts slippin familar tracks
Bending warping, interfering with the facts
Sensory language leaves us with no habit for lying
We are hostile aliens, immune from dying


currently deconstructing this one or one or two others.

John is hot

my two projects at the moment (scholastic) are South America's dive to the left: Bolivian populism. particularly talking about how chile and the like, who are currently run by former communists, are using market based tactics (but not free market tactics) for reform while chavez and bolivia are the prime examples of politics and policy failing to align. pretty fun so far.

the other is geothermal energy production in iceland and the lessons from it. (rate of extraction>rate of replenishment) and im going to posit maybe we should consider that perhaps no alternative will be able to satisfy the 7% growth worldwide we seem to like (not to mention china and india and their much higher rates). The implication is only apocalyptic if we don't adapt. permaculture and strong sustainability for the win! the market can't make these decisions. look at banana's. the only reason we have them is because we force them to be grown via the banana republic agreements. sure we like them, but they aren't environmentally viable. neither is beef. beef of course is my big one. etc etc. but soon we'll have the LCA (life cycle assessment) which will tell us what to do. energy is going to be the new currency. yay commodities. now if we can do away with taht nasty market that makes us by new shit all the time....


http://www.myspace.com/spaceape01

check out his influences.


http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/markrothko/default.shtm

im looking forward to this just as much as scotland and the whole trip itself. seeing the seagram murals at tate modern crosses off 2 from my top 100 list.

http://rcrdlbl.com/2008/10/23/mos_def_life_in_marvelous_times_exclusive_single_stream_

Celebrating...

the end of the free market as we know it.

ok not done yet

i got really bothered the other day when i realised bon iver wasnt depressive in real life. or if he is, hes now on alot of happy pills. i saw an interview where he was quite sociable. he clearly couldnt have been happy though when he wrote those tracks though. this echos ray lamontagnes career. ray used to be a hobo from maine, worked at a shoe factory, heard stephen stills and started writing. thats perfect. but each sucessive album has been more bright. he used to perform live but without lights because he was scared of the audience. i never had the privelege of seeing this. it really depresses me to no end. we want to relate.

is a friend of the night

its 320, im cramming, still not done. always distracted. opportunity cost of the foregone alternative is not in my favor. its immeasurable. i think my biggest plight in these situations is music. why go to bed when i can still listen to music, drink tea, have the window open to look out and be voyeuristic? i cant think of why i should. living, existing, killing time. why distinguish between the three? lemme go make sure the door is locked. i should say that at night indoors i am completely afraid of the dark. especially when i have poor sight lines. i fear the man in the cloak. dunno what hed want with me or rather why hed need to seek me out. I tend to keep him around just in case. so i guess i shouldnt be scared of him. i wouldnt be scared of him if he wasnt wearing a dark cloak. google has the highest consumer loyalty rating of any major corporation. its kinda frightening. they really could become "the company". i mean whatever though. wed be conditioned and probably wouldnt realize anyway. the semi-sentient thumbsuckers that we are. or most of us anyway. what if the lyrics of coldplay's 'don't panic' (lots of 's) were changed to ''we live in a metaphysically ambiguous world' etc etc. that would have changed their cred 4 sure. i want to paint or screen print a Munch on a large interior wall at a later residence. would be neat. ahh here comes portishead. i love third. perfect start to finish. ive found i really like cds that start with dubbed spoken word. accelerates things.

"


As she walks in the room
centred and torn
hesitating once more
as I take on myself
and the bitterness I felt
I realise that love lost
While white horses
they will take me away
and the tenderness I feel
will send the dog home to me
will I follow ?

Through the glory of life
I will scatter them on the floor
disappointed and soar
in my thoughts I have bled
from the riddles I've been fed
another light moves over
While white horses
they will take me away
and the tenderness I feel
will send the dog home to me
will I follow ? "

of course thats not the first track, but can you say women's lib? i mean this is void left by janis joplin. the 70s and 80s just ruined things. 90s gave us the anticonsumerist side of things and the like so thats ok. speaking of i really want to go protest sometime this week. apparently they have them every day at the world bank. thatd be fun. those would be some interesting people to meet.

i watched stop/loss on the ctv channel. my god. the mtv generation goes to war. realizes it sucks. but still end up going back after goign awol. 'hey kids its ok to rebel, but just fall in line at the end of the day.' come'on kids. hhahah clash at 415 in the morning. so funny. i think i want to be in a clash cover band. i'd sit in front of hte union some night and play trough sandanista! that would be great. i think im done now. i cant wait to vote for nader too. peace and freedom party this time. i might even vote twice. supposedly he lives on 25000 bucks/year. beat that, biden. speaking of biden, my god his mouth. i think theres some manchurian candidate shit going on in his head. id kindof hope. alright pretend sleep time.

its good. i like. esperantoish.

yay

im holding out for ellen page.

btw, ive been told ive been downloading illegally on the network and have to go to a conference or something on monday. should be fun. if i get expelled ill have a legitimate excuse to hide out in the woods for the rest of my life. may not be such a bad thing, this. of course i havent been downloading illegally to begin with. camus acts in mysterious ways. i find it odd that im actually not perturbed to the degree i should be by this. what a perversion. the kid that buys imported cds and vinyls and harangues kids for downloading kids it in the end. well this isnt the end, but itd be poetic if it was. i called the office and tehy say for first offenses its typically a warning. so ill see what thats all about. its funny how my back up plans seem more appealing than the status quo when presented with such a thing.

i do

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/371959/how_sarah_palin_excluded_african_americans_in_alaska


i laughed when i read this. not for anything in the article, but for the comments. because anything raced based will automatically revert back to white sexyness. the scary big black man. the nappy headed ho. what about the skinny white jew who owns all the banks? which is scarier.



http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/13/politics/fromtheroad/entry4519597.shtml


is he drunk? chocolate mousse (with his picture on it), antoinette said let them eat cake.... and cake they shall have!


“Just remember, folks, I am on the ballot. Don't be carried away with this vice president stuff. I am on the ballot running for my seventh term…so don't forget, don't stop at the top of that ticket, walk your way down. You can vote twice for the first time in your life for the same guy and it’d be legal.”

thats funny.

no tarkovsky here

http://people.clemson.edu/~grau/papers/solaris_draft.pdf


interesting. we dont like tarkovsky why? i mean soderbergh is all nifty and conventionally american and all. like a ham sandwich and football. i probably wont read this to find out.

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=22&x_article=1506

perhaps it is that because israel is a 'liberal democracy' is what may is taking aim at. is this something we should be defending, this notion of 'liberal democracy?'

'unprovoked'
a states very existence can equal provocation

thats a slippery word, unprovoked.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_Accuracy_in_Middle_East_Reporting_in_America

theres your sign.

audio addictions

'In a sense, I am a moralist, insofar as I believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of human existence - the source of human freedom - is never to accept anything as definitive, untouchable, obvious, or immobile. No aspect of reality should be allowed to become a definitive and inhuman law for us. We have to rise up against all forms of power - but not just power in the narrow sense of the word, referring to the power of a government or of one social group over another: these are only a few particular instances of power. Power is anything that tends to render immobile and untouchable those things that are offered to us as real, as true, as good.' MF




who knew bass could go this low.

dance you fucker

watch in high quality



I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All’s changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.

dont take that the wrong way. just happened to be reading yeats and it fit sorta.

Juggernauts screaming to a stop Sound like devils are laughing

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081027/engelhardt

simply: my love affair with distopia

alright im definitely going to expand this one out. i really love distopian fiction. all sorts. perhaps it, along with existentialism, define alot of what i'm about. ill take that somewhere later. i want to live in a cyberpunk. i want to be theo faron. maria is someone i could see myself settling down with. my arguments for euginics are based almost entirely on the rhetorical question of 'who wouldnt want jude law's genes?', V is someone i can relate to, shaun (of the dead) wasn't anyone i was laughing at, or even with, i watched that film 30 odd times because i wanted to be him. alphaville tore a hole in me. thx 1138 wasnt only his first, it was his best, i am one of the book people, i saw renaissance, and i liked it dammit, i was laughed at in elementary school when i did a book report on phillip k dick (perhaps i lacked foresight), 12 monkeys was good, but la jetee was better. i could go on, and i probably will. is it the attempt to re-humanise in the absence of? is it the outsider anti-hero? or is it because i am constantly frightened of the apocalypse and am obsessed with any potential cause of it, and treat distopian fiction as a case study in the same vein as a general treats a war game? its all about contingencies and reduncies, bitch. its probably some of all of these (and alot of the last). this will be expanded. im going to go read logan's run and listen to mogwai. because they go together like something and something.





i told my parents they should play this at my funeral if i died. they didnt believe me. i didnt either. i did justify that we never would have had the term 'minimalism' without him. it didnt sway them.

he emerges

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/07/what-does-mccain-have-left-in-the-tank.aspx


http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/146274-pitchforktv-benot-pioulard-ragged-tint-video-premiere

those guys

fuck

everytime i listen to four tet, i wonder why i dont always listen to four tet. then again, i get that feeling pretty much with all music. ill probably expand on this.

hello little a

ta

staring at the sun

finally

never ending spew of filth

one was a mediocre civil war general. one is the current head in afghanistan. incidentally, their paths, if not similiar, are separated by their different names.

so how can i be in a 'team of mavericks'

do i hate palin, yes i hate palin. she answered no questions, and her responses were read, not extemporaneous. She took the buzz words from ifill's question and read her generalized response. awful. awful.

"I may not answer the questions the way that either you or the moderator want to hear, but I’m going to speak straight to the American people."

she even admits it. 'dont hate on me.'

wrong facts. 5000 dollars for healthcare can cover everyone. obamas healthcare is run by the feds. main street exists in alaska. indeterminate causes of global warming. 'im an energy expert'

sarah palin, part time mayor of wasilla. a city, as small as it is, that employs a FULL TIME city manager. city managers of course run policy. sarah palin tried to ban books and shoot wolves.

greed and corruption on wall street. johm mccain.

we import 25%. alaska has 3%. its statistically insignificant. subsidize oil please???

and the polls in. 54 to 36 biden. 64% said biden did better than they expected. 84% said palin better than expected (but it wasnt very high)

mos def

i really love mos def. i have for awhile really. i think because he scared me. scared me because what he says its true. the late 20th-early 21st equivalence of cowboy ballads, he is not one of them. why is mos def awesome? because he is. circular logic doesnt exist as such. to be is to simply be. black on both sides. what does that mean? on two sides, there is a 'black' pressure, pushing inward. suffocating. denying.











this one with dj shadow. if youve never listened to entroducing... you should. it should be in everyones top 10.

yay

poor kid, must be a randian.

yay

http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Hauschka%20-%20Freibad.mp3

yay

exceptional americans are the archetypal american exceptionalists.

2 things

http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/09/23/3/a-conversation-with-author-and-philospher-bernard-henri-lev

new book. new of the same old.





http://blogs.wnyc.org/culture/2008/09/17/slavoj-zizek-and-bernard-henri-levy-kickoff-nypl-fight-season/

can not wait to listen to this.

stalker

i was informed someone, who apparently is not my 'friend', was seen on my facebook page in the library. i prefer to these people not as 'stalkers' but rather as 'guardian angels'

in other news. clay aiken comes out.

hello there

http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a34221bf-5286-498e-b3eb-3984de48f9cf

more on this when i finsih reading it, so far it looks fun.

john is a friend of the night.

its a been awhile. im really tired and really hungry, so i havent much.

its been 1.5 months since radiohead and i miss them, sincerely.

but this is camus quote is quite relevant if you twist it a bit. i hope its obvious.

'this odd character talks and says nothing. but she is the opposite of frivolous. she speaks, and then contradicts herself or admits without discussion that she is wrong. all this because she considers it unimportant. she doesn't really think of what she is saying,...'

handfull o' blog

zizek does coke cause he thumbs his nose and snorts.

Waiting for Peacock

You see all sorts of things at college parties. they can really be quite fun to deconstruct. the obligatory horny drunk girl, the girl passed out on the toilet, the zizek reader, the spontaneous and cataclysmic, or even simply random party departures by newfound couples, the almost famous pool party scene "I can do anything, Im invincible, I, AM A GOLDEN GOD" (albeit minus the pool and with alcohol supplanting LSD. Setting all that aside, there was a more significant play going on.

'waiting for peacock:' i had never met peacock, so as such i had no assurance of his existence. we go to peacocks, 'peacock's is great, everything happens at peacock's,' but peacock never appears, [or if he did, i certainly don't recall], things happen, people come and go, we go, and peacock never comes.

or so ive led myself to believe.




drunk driving gained a whole new meaning last night. poor mr. mcdonald's man.

http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/9/2rhode.html

http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=252f6e23-311f-4bd7-92a4-d1a438177dbf

the precedent for russia to act does exist, kinda.

hey now now

mccains going to die in office and we'll be left with some aging beauty pageant contestant as president, whose sole political experience has been as governor of a certifiably corrupt state with the population of memphis, tennessee.

we used to say the issues didnt matter, and we all agreed. so then what is this?

the hillary crowd that say theyre going to go mccain now surely will. i saw vanden huevel on bill moyers on this topic and she actually seemed legit, for once.

im actually not gone yet

my friend is back. that one for tnr.

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/29/well-that-was-good.aspx


yeah well youre not very good mr eggplant cabeza.

in a battle of bravado id lose. but id punch your head a lot. and make you even dumber er.

Let Me Out'ta Here

This is what ed choruses in No Surprises.

Made calls to watch obama's coronation and the radiohead webcast, but to no avail. i often forget im in the rare breed of folks who have 3 day school weeks.

it really has been stunning, nigel is running the soundboard tonight and is adding many flourishes of the type only he can manage. (which means the bootleg, both audio and visio (i like this inadvertant blib better) will be superbo). Its sadly their last show of the tour. which means itll be several trips around the sun before we see them again. so thats that. its quite a good show, with talk show host, cymbal rush, karma police, and go slowly getting the run-out.

so as i just said, thats that.

i had a dream last night, a fairly simplistic dream (what?) that spinoza and kant were having some argument ( i dont recall what) only to have the indefatigable zizek rope in from the ceiling wearing a wrestling costume and promptly deal them a whoop. it was a visually stunning dream, albeit a bit thin. zizeks fat though.

continuing on zizek. ive read iraq the borrowed kettle and am now on the appendices. borrowed kettle was fun. the appendices may be even better. its really the juice of it. the borrowed kettle was a fun concept focusing on freud's borrowed kettle joke, as youd expect. http://www.lacan.com/zizekkettle.htm it appears that its online. with the iraqi macguffin and a few of the others that are lumped together in the book format. i thought it a fun logic exercise. logic is bullshit. its like the sat. is logic nothing more than a view in the parallax? i dunno ill have to think about that.

so matic, our serb in the poli sci department. easily summed up. a reformed fukuyamist. no not a 'reformed' fukyamist. or anything someway positive. hes one of the morons that believes fukuyamas latest permutation. the explanation (clarification?) that says 'no no, what i had meant was....no wars will ever be global following the dissolution of the cccp (that has some mysticism, like a block CCCP on the side of a ballistic missile, i like the imagery,).' ok. we can bring in some micheal hardt and klein for starters and throw that one out. wars do not need to be fought militarily . they can be purely economic and include non-state actors. what is a war anyway? oh well. the class is full of dumbshites, what can you do.

for nat. resource econ im in level 657 with my professor. its quite fun, the grad students are a bit weak (but what was i expecting), a marked contrast to the gobshite dougan is telling us in h314 (''speculation does not create long term price impacts'') sure. it only leads to inflationary pressure and an artificial surge in demand, which will raise prices. its not entirely surprising, coming from a chicago school wonkette, specialising in 'hyperinflation' and may have been involved with allende's fall. (im still working on some hard facts there).

i havent talked about obama, but since it was the same speech that he gave here in clemson, i dont really see a point. the audience though, wow. it almost seemed like a wake. a funeral wake. thats ironic. funny ha ha. but seriously. everyone was crying. i left the room, came back and saw some woman crying and actually thought for a minute obama had been shot. i kid you not. i felt my heart palpitate cause i thought hed been shot.

bidens a bit ignorant, but hes only worth 250,000 dollars and takes the train to and from washington, so thats hot. and his wife teaches tech school. which means she is not a billionaire or whatever mccain's wife is. obama mentioned, the clintons, durbin, and biden, but not al gore? hmm. poor gore. oh yeah poor edwards too. we probably saw that whole bit coming though.

one more thing i meant to talk about, cant seem to recall...oh yes. i skipped class to chase the tornado around. it was like the prague spring. everyone gets caught up in it and takes a million pictures, walks around not knowing fuck all what is going on, and all the pictures turn out shite.

goodnight

http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/8/27michaels.html

joe biden's net worth is about 200,000 dollars. thats rare.

shyeah

javier did what we saw him do on camera. everything else was

http://www.agustipuig.net/

existence

who are we?

that vast global constituency of youngish, fundamentally decent, middle-class liberals born into a fortunate life which held no impediment to their happiness bar the nagging suspicion that their comfort was related to the fact that someone else, somewhere else, was being paid ten cents a week to sew stripes onto their training shoes.

http://www.thequietus.com/articles/radiohead-by-andrew-mueller

hahaha

http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/8/13woodiwiss.html



no idea what music i have/havent posted anymore.

deficit

a seemingly random thought popped into my head last night.

i was thinking back to tarkovsky's solaris, which i saw several months ago

and i realised i couldnt recall seeing the ceiling in any of the scenes. i was really bothered by that because the set and mise en scene are in my top 10.

and then i realised i couldnt really place the ceilings of any film. except for jerry mcguire? (how does that stay with me, ((its the scene where he meets renee's kid)) and a few assorted chandeliers from period pieces.

its probably just me.

Man was created by Nature in order to explore it. As he approaches Truth he is fated to Knowledge. All the rest is bullshit.

youll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking

chris orr's movie reviews are the worst. nothing but a restatement of the plot and how the denouement is either ok/shit.

without fail, hell go into great detail about how weve all missed the plot, 'its not xxx thats the good bit, its yyy. ' xxx being the central aspect. whether it be ledger in batman, (see his review) or really anything else, its all the same formula. fucking mad lib style critics.

back to clemson saturday afternizzle. whoopie.

radiohead has a house of cards screensaver based on the video.

something for all of us

http://www.newsweek.com/id/151533/page/1

out of control

he played with ronson at lolla. and is great. and is another victim.

this is why we should still pay for music.

which is all about marketing.

which is all about identity.

which gets fucked here especially because hearing him, he sounds white.

but hes black.

and that confuses marketing types.

because they dont realise its all the same food.

just on different plates.

its all just noise.

then how do we rate it?

ill think about it.




kenna-out of control listen to it.

no title

is free association a myth? is there always an underlying causal relationship? easy answer if you think about it. we dont have to be determinists though.

off to the races

with the way the televise the olympics, youd think america was winning golds in every competition. the media edits sport too then dont they?

the raindrops

how come we dont talk about the oil pipeline through georgia that negates russia's monopoly on caspian sea oil.

why are we about to sign berbatov? i dont understand.

apparently ikea opened a factory in virginia. super.

the indie kid olympics part 1

well here it goes, dont expect too much because much of what happened has fallen into that place where it takes some triggering to bring it out. kept some notes throughout, but its not too easy to keep record. not to mention you come off a bit like a creep.

we went over pretty early as I was of course committed to the oxford band. The gates were meant to open at 11, but of course that didnt happen. At one point some security douche did a rick-roll in announcing that the gates were open, triggering a dash to the security counters and such. nearly caused me to blow an aneurysm. bastard. so eventually they opened the gates, etc etc. nothing to speak of there. triggered a 5000meter sprint towards the at&t stage by the devoted few. clearly a spectacle. We walked, made the fourth row, never realised standing in front of an empty stage would mimic the feeling of meeting someone large and important. it did sort of. of course all three times ive seen radiohead ive had a similar feeling. could be worse, could be the jonas brothers. i digress. so. holy fuck were soundchecking as we came in. then they left for 45 minutes, leaving us to swelter and to begin to enter into conversation with oft-shallow fellow radiohead devotees. 'this will be my third time this summer actually, i went to atlanta and charlotte' ''''oh my GAHD, you are so LUCKY, I had not even CONSIDERED them Playing TALK SHOW HOST and you heard it TWICE'''' At this point i was reminded again not everyone is awesome. especially girls from milwaukee.

Holy Fuck
really good stuff to open things off with. canadian electronic foursome with some good programming work. as with most of the electronic mash up bands they can be quite repetitive, but the fucks held their own. I had their cd, but the proper occasion to listen to them is rare, because they are not that great. live though, they do fine. engaging enough. Milkshake and Lovely Allen are their standout tracks and are some of the best tracks in the genre over the past year. they said 'ay' among other canadian jargonages to boot. 7/10

Yeasayer
Its quite hot by this point. yeasayer. kumar, a slimy weasel jew-first name 'ira wolf', a fascist looking drummer and a jangly ululation of a vocalist. pretty cool. good time. the bloggers like them. im not too bothered. 5-6 good songs and some fill. recommend it though. they mash up some middle eastern and african beats which sound cool. they act like crack cocaine and amphetamines live which is pretty bad ass. as seen in a previous blog video. 7.2/10 because they were a little better than holy fuck.

gogol bordello
oh man. eugene hutz and the traveling gypsies. seroiusly, theyre awesome. but the kicker. they brought with them half of the ukraine. they all converged on the rail. expelling the radiohead kids to the steppes, some deservingly, others well, as victims of circumstance. we lost our 4th row dead center spot and ended up on the jonny side about 30 people off of center and about 15 back from the rail. still a pit spot, but not a 1000 dollar spot. i can think of one shitty analogy. house washed away in flood. at any rate, you cant describe a gogol bordello set. so. watch in amazement as eugene hutz and his intercontinental band of mongoloids speak out on the horrors of fascism.


9/10 had they not 'resettled' us. 0/10 for that debacle 4.5/10 average isnt fair. hell ill give em an 8.

im tired so ill finish this some other time.