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.

this is one for the good days

http://www.waste-central.com/profiles/profile/show?id=ThomYorke&

eraser infinite is great.

http://www.waste-central.com/profiles/comment/list?attachedToType=User&attachedTo=30nikx1fjf5vu

great minds are great.


Radiohead All Points West Night 2 Timelapse from Jeff Carvalho on Vimeo.

this is just great


http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/10/why-famous-men-keep-having-affairs.aspx

the title answers more than the post itself. ho hum.

http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/7/30schmelling.html

This is great.

the vladimir putin all stars present:

blame the stranger.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080818/scheer

pictures

so i put my pictures up. ran out of memory (card) space so i missed some of the week.the radiohead shots minus the last are all exceptionally blurry due to me being jittery. and there was also moshing and crowd surfing. at radiohead. weird. they hsould have done packt like sardines, because there were literally 6 people in the space youd expect 1 to be in. thank fuck im tall. are all the concerts we saw minus gogol bordello, explosions in the sky and what made milwaukee famous, i think. i might still do a review of it all. i will. tomorrow.

damien rice has a song called 'rootless tree'



some pretty fun existential stuff in here. fuck the unburdened ignorants.

today i spent 2 hours looking at houses in maine, vermont and new hampshire. i liked alot of what i saw. maine especially.


HOLY FUCK lezak just blew the french away in the last 9 meters of the 4x100 relay. holy shit. that was intense. sorry france, but you just got dusted, especially after all the trash talking. .08 seconds. wow.

The scarlet letter

John Edwards.

In france, among other places, they dont care about this sort of thing.

We do though.

open/close

this opening ceremony sure is intense isnt it?

harmony is the key word isnt it....

bob costas is currently laughing about an assassination attempt in the maldives and reminding us the film troy was filmed in malta. madonna adopted a kid from malawi. yes these have become our national identities, havent they?

what do you think bush was saying to putin? thanks for invading georgia. but he isnt really running the country anymore is he (putin)?

everyone from eritrea and ethiopia look identical to one another.

Israel's flag guy could be foucault.

"the chinese are noted as warm hosts"

that taiwanese err chinese taipei woman is pretty hot.
and they cant even use their real flag.

dont try to say the olympics arent political.

Badou Jack from Gambia. Bad. Ass.
Gambia has a white guy who looks like Jeff Goldblum. Funny.

I havent mentioned the chinese cheerleaders wearing cowboy boots. i dunno how they blew that.

The great thing about the brazilian and argentine and Uruguayan delegations is the sheer volume of blue eyed blond haired athletes they possess. This begs the question-was hitler right about aryan athletic supremacy?

We buy bahrains oil, they buy athletes. there is nothing wrong with this picture, at least in terms of the global structure that exists today.

They dont show the countries as they leave the stadium after the lap because theyre keeled over and exhausted do to particulate matter in their lungages.

Palestine has a olympic team. therefore palestine is a country. socrates is a man.

Bermuda Shorts.

Liechtenstein and haiti had the same flag. thats insane. darwin called that something. forget what. when the same shit pops up independently. probably should remember that.

Iran got booed.

why do we always play scotland the brave at least 50 times at these things?

Bush looks attentive.

holy shit the uk has a 14 year old diver.

Ehh sarkozy est le tired.

Open water swim. thats funny.

Kazakhstan have awesome hats.

arab 'staches own.

hot bulgarian.

kirilenko looks like a woman.

Ive never seen a russian wearing anything remotely like this. they look like al capone.

USA USA USA

hopefully ill get to talk more about the lost boy.

yes we have the most screaming women.

alright thats about it. kinda tired of this to be fair. brilliant opening ceremony bit though. it was like that psych out scene in drumline. why the fuck do i remember that. i think the analogy works though.

wakey wakey rise and shine

i survived.