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.