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.