yuck bugs

wendell berry isnt even dead yet and people are already misquoting him. thats a shame, especially when berry doesnt even try to be obtuse, obscurantic or even tricky. berry has a list of things we should take into account, and how we might go about them. its not a manifesto, theyre just ideas. but to misquote something like that is pretty hard to do. i had a professor tell me: "berry said that the key to the environmental movement gaining ground in the 70s and not taking a step backward would have been to put humans on calendars instead of animals." referring to groups like greenpeace,peta, etc. this is true, probably. but to use it in support of an argument for continued urban development is just strange. my prof was using it in an argument saying that a hierarchy exists for humans that is actually fundamentally disconnected from the natural world. we are free to make our own decisions based on best available information, information which will always yield the best results for humans, that will, in turn, be the best result for the earth. this is the gist of his argument, using his words.

Berry would punch him in the face if he heard of himself being used to support the concept of limitless human expansion. its laughable, really. its as absurd as someone like milton friedman defending the welfare state. to assume that we as human's are not pushing the carrying capacity in so many departments would go against both scientific and economic opinions. Its not that we are running out of land. its that were running out of good land, etc. you cant just assume that you can grow forever and that science and industry will pick up the slack. thats what we're doing already, and thats why we have factory farms and monsanto controlling our food supply. to argue that this is a good thing is one position and it can be defended using some sort of business model approach, but to argue that this is a good thing using a quote by wendell berry is asinine. and i told him as much.

But you should just let him tell you that, and not me.

this is really bad! i have a take home final due in 3 hours and i havent even started. thats ok though. what i really want to talk about is the strokes.

yeah ok theyre the velvet underground for the 2000s, but thats no bad thing. they brought the rhythm guitar relevant guitar and dug nyc out of a decade of indie music irrelevance. they made skinny jeans for skinny guys cool again, and i do thank them for that. from the first synth trickle at the start of 'is this it,' we as listeners knew we were in for something great. and then they made first impressions of earth and well.... that was just a gash album. WE WANT THE REAL STROKES BACK. more to say here, but having said this, i feel like i can now start this english junk

hello

slept for awhile. now im not, obviously.

life is about accumulation. not wealth, but experiences. at the end of the day we don't sit around counting pennies. we count blessings.

http://www.neetrecordings.com/sleighbells/sleighbells_video/index.html

spin the dial

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/interactive/2010/apr/23/election-2010-hung-parliament-interactive

first impressions upon listening to the new horse feathers album, in its entirety

right so horse feathers. blogs like them. i like them too. people say theyre southern gothic and all, but theyre from oregon. lets see what they are able to get right, this time...

i write this as ive just finished eating a pound or two of my bbq. i argue against gluttony wholeheartedly, but i also realise that sometimes, i have to eat. its not something i like to admit.

http://www.lala.com/#album/2017894108902069310

you can listen to the album once-through here.

i like the strings. they set something cool. and the voice building up from beneath the strings, great. its like 'paint with all the colors of the wind' in pocahontas. i think it was that one at least. disney can be relevant right? either way, i like the opening track, it could be framing something good. im seeing a road to a cabin. my cabin? sort of, im seeing my grandparent's old cabin. which may become my cabin? no matter. thats what im seeing. smelling smoke, but we arent there yet. we turn a corner at around 3:15 and now we see the cabin. and now, with the end, we have arrived.

'starving robins'. thats interesting. trying to get at some flannery o'connor here i think? the frost came from nothing, we're blue. we are unprepared. we're going to suffer. great instrumentals here. really good crescendos. vocals are so buried i can't make out what hes saying. thats ok. it sounds great and its got me thinking. 'where is the spring?' something something 'theres the truth' 'youth'. i dunno what hes saying, but hes saying all the right things. the winter came and took his innocence. i think that happened.

ok next one. belly of june. ok spring came then. we havent left the cabin yet. birds and the bees. literal? probably. june is a happening time i suppose. these cello's are just great. and the banjo. sounds like two minds are flowing and two hearts are beating. great arrangements. 'noon in the belly of june.' the middle of the middle. i like that. cant hear what hes saying. again. suppose this is going to be a recurring sentiment.

now she has a name. hes alone. thinking about her. sounds like she might have something of a torrid past. i guess we all kinda do. maybe thats what hes saying. i think i just heard him say something about a tail/tale. not sure. cant get context. cause i still cant hear him! secrets, hes got them. weeping in the brush. nobody says 'weeping in the brush.' 'news was broke.' 'witness.' something is happening here. 'she came to me and I CANT HEAR YOU'. i really freaking want to know, this is the climax of the song. 'just where you left me, alone by the lamplight' I think, he just said that. if so im digging it. oh things are clearing. i can kind of hear him. wow this is good.

next one. this bed. i can hear you know. wow. so cool what theyve done here. wow we got us a ballad. rare form guys, rare form. really like this one. im not even caring about the words anymore. i just like what i hear.

the drought. this will be good. feeling some camus here, a la the plague. 'spares no one, stealing faith' etc. out of tune fiddle works well here. banjo chopping. its good. from the ground to the trees. gives the drought volume, in a physical sense. wow. and now we're walking, more like stumbling. 'glory to the night/shades been hard to find/ from the plains to the peaks/ this heat's stealing faith from the weak.' i like. hes talking to the birds, nobody else is around? 'i hear the pines crack and cry/there is no reason to try/and its not the same life/here the morning's like a knife/and the rivers been bone dry' 'its bearing down on me/with no clouds in the sky' wow.

vernonia blues. bringing in the kids. i think this is about too much rain or something. 'when theres trouble youll know where to be seen.' something about screaming too. something not good is happening. i dunno what it is, maybe he doesnt either. wow first fade out on the whole album that is noticeable. interesting.

as a ghost. ahh a girl is gone. the ghost of her remains. thats bad. cant hide from her, shes everywhere. pity the man. tough. seems to be pretty horrified.

The widower. hes in a new town. escaping memories. 'memories dont die.' damn. looks like he still hasnt escaped her. shes followed him, even here. i dont get the chronology. winter has happened like 3 times. is this non linear? dunno. oh man now we got his voice only out of the left speaker. cool. she is looking over his shoulder. thats what that is. 'stay with me'. bad news, the illusion of her isnt staying. cool, vocal countermelody here at the end. great song here. i havent once heard drums. i dont think they are here. awesome!

shoot. the last song. where we going here? 'he has no time, loneliness'etc. oh fun fun were talking about duality. always a good thing to mention, right? 'poisoned by hope' thats the worst feeling. we've all felt it. he's feeling it a lot. the heart is all beat out. talking about how his wings are trapped inside him. 'the more we love a lie, it comes true.' Wow. great song. great stuff here. 'the pious patients please ''cant make out the rest'' ' the cello motif is great here, as it is throughout the album. wow. the way it ends! it just ends! not even a fade. man. our literary traditions at work! i want to love it! but its so stark!

this may have album of the year potential, for me. its definitely album of the first 5 months. they done it right- the protagonist has been given a certain kind of justice. all we can really hope for. i dont care that i cant make out these words, yet. im about to go buy the album and read the liner notes, for hours. cause is a good one. May 8. Grey Eagle, asheville. I for one will be there. invites open. week after is sam quinn (everybodyfields) scary good. what a great town.

the infinitude of the private man

emerson said that. interesting to think about.

http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm

as is this. i think its pretty important, seeing as im graduating. or rather, its still important even though i didnt graduate. ho hum. whats the point of doing things on time anyway? It all falls within something grander.

anyway. i like what he has to say here. be inspired. do. learn everything. dont be just one thing. character over intellect. know what you know, then use it for good. patience. youre going to be poor sometimes, youre going to have to struggle. youre going to be alone sometimes, youre going to have to struggle. respect that it all comes from the dirt and the dust. there is a universal mind but lots of individual scribes. <-realise that we see the world through this lens. be new. be something.

"The man has never lived that can feed us ever. The human mind cannot be enshrined in a person, who shall set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire. It is one central fire, which, flaming now out of the lips of Etna, lightens the capes of Sicily; and, now out of the throat of Vesuvius, illuminates the towers and vineyards of Naples. It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men."

...

"Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these,

— but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, — some of them suicides. What is the remedy? They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career, do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."

...

"We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all. A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."

some people look down on the phrase 'a jack of all trades but a master of none,' as it may apply to a person. i quite like the notion.

All i can do, is think of this picture. Asher durand. 'kindred spirits'. how great does that place look? Pretty good I think. and its made even better when listening to 'ode to lrc' by the band of horses.

I feel so good.

chechens

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/world/europe/26chechen.html?hp

reads like a movie script

#too much imagery

since 1000, ive listened to

1.5 hours of czech hip hop. really bad stuff. really bad. with russian mobsters as patrons, you get results as predicted. some cool music videos though.

1 hour of josh ritter. listen to 'to the dogs or whoever' and youll get hte point

1 hour of the decemberists. crane wife in particular.

in fact.

to the dogs or whoever->


Deep in the belly of a whale I found her
Down with the deep blue jail around her
Running her hands through the ribs of the dark
Florence and Calamity and Joan of Arc

first stanza has eve in the whale, while alluding to adam. then florence nightengale, calamity jane and joan of arc. all heroic and groundbreaking women.

I love the way she looks in her underwear
I lose my page then the plot then the book then I swear
She makes the most of her time by loving me plenty
She knows there'll come a day when we won't be getting any

this is just funny. makes me thing of the

apartment scenes in 'tout va bien.'

The stain of the sepia the butcher Crimea
Through the wreck of the brass band I thought I could see her
In a cakewalk she came through the dead and the lame
Just a little bird floating in a hurricane

not sure. feels like something out

of dylan+the band's 'big pink' sessions

I was flat on my back with my feet in the thorns
I was in between the apples and the chloroform
She came to me often I was sure I was dying
It was always hard to tell if she was laughing or crying

this is a strange picture

I thought I heard somebody calling
In the dark I thought I heard somebody call
Joan never cared about the inbtweens
Combed her hair with a blade did the Maid of Orleans
Said Christ walked on water we can wade through the war
You don't need to tell me who the fire is for

ouch

Oh, bring me the love that can sweeten a sword
A boat that can love the rocks or the shore
The love of the iceberg reaching out for the wreck
Can you love me like the crosses love the nape of neck?

i always am fond of boats that love the shore.

wiki 'wreckers'. awesome people.

i would really like to have been one back in the day.

Was it Casey Jones or Casey at the Bat?
Who died out of pride and got famous for that
Killed by a swerve laid low by the curve
Do you ever think they ever thought they got what they deserved?

casey jones is a folk hero thats real. casey at

the bat is a folk hero that is fake. casey jones is the

one youre meaning for, josh.

Pity the bullet and pity the man
Who both find their place in the same sad plan
Who both are like the barrel going over the falls
Crying all the way down I never asked to be involved

hes talking about something

specific in the first line i think

I thought I heard somebody calling
In the dark I thought I heard somebody call

General George began the day by taking pink little pills
Sent his men to the top of some hell of a hill
Through the whisper of the trees came artillery breeze
He said, "I love the way the wind comes tickling my knees."

custer meets col. kilgore from 'Apoc. Now'

Jane shot the apple right between the eyes
I was thinking of her when you came outside
Lemonade on your breath sun in your hair
Did I mention how I love you in your underwear?

calamity jane and somebody else

Deep in the belly of a whale I found her
Down with the deep blue jail around her
Running her hands through the ribs of the dark
Florence and Calamity and Joan of Arc

I thought I heard somebody calling
In the dark I thought I heard somebody call

on the verge

of what could be the last seated exam of my undergraduate career. (provided my next one is online). it feels pretty regular.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/opinion/25wolfe.html

i hate tom wolfe. well, except for 'the right stuff,' cause that was at least fascinating. everything else? no. racist. egoist. elitist. no thanks.

to write papers fast

dont take aderall.

take foals

also

if you watch the videos from lollapalooza 2008 you may see me.

A children's treasury of tweets, from a day of Procrastination!

like you surely guessed from the title. i procrastinated severely this afternoon. but i did so on twitter, with poems!

all are real. as real as it gets.

mcsweeneys submission? maybe. just maybe.


progress is relative/ progress is absolute/ all i know/ is im working like poop.


with one project left/he fell quite adrift/ and became quite amazed/ at what he couldnt quite lift.


withdeadlineapproaching/he started emoting/thehorrorthehorror he said/well actually that was kurtz/anditreallyhurts/tosit here in this chair


there is a connection/to my african passion/and it started with conrad/the duality of humans/is really amusing/is kinda what he said!

dante wrote about quite an inferno/that might have made an excellent oratorio/maybe its been done/ireally dont know/for i am so miserabolio


abraham lincoln thomas jefferson/ both were drinking/then started wrestling

george bush george bush/ where are you now?/who knows who knows/youre probably doin a cow.

Liechtenstein and Wittgenstein/somanysyllables/Wittgenstein and Liechtenstein/bothsosmall/Liechtenstein and Wittgenstein/nothing here to see

the news about bob dylan/that is really not so new/is that sometime around 1972/he stopped being a jew

edward abbey came to me/and this is what he said/well it was a dream/ because he is quite dead/'you and thoreau should come with me/ and well go and start some shit'/then he proceeded to pop a tab/of his favored schlitz

-edward abbey had schlitz poured over his grave. He the man.

purrfect

http://wordtruncheon.blogspot.com/2010/04/spintastic.html

Its really so interesting. When they make the inevitable hollywood movie starring matt damon as an insider who comes clean, bill nighy as some paternalistic patronizing GS executive (i should mention that i view a certain version of myself in old age as being exactly like bill nighy in gideon's daughter. in fact, i think one of my first posts was on our mutual admiration). who else is in this? i dont really know. but its coming. maybe inarritu and arriaga will get back together for it? thatd be dead good.

thats not really important though. what is important is that the very nature of wall street is to defraud the american people. Farmers dont make enough revenue anymore to stay independent, but we dont care about that. Wall street has taken from us, and we dont care about that. Well we did, but for one news cycle, but we dont care anymore. And the hubris of the Republicans to try to block financial regulation reform! oh how admirable. what is that? the free market doesnt work. this has been shown time after time after time. both here and abroad. What does the pursuit of profit do to people? well thats a question of human nature i suppose, and im not getting into that. the short of it is that it makes people quite rude and selfish.

Ive been watching the debates between cameron, brown and clegg from across the pond. 2 national debates in the country's history and they manage to cogently address issues.

this just reminds me of hamlet's address to ophelia. to a nunnery go.

the world turns. yes, just not like it should. must be the seismic activity of late. yes it must be that.

musak

i said i wasnt going to do any work tonight and i mean it. im just going to post songs until i fall asleep. thats the long and short of it.

the ellen page canadian indie lesbian twins

Oh ryan

cant wait

Jr. year of HS. covent garden. good mix.
used to be one of my favorite bands. love their choruses. gonna be listening to them a lot again. so neurotic. so great. and that northumbrian accent. swoon.
Nu rave, it was fun while it lasted and made for a good hs party or two. care for a sophomore release klaxons?
by the time its all said and done, this will stand to be the most important album of my high school career? why, not because it changed much, but just because it was much. friday to saturday, for two years. it was this band. the first band to get blog hype, something we take for granted now. such a great debut. everything thats followed by them is great in its own right, but i just cant listen.

doves. before coldplay, there were these mancunians. during coldplay they were there. and after coldplay theyll be there too. finally got to see them in edinburgh after nearly a decade of frustration for me. great show. coldplay for people who read.

ahh the welsh. always loved this song. chorus. and bridge. 10/10.
so this is really turned into a nostalgia trip from high school. ok with me.
for about a month i thought doing heroin would be cool. that happened the first time i heard the libertines. one month later pete doherty was in rehab. hasnt really left since. ive never done heroin as a result. that and trainspotting. and requiem for a dream. no way.
and now for something completely different. glasgow! though it doesnt really sound like it.

all i ask is to be on stage with these guys, just once is enough. at least let me write a song.
silent alarm. so great.

on that note. goodnight. for now.

transformer

so guru from gangstarr died yesterday. really great mc. after him came talib and mos, the roots,etc. the erskine caldwell of the hip hop movement.

before him it wasnt right, and after him it changed the perception of the other. back in the day when all hip hop was conscious.

lotta people call it the golden age. well, heres some good stuff. recommend that everybody listen to the album step in the arena. and not just because they sample the band's ''up on cripple creek''

this one was in a spike lee flick.

whelp and so it goes on and on and on and on

another one of those things where dewey does a song and i do one. i give him and he gives me. he writes and i write. i listen and he listens. i laugh and he laughs at me.

well. king of carrot flowers pts 2 and 3 have been given to me. kind of unfair that i dont get part 1, but its more interesting that way. so yeah neutral milk hotel. a good one. a great one. but we gotta know the backstory and define some terms.

elephant six collective-Athens Georgia (sort of, kinda ruston, lousiana though) but everybody says and thinks athens so i am too. Neutral Milk Hotel, Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control and a few others. Later, Of Montreal. most of their releases on Merge records (great bands go here).

stuff was good real good. especially nmh's in the aeroplane over the sea. (an album occasionally appearing in my desert island top 5) really is something etheral. jeff mangum is one of the best to come out of athens. only athens can make lo-fi like this.

so what is the album...concept album about the death of anne frank. spoken through her and also a traumatized observer who is losing his mind at the sight of her death (jeff mangum). (Refer to the album cover for a better explanation). scary yes i know, but all the people dont have to be all happy all the time. bob dylan sort of said that. and its fitting cause this album is him.

anyone who writes a lo-fi album is channelling dylan, because its just the only way to write a lo-fi album. just as any use of contrapuntals is channeling bach,etc etc. if you make the genre, you become the genre, and theres no escaping it. you are the genre.

what is dylan? dylan is the process, dylan is the creation of the of the sound and words (independent). depending on how you approach him, dylan is the being there, the coming here, the going there and the leaving now. when you read dylan (or if you're lazy you watch I'm Not There, the brilliant film that it is) you experience this. "no direction home?" there is, actually, its all of these things. and he tells you that. were all going different places, together, so to speak.

dylan never explains his songs publicly, we all know that. mangum never explained himself either. he made the album and disappeared. has sung on somelike 3 recorded tracks since 1998 and live only once. nobody even knows where he lives. but the album still sells great. go figure. it must be good then. saw a guy buying it last weekend even. certainly an important album. and will be as long as people keep buying records. kinda like the first velvet underground album. i of course urge people to buy records.

wikus

Wikus and Charlize - watch more funny videos

friends of clegg

invoking a song title from a weezer spin-off band to describe the surging leader of the lib-dems is maybe appropriate. find it funny how the guardian is painting him as a conservative while the times says hes more left than labour (accurate). anyway, i like the guy. it was great to watch britains first ever televised debate last week. funny to think that their politics have existed for so long without them when they are such a key piece of how we operate in america. could this really and truly and finally be the time when the lib dems break free? i maybe kind of hope so. we shall see. itll be a fun run-in for sure. cant have cameron, thats for def.

eat

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/making-it-easier-to-eat-local-food/

Did i forget my sunflowers? Nope. Gotem.

when wayne gets out of lockup. he will put 'beach girls' by sleigh bells on his next mixtape. its just too perfect.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/arts/18abroad.html

interesting article.

gimplications

the big cloud of ash, cancelling flights, making people do other things. like stay at home or take a train. sometimes nature is subversive, correcting behavior, shock doctrine, et al. nice..

im the real mc

Untitled from elizabeth glover on Vimeo.

we'll see

been told i say this frequently now. have i developed some conditional meta-ethic? no because i dont even know what that means.

oh ian curtis. a man i credit with many things. my hair cut in 10th grade and 12th grade. my dancing skiils (thom yorke's too). my favorite rhythm guitar style (he didnt pioneer this, but do we really ever find origins?). and when i have dreams of being on stage i think i take on his persona.

had a good post on him back in the day. i really ought to tag these posts. strong case to be made there.

Ahh the hacienda, one of those venues that defines a genre. graham's Fillmore west is probably the only other one of these that even comes close to riving the hacienda's signficance.

is it not shocking how bad this is? i mean i dont claim to be in the loop with hip hop but i do try to keep track of mixtapes and the like. but kanye's freestyling is just abysmal. just because his band is playing radiohead chords might lead one to believe this is good, thats tragedy.

SNOOZE

history

ahhhh. so fresh.

Hello

'Men are just liars and thieves.' the avett brothers said that. as did many woman. as did many men. the avett brothers also said 'somebody's been lying to you.' after they said that other line. I said that too. no matter no matter. hey look at this.

http://www.thestate.com/2010/04/14/1244336/former-sc-first-lady-dating-georgia.html

its so tragic isnt it. was she cheating on mark? who knows. does it matter? no. but its justthatd just be so perfect if she was though. its like whoever smelt it dealt it or something like that. oh so juvenile, but it all is.

i hope this doesnt seem like im defending the love gov. because, well, obviously there is nothing that that man stands for that i agree with. politically, morally or otherwise. im just saying....

AWESOME. he doesnt look the par though. depression era man. depression era. 2 words. not 2 words as in gangsta thug. depression era. the lone comment is so fitting...

buying/byeing time

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colors

go floating points. in a just world theyd be as big as the chemical brothers and the other Ministry of Sound worthy mega-acts. In an even better world theyd be as small as four tet. that might happen this year, because theyve been steadily building some serious london cred over the last six months. between gilles peterson, boomkat, and a steady stream of remixes, good things should start happening soon. what is a one man studio project takes on a totally different form live with a large ensemble of multicultural london based classical musicians. makes it real hard to nail these guys down. what is at times a perfect synthesis of grime and dubstep is at others post-Portishead trip-hop. thats a very good thing.

Four Tet - Sing (Floating Points Remix) by DominoRecordCo

Floating Points BBC 1Xtra Deviation Mix by floatingpoints

youll really want to listen to the second one.

check

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/magazine/11Economy-t.html

bahahaha

oh dizzee. i miss our days together.

not getting anything done.

today feels like this. you can watch it in 1080p as well. 1:38.

jailbreak

love being in the mood for thin lizzy. so free, especially when turned up. they dont make em like this anymore. the music and the leather pants.

sometimes three chords for nine minutes can be so right.

400 posts yikes

really interesting video. egypt must have been a very strange place in the 1970s. strange crowd in attendance.

bells

they should be in bloom now. but given that our winter and summer seem to have merged, i dunno what to expect. suppose its worth a look this weekend anyway.

erskine caldwell is my hero

interesting stuff. the band is from oz. makes me want to dance at around 3:35.

2 things

3 things.

1-got a text this morning from a dear friend looking for help on how to get a girl out of his bed. why me, of all people? start vacuuming? i dont know.

2-my everybodyfields liner notes from the record i picked up yesterday are signed by jill andrews, ive just noticed. ''thanks for coming today. jill andrews' is what is says. now i cant help but imagine the circumstances that led to this cd being sold back to the store by its original owner, as i bought it used. itll probably result in me crying for hours on end. thinking on this will probably occupy the rest of my day.

3-now that i have this one in its physical form, in spite of the narrative that im constructing around it, im so happy.

''These songs take the place of conversations that were never spoken. Yet the allow a certain amount of correspondence just the same. Like a letter, there is no immediate response, no one there to interrupt your thoughtful words from lying across a melody line. but there is more than one author here, and you are both eager to speak, as you send your letters to the same address.''

time will forget your name

ive got nothing to say so ill say it. thats a lyric but i cant place where it comes from. shame. right so i guess dark drives and the everybodyfields yields words. three things.

1)nothing is easy. if you think that something is easy, then its come at someone else's expense.

dont really know about this for sure, but im thinking about it.

2)i love meeting everybodyfields fans. its such a small group, and its sad to think that we wont be getting much larger. somethings are good enough how they are.

3)already forgot it.