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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
10:46 am	don't let this night take you.
Friday, November 20th, 2009
12:17 pm	$35 overdraft fees? i just became a huge supporter of my local bank robber. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
4:15 pm	some notes for another life animal collective - merriweather post pavilion antipop consortium - flourescent black antony & the johnsons - the crying light atlas sound - logos balmorhea - all is wild, all is silent bell orchestre - as seen through windows bibio - ambivalence avenue blackshaw - james - the glass bead game black to comm - alphabet 1968 blakkamoore, jahdan - buzzrock warrior buraka som sistema - black diamond clubroot - clubroot converge - axe to fall crystal antlers - tentacles cymbals eat guitars - why there are mountains deacon, dan - bromst d-sisive - let the children die DOOM - born like this espers - III explode into colors - coffins 7" felix - you are the one i pick field, the - yesterday and today fuck buttons - tarot sport germano, lisa - magic neighbor gibson, laura - beasts of seasons grizzly bear - vecktamist heartless bastards - the mountain HEALTH - get color hecker, tim - an imaginary country i heart lung - interoceans isis - wavering radiant k'naan - troubadour martyn - great lengths matt & kim - grand mirah - (a)spera mos def - the ecstatic mountain goats, the - the life of the world to come mountains - choral mount eerie - wind's poem mueller, jon - physical changes nadler, marissa - little hells nosaj thing - drift ocean - pantheon of the lesser oh no - dr. no's ethiopium pan american - white bird release panther - entropy people under the stairs - fun dmc a place to bury strangers - exploding head raekwon - only built 4 cuban linx pt. II rose, ethan - oaks russian circles - geneva the sight below - murmur ep / glider sleeping states - in the gardens of the north spearin, charles - the happiness project sunn O))) - monoliths & dimensions a sunny day in glasgow - ashes grammar sunset rubdown - dragonslayer taken by trees - east of eden thao with the get down stay down - know better, learn faster thee oh sees - help times new viking - born again revisited tiny vipers - life on earth to kill a petty bourgeoisie - marlone tortoise - beacons of ancestorship vladislav delay - tummaa volcano choir - unmap v/a 5 Years Of Hyperdub white rainbow - new clouds whitmore, william elliott - animals in the dark why? - eskimo snow willie isz - georgiavania wissem, jozef van - it is all that is made woods - songs of shame worriedaboutsatan - arrivals YACHT - see mystery lights yoga - megafauna (2 Comments |Comment on this)
2:46 pm	Current Music: converge - axe to fall (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
12:37 pm	the problem will always be our perceived inability to satisfy desire. anyone can acknowledge that someone they know who is wealthier than they are isn't necessarily happier. however, we still accept the convention that the more power and influence in society means greater happiness because we rationalize that the person that we know doesn't possess as much power or influence as someone who is richer or better accepted within society. their dissatisfaction is because there are those who are "better off" and even though they are "better off" than us, we are convinced we the have the same opportunity to become this elusive "better". when we acknowledge that perhaps the most powerful and influential are not the happiest people in the world, indeed they may have even greater disadvantages to being happy as increased power and influence has to come at the price of somebody, we feel we are directly attacking our purpose. microsoft is still a tyrannical monopoly but the man who profited most from it is now active in philanthropic endeavors. where once he could know no limit to his power and influence and used the worst tactics to achieve increased power, he has now realized that it did not satisfy his desire. he's still an insanely rich man but he is dealing with the ethical implications of how he came to power and now realizes there is more to satisfying desire in helping others than taking away from them. he certainly could do far more by not only living far more reasonably but also making amends for the damage his company has done by demanding fair trade, less disparity in wages, and championing sustainable development of it's products, but the point remains the same. there are literally people that have so much money that they don't know what to do with it and yet we seem to bicker about getting the "right" political party (the one we favor) or blame social elements for what's wrong in society rather than addressing the fact that our approach to identity is flawed and is not intuitive to advancement of our species. i know plenty of people that are far closer to whatever notion of physical attractiveness our society has built up over the years that are no happier than anyone else. they still have the same fears and dissatisfaction with their bodies despite being able to seemingly survive with greater ease in society. people that are thin are never thin enough or aren't thin in all the right areas of their body. their ears are at slightly different levels on their heads, their breasts aren't the right size or shape, their penises aren't large enough or their labia are shaped differently than the ones they've seen displayed as desirable. we're too lanky, our hips are too wide, our noses don't look the way we want them to, our eyes are a boring shade of brown rather than the rare vibrant blue. our notion of desire has been shaped and influenced by past blind attempts at defining and restricting desire to something that is never us. since our concept of attraction is closely linked to our sexual desire, we aren't having good enough sex and if we are, it's never enough sex (because the best members of society have unmitigated sexual desire that can be endlessly satisfied at their whim). if we have as much sex as we desire, it's never with the right people and instead of learning to love and grow with our partner (or partners) we are convinced that it is their fault for not being higher in the conventional scheme of social acceptance. we do not seek to be better lovers but more socially accepted lovers, no matter the irrational convention that may exist today (that is based on previous conventions that have been found to be incapable of satisfying our desire). a "better" body will never make sex better but a better understanding and acceptance of a body will. when we realize that the conventional means of satisfying desire aren't valid we feel cheated in our prolonged belief in it. we identify ourselves by what we are and what we are not and what we are we define as right or at least more right than those who are not us. racists deal with the fact that whites have dominated human society for centuries and yet have not offered the one definitive answer we so desperately demand by defensive excuse rather than rational and verifiable systems of belief. whites build up the irrational excuses that those who are not white are somehow inferior and not only their oppression but a racist's dissatisfaction with their superiority is the fault of people of color. they could be happy if only the damned "illegals" would stop stealing jobs (though they would steal another person's job if it would mean their advancement), if blacks would stop being "violent thugs" (though popular culture celebrates violence in it's films, it's sports, and it's wars), if asians didn't have their bizarre customs and traditions (though it will be appropriated and profited from when it is convenient). straight people would be happy if gay men and women would stop flaunting their sexuality and demanding traditional institutions (even though heterosexuals flaunt sexuality in plenty of self destructive ways and the sanctity of marriage is far more violated by an incredible divorce rate and adherence to convention that people who are not married are inferior). men would be happier if women would stop being "uppity" and demanding to be treated equally (though if they were and adopted our systems of power and dominance our species would be wiped out). our definitions of identity in regards to gender are so rigid in order for us to feel safer in them that the notion that a person can be born a different sex than they identify as is upsetting or alarming to those that identify as the gender they were born with. people that don't abide by the conventions of gender need to "deal with it" and are marginalized if they don't. the rich would be better off if those eyesores of humanity, the poor, were out of sight or up and died to decrease the surplus population (but it is not them that are inferior nor their fault, they are victims of our perception of superiority). indigenous people and cultures would be acceptable if they acted more "civilized" (a self-prescribed label that betrays it's own root in how destructive self-professed civil societies are over indigenous societies). since we cannot justify that one should inherently be allotted a better life by their mere existence, we must devise a system of blame that allows us to believe we deserve more than another. we're seeing a pretty good example of that in the U.S. health debate as everyone deserves the right to be healthy, to be treated and comforted in time of illness or death, and to alleviate pain no matter who they are. the only people that do not want this are the insurance companies, the medical equipment and pharmaceutical companies, and those who are paid by them in positions of leadership. if you are a political junkie you've seen republican and moderates at town hall meetings confronted by very ill people or their family members saying what are we supposed to do? we simply cannot afford the costs or we have been denied for illegitimate means by private insurance. the answer is that they are working to make insurance cheaper by vague measures (which is a lie, they have had ample time to do so) or, ironically, that they should somehow rely on the charity of various organizations or their neighbors. this makes absolutely no sense and the only tactic that they have left is fear. they are going to kill the elderly, compromise your moral beliefs, or the lazy and unproductive of society will be afforded the same benefits as your hard working self. the rich want to stay rich and our government's highest positions are made up of wealthy people supported and paid for by other wealthy people. the only arguments against universal healthcare are derived either from fear or from the lies of those that profit off of private insurance. the goal of private insurance was from day one to make profits and that will never change. if we cannot define our identity by being superior or morally right, if we cannot defend oppression of another because they deserve it more than us, and if we cannot definitively pronounce our understanding of right as better than others our only answer is to accept that other ways that we may not agree with or may not be able to comprehend are just as valid as our attempts to understand. we must find meaning in our current existence and ensure that any means of progress does not come at the expense of others. the only way to enhance our understanding is to widen our area of experience, to increase our knowledge, and to share what we know with others so that we can gain from the experiences they have had that we have not. anything else isn't just detracting from our ability to find purpose in our lives but taking away from the opportunity of others to do the same. our systems of social "right" are built upon our entire history of fear of the unknown and it is ourselves that we have allowed to design our own prisons. life is not hard to understand, it is just hard to accept at times. by laws of balance the answers we come to cannot always be favorable to our ideas and desires of what we wish them to be. maybe the answer isn't to be more but just to be. Current Music: volcano choir - sleepymouth - unmap. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
4:07 pm	every time i see something beautiful, i think of you... dave eggers "the wild things" fur-covered edition / a beautiful moon pregnant with light through the leaves of the maple that is curling it's fingers inward preparing for sleep / mount eerie / pens 2-0 (a woman got me into it, a reasonable excuse for anything) / alan dugan: i might be back from where the wind blows; but not in time / carne's "children of paradise" a living plant wrapped in celluloid; new blooms with each view / wisdom of past lives is a soft prism / tabouleh that flows into the mouth like a cold stream and library visits that end with samosas / less afraid these days and maybe never okay but in such acceptance perhaps; i am / the comfort of paula rego's fever dreams / the serene calm in francis bacon's madness / jean grae / you will never let yourself be pretty but you can always be more beautiful than you can stand / six months / reflecting on polish art and realizing that art comes from the places where hurt the most; perhaps we can find meaning in everything / don't ask me where i've been; the answer is always the same; i was dancing in our dreams Current Music: mount eerie - wind's poem (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
11:10 am	i'm so angry. i'm so fucking sad. ETA: busted_english's breakdown of the testimony so you don't have to read it all yourself. it is extremely triggering, disturbing, and heartbreaking. please be warned. ( cut for discussion of polanski and rape ) Current Music: very very quiet (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
9:19 am	holy shit. Polanski arrested in Switzerland before attending the Zurich Film Festival. Polanski was an important figure in cinema but his contributions will be forever marred by what he did and the fact that the film establishment seemed so ready to overlook it without him ever being held accountable was extremely bothersome to me. i doubt anything will come of it as far as the statute of limitation and extradition proceedings are concerned but wow. from boyknife Ukrainian artist Kseniya Simonava uses sand and a lightbox for a performance piece portraying the German invasion and occupation of her country in WWII. very moving and beautiful to see the creative transformations of the images backed by the music. (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
6:39 pm	http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html i'm sorry, but the only way Atlas Shrugged could be the best novel you've read, much less that the Fountainhead is the second is if: 1. you're Ayn Rand 2. you don't know what Objectivism is and don't correlate it with the novel 3. you read it when you were 15 and a philosophy of selfishness made sense to you at the time 4. you read it as "that one big book i can say i've read" because you thought Tolstoy was boring 5. you haven't read very many books 6. you don't realize that the "artist" bent in it is appropriation and that Objectivism is completely counter-intuitive to the idea of art 7. you mistake industry for labor 8. you think Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard is the third best novel you've read 9. some day, long ago, you wanted a cookie and didn't get it; whereby you now feel slighted for anything you don't get that you believe you are owed. seriously, did you just walk into the Ayn Rand Institute then stop in next door at a Church of Scientology and call it quits? ---- i have to really thank the digital television switch for finally breaking my habit of using the television as a distracting element to better things, like reading. the signal strength is terrible here so i'd only get half the channels and would have to mess with the antenna to try to get the others. now i don't watch any television, save for the only stuff that really matters like Horizon, Nova, Frontline, various Food Network shows, etc. that i download off the internets. ---- sometimes i have to drive my mom's car around which is slightly embarrassing considering it is very much emblematic of a slightly crazy, Christian, catlady aka my mother. there are smaller stuffed cats along the dashboard, one perched on the center console, and one in the back window along with a cross hanging from the mirror, and a Jesus fish emblem on the back. i love my mother more than anyone in the world, but i'm not my mother. clearly notable in her safer driving that somehow eludes me as i can't drive the damn thing without having the dashboard cats flying at me as soon as i start driving. to the point sir! yes yes. i forget which of you but you mentioned still appreciating the now novel act of exchanging actual cds while listening to music. now, i'm vehemently anti-shuffle in regards to digital music players and was anti-single back when they existed outside of hip hop and dance music. it's like trying to listen to music with a DJ who has ADD and should only really be applied to friends with good taste in music that they are sharing with you. that being said, my mother's car only has an auxiliary input and no tape deck. i don't like the transmitters because they are expensive and the sound is lossy to some degree. therefore, if i drive her car i dig through my cds for something to listen to and there is a certain something to putting in an actual cd that you have extracted from a sometimes worthwhile casing. your point sir? ah yes yes. Piebald http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMXu46zLLQ were a really damn fun band. unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be too much music from their best albums, when life hands you lemons and if it weren't for venetian blinds, it would be curtains for us all but you should listen to them if you want to smile and rock out to your inner geek. ---- i swear that advertising in dreams like in Futurama is only a matter of time. so fucking sick of advertisements on youtube videos and ads that make a webpage dysfunctional after you've accidentally rolled your cursor over them and have to find the "close" link which actually still makes you go to the advertiser's webpage because you have to click the X that is next to the word close. i was listening to an instrumental jahdan blakkamoore track and heard a woman speaking at a low volume that i thought was a sample. when i heard, "inserted vaginally" i realized there was one of those godawful web ads with sound for NuvaRing birth control playing on one of the webpages i had open and that it wasn't a part of the song. i am still making mistakes and i am still learning from them. Current Music: unwound - leaves turn inside you (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
3:04 pm	Project Censored - Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009 http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/two-thousand-and-ten-book/ All of the stories have summaries linked at the above page. Top Censored Stories of 2009/2010 * 1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street * 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s * 3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates * 4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina * 5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products * 6. Lobbyists Buy Congress * 7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past * 8. Bailed out Banks and America’s Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions * 9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza * 10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate * 11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine * 12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief * 13. Katrina’s Hidden Race War * 14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts * 15. World Bank’s Carbon Trade Fiasco * 16. US Repression of Haiti Continues * 17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan * 18. Ecuador’s Constitutional Rights of Nature * 19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor * 20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates * 21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare * 22. Obama’s Trilateral Commission Team * 23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud * 24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion * 25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon Current Music: the tallest man in the world - shallow grave (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
4:13 am	why am i up at 4 am listening to numbers station broadcasts? well, because it's fascinating i would imagine. i had heard of the conet project from the beloved aquarius records and always wanted to listen to it. thanks to archive.org, anyone can listen to the 4 discs of creepy, mysterious broadcasts of cryptic messages. found here: http://www.archive.org/details/ird059 irdial discs included a postcard in the latest pressing of the 4cd set in the hopes that someone involved in operating a numbers station would send it back. they are also transcribing some of the broadcasts in hopes that someone will be able to crack it. another link to more recordings: http://home.freeuk.com/spook007/ and lastly, an interesting forum thread on slashdot discussing the challenge by irdial to crack any of the transmissions here: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/27/1735225&mode=thread http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm http://www.spynumbers.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station It has long been speculated, and was argued in court in one case, that these stations operate as a simple and foolproof method for government agencies to communicate with spies working undercover.[4] According to this theory, the messages are encrypted with a one-time pad, to avoid any risk of decryption by the enemy. As evidence, numbers stations have changed details of their broadcasts or produced special, nonscheduled broadcasts coincident with extraordinary political events, such as the August Coup of 1991 in the Soviet Union.[5] Others speculate that some of these stations may be related to illegal drug smuggling operations.[7] Unlike government stations, smugglers' stations would need to be lower powered and irregularly operated, to avoid location by triangulated direction finding, followed by government raids. However, numbers stations have transmitted with impunity for decades, so they are generally presumed to be operated or sponsored only by governments. Also, numbers station transmissions in the international shortwave bands typically require high levels of electric power that is unavailable to ranches, farms, or plantations in isolated drug-growing regions. Although no broadcaster or government has acknowledged transmitting the numbers, a 1998 article in The Daily Telegraph quoted a spokesperson for the Department of Trade and Industry (the government department that, at that time, regulated radio broadcasting in the United Kingdom) as saying, "These [numbers stations] are what you suppose they are. People shouldn't be mystified by them. They are not for, shall we say, public consumption."[10] Current Music: creepy voices (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 18th, 2009
6:01 pm	still voting democrat? domestic violence is a pre-existing condition to the dark lords of health insurance. i heard this on olbermann and couldn't believe it but in some of the most draconian states, health insurers have actually used domestic violence as a reason to deny or increase the cost of coverage to victims. Current Music: raekwon - cuban linx pt II. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 14th, 2009
11:19 am	i just finished watching lars von trier's antichrist and i have to say that the "anti-award" by the ecumenical jury at cannes was an embarrassment and a misguided injury to the film. the award has a very good history and i'm just surprised they felt this was necessary. the fact that they feel this is the most misogynist film ever made by the self-proclaimed "biggest director in the world", is failing to look beyond the surface of things simply because it is painful to do so. when von trier says he is the greatest director in the world, it is a statement that he cannot prove and no one else can disprove. he is saying it to fuck with people too self-involved to be self-aware. is the film misogynist? i don't think i'm the one to say but i assure you that it is challenged and that the lack of a definitive conclusion allows for interpretation, in fact i think the film blames man for it's unreasonable attempt to destroy life because he cannot rationalize it. this obviously is represented in the world by the fact that violence, rape, abuse are all illnesses largely attributable to men. is this a consequence of men being the ones who have usurped power to excess only to find that there is no validation in being the most powerful and that even the most powerful are destroyed, usually by their own irrationality? where the problem lies is people interpreting a very shallow understanding of the theme, that the violence visited against gainsbourg by dafoe and by gainsbourg herself are related to human nature versus nature more than man against woman. gainsbourg represents nature and dafoe represents man and the film is a horrifying and unsettling examination of the pains of human consciousness in a world where we find little certainty. the point of gainsbourg's character working on her thesis and coming to the conclusion (but leaving her thesis unfinished) that women have been portrayed as evil and the source of suffering is countered by dafoe reminding her that things like witch hunts were the product of irrational fear. von trier dances around with the question of whether nature created humans as a cruel joke, presenting us with endless stretches of beauty only to hobble us with the torment of our own uncertainty and fears. our ability to comprehend our actions may come at a price too great for us to bear and we only need to look at our history to see that men / humanity have done everything in our power to destroy ourselves despite our self-proclaimed superiority to nature. why do we allow ourselves to continue if this is all we have to offer? is reproduction as hedonistic and selfish as sex can be? what right do we have to visit the pains of comprehension on our children who have no choice in the matter? if humans can only destroy what is beautiful, can only do harm to ourselves, others, and our very environment is birth a masochistic act? do we have a right to give life when we still don't know the meaning it ourselves? will we be able to conquer our irrational existence with our superior cognition or will it destroy us? why do we wish to put ourselves above nature when nature is what birthed us and nature is what we return to no matter what material representation we build during our lives? why the fuck do men accept violence against others when they are not separate from them by nature but by influenced rationale in our own heads? why do we destroy nature, why do men fear to the point of hating women while still demanding their influence and falling apart without it? it is our consciousness that allows us to love, to feel joy, and to create machines that can separate humanity from the target at the receiving end of a missile. we create our own monsters that torment us, whether that is other people, uncertainty, even the people who gave birth to us when fully knowing how wretched the world can be (but also, hopefully, knowing the possibility of everything). i certainly believe in the possibility of a better world and i agree with von trier that the only thing holding it back is ourselves (even if von trier does not share my hope). i read lisa schwarzbaum's review as the only woman critic to see her views but she was seemingly dismissive of von trier preemptively. whether she is justified in her disgust of the film is something i don't feel the right to judge but even if the film is misogynist, i don't think it can be tossed aside as reckless and masturbatory as films that i feel are, such as fight club and american psycho (provocatively enough directed by mary harron who also did 'i shot andy warhol' about valerie solanis who called for male gendercide. someone who i thought was crazy, intelligent, and hard to dispute) or the slew of films not even worth mentioning that are so threaded into the fabric of society that their blatant misogyny goes by without mention and even worse, is tolerated. at least in antichrist, man is the devil and when he tries to exert superiority through power or intellectualism over nature and women, he gets his fucking balls crushed with a log and a grinding stone bolted through his thigh. i am still certainly processing the film and certainly want to hear from the cinema-savvy women in my life to hear their thoughts on the film, but i agree with roger ebert in that this isn't a film that demands approval or criticism, it is something that will be heard simply because it exists. charlotte gainsbourg is without a doubt an actress of great caliber and i look forward to seeing whatever she else she does in the future. her performance is harrowing and she was undeniably brave to accept the role. the "best actress" cannes award has rarely been more deserved. it should go without saying that this film has explicit content of violence against women (the worst being gainsbourg's character's self-mutilation) and unsettling, graphic gore but it is only present toward the end of the film. holy shit do i need to find a nice, fluffy film to watch tonight. Current Music: k'naan - dreamer - troubadour (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 11th, 2009
9:28 pm	such great heights 2008 by sja / freeingbirds the world is not cyclical, not eternal or immutable, but endlessly transforming itself, and never goes back, and we can assist in that transformation. live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. it may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. you stand before them bareheaded, shriven. what is expected of you is attention. your songs are your planets, live on them but make no home there. what you write about, you lose. what you sing, leaves you on the wings of song. sing against death. command the wilderness of the city. freedom to reject is the only freedom. freedom to uphold is dangerous. life is elsewhere. cross frontiers. fly away. salman rushdie Current Music: bola - gnayse - effanajor (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 6th, 2009
11:08 am	N.Y. to ban practice of shackling inmates during labor. i wasn't even aware that this was happening and i'm pretty well-informed about procedures, abuses, and conditions in prisons. if you didn't believe in the revolving doors that prisons are, this is just one of the literally inhuman practices that exist within prisons. Current Music: taken by trees - anna (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
9:56 am	going to see "thirst" today. the imdb 250 best user rated films list is atrociously cringe-worthy. i've always told people if they want a list to delve deeper into film, then start with roger ebert's great movies list. the "first 100" list is a great place to start as the full list is getting lengthy. i'm working on a "50 great movies that aren't on either list" ...uh list. which will be hard because ebert's list really is that good. goodbye solo is out on dvd, you should check it out. finally, for the horror fans: david gordon green to remake suspiria with natalie portman in the lead = what the fuck? it shouldn't be remade, it's just one of those horror films that belongs in the 70's or more importantly is truly argento's vision and any notion of remaking it should be highly criticized. you don't waste money and people's time just because you want to make a "scary movie, dude!". benny, you are a snobby, elitist prick i know i know, i'm sorry. Current Music: damian marley - welcome to jamrock - road to zion (f. nas) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
7:20 pm	"We do not move in one direction, rather do we wander back and forth, turning now this way and now that. We go back on our own tracks . . .' That thought of Montaigne's reminds me about something I thought of in connection with flying saucers, humanoids, and the remains of unbelievably advanced technology found in some ancient ruins. They write about aliens, but I think that in these phenomena we are in fact confronting ourselves; that is our future, our descendants who are actually traveling in time." Andrei Tarkovsky Current Music: Georgia Anne Muldrow - Olesi Fragments Of An Earth (2006) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
12:22 pm	i haven't been responding to or commenting on posts like i've wanted to. things have been the long way home lately. i complain about the airshow every year but it really does strike me that regardless of my annoyance and frustration at having jets rumbling over my roof for three days, i can't imagine what it would be like to hear them and not knowing if they are going to drop a bomb or not. i have no idea why they call them fighter jets anymore as if there is such a thing as dogfights in the air these days and missile technology is so horribly advanced that there is little chance of ever being shot down and such a distance between the firing and aftermath of a missile strike for a pilot. how do we learn from constant broadcasting of a case like the woman who was kidnapped, assaulted, tortured, and imprisoned for 18 years? did she escape not hell but a hell, only to step into another? public / celebrity figures open themselves to some degree of legitimate examination, especially when their private lives are revealed to be counter to their public image, but this young woman had no say in the events that led to the sensational element that the news has latched onto. do we learn from it or does the media lack any ability to critically analyze stories and consequently is entertainment at the cost of the livelihood of people like her? how can i even say one way or the other when i obviously read the story myself? [Intro] {Georgia Ann Muldrow in parentheses} (Good morning kids.... It's story time! We gonna learn about how the animals feel about humans) Animals crackers in my soup! (Here we go!) [Verse 1: Dudley Perkins] {Tongue in parentheses} Warrior of the light, fight the mighty fight With the eyes of an owl, with the eyes of an owl [Georgia] The owl says... In the darkness of the night, we see you, we see how you do How you bring death (death), love to see life take its last breath (breath) So just confess, you humans are such a mess (such a mess) You need to give it a rest, your car's smoke is starting to eat up at my chest Not to mention how it's treating all the rest, of life Oh how we have to fight to live our life! (that's right) One of nature's god-given-rights - look - now do you have a clue? What we ever do to you? That's our rainforest too! OK dude, it's getting out of hand, put the gun away before my homie eats your hand [Georgia] The lion says... And I'm real hungry too! Ever since y'all meat-sticks came through it's been bad man What we do to you? I should just eat you! Yeah, that should take care of you! Killing just to kill a man We kill to get our fill, y'all kill to get the dollar bill What a disgrace! And what a waste! Come closer, and let me have a taste! [Georgia] Hey, the crocodiles says... Yeah, me too, rock rock on Salt-water crocs almost all gone They say I look fly on the feet You people would look fly in my cheek Silly human suit, how about a silly human suit? So I can buy a gun, so I can aim and shoot Or better yet some oil, burn and pollute Cos how y'all living ain't cute What will it take? What will it take? [Georgia] The snake says... DUDLEY: Yesss, yesss, yesss [Georgia] Scary snake says... [Verse 2: Tongue] Yes sir, this is war and it's flesh versus fur We the unpaid servants, serpants hissing out a fresh first verse drowned out by the traffic You humans are deafened by your own words - how tragic! Habitats dance to the sound of the hatchet We speak up for trees ground down into matches Bees and the birds make love, never beef with the herd Why you people hunt peace to disturb? Keep to your word even when world heating occurs You ate my brothers without meeting them first! Served them with meat plus the rice and salad Crying crocodile tears as I write this ballad about this battle Polar bears get ready to paddle, and prepare for a journey they never should have taken Earth's quaking, fish scales getting burnt like bacon Caged birds dream of escaping Drugs in the blood pulls the bull out of men see 'em raging, scratching biting Never act nice when all we wanna do is get along Or at least live on - true animals sing along! [Chorus/Bridge: Dudley, Tongue and Georgia] Animal crackers in my soup! Most y'all humans is loopty loop! [Georgia] And that's how the animals feel... Animal crackers in my soup! Most y'all humans is loopty loop! (loopty loop!) Most y'all humans is loopty loop! (loopty loop!) Most y'all humans is loopty loop! (loopty loop!) What? Animal crackers, one big soup, all y'all these humans are a little loopty loop! Current Music: don cherry - complete communion (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
11:21 pm	joy | and everything in between | sadness (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
3:30 pm	via audrawilliams: misogyny, up close, and personal. the comments on the article existed before the article ever existed, you don't need to read them. they actually all just say, "i agree but i am afraid and i can't admit it" if you have the special decoder ring. related: why i think bill maher, jay leno, and many male liberals are cowards that don't get it: http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/real-time-jeremy-scahill-calls-out-chuck-todd toward the end, scahill is trying to relate a horrific revelation about god's army, blackwater, in that they used child prostitutes for "dollar blowjobs" in iraq. this apparently doesn't turn the stomachs of maher and leno rather they make a joke of "only a dollar"? as scahill said to the childish, water-carrying chuck todd that charging people for crimes against humanity via torture is "political catnip" where he tries to laugh it off nervously; "it's not funny". it's not fucking funny. Current Music: eliot lipp - the area - the outside (6 Comments |Comment on this)