Friday, September 25, 2009
cast your gaze into the moonlit clearly
and this is one of my favorite songs ever.
happy weekend.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
bangarang!!
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my neighbor came to the door to give me some errant mail.
i just realized i was wearing warpaint during our interchange.
it's been a long hard day of fighting the man. i fall asleep to the sound of sirens and have long twisty dreams about being unjustly arrested by swarms of policemen. as my faithful comrade in chaos cousin tony would say, fuck the five-oh.
it's the first day of fall and i am joyous and unruly! i win!
equinox: balance in nature
And the mountains and woods
Have their day, have their day;
What one in the rout
Of the fire-born moods
Has fallen away?
-william butler yeats
Monday, September 21, 2009
america the beautiful: david lynch's interview project
my favorite interviews are #10 jim carter, #24 mrs. dennis, #26 john d. montgomery, #28 jefferson orwell opal, and#32 joseph l. king. but every single one is pretty epic.
InterviewProject.com
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
r.e.m. adventures: grandma's fire
Thursday, September 10, 2009
enjoy happiness
FOR TURNING A ROTISSARY.
THE LIGHTS ON IT GIVE YOU A BONFIRE
WARM GLOWING FEELING.
IT CAN RUN ON STEAM OR AIR.
Yes, Manny is a Riding Steer, he is tame and is a
puppy dog. I can ride him & do occasionally, at
special events.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
happy birthday ernest hemingway
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
bailout blues & comic relief
CORPORATE FOLKTALES: HOW BERNANKE TACKLED THE DEPRESSION, AS RECORDED 150 YEARS FROM NOW BY POST-APOCALYPTIC HOBO FOLKLORISTS
by grant munroe
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"The Scourge of Markets sat glumly, sipping coffee from a nuclear cooling tower just outside of Lansing, Michigan. He was listening to the wails of the unemployed, which to him sounded as pleasing and melancholy as any Coldplay album. Knowing the strength of his enemy was too great to confront on the level field of battle, Bernanke, being a wise and crafty man, disguised himself.
Hey there, greeted Bernanke.
Oh, hey, said Depression with disinterest. He started absently clipping his toenails with the hinged trunk of an unsold 2009 Chevy Impala."
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read the whole thing at mcsweeney's.
"closing time" by veronica diaferia
here is the trailer to veronica diaferia's beautiful/funny/heartwrenching documentary "CLOSING TIME: Storia di un Negozia," which chronicles the final month of one of new york city's oldest, realest stores. when you have 30 minutes, you can watch the whole thing HERE at folkstreams.net.
it will break your heart.
Friday, May 1, 2009
hideout
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
cowabunga, dude
talking to myself
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click here for the full post from VICE
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i use the cell phone trick all the time.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
living wonder
--Laurens van der Post
from wit of the staircase <3
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
The Music of the Spheres & 100 Hours of Observation
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Pythagorus, who lived in the days of the geocentric system, suggested that if people sat outside in total silence and listened carefully, they would be able to hear the sound of the sun, moon, and stars rotating around the Earth on their crystalline spheres. If you were in the "right state of mind," as my professor put it, you could listen to this "music of the spheres."
He also informed us that 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy, and to celebrate, thousands of people around the world will watch the sky for 100 hours between April 2nd and April 5th.
80 observatories around the world will provide live webcasts of the observation event, which will bring astronomy to the masses.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
stalled in their skins: lester bangs on astral weeks
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this is what lester bangs said about the album in a 1979 article:
"What Astral Weeks deals in are not facts but truths. Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and selves, paralyzed by the enormity of what in one moment of vision they can comprehend. It is a precious and terrible gift, born of a terrible truth, because what they see is both infinitely beautiful and terminally horrifying: the unlimited human ability to create or destroy, according to whim. It's no Eastern mystic or psychedelic vision of the emerald beyond, nor is it some Baudelairean perception of the beauty of sleaze and grotesquerie. Maybe what it boiled down to is one moment's knowledge of the miracle of life, with its inevitable concomitant, a vertiginous glimpse of the capacity to be hurt, and the capacity to inflict that hurt. "
lester bangs on astral weeks
Monday, March 23, 2009
rick steves: make something!
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"A headline today said, "Americans lose 18 percent of their wealth." Well, no, it wasn't real wealth, it was a bubble. You're down 18 percent? You're not. It shouldn't have been up there in the first place. So get over it. Shut up. Go to work, produce stuff that has value. I really think the days are gone, I hope, when people can rearrange the furniture and get rich on it. You got to produce something."
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full interview: salon.com
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
genius and how we ruin it: elizabeth gilbert on creativity
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
support your local indian food
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face the music
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Monday, March 9, 2009
patsy cline & prophecies of doom
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On March 3, 1963, she gave a brilliant performance at a benefit concert in Kansas City, Kansas. Afterward, Cline’s close friend, Dottie West, pleaded with her to ride home with her and her husband Bill. Anxious to see her children, Cline told West, “Don’t worry about me, Hoss ( a name she used for close friends). When it’s my time to go, it’s my time.”
After calling her mother, Cline boarded a Piper Comanche for Nashville flown by her manager Randy Hughes. “Cowboy” Copas and “Hawkshaw” Hawkins joined them. They stopped in Dyersburg, Tennessee to refuel and the airport manager suggested they spend the night because of high winds and inclement weather ahead. Hughes replied, “I’ve already come this far. We’ll be there before you know it.”
Hughes and his passengers left Dyersburg at 6:07 p.m. and crashed, according to Cline’s wristwatch, at 6:20 p.m. just outside Camden, Tennessee. Nobody survived.
At just 30, they laid Patsy Cline to rest in Sheandoah Memorial Park in Winchester."
Friday, March 6, 2009
r.e.m. time traveling: the hartford circus fire
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"In 1950, a Circleville, Ohio man named Robert D. Segee claimed he was responsible for setting the Hartford Circus Fire. He said he had a nightmare in which an Indian riding on a "flaming horse" told him to set fires. He further claimed that after this nightmare his mind went blank, and that he did not come out of this state until the circus fire had already been set."
Friday, February 27, 2009
seed magazine.com: collecting dying languages
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"In a particularly powerful moment in the documentary, Harrison and Anderson use a laptop to show elderly Chulym speakers video footage of themselves speaking that they've edited together via iMovie software. While sitting around the computer as if it were a campfire, the Chulym speakers express a sense of delight at seeing and hearing their recorded voices for the first time. "To see themselves represented in a high-tech way," says Anderson in the film, says to them that "maybe our language isn't so backward; maybe I have a knowledge that really is special."
full story @ seedmagazine.com
'The Linguists' official website
Thursday, February 26, 2009
no future in anything
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-Ernest Hemingway to his publisher, 1940
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
not spring yet
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Monday, February 23, 2009
ghost bikes
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"The practice of erecting ghost bikes to honor the cycling dead began in St. Louis, Missouri in 2003. Patrick Van Der Tuin, a local cyclist who runs a shop that caters to low-income riders, saw a bicyclist struck and killed. He painted a bike white and erected it on the spot with a sign reading "Cyclist Struck Here". When he saw how the bike caused drivers in the area to be more cautious he and a group of friends put up 15 more ghost bikes around the city. Since then ghost bikes have spread to 75 cities across four continents.
"There is something about it that resonates with people from so many different cultures," says Leah Todd, a volunteer at the Street Memorial Project, which builds and installs ghost bikes around New York. "Whether or not you knew the person there is an immediate resonance, a feeling among riders that it could have been you, a shared sense of helplessness on the streets."'
full story at obit-mag.com
Friday, February 20, 2009
beyond reductionism: stuart kauffman on salon.com
"I've fallen in love with the idea that consciousness has something to do with being poised forever between the quantum world of possibilities, where nothing actual happens, and the transformation of that -- whether it's the collapse of the wave function or decoherence, where something actual happens in the world.
If this is related to consciousness, it provides an intellectual framework in which we can understand the mind acting on matter. Quantum mechanics is astonishing because it's not causal. It just happens. Maybe the mind is acausal. Maybe the mind is non-algorithmic. I don't want you to take this very seriously. It's just Stu Kauffman getting old and thinking weird things. But it may be true. And even if my arguments are right, it still doesn't tell us what consciousness is. I don't have any idea. Nor does anybody else, including the philosophers of mind. "