Plastic family seeks to run United States
Tuesday evening this shot was taken of a creepy plastic family that seems especially eager to reside in a new white doll house.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Corey Worthington Delaney, my hero
the last minute's conversation is amazing.
Obama's victory speech in SC
regardless of how one feels about obama, it is impossible to dismiss the enthusiasm he draws. i haven't been at any of his rallies, but i've read it is like a religious experience. i hope i get the chance to see him when he comes to madison.
i've complained about his folksiness in the past, but this is a powerful, eloquent, and earnest speech. Sphere: Related Content
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
top 50 dystopian movies
this is a good list that i want to explore. i've seen quite a few of these, but many are new to me.
metropolis, a clockwork orange, brazil, wings of desire, and blade runner are at the top of the list.
killings in kenya
Rono Kibet, one of the men, said elders in his community called a big meeting on Dec. 30. That was the night that Kenya’s election results were announced, giving Mr. Kibaki the victory over Raila Odinga, the top opposition leader, despite widespread evidence of vote rigging. More than 2,000 young men gathered, Mr. Kibet said, and the elders urged them to kill Kikuyus, Mr. Kibaki’s ethnic group, and burn down their houses. The Kalenjin had fought them before.
“The community raised the money for the gasoline,” Mr. Kibet said.
He explained how the elders blessed the young men, who then split into teams of 50 to hunt down Kikuyus with bows and arrows. He did not feel bad about shooting them, he said.
“We attack people, we burn their homes and then we take their animals,” Mr. Kibet said matter-of-factly.
A few villages away and a couple of hours later, Kikuyu farmers scanned the hilltops with a pair of old field glasses that never seemed quite in focus. They carried homemade guns built of wood, water pipes and umbrella springs, highly illegal but highly necessary, they said.
Some of the sentinels were among the most educated people in the area. One, Wilson Muiruri, a University of Nairobi student, was spending his Christmas holiday moonlighting as a warrior.
“I don’t hate Kalenjins at the university,” he said. “But out here, it’s different.”
Sphere: Related ContentTuesday, January 15, 2008
Yacht rock!
Show premise is satirizing the late seventies and early eighties smoooooth music fad.
This first episode is good, but the rest are pretty great too. there are ten episodes. with more to come!!!!
a couple of my fav quotes from the first five episodes:
'youve got to get your dick out of your heart'
'this HARD rock has got me and Eddie drillin' more cooch than Black and Decker'
all of the shows can be viewed here
Sunday, January 13, 2008
pineapple express
the product of baby fucking...
my second favorite civil engineer...
it's like god's vagina.
Friday, January 11, 2008
David Bowie is a lesbian
I hate saying this because I love David Bowie, but in the last several years he has begun to look more and more like Grandma. At first I thought this was just something weird that only I had noticed, but it turns out that I am not the only observer of, and Bowie is not the only victim to this terrifying phenomenon. Finally someone else is writing about the disturbing trend of men turning into aging lesbians: http://www.cracked.com/article_15788_top-25-men-who-look-like-old-lesbians.html
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
aids wolf and night wounds back-and-forth
members of aids wolf and night wounds discuss their thoughts on collaborative music, accessibility, noise, experimentation, etc.
excerpt:
I think the internet does make wonders for weird music by making things that would be hard to access otherwise available to more people, it actually made us able to connect with bands we like in almost every city in the US, and play shows with them on one tour, something that would have probably taken years to build up in successive tours before the nineties. It seems that there is at least one person per city that would come to our show, something unthinkable before, especially because of the genre we are into. I doubt the audience actually widened, I think it rather revealed this music to other people playing it or people interested by it, solidifying the collaboration between bands, making the nerds come out of their cubbyholes, stop worrying about keeping their mailorder noise tapes collection in alphabetical order and finally go out and see shows. So I guess it became also partly alienating the audience and playing alienated sounds for the already alienated.
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I feel like we are completely stuck between wanting to play tight songs and be a complete free-form mess. I think the contrast between the two, when placed together in one song, has not gotten boring to me yet. I used to be under the impression that anybody could play in this band as long as they could pluck two notes on a bass or bang something. That is somewhat true, but it relies completely on how I and people I play with connect. I think I'm over trying to control this band... it was always about having people who had no idea what they were doing... total "I could be in your band if you teach me how to play this instrument" sort of thing, but in recent months of playing with people who kind of finish my thoughts for me musically, I have realized this was a form of denial. Music is very sacred to me... finding someone that I can play with (in any band, not just Night Wounds) is like finding a boyfriend or girlfriend. Years and years ago before this band even started I had played with a few people who came from the same world as me, and when those projects broke up or people moved on (myself included), I remember being left with a very bittersweet taste in my mouth, like I had been dumped or broken up with someone. I think that scared me away from being in a fully working band where everyone contributes equally from that point onward till a few months ago. I don't like losing people I connect with.
interview here
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