something is... in my ear.

Tinariwen!

2010-02-19T21:59:00.001-05:00

Tinariwen!

2007-08-29T10:15:00.000-04:00

From Jenny Davidson's link to the contest Paul Collins is having, comes this book title:

I think there is something very poignant about it.

Handles

2007-08-28T15:51:00.001-04:00

Do people have handles?
No.
There's love-handles, obviously, and a possibility of getting a handle on someone.
But really, handles these are not.
So, for those of you with object design degrees or aspirations, create a handle with which you can pick up a person and carry them as a suitcase.

A New Post!

2007-07-09T21:25:00.001-04:00

Since Dave seems to be slacking lately, I figured I'd start posting music as well. This is a song from the 2006 album by Anja Garbarek 'Briefly Shaking.'

The only thing I'm still good for

2007-01-12T10:06:00.000-05:00

Another Day, Another Dollar

2007-01-11T10:10:00.000-05:00

saved. If you buy the paper just for the crossword.

X-Word

2007-01-08T10:37:00.000-05:00

Since I am posting copyright infringing materials anyway, here's something I figured I can do at work for your amusement.

If you click it, you can enlarge the image and print to your heart's content.

Explosions in the Sky

2006-12-14T19:20:00.000-05:00

Hey Monkeys,

Thought the ones who still read this might want to give a listen to the new upcoming EitS album. It's good, much like the older stuff. The sound quality isn't the best on this rip, but good enough.

Explosions in the Sky - All of the Sudden I Miss Everyone.

Frontline Google

2006-12-12T12:20:00.000-05:00

Been a while since I posted and I apologize for that. I guess I've been kind of busy and also sick lately, though that would have been a good time to post. Mostly lazy I guess. I do have lots of music that I want to share, so stay tuned for that.

Meanwhile, remember the post I had about the judge ordering the FBI to use Google? Well here is yet another way that Google is helping us fight the war on terrorism.

My favorite part is when the CIA says "go fuck yourselves."

In Soviet Russia, the food eats you!

2006-11-30T13:39:00.000-05:00

The consumption of food that is still alive!

This is kind of amazing and terrifying all at the same time. A little beyond my culinary adventure desires though.

Another writer's space

2006-11-27T11:52:00.000-05:00

Early on I posted a picture of a writer's room covered in notes. This is another. From Will Self's blog.

Take a look at the other pictures too. Some are even more frightening.

Achewood Thanksgiving

2006-11-24T10:40:00.000-05:00

At Roast Beef's blog, he describes his Kraftwerk thanksgiving.

ME: Welcome to zis Kraftwerk Thänksgiving it is not important that you sit down but you may find it konvenient

MOLLY: Please be seated at my home

ME: Woman does not give orders [shoots her a severe glance]

TÉODOR: I will sit it is ze korrect form for eating, it is ideally designed

RAY: [kind of getting it] Ja, I sit down!

ME: Fine then be seated as I mentioned it is not important to me

That's what I should have had.

Cartoon Living

2006-11-21T16:30:00.000-05:00

An actual room in a hotel in Berlin. All the edges are outlined with thin black lines. Living here must be so disorienting.

Hopefully, comeuppance

2006-11-20T11:08:00.000-05:00

So, after Lieberman lost the primary in Connecticut, he formed his own party for the sole purpose of nominating himself to the Senate. Now a professor, who is a critic of Lieberman, made himself chair of this party.

According to bylaws established by Orman, anyone whose last name is Lieberman may seek the party's nomination - or any critic of the senator.

This is good activism.

Really good

2006-11-13T13:05:00.000-05:00

I don't usually post youtube videos, or whatever, but this is worth it. I think Joe, if he's still reading my blog sometimes will really enjoy this.

It's from here, the blog of the guy who made this.

Makes me wish I continued learning about Max/MSP. Also makes me think about the fun times we had in Bob Bielecki's class.

Oh and...

2006-11-09T21:15:00.000-05:00

Something I promised a while ago:

Joanna Newsom - Ys

Reading film

2006-11-09T14:00:00.000-05:00

This is a partial transcript of sorts of the film The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, presented and narrated by Slavoj Zizek.

I am sure some of you will find it of interest.

Beety

2006-11-08T23:48:00.000-05:00

Why does beefy get to be a word when beety doesn't? Has no one ever felt too beety?

No lie

2006-11-08T23:15:00.000-05:00

So here you go:

Pete and the Pirates - Wait Stop Begin

Work time

2006-11-08T17:42:00.000-05:00

I recently moved offices from the naughtily numbered 6th floor of 666 5th ave, to the much more prosaic 11th floor of 485 Lexington. The commute is more annoying, and the digs not quite as nice, but what I do like is that the bosses now have offices whereas before they sat among us. Although I really like my bosses, this is good because everybody feels more comfortable leaving around 5 like they should and I can slack off more at the end of the day.

Of course this is all negated by the fact that my days have been the busiest in months.

Finally Music

2006-11-08T09:52:00.000-05:00

OK, so I concentrated really hard this morning and was able to sustain my internet connection to upload this:

Tap Tap - Lanzafame

Tap Tap was one of the bzzz bzzz bands this summer, and it falls pretty firmly in the Clap Your Hands... side of things. But don't listen to those that they sound like an Arcade Fire/Wolf Parade rip-off band. To my ears at least, it sounds like Tap Tap arrived at a similar sound in their own way, and though it will probably appeal to the same kind of audience I think they deserve a listen on own merits.

Thomas Sanders, the man behind the band, also plays in a band called Pete and the Pirates that I will upload later today. I don't know which of his projects I like better, but there is a song that appears on both albums and I think I prefer the Pete and the Pirates version. You can judge for yourselves later.

Book singing

2006-11-07T14:38:00.000-05:00

from.

Amusement

2006-11-02T15:19:00.000-05:00

This is great:

Unfortunate

2006-10-31T10:59:00.000-05:00

This is ridiculous. I can't upload anything because my internet connection disconnects every 20 or so minutes. Only for a few seconds but it's enough to interrupt any uploading. I don't know if Cablevision has some kind of bandwidth restriction thing going or what, but it's really annoying. If anyone has advice, please let me know, but I think I am going to be calling the company today.

TV Music

2006-10-30T23:03:00.000-05:00

Camera Obscura on Friday Night Lights!!??

Monty Python?

2006-10-30T15:34:00.000-05:00

I am not usually one to have anything Monty Python related here, but I just came across this little bit when reading another blog.

Half a bee, philosophically,
must eo ipso facto half not be
But half a bee has got to be,
vis a vis its entity -
D'you see?

But can a bee be said to be
Or not to be an entire bee,
When half the bee is not a bee
Due to some ancient injury

I haven't heard this before, and it's pretty cute so I think maybe it's ok that I posted it.

A Week?

2006-10-30T13:30:00.000-05:00

I can't believe it's been a week since I posted. I remember those days when I had something to say every day...

And as a dear dear friend pointed out, I have also promised to put up music last week which I clearly have not done. The only excuse I have is that I've been exploring all kinds of web 2.0 ways of sharing my music and I may have come up with something. I'll try it when I get home from work tonight.

So, do not despair just yet. The earbear will come back.

Readings

2006-10-30T13:21:00.000-05:00

A new post from Shalow Auslander, a funny jew.

Read it. And, as a bonus, he mentions Poet's Walk which we from Bard all know and love.

Activity

2006-10-23T15:55:00.000-04:00

My blog traffic is down recently, maybe because of my loss in the challenge, maybe because I've gotten boring. I would like to reverse that trend though.

Haven't posted music in a while. Does anyone still not have the new Joanna Newsom album? I've had it for a while and sort of assumed everyone else had too but if anyone doesn't, let me. I like it a lot, maybe even more than her first one. Have some other stuff too, I'll take a look around.

Readings

2006-10-23T12:11:00.000-04:00

Ron Silliman writes about Elizabeth Willis (and doesn't she look like Jodie Foster?). I like this poem from No: A Journal of the Arts.

Why No New Planets Are Ejected from the Sun

These our ships are the copies of copies. This x is that, lifting off the dock. We think we’re here because we’re crouching in the umber of syllables, that sun is “killing me,” a flag among flies, our frozen boat in frozen oil. Let’s haunt the beach instead of this history beset with cosmic jelly. At the blind is it morning already? This word has meant so many things, I need a fence to move this gem-like feeling. Or I’m that bus, in hacked-up disquiet, stuck at the light.

1001 Books to Read

2006-10-19T11:16:00.000-04:00

So there is a new meme going around, spurred by the publication of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

The list can be found online here, and people have been counting and posting their read books. Since I am at work and don't have much to do at the moment, I counted mine and I got 218 out of the 1001. Which I think is pretty good.

I am sure I missed some, but if anybody is interested in my list for whatever reason, it's in the comments.

NYT Filter

2006-10-17T10:32:00.000-04:00

Even if you don't usually read the editorial in the NYT, read this one. It's funny, but also incredibly frightening. Basically, the people in charge of the war in Iraq don't know the difference between the Sunni and Shiite factions.

This is indicative:

To his [Representative Terry Everett, a seven-term Alabama Republican who is vice chairman of the House intelligence subcommittee on technical and tactical intelligence] credit, he asked me to explain the differences. I told him briefly about the schism that developed after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, and how Iraq and Iran are majority Shiite nations while the rest of the Muslim world is mostly Sunni. “Now that you’ve explained it to me,” he replied, “what occurs to me is that it makes what we’re doing over there extremely difficult, not only in Iraq but that whole area.”

Work email

2006-10-16T12:02:00.000-04:00

An email I just received, sent out to the entire floor:

"Sorry to bother you gentlemen, but there was a key found in the ladies' room. Thank you"

Get your brains around that one, friends.

Appropriate

2006-10-16T11:37:00.000-04:00

A New Yorker cartoon I found.

Creepy...

2006-10-16T11:06:00.000-04:00

from.

Death of a filmmaker

2006-10-13T12:51:00.000-04:00

Gillo Pontecorvo has died at the age of 86.

If you haven't seen The Battle of Algiers, please do so.

What a strange night of

2006-10-13T00:25:00.000-04:00

What a strange night of reminiscing.

Something... funny

2006-10-12T10:33:00.000-04:00

From the upcoming book by Simon Rich, son of Times columnist Frank Rich and president of the Harvard Lampoon.

i used 2 B a typical teenage girl, gossiping with my gal friends on the weekends (I luv U guys!) throwing slumber parties (zzzzzzz!) That was B4 i contracted hepatitis C.

Sometimes i ask myself, "Y? Y has the lord 4saken me? R U there God? Have U 4gotten me?" i'm trying 2 B positive, but it's hard when U know that your death is a 4gone conclusion. It's only a matter of time B4 my D4med liver ceases 2 function 4ever.

My innards R swarming w/ 2morous growths & the pain is excruci8ing. i no longer have any will 2 live. 2morrow i'll B sed8ed 4 the oper8ion. Secretly, i hope i don't come 2.

i've decided 2 stop praying. Y should I? i h8 god. He sh@ on me & i h8 him. All i can do now is w8 4 death.

:(

Metafilter filter

2006-10-11T10:49:00.000-04:00

Sick, but kind of beautiful.

This is a joke, I hope.

2006-10-10T17:01:00.000-04:00

Devendra on North Korea.

And...

2006-10-10T16:11:00.000-04:00

I guess, I've missed out on this piece of brilliance.

Feeling down?

2006-10-10T16:06:00.000-04:00

This will help!

Oh well

2006-10-10T11:16:00.000-04:00

There goes my $10. It's alright though, i didn't really think I was going to make it all the way anyhow. But I'll try to keep on posting regardless.

Renovations

2006-10-08T17:08:00.000-04:00

Right now I am at my mom's apartment, I guess our old apartment, helping her move stuff out of the rooms because they are going to be repainted. Basically this means throwing out most of what had collected in there over the years, as well as some of the furniture which is now unnecessary since my brother and I don't live here anymore.
I found some funny things from a while back. A t-shirt that I got graduating from 6th grade with the signatures of my classmates on it. A mix tape I was working on for a girl I had a crush sophomore year of high school. Some of it I wanted to keep but a lot I just got rid of. Feels a little strange, I think.

Gotta remember to post today.

2006-10-07T20:28:00.000-04:00

Gotta remember to post today.

Ted Berrigan

2006-10-06T16:30:00.000-04:00

Postcard

THE SENDER OF THIS
POSTCARD IS SECRETLY
(STILL) UNSURE OF YOUR WORTH
AS (EITHER) A FRIEND OR A
HUMAN BEING. YOU COCKSUCKER.

Anecdote

2006-10-06T12:25:00.000-04:00

Someone once asked Sidney Morgenbesser "Why is there something rather than nothing?"

Morgenbesser's reply: "Even if there was nothing you'd still be complaining."

Also..

2006-10-05T14:56:00.000-04:00

Um, what the fuck?

Anyone?

2006-10-05T14:55:00.000-04:00

Anyone else want to leave me some lists in comments?

iPod list 2

2006-10-05T13:50:00.000-04:00

Songs about you:

You and I Are a Gang of Losers
You Can Make Him Like You
You Crash
You Look Ready
You Me
You Pay No Mind
You're a Nightmare
You're Not Blind
You're the Driver and I'm in the Backseat
Your Flickering Eyelids
Your Heart is so Loud
Your Shitty Record Wont Mix Itself
Your Sister's Clothes
Yours to Keep

Hmm.

iPod list...

2006-10-05T13:40:00.000-04:00

Songs on my iPod about me:

I am Drinking Again
I Can Wait
I Confess
I Dream the Sand
I Feel Like Going Home
I Feel Space
I Fell Deep
I Found a Reason
I Gotcha
I Had a Guitar (Bjarton and I)
I Have Decided
I Lay Awake
I Like Your Style
I Love You
I Miss That Band
I No Longer Wish To
I Quit
I Refuse to Die
I Saw Her in the Anti-War Demonstration
I Should Have Known Better
I Spy
I Take It Back
I Win
I'd Like to Be
I'll Never Belong
I'll Read You a Story
I'm an Angel Telling Lies
I'm Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You
I'm Sorry I Sang on Your Hands That Have Been in the Grave

Even in alphabetical order, I like the story that these tell.

Oh Weird

2006-10-04T12:07:00.000-04:00

I was just talking about Trigger Happy TV with Ben, and here it is.

Sam Lipsyte on Houellebecq

2006-10-04T11:15:00.000-04:00

This is a good essay on travelling with Michel Houellebecq, one of the 'bad boys' of French literature, written by Sam Lipsyte. If you've read either of them, or heard about them, or whatever, check it out.

Don't let the fact that it's in The Believer discourage you. Though an understandable impulse, they sometimes actually publish good writing.

Cable

2006-10-04T11:04:00.000-04:00

I am supposed to have cable and internet installed at my house today. I am hoping everything goes smoothly because tonight is the premiere of Lost. So pretty damn important.

Also that means that I will be able to download and post on own bandwidth rather than stealing someone else's.

Ha!

2006-10-03T10:06:00.000-04:00

Mark Foley has been framed! This explains it.

Open Bar Tomorrow

2006-10-02T21:30:00.000-04:00

At Beauty Bar 6-8, Tuesday Oct. 3. It is a book release party for 20 Something Essays by 20 Something Writers.

Everybody who's a name in publishing will be there. Like Jill Quint, the person to know at Random House.

Show

2006-10-01T22:58:00.000-04:00

I watched a lot of Nip/Tuck today. So trashy, but kind of addictive.

finally

2006-09-30T20:14:00.000-04:00

I finally got to Brendan's apartment and had a very pleasant dinner. Much of the conversation was about nipples and butts.

Why won't anybody tell me

2006-09-30T17:44:00.000-04:00

Why won't anybody tell me where brendan lives!

GOP News

2006-09-29T16:26:00.000-04:00

Mark Foley just resigned after inappropriate emails and IMs were made known. The funny thing is that he's worked on legislation that teaches kids how to recognize and protect themselves from online predators.
Of course it seems that the main problem is that they were male pages. Poor closeted republicans.

By the way...

2006-09-29T15:12:00.000-04:00

Did you guys know that the New York Times style manual does not have the word ironic? So you can't use it in an article/op-ed unless referring to the Greek plays.

Insubstantiality

2006-09-29T12:21:00.000-04:00

Also like Ben, yesterday's posting was only a mention of a failure to post the previous day. I feel like this is not acceptable and so would like to make up for it with a substantial post today. Don't really know what I want to write about though, and I don't really have - or really shouldn't have - time enough at work to make a serious entry. However, I am thinking of writing about this essay on photography in the Boston Review.
I think it's an interesting essay and I am still formulating my response to it, but I don't agree with it in many ways. At the least with its way of arguing, since it would be hard to disagree with at least some of Susie Linfield's conclusions that

It is precisely because these photos are so confusing—such utter failures at providing answers—that they are so valuable: by refusing to tell us what to feel, and allowing us to feel things we don’t quite understand, they make us dig, and even think, a little deeper. In approaching photos such as these, the point is not to formally disassemble them in the hope of gaining mastery; nor to reject them as feeble, partial truths; nor to deny the uncomfortable, unfamiliar reactions they elicit. Instead, we can use the photos’ ambiguities as a starting point of discovery, a tool with which to delve into the larger historic realities at which the images can only hint. By connecting these photographs to the world outside their frames, they begin to live, to breathe, more fully; otherwise they simply devolve into spectacles.

This argument is not all that controversial. The rest of her article, however, addresses photography critics who appear to hate photography or at least approach it with extreme distrust and without any of the pleasure with which critics of other mediums approach their sources. Linfield argues that, like Pauline Kael for film for example, photography critics should engage photography with all of their senses, using their critical faculties to examine their emotional responses. I don't necessarily disagree that it shouldn't happen in that fashion, I disagree that it hasn't been happening.
I think that the critics that she quotes write sometimes about photography with seeming vitriol precisely because they don't want photography to become a static document, a harbringer of some reality. The critics were reacting to the early perception of photography as a strictly documentary medium, one which conveys exactly what it means to. And because photography is a more recent development, which Linfield does point out, the struggle with presentation / representation etc. took place more visibly to us. I also don't think that it hasn't been an issue with film, or with the other arts that she mentions actually, but the audience approached film as a medium for fiction much faster than they did photography.
As far as Linfield's method of arguing goes, I'll provide a couple of examples. She begins the essay with a description of positive critical approaches, including film. But when later she gives reasons for the critical antipathy toward photography, one of the most significant is its base in technology and modern man. A statement that is surely true even more for film.
Also, consider this passage:

There is much that is bracing, and revelatory, and so wonderfully challenging about Brecht’s emotional astringency. Who can not admire a man who, in one of his very first poems, announces to the women in his life, “Here you have someone on whom you can’t rely.” What is often forgotten, however, is that Brecht—like Moses—was a particular man who lived in a particular time and place and who observed particular things.

"a particular man who lived in a particular time and place and who observed particular things" that is fairly vague, but what gets me is the drop in "like Moses." I mean, what? I suppose one could follow the analogy - Brecht, like Moses with the Jews, wanted to lead the German people from the oppression of growing ideology - but it is so strained and so awkwardly placed that it immediately destroyed any semblance of a coherent flow to the argument.
This is not a substantive critique, I am aware, way too vague and lacking examples. I don't really have time right now to look for some. But I want to develop this further, so I might post something else, or edit this as the day wears on.
Comments are welcome.

Oops

2006-09-28T09:28:00.000-04:00

Well, I didn't post yesterday. I didn't even forget at first, I tried to go online at my dad's house and couldn't. I even thought about needing to mention that via phone, but then didn't. I guess neither did Ben though and this is why he granted us the mulligan.

Vacation

2006-09-26T23:00:00.000-04:00

Took the day off today, was way too tired to make my way to work. Thinking of taking another one tomorrow, feel like I am actually getting sick. I watched hours and hours of downloaded TV while home.
I have to say I am really liking Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as of now. I also watched Heroes, the new superhero show on NBC and though the premise is interesting, the execution is sometimes painfully bad. The surmonizing that most of the characters do at some point is annoying as well as cliche and often wrong. The episode begins with a teacher lecturing the students about evolution and how the cockroach is more advanced because it can survive more... I mean come on! I'll give it another chance but it better step things up.

Problems?

2006-09-25T14:12:00.000-04:00

is anyone else having problems with blogger today?

Cartooning around.

2006-09-25T13:43:00.000-04:00

If you knew me freshman year of college, you might remember that I used to swear by a book called "Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret," a collection of whimsical comics by Michael Kupperman. It featured the adventures of such characters as the titular Snake 'n' Bacon, Picasso and Thorsraeli - the nuclear combination of Thor and Benjamin Disraeli.
Recently, Michael Kupperman started releasing his inspired stupidity in a series of comics called "Tales Designed to Thrizzle." I have #1 and #2 and I'll post some selections whenever I feel like it.
Here's one now. Enjoy. (click for largeness.)

Last night's party...

2006-09-24T15:01:00.000-04:00

We went to the gas station last night, thinking about food and trying to find our friends, but Ben was too tired to do much.

I'm literally phoning it in.

2006-09-23T23:02:00.000-04:00

I'm literally phoning it in.

This is mike's party. Coming

2006-09-23T23:01:00.000-04:00

This is mike's party. Coming at you. Check it out.

This Weekend

2006-09-22T15:02:00.000-04:00

Is anyone doing this: http://www.comeoutandplay.org/?

We should participate in this specifically: www.cruelgame.com. Registration is still open and it looke like lots of. It's tomorrow at noon in the 48th - 58th area of Broadway.

Call me if you think you'll be awake. Not sure if I'll make it, but I want to be motivated.

Say wha?

2006-09-22T09:53:00.000-04:00

That's right. It's the new Beck album. If you download it now, you'll hear it before I have. That's how much I do for you all.

Beck - The Information

Picture

2006-09-21T11:49:00.000-04:00

I tried to post a picture from my friend's art site yesterday, but instead just got the gray box. I kind of like it though, think I am going to keep it.

Chicago

2006-09-21T00:03:00.000-04:00

If anyone is going to be in the Chicago area from the 13th to the 15th of October, let me know. I think I am going out there to check out the art show my friend curated.

In a few minutes is

2006-09-20T20:05:00.000-04:00

In a few minutes is the premiere of America's next top model. Too exciting.

New Discovery

2006-09-19T17:10:00.000-04:00

Been reading this website: Evil Editor. There's various fun that he has with the submissions that he gets and they are all very entertaining. For example, when commenting on submissions, he has a little game where the readers can choose, based on the title, the actual plot of the book.

Here's one:

Guess the Plot

The Shrimp that Sleeps

1. A book created entirely by matching random nouns with random verbs, and a few articles, prepositions, and conjunctions. Also, a vampire.

2. An ancient evil lurks beneath the mighty deep. Almost as feared as the Kraken, more terrifying than the Loch Ness Monster, it is . . . The Shrimp That Sleeps.

3. A scathing expose of the seafood industry, proving that not everything is as fresh as the consumer would like.

4. Mati is forced to decide whether or not to become a lady of the evening, like the proverbial sleeping shrimp.

5. Okay, Morty Wansch was small for his age, but Mr. Mullally's nickname for him in fourth period civics class was just mean. And when he wakes up, he's determined to get even.

6. A cabal of sinister mages predicts the future by reading malignant omens in restaurant leavings.

The wait...

2006-09-18T23:52:00.000-04:00

There are only two or so weeks left until Richard Powers' new novel comes out. The Echo Maker is my most anticipated novel of the year, outstripping even the Pynchon one.

I can't wait.

Money

2006-09-17T23:48:00.000-04:00

I promise to get my contest money to Ben as soon as I remember my PayPal password.

Films

2006-09-17T23:41:00.000-04:00

Just got, and watched some of, this:

Pretty excellent.

I'm so embarrassed...

2006-09-16T18:35:00.000-04:00

By my brother trying to get pie!

More about poetry

2006-09-15T11:48:00.000-04:00

Jim Behrle is so angry about Best American Poetry 2006.

I have a few suspicions as to why, but funny nonetheless.

Achewood reference

2006-09-15T11:22:00.000-04:00

"An Asian dude can flavor up a noodle ten ways from Sunday in the time it takes an Italian dude to find his pants and wish he had a Lamborghini."

From Roast Beef's blog.

Amy and Jordan

2006-09-14T15:31:00.000-04:00

Please enjoy another strip.

Don't forget to click for readability.

Hey, pretty good!

2006-09-14T11:51:00.000-04:00

I am the 12th result on a google search for ear trivia.

Learn something new.

2006-09-14T11:47:00.000-04:00

I think this is a very funny idea for a show. Unfortunately it would never work in America, or probably most places today.

Michael Paulus

2006-09-13T16:54:00.000-04:00

Is an artist out west somewhere. Here's a thing.

Poetry

2006-09-13T12:57:00.000-04:00

This is a poem by Eric Gelsinger from http://mtdmagazine.tripod.com/
Though I don't drink that much coffee I think I can relate.

Vibrations

I have put so much coffee into my body I have lost my emotions.
Coffee makes me lie: I do have one emotion
It is called too much coffee.

The coffee wears off very fast
Because I drink so much of it: I have a second emotion
It is called I have to pee
It is a very strong emotion
I am like King Lear

I have a strong emotion
I am like Oedipus
I do not gouge out my eyes. I have to pee.
They live in the old days. Not me.

Oedipus never pees
King Lear does not pee
Because they are from that time
They are not real
I am real
I am emotional
I need a glass of water
This is also a strong emotion.
I will drink water and pee at the same time.

The coffee is wearing off even more
I have new emotions.
They care called txt msgs.
Txt msgs are a major way to do emotions
Txt msgs are better than faces or voices for emotions

I get txt msgs
But they are all from the same person
My pocket vibrates hopelessly
Like the old days.

Knife

2006-09-13T11:55:00.000-04:00

This is kind of insane.

Masamoto Yanagi

A knife for almost $3,000, and if you want it done left handed, it will be 5,000. I guess they have to grind it in the other direction, but seems like a lot. Which of course means I want it.

I've actually been thinking about getting some nice knives, just one or two multipurpose ones that will last me a while. Have my eye on either the Kershaw Shuns or the Globals. I guess that also means that I should also learn how to sharpen them properly.

The New Yorker

2006-09-12T13:59:00.000-04:00

This week's is a good one, with an essay by Ian Buruma (a sometime Bard professor) about the drama surrounding the new Grass memoir and his confession of being in the SS.
On the lighter side, there is also a new essay by David Sedaris involving more funny cultural and language barrier hijinx that happened in France. ~~Strangely, it is not linked from the main New Yorker page but this direct link works for now.~~ It's totally linked now.

Enjoyment

2006-09-12T10:39:00.000-04:00

Amy and Jordan is one of my favorite comic strips. Here is one I chose randomly.
(click to see in readable size.)

It comes from this great collection.

I constantly mistype...

2006-09-11T14:21:00.000-04:00

... and end up here. I have to admit I laugh a little every time I am redirected.

Try again

2006-09-10T10:29:00.000-04:00

I am sorry if you tried to download the Of Montreal album yesterday and weren't able to. That should be fixed now.

I know you'll want this.

2006-09-09T17:14:00.000-04:00

Pretty sure this will be to everyone's liking:

Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Word.

Ugh

2006-09-08T12:52:00.000-04:00

Damn, I can't believe that Jewgle.com is already a site. I thought it was going to be my next big thing. There is also Jewster.com. But no Jewspace.com! I need to have it!

Work

2006-09-07T14:56:00.000-04:00

I hate it when I actually have so much stuff to do at work that I can't even properly update my blog. Ridiculous.

Beasties

2006-09-06T13:48:00.000-04:00

From Theo Jansen

TV related

2006-09-06T13:12:00.000-04:00

Ron Silliman has a good post on, what else, Project Runway. I agree with almost everything he says, I suppose most of it fairly obvious, except for calling Angela a designer on par with Alison and better than Vincent and Kayne.

What's happening

2006-09-06T12:53:00.000-04:00

US funds truce with Al Qaeda in Pakistan (though, oops, no asylum for Bin Laden.) PETA protests research on sexuality in sheep. Meanwhile, both the Japanese princess and Tom Cruise have children.

Excellent.

Trivia

2006-09-05T12:01:00.000-04:00

I think this is kind of strange: the actress who played Laura in High Fidelity, Iben Hjejle, has never been in another American movie. I understand that she's a Danish actress, and maybe she hasn't wanted to be in one, but didn't everyone love her in High Fidelity?

Finally!

2006-09-04T21:13:00.000-04:00

As promised, here are the new albums from Yo La Tengo and The Rapture. Sorry that it took so long.

Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid You and I Will Beat Your Ass

The Rapture - Pieces of The People We Love

Ok, that's all for now.

Good

2006-09-04T16:36:00.000-04:00

Things seem to be working, so check back in a little bit for Yo La Tengo, Rapture and whatever else I feel like putting up.