| Those Whom Dwell In The Dark |
[Jul. 24th, 2008|08:14 pm] |
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| Obama In Berlin: No 'Walls' Should Divide Us |
[Jul. 24th, 2008|02:37 pm] |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92877521&ft=1&f=1004 The presidential hopeful addressed an expansive crowd Thursday near the site where the Berlin Wall once stood, calling on the U.S. and Europe to build new bridges of partnership. "The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand," Obama said, alluding to often strained relations between Europe and the U.S. under President Bush. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us  |
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[Jul. 24th, 2008|07:33 pm] |
dit paardje en ik, overal waar ik kijk zijn bomen, verderop schiet een hertje weg
dat vind ik nou leuk
(oja ze heet spök) |
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| When I Get Around To It |
[Jul. 24th, 2008|12:58 pm] |
I am really enjoying the drunk sounding vocoder voice on Charles Dodge's "Synthesized Voices." The other vocoder voices are top notch but this sluggish voice is my favorite. I am mulling over a BEST VOCODER MOMENTS list but I think I would end up forgetting a lot. Back in the day Anthony and I listened to a lot of good 80's "street funk" which I KNOW had quality vocoder but the song names/artists escape me. Been working the "night shift" alone as I've always wanted to. Listening to dreamy psych can really dull my senses as I work while listening to technical death metal causes me to work rapidly.There are often little specks of excitement throughout an otherwise drag of a day. I will be urgently drawing or filled with a desire to hear a ton of albums/read things online and ect but then it always seems to fizzle out. I don't think I have ever spent more than 4 or 5 hours totally "high" on life. I want to live the HIGH LIFE as Steve Winwood does or as Miller addicts supposedly do(while lounging in their easy chairs). Zach will be happy to know(when he gets back to the U.S/the internet)that I found Frontline's "Country Boys" on the internet.
When this show premiered on tv Zach,Anthony,Jackie,Sarah and myself caught about half of it. It neatly falls in line with all of the other Real People documentaries that we love. Memorable,quirky,troubled characters struggling in a shitty situation. It's hard for me to explain the appeal of documentaries like this to other people. I DO think Stevie,Mark Borchardt ,Chris Johnson,Dan Cleveland,Jesco White are funny guys but at the same time I really feel for them and with the exception of Stevie,admire them in chasing their dreams.
I was blasting Beethoven's second symphony as it fucking poured outside and thunder rattled my house. Clover was on the floor acting like a baby..as usual.
DUNE OPERA
DUNE TECHNICAL DEATH METAL
I feel like a quality concept album revolving around Frank Herbert's Dune could be amazing. Technical Death Metal of the highest caliber could do wonders.A Dune opera/theatre show would be pretty neat as well..but again it's got to be the best you can get(and I know near nothing about opera). I think it's going to soon be time for me to read the sequel to Dune because I have really been in the mood for it. I have this rather big mental booklist taking form inside of my brain. I want to read Titus Groan next then The Witches of Karres. After these two books I have to read the Crowley book Diary of a Drug Fiend that I am borrowing from Sarah then get around to reading Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series(receiving a high recommendation from Anthony Davis) then shoot for Dune Messiah. Since I read very slowly this is booklist is probably going to span 6 months or so.
AN UNFORTUNATELY SHORT DUNE THEMED ALBUM LIST
1.Zed-Visions of Dune(1979)
2.Klaus Schulze-Dune(1979)-The second tune doesn't seem to have much to do with the book at all. It also has bad singing.
3.Dün-Eros(1981)-Jazzy avant-prog album from France..growing on me
4.Richard Pinhas-Chronolyse(1978)
Planet in Chains
I have been in a strange traveling mood lately. It's not that I have stopped wanting to travel the world but the reality of it hurts a bit. It isn't something I can just do. I guess it's possible to just tour European cities or something..but that is no real escape. It's just a vacation through a bunch of urban epicenters full of more intelligence than the mashed up urban epicenters over here.It's sometimes sad to think of how EVERY place could be great if it weren't for geopolitical molestation,war,mass poverty,mass death due to money/food hoarding/overpopulation. It would be great to travel to Africa,South America,the Middle East,the Philippines,Eastern Europe but parts of them are all significantly scarred and damaged.I mean everywhere has great potential or once did. The list of wonderful places seems to be shrinking. What I mean by wonderful; safe,not full of poverty,not full of crazy laws and rules,not chock full of retail chains,touched by greedy tentacles of government which ruin villages and people's livelihood..it makes me upset because it's almost nearly impossible to escape. You can go to a small remote country and people might be emanating Western "culture" and forsaking their own rich past traditions,"developing" along into a more poverty stricken version of the big league bloated countries with no identities. This is why unifying the planet is just a bad idea...because it's unity through greed. Unless of course we are all going to grow up and evolve into a highly intelligent race of productive beings who work together to take to the stars and fix our planet. That is not going to happen within my lifetime..being optimistic it will take a lot to get to that point, if we even do. It is saddening to look at traditional "Christmas" practices throughout Europe..a lot of them pre-Christian. I would sure like to celebrate winter solstice as it was celebrated years ago..a community bonding,full of merriment,a little ritual or play and folk songs. I have just tried to write this whole paragraph without getting political and I barely succeeded. I don't want to talk about politics with anyone. I just did with Avery on the phone yesterday but it was mainly about how neither of us are voting.
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*out of the house and into worse
and here I go....... |
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| Comic Journal: Marcel Duchamp in Futureland |
[Jul. 24th, 2008|01:05 pm] |
Marcel Duchamp in Washington Square Park I changed the prior page - moved one of its panels to this page. Not sure if I'm going to continue this - I think it's done as is.    |
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