Please welcome my new (and pending) Friends:
psychickyouth has written some knowledgeable things on the Music boards...
scooter11 has written insightful things in his Journal and, it seems, every other Journal I open up...
horsehead12 had a Profile Pic a couple weeks ago of Ian Faith smashing a TV with a cricket bat, and you can't get much cooler than that (except for a Pic...
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psychickyouth has written some knowledgeable things on the Music boards...
scooter11 has written insightful things in his Journal and, it seems, every other Journal I open up...
horsehead12 had a Profile Pic a couple weeks ago of Ian Faith smashing a TV with a cricket bat, and you can't get much cooler than that (except for a Pic...
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I have Wet Hot American Summer on in the background; I can't stop watching this movie....
I mean, you clearly said smear mud on your ass
I ate more Brussels cookies tonight. I'm just glad I only bought two bags...
Blasted Gary Numan on the way to work today-- "Me? I Disconnect from You" and "Are 'Friends' Electric?"... blasted Weezer and Violent Femmes going home....
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I mean, you clearly said smear mud on your ass
I ate more Brussels cookies tonight. I'm just glad I only bought two bags...
Blasted Gary Numan on the way to work today-- "Me? I Disconnect from You" and "Are 'Friends' Electric?"... blasted Weezer and Violent Femmes going home....
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whiskeyfightpit:
I look more like Jeff Lebowski with the physical build of Walter. Perhaps in the near future it will be full scale lebowski. With a little less pizza and red meat perhaps. Truth be told, I have both the 'Nam Vet intensity of Walter plus the Keep On Truckin' mentality of The Dude. It's weird how important that movie is.
horsehead12:
thx for the "handshake"
gary numan is typically old school "essex", jus like depeche mode, alison moyat, erasure etc. essex being the county within england they came from (and prob still live). if that doesn't make sense this link might help, though essex people are generally richer, on account of most of them being gangsters/footballers molls and/or late 20th century pop stars 
gary numan is typically old school "essex", jus like depeche mode, alison moyat, erasure etc. essex being the county within england they came from (and prob still live). if that doesn't make sense this link might help, though essex people are generally richer, on account of most of them being gangsters/footballers molls and/or late 20th century pop stars I put up some pics in My Pics from my November vacation...
Pepperidge Farms Brussels cookies-- betya can't eat just 14...
Pepperidge Farms Brussels cookies-- betya can't eat just 14...
ebin:
For some reason, the Klaus Nomi pic I left doesn't stay up. Oh well. How 'bout this?
whiskeyfightpit:
Bill Murray in ED WOOD. I like the small things in life.
Never buy pasta in a restaurant, unless you think God himself is making the sauce... because if you have access to a nice food store, with sauces from scratch and DeBoles tomato & basil pasta, you will never want to go back to plain semolina pasta again. It's like eating soap compared to flavored pasta.
I watched a film from... Iran? Afghanistan? It's set in...
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I watched a film from... Iran? Afghanistan? It's set in...
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ebin:
You've been NOMI'D!
Wonder what I've been up to in my real life? This weekend, turns out I've done more than sit around and hate my job.
Last night, I decided to finally see a band. I checked with crazybob to see if he'd be free to see (the sounds of) Kaleidoscope again at the Black Cat. We saw them in August, opening for Luna. bob had to...
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Last night, I decided to finally see a band. I checked with crazybob to see if he'd be free to see (the sounds of) Kaleidoscope again at the Black Cat. We saw them in August, opening for Luna. bob had to...
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thefuckingdaddy:
In C was a fairly famous composition for it's time, done in around 1964, It was a fairly big influence on Eno at the time in doing Generative music, not so much as Steve Reich's (it's gonna rain), but... he (Eno) describes it best:
At the time, the distinguishing characteristic of that music seemed to be that it was tonal, as opposed to atonal. Over the course of time, since then I think another important characteristic has emerged. It was very clear in the first major piece of Terry Reilly called In C. Most of you probably know of this piece or some of you probably know it, and many of you may have played it. It's a very famous piece of music. It consists of 52 bars of music written in the key of C. And the instructions to the musicians are "proceed through those bars at any speed you choose". So you can begin on bar one, play that for as many times as you want, 20 or 30 times, then move to bar 2, if you don't like that much just play it once, go on to bar three.
The important thing is each musician move through it at his or her own speed. The effect of that ofcourse is to create a very complicated work of quite unpredictable combinations. If this is performed with a lot of musicians you get a very dense and fascinating web of sound as a result. It's actually a beautiful piece and having listened to it again recently I think it's stood the test of time very well.
The funny thing is that Bang on a Can, of which my friend mrs. medway had purchased their rendition of Eno's generative, yet very planned chatoic pieces for Music For Airport. The funny thing is now they are doing a rendition of one of his major musical influences in his early generative stage.
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[Edited on Jan 19, 2004 11:03AM]
At the time, the distinguishing characteristic of that music seemed to be that it was tonal, as opposed to atonal. Over the course of time, since then I think another important characteristic has emerged. It was very clear in the first major piece of Terry Reilly called In C. Most of you probably know of this piece or some of you probably know it, and many of you may have played it. It's a very famous piece of music. It consists of 52 bars of music written in the key of C. And the instructions to the musicians are "proceed through those bars at any speed you choose". So you can begin on bar one, play that for as many times as you want, 20 or 30 times, then move to bar 2, if you don't like that much just play it once, go on to bar three.
The important thing is each musician move through it at his or her own speed. The effect of that ofcourse is to create a very complicated work of quite unpredictable combinations. If this is performed with a lot of musicians you get a very dense and fascinating web of sound as a result. It's actually a beautiful piece and having listened to it again recently I think it's stood the test of time very well.
The funny thing is that Bang on a Can, of which my friend mrs. medway had purchased their rendition of Eno's generative, yet very planned chatoic pieces for Music For Airport. The funny thing is now they are doing a rendition of one of his major musical influences in his early generative stage.
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jerawyn:
Thanks for sharing the John Waters story--he's great for so many reasons. 
Know much about Belgium?? I'm pretty clueless about the place, but it appears that Belgians were the least anti-Semitic people during WWII.
I got this from a book review in Kirkus of The Twentieth Train by Marion Schreiber. It's mainly the story of a Jewish doctor in Brussels, Youra Livchitz, who was forced out of work by occupying Germany. He began working in the Belgian...
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I got this from a book review in Kirkus of The Twentieth Train by Marion Schreiber. It's mainly the story of a Jewish doctor in Brussels, Youra Livchitz, who was forced out of work by occupying Germany. He began working in the Belgian...
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estrada:
I may have to find that book.
I took a class from Nils Skov, one of the early members of the Dutch resistance.
His book Letter to My Descendants{/i} is very good, especially considering the chapters alternate between his experience and the war as a whole for two different narratives.
I took a class from Nils Skov, one of the early members of the Dutch resistance.
His book Letter to My Descendants{/i} is very good, especially considering the chapters alternate between his experience and the war as a whole for two different narratives.
I never listed my favorite 2003 movies... I realized this morning that I find it easy enough to rank one person's art (like in the Tom Waits thread) but it's hard for me to rank across artists, styles, and things with different moods and purposes... well, here are some movies I liked in a loose list:
Working With Time: Andy Goldsworthy - great documentary about...
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Working With Time: Andy Goldsworthy - great documentary about...
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rosalyn:
Hah! I first heard the radio series.. at least the beginning.... it was awesome.
clara:
I was never into sports. Being picked last never actually bothered me.
-- GARAGE FUNK --
Hmm, I take itpeople dont like long Journals. Mmm, well, theres no way to make this short. Maybe the next couple will be short.
The quote from last Journal was from Microserfs. Im almost done reading it, frightfully close to finishing it this afternoon, and its one of the best books Ive ever read unless, uh, it suddenly turns into crap in the last...
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The quote from last Journal was from Microserfs. Im almost done reading it, frightfully close to finishing it this afternoon, and its one of the best books Ive ever read unless, uh, it suddenly turns into crap in the last...
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whiskeyfightpit:
I don't read, man. That fact was probably evident in most of my journal entries. I typically carry around certain books in certain areas in the hopes that I could make it with some girl. I think if I just get a Bright Eyes T-Shirt and some Buddy Holly frames maybe I could a little mercy fuck from some scenester, but I do hate to be dishonest for great lengths of time. How do things work in the city?
The new Guided By Voices has got me doing the air-strum thing.
The new Guided By Voices has got me doing the air-strum thing.
wated:
That text looks like the art of using a thousand words when 20 would do...
I really liked the 'rash from skiing' idea. That's witty enough to have been thought of by me! Kudos to you sir.
I really liked the 'rash from skiing' idea. That's witty enough to have been thought of by me! Kudos to you sir.
Quiz of the Week
She then said to me, "Dan, I have a question about identity for you-- What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?"
this quote, it's origin, and its subsequent illuminations will be expanded upon next Journal, after 4 or 5 Comments on it.
Discuss!
She then said to me, "Dan, I have a question about identity for you-- What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?"
this quote, it's origin, and its subsequent illuminations will be expanded upon next Journal, after 4 or 5 Comments on it.
Discuss!
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olsen:
your music talk is out of my league....
whiskeyfightpit:
So what if I think Evan Dando should work for the defense department?
What's the corniest thing you've seen lately?
I got a book of matches from Rite Aid to light a candle at work. On the cover was an American flag, and the slogan:
Freedom lights the way
The moment I saw that slogan, I knew-- we are going to defeat those terrorists! How could we fail, with such slogans?
I got a book of matches from Rite Aid to light a candle at work. On the cover was an American flag, and the slogan:
Freedom lights the way
The moment I saw that slogan, I knew-- we are going to defeat those terrorists! How could we fail, with such slogans?
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horsehead12:
must be getting my wires crossed there, truth is i know little about him but a lot of him, in the sense of his unique look. so many people ya wanna find out about, but not enough hours in the day&night.
crazydasaint:
"Valentine's Day Sonnet" by Michael McClure...
http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/mcclure/mcpeters.htm contains the first verse or so...
http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/mcclure/mcpeters.htm contains the first verse or so...
I took off a couple of days from SG to get some video-watching and reading done.
The Indian Runner- while People magazine n such focus on the pretty, pretty actors, the real acting folks pretty much know that David Morse is the real deal... he's probably prettier than a lot of these actors too, but that's neither here nor elsewhere...
This is as great...
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The Indian Runner- while People magazine n such focus on the pretty, pretty actors, the real acting folks pretty much know that David Morse is the real deal... he's probably prettier than a lot of these actors too, but that's neither here nor elsewhere...
This is as great...
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joscelyne:
((hug))
I don't understand Mr. Show either...
I don't understand Mr. Show either...
horsehead12:
jus popping by to say props to your pic. qc was one banging geez.
I've seen it four times already just to see her. Memories of my first crushes during puberty...hehehe!!
Today was the Klymaxx one. I actually saw them when they came out with their hits. It's a pretty good episode, especially cuz' they got that "go on girl" attitude!! LOL!
NOMI! NOMI! NOMI!!
Estrada10