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OPEN IT UP PUT IT OVER YOUR HEAD

OtherMichael — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:21:43 GMT

http://mistertoast.blogspot.com/2008/06/topps-blockheads.html

don't forget to scare your friends with the scary hippie

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Catch the last train to Squaresville

j3r3myc — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:48:41 GMT

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/beatnik/

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I FEEL SICK

OtherMichael — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:51:56 GMT

http://unitproj1.library.ucla.edu/dlib/medicinecards/

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the denny goddesses

OtherMichael — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:34:36 GMT

http://vikslounge.com/denny/md05.html

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Louis Armstrong gets the cellophane blues

OtherMichael — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:38:59 GMT

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/29/louis-armstrongs-col.html

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nudi shots

OtherMichael — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:59:43 GMT

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/doubilet-photography

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online store

OtherMichael — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:58:54 GMT

http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html

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hot rocks

OtherMichael — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:40:58 GMT

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/05/08/eye-candy-chilean-volcanic-thunderstorm/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/photogalleries/volcano-photos/index.html

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tall cool one

OtherMichael — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:28:54 GMT

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB118798701049208213-lMyQjAxMDE3ODM3MDkzODA3Wj.html

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cult books

OtherMichael — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:29:00 GMT

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/26/nosplit/boanotherlist126.xml

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hedfone phet1sh

j3r3myc — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:23:20 GMT

http://www.headphet.org/

there's something for everyone on teh interwebs

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on strike

OtherMichael — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:44:10 GMT

http://inbetweennoise.blogspot.com/2008/05/1-plastic-dome-and-1-totem-pole.html

If you don't hear from me, it's because I'm out front on the picket line.

so, you crossed the line, you dirty scab!

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prancing towards bethlehem

OtherMichael — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:55:54 GMT

http://imomus.livejournal.com/371467.html

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Little Old Lady Who?

OtherMichael — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:38:30 GMT

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/04/yodel-mp3s.html

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Om Shanti Om

OtherMichael — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:38:40 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_Shanti_Om_(film)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJXmYk0BDjk
http://www.buzz18.com/reviews/movies/must-watch-om-shanti-om-on-vcd/39961/0
http://operatattler.typepad.com/opera/2007/11/om-shanti-om.html

http://notablenoise.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/om-shanti-om-movie-review-orlando-weekly/
From its introductory scene – an impressive homage to Shubhash Ghai’s 1980 disco bonanza Karz – Om Shanti Om defines itself as a sloppy wet kiss to Bollywood-with-a-capital-B. “Indian cinema” isn’t what director Farah Khan fetes with this three-and-a-half-hour movie. Instead, she puts Om Shanti Om into masala overdrive, putting musical numbers and belief-suspending plot twists to work gently poking at the machinations and silliness that drive the Bombay movie machine. Even the buzzed-about debut of star Shahrukh Khan’s shirtless abs is done in an ironic way: an ego-driven song about “the pain of disco.” With references from the subtle to the obvious, most scenes find a way to tip their hat to the movies and stars that keep Indian theaters full, and it’s done in a way that’s smart and playful. While Om Shanti Om loses steam by its last act, the stylish, smart, hilarious ride to that point is rewarding enough. After all, it wouldn’t be Bollywood if it weren’t maxed-out, now would it?

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d**n, but you really need to see the English subtitles

"My heart is full of the pain of disco, pain of disco"

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Hilarious movie; I was lucky enough to see it on my Amsterdam-Boston flight on sunday.

oh, btw, I'm married.

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fight!

OtherMichael — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:55:18 GMT

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eloketh/246151131/in/set-72157594284773767/

mmmmm.....

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forbidden bebe

OtherMichael — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:02:58 GMT

RIP

http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2008/04/23/bebe-barron-1925-2008/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_and_Bebe_Barron
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4486840
http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~wowem/electronmedia/barron.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/movies/25barron.html
http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/04/rip-bebe-barron.html

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Canned Music

j3r3myc — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:36:40 GMT

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess.R0206/pg.1/

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Everybody knows that a rapper without hand gestures is like Swiss cheese without the holes

j3r3myc — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:14:43 GMT

http://www.flocabulary.com/handgestures.html

I'm a Shady Chopper personally...

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WHERE are we, again?

OtherMichael — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:27:51 GMT

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

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airframe intervention

OtherMichael — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:17:55 GMT

http://www.ballardian.com/the-crashman-an-experiment-in-applied-internet-ballardianism

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the source for knitting

OtherMichael — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:28:45 GMT

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/07/hippie-cult-extravag.html

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alice does not live here anymore

OtherMichael — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:35:54 GMT

http://imomus.livejournal.com/363991.html

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toys

OtherMichael — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:14:00 GMT

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/03/jeremy-fishs-barry-t.html

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mclaughlin group

OtherMichael — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:57:51 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KMV3dc2PbI

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bring back the 80s, man

OtherMichael — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:40:46 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOocLIoWQRE

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what atom's been up to (despite his protestations)

OtherMichael — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:00:20 GMT

http://www.knuckletattoos.com/

!!!!!

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american photos

OtherMichael — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:36:43 GMT

http://www.american-pictures.com/gallery/index.html

interesting: http://www.kukluxklan.info/#Ku_Klux_Klan

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a voice for silent pictures

east_bay_gray — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:34:17 GMT

Oldest Recording Discovered in Paris

The oldest recording in history has been discovered by U.S. audio historians at a Paris archive, Reuters reported Thursday. It was made on April 9, 1860 -- 17 years before Edison's invention of the phonograph -- by Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville on a device called the phonautograph. The device converted sound waves into a visual image on a sheet of paper, but, unlike Edison's device, was not meant to be played. However, using modern technology the recording has been recreated digitally, revealing 10 seconds of a person singing. In an interview audio historian David Giovannoni said of the recording, "It's like discovering the world's oldest photograph and learning that the photograph was taken 17 years before the invention of the camera."

via imdb.com

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PIXies

OtherMichael — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:28:59 GMT

http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2008/02/obscurity-of-day-pixies.html

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baby you can park my car

OtherMichael — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:31:15 GMT

http://www.ballardian.com/car-parks-the-ballardian-primer

also: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/10/runnin-with-the-beat.html

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Please Help Me to Understand

lokifreign — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:40:08 GMT

This thread is intended to help each other gain insight into themes and conventions that are opaque, for whatever reason, to individual understanding. No judgments, no derision, and only the most carefully crafted humor should be employed, as the purpose here is increasing understanding.

So; my first thing is furries. I found out about it from the derision that people were heaping on it, kind of a cousin to LARP derision, it seemed to me. I joined in derision after a while, but then realized that just isn't who I *am*. I'm not a person that really wants to have that kind of relationship to subcultures (that don't involve stuff I'm ethically opposed to on some level).

Is there bestiality involved, for reals? What's the overlap with yiffin'? If my friend is a furry, is he automatically a yiffer?

Understand: I don't get out the way I used to and even if I did, the aura of insular affirmation and general anonymity of the practice seems to be such that I'd probably not discover much, anyway (because I'm not really willing to participate - it's NOT a judgment thing, it's a seriously married thing (and our little catalog of kinks is full (she outraces me, it seems, these days in the weirdo department (I end up having to do a lot of confusing work and creative improv (why am I telling you this? (probably to demonstrate my willingness to be open as possible, here)))))).

There are obviously several subcultures within the subculture;

• I note that there are the .... what to call them? - "mascot" style furries, that like the big eyes, the cartooned proportions, the stylized/hyperfetishized 'art' style, if you will.

• I note that there are *insanely* detailed and hyperrealistic animal outfits.

• I note that there is at least some crossover between these two groups - is there any animosity or friction?

• I note that there a strong crossover of furry / slavery cultures; long story, but that's kind of what led to this willingness on my part to openly admit: "this confuses me". "Goreans" (feel free to ask me; this I know a bit about) seem to have incorporated a certain amount of furry / Neko / animal-based-identity into the dom/sub lifestyle.

?: What can you tell me about all this?

?: Is there a unified community for the "whole scene" - is there a unified community for the subcultures?

?: the bee thing: please, someone help me understand the bee thing. Long story short: it would help me feel more comfortable about life in general if someone could help me sound out the boundaries of the bee thing without actually having to get involved, or risk offending someone by asking questions that might inadvertently come off as judgmental or derisive. That is not my intent. I'm direct, and honest, and sometimes that leads people to believe I'm being flippant or humorous (esp. online). The bee thing really causes a question mark to appear over my head.

?: Are there species-defined subcultures? Do cryptozoological furries mix easily with "real world" furries?

Let's get this all out in the open. I hate all this secrecy.

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a hole

OtherMichael — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:35:51 GMT

http://vanishingpoint.ca/tailrace.html

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in the drift

OtherMichael — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:30:54 GMT

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/03/03/the-fast-and-the-fur.html

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primary responsibility (not for the chromophobic)

OtherMichael — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:20:22 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/arts/design/04colo.html

The New York Times

March 4, 2008
Art Review
Primary Season at the Modern
By KAREN ROSENBERG

In the film “Pleasantville” (1998) the staid world of a black-and-white 1950s town is upended by the introduction of color. Something similar is happening at the Museum of Modern Art.

In the upper section of the lobby, a floor created by the artist Jim Lambie surrounds Rodin’s sculpture of Balzac with concentric strips of brightly hued tape. Up on the sixth floor, a painted-aluminum construction by Donald Judd gives a lift to the gray towers visible through the skylight. Cheerful striped vests, designed by Daniel Buren, peek out from the regulation charcoal jackets of the museum guards.

These and other interventions are part of “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today,” which opened at the museum on Sunday. Organized by Ann Temkin, a curator in the museum’s department of painting and sculpture, “Color Chart” looks at contemporary artists for whom color functions as a ready-made — something to be bought or appropriated, rather than mixed on a palette. As Frank Stella famously quipped, “I tried to keep the paint as good as it was in the can.”

The show is a rejoinder to the notion of color as the province of formalists, and to the idea that Minimal and Conceptual art comes only in shades of black, white and gray. That “Color Chart” coincides with “Jasper Johns: Gray” at the Metropolitan Museum is a happy accident; in that show the pairing of Mr. Johns’s red, yellow and blue painting “False Start” and its neutral counterpart “Jubilee” amounts to a “Pleasantville” experience in reverse.

Ms. Temkin’s thesis owes much to the British artist and writer David Batchelor, whose book “Chromophobia” (2000) is a thorough and witty cultural history of color, including in its thematic discussions “Heart of Darkness” and the movie version of “The Wizard of Oz.” Regrettably, photographs from Mr. Batchelor’s series “Found Monochromes of London,” a visual diary of white rectangles glimpsed during his daily travels, have been tucked away near the museum’s sixth-floor bathrooms.

As Mr. Batchelor writes: “The color chart divorces color from conventional theory and turns every color into a ready-made. It promises autonomy for color; in fact, it offers three distinct but related types of autonomy: that of each color from every other color, that of color from the dictates of color theory, and that of color from the register of representation.” In other words, we are far from Goethe’s “Theory of Colors” and from the deceptive relationships of Josef Albers’s homages to the square.

This show’s first gallery makes the novelty of autonomous color gloriously apparent. A series of signature works by Ellsworth Kelly, from 1951, show him experimenting with randomly generated patterns of squares cut from store-bought colored paper. One of these collages gave rise to the contemporary masterpiece “Colors for a Large Wall,” a stunning, nearly eight-foot-square grid composed of 64 separate canvases.

Mr. Kelly may be an obvious choice, as are Yves Klein, Andy Warhol and Mr. Stella, but the inclusion of Robert Rauschenberg’s “Rebus” (1955) offers a fresh angle on an artist whose color choices are rarely, if ever, analyzed. One of his early “combine” paintings, it includes a horizontal spectrum of cardboard paint samples. More to the point, it contains splashes of colors purchased in unlabeled cans from surplus stock on the Bowery.

In one of many fascinating anecdotes in the exhibition catalog, Mr. Rauschenberg recalls: “It was like 10 cents for a quart can downtown, because nobody knew what color it was. I would just go and buy a whole mess of paint, and the only organization, choice or discipline was that I had to use some or all of it, and I wouldn’t buy any more paint until I’d used that up.”

As subsequent galleries reveal, European artists under the spell of Mr. Rauschenberg and John Cage developed their own strategies for liberating color from aesthetic intent. An entire wall is devoted to Gerhard Richter’s “Ten Large Color Panels” (1966-71/72), a 31-foot sequence that elevates hardware-store paint chips to monumental proportions.

Many of the show’s artists look to the automobile industry for an explicitly commercial palette, one best captured by the Tom Wolfe essay “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.” “Color Chart” includes John Chamberlain’s suite of album-size paintings, made with car lacquer on Masonite and Formica; Alighiero Boetti’s monochromes made in Turin, Italy, with Fiat motorcycle enamel; and Jan Dibbets’s photographs of car hoods.

“Color Chart” suffers, in places, from the visual redundancy of its many chart-based works. Strained viewers can rest their eyes on Lawrence Weiner’s wall text invoking permutations of red, green and blue, or Sol LeWitt’s ethereal wall drawing composed of thin lines of colored pencil.

Other welcome distractions include works by lesser-known Europeans, several of whom practice a romantic strain of Conceptualism. In a video performance conceived as a homage to Piet Mondrian, the Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader separates bouquets of flowers into orderly bunches of uniform color. Sectioned wooden bars by André Cadere, propped casually against the museum’s walls, were once carried into the cafes, subways and galleries of 1970s Paris in a peripatetic hybrid of sculpture and performance.

Artists working some 20 years after Mr. Kelly’s cut-paper experiments still had to contend with art schools that emphasized formal color training. The anti-Albers backlash finds its most concise expression in Richard Serra’s “Color Aid” (1970-71). In this 36-minute film Mr. Serra (who studied with Mr. Albers at Yale) leafs through a packet of 220 colored papers with the flourish of a doctor tearing off a sheet from his prescription pad.

The final section of the show, devoted to art since 1990, feels less inspired. The neutrality of the color chart is predictably violated, first in a 1998 series of paintings by Mike Kelley that form a grid with covers of the bawdy-humor magazine Sex to Sexty, and later in two of Damien Hirst’s ubiquitous spot paintings.

The most recent works acknowledge that our experience of color is increasingly mediated by corporations and consultancies, like Pantone and the Color Marketing Group. Angela Bulloch’s hypnotic light box “Standard Universal 256: CMY (Cyan)” (2006) flashes through each color of the palette used by the Macintosh OS9 operating system.

The show’s newest piece is also, in some ways, one of the oldest. Sherrie Levine’s “Salubra No. 4” (2007) consists of 14 monochrome paintings displayed against a gray background. Ms. Levine has taken the colors from a line of painted wallpaper created in 1931 by Le Corbusier — the architect better known as an advocate of pristine white Ripolin paint.

As Mr. Batchelor writes, “Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the color.”

“Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today” continues through May 12 at the Museum of Modern Art; (212) 708-9400 or moma.org.

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the straight dope on alice

OtherMichael — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:57:04 GMT

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_234.html

Dear Cecil:

What does Alice B. Toklas have to do with Alice B. Toklas brownies, anyway? --Judy Prisoc, Chicago

Dear Judy:

About as much as she had to do with The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas--which is to say, not much. The 1933 "autobiography" was actually written by Gertrude Stein, Toklas's lifelong companion and one of the legendary figures of the Parisian literary scene in the first half of the twentieth century. Similarly, the recipe for marijuana-laced brownies (actually it was a brownielike hashish fudge) that appeared in the 1954 Alice B. Toklas Cook Book wasn't Toklas's own but rather that of a wiseacre painter friend named Brion Gysin.

It all started when Alice signed a contract with Harper's to write a cookbook in 1952. She was a pretty fair cook, but what Harper really hoped to get (and what by and large it got) was not so much recipes but tales of Toklas's life with Gertrude Stein, who had died in 1946.

With the deadline only a few months away, Toklas, then in her mid-70s, found herself half a book shy. So she began soliciting recipes from her artsy friends. Gysin came up with "Haschich Fudge, which anyone could whip up on a rainy day." By way of introduction he gushed, "This is the food of Paradise. . . . it might provide an entertaining refreshment for a Ladies' Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR. . . . Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better." The active ingredient in the fudge was what Gysin called "canibus sativa," more familiarly known as marijuana.

Alice, unfamiliar with "canibus" (at least as spelled by Gysin) and lacking the time to test the recipes, stuck her friend's contribution into her manuscript and sent it off to the publisher. The editors at Harper's spotted the suspicious ingredient and held the recipe out, but the publisher of the British edition didn't. The press promptly went nuts. Tittered Time: "The late Poetess Gertrude (Tender Buttons) Stein and her constant companion and autobiographee, Alice B. Toklas, used to have gay old times together in the kitchen. Some of the unique delicacies that were whipped up will soon be cataloged . . . in a wildly epicurean tome . . . which is already causing excited talk on both sides of the Atlantic. Perhaps the most gone concoction (and also possibly a clue to some of Gertrude's less earthly lines) was her hashish fudge."

Alice, a believer to the end in her friend's genius, was incensed that anyone should think it was artificially fueled. Still, as her friend Thorton Wilder told her, the recipe was the publicity stunt of the year and the expurgated American version of the cookbook received wide and generally respectful notice.

Just so you can see what all the fuss was about, here's the recipe:

Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of stone dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of canibus sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient. Obtaining the canibus may present certain difficulties. . . . It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green.

Cecil must sternly advise that you shouldn't try this at home. If you do anyway, it hardly seems necessary to add, "Bon appetit."

--CECIL ADAMS

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steal this thread

OtherMichael — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:20:42 GMT

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/19/steal-this-wiki-laun.html
http://wiki.stealthiswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

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revolution #9

OtherMichael — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:56:04 GMT

cover of the original 1963 demo version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQzFrOp4ANA

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Nature is f*****g hardcore.

OtherMichael — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:41:45 GMT

http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html

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Bobby Fisher is Dead, alas!

OtherMichael — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:53:43 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer

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big butts hit like the atom bomb

OtherMichael — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:05:52 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Got_Back

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KCv2cgIlnHA - Richard Cheese (Lounge)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gW6yQZyx5w - Jonathan Coulton (folk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x8BKLwKG-g - I like big BIBLES. uhm. okay. my brain is leaking.... "you christian brothers can't deny / that when a girl walks in with a KJV..." "it looks like one of those large ones / with plenty of space in the margins" "baby got BOOK"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmI0GijanyM - Joel Martin, acoustic on Canadian Idol

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ONS1i7uMhfk - the original hawaiian ukelele version (based on the Coulton, above)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC11BSM_CUo - Russel (emo?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pnSWmrDOBwk - Yeah Right - extremely lo-fi frat-grunge-core-something

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rQ9fZwtLNCs - Tripsonic, basement hardcore rehearsal vid. the singer seems to be holding a folder with the lyrics.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=chbCK88qQ-U - Throwdown, hard-core with a totally-black hardcore video. seriously, this is something from a Derek Jarman tip

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JdjNy3jBCgM - hard-core version recorded hardcore in a bedroom. seriously, the guitarist dude has an IRON MAIDEN shirt so you know he's serious

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yW2ztjZ_SG0 - just another dancing guinea

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qkJdEFf_Qg4 - supposedly a "Gilbert & Sullivan" -style version. Which means a self-conscious music-hall operetta version with a poorly synched video cut-up from Pirates of Penzance. Unless it's HMS Pinafore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNH5MlmU0pw - Shakespearian interlude. Er, not shakesperian, but in the middle of shakespeare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga6vRGvGYlY - drunk guitarist at a party

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H7JaGoYdc_M - ASL, with, uhm, voice-over, I guess for a long intro and then its a... uhm. well, he's not lip-synching. finger-syching? you gotta, uhm, see this. I betting dollars to donuts its not a strict interpretation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G68CsUa4FkA - original song with anime-cut-up video. meh. and by "meh" I mean it doesn't qualify as a piece of art, namean?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz0eNN1FXwE& - this is another anime-cut-up, and is notable only for the fact that the video does not feature any buttocks that are larger than a fishstick. bosoms, OTOH, are what you would expect from the gravity-defying genre.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHbON-AAUPM - World of Warcraft stylee. which is to say, a valiant attempt in an emerging medium that isn't really worth anything yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODnxJwGwtBE - what is GMOD? anyway, here's the exit for UNCANNY VALLEY. j****s christ. WTF is Mario doing here?!???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOsUv5chLic - super lo-fi video version. ps paint or something lower-powered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GKaVzNDbuI - intercom attempt. "oh, I thought it was to play with"\." it would have helped if he didn'[t snigger so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAPHRJ8_6C0 - of all of the bazillions of karaoke youtubed verions, this is perhaps the best. becuase it's got guns and girls. more specifically, a girl trained to use guns. in camo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2-ZTHAAA80 - there are some sorts of songs that do not sound good when performed by a South Korean Cheeleading Squad. This song is NOT one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At2u-N4oRyw - from some tv show with jennifer aniston

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i+like+big+butts&page=13 - is it worth trolling the bottom-of-the-barrel karaoke versions? no, not really.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=80KxSlL0Roc - Sir MAL hizzelf live somewhere uninteresting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zER7SSti3A - origifizzle vidizzle
inspired by: http://www.fantent.com/2007/03/17/i-like-big-covers/

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Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb

OtherMichael — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:18:48 GMT

names that should have been...

for the last few days or so "SF Tiger Balm MAM"

I'm currently listening to the Blind Boys of Alabama sing "Spirit in the Sky", and the first cut on this album is a great title : Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb

but it's too big, I guess

also, "Magical raccoon testicle mam" is too good to put away before we're done playing with it.

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what's in a name? (a history)

OtherMichael — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:30:18 GMT

Magical Raccoon Testicle MAM_3.2beta-->Jan 27, 2008
Goyisher Kopf MAM_3.2beta-->Dec 1, 2007
Witch's Skin MAM_3.2beta-->Nov 28, 2007
Mandated Silence MAM_3.2beta-->Oct 31, 2007
Queers for Clears MAM_3.2beta-->Oct 16, 2007
Blaque Rock Indigents MAM_3.2beta-->Oct 8, 2007
Black Rock IntelliGents MAM_3.2beta-->Sept 30, 2007
Black Rock Intelligence MAM_3.2beta-->Sept 27, 2007
Leave the Playa Early MAM_3.2beta-->August 30, 2007 (only a few hours)
Drink the Kool-Aid MAM_3.2beta->Aug 30, 2006
I F**ked your iPhone MAM_3.2beta-->August 7, 2007
Fuck your iPhone MAM_3.2beta-->July 12, 2007
Star-Spangled All-American MAM_3.2beta-->June 30, 2007
Watch Mr. Wizard MAM_3.2beta-->June 19, 2007
Pappy Baluta & Sons MAM_3.2beta-->June 13, 2007
Radical Cleric Falwell MAM_3.2beta-->June 11, 2007
Meat-ball Suck MAM_3.2beta--May 16, 2007
Shotgun Suck MAM_3.2beta-->May 7, 2007
MIN imal MAM_3.2beta-->March 7, 2007
Finn Family Moomintroll MAM_3.2beta-->Jan 26, 2007
TMX MAM_3.2beta-->Dec 21, 2006
New! Improved! Instant! MAM_3.2beta-->Dec 19, 2006
Dead Man's Party MAM_3.2beta-->Nov 26, 2006
Mission Critical Cooling Solutions MAM-->Oct 31, 2006
smoke flavouring added MAM_3.2beta-->Oct 2, 2006
SAY YOU'RE WELCOME MAM_3.2beta-->Sept 18, 2006
Mark Pincus & the Antz MAM_3.2beta-->Sept 6, 2006
Like a Psychlo Ranger MAM_3.2beta-->August 29, 2006
Counterfeit Immunity Widgets MAM_3.2beta-->August 18, 2006
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy MAM_3.2beta-->August 9, 2006
Eyes on a Bra MAM_3.2_beta-->August 2, 2006
Syd's Psychedelic Corpse MAM_3.2_beta-->July 20, 2006
Ken Lay Memorial MAM_3.2_beta-->July 11, 2006
those "Lib Gals" MAM_3.2_beta-->July 7, 2006
POWERHUG MAM_3.2_beta--> June 20, 2006
Donald O'Connor MAM_3.2_beta-->June 16, 2006
lifey life MAM_3.2_beta-->June 10, 2006
memories of the sea MAM_3.2_beta-->June 6, 2006
NOT MY MAM_3.2_beta-->May 17,2006 (Atom was briefly mod)
YOUR MY MAM_3.2_beta-->May 15, 2006
MY MAM_3.2_beta-->May 2, 2006 (later that same day)
ST TOS MAM_3.2_beta-->May 2, 2006
weenis < penis MAM_3.2_beta-->April 21, 2006
Dan Brown is a Weenis MAM_3.2_beta-->April 20, 2006
Tom DeLay is a weenis MAM_3.2_beta-->April 7, 2006
Tom DeLay Ha!Ha!Ha! MAM_3.2_beta-->April 4, 2006
Ian Hamilton Finlay MAM_3.2_beta-->April 4, 2006
Buck Owens MAM_3.2_beta-->March 29, 2006
just like detroit! MAM_3.2_beta-->March 27, 2006
gynandromorph MAM_3.2_beta-->March 15, 2006
Chinese Gooseberry MAM_3.2_beta-->March 8, 2006 (well that was pointless)
Don Knotts MAM_3.2_beta-->March 2, 2006
Literate Pop-Apocalypse MAM_3.2_beta-->Feb 25, 2006
Angel of the Morning MAM_3.2_beta-->Feb 20, 2006
Al Lewis MAM_3.2_beta--> Feb 16, 2006
Brush Clearing MAM_3.2_beta--> Feb 4, 2006
Quickened MAM_3.2_beta --> Jan 4, 2006 (that didn't last long)
Vincent Schiavelli MAM_3.2_beta --> Jan 2, 2006
Viking MAM_3.2_beta --> Dec 27, 2005
spâte MAM_3.2_beta --> Dec 21, 2005
McVootie MAM_3.2_beta --> Dec 8, 2005
Anthropodermic Binding MAM_3.2_beta --> Dec 5, 2005
Razorblade Pyramid MAM_3.2_beta --> November 15, 2005
Nerdy Energy Sweater MAM_3.2_beta --> October 31, 2005
RADAR LOVE MAM_3.2_beta --> Oct 28, 2005
Video iPod MAM_3.2_beta --> Oct 21, 2005
Banana Bribe MAM_3.2_beta --> October 12, 2005
Time Thief MAM_3.2_beta --> October 8, 2005
Rumspringa MAM_3.2_beta --> October 3, 2005
D**N MAM_3.2_beta --> September 26, 2005
Lake George MAM_3.2_beta --> September 23, 2005
Puppy Purse MAM_3.2_beta --> September 5, 2005
Excerebration MAM_3.2_beta --> August 30, 2005
Former Child Star MAM_3.2_beta -->August 19, 2005
der brennende Mensch MAM_3.2_beta -->August 17, 2005
Necropolis Railway MAM_3.2_beta -->August 8, 2005
Feral Asparagus MAM_3.2_beta -->August 1, 2005
Half Blood-Prints MAM_3.2_beta --> July 25, 2005
Mixed Up Coffee Cake MAM_3.2_beta --> July 18, 2005
TINAGDTT MAM_3.2_beta --> July 11, 2005
AXJ MAM_3.2_beta --> July 5, 2005
Decaffeinated MAM_3.2_beta --> July 1, 2005
absulofantuspastic MAM_3.2_beta --> June 28, 2005
Lactivist's MAM_3.2_beta --> June 22, 2005
Haloperidol Blue Fairy MAM_3.2_beta - June 07, 2005
Bruce Spence MAM_3.2_beta --> June 02, 2005
Kha-Nyou MAM_3.2_beta --> May 23, 2005
Ugly Children MAM_3.2_beta
Burningman, AL MAM_3.2_beta
Sweet Edgar Love MAM_3.2_beta
Sweetmeats MAM_3.2_beta
Gold Buckskin Wincher MAM_3.2_beta
St. Jermaine MAM_3.2_beta
Day After MAM_3.2_beta
Tribe Moderators MAM_3.2_beta
Synthetic Yak MAM_3.2_beta
Too Many Bellydancers MAM_3.2_beta
Ash Event MAM_3.2_beta
Sinusoidally Infected MAM_3.2_beta
Hollywood Disneyland TV Trash MAM_3.2
Shirley Jones MAM_3.2_beta
...
Ink-Free By Choice MAM_3.2_beta
Tofurkey MAM_3.2_beta (11/25)
3-Ply Wit MAM_3.2_beta (02/12)
Thuggee Life MAM_3.2_beta (03/29)
Sugar-Free Candy MAM_3.2_beta (06/06)
Crafty Paper Snowflake MAM_3.2_beta (12/01)
Aunt JAMAM MAM_3.2_beta (11/30)
Softwood Lumber MAM_3.2_beta (date unknown)
[previous incarnations not archived]

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whoa, hey, creepy...

j3r3myc — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:47:51 GMT

http://jezebel.com/339653/lifelike-baby-dolls-the-new-trend-for-childless-british-women

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TRIBE BETA REDESIGN PREVIEW

OtherMichael — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:59:10 GMT

you saw it here first, folks!!!

http://tinyurl.com/2duxsa

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lasagna cat

OtherMichael — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:23:08 GMT

http://www.lasagnacat.com/CheeseburgerInParadise.mov
http://www.lasagnacat.com/ThePower.mov
http://www.lasagnacat.com/RightNow.mov
http://www.lasagnacat.com/

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Bruce Campbell is Ashley Williams

j3r3myc — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:27:28 GMT

Zero Punctuation: Mass Effect
http://www.thegamergene.com/tag/Ben-Yahtzee-Croshaw/

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passion fruit

OtherMichael — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:44:08 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SZefGr9aUk

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now THAT'S hospitality!

OtherMichael — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:31:49 GMT

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/cranial-impalement-rider.php?page=2

scroll down.

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the temporary punktonomous zone

OtherMichael — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:33:58 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/garden/03punk.html

The New York Times
January 3, 2008
Anarchy Rules: The Dishes Stay Dirty
By PENELOPE GREEN

THERE are certain things you can count on in a punk house. A killer name: Anarchtica, Scribble Squat, Collective A Go-Go, Firebreathing Kangaroo. Lots of bikes and skateboards. Homemade tattoos. A tattered photocopy of “Soy, Not ‘Oi!’,” the vegan anarchist’s “Joy of Cooking.” Guests are always welcome in a punk house, if they follow the rules: “Don’t be a jerk!” reads a guest policy sign in one.

The punk house might be a trailer, a van, a warehouse or a bus. There are lots of treehouses, and more than a few squats. The old anarchist’s dictum — all property is theft — is part and parcel of the punk-house mindset, which is lovingly chronicled in a new book of photographs by Abby Banks, a 29-year-old artist. Ms. Banks found all 42 of the houses collected in “Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy,” out last month from Abrams Image, the art and pop culture imprint of Harry N. Abrams, in the same way: by phoning a few friends.

The punk house is a curious and sometimes beautiful habitat, the expression of a music scene and do-it-yourself culture that went underground decades ago, in an attempt to opt out of just about everything that smacked of the mainstream: cities, clubs, bars, alcohol, processed foods, agribusiness and the record companies, for example, not to mention all media larger than a photocopied zine. With its roots in old-fashioned counterculture communes (like Findhorn in Scotland, but really messy, and with a thrash-hardcore beat), the punk house is a multifunctional dwelling: typically a place for like-minded males in their 20’s to live and to make and hear music. This is not to say that there aren’t all-female punk houses (there are) or ones with girls living among the boys. As with punk itself, the punk house eludes a tidy definition. “Punk Is (Whatever We Made It To Be)” is the title of a song from the Minutemen, a punk band in the early ’80s.

As Thurston Moore, a member of the art-house alt-punk bank Sonic Youth, who helped Ms. Banks find a publisher for her work and contributed an essay to the book, said recently: “It’s just a completely liberated aesthetic.”

You won’t find many punk houses in major urban areas because, as Mr. Moore explained, “you don’t go to the media eye of New York or Los Angeles to achieve success.” Furthermore, it is nearly impossible to live a punk life in areas with costly real estate.

Bands on tour don’t play gigs at the Meadowlands or even the Knitting Factory; they’re more likely to appear in basements and living rooms. There’s a preponderance of acoustic guitars: big amps might spook the neighbors.

Mr. Moore’s own successes are more commercial. In his essay for Ms. Banks’s book, he writes of his experience walking into a legendary punk house in Minneapolis wearing a nice winter parka and sneakers, whereupon he was promptly sneered at. “I didn’t know they let subversives in here,” sniped one resident wearing a leather jacket stamped with the Dead Kennedys logo.

Though she was once in a thrash-punk band called Vomit Dichotomy Ms. Banks has never lived in a punk house, but she has an enormous appetite for the aesthetic. “It’s self-expression in the living space, not just on their bodies,” she said, noting that punk-house interiors are logo-centric. As with T-shirts or tattoos, they contain lots of writing — hortatory, descriptive, diaristic — on walls, door jambs, stoves and toilets.

“I’m so goth I’m dead,” is inscribed on a wall of a punk house in Minneapolis. “Dead witnesses tell no tales,” is on the back of a toilet in another.

Ms. Banks grew up in a tidy 1920s bungalow in Claremont, Calif. Her mother is a city planner; her father a psychology professor and an aerobics instructor who was seriously into all kinds of music, including punk. “It was more than acceptable in our house to blast the Ramones,” she said. Ms. Banks’s own room was embellished with layers of stickers, fliers for shows, and blue paint. When she sent her mother a copy of the book, Ms. Banks reported, “she said, ‘Every room looks like your room!’”

She’d always made art but never a photograph, until one day after art school, when she had an epiphany. She’d been drifting, she said, working as a maid and dog walker for David Foster Wallace, who lived two blocks away from her mother’s house in California. She had friends at The Fourth Street House, a punk house in San Pedro. There was a show there one day; dueling bands were playing the kitchen and the living room and passing the mike back and forth.

The house was about to be sold, and its distinctive flourishes — the casket outside, the skate ramp out back — dismantled.

“I wanted to document it before it went away,” said Ms. Banks, explaining that despite their hoary history, many punk houses are ephemeral. “I just think they’re really important and beautiful. For some people it will be their lifestyle forever, but for others it’s just a phase.”

She called upon an old band mate, Timothy Findlen, and they embarked in Ms. Banks’s maroon Ford Ranger on a three-and-a-half month road trip.

The Ranger is an art project in itself, layered with stenciled images of figures impish, historical and arcane, like Herman Munster, Anne Frank, and one Mr. Findlen made of Harry Smith, the music ethnographer, mystic and Bohemian who died of natural causes at the Chelsea Hotel. As they toured cross-country, Mr. Findlen would play shows, and Ms. Banks would take pictures. They brought house presents — a case of wine, Two-Buck Chuck, from Trader Joe’s, and a box of silk-screen T-shirts with the slogan “I’d Rather Be Dumpster-Diving,” made by a friend of Ms. Banks.

When those offerings ran out, Ms. Banks said, “all we had was to be nice” — and the offer of Mr. Findlen’s dish-washing services.

The ephemeral quality of punk houses became clear a year after the photographs were taken, when Ms. Banks returned to her subjects with photographic release permission forms from her publisher. Many of the houses were gone, she said, resulting in a scramble to find the former residents.

Last week, Andee Grrr, a 28-year-old zine writer now living in Brattleboro, Vt., described her three years at one of the oldest punk houses in Ms. Banks’s book, the 309 House in Pensacola, Fla. (It was so old, Ms. Banks said, “there were fliers on the wall for shows the year I was born,” 1978.) The house was a clapboard five-bedroom bungalow with a fluctuating number of residents and one “filthy, filthy bathroom.” The rent for each member was $25.

Ms. Grrr, like most of 309ers, volunteered at the End of the Line vegan-punk cafe across the street, living on her tips. Food was mostly free: bread from a bakery Dumpster and vegetables from the supermarket’s Dumpster. “The good part was there was always someone to talk to if you were feeling bad,” she said. “I developed some really strong friendships. And the rent was so low we didn’t have to work much. I could write a lot. The bad part was no clear boundaries.” And the aged scurf of the house, which she said was dirty to the core. “It was kind of a hopeless situation.” Generations of punks, she said, had lived in that house.

“I thought of calling the book, ‘No Lease,’” said Ms. Banks, who herself lives without a lease in Brattleboro, part of an art collective called the Tinderbox that’s nestled into a cavernous old dance studio. The difference between an art collective and a punk house, she explained, is that in the former you’re pretending you don’t live there, and in the latter you’re pretending you don’t make music there. The rent is $1,000, which Ms. Banks collects from her studio mates (there are about 20, living and working in rooms called Shantytown and Vegetable Street). When the rent collection comes up short, they have a show, Ms. Banks said, or sell T-shirts.

“When rent is cheap or free,” she said, “it leaves time to make art or travel.” Ms. Banks, who has a wide-open face and a keen eye for the life-force inherent in the making of art, takes inspiration from the photographs of a train-hopping friend, Mike Brodie, who goes by the name the Polaroid Kidd and is a kind of Nan Goldin to his train-hopping, punk house set. Ms. Banks’s eye is intimate, to be sure, but her pictures are sly and funny. And despite the profound grunge of the punk-house milieu, her photos are never tragic: they reveal a focused, almost manic energy, like a straight-edge song.

That the idea of the punk house endured for so many years is heart-warming to one 40-year-old former punk house resident. Joel Olson is now an assistant professor of political science at Arizona State University. Back in the day, as he put it recently — which is to say from the late 1980s to the mid-90s — he was a zine editor and the author, with Jack Kahn, of the “Soy, Not ‘Oi!’” cookbook, copies of which Ms. Banks spotted in every house she visited. His Hippycore Krew House in Tempe, Ariz., had Green Day perform in its living room, as well as a “lot of malnourished vegan punks,” he said.

Being a vegan, as he pointed out, was nearly a punk given, a political act against industrialized agriculture and pro-animal rights, “but it was hard work.” In those pre-Internet days, he collected recipes from punk pen pals. They printed 2,000 copies, and sold them all. (A few years ago, AK Press, a radical publishing house, approached Mr. Olson for the rights to reprint his book, and it is now available at Amazon.) “I’m glad the punk house is still thriving,” he said. “It makes perfect sense for young people who don’t have much money and want to make music. The downside is that it seems to me punk culture hasn’t really evolved or developed.”

Certain icons, however, have endured, like the punk bathroom. Perhaps the greatest, said Mr. Moore, was the be-stickered, be-fliered and graffiti-emblazoned black hole in the basement of CBGB, the legendary (and now defunct) punk rock club in the Bowery.

“That’s the one thing that sears itself into your memory,” said Mr. Moore, breaking his reverie. “It’s that toilet.”

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hello

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:25:18 GMT

Which do you like better, possums, racoons, or otters?

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house of stairs

OtherMichael — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:18:55 GMT

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/05/stairways_to_he.html

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these are a few of our favorite things

OtherMichael — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:46:45 GMT

http://www.cracked.com/article_15070_10-best-animated-movies-traumatizing-kids.html

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jeetertech

OtherMichael — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:48:32 GMT

http://www.junkabilly.com/

http://www.wordyard.com/dmz/digicult/virtual-4-92.html
The Jeetertech virtual reality system, which was on display at CyberArts, is the brainchild of San Francisco artist Scott Scarboro. It consists of a beat-up motorcycle helmet with an old-fashioned Viewmaster on the front and tinny headphones mounted on the sides. I placed it on my head and sniffed: Shaving cream? Nope, Vicks Vapor-rub, Scarboro said. After a minute of staring at the faded Viewmaster slides, I took the thing off. "I guess this is satirical, huh?" Scarboro, poker-faced, replied, "Well, some people see it that way...."

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quelling the rumors, dispersing the knowledge

OtherMichael — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:11:47 GMT

http://people.tribe.net/markpincus/blog?topicid=696641b6-8100-4598-8328-afcaf7d83122

make with the clicky, folks. or buy a t-shirt!

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something to read on the bus

OtherMichael — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:46:49 GMT

http://silent-porn-star.blogspot.com/

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M2K: where are your heroes now?

OtherMichael — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:10:41 GMT

http://coilhouse.net/2007/10/20/mondo-2000-where-are-they-now

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here's our bus

OtherMichael — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:07:08 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYX6s4zdU3s

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by the numbers

OtherMichael — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:07:53 GMT

http://mistertoast.blogspot.com/2007/11/paint-by-numbers.html

also:

http://search.ebay.com/paint-by-numbers
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link%5Fcode=qs&field-keywords=paint%20by%20numbers&sourceid=Mozilla-search
http://www.hobbymasters.com/index.asp?Category=227&PageAction=VIEWCATS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_by_number
http://webpbn.com/
http://americanhistory.si.edu/paint/

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Where's your hero now?

j3r3myc — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:15:46 GMT

http://laughingsquid.com/paul-addis-arrested-planned-to-set-fire-to-grace-cathedral/

back in the clink...

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road trip!

OtherMichael — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:54:33 GMT

http://www.ferropolis-online.de/ferropolis.html

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office party in scranton?

spasticfreakshow — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:29:19 GMT

this is truly hard to imagine.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071024/ap_en_tv/tv_the_office_convention

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Queers for Clear-Cutting

madamegonzaga — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:32:15 GMT

A small yet effective group, they've already managed to level two playing fields.

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scratch that itch

OtherMichael — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:32:52 GMT

http://www.metafilter.com/65056/Illustrated-classics-by-scratchboard-artist-Scott-McKowen

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F is for Fake, right?

OtherMichael — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:38:39 GMT

http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg-part-one/ -- via http://www.metafilter.com/65078/Balls-on-or-Balls-off

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_for_Fake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fenton

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/251_fen.html

http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/fenton.htm

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/45/fake.htm

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Baudrillard/Baudrillard_Simulacra.html

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1997/sherman/index.html

http://images.google.com/images?q=roger+fenton&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=DPd&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

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it takes two

OtherMichael — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:17:33 GMT

are you familiar with Astor Pizaolla?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81stor_Piazzolla
http://www.piazzolla.org/biography/biography-english.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJQnCcFlvc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHW9aVn97u4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avFGYQ2TdLU - hunh. it's hard to find non-traditional arrangements of his work; even so, this isn't very far out there. and not an awesome recording. *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2thymCIvv7Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NNkkx9r9bE
piano + sax: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JUnnphlWyM piano is poorly mic'd

this is not too bad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqrveL-CNM8 but I have no idea what is going on with the bubble-wrap on his head

Did I hear of him the same way I was introduced to John Zorn, via the Kronos Quartet?

*more videos of Ultratango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8f5BimcbhM with talking in the middle of it @#$?&@*(#$
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNbJf0wvLZg not bad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzRxyPiO8fo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQt1TX8uUcc

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video game movies

OtherMichael — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:41:26 GMT

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138

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man burned on playa

OtherMichael — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:32:48 GMT

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/30/more-on-the-man-who.html

the man burned early, leaving other burners burning, leaving early.

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now THIS is what the innernets look like

OtherMichael — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:17:12 GMT

http://contemporary-home-computing.org/vernacular-web-2/

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Goodbye, Pavarotti; Hello, Opera!

OtherMichael — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:18:59 GMT

Luciano is dead, alas! Long live opera.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavarotti

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0667556/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084931/ - Yes, Giorgio

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Faye Kennedy, whom he falls in love with

The plot is predictable, but the music is beautiful and the photography is wonderful. Pavarotti is not a very good romantic leading man, but this movie is worth watching again and again for the music and scenery.

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Other opera-related films:

Phantom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_the_opera

Diva: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082269/

Aria: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092580/

A Night at the Opera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_at_the_Opera_%28film%29 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026778/

Jerry Springer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441324/

Dario Argento's Opera: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093677/

What's Opera, Doc? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_Opera,_Doc%3F
and the cartoon itself: http://one.revver.com/watch/109858

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Outcry as Hungarian extreme-right party launch paramilitary wing

spasticfreakshow — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:16:29 GMT

i thought this might interest you, om, since you are in love with both hungary and the jews. i am pasting just a few sentences, the whole thing is here:

http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/19501

The founding members of Magyar Garda, or Hungarian Guard, took their oath next to the presidential palace in Budapest with about 1,000 supporters of the Jobbik party in attendance.

Nearby, hundreds joined a counter-demonstration organised by anti-fascist groups, including Jewish and Roma rights organisations that want the authorities to ban the paramilitary group.

At the induction ceremony, many were seen waving the red-and-white striped Arpad flag, a historic flag reminiscent of the one used by Hungary’s pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Regime during World War II. Uniforms were also adorned with the emblem...........

Hungary has central Europe’s largest Jewish population, estimated between 60,000 and 100,000.

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no cheap fix for this wet basement

OtherMichael — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:59:21 GMT

well, okay, it doesn't HAVE a basement

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FLOODING?SITE=PASCR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnsworth_House

CHICAGO (AP) -- Barbara Campagna and three colleagues paddled to the Farnsworth House in Plano, built by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1951.

There, they piled furniture into their borrowed rowboat as rising water threatened the building in the aftermath of torrential storms.

"We've been calling it 'Lake Farnsworth' all day because (the house) is floating on the water," Campagna, the architecture director for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, said late Friday of the glass-walled house, which rests on four-foot stilts.

"Every piece is worth tens of thousands of dollars. They're all replaceable, but very expensive," she said.

[....]

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calling the potter black

OtherMichael — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:22:30 GMT

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/07/harry_potters_big_con_is_the_p.html

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I want the dvd projector for my birthday, which happens to be next month by the way.

Etakeh — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:23:08 GMT

http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/designforthought.html

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XXXXL

OtherMichael — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:03:55 GMT

http://animexpansion.com/

WTF?!????

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madvertising

OtherMichael — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:03:54 GMT

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/13/leary_and_burroughs_.html

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MISSING

OtherMichael — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:21:33 GMT

one iridium gecko

last seen raising an unholy ruckus

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zeitgeist schmeitgeist

OtherMichael — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:50:10 GMT

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/06/jay_kinney_reviews_z.html

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Ahhh, that touch of Victorian

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:40:18 GMT

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php

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New Tribe

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:35:42 GMT

You're all invited to attend - just don't post anything!

http://tribes.tribe.net/noposts

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No Shit Sherlock

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:22:41 GMT

http://www.the-turds.co.uk/turds/No-Shit-Sherlock.aspx

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Weekly World MAM

OtherMichael — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:47:40 GMT

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/25/weekly_world_news_di.html

this is a cold, black day in hell, heaven, and all points betwixt and between.

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The 50 Greatest Muppets

OtherMichael — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:13:36 GMT

http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/muppets.html

41. Prairie Dawn

Elmo is the most popular character on Sesame Street. Kids get their parents to buy them Elmo toys, Elmo books, Elmo shirts, Elmo CDs, Elmo DVDs, Elmo shoes and Elmo cakes for their birthdays. They show up to zoos and ask to see Elmo instead of elephants or tigers. Somewhere down the line someone decided that since Elmo is a boy, little girls can't relate to him so they created Zoe for gender balance. That's right. Sesame Street, a show that has always had black, whites, asians, hispanics, muppets, cows, birds, bears, and chickens and things was worried that there wasn't something for girls.

Many years before Zoe was even imagined, Prairie Dawn existed. She was a little pink girl who wore picnic table dresses and liked to put on plays. She was mature and wanted to be a journalist and a writer. She had something to her rather than just being a tan colored Elmo puppet with eyeshadow and jewelry and a tutu on. Remember that someday, when you're flipping through the channels and stop on PBS to find Elmo and Zoe and a retarded bear floating on a CGI background, one of those floaties should be Prairie Dawn, sitting at a piano, trying
to get Cookie Monster to say his lines and get over his stage fright and dramatically announce that he is a rain cloud.

39. Scooter

There's a book by Christopher Finch called "Of Muppets and Men: The Making of the Muppet Show" that explains a lot, especially about the Muppet Babies. The question I always had was, WHY are the Muppet Babies all in foster care? Nanny is clearly not the interspecies erotic mother of a dog and a frog and a stuffed chicken. So why do they end up in a nursery with more imagination than toys and more time together than with a guardian? In that book, indeterminately-origined Scooter, the Muppet Show gofer and 1980s child show character type "computery one," says that his mother was a parrot and that he doesn't know his father. So is that the true origin of the Muppet Babies? That they were the offspring of human raped animals that somehow became pregnant? Like, some guy was fucking a pig and when he left, the pig gave birth to a man-pig? I can imagine those creepy mistakes being shuffled off into some government lab and experimented on. Come to think of it, that would explain why they were always hallucinating and confusing fantasy with reality. It would also explain why you never saw Nanny's face. It was like the Danger Room in the X-Mansion, and the reason you only saw the nursery, hallway, and tiny glimpses of other, imagined rooms is because the true exterior of the place is all mirrors and staircases and looks like CTU.

Scooter's sister Skeeter, now only good for lesbian jokes in online Muppet Babies retrospectives, does not appear on the Muppet Show, which, although produced a decade before, occurs chronologically after the Babies. What happened to Skeeter? Where did she go? These are the questions we should be asking instead of the asinine ones about Bert and Ernie being gay. They were puppets on a kids show, of course they weren't gay, stop overanalyzing it.

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this ain't no disco

OtherMichael — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:38:06 GMT

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/24/japanese_schoolgirl_.html

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The first time that Charles Branaski met Lucy Van Pelt, she was holding a football.

OtherMichael — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:51:50 GMT

http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/peanuts-by-charles-bukowski/

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the village who fell from grace with the sea

OtherMichael — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:53:10 GMT

http://www.thingsmagazine.net/2007_07_01_oldthings.htm#3148402826219688495

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on wisconsin

OtherMichael — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:13:32 GMT

which is where im at through the weekend and since

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Not a plug

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:45:16 GMT

But excitement oozing from my pores!

I'm (finally) going to be published in Australia (crossing my fingers)!

<

Webmaster Jason M. Brill,
frontiernet.net Website
Dear Jason,

My reason for contacting you is that I would like to include your excellent artwork image of OVUM I in a book I am writing entitled Sky Dragon, Earth Serpent.
It appears as artwork on your website on pages:

www.frontiernet.net/~kbrill/Gallery/AL.htm which links to your image on webpage http://www.frontiernet.net/~kbrill/Gallery/Data/Alchemy/Serpent&Egg5c1.jpg

The book will be published in Australia for a limited edition of about 2000 copies or DVDs.
If you can see your way clear to approving my use of it, I would be very grateful. Naturally I will accredit this in any way you nominate.

(If you haven’t time to respond to this may I just proceed?)

Hoping you can help,

Sydney

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(Dr) Sydney Baggs
PO Box 216
Hurlstone Park
New South Wales
2193 Australia>

I told him, by all means include it. Just make sure my name is on the bottom right corner of the image or directly below it in a caption, and requested a copy of the book when it's finished.

An underachiever no more!

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8 0 P O P

OtherMichael — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:16:34 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0A7dtdc-nU
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=41&threadid=58137 (as seen elsewhere)

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Top Ten Messages Sent Via iPhone

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:11:33 GMT

10. I <3 U
9. Where R U?
8. Please Resend
7. I Iz E Ting
6. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
5. The iPhone you are trying to reach is out of range.
4. OMFG!
3. How do I work this F'ing thing?
2. YOU GOT RICKY ROLLED!

And the number one message sent via iPhone
1. I just fucked your iPhone, mam!

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I fuxxxed mein iPhone...

madamegonzaga — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:18:15 GMT

...und alll I gots was zeez lousy iPod!

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Dude...

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:03:22 GMT

Don't fuck my iPhone - that's disgusting.

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Summer Reading List

OtherMichael — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:30:24 GMT

http://alternativereel.com/cult-fiction/Banned_Books.html

wheee! I've read them all!

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feeling hungry....

OtherMichael — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:06:26 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn73Wtem0No

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Case of Atlantis - online free!

spasticfreakshow — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:15:13 GMT

http://jjrowland.com/wigu/20070622.html

om, did you see this yet? thought i'd call your attention to it while reprimanding you for your foul language in the current tribe name. i never thought i'd see you abusing the french language publicly like that and frankly, i am shocked. i suggest you add a - or a @ or a # or a % in the middle of that very bad word or i may be forced to tell your mother.

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IRAQ IS NOT A CIVIL WAR, FOOLS!!!

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:29:52 GMT

This one made me laugh - it was in a bulletin over on MySpace:

IRAQ IS NOT A CIVIL WAR!!!!!!

99.9% percent of Iraqis want to get on with their lives and want nothing to do with these Islamofasciists. So how can you call something a civil war if the entire country isn't invovled.

That's like saying because Bloodz and Crips are fighting all over the U.S. then WE are in a civil war.

Any Senator, Congressmen, or Presidential Canidate who uses the phrase "civil war" has ZERO credibility in my book.

My comments: It's a good point, but doesn't seem to be much of a valid one. 99.9% seems to be a pretty high statistic, but I'll give it to them. What that really means is - almost every Iraqi wants the attacks from the outside to stop. Well, right after we trained them to defend against those attacks, we sent them to battle their own hometowns and the Mahdi Army. So far no security measure over there has managed to thwart many of the "Islamofascist" external invasions.

As for the Bloodz and Crips - that's only true if the Crips had won the electoral bid over the Bloodz and are now leading the country. That's pretty much what happened during our Civil War, and we didn't call it anything else. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and smells like a duck, then, brother - it's a duck

Thirdly - call it whatever you want, it's still a military cluster-f***.

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...and all that

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:22:15 GMT

so then Cheney was like, "I don't have to give you nothin', I don't even have an Executive Office" and Rahm's got all up in his face and was all, "I'll take yer pension, pilgrim" so Cheney's all "Noooo, please, don't take my pension. Okay, I yield, I have Executive Privilege. Uncle! Unc-lllle!" but then he told Rahm, right - he says, "But you're gonna have to talk to the President." and Rahm was like, "FINE!" and Bush goes up and says "I ain't handing you no subpoenaed documents, motherfuckers! YEE-HAW! *bang - bang - bang*" and then Olberman walks in and says, "Hey, I thought I told you guys to stop clowning around" and bush was all, "Make us, bitch!" And Olberman bitch-slapped both of those mofo's! It was cool!

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Only 5 Minutes to Live

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:21:37 GMT

Shock Cinema at its best (for, what could be better than owning it, right?):

http://www.5minutestolive.com/

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a good question

OtherMichael — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:19:50 GMT

http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/005209.html

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there's a fungus amongus

OtherMichael — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:05:37 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUa7BUAjObU

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