January 2010
1 post
best of 2009
This is a bit late, but for good reason. I don’t really know how to write about music without coming off as an insincere twat. I’m beginning to truly believe that the more a writer uses the words “incredible” and “interesting” as adjectives to describe a certain topic the less he or she actually knows about it. Think Thomas Haden Church’s character in...
September 2009
2 posts
This song’s great.
As usual I’m...
Here's what I've Been Doing:
Bill Callahan’s Sometime’s I Wish We Were an Eagle Brian Eno’s Here Come the Warm Jets Chad Vangaalen’s Soft Airplane and Infiniheart Matthew Dear’s Asa Breed Nosaj Thing’s Drift The Tallest Man on Earth’s Shallow Graves
The Simpsons, Season 3 [TV] Hiyao Miyazaki’s Ponyo [Film] William Gibson’s Neuromancer [Novel] David Allen’s...
May 2009
4 posts
oh.
Eh, I’ve been bad with this blog nonsense lately, but hopefully my recent and awesome purchase of a Samsung N120 netbook will allow me to make more/better blog posts. or at least reblog at least some of the ridiculous and awesome things I find on the internet everyday.
I haven’t really been paying much attention to politics lately. This is just a tad disheartening, due primarily to...
HOW IS BABBY FORMED →
April 2009
8 posts
Likes (1)/Dislikes (2)
(1) Obama calls for (eventual) international disarmament
(2) NorKor launches test rocket, world flips a shit
+1
-1
The Countryside in March, 2009 edition
Leah and I took a journey up north on Tuesday. We drove through Sonoma, looked at nice houses, somehow wound up in Santa Rosa, and finally, took a small detour in Novato before returning home to Benicia.
images are courtesy Leah, besides those of the water and doe.
[it was too windy for leah]
“The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely...”
– (more) Bertrand Russell
My Kind of Desktop:
I like this trend of simplified design in technology.
Read about the Niveus HTPC at Engadget.
(btw, so it’s known, I hate computer cases that look like this. but this one ain’t bad at all.)
Neon Genesis Evangelion
I’m not big into Anime, but there’s something about this show that just clicks with me.
I haven’t watched an episode for a few days due to school and work and life and blah blah, and I’m not far enough in the series to know exactly what’s going on, so I’ll let wikipedia provide the synopsis:
Evangelion is an apocalyptic mecha action series which centers...
March 2009
25 posts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=—N9klJXbjQ
12 Rods, “Make Out Music” off of the...
Refreshing international relations, courtesy of...
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Glenn Beck, the master of schlop, has outdone himself.
Diabetes cure a step closer after liver used to... →
When I Grow Up from Fever Ray on Vimeo.
This is beautiful.
My Wish List:
These are the material things I want, but won’t actually own for a while:
Valkyria Chronicles (PS3)
A Real Time Strategy game with a beautiful Japanese, steampunk art style and battles that take place in a third-person perspective. You command your troops, tell them where to go, and when you confront an enemy, you take control of one of your troops, adding another layer of skill to the...
“Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.”
– Bertrand Russell
WEEKLY BEAST: The Jesus Lizard
AKA the “common basilisk”, this little guy runs on top of water and shit. It lives in South America, inhabiting a stretch from Panama to Venezuala.
To anthropomorphize, the Jesus Lizard would probably work best as a sea messenger of sorts, delivering products and postcards from seaport to seaport. They would also make good fire-fighters and bridge builders, but would not be limited to...
Anxiety leads to lists and denotations
Currently Reading:
For school:
The most recent Iraq war in historical context, written by Arabic historian Rashid Khalidi. You know, the so-called domestic terrorist, whose presentation Obama supposedly attended and McCain/Palin wanted a video of in the last month of the campaign. Provides a telling timeline of western intervention in the middle east, thorough explanations and analyses of arab response and a...
White-board Animation Goodness
Jack in the Redux
From the neoGAF forums:
On the way home this morning I stopped by jack in the box and found they were completely remodeling the restaurant. Since I cant sleep, I looked around online and found their planning to do a complete relaunch of the brand/restaurant which later will include changes in menu/food, interior/atmosphere, marketing with more focus on jack/quality and potentially dropping...
TUNNELVISION: Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad’s narrative is about as grand-scale noir as any story can get. At the end of the first episode, you’re told that the main character, chemistry teacher Walter White (played beautifully by Bryan Cranston), has inoperable lung cancer, and that he’ll be lucky if he lasts two years.
There goes any hope for a happy ending.
The show’s teleology, however, is...
So we can post audio files on this thing?
...
“Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but...”
– General F.S. Maude, Commander of British Forces, Baghdad, March 19, 1917
[This is probably the billionth time this has been referenced in recent years, but hey, it’s interesting now nonetheless. Ah, western intervention in foreign lands. Works every time.]
Ikea Hacking
If you’re a poor college student who suffers from a bad case of (at least what you believe to be) good taste, Ikea Hacking seems to be the way to go. Basically, Ikea Hacking entails modifying old furniture (either from Ikea or elsewhere) with cheap pieces from Ikea—or taking cheap Ikea accessories and making artistic adjustments—to make them more aesthetically pleasing or...
Politics, Sans-Fluff: 3/2/09 - 3/8/09
Notable this week was Limbaugh lapping up unnecessary and unearned publicity, based in part on his brazen stupidity, as well as the democratic party’s attempt to paint him as the leader of the republican party. (read more at Politico)
Or so Limbaugh would like you to believe (in the case of the latter).
Limbaugh’s far-right reactionary attitude towards Barack Obama (saying...