Warren - Lead Guitar
Desmond - Bass Guitar
Frederick - Drums and Percussion
Makhor - Saxophone
Montel - Keyboards and Rainsticks
20090501
20090222
Found art: the poetry of overheard conversation.
reposted via catsoldier.
a fucking mess
Yeah…
It’s like… fuckin humpty dumpty fell off the wall and ive just been jumpin around tryin to glue the pieces back together
and i just cant man
i just cant
i know
im gonna have to deal with this woman for the rest of my life
well. y'know
i get pissed off (laughs)
it is just such a - its just like what youre talkin about
everything is just a complete convoluted mess that you can't understand
all i know is that we went to counseling and it turned that into an M1 missile
it just kicked up so much stuff that-
y'know it just turned into a real mess
(laughs)
yeah just after counseling it just turned into a real mess
just.. wow
its just like
its almost like
dysfunctional communication patterns
that have just been amplified
that have just been locked in this cycle
and they -just-can-not
its just weird
(sighs)
yknow
in another respect ive been really unwilling to accept things
i have…
just been chompin on the bit
just unwilling to accept.
that doesnt help
the really sad thing is
its much better right now
both of us kind of.;..
better
its almost like a military concept
you know, like divide and conquer
(laughs)
when we met i was a mess
and she was a mess
and it just got messier and messier
it enabled us to make a real mess out of things
and we could afford to make a real mess out of things
and you drive that wedge in there
and it drives these two entities apart
and unfortunately things happen for the better or worse in our lives
and i just don't want to deny that
you see where im going with this
(laughs)
its just undeniable
things ARE better right now
they're just more painful
im never going to be able to father my children the same way
im just going to have to accept that
i dont know im really broken man
these past few days
Colin's birthday
i mean im really broken man
i lost my kids
its just. um
theres not a whole hell of a lot i can do about it
yeah its tough…
i go…
im buyin em gifts that i never get to see them open
denied on his birthday
im not invited ANYWHERE
its like im not even welcome in what was once my own house
theres just nothin
so
no
no you can't do that shit
because the problem is danny
that i have to get away from that..
ive got those forces working against me
and ive got my kids and my emotions
and it just amplifies the emotions
its just a fuckin mess
the whole thing is just a huge huge fucking mess
and
you know…
its just..
(sighs)
you just have to accept it.
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20081228
20080528
its fun to do bad things.
This just in off the wires of the associated press. Children exposed to lead are more likley to be bad boys later in life. This explains both bad boys one and 2, as well as camerin and james. And that kid who stole his grandmamas car and took it for a joyride, and later beat up his grandma at a mcdonalds.
article sez:
"Between 1979 and 1984, Dr. Kim Dietrich a professor of environmental health at University of Cincinnati and colleagues recruited pregnant women in poor areas of Cincinnati, known for high concentration of older lead-contaminated housing. About 250 out of the 376 newborns recruited into the study were included in the final analysis.
The researchers measured blood lead levels during pregnancy and then regularly until the children were six and a half years old, as an indication of their lead exposure. The level of lead exposure was then correlated with local criminal justice records on how many times each of the recruits had been arrested between becoming 18 years old and the end of October 2005.
The study found that 55 percent of the subjects (63 percent of males) had been arrested at least once and that the average was five arrests between the ages of 18 and 24. In fact, the higher the blood lead level at any time in childhood, the greater the likelihood of arrests was. "
this also explains this:
Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra
credit card from his father's existing credit card company, and took his friends
on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing "Halo" on an Xbox with a
couple of hookers in a Texas motel.
The credit card company involved
said it was regular practice to send extra credit cards out as long as all
security questions are answered.
The escort girls who were released
without charge, told the arresting officers something was up when the kids said
they would rather play Xbox than get down to business.
Police said they
were alerted to the motel by a concerned delivery clerk, whom after delivering
supplies of Dr Pepper, Fritos and Oreos had been asked by the kids where they
could score some chicks and were willing to pay. They explained they had just
made a big score at a "World of Warcraft" tournament and wanted to get some
relaxation. On noting the boys age the delivery clerk informed the authorities.
When police arrived at the motel they found $3,000 in cash, numerous
electronic gadgets, an Xbox video console with numerous games, and the two local
escort girls.
so what youre telling me is that a chemical that no one should be exposed to is changing brain chemistry to make people more apt to break the law? something tells me the overcrowding in our bloated insane prison system might be caused by a little more than some paint chips. But interesting none the less.
ps.
i think whoever made this movie probably ate paint chips and SHOULD have been sent to jail. i say we let all the drug users out of prison and replace them with the fuckers who are putting crap like problem child and survivor in my brain. i should not have a place in my memorybanks for the above photo.
20080521
No one rides for free
Dr. Robert L. Hirsch directed the US fusion energy program during the 1970s evolution of the Atomic Energy Commission (including initiation of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor), through the Energy Research and Development Administration to the present Department of Energy. In addition to his role in development of fusion energy by magnetic confinement, Hirsch was also interested in inertially confined fusion.
His previous management positions include:
* Senior Energy Program Advisor, SAIC (World oil production)
* Senior Energy Analyst, RAND (Various energy studies)
* Vice President of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
* Vice President and Manager of Research and Technical Services for Atlantic Richfield Co. (ARCO) (Oil and gas exploration and production).
* Founder and CEO of APTI, a roughly $50 million/year company now owned by BAE Systems. (Commercial & Defense Department technologies).
* Manager of Exxon’s synthetic fuels research laboratory.
* Manager of Petroleum Exploratory Research at Exxon. (Refining R & D).
* Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) responsible for renewables, fusion, geothermal and basic research. (Presidential Appointment).
* Director of fusion research at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and ERDA.
The Dr. had this to say, concerning the prices of oil:“The prices that we’re paying at the pump today are, I think, going to be ‘the good old days,’ because others who watch this very closely forecast that we’re going to be hitting $12 and $15 per gallon,” Hirsch said. “And then, after that, when oil – world oil production goes into decline, we’re going to talk about rationing. In other words, not only are we going to be paying high prices and have considerable economic problems, but in addition to that, we’re not going to be able to get the fuel when we want it.”
if youre interested in reading more, check out the original article HERE
also read more about the HIRSCH REPORT
from wikipedia:
In 2005, the US Department of Energy published a report titled Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management.[105] Known as the Hirsch report, it stated, "The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid fuel prices and price volatility will increase dramatically, and, without timely mitigation, the economic, social, and political costs will be unprecedented. Viable mitigation options exist on both the supply and demand sides, but to have substantial impact, they must be initiated more than a decade in advance of peaking."
20080518
20080517
cryptofascism
"In the absence of any experience of accountability or transparency - the basic ingredients of an open society - even the most thoughtful Russians are prone to say: "Russia needs a strong man at the centre. Putin has made Russia great again. Now the world has to listen."The new Prime Minister has brilliantly exploited the patriotism and latent xenophobia of the Russia people to unify them in the belief that they face a major threat from NATO and the United States.
This combination of national pride and insecurity has been fuelled by the America with its proposed deployment of missiles only a few hundred kilometres from the Russian border, allegedly to counter a nuclear threat from Iran.
No serious defence analyst believes this makes any strategic sense, while even impeccably pro-Western Russians recoil from this crass assertion of super-power hegemony by President Bush.
Similarly most Russians feel threatened - and humiliated - by the prospect that Ukraine and Georgia, once the most intimate allies of the Soviet Union, may soon be enfolded in the arms of NATO.
Georgia, which is struggling to contain a separatist movement that is openly supported by the Kremlin, has the potential to become a dangerous flashpoint in which the Western allies could only too easily become ensnared.
Does this mean - as some have argued - that we are about to face a new Cold War? I don't think so for a moment.
With communism consigned to "the dustbin of history", there is no ideological conflict of any significance. And there is now only one military superpower.
In comparison with America, Russia's armed forces are a joke. Only catastrophic stupidity on either side could lead to a nuclear confrontation.
But this does not mean that we can all breathe a sigh of relief and forget about the Bear.
An autocratic and resurgent Russia that feels bruised and threatened is an unstable beast.
The Kremlin's growing rapprochement with Beijing (the adversaries of a generation ago are now not only major trading partners, but conduct joint military exercises) shifts the balance of power in the world.
And as life on earth becomes less and less secure, with evermore people competing for a dwindling supply of vital resources, Russia, as an energy giant, is once again a big player on the world stage.
Make no mistake, we are in for a very bumpy ride."
read this article on putin. do it now.
20080515
beneath a limen
From Wikipedia:
A subliminal message is a signal or message embedded in another medium, designed to pass below the normal limits of perception. These messages are unrecognizable by the conscious mind, but in certain situations can affect the subconscious or deeper mind and later actions or attitudes.
Subliminal techniques have occasionally been used in advertising and propaganda; the purpose, the effectiveness, and the frequency of the application of such techniques is debated.
20080512
Liberty City
I'm sure most folks out there realize that a lot of the stuff they read/see in the mainstream media is bullshit, and that propaganda is not something that went out of style with Hitler. But here is evidence that it is still going on, in a major way, today. Some 8,000 pages released by the pentagon detailing a meticulously planned trip for "military analysts" to "inspect" the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
Basically after crazed left wing radicals such as The Red Cross started spreading totally false rumors about Gitmo, suggesting the good ol USA was using: "humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, use of forced positions" against prisoners. The inspectors concluded that "the construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture." The Pentagon took action, inviting ex military personnel to come visit the camp, and see for themselves, what kind of stuff was going on.
The "Military Analysts" spent a total of four hours in cuba total. They spent less than three hours touring the facility, and one hour was spent eating lunch with the troops.(gotta support them)
What did the Analysts see?
-a viewing of an interrogation,
-a tour of an "unoccupied cellblock,"
-a visit to the detention hospital.
Here is what one of the visitors had to say about their time spent in Cuba to CNN's Betty Nguyen
NGUYEN: Let's back up for just a moment, because you said you said watched an interrogation.
SHEPPERD: Yes.
NGUYEN: Kind of explain to us how that played out. And were there any instances of abuse or possible abuse?
SHEPPERD: Absolutely not. These -- when I sat and watched them, I want to be very careful in describing them. And I don't want to describe how we watched or anything of that sort. But basically, you're able to observe interrogations. They have various ways of monitoring the interrogations and what have you and letting you see what's going on. With the interrogations that we watched were interrogators, there were translators that translated for the detainee and there were also intelligence people in there.
And they're basically asking questions. They just ask the same questions over a long period of time. They get information about the person's family, where they're from, other people they knew. All the type of things that you would want in any kind of criminal investigation. And these were all very cordial, very professional. There was laughing in two of them that we...
NGUYEN: Laughing in an interrogation?
SHEPPERD: ... in the two of them that we watched. Yes, indeed. It's not -- it's not like the impression that you and I have of what goes on in an interrogation, where you bend people's arms and mistreat people. They're trying to establish a firm professional relationship where they have respect for each other and can talk to each other. And yes, there were laughing and humor going on in a couple of these things. And I'm talking about a remark made where someone will smirk or laugh or chuckle.
NGUYEN: All right. General Don Shepperd, we appreciate your time and that look inside Gitmo, with you being there on this tour. Thank you for that.
I would totally be cracking up too. I mean, naked pyramids are hilarious. Also this interrogation sounds particularly hilarious:"he was stripped naked, isolated, given intravenous fluids and forced to urinate on himself, and exercised to exhaustion during interrogations that lasted 18 to 20 hours a day for 48 of 54 days."
Anyways, read the rest of the salon article, if this kind of stuff interests you as much as it does me. Its the sort of thing anyone with the slightest bit of common sense realized without having to be told, but its still sobering to read internal pentagon documents detailing how elaborate this particular charade went. This isnt even getting into terror alerts or WMDs or blackwater or what kind of shit is really going on in the streets of Iraq either. This is the stuff that is available for us to learn, its probably just the icing on the cake, y'know?
SOURCE
20080502
Now thats the News!
Shailendra the Mighty
Earlier this week Shailendra Roy drew large crowds when he pulled the famous Darjeeling toy train with his ponytail.
20080429
20080427
sunday school
Todays subject: Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a famous gospel singer in the early part of the 20th century. She played a Gibson SG and she rocked pretty fucking hard for her time, and for the fact that she was in church. Cited as a favorite by Johnny Cash, and shouted out by Dylan on his theme time radio hour, this is Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
20080424
Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital
AP article.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.
"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.
"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.
Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.
"It's real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny," said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.
20080418
Vertical Farms
If there's one thing i love more than sustainable agriculture, its ANYTHING related to the future. This is some sick blade runner shit, just waiting for a crazy future when these are all run down and abandoned. Imagine the fucking crazy critters and ghosts that would love to live there.Anyways green buildings are fucking sick.
20080417
Scott Anderson
sick as fuck. check out more at http://www.scottandersonnet.com/ Also check out this interview with him at fecal face.
20080416
Black Holes and Revelations
What is this machine? Why are some folk scared that it might create a black hole that could destroy earth as we know it? This is the story of the "Large Hadron Collider". Pretty interesting stuff, if you're into outer space, science, and mind-blowing.
Currently in its final stages of construction, the LHC will become the worlds largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, or ATOM SMASHER. I prefer atom smasher.
What exactly IS an atom smasher? and how can it destroy me? good questions. Very good. yes. Complicated questions too. Very complicated. Couldnt be fully explained without going down a very long list of terms and definitions, including but not restricted to:
Accelerator physicsFeel free to read up on that stuff, and get back to me. My brain is too small to wrap around all that. So i will explain whats up with this death ray in working mans terms that even Kevin Federline can understand.
Anatoli Bugorski
Astrophysics
Beam dump
Beam line
Betatron
Channelling
Cryomodule
Cyclotron
Dipole magnet
Electromagnetism
Electron cooling
Ion implanter
Linear particle
accelerator
List of particles
Particle beam
Particle detector
Particle physics
Quadrupole magnet
Stochastic cooling
Superconducting
Radio Frequency
Superconducting
Super Collider
Synchrotron
Oohkay, so what you got here is your high energy atom smasher. A fuckin beam right. HELLA strong beam. Like a Gi joe lazer or something. Like Honey I shrunk the kids and shit.
Okay so we got this space lazer looking thing and it fucking blasts the beam. The beam hits these fucking hellllla tiny things. Like tiny lego blocks that make up our cells and shit. no not prison cells, like skin cells, and cocaine cells and titty cells and shit. Who gives a fuck about that? i know, right? Anyways, these rocket scientists study what happens when the high energy passes through these fucking hella tiny particles. Then they just chill and watch with their scientist microscope glasses.
I know right? microscope fuckin glasses. Basically though, the more energy they put into the beam, the more information they can collect. They then use that information the engineer more frost into our flakes and shit. Make bigger boobs and tastier bigmacs and shit.
... okay. enough of that.
You might be surprised to learn that your tv set, or your computer monitor actually contain the components of a particle accelerator. The difference between your tv atom smasher, and this fucking big ass atom smasher that some people are buzzing over, is that the large hadron collider may very well produce what are known as "Micro black holes". These are just like the black holes that swallow planets and galaxies and shit, but much smaller.
Scientists say chill out, because they can just bombard the tiny black holes with "Hawking Radiation" Which are theorized to shrink black holes. I say theorized, because according to wikipedia Hawking Radiation is "yet an experimentally-tested or naturally observed phenomenon" and and haters of the LHC say that that "micro black holes produced in a terrestrial laboratory might not decay as rapidly as calculated, or might even not be prone to decay and, if unable to rapidly evaporate, they could start interacting, grow larger and potentially be disastrous to Earth itself". Other people say, "fuck the black holes man, im scared of strangeletes." Straggeletes are "hypothetical particles" that critics said could "transform the Earth almost instantly into a dead, dense lump." Tiny bit fucking dope.
This is some superhero shit. But not really because nothings going to happen, and we will just get bigger bigmacs and frostier flakes. However it think its still fun to hold on to some of that Fred Savage wonderyersment, and day dream about particle physics tearing open another dimension or something. Or even better.. superheroes?
Check out this article in the New York Times about the LHC and who can accuratley judge the safety of such an experiment.
20080415
20080413
20080412
Guitars are for Losers.
MEN
electric guitar 81%
bass guitar 81%
tuba 77%
kit drums 75%
trombone 71%
WOMEN
harp 90%
flute 89%
voice 80%
fife/piccolo 79%
oboe 78%
"My granddad played the flute, my dad played the flute, my uncle played the flute."
- Sir James Galway
Horror. Horrible.
Remember the Sound of Music? You know that part where that lady sings about the female deer and the drop of golden sun? me a name i call myself, fa, a long long way to run. sew, a needle pulling thread... anyway there is a lost verse that references walking dog robots with space-age hyper-advanced error correction modules for traversing unstable terrain and obstacles including human resistance. and here it is.
20080411
Just like candy.
Detectives followed a trail of candy wrappers to Fourth and Race Street. Once on the scene, they arrested 19 year old Christine Ruther. Ruther and three others broke a window to get inside Minges Candy Store on Court Street in Downtown Cincinnati at 1:00 a.m.
Police say Ruther took her baby out of a stroller so she could fill it with $400 worth of candy.
who could have ever imagined this fine young woman would be capible of such things as midnight candy robberies. Perhaps she just watched the Cameo DVD and after "Candy" came on she could no longer help herself. "Come on baby i'm getting us some sweet sweet candy." "Baby get out of that stroller i need to put the candy in there!!"
"Oakland Street Dealers Store Drugs Up Their Butts"
That is a real headline. Totally unabridged. Drug dealers, specifically ones from the city in which i reside, Oakland. Are using their asses to hold on to their stash. "Dr H" from heroinhelper.com explains:
"The balloons protect the drugs inside because rubber is not digested; after swallowing, the dealer can vomit them back up (if it hasn't been too long) or defecate them out."Oh right on. Sounds almost as delicious as jenkem.
At the Oakland Police Department's Citizen Police Academy, normal folk can come to learn
about the different roles within the police dept, and the magical whimsical world of drugs. One visitor who came on behalf of her neighborhood watch group received quite the lesson on illicit narcotics.
"The drug testing technician told us that often drugs are stored in body cavities of those selling them, and therefore that some of the drugs that they confiscate have fecal matter and other liquids/materials from 'down there' in them. She says that some of the marijuana she has tested has had pubic hair in it."
Not that this kind of thing doesn't happen among more affluent circles:
It's just that you expect your pennies to have been in a urinal, or an ass already. But not your drugs man. not the drugs.
i need this
steampunk laptop. and it works.
what the fuck is steam punk? my new favorite thing.
more on steampunk (via wikipedia) :
Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles or analog computers; these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or a presumption of functionality.
20080410
These Glasses are Famous.
Tagz: Australian Blokes, Suburban Folks, Chinese People, Mexicans, Glasses, Famous, Party, Mexicano, TexMex, Spicy, Crispy, Beef, Hispanic, Spanish, Mexicans, Chinese Food, Rude Woman on Bart, Surf 'n Turf, Best Weekend Ever, Beer
BERKLEY
Not Berkeley. Different story. This is a story of a tallented illustrator working out of portland. His name is Ryan. This is but a taste of his talent. Check out his blog. LETS SHARE: THE BERKLEY BLOG. Also Check out his amazing wife (who also helps out Ryan big time) Lucy. 
20080409
Jocelyn and Ed
Continuing coverage on amazingly insane relationships, we have a rolling stone article about the story of Jocelyn and Ed . Jocelyn Kirsch is a compulsive liar. One of those girls who re invents herself every few months. Shifting friends, always interested in something different. She had 3 guys who all thought they were the only ones dating her. Shallow and self conscious, she couldn't stand to be alone. She claimed to speak 11 languages, and wore fake contacts to change her eye color. She claimed to be a pole vaulter for Penn State. She was a kleptomaniac who stole from her closest friends. Ed was a Penn State graduate working as an annalist. With a new life and a comfortable salary Ed only lacked someone to share his success with. He would literally find his partner in crime in Jocelyn.
One might say that Jocelyn and Ed were like peas and carrots. Jocelyn needed someone to spend lots of money on her, and give her attention. Ed needed some kind of security blanket. Someone to make him feel important again. Within months of meeting, the two were traversing the globe, taking expensive vacations, and spending exorbitant amounts of money on overpriced designer crap. Sounds like any other typical yuppie relationship at first. Except for one thing. Jocelyn wasn't the trust fund baby she claimed to be, and Ed was fired from his job after lying about his use of sick days.
It was all a big, gleeful sham. Ed had actually been canned from his job four months before, and twenty-two-year-old Jocelyn was a senior at nearby Drexel University, a big step down from Penn. When Philadelphia police busted into the couple's apartment a few days later, they found an extensive identity-theft operation, complete with a professional ID maker, computer spyware, lock-picking tools and a crisp North Carolina driver's license soaking in a bowl of bleach. Though the investigation is still unfolding, this much is apparent: The lovebirds stand accused of using other people's names and Social Security numbers to scam at least $100,000, sometimes buying merchandise and selling it online to raise more cash.
What's striking about the two grifters is how determined they were to flaunt their ill-gotten gains. They acted not like furtive thieves but like two kids on a joy ride, utterly delighted by their own cleverness — as in the invitation Jocelyn e-mailed to friends not long before their arrests, announcing a surprise twenty-fifth-birthday party for Ed at an upscale tapas bar. "My treat, of course!" she'd written. Steeped in narcissism and privilege, fueled by entitlement and set in an age of consumer culture run amok, theirs is truly an outlaw romance for the twenty-first century. The Philadelphia Daily News immediately dubbed the photogenic couple "Bonnie and Clyde." It's a name some people take exception to. "Bonnie and Clyde, that's only because they're young and good-looking," scoffs Detective Terry Sweeney of the Philadelphia police. "These two were complete idiots. If this was two fat fucks from South Philly, it would have been Turner and Hooch."
20080408
20080407
Awesome disobedience = Thoreau back .
Tibetan protesters scaled up the golden gate bridge today, and unfurled giant banners. This comes less than 2 days before the torch is due to make its stop in San Francisco. The group responsible, calling themselves 'Team Tibet', disguised themselves using civilian clothes, strollers, and i can only hope, fake mustaches. They then used their hidden climbing equipment to rappel up the cables, (150 feet above the road and 370 feet above water) and then unleash their banners.Obviously they were arrested when they came down. They face a possible fine.
The damage is done though, this is great. Great civil disobedience. I'm loving this. I can only imagine what its going to be like when the torch comes through SF. Hopefully people will pay more attention than the last time someone told them to free tibet, which was most likley at woodstock 94, or a bjork concert.
For more on protesting the torch in SF, see here.
For more on the history of Tibet, including rape of tibet by china, see here.
For more on civil disobedience in general, see here.
Nagi Noda
Check out this Coke ad, featuring a song written by Jack White. It is directed by Japanese Pop Artist Nagi Noda.
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Other works by Noda:
Sweating to the Surreal.
A fucking insane clip of a fitness instructor dressed in a body suit that gives her the appearance of having muscles shaped like the fur of a poodle. Also, exercising with her in the video are six actors dressed in dog costumes, with actual live dogs' heads superimposed over their real heads.It was created for the 2004 Olympics.
I dont know what to say about this. It reminds me of the Michel Gondry video for Daft Punk's around the world.
This seems to be some early footage, or some test footage for the effect that would later be used in the coke ad. It makes me wonder who did this effect first, Noda or Gondry in the Hardest button to button video.
A commercial for some Japanese mineral water.
Havent a fucking clue...
20080406
Alfreda and Anton
Alfreda Van Bladel had prepared a dinner for her husband, Anton, that consisted of hot dogs.
At some point the man snatched the plate of hot dogs from his wife's hands.
This action prompted the Alfreda to stab her husband in the shoulder with a steak knife.
Anton Van Bladel then grabbed a handgun and pointed it at his wifes head and softly informed her that he was going to kill her.
"I will kill you. I swear to god Alfreda, I earned these hotdogs and goddamnit im going to eat them. ""Well whats stoppin you now then. You're pointin a fucking gun at my head. You can eat whatever the fuck you want now. Shit- why dont you go ahead and do it Anton. Mr big man. Big scary Anton. Just do it already. Aint like cleanin up after your shit ass is much of a livin anyway."
Alfreda grabbed the gun and pressed it into her forhead even harder.
"JUST FUCKING DO IT ALREADY" She screamed
"Why'd you have go go and stab me like that." Anton pulled a cigarette out of the pack in his front shirt pocket. The right pocket. He always kept a pack there. He looked into Alfreda's eyes as he puffed on the Marlboro red. Her wild eyes. The ones that he had fallen in love with 15 years ago. Freshmen year. Anton passed her the cigarette. He was still holding the gun to her head.
"I had to stand up f'er myself someday. What'n the hell am i supposed to eat 'f you go 'n snatch up all the hotdogs." She blew smoke rings. She knew Anton loved it when she did her smoke tricks. He thought it made her look like a hollywood movie star.
The smoke rings floated towards Anton, dissipating around him. He smiled for a second, and then frowned. "How'n the hell 're you gonna cook us a dinner consisting of only three goddamn hotdogs. That aint 'enough. First off you know i like my Hungry Mans-"
"Well ther aint no goddamn money for Hungry Mans Anton. We aint even got 'nuff for a whole pack of hotdogs. Why the hell do you think i only cooked three." Anton was not listening. This is because he kept talking over Alfreda.
"-Thats cus thats what i am. A hungry man. Those things are heavy Alfreda you know that. I know you know that cus 'yer the ones what fuckin buyin em. I jus get so darn hungry."
"Shit Anton just fucking kill me." *sobs* "Just fucking kill me and eat me then. Thats all I am to you. Just a fucking food source."
Anton lowered the gun from his wifes temple.
"Damnit Alfreda. Look at your eyes. So wild. You 'member when i asked you to wear my jacket."
Anton wiped the tears from Alfredas eyes. She smiled. "heh. Yeah, it was all covered in mud because you went muddin' with the windows down."
"Yes and you took it anyways, cuz you knew that i didnt know how to get it cleaned. And you threw it in your mamas dryer and freshened it up with your trick."
"hah- that werent no trick Anton. Its just some dryer sheets." she laughed.
"Well i aint never seen nothin like it." Anton began crying. "Sure seemd like some magic to me Alfreda. Damnit you know i love you. Im sorry i pointed sheila at'cha. I just get so emotional is all."
"Aww hell i know you didnt mean it. Come here you big ox."
/scene.
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