Urban Legends Reference Pages: Science (Blonde Extinction)
someone just told me this the other day...
I replied with the bullworthian idea that hopefully one day we'll all be roughly the same shade of brown...
but the blondes aren't going anywhere...
Friday, March 24, 2006
bill hicks
Ok...the above link SHOULD take you to the bill hicks d/l....
if not just click on mutant media on the frequnecy 23 homepage and search for Hicks...
grabbing the track for real now...
if not just click on mutant media on the frequnecy 23 homepage and search for Hicks...
grabbing the track for real now...
Thursday, March 23, 2006
� Bill Hicks Historic Track Found & It’s Free - RINF Alternative News
� Bill Hicks Historic Track Found & It’s Free - RINF Alternative News: "Free Download of the first Bill Hicks post-Letterman audio recording that’s surfaced after 13 years. A few days after being censored from David Letterman, Bill Hicks did a few shows around NYC ranting harder than ever before. Bill was terminally sick and knew it, but never shared this outside his family and closest friends. These shows have long been thought uncaptured. This last week, one of these shows has emerged…dated 10/5/93."
I'm downloading it now...
can't wait to hear it.
I'm downloading it now...
can't wait to hear it.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
drunk blogging
not even last call
wondering what
why and where
and everyone I know is crazy
spent more on whiskey
in the last two days than
I've spent on groceries
in a month
if I see the light
at the end of the tunnel
it's cause I can see
the end of the tunnel
and I ain't so sure
that's good
so for what it's worth
I do what I can
and I try
to do it right
but till these particular
clouds lift
it's all I can do
to lift my head
so if I manage a smile
try not to judge
too harsh
it really don't
mean so much
it's just that
sometimes maybe
I'm not so quite
out of touch
no reason to
get out of bed
till the sun goes
down
we'll see
how it all turns out
show I did sound design for opening
Friday...
www.mildredsumbrella.com
M
wondering what
why and where
and everyone I know is crazy
spent more on whiskey
in the last two days than
I've spent on groceries
in a month
if I see the light
at the end of the tunnel
it's cause I can see
the end of the tunnel
and I ain't so sure
that's good
so for what it's worth
I do what I can
and I try
to do it right
but till these particular
clouds lift
it's all I can do
to lift my head
so if I manage a smile
try not to judge
too harsh
it really don't
mean so much
it's just that
sometimes maybe
I'm not so quite
out of touch
no reason to
get out of bed
till the sun goes
down
we'll see
how it all turns out
show I did sound design for opening
Friday...
www.mildredsumbrella.com
M
Thursday, March 16, 2006
whooohoooo!
so, went to an IBP meeting last night (stategic planning comittee, company development) and then came home and started reading "the fervent years"...
gonna get some thoughts down on a couple of things...
are musicans theater artists? When they are performing or recording for the theater, then undoubtedly they are. Does just knowing how to play a guitar make you a theater artist? No. However, making music for the theater implies/requires a different set of concerns than just "rockin' out" or most any variation thereof. Inasmuch as and when a musician is involved in making theater, and they are taking the concerns of theater seriously, they are theater artists.
that's obvious, right?
What are the particular concerns of our times? How do we portray them in a way that they also address universal concerns? Are particular concerns always an example of at least a class of universal concerns? I have no idea.
I few years ago I got all hot and bothered about the idea of street theater,
and for a short while tried to get some things going on that front...
some of those ideas still threaten to resurface from time to time.
I still love the idea of an update of "the king play".
Technology, Magic and Systems of Control - The Cell Phone Piece (a composition for actors)
One of the first plays mentioned in "The Fervent Years" is "The Adding Machine" -
"Plays about the nullity of the average man, like Elmer Rice's Adding Machine, were high-brow amusement."
pg. 18
and the more I think about that comment and the script and my take on it,
the more I think I am preparing to subvert the author's intention.
I'm o.k. with that, as long as it results in a good show, and not mush...
I know I want the audience to see the shades around what appears to be so much
black and white. We'll see.
that's all for now...
gonna get some thoughts down on a couple of things...
are musicans theater artists? When they are performing or recording for the theater, then undoubtedly they are. Does just knowing how to play a guitar make you a theater artist? No. However, making music for the theater implies/requires a different set of concerns than just "rockin' out" or most any variation thereof. Inasmuch as and when a musician is involved in making theater, and they are taking the concerns of theater seriously, they are theater artists.
that's obvious, right?
What are the particular concerns of our times? How do we portray them in a way that they also address universal concerns? Are particular concerns always an example of at least a class of universal concerns? I have no idea.
I few years ago I got all hot and bothered about the idea of street theater,
and for a short while tried to get some things going on that front...
some of those ideas still threaten to resurface from time to time.
I still love the idea of an update of "the king play".
Technology, Magic and Systems of Control - The Cell Phone Piece (a composition for actors)
One of the first plays mentioned in "The Fervent Years" is "The Adding Machine" -
"Plays about the nullity of the average man, like Elmer Rice's Adding Machine, were high-brow amusement."
pg. 18
and the more I think about that comment and the script and my take on it,
the more I think I am preparing to subvert the author's intention.
I'm o.k. with that, as long as it results in a good show, and not mush...
I know I want the audience to see the shades around what appears to be so much
black and white. We'll see.
that's all for now...
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Laughter in the dark
YAY! Beckett!!
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Laughter in the dark: "Many people met Beckett and inevitably drank with him. It is true that he drank quite a lot and is almost certainly truer that he needed to drink, both to vivify a spirit that had 'little talent for happiness' and to lessen the barrage of fellow imbibers. All his works are littered with non-stop talkers, the quaquaquas."
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Laughter in the dark: "Many people met Beckett and inevitably drank with him. It is true that he drank quite a lot and is almost certainly truer that he needed to drink, both to vivify a spirit that had 'little talent for happiness' and to lessen the barrage of fellow imbibers. All his works are littered with non-stop talkers, the quaquaquas."
Thursday, March 09, 2006
2nd Law: The Oscars: Looking through a gold-plated statuette onion - research material - that's entertainment
2nd Law: The Oscars: Looking through a gold-plated statuette onion: "Which points back to my initial question: what do award ceremonies that parade spectacular stories about marginalized voices have to do with the existence in reality of political and economic marginalization? The Oscars, historically resistant to union politics, epitomize American capitalist traditions of financial opportunism and their dubious ethics, while simultaneously literalizing our culture’s profound need for the escapist fantasy of the Oscar ceremony.
Will the crew members, technicians, acting extras, janitors, and catering staff for Brokeback Mountain be attending this year’s awards festival? I would venture not. "
Will the crew members, technicians, acting extras, janitors, and catering staff for Brokeback Mountain be attending this year’s awards festival? I would venture not. "
Click opera - March 3rd, 2006
Momus is a lucky bastard...
he gets the coolest jobs in the world...
like "Unreliable Tour Guide" for the Whitney Biennieal.
Click opera - March 3rd, 2006: "I also felt a bit mean telling people looking at the Daniel Johnston cartoons that Johnston actually gets these drawn by a 14 year-old in Hong Kong who's only paid $5 per drawing, and that Johnston, far from being some kind of outsider artist, is in fact an advertising man working on Madison Avenue (which happens to be the Whitney's address). Or that a slide sequence of Nan Goldin-like nudes had been made in iPhoto and iTunes, and been demoed by Steve Jobs at the last Apple Expo. In fact, I felt like someone might punch me saying these things. So as the day wore on (and no doubt as my blood sugar levels declined -- I didn't even stop for lunch) I got a bit more poetic and lyrical, sitting on the floor in the corner of rooms with more ambient washes of electronic sound in them, improvising abstract imagery in a 'mesmeric' voice. I enjoyed that; it was a bit like being an improvising poet in residence, and I felt like I wasn't going against the grain of the work on display or irritating people too much."
he gets the coolest jobs in the world...
like "Unreliable Tour Guide" for the Whitney Biennieal.
Click opera - March 3rd, 2006: "I also felt a bit mean telling people looking at the Daniel Johnston cartoons that Johnston actually gets these drawn by a 14 year-old in Hong Kong who's only paid $5 per drawing, and that Johnston, far from being some kind of outsider artist, is in fact an advertising man working on Madison Avenue (which happens to be the Whitney's address). Or that a slide sequence of Nan Goldin-like nudes had been made in iPhoto and iTunes, and been demoed by Steve Jobs at the last Apple Expo. In fact, I felt like someone might punch me saying these things. So as the day wore on (and no doubt as my blood sugar levels declined -- I didn't even stop for lunch) I got a bit more poetic and lyrical, sitting on the floor in the corner of rooms with more ambient washes of electronic sound in them, improvising abstract imagery in a 'mesmeric' voice. I enjoyed that; it was a bit like being an improvising poet in residence, and I felt like I wasn't going against the grain of the work on display or irritating people too much."
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
what's up?
haven't been blogging much...
mostly been hiding in the cave.
whoohoo.
running crew on "uncle vanya"
sound design for "(sic)"
and getting ready for auditions
for the auditions for "speeding motorcycle"
and sleeping...
lots of sleeping...
not enough looking for work.
this is what's going on.
The lower the President's approval rating gets
the less angry I feel
and the less vital political blogging seems...
of course that leaves me more free time
for reading about the lizard people, etc,
but I really haven't been doing much of that either.
I could write about the big open sore on my leg,
but I don't think you want to read it.
Gross is not really my thing.
I think when I come up from the cave
there'll be some real drinkin'
and night or two of madness...
then probably back to work...
eh, work.
mostly been hiding in the cave.
whoohoo.
running crew on "uncle vanya"
sound design for "(sic)"
and getting ready for auditions
for the auditions for "speeding motorcycle"
and sleeping...
lots of sleeping...
not enough looking for work.
this is what's going on.
The lower the President's approval rating gets
the less angry I feel
and the less vital political blogging seems...
of course that leaves me more free time
for reading about the lizard people, etc,
but I really haven't been doing much of that either.
I could write about the big open sore on my leg,
but I don't think you want to read it.
Gross is not really my thing.
I think when I come up from the cave
there'll be some real drinkin'
and night or two of madness...
then probably back to work...
eh, work.
Monday, March 06, 2006
REAL ART (and politics and culture)
So, yeah, it'd be great if all the low paying jobs were going overseas and we could train for higher paying ones here...
only it's the higher paying jobs going overseas...
get it now?
REAL ART (and politics and culture)
So, yeah, it'd be great if all the low paying jobs were going overseas and we could train for higher paying ones here...
only it's the higher paying jobs going overseas...
get it now?
REAL ART (and politics and culture)
So, yeah, it'd be great if all the low paying jobs were going overseas and we could train for higher paying ones here...
only it's the higher paying jobs going overseas...
get it now?
Monday, February 27, 2006
Sol Legion Clan � Forums � Insomnia and the Strange things you find on the net � Starbuck: Lost in Castration
One for the geeks:
Sol Legion Clan � Forums � Insomnia and the Strange things you find on the net � Starbuck: Lost in Castration: "'Re-imagining', they call it. 'un-imagining' is more accurate. To
take what once was and twist it into what never was intended. So that
a television show based on hope, spiritual faith, and family is
unimagined and regurgitated as a show of despair, sexual violence and
family dysfunction. To better reflect the times of ambiguous morality
in which we live, one would assume. A show in which the aliens
(Cylons) are justified in their desire to destroy our civilisation. "
Dirk Benedict on the new BSG sounding like the earth-2 supes in "infinite crisis"...
echoes of fanboyism
ripples and waves
and regret
Is it only natural that we remake the stories we heard as children into stories that speak to us now?
where does that leave kids today?
with their own stories.
I like my Batman a little tortured and crazy,
my Wonder Woman a warrior, and my Green Lantern a mass murderer - o.k. that last one is a joke, although I do still have some issues with Hal Jordan being back,
and I grew up with Hal Jordan and Barry Allen...
I had DC ship me "Green Lantern" and "Flash" every month. They weren't bagged in mylar and backed with acid free cardboard. They came in brown paper, in the regular mail, and they were magic. Green Lantern was a grand space opera, Hal Jordan a man without fear. After the original crisis I guess I stopped really paying attention, and somewhere down the line I think they made Hal an alcoholic, and then they had him go nuts...and he killed alot of people...800 and something , sacrificed his life eventually to save the world, did some time as the spectre, and now he's back. Shouldn't he get credit for saving the world? Shouldn't that wipe out all the bad stuff? No. That's what superheroes do. They save the world. That's the job.
Anyway, GL is just one of the titles/family of titles that just got more or less rebooted (Titans, Outsiders, Legion, etc.) and now we're about to pick up "one year later" after the new crisis... It looks like there really will be some major changes in the primary DC universe, if they do go back to the "multi-verse" (which I'm not convinced is happening), but I really have no idea what they could be. It could go in pretty much any direction from what we've seen so far.
I really dig the new Battlestar Galactica,
and I have high hopes for the new DC Universe.
The Crisis and all it's tie-ins are being as well written and nicely handled as any of these big events ever are...
much better than "House of M/Decimation" over at Marvel.
I did enjoy "The Other" in the Spiderman books,
and I'm curious about "Civil War" but generally
I think I'm more interested in Marvel movies,
and DC books these days.
But of course the best realization of the DC Universe is, hands down, the animated DCU of "Justice League Unlimited" and all the precursors to it - an amazing amount of continuity, great takes on the characters (visually and otherwise), it pretty much has it all...
Really. Any of you who are or once were DC fanboys should seek out the DVD's of any of the animated DCU stuff from recent years. I'm worried about the animated DCU now too though. Apparently "JLU" is over, and if "The Batman" is the new direction they are going in (c'mon man, the penguin doing kung-fu?) I'm not terribly excited...
anyway, how's that for a ramble?
Sol Legion Clan � Forums � Insomnia and the Strange things you find on the net � Starbuck: Lost in Castration: "'Re-imagining', they call it. 'un-imagining' is more accurate. To
take what once was and twist it into what never was intended. So that
a television show based on hope, spiritual faith, and family is
unimagined and regurgitated as a show of despair, sexual violence and
family dysfunction. To better reflect the times of ambiguous morality
in which we live, one would assume. A show in which the aliens
(Cylons) are justified in their desire to destroy our civilisation. "
Dirk Benedict on the new BSG sounding like the earth-2 supes in "infinite crisis"...
echoes of fanboyism
ripples and waves
and regret
Is it only natural that we remake the stories we heard as children into stories that speak to us now?
where does that leave kids today?
with their own stories.
I like my Batman a little tortured and crazy,
my Wonder Woman a warrior, and my Green Lantern a mass murderer - o.k. that last one is a joke, although I do still have some issues with Hal Jordan being back,
and I grew up with Hal Jordan and Barry Allen...
I had DC ship me "Green Lantern" and "Flash" every month. They weren't bagged in mylar and backed with acid free cardboard. They came in brown paper, in the regular mail, and they were magic. Green Lantern was a grand space opera, Hal Jordan a man without fear. After the original crisis I guess I stopped really paying attention, and somewhere down the line I think they made Hal an alcoholic, and then they had him go nuts...and he killed alot of people...800 and something , sacrificed his life eventually to save the world, did some time as the spectre, and now he's back. Shouldn't he get credit for saving the world? Shouldn't that wipe out all the bad stuff? No. That's what superheroes do. They save the world. That's the job.
Anyway, GL is just one of the titles/family of titles that just got more or less rebooted (Titans, Outsiders, Legion, etc.) and now we're about to pick up "one year later" after the new crisis... It looks like there really will be some major changes in the primary DC universe, if they do go back to the "multi-verse" (which I'm not convinced is happening), but I really have no idea what they could be. It could go in pretty much any direction from what we've seen so far.
I really dig the new Battlestar Galactica,
and I have high hopes for the new DC Universe.
The Crisis and all it's tie-ins are being as well written and nicely handled as any of these big events ever are...
much better than "House of M/Decimation" over at Marvel.
I did enjoy "The Other" in the Spiderman books,
and I'm curious about "Civil War" but generally
I think I'm more interested in Marvel movies,
and DC books these days.
But of course the best realization of the DC Universe is, hands down, the animated DCU of "Justice League Unlimited" and all the precursors to it - an amazing amount of continuity, great takes on the characters (visually and otherwise), it pretty much has it all...
Really. Any of you who are or once were DC fanboys should seek out the DVD's of any of the animated DCU stuff from recent years. I'm worried about the animated DCU now too though. Apparently "JLU" is over, and if "The Batman" is the new direction they are going in (c'mon man, the penguin doing kung-fu?) I'm not terribly excited...
anyway, how's that for a ramble?
Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
Battlestar Galactica talkback on AICN:
Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
the most interesting things I learned here is that Dirk Benedict is kind of a jerk and that he gets be a "cancer survivor" after being diagnosed by a psychic and and healing himself through a macrobiotic diet.
The voices in my head told me I had ebola,
but I cured it with 8 glasses of water a day.
Can I call myself an ebola survivor now?
Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
the most interesting things I learned here is that Dirk Benedict is kind of a jerk and that he gets be a "cancer survivor" after being diagnosed by a psychic and and healing himself through a macrobiotic diet.
The voices in my head told me I had ebola,
but I cured it with 8 glasses of water a day.
Can I call myself an ebola survivor now?
Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.:
"The Love God Loves No More... "
I was a HUGE Don Knotts fan as a kid...
The Incredible Mr. Limpitt, his movies with Tim Conway...
It's sad.
I've had flashing moments of Barney Fife in at least a couple of characters I've played...
In certain situations
it's just hard
not to think
of a man
with a gun
and one bullet
in his pocket.
"The Love God Loves No More... "
I was a HUGE Don Knotts fan as a kid...
The Incredible Mr. Limpitt, his movies with Tim Conway...
It's sad.
I've had flashing moments of Barney Fife in at least a couple of characters I've played...
In certain situations
it's just hard
not to think
of a man
with a gun
and one bullet
in his pocket.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Uncle Vanya
so, I know I bug you a lot about shows,
and probably you either just ignore me
now, or ya don't, and it doesn't matter much
what I'm gonna say,
but I'm gonna say it anyway...
this is a beautiful show.
there are amazing things happening -
character to character, actor to actor, actor to audience,
and every possible permutation thereof, it's beautiful...
it's also sad, and funny, and and all that other messy human stuff...
It's about regret, and change, and midlife crises, and unrequited love, and loveless marriage, and getting old, and all that...
is it perfect?
no, if it were perfect it wouldn't be beautiful,
it'd be dead.
but it's not,
it's alive -
every night...
got interrupted by someone coming by,
and had to go do the show...
afterwards, someone said to me,
"well, you have to like russian literature..."
and of course you do, so this play is perfect
for you, right?
anyway, come see "Uncle Vanya" -
you won't be disappointed.
Friday, February 24, 2006
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Untitled Document
I could try to say smart things about "Uncle Vanya",
but it'd just be showing off,
and ultimately meaningless compared to the show itself...
so go see it...
Untitled Document
"I chose to direct this play simply because it´s a beautifully written play," says IBP associate artistic director Tamarie Cooper. "Although it´s set in late-19th-century, rural Russia, the themes are timeless and universal. It´s a play in which nothing happens and everything happens. Chekhov vividly renders the human condition with all its hopes, dreams, struggles, disappointments, failures, and ultimately, resignation. Is it sad? Yes, but it´s funny, too. I often find myself simultaneously laughing and crying right along with these characters. I´m also thrilled to be working with an excellent ensemble of unique and talented actors, who are quite suited for their various roles."
It's beautiful.
but it'd just be showing off,
and ultimately meaningless compared to the show itself...
so go see it...
Untitled Document
"I chose to direct this play simply because it´s a beautifully written play," says IBP associate artistic director Tamarie Cooper. "Although it´s set in late-19th-century, rural Russia, the themes are timeless and universal. It´s a play in which nothing happens and everything happens. Chekhov vividly renders the human condition with all its hopes, dreams, struggles, disappointments, failures, and ultimately, resignation. Is it sad? Yes, but it´s funny, too. I often find myself simultaneously laughing and crying right along with these characters. I´m also thrilled to be working with an excellent ensemble of unique and talented actors, who are quite suited for their various roles."
It's beautiful.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Guardian Unlimited Sport | Small talk | David Icke
Via Warren Ellis:
Guardian Unlimited Sport | Small talk | David Icke: "David Icke is a former Coventry City goalkeeper and BBC sports presenter turned writer and campaigner who's convinced, amongst other things, that Earth is run by 'reptilian humanoids'. In an appropriate departure from the norm, Small Talk conducted its chat by email "
pretty good recent interview with The Ickester...
Guardian Unlimited Sport | Small talk | David Icke: "David Icke is a former Coventry City goalkeeper and BBC sports presenter turned writer and campaigner who's convinced, amongst other things, that Earth is run by 'reptilian humanoids'. In an appropriate departure from the norm, Small Talk conducted its chat by email "
pretty good recent interview with The Ickester...
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Democrats boot candidate who didn't fit the mold | IndyStar.com
Go Team Democrat!
Democrats boot candidate who didn't fit the mold | IndyStar.com: "Admitting he'd been forced out, Hackett said it best: 'For me this is the second betrayal. First my government misused and mismanaged the military in Iraq, and now my own party is afraid to support candidates like me.'"
ya fuckin' morons!
Democrats boot candidate who didn't fit the mold | IndyStar.com: "Admitting he'd been forced out, Hackett said it best: 'For me this is the second betrayal. First my government misused and mismanaged the military in Iraq, and now my own party is afraid to support candidates like me.'"
ya fuckin' morons!
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