Friday, January 30, 2009
iIl-Literalists???????
ARSENAL SIGNED ARSHAVIN! We're going to win the league (or at least champions league)
Thursday, January 29, 2009
An Ewww Huh -------- ILL-LINEARLISTS
(Edit: Now I go on tangent because of my asking Toby something which I will probably need to do again later.)
-----------Who is my audience right now? How does posting on this blog relate to us hanging out? How does me writing this at work relate to the blog? Shittttttt. Like Ryan, I just read your entry on the "treasures" today after our whole hanging out. This causes things to be outside of time, illinear (illinearlists?? ill-linearlists??!!!) an alternate space from which we are living. IS THIS EVEN WORSE?? Im trying to be at one with anysort of unified whole/consciousness, not trying to ride the virtual into a partitioned head space. Im going to post this up and trip out later (Edit: Naw me no trip.) I wont know how it relates to me as I see you the next time at 5:30 in the afternoon. Danny-eating-Dinner is already estranged from Danny-as-blog-typist!! Danny-as-he-types is intimidated to become Danny-as-editor. Danny-editor doesn't know where to take this, how does he synthesize Danny-blogger and Danny-eating-dinner??? And Infinite/always-future-Danny doesn't give a fuck duh. This will just be another odd reflection of an unsynthesized moment, lost in internet-time and computer-space. Should this even be posted?? If i delete it, its like it didnt exist, I cant do that!!! DAMN SON.
Danny from the future: Just warning you Danny-in-the-present and friends-in-the-present, this could be the point where your blog begins to implode.
Danny now: Its already done. Plus all these italicized edits are worthwhile and original in some way.
Danny from the future: Dude your turning this blog into your own wierd public headspace for you to air out your idiocy b/c your so bored at work.
Danny now: Naw, its a team effort. I would not be so creative on my own. Each of us will rise up in our own way and siphon the life force of the moment and put it on the internet. This WONT be alone and lost.
Danny from the future: Text color too? This is stupid.
Danny now: probably.
Whistling Languages
http://www.sil.org/mexico/chinanteca/sochiapam/sup/conversChifl-cso.mp3
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Francisco!
F: Hei¹³ Hey!
M: Ha³ jinh¹ cuóh¹³ hnú² né³² né³ réi¹³. Where are you going today?
F: Má² ñí¹jáɨh²¹ hmá²cá²fe²¹ nia²¹ réi¹³. I'm going to clean the weeds around my coffee plants.
M: Hí¹ cuá¹jéih³² hmá² cá²fe²¹ nú² réi¹³. What, you're going to clean around your coffee plants?
F: Ján³ réi¹³. Yes.
M: Jan¹ réi¹³. All right.
M: Hí¹ haɨ²¹ mandarina ja¹ hmá² cá²fe²¹ quián¹³ nú² né³ réi¹³.
What, are there tangerines planted among your coffee plants?
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
"Good blood runs in you, dear boy, your words are proof.
Certainly I'll exchange the gifts. The power is mine.
Off all the treasures lying heaped in my palace
you shall have the finest, most esteemed.
And when young Dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more,
the day was so brilliant that Zeus, high lord of storm and lightning,
shined the skies with heavenly light from above."
-The Odyssey
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
From most to Everything Being on the Internet
"Google is to launch a service that would enable users to access their personal computer from any internet connection, according to industry reports. But campaigners warn that it would give the online behemoth unprecedented control over individuals' personal data.
The Google Drive, or "GDrive", could kill off the desktop computer, which relies on a powerful hard drive. Instead a user's personal files and operating system could be stored on Google's own servers and accessed via the internet.
The long-rumoured GDrive is expected to be launched this year, according to the technology news website TG Daily, which described it as "the most anticipated Google product so far". It is seen as a paradigm shift away from Microsoft's Windows operating system, which runs inside most of the world's computers, in favour of "cloud computing", where the processing and storage is done thousands of miles away in remote data centres."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/25/google-drive-gdrive-internet
This is some crazy shit. And I can't figure out how to indent for new paragraphs. Oh Well. Tom, I think if we don't articulate a human awakening at some point the computers will do it for us. They got all the time in the world (they're immortal) BUT they need energy to sustain themselves. So maybe they will help us find a solution to our energy problems, while not taking the matrix route and harvesting us (couldn't they just harvest cows for energy instead?- damn that'd be a sick movie, COW mAtRiX) Oh shit a fire alarm just went off here.
ill, sick, wurd, hot:
so... i'm not sure if I can share much from he outer reaches of the internet, since i'm pretty firmly stuck in the center of it, aka google (toby, were you the one playing DotA with that hero that ensnared its enemies in a pulsating mesh of vines and then had its way with them? anyway, that's kind of like my relationship with google), but i'll find a way to contribute, even if it means blowing really hard into my saxaphone and hammering away at a feedback peddle, i will be part of the band (anyone? guess the reference?). In these situations, when you really don't have shit to say or any talents that you want to show case, but you feel a burning desire to showcase nonetheless, I think it's important to come up with a gimick, so any ideas? I'll give a cigarette to anyone who can pidgeon-hole me/brand me/label me to my liking.
In the meantime though, while i'm waiting to step into my shoes and become the man i was born to be (or at least the blogger i was born to be), i'll leave you with a sick passage from the book i'm reading, 2666, by Roberto Bolano.
The paintings weren't bad. Still, the show wouldn't have been so successful or had such an impact if not for the central painting, much smaller than the rest, the masterpiece that years later led so man British artists down the path of new decadence. This painting, viewed properly (although one could never be sure of viewing it properly), was an ellipsis of self-portraits, sometimes a spiral of self-portraits (depending on the angle from which it was seen), seven feet by three and a half feet, in the cneter of which hung the painter's mummified right hand.
Video Embedding
Dude this is actually really cool. Heres a playlist of songs that im rockin at work.
gotta have the one ufo song. Kelsey this was definetely sampled by the liars on their first album.
Now i gotta find a cowboy song. This next one ain't it but its ill, cool vid too.
This is as close as I get to cowboy ie country. These guys are good. Thats it im done my computer at work is about to explode.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Jen Hadfield wins TS Eliot Prize
(From The Independent via Greater or Smaller:)
Self-portrait as a Fortune-telling Miracle Fish
By Jen Hadfield, the winning poet
I'm disappointed in the gods that formed me thus
in the likeness of the wall-eyed Halibut;
in my longing, a Meagre or Eelpout;
in my maudlin, a Poor Cod or Bitterling.
I'm disgusted with whichever of you
chose jealousy-with-an-overbite
to be my consort, my symbiotic groupie
and yet some rogue demi-deity
gave a posy of dubious virtues –
made me transparent; electric;
a Wide-eyed Flounder; a Crystal Gobi;
a Stargazer; a Velvet-belly;
a Deepsea Angler, blind,
were it not for this proboscis
that lets me troll my little lantern
in the silt and dim
off the continental shelf.
And my daemon's a dogfish – I think –
A Starry Hound, a blunt and hungry hobo,
scrounging, starveling, sleeping on the go.Anticulturalist forum
We need to get Tom on this! sweet dude good stuff... see ya out there.
FIRST
hmm. Mainly Im really bored at work and I thought we could share our different cool discoveries we've made in the outer reaches of the internet and maybe do some creative writing etc??????????????????????????????????? Basically anything we want. Ill cool sweet solid
Shit actually I gotta actually post something cool right, to start us off?.....ok
"Ads has a brilliant piece on war games up which reflects on kill-ratios, the little guys in the background who serve only to ghost away into nothingness once they've been shot (and how their corpses would get in the way if they didn't), and the possibility of a game in which the link between boredom and death might be better made:And it all leads me to wonder what it would be like to write a videogame in which one dies a hundred times over before one successfully kills a single antagonist. The boredom of waiting to fight the enemy would be punctuated, in all but the rarest of cases, by sudden death from the air. After hours of waiting, the screen would simply go blank, over and over and over, without the player ever getting to fire a shot. The sole variety, perhaps, would come from death by other means - a sniper’s shot to the head or a round from a tank. But no matter how, the screen goes blank just the same way - you probably shouldn’t even get to appreciate the difference in the way that you just died again."
>>>>>IM DOWN IN CHINATOWN.
http://adswithoutproducts.com/2009/01/18/pwnd/ (if you really wanna see the whole thing )
Ok, maybe that wasnt the best thing to start off with, let me try once more.
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In a story about Mohammed Atta's life and the experiences that ended with him leading the 9/11 mass murderers, I read that he reacted to his first US movie by sitting in the theater muttering "chaos, chaos, chaos" over and over. It was quite clear the movie didn't just leave him unimpressed, but angry and disgusted.
The movie?
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarves"
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I havent seen that movie in over 10 years so Im not trying to get into any analysis but yea thats it peace