February 2012
11 posts
Live Evil: Psychic TV at the Berlin Atonal... →
I pretty sure this is what people think Throbbing Gristle is.
After US v. Jones, FBI Turns Off 3,000 GPS... →
It is interesting that FBI cannot track people via GPS without a warrant, but people freely let themselves be tracked in such a way via cell phone provider / social network / opportunistic-vampire-marketing-software-gimmick-start up of their “choice.”
Sad, dangerous, dystopian nightmare we have arrived. We have freely given the private-corporate sphere access to space previously so...
Dunitude
Not sure how I missed this, but here is Andrew Stimpson’s reevaluation of Dune found in the Quietus (a great blog by the way). The occasion was BFI’s Lynch retrospective. Maybe they felt bad about including it at all and needed some justification? Not really. As Stimpson points out, Dune is all Lynch all the way. His analysis is surface and even then he ignores some of the worse (any...
A follow up: Upper Big Branch Report →
Long overdue follow up to something I was writing about before. Takeaways:
1) A lot of songs have been written about the worth of a coal miner’s life. Today that is apparently $1,500,000.
2) “…citing ‘corporate culture’ at coal giant Massey Energy Co. as the ‘root cause’ of a catastrophe…”
"20 years" of sexual insecurity
I had a thrilling, enlightening dream about my high school girlfriend Laura. I was going to record it here, but decided not to.
Bolano, King of Avalon Hill
War games on the beach.
Adventures of a slack jawed bafoon; or, How I...
As a teenager I had a long commute to high school via a rural school bus route. At over six feet tall, I could barely fit in the seat. I used to read The Portable Nietzsche, the thick volume wedged between my cramped knees. (Take a second to think about that sentence.) It gave me the oppurtunity to fimiliarize myself with Top 40 country music. In a way, I was lucky it was not a right wing talk...
Emperor in bad jeans
A recent article by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher in the New York Times about why iPhones are not manufactured in the United States is getting a lot of buzz lately. It is essential reading in the same way that Kafka is essential reading. It would be hard to find better examples of Orwellian double-speak or the ubiquitous penetration of capitalist ideology in the symbolic order. But I’ll...