now THAT’s useful
the weekly world news have a breaking news rss feed: http://interglacial.com/rss/weekly_world_news.rss
this is why i stopped reading the paper
when calvin + hobbes went bye-bye in the end of 1995, i kinda stopped paying attention to newspapers and the news and so on. i didn’t really see the point in it anymore, as the most intelligent and engaging part of the paper was gone (the far side had already left at the beginning of the same year). apparently it is the 10-year anniversary of its departure this week… this slate slideshow is a good tribute.
http://www.slate.com/id/2129373/fr/rss/
to this day, the last strip always gives me a couple of goosebumps and a warm, bittersweet feeling.
luomo, vladislav delay, and i
(i can keep this brief because there’s probably about three people on my friends list that would give a damn)
dateline: last saturday night
place: rothko (a trendy “underground” club)
live: luomo
this was yet another of the best electronic live sets i’ve ever seen. everything was excellent — sound, performance, crowd, etc. great for the dancing. highlight of the set was a luomo-style remix of jacko’s “beat it”. yeah! it worked, it was awesome. the bassline was amazing. the vocals were all chopped-up and skittering about like you’d expect from luomo. highlight two was going from a blistering version of “tessio” into “what good”. “tessio” had the intense bassline of the moonbootica remix and lots of the acoustic guitar, and “what good” went back and forth between the spoken male vocal section and the big chord-y DROP into the female vocal chorus. amazing.
date line: last night
place: rothko (a trendy “underground” club)
live: vladislav delay
not as good as luomo, but it’s the kind of material that doesn’t play as well live. it sounded like anima with a lot more environmental-ambiance: i.e. ping pong, things being dropped, doors slamming, creaking of chairs, some kind of metallic scraping. heavy on the dub delay stylee. the pads were thick and gorgeous, the bass resonant and rolling, the percussion random and off-kilter. it was vladislav delay.
i’m glad i got to end this nyc adventure with two amazing shows.
the way things work
y’see, the thing about death is, is that it’s not universal. it may be the great equaliser, but it is by no means universal. if someone close to you dies, and you walk down the street, you see people going about their daily routines and you wonder how they can do it. don’t they understand? don’t they know? of course they don’t know. so you wonder, if i walk up to one of these people, and grab them, and shake them, and say, “what’s wrong with you? don’t you know chris died? don’t you care?” they won’t, and they don’t. and why should they? they’re not your friends, they’re not family, they’re just people like you, but, in this case, not like you. so you look back on your life, and think about the times someone you know has had someone close to them die, and you attempted to show sympathy. maybe you honestly felt bad for this person, maybe you didn’t. at any rate, it’s not the same. we all might be the same, and we all end up the same way, but when we die, the people who surround the one who was lost are different than everyone else on the planet at that instant. and that’s what makes death so hard to handle - at the time when you feel closest to humanity, when you are undergoing the one thing we all will experience, you’re different because of what you’ve lost, and nobody can change that.
goodbye chris,
song of the day
ajam lives in the steppe
he loves the rolling hills
the warm dry winds
but his wife’s love touches
his heart the most
her grace surpasses even
the brightness of the stars
her gentle voice soothes his mind
pure love
then came the sad day
riders raped his wife
he lost his face
the elders decided
that she must go
through tearfull eyes
he watched her leave
should i renounce my pride
and follow her into death
he decides and never smiles again
adam lives in a big town
he loves his job
his car and his life-style
but most of all he loves his wife
her endless energy
her beauty her wit and charm
then came the sad day
her test was positive
he watched her lose her strength
he decides to cancel his job
for the rest of her life
he’ll stay by her side
when the end came
he held her hand
and he told her that he always loved her and always will
i love you too
this is pretty effin’ sweet
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=7794&display=photoshop#entries
my, a long link. well, just to give you an idea of what you’d be looking at -
