EL ORÅCULO DEL SAN GENNARO

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:15:56 -0500

Hopefully covering up this mirror will mitigate the stasis-field...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:05:00 -0500

Hopefully covering up this mirror will mitigate the stasis-field I kinda arranged in my new room. There were two mirrors facing each other right in the middle, right where all my gear is, and at the moment this is what I’m blaming for the lack of 20 new Cex records. I wrote this on this other blog, though, in case you were curious about the vibe of this dps tape.

New tapes + shirt now available from Must finish

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:07:23 -0500

New tapes + shirt now available from Must finish

FLYNN more pics from halloween weekend in bmo

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:03:00 -0500

FLYNN

more pics from halloween weekend in bmo

"Safe is anywhere a hungry person can’t walk in three days"

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:39:17 -0400

““Safe is anywhere a hungry person can’t walk in three days””

- John Titor (Time Traveler) (via jjaacckkssoonn)

Jason Urick at the Hex! The last two days in Bmore have been...

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:40:00 -0400

Jason Urick at the Hex!

The last two days in Bmore have been epic, whose brilliant idea was it to schedule so many A-list shows/parties/afterparties on the same weekend it doesn’t stop freezing raining for 4 days straight?

Watching people at shows trying to pair up and seal the deal is so much more interesting knowing that they are fighting against a ride/walk/drive home in this miserable Londonesque weather to cold sheets..

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Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:54:48 -0400

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"… And there was another melancholy - different yet somehow similar - which came to Gersen as he..."

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:17:39 -0400

“… And there was another melancholy - different yet somehow similar - which came to Gersen as he watched the debonair folk about him. They were all graceful and easy, untouched by the toil and pain and terror that existed on remote worlds. Gersen envied them their detachment, their social skills. Still, would he change places with any of them? Hardly.”

- Jack Vance, The Star King, 1964 (via thebloodysire)

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Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:20:28 -0400

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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:59:05 -0400

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Wonderful windless day for spray-painting new MF tapes on the roof. Took some tea and headphones...

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:32:41 -0400

Wonderful windless day for spray-painting new MF tapes on the roof. Took some tea and headphones out there with me, chuckling like a goon to myself because I thought “I think I’ll listen to ENVANE” without even realizing the spray-can connection.

Still have an assload of dubbing to do before these things will be up on the website, but when they do go up you’ll be the first to know.

“Draun Quarter” by Autechre, from 1997’s...

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:54:00 -0400

“Draun Quarter” by Autechre, from 1997’s ENVANE

birdsofpray: TOMMY

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:15:53 -0400

birdsofpray:

TOMMY

birdsofpray: BOBBY / JEREMY

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:15:25 -0400

birdsofpray:

BOBBY / JEREMY

"Tsze-kung asked about government. Confucius replied, “The requisites of government are that there..."

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:07:28 -0400

“

Tsze-kung asked about government. Confucius replied, “The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.”

Tsze-kung said, “If it cannot be helped, and one of these must be dispensed with, which of the three should be foregone first?”

“The military equipment,” said the Master.

”

- The Analects (via ksouth)

"We have an urgent national emergency on the one hand, and on the other, a comfortable majority of..."

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:15:29 -0400

“We have an urgent national emergency on the one hand, and on the other, a comfortable majority of ostensibly simpatico Democrats who were elected by an angry population, in large part, specifically to reform health care. When they all sat down in Washington to tackle the problem, it amounted to a referendum on whether or not we actually have a functioning government.”

- Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, Sept 2009

Several years ago a book called The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, sociologist Daniel Bell...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:29:00 -0400

Several years ago a book called The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, sociologist Daniel Bell called attention to the tendency of capitalism, in its single-minded pursuit of profit, to erode the various cultural underpinnings that steady a society but often impede the march of commercialization. The family dinner; and more generally a cultural consensus on the subject of eating, appears to be the latest such casualty of capitalism. These rules and rituals stood in the way of the food industry’s need to sell a well-fed population more food through ingenious new ways of processing, packaging, and marketing it. Whether a stronger set of traditions would have stood up better to this relentless economic imperative is hard to say; today America’s fast-food habits are increasingly gaining traction even in places like France.

So we find ourselves as a species almost back where we started: anxious omnivores struggling once again to figure out what it is wise to eat. Instead of relying on the accumulated wisdom of a cuisine, or even on the wisdom of our senses, we rely on expert opinion, advertising, government food pyramids, and diet books, and we place our faith in science to sort out for us what culture once did with rather more success. Such has been the genius of capitalism, to re-create something akin to a state of nature in the modern supermarket or fast-food outlet, throwing us back on a perplexing, nutritionally perilous landscape deeply shadowed again by the omnivore’s dilemma.

—Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, 2006

(I don’t even eat food and I love this book.)

"It’s unavoidable, we’re running out of energy. Our prosperity is built on cheap energy and we have..."

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:25:21 -0400

“It’s unavoidable, we’re running out of energy. Our prosperity is built on cheap energy and we have no alternative, there is nothing we can do to replace it short of conquering the Arab oil fields, and if we try to do that it will probably be the end of the human race because atom bombs will be exploded or there will be such an age of terrorism that it won’t be worth living.”

- Gore Vidal, Penthouse Interview, April 1975

summer slam 09 title bout: backadahouse vs live crabsus: 48,...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:41:00 -0400

summer slam 09 title bout:
backadahouse vs live crabs

us: 48, crabs: 0

us 51, actually, if you count the bees that got smacked down

jjaacckkssoonn: if you’ve ever wanted to hear Steven Seagal say...

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:41:26 -0400

jjaacckkssoonn:

if you’ve ever wanted to hear Steven Seagal say “me want the poonani” in Jamaican Patois , press play .