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Archive for the ‘crazy’ Category
On a mental fucking vacation.
Friday, January 9th, 2009
Xbox Live cancels itself.
Monday, July 7th, 2008We leave for Oregon July 14, 2008.
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All of our shit leaves for Oregon July 10, 2008.
Jet-lag ghost versions of us are scheduled to start our respective new jobs the 15th and 16th of July.
Complete extraction and relocation should be complete by the 18th of July. All of our shit should get there a few days later, but jet-lag ghost versions of our shit will be there that day.
The Flashbulb is.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008If you haven’t heard about Benn Jordan, The Flashbulb, or how itunes stole and sold his music, here’s that interesting story (which is yet another reason not to patronize Apple or itunes). Long story short: dude gets his music stolen, so he and his label give it away and win from donations; internet works. As far as I know, he is the first artist to work with a private bittorrent site to distribute his music freely.
I’d like to formally recommend the album to anyone interested in film soundtracks or ambient type things in general. “Soundtrack to a Vacant Life” is described basically as it is titled, and while normally a much more aphexy musician, on this album he has toned and tuned everything to the pace of his life. This is a mostly relaxing trip through what I see as a truly grandiose statement of electronic music. This is a project I would do.
This story is a couple weeks old, but I finally finished getting to the album and I really wanted to mention it. This is part of us moving on. Check it out online.
Steroid usage may decrease over five days.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008If my homie had not pointed it out, I wouldn’t have realized what was happening to my body.
Roid rage. I’m going to fucking kill you.
Not really. I can barely move, but hey if I don’t got the shakes like two hula dancers fucking.
National Emergency: New Yacht Rock.
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008The horrors of Jimmy Buffett are thwarted in the holy-shit-they-really-did-it new episode of Yacht Rock. It was such a goddamn surprise, there was an announcement.
Featuring Vatche Panos as a drug user! JD Ryznar and Hunter Stair live up to the Yacht Rock name. What could happen next? Is it a one shot to tease the masses, or a sign of continuance? Proper link.
Too bad about Jason Lee, especially considering his recent career choices.
adult swim round-up January’s end 2008.
Sunday, January 27th, 2008New shows on adult swim this week are insane.
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force seems to be going on this odd journey with Carl and this new landlord guy, and the food people are nowhere to be found (they got cocooned I think). Carl is lured by the new neighbors, giving the episode the title “Sirens”. Lots of blood and innuendo.
- Tim and Eric erupts into a complete civil war. Steve Brule does a wine tasting. Full-on classic level of blood and puke. Honestly, WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN?
- I gave up the on the Boondocks a couple weeks ago. It was a very disappointing decision to have to make.
- Squidbillies is inhumane, excessive, all over the place, on fire, genuinely unpredictable, and covered in hair. uh, all to save Rusty from dyslexia I think. Lots of blood and burns.
- That Crook’d ‘Sipp was classically southernly uncool, but it’s a pretty interesting pilot with great art that I missed a while back.
All shows this week contain seriously fucking traumatic injuries. Lot of boobs.
Not the best week but certainly an odd theme. I am getting convinced almost completely that they do coordinate the creation of these shows to the small degree necessary for them to share overarching themes.
Projection.
Monday, January 21st, 2008Click this here small version (stupid wordpress hates big pictures) of this here moment of clarity I stole from earlier:
Sometimes things just seem clear for a second. Dark sometimes, but clear.
The Search for Depression: Blue Monday.
Monday, January 21st, 2008So this crazy shit about what day is the most depressing of the year. There’s this theory about “blue Monday” which is basically:
…calculated by Dr. Cliff Arnall…and has been quoted in the popular press, although there is little if any scientific basis to his methods…”the fact is that Cliff Arnall’s equations are stupid, and some fail even to make mathematical sense on their own terms.” The date was calculated by using many factors…weather conditions, debt level, time since Christmas, time since failing our new year’s resolutions, low motivational levels and feeling of a need to take action…typically falls on the Monday of the last full week of January. This would make 21 January the Blue Monday of 2008.
So it sounds like it makes sense, awesome arbitrary formula, and it certainly aligns with a damned full moon week this year. That’s a one-two menstrual punch for some. Then TIME magazine has to get all pseudo-tech with the whole idea:
Aside from the fact that Arnall’s theory has been discounted by many in the academic community, I’ve got a better way of finding the true nadir of depression: Look to our search behavior. If we think we’re suffering from a real bout of the blues or a mental crisis, we’re likely to Google the symptoms. In fact, online searches for “depression” are among the most popular searches sending traffic to the 5,900 sites that we track, but the peak is not in January. According to our Internet behavior, our depression spikes reliably in mid-November every year, right in time for Thanksgiving, the launch of the holiday season.
That’s true too! Holy shit!
Or maybe we’re just all crazy. I know I am blessed with my own manstrual cycle that tortures me every four weeks. Serious.
The doctor guy says the best day of the year is in the 24ish part of June also.
Huckabee’s Fully Theocratic.
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008I no longer consider Huckabee a respectable candidate for president. I barely did before, but this is enough:
We’re not electing our pastors, priests, preachers, reverends, rabbis, shamans, mysticismists, or teachers here. We’re electing someone to manage a large part of the that godless heathen called the government. It cannot be tainted by one nor all religions.
Religious Paraphernalia: January 2008.
Monday, January 14th, 2008I examined a pamphlet book type thing that fell on my head one day in this video.
This is part one of three. Stay tuned for the rest (the video feed on the right or do your youtube thing on it or whatever), which is a detailed discussion of your options when approaching the arena of electronic games in a manner that doesn’t piss off god.
IN FACT see you tomorrow here is part 2 and part 3 (it is arguably worth watching all three).
Youtube Meta Comment Aggregation.
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Attention internet: I understand that twitter is funny one-liner land, or whatever you think because that’s my probably final and determined determination of its purpose. One-liners and links and gratuitous Obama oversupportion. That’s the twitter answer.
But here’s the thing. There’s this site called youtube where I look at a lot of videos, some of which people put on the internet. They stream; it’s fucking crazy. Anyways, I talk back to these people because the internet is the land of backtalk and the sharplie-tongue’d quipz.
Next: youtube recently changed their thing to let you put your most recent comments on your channel page. IN ADDITION, there is now a page where you can view your comments.
I hereby submit my youtube comments in reverse chronological order for your perusal. Someone once called it “so funny”.
You should turn this feature on if you use youtube, and then throw me a link so I can do chu’kles t’our quips. That’s laughing at our smart response to stupid reality.
Bonus video because I can’t talk about youtube without offering a video that explicitly solicits unsolicited solicitations of critical materials (that’s you commenting about wha’ happen’d).
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