We did it. We might have a second chance at being the future again. Actual (positive) history managed to happen right before our eyes. With el negro presidente, we actually qualify to be the United States depicted in comic books and science fiction. This is our legacy.
There’s much too much for mostly everyone to absorb. What a crazy year and then some. Tonight a crowd in Chicago amassed that was larger than the previous largest Chicago crowd I’ve ever witnessed. That previous crowd protested a wrongful war. Tonight’s crowd celebrated that very same war’s inevitable end, as the tip of an iceberg of progress.
New generations will never understand things we barely understood. They will be bewildered at our dark age of civil wrongs. The era will retire in history books, and be rarely read by future generations. Eventually, we will have completely moved on, and transformed once again into an ever more close-to-perfect union. We the people can continue our history of being the greatest experiment in rebellion the world has ever witnessed, with true freedom and equality as our standards of modern manifest destiny.
Or, if you believe the complete dipshits on television, the size of the government will double in the next six months, immediately after the minimum wage doubles. The politics of horseshit is dying. It has lost an information war of attrition. Modern young people see through old tricks, and armed with a level of apathy-turned-cynicism that could only be brought about by our last decade, they have no interest in a governing construct that serves nothing but itself. People understand that the government is theirs, and that they pay for it. They realize now that a political campaign can be honorable. We know the high road is virtuous.
As with every major political shift, there will be cultural changes. Rigid, stubborn ideas of old will fade and become even more obsolete than they were in the fucking 1990s. New waves of popular culture will happen as a result of today’s historic event. The internet will transmogrify old media by smashing it through the spaghetti factory. With a government that understands and embraces newer technology, we are on the verge of things we literally cannot imagine because they have never been experienced. This is our history, and this is our future.
We are overlooking a very bright horizon. It is blinding in one sense, and yet in another blindingly inspiring. All of the talk over the years of being unable to beat a broken system and being unable to overcome tightly held power is at an apparent impasse. We have shown ourselves and the world that we understand the condition our condition is in, and we’re ready to act upon it.
Imagine 60,000,000 Americans with elephant guns. Bill Hicks be avenged.
This election is about serious issues. Seriously, it’s so fucking serious that I am letting myself put videos of two different sizes here at the same time. This is atrociously serious.
It’s time to get serious.
Oh, and we can’t forget Bill Clinton’s endorsement of Barack Obama:
If 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.
I’m intrigued by this phenomenon of a metal band here and there that are brutal as shit, yet end up being from some odd place (France? metal?) and have lyrics and themes out of left field (the environment? whales?).
A good example of how these out-of-nowhere combinations work very well is Gojira. It’s French technical death metal about environmental subjects. Flying Whales sounds like an Earth Day festival being torn down by whales with chainguns. You’d never think this stuff would be so epic, until you consider the big picture.
I am talking about the band Gojira and song Flying Whales. I’d let you hear it right now if Mog hadn’t got nerfed to uselessness by being bought by Rhapsody. You could say they got owned for being so shitty. The one use of the site is now ruin’d.
Oh, and I don’t feel like crawling all over the place looking for a flash mp3 player or something right this second. It’s always GIVE IT NOW with you people.
Also I’ve been working too much so I got no patience and that’s why I’m not entertaining you.
I have finished a task so plainstaggeringly monstronormous that I barely can find words huge enough to describe it. The time it took from the initial involuntary beginning to the eventual completion, action item list tag, reorganization, collation, and cooldown exercises was approximately just long enough for me to have a child.
Somehow, the laundry just kept piling up, since I wear the suit to work I never need casual clothes. It piled and piled, and I kept not caring and not caring, and eventually the closet was dumping out into the street. So tonight I did the laundry.
I hate doing laundry more than almost anything. I hate folding clothes slightly more than that.
After putting away 904 plain white t-shirts, and taking a trip through the past few years of shirts completely forgotten, I am now finished. Also I put away more black work socks than I can hold with one hand.
Is it better to do it regularly and be annoyed often but only a little, or wait a really long time and being really annoyed all at once (of course the annoyance of having fewer wearable clothes is an added cost)?
Could such an oddball but somehow sensible concept have prevented the Civil War? Ron Paul thinks so. After all, every other country did it without a civil war…
Driving from Illinois to Georgia, we saw someone with a Ron Paul bumper sticker somewhere in Tennessee. I didn’t think those existed in real life irlstyles meatspace.
Today the only other place on the street that was open was that huge coffee chain. Dude that is always there was talking Ron Paul with a customer.
Could an internet subculture be much much huger than the mass media portrays it? Yes. Would this be one of those cases? That question is why this is interesting.
The Oregon Attorney General, working with the University, has filed a motion in court to quash the legal move by the Recording Industry Association of America, which the University says is trying to force the educational institution to perform a legal investigation for the benefit of a private corporation. The agrieved parties ought to perform their own investigation, the University argues.
A number of the names requested are of students living in University of Oregon dorms, making it impossible to determine which of the students living there downloaded the music, representatives of the school said. The U of O is infamous for its inhumanely cramped dorm rooms, though, making it improbable that one resident could have committed such an act without the other being intimately aware.
What is sad to me about this is that the RIAA continues its tactics of calling out shit for piracy at random when confronted. This isn’t quite as dumb as government officials crying terrorism out of every window, and is certainly no straight McCarthyism, but it’s not far off, either. It’s very obvious that this organization is very frightened, out of ideas, and completely on the defensive.
Finally someone throws it back in their face. High fives to Oregon.
The domain oink.cd is now back in the hands of its owner (it had been hijacked earlier this week by the super-riaa and vandalized), and while the tracker is gone, something interesting is in its place.
He even changed the secret shady-as-hell note page, which made the ominous-yet-vaguely written propaganda threat page seem fake. Before it was changed, it was a note from the super-riaa (IFPI + BPI) to the police saying thanks for the help, and had the exact text for the threatening front page in its entirety. How official does that sound? Hopefully I won’t be picked up for plagiarizing this text, which was on the front page after being taken from here:
Pedro,
Many thanks for your assistance with this. Please find attached two logos for IFPI & BPI together with text to be displayed on a new homepage on the ‘Oink’ website. Can the logos be added to the page:
This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI, BPI, Cleveland Police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch Police (FIOD ECD) into suspected illegal music distribution.
A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site’s users
Many thanks
Keith
The site was hijacked, literally. This organization had no authority to access or use the domain. Essentially, they pulled exactly the same trick that hacker kids do to sites they vandalize. Hijacking website is generally considered illegal.
This story just gets more weird and twisted as the days pass, but it seems like more sources are becoming respectable in reference to the whole mess.
Here is the best waffle recipe ever (yes, metric; fuck off):
50g Egg Yolks
15g Sucrose
1g Sea Salt
½ Vanilla Bean
125g Sifted Cake Flour
2.5g Baking Powder
50g Whole Milk
200g Heavy Cream
50g Butter (82% fat)
10g Dark Rum
1 pinch Cream of Tartar
45g Egg Whites
Mix wet crap and dry crap together, let it sit for a half hour, then cook in an iron or whatever. Best waffles ever. Seriously.
I’m exhausting myself from lung gyration as I’m drowning myself in fucking balls-deep internet humor and it’s been quite a long time since I’d gotten to the thick of it. I’d link some up but fuck you.
It’s like this haven where the assholes of the world can practice their craft, and no one is really harmed unless they fit very specific guidelines. That’s entertainment. That shit can’t be sold, bought, or written.
If the old internet had hypertext, the new internet has hyperhumor, and other such words so unbelievabearably gay that they should not exist.
If you missed it, I suggest you immediate go and spend as much time as possible watching the newbtube debates. The internet seems to have made the ridiculousness of the piece of shit movie Man of the Year almost come true. YouTube users asking questions the candidates don’t ever hear before they see their video? Hot shit.
The Democrats got their asses handed to them, and some handled it well while others flopped. Republicans are up next, and I can’t wait to watch them get completely destroyed by honest questions from a smart, young, and pissed off audience.Then after that, maybe someone I want to elect will be on. This is an appropriate place to mention that I am employed full-time, have no health insurance, and haven’t seen a doctor or dentist in over five years. Makes getting an inhaler (for asthma duh) a little difficult.
