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| I seem to be going into "research" mode. All I want to do is read, watch movies/videos (which for me counts as research), and drown myself into my two recent discoveries, YouTube EDU and Creative Cow's podcast library. | ||||
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November 20th, 2009
November 19th, 2009
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| Rivetheads Against Nazi Douchebags facebook page > Since the SHARP's finally stomped the neo-nazi's out of the punk/oi movement they turned to goth/industrial/powernoise. We do not need to tolerate this. We are sick of seeing these douchebags at the shows we attend. We are sick of their hateful attacks against people who aren't a part of "their brotherhood" and their misuse of ancient symbols. Ok, am I alone in being completely unaware of a visible neo-nazi contingent in the Industrial scene? Now maybe my viewpoint is skewed from living in notoriously Left-wing San Francisco, but between Noisescape & attending Kinetik I know a lot of the bands in the scene, and as far as I know NONE of them are neo-nazi's. Now sure, as with ANY scene, Industrial, Goth, Punk, Metal, Country, whatever, I'm sure there are a few neo-nazi's in there. And yes, among the collection of ass-hats on the Sideline board there are a couple too, but ask Deathkey how well received they are by most of the members of the board. > We have no affiliation with ANTIFA and feel that their attacks against neofolk bands are misguided. Yes, lets ignore the one distaff sub-genre of the scene that contains self avowed fascists and even neo-nazis, that makes sense. > it is the dark electro/powernoise bands with fascist politics that are causing problems within our subculture and giving all of us a bad name. Again, what the hell are you talking about? Who are these bands expressing such politics? Because I don't know any of them, and I seriously doubt anyone outside the Industrial-Goth scene has even heard of the entire genres of dark electro/powernoise at all, let alone developed a negative opinion of them because of their politics. | ||||||
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November 18th, 2009
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This is who's opening for Nitzer Ebb tonight!?!?!?!? | ||||||
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November 17th, 2009
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| I have just discovered YouTube EDU, a huge library of videos from major Universities ranging from short clips to entire semester long classes. Doing a cursory search I found such potentially interesting selections as... Yale PLSC 114 Introduction to Political Philosophy http://www.youtube.com/view_play_li MIT 24.213 Philosophy of Film: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_li MIT 24.209 Philosophy In Film and Other Media: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_li Yale Introduction to Theory of Literature http://www.youtube.com/view_play_li Yale Milton http://www.youtube.com/view_play_li Tribeca Film Institute at The New School: Festivals, Theaters, VOD and Piracy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AfO9I_N Beyond Instinct and Intellect: Modern Psychoanalysis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J57Pwa2C Conversations with History: Noam Chomsky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ghoXQxd And the whole Conversations with History series http://www.youtube.com/edu?edu_search_q Well, given the internet is already a huge timesuck in my life, this stuff is better than watching Hard Ball and Countdown online every night like I normally do... ;-p | ||||
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Apparently Rhys Fulber has been getting back into working more with analog synths. This is a photo he posted of some of the gear he's using on both the upcoming FLA and Conjure One albums... A few more pics here... | ||||
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| Like many others, I have heard how when JFK said "Ich bin ein Berliner" at famous speech at the Berlin Wall, that his translation "I'm a Berliner" was incorrect and what he'd said in German was really "I am a Jelly Donut"... Kennedy should have said "Ich bin Berliner" to mean "I am a person from Berlin." By adding the indefinite article ein, his statement implied he was a non-human Berliner, thus "I am a jelly doughnut". Turns out that is an Urban Legend that is NOT true... In fact, the opposite is true: The citizens of Berlin DO refer to themselves as Berliner; what they do NOT refer to as Berliner are jelly doughnuts. While these are known as "Berliner" in other areas of Germany, they are simply called Pfannkuchen (pancakes) in and around Berlin. Thus the merely theoretical ambiguity went unnoticed by Kennedy's audience, as it did in Germany at large. In sum, "Ich bin ein Berliner" was the appropriate way to express in German what Kennedy meant to say. The indefinite article ein is omitted when speaking of an individual's profession or residence but is necessary when speaking in a figurative sense as Kennedy did. Since the president was not literally from Berlin but only declaring his solidarity with its citizens, "Ich bin Berliner" would not have been correct. | ||||||
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November 16th, 2009
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| A few days ago it came out that the Republican National Committee's Health Insurance Plan Covers Elective Abortions. Now it's come out that the RNC health provider promotes end-of-life counseling (otherwise known as "death panels") Oh the irony... | ||||
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 New EP Prey On You now shipping! 1. Prey On You 2. Ammunition 3. Hollowed 4. Prey On You (Sebastian Komor Mix) 5. Prey On You (Studio-X Hard Dance Mix) 6. Prey On You (Cylab Mix) 7. Ammunition (C/A/T Mix) 8. Hollowed (Indigent Mix By Die Warzau) http://shop.iscintilla.com/music/ They "leaked" Bug a copy of the EP which he let me listen to, and it is AWESOME!!! | ||||||
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November 15th, 2009
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Along with the albums I downloaded yesterday I also went through and picked songs from all the Bruce/Iron Maiden albums during his first run with the band(1980-1992). I also like the earlier Dianno albums, but he's SUCH a different singer than Bruce that it's almost a completely different band to me. So without intentionally setting out to do so, I guess this is my selection of the best of Iron Maiden, the 80's with Bruce... | ||||
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| Jury to decide mom's mental health in murder trial Otty Sanchez got two weeks in a state mental hospital after she was found wandering around a drug store last year, shopping for an imaginary trip to China. She got a few hours in an emergency room, then a ride home, in July as a new mom hearing dark voices. Three-week-old Scott Wesley Buchholz-Sanchez was dead six days later, decapitated and missing fingers and toes, while police say his mother wailed about how the devil made her do it. A judge ruled Thursday that a jury will decide whether Sanchez is mentally competent to stand trial after Sanchez's attorney said her mental condition is worsening. And from another article... As per the Associated Press report, Otty Sanchez was found sitting on the couch with a self-inflicted stab wound to her chest and her throat partially slit (also self inflicted), screaming over and over that she killed her baby. She told police that the voices spoke to her and that the devil told her do it. Yet despite all that... Bexar County prosecutor Yvonne Gonzalez has said her office would seek the death penalty on the legal presumption that Sanchez was sane. Although prosecutors were still gathering medical records, she said there were signs Sanchez had been "functioning quite well," including holding down a job for several years. "We're not really sure she had a long history of mental illness," Gonzalez said earlier in the week. I know that in our legal system "insane" has a very specific and very limited definition, but really? A woman that had been previously institutionalized, and was later taken to the emergency room for hearing voices, who then killed and partially ate her 3 week old son, and also stabbed herself in the chest and partially slit her own throat was "sane" and "functioning quite well"? Really!?!?!? | ||||
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November 14th, 2009
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| I switched my emusic subscription to the annual payment plan, which included 100 extra downloads upfront, so quite a big haul this month, including new stuff, new to me old stuff, and back catalog replacement of stuff that for whatever reason I no longer have... Bahntier - Venal Decoded Feedback - Combustion Fixmer/McCarthy - Into the Night FLA - Implode FLA - Initial Command Iron Maiden - Dance of Death Leaether Strip - AEngelmaker Patenbrigade: Wolff - Feind hort mit Pigface - Gub Public Enemy - How You Sell Soul to a Souless People Who sold Their Soul? Swans - Filth The Tear Garden - Tired Eyes Slowly Burning UnterArt - Noise and Grace Xotox - In Den Zehn Morgen | ||||||
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November 13th, 2009
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| Thanks to the Psyclon Nine - We The Fallen video, Noisescape is getting hits from this site: http://www.satan.pl/index2.php | ||||
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November 12th, 2009
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 My I Heart Bad Kitties bag died, and apparently they don't carry it anymore... :-( | ||||
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| Like other strongly pro-choicers I'm pissed off about the Stupak amendment. That said, I think Pelosi, (who keep in mind is also strongly pro-Choice), included it in the House Bill as a strategic gamble to get it passed in this stage with the expectation that it will be stripped from the Bill in conference committee. But I admit I'm not sure if the amendment remains that the Bill should be voted against, as I'm seeing some pro-Choicers advocate. WaPo Columnist E. J. Dionne makes a pretty good case for passing it even if the amendment remains: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co The truth is that even with the Stupak restrictions, health-care reform would leave millions of Americans far better off than they are now -- including millions of women. This skirmish over abortion cannot be allowed to destroy the opportunity to extend coverage to 35 million Americans. Killing health-care reform would be bad for choice -- and very bad for the right to life. One thing I keep in mind regarding this and other parts of the proposed Bill I don't like is that when FDR got Social Security passed it didn't contain many of the things he wanted at first, but in the years after that the SSI was greatly improved, and thus passing a compromise Health Care Bill now, and then fighting to improve it in the future, is most likely FAR better than not passing anything at all. | ||||
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November 10th, 2009
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Czar or tsar is an informal title for certain high-level officials in the United States and United Kingdom. Political czars can run or organize governmental departments, and may devote their expertise to a single area of work. The "czars" have various official titles such as adviser, director, administrator, or diplomatic envoy, but such titles are often quite long or awkward sounding. So how come we never heard complaint's about all of Bush's Czars? Also, I agree that Czar was a horrible choice for a name, but again you can't blame Obama for that. | ||||
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November 9th, 2009
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| As you all know, my birthday and Xmas are approaching, so I thought I'd do you the favor of linking you to my Amazon Wish List... http://amzn.com/w/2DIDXM5U3X91O | ||||
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November 8th, 2009
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A pic by John Warner... and a couple by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} elevatordown...  | ||||
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November 6th, 2009
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| Reposting for Becca/vomiit... hey people, i'm looking for a roommate :D i found an amazing 2 bedroom 2 bath apartment on the beachfront of alameda for 800 each a month. i just need a roommate. | ||||
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