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| Yes, Kinetik, umm....wow. Have shot lots of cool bands, met lots of cool people, awareness of Noisescape will have probably tripled after this weekend. I just woke up but I'm still tired. This is fun but it's also work. We did Memmaker in the shower. ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} icis_machine and kyronfive, lolla asked if we knew you. We said yes. In an interesting bit of staging Plastik Wrap is our "base camp" from which we periodicly venture forth to stalk bands and steal their souls.Stalking band members you've never seen before is complicated and involves a lot of trying to discreetly read peoples laminates. Sleep is good food, and I miss it. This Tuesday is the special Eric Gottesman hosted episode of Noisescape TV. We should really arrange some kind of viewing party for it, perhaps at Julie's, perhaps somewhere else, perhaps with cake? Jesus Christ, it's going to 3am again tonight? terrorfakt_ny is quite a handful. Mid-interview he clamped my...umm, nevermind.I think I'm starting to ramble. Ok, more later... | ||||||
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May 14th, 2008
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| Noisescape is big in I follow the web stats for the Noisescape site pretty closely, and it always makes me curious when a specific video suddenly gets a sudden big jump in hits. For instance a few weeks back the Betty X - Burning Inside video suddenly got 160 hits in one day, after averaging just a couple a day. And now yesterday the Seaound w/Iris - Watching Over You video got nearly a hundred hits, and the See Colin Slash - Dead Stars video got 50, again a big jump from the few a day each has been getting. Each time this has happened I've done a Google search to see if they were newly posted somewhere, and each time didn't find anything. Also somewhat surprisingly, the site we get the most external hits from is this one, which I take it is some Chinese (Japanese?) mp3 trading site? *edited to add* Mystery regarding Seabound solved, it's the Russians... And it's the Chinese (Or Japanese?) watching See Colin Slash. *edited to add again* Turns out that site is Baidu, China's leading search engine. Guess we're not seen as a threat to their political order... ;-) *edited to add again again* I've now edited/updated this post 10 times, thus proving my previous post about my OCD like tendencies. | ||||
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| The Aspie Quiz Your Aspie score: 114 of 200 Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 97 of 200 You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits Not sure what this means, but Lia almost fell over with laughter when I asked her if I was at all OCD or suffer from Social Anxiety. Seems my constantly counting patterns on my fingers, where I step, number of tiles in walls and ceilings, etc, and my deathly fear of large groups of people I don't know, are strong signs of the former and later respectively. Wow, apparently I DO stutter when I get flustered, I didn't realize that. | ||||
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May 13th, 2008
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| 32Crash - Weird News From an Uncertain Future Android Lust - Devour, Rise, and Take Flight Collide - Some Kind Of Strange Mankind is Obsolete - Trapped Inside Nebula-H - rH Patenbrigade_ Wolff - Demokratischer Sektor Stray - Abuse by Proxy Terence Fixmer - Avalanche Ep | ||||||
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May 9th, 2008
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| Hope to see some of you at Neurosix tonight. | ||||
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| Lia: Get Uranus out of my sextile Peter: Umm, excuse me...? | ||||
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May 6th, 2008
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| Are you going to Kinetik? If you're not you don't have to reply... :-p | ||||||
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May 5th, 2008
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| maxmin: What did I need from Office Depot? liatarded: That thingee to cover your thing. maxmin: Oh right, so I can wrap that rascal. | ||||
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| A comment to my previous post about the farm bill brings up an interesting question. As latemodel correctly points out, the Dems are supporting the bill in order to curry favor with the farm bloc in the Midwest. They know if they oppose the bill it could cost them seats recently won by Moderate Dems in the Midwest. Everyone knows this is the case, yet they keep stating that the bill is good for the country and family farmers, which they know is a complete lie. So would it be better if rather than lie about the bill as they are now they simply admitted that it's a horrible bill but if they voted against it they would quite possibly lose those Congressional seats, and even see the Repubs take back control of Congress? Right now they're clearly lying, but would it be better if the simply admitted they were hypocrites, that all this talk of changing the political system, removing the influence of special interests and the like, is just for show, and that it's really still politics as usual? And that rather than true change the reason to vote for them is that we agree with them on issues like ending the war, protecting abortion rights, expanding health care, etc, i.e. that they're just as corrupt as the Repubs, but for the issues we support? | ||||
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| liatarded: i dont hold your piggish ways against you maxmin: yes, but I want to change my piggish ways liatarded: just no picking food up from sidewalks liatraded: that is where i draw the line maxmin: uh huh :-p | ||||
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| Yumm, floor-bread, thanks sweetie... :-p | ||||
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 Tuesday May 6th, 10pm, SF Comcast cable ch. 29 Hosts Emidemic and Kyronfive feature videos by Lurid Bliss, Pzychobitch, an old classic from Battery, Jill Tracy and a live performance by and interview with Android Lust. ( flyer with more info below cut ) | ||||||
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| Farm bill upends normal political order It is the rarest of moments: President Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are on a collision course over a giant farm bill, but it is Bush who is broadly aligned with liberal Bay Area activists pushing for reform, while the San Francisco Democrat is protecting billions of dollars in subsidies to the richest farmers. How the Hell is it that Bush (and McCain) are on the right side of this issue, opposing this HORRIBLE bill, while Pelosi, Clinton and Obama support it? For those that don't know this bill continues "subsidy-driven distortions that supercharge the industrialization of agriculture, boost corn-based sugars, fats and starches in the U.S. diet and undermine poor farmers overseas." It benefits corporate farms that are currently making huge profits, while containing only token amounts for things like sustainable farming and helping smaller family based farms, and encourages farming techniques that are bad for the environment and contribute to Global Warming. It is the height of hypocrisy for Dems to support this bill while damning oil companies for making their huge profits, as honestly there's not that much difference between the oil companies and the huge corporate farms that this bill is a huge giveaway too. Thanks Nancy, Hillary and Barack for showing that you're just as big of sellouts to corporate interests as the Repubs are. *edited to add* In slightly better news, a new CBS poll shows that by a small but significant majority of Americans oppose McCain and Hillary's asinine proposal for a "gas tax holiday", which virtually all economists agree would NOT lower gas taxes but would be a HUGE profit windfall for said oil companies. At least Obama (and again shockingly the Bush White House) is on the right side of this issue. | ||||
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| stolen from not_eurotic... Holy Crap, another new NIN album!?!?!?  AND IT'S AVAILABLE FOR FREE, in what could be the perfect array of digital formats: MP3, lossless (FLAC or Apple) or 24-bit, 96-kHz WAV files that sound better than the CD would have, if Reznor had bothered to release one yet. The album is more song-oriented than the instrumental abstraction of the band's recently released Ghosts I-IV, with full vocal tracks and the sort of dark, grimy loops that helped Reznor make his name. Though I haven't heard it yet, as it's taking awhile for the download link to arrive. Wonder if Trent will break the internet again... ;-p | ||||
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May 4th, 2008
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| Sometimes Karma is more funny than a bitch. When it happens to certain other people that is... ;-) | ||||||
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| Funny thing that occurred to me at the Abney Park show last night. The melody line for Breathe used to be played by my girlfriend (at the time) on her flute. The melody line for Breathe is now played by my little brother on his viola. Yeah, not sure what if anything that's saying... | ||||
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May 2nd, 2008
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| Fair Play for False Prophets Do white right-wing preachers have it easier than black left-wing preachers? Is there a double standard? In light of this racial gap, it's worth pondering why white, right-wing preachers who make ridiculous and sometimes shameful statements usually emerge with their influence intact.  John McCain with his supporter nutbag preacher John Hagee, who stated that God sent Hurricane Katrina to ravage New Orleans to prevent a Gay Pride event scheduled there. Poll #1181472 Open to: All, results viewable to: All The solution to this discrepancy in reporting is...
View Answers ...less criticism of Wright and Obama's relationship with him. ...more criticism of nutbag white preachers like Fallwell, Robertson and Hagee, and McCain's recent selling out to the likes of them. | ||||
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| Clinton & McCain's Gas-Tax Proposal Criticized Backing up Obama's position against Clinton's proposal to suspend the 18.4-cent-per-gallon tax for the summer is a slew of economists who argue that the proposal, first offered by Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, would be counterproductive. They argue that cutting the tax would drive up demand for gas at a time when the supply is tight, which would mean that the price at the pump would drop by much less than 18 cents per gallon. The tax suspension would, as a result, cut into the highway trust fund that the tax supports, a loss of about $9 billion over the summer, but also result in fatter profit margins for oil companies. Clinton says she would replace the lost revenue by raising taxes on the oil industry. Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw, who has written a best-selling textbook on economics, said what he teaches is different from what Clinton and McCain are saying about gas taxes. "What you learn in Economics 101 is that if producers can't produce much more, when you cut the tax on that good the tax is kept . . . by the suppliers and is not passed on to consumers," he said. Damn fucking straight, it's a ridiculous idea. As stated later in the article, it would only "save the average family about $30 for the summer", so the main beneficiaries would be the oil companies themselves, not the average consumer. | ||||
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| For anyone interested, Abney Park, (featuring my kid brother on guitar and violin) is playing at the Maker Faire in San Mateo this Saturday. The Faire is all day, they will be playing on the Main stage at 8:30pm. | ||||
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