Archive for May, 2006

Random thoughts from the past week.

May 31st, 2006

First off. People stuck in the glass box apple store elevator. This makes me laugh almost as much as the oxymoronic concept of a genius bar.
Second off… has autotune warble become a key part of Thom Yorke’s vocal stylings or is it just me? He needs to do a cover of that [...]


sonic youth - rather ripped stream

May 23rd, 2006

Wouldn’t you rather be listening to new sonic youth right now? Recorded at one of the oldest continuously operating studios, sear sound.
Like… it’s just got hell of presence on the guitars… I mean that seriously. Thanks to DG for streaming incinerate in his myspace profile which led me to look at the SY [...]


Morning death.

May 19th, 2006

So I think it can be said that there is simply no band that provides the varieties of religious experience that jucifer does. Their Thursday show at Alex’s Bar though sparsely attended (why??? are people too cool for thursday all of the sudden?) was yet again one of the most insane things I’ve ever [...]


gradual student

May 16th, 2006

I had a great mentor in college, who was taken away in an untimely manner a while ago now by an utterly cosmic natural event. He always used these bizarre malapropisms, such as everlater for elevator and gradual student for graduate student. Hopefully he would be happy that I am now a gradual [...]


More skype?

May 15th, 2006

They go and make all landline calls in the US & Canada free. Whooops, that’s awesome.
Here’s the announcement. I had to put a 1 before the area code to get it to work… which is strange since their example has no 1 prefix. But yeah it works. A lot of people [...]


Skype just saved my butt.

May 11th, 2006

So it was just another SNAFU at the office err I mean school, but somehow this one required me calling China. I’m sitting here staring at my VZW cellphone (asshats) which doesn’t do international calls (probably for the best, since calling China on it would be way over a dollar a minute) and this [...]


bike pLAgue two now online

May 10th, 2006

For some reason when someone searches for bike pLAgue zine on the old google, my blog has been coming up first… whoops! I dig the publication but I have nothing to do with it, I just half assedly reviewed the first issue here, and now you can get the second issue with out [...]


Too much!

May 9th, 2006

Too little!
I’ve been doing crazy amounts of things and stuff.
Yes. Hence, the blog has reached the back burner. Work has taken a turn towards more research with well defined goals, which is awesome. Spent Sunday at Santa Monica interviewing Pei Pei for my friend Tim’s upcoming webzine/zine zine. That was nuts [...]


Colbert

May 1st, 2006

This is not news… this is perhaps something you’ve heard about already, but you should see it anyway, cause it kills.
Steven Colbert at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (realplayer link) Fast forward a little over an hour in.


Double sad, but that’s ok.

May 1st, 2006

Well, I was planning on writing a post about Manzanar with some solemn pictures, but my MacBook umm… bit it last night. Hopefully it will come back to life soon.
In more upbeat news, here is a rather quality mix of the song factual that I had a jokey mix up of a while back. [...]