?jan 12, 2012?

you can add my vote for this being amongst the most emotionally powerful pieces of music ever recorded.

?apr 1, 2012?

this really hits a new low for gen y music, just when i thought it couldn't get any worse.

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?may 10, 2012?

 noise rock.

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?may 30, 2012?

if you're going to talk influences, i hear a lot of peter gabriel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayy73aUSq14

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june 1, 2012

i always thought weird al understood this song better than he realized.

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jun 15, 2012

i think what this sounds like is fuck buttons remixing chariots of fire.

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sept 1, 2012

it sounds a lot like the smashing pumpkins c. 2000.

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?nov 15, 2012?

there's a very prominent mike oldfield sample in this track. really, he should get writing credits.

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dec 3, 2012

lol. i think you'd have to figure out the tuning, first. btw, the lack of tuning is why it sounds so "scary". what this particular track sounds like, really, is very early sonic youth.

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dec 13, 2012

it may seem weird, but you have to properly compare earthling to the other "electronica" records that came out in 1997 - by acts like daft punk, chemical brothers, prodigy, etc. when you do that, it comes out very strong on a couple of levels. one is the more interesting subject matter. another is the more interesting musicianship. nor is it all that weird when you think it through for a second. what larger influence was there on "breathe" than bowie?

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?dec 27, 2012?

for those that would rather read through the transcript in half the times, it is available here:

http://democracynowDOTorg/2012/10/16/chilean_student_movement_awarded_for_organizing

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?dec 29, 2012?

i'd actually call it retro. it's what ministry should have started doing c. 1995; one of the best industrial records released in the post-downward spiral (or post dwayne goettel) period.

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?may 11, 2011?

while it's not the worst thing i've ever heard, i'm personally not a fan of dcfc because it's not, well, *interesting* to me on a musical, lyrical or emotional level. folks, strokes. yet, i find the rush comparison interesting. comparisons to rush are not generally well-received in the indie rock world, but i *do* hear a likely unconscious objectivist strain in the lyrics.

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?june 15, 2011?

i don't think the battles comparisons are fair for this disc, although they are for the next disc. this is really more in the tradition of late tortoise, taken to the next level.

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?july 4, 2011?

it's not the song that hasn't aged, it's our culture that's stagnant.

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?oct 18, 2011?
@pilates68 i agree with you. there are some great musical pieces post-gabriel. it's hard to imagine genesis without entangled, blood on the rooftops or even the duke suite. but, they lost the plot. they lost the cinematics, the edge....

@pilates68 but you shouldn't ignore the fact that gabriel lost a lot of the same things when he left, too. it took him until his third disc to become relevant again, and it really wasn't until he turned to soundtracks that he started producing some really serious music again.

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?dec 1, 2011?

it seems to be that the issue the dog was grappling with wasn't whether it could open the door or not but whether it was "allowed" to open the door or not.

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?jan 2, 2010?

this is the cia's first attempt to claim that those who would compare the war to vietnam are taliban sympathizers. obama's had a hard-right streak in him since day one. he tossed his bread crumbs at the masses with the health care bill - now get ready for a rough ride through the badlands of mccarthyism, destination: iran.

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?jan 5, 2010?

woah. pythagoras was right....whodda thunk _that_ one?

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??jan 7, 2010??

you ms vs. apple guys make me laugh. gates saved apple from bankruptcy (look it up) for one reason and one reason only: to escape the possibility of antitrust action over desktop operating systems. there was a period in the 90s when it looked like gates was going to become the supreme ruler of the universe and that all pcs in the world would be running his operating system. today, a viable competitor exists: apple. gates needs a strong apple to get the feds off his back.....

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?feb 15, 2010?
america is a continent? kind of like africa is a country? there are two americas (i'm not quoting john edwards) and they are both continents. it's correct to say that canadians, americans and people from "central america" are north americans, and some canadians do think of themselves in this way, but to claim that "america is a continent" and conclude that canadians are americans is something that canadians would find deeply offensive, much as the irish and scots resent being called british.

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?feb 15, 2010?

i hope it didn't hurt itself jumping through the window, which it probably didn't understand even was a window.

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?aug 1, 2010?

i agree that these guys are the best straight up, in your face rock act that i've heard in years and years and years and years.

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?sept 19, 2010?

yeah, i'd say this is pretty intense.

?dec 27, 2010?

it's public knowledge that corgan was using a mutron biphaser during the time period, the same model that sonic youth used

good luck finding one...

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?mar 1, 2009?

abstractly, you're right on, but with elephants it's more than a sign of extreme boredom. it's a sign of extreme hopelessness, a response to trauma and sometimes even a warning sign of aggression. humans do it too when we go into the "fetal position" and rock back and forth as a response to something terrible or a precursor to irrational behaviour.

that elephant has been driven insane by the hopelessness of being held in captivity; elephants understand freedom in remarkably human terms.

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?nov 20, 2009?

this guy....he's brutal. the premise of him taking the spin out of everything is comical precisely because he doesn't understand anything.

the idea of the photo was simple: they were casting sarah as the ditsy cheerleader stereotype. this is what the article is about, so it was chosen precisely because it is IN context. it wasn't sexist; it had nothing to do with her gender. it was an underhanded attack on her intelligence.

the comparison would be to bush cast as the terminator.

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it's all so amazingly ironic. the right has been complaining for years about political correctness.

attacking palin's intelligence or criticizing her for being an airhead is not sexist because the criticism is completely accurate. accepting equality means accepting that *some* women are morons, just as *some* men are morons. palin is one of the female morons.

if the media cannot tear down those who are mentally unfit to hold office due to political correctness then we're entering a scary era.

by comparison, if the cover cast clinton, rice or livni in such a pose then it WOULD be sexist because the stereotype doesn't hold. clinton has a post-doctoral degree and a resume the length of palin's vocabulary. i believe rice was the youngest person ever to graduate from her college and she had a lengthy stay through several administrations. livni was also more than qualified.

palin really IS completely clueless about everything and this WAS the context!

....but the article in the magazine was partially about how she's gotten this far partially through her looks, in spite of her weak intellect! this *is* the context!

i can't post these yet. but.

oct 1? 2008

hrmmn. it looks to me more like he's ferrying a kid out of incoming fire. when are people going to begin to understand that you can not believe ANYTHING that is presented to you in the form of video? this media has no value as a form of communication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OefgMtXOc1M

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oct 2?, 2008

moral relativists would not claim that evil does not exist, they would claim that evil is relative to the society one exists within. as an example, there are people alive today that think that soldiers are all evil because they are murderers and there are others that think they are heroes. consider the abortion debate. a moral relativist would argue that when you brand your opponent as evil what you are really doing is stifling debate. clearly, THEIR viewpoints are invalid - they are evil.

so, in order to maintain a civil discourse in the face of controversial topics the concept of morality needs to be accepted as subjective as a very first axiom. opposing viewpoints need to be presented as viewpoints and not as moral truths, no matter how obvious and truthful these viewpoints may seem to you or i. i would brand hitler as evil without a second thought, but i would append a clause: hitler was evil relative to the set of morals that most existing societies consider fundamental.

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oct 4?, 2008
so, what's the hold up on decriminalization, then?

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?oct 31, 2008?

unfortunately, most people won't "get it". throughout the 70s, phil collins was one of the most talented drummers on the planet. check out his work with brand x, mike olfield, brian eno and, of course, genesis (up to about '77) for more info.

they used to say he was an "animal on the kit".

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?oct 31, 2008?

random viewers should be informed that the track starts halfway through.

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?nov 15, 2008?

they were asking him the wrong question, as they have been conditioned to by NWO-stooges like alex jones. the question to ask paul martin is:

"sir, do you think that you are more qualified to determine the cause of the collapse than a council of engineers and architects?"

once he said "no" and it was agreed that the experts have concluded that there were explosives, the questioner should have drawn on his background as a lawyer to help him construct the obvious chain of logic.

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yeah, i found a copy of places.sqlite from last week in my recycle bin, and it seems to have fallen from about 82 mb to about 72 mb by deleting the last two weeks of october, 2016. that's been put aside, so i at least won't lose it. makes me wonder how far back it went before it started deleting things...firefox never used to do that...

apparently, what you have to do now is add places.history.expiration.max_pages with a large number (i just ran off 999999999s), and it changes the appropriate value, which is otherwise bizarrely set to read-only. easy. but i wish i knew.

i think i initially cleared everything up until march, 2016 - like, wiped the history down entirely - and that i've recovered data from cbc & disqus up to june, 2017, which is when i switched to 64 bit. so, i think that the worst case is that i missed data from march to october, 2016.

the only place i might have backed that up would be on the recording pc.

i'm going to stop to eat and worry about that last.

so, i can access my 32-bit browser history by copying the file into the 64-bit browser directory. it's still compiling. weird. it has to be that specific directory; i guess there's a password in there somewhere. it works...

it starts in may, 2017.

the 64-bit browser did start in october, 2016 but has pushed forwards to november, suggesting to me that i'm losing data on a roughly 110 week schedule. apparently, it has more to do with number of sites visited, but my value is in the hundreds of thousands. have i been to hundreds of thousands of sites over the last two years? i'll keep an eye on this.

i've actually been pretty productive over the last few days, even if you can't tell from a distance. i've deleted about two thousand pages worth of duplicates in the main file, and distributed another several hundred pages of comments. it's only a few hundred pages left until the data flips, and everything should speed up rather dramatically.

for right now, what's happened is that i've ended up so far behind that i'm catching up on things that were put aside. so, i'm going to need to add google & facebook comments to the monthly/seasonal rebuild as i move forwards.

i'm thinking that what i'll do is publish a season of vlogs at a time as quickly as i can until i can catch up. but i'm not close to being there yet.

so, i guess i'll update again when i'm back to the main september sequence.