we will know we're healing and moving forward as a society when hip-hop is broadly seen as gauche and passe and stupid.

my little creative space is about layering sounds into alien soundscapes for serious headphone listening on high grade equipment - it isn't pop music, it isn't trying to be pop music and it probably never will be.

i want to hear new viable forms of pop music, and i want to be inspired by them. but, it's not what i want to create, myself.

i'm making progress in what i'm doing. there should be some posts coming up, soon.

i will be the first person to acknowledge that the entire art form of music is in a terrible rut, and that it may not survive the onslaught of neo-liberalism - we may lose music as an art form altogether

but, hip-hop is a symptom of this and not a solution to it.

i would like to look at something past the rock era, and the obvious answer is in techno, but there's not a lot happening there, either - techno, itself, seems to have peaked in the 90s.

we're in a bad state. yeah.

hip hop's a reflection of it, not a path out of it.

i mean, do you really want me to analyze this shit as literature?

that's not even fair.

hip hop isn't music - it's some kind of half-literate "poetry", coming from a class and race perspective that i have no shared experiences with. so, it doesn't work on either level for me - if i want to read something, i'll pick something at a higher level, and if i want some music, it just doesn't fit the definition.

hip-hop is really designed to get ideas across to people that don't or can't read.

so, yes - i'm always going to seek some kind of new music. but, it has to be music.

and, i'm never going to care about hip-hop.

george hw bush was one of the most evil human beings that our species has ever produced.

i wish there was a hell for him to rot in.

that is all.

is ollie still kicking, or did he get bushwacked in the end?

these delusional obituaries make me fucking sick.

it's not the interest rates, it's the easing. until they go back to easing, the long term direction is going to be downwards.

i must have eaten something that was rotten or something, because i've been unable to stay awake since thursday afternoon. i guess i'll give it another shot.

i need to find a way to increase the dosage on my testosterone suppressors, as i've been suffering through some spikes, and don't like it. i've just been double dosing in response. the strain on my liver may be contributing to the tiredness.

and, i need to cauk the windows up, as the pollution outside is very gross, and may be contributing to my inability to stay awake, too.

otherwise, i'm going to try to get a little bit of work done today.

i'll need to call the courthouse on monday to see if the justice is sitting or not. but, it seems like i'm going to have to go to the courthouse and make the accusations, on the record, to her face.

it's very simple: if the court has something to hide, they refuse to release the audio. otherwise, they release the audio in the name of transparency. i should have access to this audio under a basic foia under the privacy act. there's not another argument: they have something to hide and don't want me to see it, or they don't and want to prove that they don't.

nor can they get out of this by getting the justice to verify the transcript, although i think they might try. what that does is incriminate the justice. the transcript is wrong, and if the justice claims otherwise, that proves she's in on it.

we can do this the easy way or the hard way, kind of thing. but, the audio will get released, eventually.