you want democracy in syria?

great.

then your single biggest advocate inside the country is bashar al-assad, who may in the end end up dying for it.

those of us with memories better than those of your average gerbil will recall that the reason we're in this mess in the first place is that the saudis were trying to stop the syrians from moving to a constitutional republic.

what the media refers to as a "civil war" in syria has always been a foreign backed invasion to stop the country from moving towards democracy. i have to repeat this point when i make it: what the americans have been doing in syria is not spreading democracy, but rather helping the saudis to stamp it out before it spreads.

i don't know how the americans walk this back, in the end. they're still talking about assad as a dictator, even while he's openly planning a democratic transition. i suppose they'll probably claim the elections are rigged.

so, when you hear talk of these opposition groups demanding that the constitution be altered as a pre-condition, you have to put it in context. syria just fought a brutal war to save a constitution that was passed less than ten years ago.

all of these people can't have died for nothing.

https://en.unesco.org/creativity/policy-monitoring-platform/syrias-new-constitution

i don't actually know what i want to be when i grow up, yet.

i would not be particularly upset if the kurds just killed them on the spot.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/17/islamic-state-isis-baghuz-trump-calls-on-european-allies-to-take-800-fighters-captured-in-syria

almost done with this, i just have to separate the initial list up to 2003 into periods one and period two.

i'll be writing reviews for new releases from 1997-1999 over the upcoming months, then putting those releases on the shelves. and, i'm actually thinking that the down period over 1997 may give me an excuse to do some writing on some older media i have, just to be comprehensive.

slowly...

and, something happened when i went back to school in '08 - i stopped spending money on cds, and started downloading music. so, i've got a terrabyte of mp3s since then, and very few physical discs. there's a few left, not many....

at some point, i'll want to rectify that. there's certain things - la dispute, 65daysofstatic, son lux, screaming females - that belong on the shelf. but, it could be a while longer, still.

i decided i wouldn't review anything without buying it, so that's the limitation i'm getting around.

but, that gets me in order, anyways. and, i'm about to pass out.

so, here's the list from late 2006 to mid 2008, which, with the last list, corresponds to the time i was out of school.

i didn't have a clean compare algorithm, here, i had to sort through, and i no doubt missed a few. i don't have snapshots after 2007. but, i'll catch them in the end - they're there.

i'm all over the place, here.

up to june, 2008

a silver mt. zion	pretty little lightning paw	2004	cst	030	30:16	9
	13 blues for thirteen moons	2008	cst	051	59:04	0
acid mothers temple & the melting paraiso ufo	nam myo ho ren ge kyo	2007	ace fu	047	65:16	5
adrian belew	side two	2005	sanctuary	755	33:13	2
	side three	2006	sanctuary	777	38:45	9
allan holdsworth	atavachron	1986	2064	36:44	3
animal collective	hollinndagain	2002	paw tracks	12	41:33	5
	feels	2005	splinter	11	51:48	0
aphex twin	girl/boy	1996	warp	wap-78	15:25	5
	richard d. james album	1996		warp-43	32:43	0
autechre	incunabula	1993	warp	0017	78:03	3
	amber	1994		0025	74:25	2
	chiastic slide	1997		0049	69:51	0
	lp5	1998		0066	73:16	1
	ep 7.1	1999		ep7	29:32	3
	ep 7.2	1999		ep7	30:45	0
	peel session 2	2000		9150	29:30	3
	confield	2001			74:00	4
	gantz graf	2002		9256	19:17	1
	draft 7.30	2003		0111	62:47	3
	untilted	2005		0180	69:49	2
between the buried and me	alaska	2005	victory	262	53:54	10
	colors	2007		351	64:12	7
bjork	medulla	2004	62 984	45:46	2
black sabbath	paranoid	1970	warner brothers	27 327	42:11	8
brian eno	(no pussyfooting)	1973	eg	1-02	39:44	0
	evening star	1975		1-03	47:34	1
	music for films	1978		1-05	41:04	1
can	tago mago	1971	mute	9273	73:30	0
	ege bamyasi	1972		9274	40:11	1
carlos santana	blues for salvador	1987	columbia	40875	45:09	3
claude debussy	nocturnes	1899	phillips	11 433	26:57	0
	la mer	1905		11 433	24:09	1
cocteau twins	blue bell knoll	1988	4ad/vertigo	36 484	35:16	3
cop shoot cop	release	1994	interscope	92 424	50:30	3
cornershop	when i was born for the 7th time	1997	warner bros	46 576	54:18	3
david bowie	tin machine	1989	91 990	56:49	9
django reinhardt	jazz in paris vol. 13	1939	emarcy	59 854	51:02	3
do make say think	you, you're a history in rust	2007	045	48:29	3
einstuerzende neubauten	perpetuum mobile	2004	mute (time-warner)	9-237		2
fennesz	venice	2004	touch	53		3
fuck buttons	street horrrsing	2008	atpr	028		0
genesis	genesis	1983				7
henryk gorecki	string quartets 1 and 2	1988 / 1991	nonesuch	79319		3
hindu love gods	s/t	1990	giant	24406		5
hrsta	ghosts will come ahd kiss our eyes	2007	cst	48		3
iron butterfly	in-a-gadda-da-vida	1968	atco	20217	90 392	8
john bayless	bach meets the beatles	1984	pro-arte	211		8
jello biafra & the melvins	sieg howdy!	2005	alternative tentacles	350		2
john zorn	duras:duchamp	1997				3
	xu feng	2000				0
	naninani II	2004	tzadik	250		2
john mclaughlin	molom	1995				3
john tavener	the protecting veil	1996				3
jonny greenwood	bodysongs	2002	emi	95147		2
king crimson	beat	1981				2
	three of a perfect pair	1984				1
kingdom shore	...and all the dogs to shark					3
kronos quartet	black angels	1990	nonesuch/elektra	79242		4
	howl, usa	1997	elektra/nonesuch	79372		4
lamb	fear of fours	1999	mercury	58 821		3
led zeppelin	led zeppelin	1969	atlantic	82632		4
ludwig van beethoven	symphony no. 5 (opus #67)	1808	sb2k	63266		0
	symphony no. 6 (opus #68)	1808	sb2k	63266		1
	symphony no. 7 (opus #92)	1813	pilz	067		1
	symphony no. 8 (opus #93)	1814	sb2k	63266		2
mammatus	mammatus	2006	holy mountain	17974		1
	the coast explodes	2007	holy mountain	8516		1
meat beat manifesto	subliminal sandwich	1996	nothing (universal)	90 069		2
	hello friends	2001	shadow	097		4
	at the center	2005	thirsty ear	57 159		2
meg lee chin	junkies and snakes	2000	invisible	176		5
mike keneally	hat.	1992	exowax	promo		1
	boil that dist speck	1994	exowax	promo		1
	sluggo	1997	immune	018		1
miles davis	'round about midnight	1957	columbia			2
moebius & plank	rastakraut pasta	1980				3
	material	1981				3
mr. bungle	mr. bungle	1990				3
my bloody valentine	isn't anything	1988				1
	loveless	1991				0
nine inch nails	year zero	2007				2
	ghosts	2008				2
pelican	city of echoes	2005	hydra head	124		3
philip glass	passages	1990				0
	kundun	1997	nonesuch	79460		2
pink floyd	the division bell	1994				2
plaid	double figure	2001	warp	084		2
red hot chili peppers	mother's milk	1989	columbial	13 892		2
	bloodsugarsexmagik	1991	warner brothers	45 448		0
robert fripp	(no pussyfooting)	1973	eg	1-02	39:44	0
	evening star	1975		1-03	47:34	1
set fire to flames	sings reign rebuilder	2002	alien8	130701		6
skerik	syncopated taint septet	2003	ryko	16 039		1
sonic youth	the whitey album	1988				3
steve reich	electric counterpoint	1987	nonesuch (time-warner)	79 176		1
	different trains	1988	nonesuch (time-warner)	79 176		3
the chicago underground trio	flamethrower	2000	delmark	521		2
the fall	cheetham hill	1997	receiver	247		3
the grassy knoll	III	1998	nettwerk	30127		2
the jimi hendrix experience	axis: bold as love	1967	track			0
the white stripes	get behind me satan	2005	v2 (bmg)	27 256		2
trans am	red line	2000	thrill jockey	087		2
turing machine	a new machine for living	2000	jade tree	92258		2
various artists	dgc rarities vol 1	1994	dgc	24704		5
	natural born killers	1994	nothing/interscope	92460		2
	song of the silent land	2004	constellation	cstcomp2		4
wendy carlos	clockwork orange original score	1972	east side	81362		3
xiu xiu	women as lovers	2008	kill rock stars	484		3
xtc	homespun	1999	tvt	3320		3
yellowjackets	priceless jazz collection	1998	grbd	9893		3