From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: the initial landlord
also: there's a water coming from the ceiling in the bathroom tonight, and it's been raining again all day.
i don't know how it makes any sense, but everything seems to be random except the rain...
j
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Re: shower - success. i think. but the handle needs some attention.
From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: the initial landlord
aaaaaaactually, i just checked a second time and the caulking may be a little bit weak right over the spot it was previously leaking. that could explain that bit of moisture.
j
To: the initial landlord
aaaaaaactually, i just checked a second time and the caulking may be a little bit weak right over the spot it was previously leaking. that could explain that bit of moisture.
j
shower - success. i think. but the handle needs some attention.
From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: the initial landlord
hi.
i just got out and i didn't notice any actual leaking.
i'm going to * this mildly, though. see, it's a little damp (very, very mildly) on the tile in the same spot as it was before. it doesn't seem to be leaking from the shower. i don't know if that's a reason to be concerned or if it's condensation from the wood ceiling or even just me dripping. i'll keep you updated, i guess.
i did notice some kind of little insect, though, as i was looking around. i've seen bugs around there before and just killed them. this one got away, though - and seemed to disappear into the concrete. i wasn't sure if it was an ant or a baby centipede. it was fast. is it possible that there could be some ants in the concrete causing the leak?
google suggests this is possible, but only if there are existing cracks in the concrete. i don't know. i know i saw something appear to disappear into the concrete.
*but i also know i see things sometimes and shouldn't rely too heavily on isolated experiences*. i was thinking about that being a possible problem, and that's when i tend to imagine things. it's actually reasonable to suggest that the reason i couldn't kill it is because i hallucinated it.
so, i guess i'll have to let you know if i see that a second time...
i have seen the odd ant in here, all in the living room near that little storage room, but i've lived in basements most of my life and know it's not really unusual to see what they call 'explorer ants' - even in brand new, finished basements. they're just looking around, and won't come back if there's nothing there to get. it's important to get them when you see them, but it's not necessarily a sign of infestation. the fact that i leave all my food in the fridge should dissuade them. the best way to avoid bugs is to not leave food out...
the handle, though, needs some kind of fix. i sort of assumed that you just had it oriented backwards, which i wouldn't care about, but it's worse than that. the way it was before was how you'd expect it to work - off when it's to the far right, then moving from cold to hot as you turn it to the left, reaching maximum flow somewhere about halfway. somehow, the blend between hot and cold seems to have been broken. *when you turn it to the left it's pure cold, and when you turn it to the right it's pure hot, with no way to blend the two*.
the way i got around that today was to rely on the amount of time it takes for the water to turn from cold to hot. so, i'd turn it really cold for a bit, then pull it back to a very low flow on the hot side and wash while i was waiting for it to warm up. then when it got too hot, i'd turn it back to cold and repeat.
but that's not just ridiculous, it's also really wasteful, and requires a very mild flow to be workable. i don't know how this works, and it doesn't really matter to me if it's lined up right (i don't care if hot means cold), but i think it's really important to get the blend of hot/cold working again so that the temperature is actually adjustable.
j
To: the initial landlord
hi.
i just got out and i didn't notice any actual leaking.
i'm going to * this mildly, though. see, it's a little damp (very, very mildly) on the tile in the same spot as it was before. it doesn't seem to be leaking from the shower. i don't know if that's a reason to be concerned or if it's condensation from the wood ceiling or even just me dripping. i'll keep you updated, i guess.
i did notice some kind of little insect, though, as i was looking around. i've seen bugs around there before and just killed them. this one got away, though - and seemed to disappear into the concrete. i wasn't sure if it was an ant or a baby centipede. it was fast. is it possible that there could be some ants in the concrete causing the leak?
google suggests this is possible, but only if there are existing cracks in the concrete. i don't know. i know i saw something appear to disappear into the concrete.
*but i also know i see things sometimes and shouldn't rely too heavily on isolated experiences*. i was thinking about that being a possible problem, and that's when i tend to imagine things. it's actually reasonable to suggest that the reason i couldn't kill it is because i hallucinated it.
so, i guess i'll have to let you know if i see that a second time...
i have seen the odd ant in here, all in the living room near that little storage room, but i've lived in basements most of my life and know it's not really unusual to see what they call 'explorer ants' - even in brand new, finished basements. they're just looking around, and won't come back if there's nothing there to get. it's important to get them when you see them, but it's not necessarily a sign of infestation. the fact that i leave all my food in the fridge should dissuade them. the best way to avoid bugs is to not leave food out...
the handle, though, needs some kind of fix. i sort of assumed that you just had it oriented backwards, which i wouldn't care about, but it's worse than that. the way it was before was how you'd expect it to work - off when it's to the far right, then moving from cold to hot as you turn it to the left, reaching maximum flow somewhere about halfway. somehow, the blend between hot and cold seems to have been broken. *when you turn it to the left it's pure cold, and when you turn it to the right it's pure hot, with no way to blend the two*.
the way i got around that today was to rely on the amount of time it takes for the water to turn from cold to hot. so, i'd turn it really cold for a bit, then pull it back to a very low flow on the hot side and wash while i was waiting for it to warm up. then when it got too hot, i'd turn it back to cold and repeat.
but that's not just ridiculous, it's also really wasteful, and requires a very mild flow to be workable. i don't know how this works, and it doesn't really matter to me if it's lined up right (i don't care if hot means cold), but i think it's really important to get the blend of hot/cold working again so that the temperature is actually adjustable.
j
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rob-ford-video-in-police-hands-1.2303146
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/we-have-images-consistent-with-alleged-crack-video-toronto-police-chief-bill-blair-1.1521469
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/environment/makeshift-bomb-explodes-aboriginal-blockade-hereditary-likhts%E2%80%99amisyu-chief-toghestiy
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/we-have-images-consistent-with-alleged-crack-video-toronto-police-chief-bill-blair-1.1521469
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/environment/makeshift-bomb-explodes-aboriginal-blockade-hereditary-likhts%E2%80%99amisyu-chief-toghestiy
hallowe'en playlist
this is still the best thing i know of to blast from your windows tonight as kids walk by. it will get a pretty horrified reaction; i did this a few times in the late 90s.
the more things change, the more they stay the same
i find if you talk to youngish hippies/folkies, they tend to inevitably out themselves as small-c conservatives. i wasn't alive in the 60s, but i get the feeling that it was probably the case then, too.
it's time to stop dealing with banks.
is it weird that i'm almost 33 and have never paid a monthly fee? i've just always had "student accounts" that wave all those fees, and nobody ever bothered checking up to see whether i was really a student.
i had to switch banks a few months ago, and i just got a letter explaining that unless i can provide evidence of being a student they're going to start charging me $20/month, give me a very small debit limit and then start charging by transaction and a couple of other things that are really just flat out dastardly, the morally.....bankrupt.....cretins that they are.....
i was already pissed off at the check cost. it's over $1.50/check and they only sell them in bulk - 50 checks at a time. they get cheaper if you buy more than 50. for what reason? who uses checks in 2013 for anything other than to pay rent? that's enough checks to cover four years of rent. now, i don't like paying $1.50/check, but i'd pay it if it meant avoiding the headaches i'm about to put myself through. what i can't handle is dropping that much all at once. worst thing: the last bank i was at waived the cost. so, i was trying to figure out various ways around that...but switching banks isn't really fun.
i've got it narrowed down to a credit union that appears to be a front for ING. most of the credit unions seem to be a front for something or other. i only need like three things. but i NEED those three things...
i think that's the thing with banks, right? if it's a $1-$2 here or there, we gnash our teeth and stomp our feet, but it's more out of principle - and then we carry on as though nothing had happened.
that's how they get us. the bastards.
but, when they throw down $50 or $100 that's when we pick up the phone and yell and scream until we either get it reversed or are broken down into accepting our status as slaves who can be stolen from with impunity.
that doesn't happen often, though, 'cause they know this. they know they can get away with $1 surcharges. they know they can't get away with more than that.
or at least that's what i thought...
is it weird that i'm almost 33 and have never paid a monthly fee? i've just always had "student accounts" that wave all those fees, and nobody ever bothered checking up to see whether i was really a student.
i had to switch banks a few months ago, and i just got a letter explaining that unless i can provide evidence of being a student they're going to start charging me $20/month, give me a very small debit limit and then start charging by transaction and a couple of other things that are really just flat out dastardly, the morally.....bankrupt.....cretins that they are.....
i was already pissed off at the check cost. it's over $1.50/check and they only sell them in bulk - 50 checks at a time. they get cheaper if you buy more than 50. for what reason? who uses checks in 2013 for anything other than to pay rent? that's enough checks to cover four years of rent. now, i don't like paying $1.50/check, but i'd pay it if it meant avoiding the headaches i'm about to put myself through. what i can't handle is dropping that much all at once. worst thing: the last bank i was at waived the cost. so, i was trying to figure out various ways around that...but switching banks isn't really fun.
i've got it narrowed down to a credit union that appears to be a front for ING. most of the credit unions seem to be a front for something or other. i only need like three things. but i NEED those three things...
i think that's the thing with banks, right? if it's a $1-$2 here or there, we gnash our teeth and stomp our feet, but it's more out of principle - and then we carry on as though nothing had happened.
that's how they get us. the bastards.
but, when they throw down $50 or $100 that's when we pick up the phone and yell and scream until we either get it reversed or are broken down into accepting our status as slaves who can be stolen from with impunity.
that doesn't happen often, though, 'cause they know this. they know they can get away with $1 surcharges. they know they can't get away with more than that.
or at least that's what i thought...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
record runner valued customer card
i also found a debit card for steves that has roughly $50 on it, iirc.
remastered inri000 re-release completed
these are the first demos i recorded, written 1994-1996 and recorded in the second half of 1996. this corresponds to the end of my 15th year and the beginning of my grade 10 school year. on the one hand, it's an intriguing document of a socially maladjusted teenage punk. on the other hand, it's a 15 year-old kid learning how to use a recording studio (and how to play the drums). influences are displayed on my sleeve just a little too loudly at times.
i was attempting to create something that could be described by the words disturbing, schizophrenic, unique, bizarre, twisted. looking back, i think i succeeded more than i realized at the time. this is a difficult listen that would be appealing to fans of very early nirvana, very early sonic youth and soundtrack-era swans, as well as fans of the more difficult passages present in mid-90s nine inch nails. i manage to maintain a strange sense of melody, though. in truth, my current adult self is somewhat impressed with my teenaged self at this current point.
that being said, it should not be forgotten that i was fifteen. i am at times rather crude, and i display a childlike understanding of certain issues. most poetry written at the age of fifteen is not particularly insightful. again, though, i surprise myself at points.
this is the first time i'm publishing these demos in any form. i've remained frighteningly self-conscious of them over the years. over the last seventeen years, the audience has been limited to a single friend, an aunt, a sister and an ex-girlfriend. initial reactions suggested i take some time to perfect my performance skills, particularly my drumming skills. however, this indicated a lack of understanding of my intent in the overall sound. the playing is quite purposefully abstract with the aim of exploring mental illness.
the demos were initially dub-mastered onto a 110 minute tape that would have flipped after the eighth track. that tape was at some point recorded into a soundblaster and compressed very heavily; this is the only source of the material that i still have. so, i had to decompress the files from those 128 (or worse) kbps mp3s and run them through some digital mastering equipment in an attempt to "undo" the compression. what that is is a half-effective trick to recover data that is in actuality forever lost. nonetheless, i should point out that while these files were recorded entirely in 1996, they were substantially digitally modified in late 2013. as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, drums, vocals, keyboards, tapes, sounds, percussion, production.
released December 25, 1996
i was attempting to create something that could be described by the words disturbing, schizophrenic, unique, bizarre, twisted. looking back, i think i succeeded more than i realized at the time. this is a difficult listen that would be appealing to fans of very early nirvana, very early sonic youth and soundtrack-era swans, as well as fans of the more difficult passages present in mid-90s nine inch nails. i manage to maintain a strange sense of melody, though. in truth, my current adult self is somewhat impressed with my teenaged self at this current point.
that being said, it should not be forgotten that i was fifteen. i am at times rather crude, and i display a childlike understanding of certain issues. most poetry written at the age of fifteen is not particularly insightful. again, though, i surprise myself at points.
this is the first time i'm publishing these demos in any form. i've remained frighteningly self-conscious of them over the years. over the last seventeen years, the audience has been limited to a single friend, an aunt, a sister and an ex-girlfriend. initial reactions suggested i take some time to perfect my performance skills, particularly my drumming skills. however, this indicated a lack of understanding of my intent in the overall sound. the playing is quite purposefully abstract with the aim of exploring mental illness.
the demos were initially dub-mastered onto a 110 minute tape that would have flipped after the eighth track. that tape was at some point recorded into a soundblaster and compressed very heavily; this is the only source of the material that i still have. so, i had to decompress the files from those 128 (or worse) kbps mp3s and run them through some digital mastering equipment in an attempt to "undo" the compression. what that is is a half-effective trick to recover data that is in actuality forever lost. nonetheless, i should point out that while these files were recorded entirely in 1996, they were substantially digitally modified in late 2013. as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, drums, vocals, keyboards, tapes, sounds, percussion, production.
released December 25, 1996
demo #17: suicide
the second part of the two part suite that ends this mess.
it's probably predictable that i ended with a song about suicide. i had to fast forward a section, though, because i don't want to get sued. it remains legally sketchy in a way i'm very self-conscious of.
i guess there's been a lot written about this, and it was a long time ago. that being said, maybe this is interesting in the sense that it's one kid's reaction to it - albeit a few years later, so there was a bit of time to process it.
recorded in december, 1996. remastered on october 30, 2013.
it's probably predictable that i ended with a song about suicide. i had to fast forward a section, though, because i don't want to get sued. it remains legally sketchy in a way i'm very self-conscious of.
i guess there's been a lot written about this, and it was a long time ago. that being said, maybe this is interesting in the sense that it's one kid's reaction to it - albeit a few years later, so there was a bit of time to process it.
recorded in december, 1996. remastered on october 30, 2013.
demo #16: viewless
this is the first section of a two-part suite that ends this demo tape.
i was simply being incredibly facetious through the track, to the level that i think my point got lost in the sarcasm. ignored youth, and whatnot; not the tv, so therefore not worth listening to.
musically, this is a bit of a step forward into a bigger type of epic rock. the production is awful; i corrected that when i re-recorded it. the tape, here, gets mangled and blurry at points entirely on purpose.
recorded in december, 1996. remastered oct 30, 2013.
i was simply being incredibly facetious through the track, to the level that i think my point got lost in the sarcasm. ignored youth, and whatnot; not the tv, so therefore not worth listening to.
musically, this is a bit of a step forward into a bigger type of epic rock. the production is awful; i corrected that when i re-recorded it. the tape, here, gets mangled and blurry at points entirely on purpose.
recorded in december, 1996. remastered oct 30, 2013.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
the major fighting in syria right now seems to be between hezbollah (russia/iran backed) and al qaeda (nato/israel/saudi backed).
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/173229
somehow, the solution to blowback is always more colonialism.
http://fpif.org/al-shabaabs-savage-coming-age-respond/
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/25/exclusive_21_nations_line_up_behind_un_effort_to_restrain_nsa
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/alaska-bristol-bay-gold-mine-pebble?CMP=twt_gu
http://fpif.org/world-without-u-s/
http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/24/american_hypocrisy_rip
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/pers-o25.html
http://fpif.org/looting-westgate-analogous-increasing-presence-u-s-military-africa/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/cops-unbound/
so, this is an outlandish propaganda piece by the secretary of state that indicates that the question of invasion is not yet remotely settled.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/25/john_kerry_humanitarian_aid_syria
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/24/how-libya-fell-off-the-media-map/
http://buff.ly/1ifYNLk
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-hitchhiking-virus-saga-ancient-human.html
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/10/24/more_unionbashing_as_stephen_harper_tries_to_deflect_attention_from_senate_walkom.html
i know it seems maddening, but the cop is just a cog in the system.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-pepper-spraying-cop-got-a-bigger-payout-than-his-victims/280822/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pot-growers-celebrate-as-uruguay-legalizes-cultivation-and-consumption-of-marijuana/2013/10/23/f8044fc6-3bfe-11e3-b0e7-716179a2c2c7_story.html
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/10/robert-taft-moderate-and-mccarthyite/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/24/pers-o24.html
i've repeatedly drawn the connection between the society that followed from reagan/thatcher (or lack of one) and the society discussed in 1984. here's a more startling, direct parallel.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/the-language-of-neoliberalism/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/whose-interests-are-they/
http://atfp.co/1arblys
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/al-qaedas-corridor-through-syria/
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/10/25/ottawa-seems-to-be-backing-off-oil-sands-assessment/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/new-environmental-review-rules-anger-oilsands-critics-1.2252074
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/26/scse-o26.html
expect an increase in property damage and petty theft, followed by a police crack down. end result: more black people in jail. and was there ever any other goal?
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/26/food-o26.html
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10921
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2013-10/13/c_132794246.htm
i think the study demonstrates that dental morphology is highly fluid.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/last-common-ancestor-of-neanderthals-and-modern-humans-still-a-mystery
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=search-escalates-for-key-to-why-matter-exists&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=black-holes-may-have-hair&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://www.nature.com/news/pesticide-makes-invading-ants-suicidally-aggressive-1.14003
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/canadian-researchers-use-bees-to-drop-pesticides-on-crops-1.2251858
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2013/10/should-canada-give-people-abused-our-mining-companies-access-t
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/24/iran-o24.html
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/24/russia_denies_running_espionage_trap_in_washington
meaningful ai software will not be possible in conventional programming languages. our brains exist in a more complex reality. as intelligence is a physical process, it utilizes physical laws. quantum laws. modelling that requires more complex machines....
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/24/obamas-drone-killing-campaigns/
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2013/10/ontario-will-pay-literally-harpers-new-canada-eu-deal
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/24/the-sectarian-war-at-hand/
http://www.oktlaw.com/blog/do-we-need-the-rule-of-law-in-new-brunswick-to-deal-with-native-protestors/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canadian-spy-agency-sued-for-allegedly-violating-charter-1.2158884
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/guar-o25.html
http://ow.ly/qaf1v
http://fpif.org/surveillance-merkels-phone-demands-scapegoat/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/guatemalan-plaintiffs-in-hudbay-lawsuit-allege-interference/article15058016/#dashboard/follows/
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/24/exclusive_germany_brazil_turn_to_un_to_restrain_american_spies
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/25/the_middle_east_power_vacuum
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/detb-o25.html
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10913
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/obam-o25.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/the-smear-campaign-against-social-security/
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/Death-Is-Having-a-Moment/280777/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/saud-o25.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/26/eusu-o26.html
when they arrested hitler, he spent his time writing. stay vigilant, greece.
http://libcom.org/news/when-state-turns-antifa-26102013
Today's Pakistan is a place where a provincial governor, Salman Taseer, can be gunned down in broad daylight for criticizing an apostasy law -- and then lawyers jostle for the right to defend the murderer.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/25/the_global_war_on_thinking_bad_thoughts
this is a good precursor to the state's actual response:
http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/24/american_hypocrisy_rip
....and, somewhere, noam chomsky is having a laughing attack. he *does* laugh. i've seen it.
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140155/henry-farrell-and-martha-finnemore/the-end-of-hypocrisy
i've often wondered how many suicide bombers really *know* they're about to explode.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/24/russia_s_mysterious_deadly_phenomenon_of_new_black_widows
markets *always* produce collusion. competition with advanced capitalism can never be anything but an illusion.
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-facebook-google-advertising-ally.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-bee-brains-view-larger-superior.html
http://phy.so/301582052
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24425-universal-law-of-urination-found-in-mammals.html
what, they couldn't tune it finely enough?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dark-energy-cosmological-constant&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://phy.so/301659943
http://www.nature.com/news/final-word-is-near-on-dark-matter-signal-1.14000
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-scientists-quantum-wells-high-power-easy-to-make.html
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/october-2013/the-big-questions
http://phy.so/301899570
http://mitne.ws/17fDZSO
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=black-hole-firewall-paradox&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://chomsky.info/articles/20131024.htm
http://phy.so/301565886
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/173229
somehow, the solution to blowback is always more colonialism.
http://fpif.org/al-shabaabs-savage-coming-age-respond/
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/25/exclusive_21_nations_line_up_behind_un_effort_to_restrain_nsa
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/alaska-bristol-bay-gold-mine-pebble?CMP=twt_gu
http://fpif.org/world-without-u-s/
http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/24/american_hypocrisy_rip
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/pers-o25.html
http://fpif.org/looting-westgate-analogous-increasing-presence-u-s-military-africa/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/cops-unbound/
so, this is an outlandish propaganda piece by the secretary of state that indicates that the question of invasion is not yet remotely settled.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/25/john_kerry_humanitarian_aid_syria
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/24/how-libya-fell-off-the-media-map/
http://buff.ly/1ifYNLk
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-hitchhiking-virus-saga-ancient-human.html
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/10/24/more_unionbashing_as_stephen_harper_tries_to_deflect_attention_from_senate_walkom.html
i know it seems maddening, but the cop is just a cog in the system.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-pepper-spraying-cop-got-a-bigger-payout-than-his-victims/280822/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pot-growers-celebrate-as-uruguay-legalizes-cultivation-and-consumption-of-marijuana/2013/10/23/f8044fc6-3bfe-11e3-b0e7-716179a2c2c7_story.html
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/10/robert-taft-moderate-and-mccarthyite/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/24/pers-o24.html
i've repeatedly drawn the connection between the society that followed from reagan/thatcher (or lack of one) and the society discussed in 1984. here's a more startling, direct parallel.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/the-language-of-neoliberalism/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/whose-interests-are-they/
http://atfp.co/1arblys
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/al-qaedas-corridor-through-syria/
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/10/25/ottawa-seems-to-be-backing-off-oil-sands-assessment/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/new-environmental-review-rules-anger-oilsands-critics-1.2252074
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/26/scse-o26.html
expect an increase in property damage and petty theft, followed by a police crack down. end result: more black people in jail. and was there ever any other goal?
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/26/food-o26.html
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10921
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2013-10/13/c_132794246.htm
i think the study demonstrates that dental morphology is highly fluid.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/last-common-ancestor-of-neanderthals-and-modern-humans-still-a-mystery
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=search-escalates-for-key-to-why-matter-exists&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=black-holes-may-have-hair&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://www.nature.com/news/pesticide-makes-invading-ants-suicidally-aggressive-1.14003
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/canadian-researchers-use-bees-to-drop-pesticides-on-crops-1.2251858
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2013/10/should-canada-give-people-abused-our-mining-companies-access-t
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/24/iran-o24.html
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/24/russia_denies_running_espionage_trap_in_washington
meaningful ai software will not be possible in conventional programming languages. our brains exist in a more complex reality. as intelligence is a physical process, it utilizes physical laws. quantum laws. modelling that requires more complex machines....
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/24/obamas-drone-killing-campaigns/
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2013/10/ontario-will-pay-literally-harpers-new-canada-eu-deal
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/24/the-sectarian-war-at-hand/
http://www.oktlaw.com/blog/do-we-need-the-rule-of-law-in-new-brunswick-to-deal-with-native-protestors/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canadian-spy-agency-sued-for-allegedly-violating-charter-1.2158884
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/guar-o25.html
http://ow.ly/qaf1v
http://fpif.org/surveillance-merkels-phone-demands-scapegoat/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/guatemalan-plaintiffs-in-hudbay-lawsuit-allege-interference/article15058016/#dashboard/follows/
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/24/exclusive_germany_brazil_turn_to_un_to_restrain_american_spies
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/25/the_middle_east_power_vacuum
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/detb-o25.html
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10913
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/obam-o25.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/the-smear-campaign-against-social-security/
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/Death-Is-Having-a-Moment/280777/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/saud-o25.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/26/eusu-o26.html
when they arrested hitler, he spent his time writing. stay vigilant, greece.
http://libcom.org/news/when-state-turns-antifa-26102013
Today's Pakistan is a place where a provincial governor, Salman Taseer, can be gunned down in broad daylight for criticizing an apostasy law -- and then lawyers jostle for the right to defend the murderer.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/25/the_global_war_on_thinking_bad_thoughts
this is a good precursor to the state's actual response:
http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/24/american_hypocrisy_rip
....and, somewhere, noam chomsky is having a laughing attack. he *does* laugh. i've seen it.
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140155/henry-farrell-and-martha-finnemore/the-end-of-hypocrisy
i've often wondered how many suicide bombers really *know* they're about to explode.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/24/russia_s_mysterious_deadly_phenomenon_of_new_black_widows
markets *always* produce collusion. competition with advanced capitalism can never be anything but an illusion.
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-facebook-google-advertising-ally.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-bee-brains-view-larger-superior.html
http://phy.so/301582052
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24425-universal-law-of-urination-found-in-mammals.html
what, they couldn't tune it finely enough?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dark-energy-cosmological-constant&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://phy.so/301659943
http://www.nature.com/news/final-word-is-near-on-dark-matter-signal-1.14000
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-scientists-quantum-wells-high-power-easy-to-make.html
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/october-2013/the-big-questions
http://phy.so/301899570
http://mitne.ws/17fDZSO
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=black-hole-firewall-paradox&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://chomsky.info/articles/20131024.htm
http://phy.so/301565886
the new left review has stricter user controls than any other major publication that i've ever seen.
sorry guys, but my concept of a new left doesn't uphold intellectual property rights through the use of force. nor does it enforce distributive networks that have no logical end outside of vanguard politics.
they're going to be pathetically saluting stalin all alone into perpetuity if they don't open up to general access.
sorry guys, but my concept of a new left doesn't uphold intellectual property rights through the use of force. nor does it enforce distributive networks that have no logical end outside of vanguard politics.
they're going to be pathetically saluting stalin all alone into perpetuity if they don't open up to general access.
i kind of shudder at articles like this. but i do see their value in a general sense.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/10/21/the-need-for-belonging-in-math-and-science/?WT.mc_id=SA_facebook
personally, i probably would have rejected math if the program was organized more like an arts program.
see, ironically, i probably should have been studying art rather than math, and would have if the program was less focused on building social relationships.
as it is, i wasted a lot of time with something i wasn't interested in because it was the only program i could find that accommodated my lack of social skills.
as it turns out, i'm not the greatest mathematician in the world. however, i think a lack of social skills is something i share with mathematicians much more insightful than i am. moving to make the field more social is likely to have the effect of pushing them out to something else, where they can explore things by themselves.
...because it's the quiet, contemplative, intellectual isolation that has drawn them into math in the first place.
so, they need to be careful with this. it has the potential to create a lot of harm and havoc.
it's sort of enraging, even. this is one of the very few paths that an introvert can follow in this society on the way to some kind of comfortable existence. can you goddamned extroverts just fuck off and leave them alone? why do you have to constantly be meddling in everything?
rather than bring in all of these horrific social programs that are going to make the introverts miserable, why not focus on ensuring that follower-types of extroverted people that rely on external validation to define themselves go into, say, accounting, instead?
it seems to me like the failure here was in pushing catherine good into the wrong field of study.
...and the headline should say "sociable, needy people do not belong in math or science".
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/10/21/the-need-for-belonging-in-math-and-science/?WT.mc_id=SA_facebook
personally, i probably would have rejected math if the program was organized more like an arts program.
see, ironically, i probably should have been studying art rather than math, and would have if the program was less focused on building social relationships.
as it is, i wasted a lot of time with something i wasn't interested in because it was the only program i could find that accommodated my lack of social skills.
as it turns out, i'm not the greatest mathematician in the world. however, i think a lack of social skills is something i share with mathematicians much more insightful than i am. moving to make the field more social is likely to have the effect of pushing them out to something else, where they can explore things by themselves.
...because it's the quiet, contemplative, intellectual isolation that has drawn them into math in the first place.
so, they need to be careful with this. it has the potential to create a lot of harm and havoc.
it's sort of enraging, even. this is one of the very few paths that an introvert can follow in this society on the way to some kind of comfortable existence. can you goddamned extroverts just fuck off and leave them alone? why do you have to constantly be meddling in everything?
rather than bring in all of these horrific social programs that are going to make the introverts miserable, why not focus on ensuring that follower-types of extroverted people that rely on external validation to define themselves go into, say, accounting, instead?
it seems to me like the failure here was in pushing catherine good into the wrong field of study.
...and the headline should say "sociable, needy people do not belong in math or science".
i think this sort of backlash was predictable. so long as it can be resisted, it's likely to reach an apex and then fizzle out. it's kind of scary to consider what the apex might be, but at least there's some hope on the other side of it. it would help if the dominant culture would be less pro-war (and that's what it's about. creating soldiers.) in the way that it promotes ridiculous concepts of masculinity.
and if it can't be resisted? well, read the handmaid's tale.
http://prospect.org/article/good-mens-rights-movement-hard-find
and if it can't be resisted? well, read the handmaid's tale.
http://prospect.org/article/good-mens-rights-movement-hard-find
yes. a source of hydrocarbons. the price of the space program redeems itself.
there are some mild transport problems with that idea. not to mention the reality that we're going to terraform the earth into venus if we keep ejecting these greenhouse gasses.
we are, however, ruled by the insane. they'll try it.
http://phy.so/301815542
there are some mild transport problems with that idea. not to mention the reality that we're going to terraform the earth into venus if we keep ejecting these greenhouse gasses.
we are, however, ruled by the insane. they'll try it.
http://phy.so/301815542
it's so typical of american thinking.
- "you know, if you kill all these terrorists, it's going to create more terrorists that need to avenge the death of the newly dead ones."
- i see. so, what do we do?
- "to really end terrorism, we have to break the cycle of violence."
- break the cycle of violence?
- "yeah."
- ok. we'll see what steps we can take to do that.
result:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/Drone-Attacks-at-Funerals-of-People-Killed-in-Drone-Strikes/280821/
- "you know, if you kill all these terrorists, it's going to create more terrorists that need to avenge the death of the newly dead ones."
- i see. so, what do we do?
- "to really end terrorism, we have to break the cycle of violence."
- break the cycle of violence?
- "yeah."
- ok. we'll see what steps we can take to do that.
result:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/Drone-Attacks-at-Funerals-of-People-Killed-in-Drone-Strikes/280821/
i think this is an interesting area to explore, but that what is being discussed in this article is largely specious. if there's anything to draw from it, it's that the tribe in question enforces more rationality while our "weird" society enforces irrationality through advertising, television logic, etc
the issue of anything being innate, one way or the other, does not follow, one way or the other.
i've always realized that it's clear that what kahneman really hit on was the effect of mass brainwashing and the whole experiment in advertising and population control that began after the great depression.
but i've also always assumed that these effects are exaggerating something more innate, and that this kind of brainwashing couldn't work otherwise.
the study doesn't really examine these questions, it just presents a case for tabula rasa (without realizing it).
http://phy.so/301643668
the issue of anything being innate, one way or the other, does not follow, one way or the other.
i've always realized that it's clear that what kahneman really hit on was the effect of mass brainwashing and the whole experiment in advertising and population control that began after the great depression.
but i've also always assumed that these effects are exaggerating something more innate, and that this kind of brainwashing couldn't work otherwise.
the study doesn't really examine these questions, it just presents a case for tabula rasa (without realizing it).
http://phy.so/301643668
ok, umm, what?
- it's well known that oxygen levels rose dramatically around 2 billion years ago as a result of life producing it as a waste product. the free oxygen in the atmosphere was mostly produced through this process.
- in fact, the oxygen levels became so high that they poisoned the existing life, causing a mass extinction.
- that clearly demonstrates that oxygen is not "required for life". what is a plant's reaction to oxygen?
- oxygen-metabolizing life forms then evolved from oxygen-emitting life forms as a response to all the poisonous oxygen in the atmosphere.
after reading this a few times, my best guess is that the scientist who did the study is specialized to the cambrian and was simply never taught about the oxygenation event.
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/5758/oxygen-not-the-cause-of-the-cambrian-explosion
most working scientists are nothing approaching a polymath. they know what they're taught, which is very narrow.
spare time is spent watching dumb sitcoms like every other idiot.
- it's well known that oxygen levels rose dramatically around 2 billion years ago as a result of life producing it as a waste product. the free oxygen in the atmosphere was mostly produced through this process.
- in fact, the oxygen levels became so high that they poisoned the existing life, causing a mass extinction.
- that clearly demonstrates that oxygen is not "required for life". what is a plant's reaction to oxygen?
- oxygen-metabolizing life forms then evolved from oxygen-emitting life forms as a response to all the poisonous oxygen in the atmosphere.
after reading this a few times, my best guess is that the scientist who did the study is specialized to the cambrian and was simply never taught about the oxygenation event.
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/5758/oxygen-not-the-cause-of-the-cambrian-explosion
most working scientists are nothing approaching a polymath. they know what they're taught, which is very narrow.
spare time is spent watching dumb sitcoms like every other idiot.
listening to lee ranaldo's last night on earth...
this may be a little out of fashion right now, but maybe that's exactly why it's so refreshing to hear.
Monday, October 28, 2013
on the death of lou reed
well, that's a shame.
i'm not much of a fan. i don't really see how the velvet underground were, sonically, that different than the byrds. i don't hear the novelty, i just hear rather substandard mid-60s hippie folk bullshit. nor was i able to connect with reed's later music or writing very well - it just moved so slowly, and with such pomp. really, i'd consider him to probably - bar none - be the single most over-rated artist of the 20th century.
however, i can hear and acknowledge the direct and substantial influence he had on a large proportion of the artists that i hold in the absolute highest regard. michael stipe. sonic youth. swans. throbbing gristle. peter gabriel.
i guess he's like that distant grandfather that you only met a few times and didn't really connect with, but that you heard stories about your whole life. i may not feel his absence, but i think i can feel his departure - whether actually or merely as a symbolic date, an era very seriously just ended.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-lou-reed-dead-20131027,0,4221650.story
i'll acknowledge that part of it is a generation gap. i'm so far removed from the 60s pop sound that....it's just entirely alien. i have no first hand experience. neither of my parents listened to this stuff. nor did my grandparents. it was something i'd seen in movies, and never had much of an attachment to.
so, the subtle and supposedly revolutionary differences that existed between the byrds and the vu are just glossed over as minor production differences, which is in truth what they actually are; the velvet underground are only radically different from the byrds if you've been living a reality saturated with byrds-like pop, mass produced as a product, for the last five+ years. if you have no measurable consciousness of anything at all until 15 years after they broke up, and no reference point to approach the era with, the vu and the byrds seem to be remarkably similar.
certainly, the velvet underground seem to have more in common with the byrds than they do with any punk band.
i've tried. a few times. but in the sense that it acts as a precursor to 70s, 80s, 90s acts i like, it fails because it's far more rooted in an era that i don't remotely understand - the 60s - than it is in anything that i do.
i guess it's sort of ironic. you put on an old beatles or hendrix or floyd or crimson record and it still sounds modern. it could have been recorded last week. however, you put on the velvet underground and you're instantly transported to 1966. it is far more tied to it's temporal surroundings than any of the other major, influential acts of the period.
influential or not, they sound far more like their era than they do like anything that followed - meaning that you have to understand and/or like 60s hippie folk pop in order to connect.
...and that it should be understood more in relation to what existed around it, which is what it was in truth a part of, rather than in relation to what followed from it, which it in truth was not a part of.
to put it another way...
the vu are often understood in terms of what they were reacting against. in order to really understand a reaction, you have to understand the whatever that's being reacted against. that's the part of the whole thing that falls apart and that i suspect may fall apart for most people in the long run. i was never normalized to the byrds, the mamas and the papas, the animals and whatnot (i was normalized to the beatles, the who, the pink floyd, frank zappa, led zeppelin, cream, hendrix, king crimson, yes, genesis... ), so the jump from normal to abnormal is entirely lost on me - it just all sounds the same.
but that inherently links them to the 60s, and seals their fate as a "60s folk band" rather than some kind of proto-punk act.
zappa is not a bad comparison as he did the same thing to heavy blues on some level. a flower child may not really hear the difference between zappa and zeppelin, but somebody that likes "progressive music" would instantly.
i'm just showing my ignorance, right? why don't i go listen to those old byrds records over and over so that i can understand them properly so that i can react to the velvet underground properly? if i had any respect for the classics....
but, can't you see that i'd be intimately familiar with those byrds records if they had any legitimate claim to being labelled classics?
so, why should i go listen to bad pop music from an era that ended before i was born in order to properly understand the reactions to it?
see, these are some of the problems inherent in canonizing the velvets. i don't think the music holds up on it's own, and the context is too convoluted to reconstruct. the canonization is premature; within a generation, they will be forgotten.
well, maybe not forgotten entirely, but reduced to a footnote as an influence on more radically creative music.
just to point a last thing out - a lot of the things that the vu get credit for were actually done by pink floyd first, or borrowed from people like reich and xenakis. i don't doubt that the velvets were directly influential. but even if you strip out the "it really just sounds like a byrds 8-track that got warped in somebody's car" criticism, there's *still* not much novel there....
it's really floyd that gets the "first underground rock band" award. and if you've never heard early floyd from this period, you probably wouldn't recognize it.
this is a taste, afaik the only thing that ever made it out to record.
(note that floyd would cite zappa, who would cite varese. but also that there was a fair bit of free jazz produced in the period.
i know, i'm missing the point, it's the lyrics.)
ok. to be balanced. and to backtrack to the "official narrative" of the velvets influencing punk. it's convoluted. i think it should be largely rejected, except in the local scope of the velvets influencing the new york "downtown" scene.
see, you can give the velvets and their members some credit for helping form a bridge between the beat movement and what got labelled the new york punk movement, although it's never been clear to me exactly what new york "punk" had in common with british punk or detroit "proto-punk". don't get me wrong. i like a lot of bands that came out of new york in the mid to late 70s, although maybe more so the stuff that came out in the very late 70s and early 80s. if you toss out the stuff like the ramones, new york "punk" was always very consciously difficult in whatever form it took. that makes it rather unpunk, relative to the initial british meaning of the term.
it's not like i'm the first person to draw a contrast between british and american punk. but it's less pronounced if you're discussing the ramones v. the clash, or the damned, or the sex pistols. there are a lot of similarities there. but going a little under the surface, if you try and draw a comparison between patti smith or television and crass then it's clear you're not in the same genre anymore. "punk", in this context, becomes a sort of buzzword without meaning. the new york "punk" scene, in this context, is hard to understand as anything other than an art rock scene grasping onto a trendy term. but, it was an art rock scene in an artistically dead society; in england, it was more like over-stimulation. so it's not just different genres, but reactions to fundamentally different pressures. in time, ironically, it was the new york sound that dominated london (see joy division), while the uk sound got shipped out to california.
see, if punk in britain was a mod movement about rejecting prog and getting back to the basics of rock then new york was a different thing altogether, partly because prog wasn't as entrenched in the united states. instead, you had disco. and new york punk was definitely explicitly anti-disco. so, there was a shared sort of theme there, but very different in scope. in new york, it almost seemed like there was a push to become *more* prog in rejecting the vacuousness of disco - which became post-punk/industrial - after it accepted a shared theme of beat-driven music *from* disco. yet, a lot of the early new york bands were more a type of art-rock, and it's that art-rock that eventually developed into what became alt rock through the influence of new york "punk" bands like sonic youth.
(although sonic youth is the exception, here. they were initially punk as fuck, even if they were clearly influenced by psych rock and maybe, in the end, became a psych band.)
all that to say that there's a continuity from ginsberg through to ranaldo that passes through lou reed, and that the velvets had a role to play in keeping that "downtown scene" alive during those dark days when disco dominated. but it's a relatively minor role - a curator role.
but, yeah. i like this. you can quote me on it.
"the banana record? yeah, it sounds like somebody took a byrds 8-track and left it out in the sun."
i know, i know - “i think there was a lot of elegance in the lyrics he wrote.”
yeah, i'm familiar with the material, and i know that's what people get out of it. and i've been inspired by a lot of people that he inspired, so i'm getting a lot out of it second hand. i cited stipe and ranaldo specifically.
it just seems to me like he's writing from behind this sort of dramatic screen that exists, that he's presenting very carefully worded works of fiction and passing them off as experiences. it's not just him, i have this criticism of a lot of folk music. it seems like it's an act, in other words. well, of course it's an act, on some level - all art is, and if i was walking around rejecting everything on that level i'd be rejecting all art, which i'm not doing. it's just that, with him, it seems really transparent. so, you're claiming it's honest and naked and whatnot, but what it strikes me as is very produced to *seem* honest and naked and whatnot. which is sort of the definition of contrived.
i'm kind of arguing in the form of a conspiracy, though. the more evidence you present that it's raw, the more contrived it's going to seem. but, isn't it a conspiracy, seriously, when you really analyze it?
i'm getting kind of meta and confusing, but i think what i'm trying to get across there is clear.
i guess relating to it sort of relies on giving in to the fantasy, and ignoring the truth that it's an act. which i'm not usually able to do.
“i think a lot of his lyrics are really personal.”
well, if you work in the warhol perspective, which is deeply relevant in reed's case, it sort of cheapens it by reducing it to a product. it doesn't help that he's so deadpan all the time - it just sort of stresses the feeling that it's constructed.
”maybe his lyrics don't seem lived in because they're often observational and in the third person.”
i think it's more his presentation, but, putting that question aside, i don't generally find myself at all interested in the subjects he's exploring, either, which is more of a subjective criticism. but i have a general disinterest in music that's focused largely around discussing relationships or largely focused around drug addiction. if i were to name my 100 favourite artists or something, almost none of them would be that type of songwriter or exist in the singer/songwriter/folk kind of category. i could probably ignore the deadpan, perceived lack of sincerity and generally not particularly interesting music if i could relate to his topics of choice a little more readily. when i look at what he influenced that i can relate to, it's often more in the writing style than the subject matter. stipe, for example is quite political; ranaldo is very introspective. stuff like swans and throbbing gristle took the nihilist themes to a different level, and inserted the emotion that reed tends to lack...
i'm not much of a fan. i don't really see how the velvet underground were, sonically, that different than the byrds. i don't hear the novelty, i just hear rather substandard mid-60s hippie folk bullshit. nor was i able to connect with reed's later music or writing very well - it just moved so slowly, and with such pomp. really, i'd consider him to probably - bar none - be the single most over-rated artist of the 20th century.
however, i can hear and acknowledge the direct and substantial influence he had on a large proportion of the artists that i hold in the absolute highest regard. michael stipe. sonic youth. swans. throbbing gristle. peter gabriel.
i guess he's like that distant grandfather that you only met a few times and didn't really connect with, but that you heard stories about your whole life. i may not feel his absence, but i think i can feel his departure - whether actually or merely as a symbolic date, an era very seriously just ended.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-lou-reed-dead-20131027,0,4221650.story
i'll acknowledge that part of it is a generation gap. i'm so far removed from the 60s pop sound that....it's just entirely alien. i have no first hand experience. neither of my parents listened to this stuff. nor did my grandparents. it was something i'd seen in movies, and never had much of an attachment to.
so, the subtle and supposedly revolutionary differences that existed between the byrds and the vu are just glossed over as minor production differences, which is in truth what they actually are; the velvet underground are only radically different from the byrds if you've been living a reality saturated with byrds-like pop, mass produced as a product, for the last five+ years. if you have no measurable consciousness of anything at all until 15 years after they broke up, and no reference point to approach the era with, the vu and the byrds seem to be remarkably similar.
certainly, the velvet underground seem to have more in common with the byrds than they do with any punk band.
i've tried. a few times. but in the sense that it acts as a precursor to 70s, 80s, 90s acts i like, it fails because it's far more rooted in an era that i don't remotely understand - the 60s - than it is in anything that i do.
i guess it's sort of ironic. you put on an old beatles or hendrix or floyd or crimson record and it still sounds modern. it could have been recorded last week. however, you put on the velvet underground and you're instantly transported to 1966. it is far more tied to it's temporal surroundings than any of the other major, influential acts of the period.
influential or not, they sound far more like their era than they do like anything that followed - meaning that you have to understand and/or like 60s hippie folk pop in order to connect.
...and that it should be understood more in relation to what existed around it, which is what it was in truth a part of, rather than in relation to what followed from it, which it in truth was not a part of.
to put it another way...
the vu are often understood in terms of what they were reacting against. in order to really understand a reaction, you have to understand the whatever that's being reacted against. that's the part of the whole thing that falls apart and that i suspect may fall apart for most people in the long run. i was never normalized to the byrds, the mamas and the papas, the animals and whatnot (i was normalized to the beatles, the who, the pink floyd, frank zappa, led zeppelin, cream, hendrix, king crimson, yes, genesis... ), so the jump from normal to abnormal is entirely lost on me - it just all sounds the same.
but that inherently links them to the 60s, and seals their fate as a "60s folk band" rather than some kind of proto-punk act.
zappa is not a bad comparison as he did the same thing to heavy blues on some level. a flower child may not really hear the difference between zappa and zeppelin, but somebody that likes "progressive music" would instantly.
i'm just showing my ignorance, right? why don't i go listen to those old byrds records over and over so that i can understand them properly so that i can react to the velvet underground properly? if i had any respect for the classics....
but, can't you see that i'd be intimately familiar with those byrds records if they had any legitimate claim to being labelled classics?
so, why should i go listen to bad pop music from an era that ended before i was born in order to properly understand the reactions to it?
see, these are some of the problems inherent in canonizing the velvets. i don't think the music holds up on it's own, and the context is too convoluted to reconstruct. the canonization is premature; within a generation, they will be forgotten.
well, maybe not forgotten entirely, but reduced to a footnote as an influence on more radically creative music.
just to point a last thing out - a lot of the things that the vu get credit for were actually done by pink floyd first, or borrowed from people like reich and xenakis. i don't doubt that the velvets were directly influential. but even if you strip out the "it really just sounds like a byrds 8-track that got warped in somebody's car" criticism, there's *still* not much novel there....
it's really floyd that gets the "first underground rock band" award. and if you've never heard early floyd from this period, you probably wouldn't recognize it.
this is a taste, afaik the only thing that ever made it out to record.
(note that floyd would cite zappa, who would cite varese. but also that there was a fair bit of free jazz produced in the period.
i know, i'm missing the point, it's the lyrics.)
ok. to be balanced. and to backtrack to the "official narrative" of the velvets influencing punk. it's convoluted. i think it should be largely rejected, except in the local scope of the velvets influencing the new york "downtown" scene.
see, you can give the velvets and their members some credit for helping form a bridge between the beat movement and what got labelled the new york punk movement, although it's never been clear to me exactly what new york "punk" had in common with british punk or detroit "proto-punk". don't get me wrong. i like a lot of bands that came out of new york in the mid to late 70s, although maybe more so the stuff that came out in the very late 70s and early 80s. if you toss out the stuff like the ramones, new york "punk" was always very consciously difficult in whatever form it took. that makes it rather unpunk, relative to the initial british meaning of the term.
it's not like i'm the first person to draw a contrast between british and american punk. but it's less pronounced if you're discussing the ramones v. the clash, or the damned, or the sex pistols. there are a lot of similarities there. but going a little under the surface, if you try and draw a comparison between patti smith or television and crass then it's clear you're not in the same genre anymore. "punk", in this context, becomes a sort of buzzword without meaning. the new york "punk" scene, in this context, is hard to understand as anything other than an art rock scene grasping onto a trendy term. but, it was an art rock scene in an artistically dead society; in england, it was more like over-stimulation. so it's not just different genres, but reactions to fundamentally different pressures. in time, ironically, it was the new york sound that dominated london (see joy division), while the uk sound got shipped out to california.
see, if punk in britain was a mod movement about rejecting prog and getting back to the basics of rock then new york was a different thing altogether, partly because prog wasn't as entrenched in the united states. instead, you had disco. and new york punk was definitely explicitly anti-disco. so, there was a shared sort of theme there, but very different in scope. in new york, it almost seemed like there was a push to become *more* prog in rejecting the vacuousness of disco - which became post-punk/industrial - after it accepted a shared theme of beat-driven music *from* disco. yet, a lot of the early new york bands were more a type of art-rock, and it's that art-rock that eventually developed into what became alt rock through the influence of new york "punk" bands like sonic youth.
(although sonic youth is the exception, here. they were initially punk as fuck, even if they were clearly influenced by psych rock and maybe, in the end, became a psych band.)
all that to say that there's a continuity from ginsberg through to ranaldo that passes through lou reed, and that the velvets had a role to play in keeping that "downtown scene" alive during those dark days when disco dominated. but it's a relatively minor role - a curator role.
but, yeah. i like this. you can quote me on it.
"the banana record? yeah, it sounds like somebody took a byrds 8-track and left it out in the sun."
i know, i know - “i think there was a lot of elegance in the lyrics he wrote.”
yeah, i'm familiar with the material, and i know that's what people get out of it. and i've been inspired by a lot of people that he inspired, so i'm getting a lot out of it second hand. i cited stipe and ranaldo specifically.
it just seems to me like he's writing from behind this sort of dramatic screen that exists, that he's presenting very carefully worded works of fiction and passing them off as experiences. it's not just him, i have this criticism of a lot of folk music. it seems like it's an act, in other words. well, of course it's an act, on some level - all art is, and if i was walking around rejecting everything on that level i'd be rejecting all art, which i'm not doing. it's just that, with him, it seems really transparent. so, you're claiming it's honest and naked and whatnot, but what it strikes me as is very produced to *seem* honest and naked and whatnot. which is sort of the definition of contrived.
i'm kind of arguing in the form of a conspiracy, though. the more evidence you present that it's raw, the more contrived it's going to seem. but, isn't it a conspiracy, seriously, when you really analyze it?
i'm getting kind of meta and confusing, but i think what i'm trying to get across there is clear.
i guess relating to it sort of relies on giving in to the fantasy, and ignoring the truth that it's an act. which i'm not usually able to do.
“i think a lot of his lyrics are really personal.”
well, if you work in the warhol perspective, which is deeply relevant in reed's case, it sort of cheapens it by reducing it to a product. it doesn't help that he's so deadpan all the time - it just sort of stresses the feeling that it's constructed.
”maybe his lyrics don't seem lived in because they're often observational and in the third person.”
i think it's more his presentation, but, putting that question aside, i don't generally find myself at all interested in the subjects he's exploring, either, which is more of a subjective criticism. but i have a general disinterest in music that's focused largely around discussing relationships or largely focused around drug addiction. if i were to name my 100 favourite artists or something, almost none of them would be that type of songwriter or exist in the singer/songwriter/folk kind of category. i could probably ignore the deadpan, perceived lack of sincerity and generally not particularly interesting music if i could relate to his topics of choice a little more readily. when i look at what he influenced that i can relate to, it's often more in the writing style than the subject matter. stipe, for example is quite political; ranaldo is very introspective. stuff like swans and throbbing gristle took the nihilist themes to a different level, and inserted the emotion that reed tends to lack...
humbling.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20906-lifelike-cells-are-made-of-metal.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lee_cronin_making_matter_come_alive.html
it's not a new idea. i think it traces back to asimov. but it's neat to see it actualized.
i know he's trying to avoid a teleological discussion, but by focusing entirely on competition he's actually being teleological; whether working with chaos or pure random bullshit luck, an inherent aspect of evolution has to be *chance*.
i agree that it's a certainty that non-carbon life exists; again, that's not a new idea. the thing is that nasa isn't looking for living things, it's looking for dead things in the form of oil...
he has a teleological trap here, and now i see why he circled around it. it's not going to be enough to simply put life in a box and apply external pressure in some kind of hegelian plot. life isn't competing against itself so much as it's competing against other life forms, and against randomness. there's not a contradiction there between competition and chance, it's that the chance drives the competition. that could conceivably be corrected by creating ever more elaborate challenges for the life to evolve to conquer. it's reasonable that he oversimplified the point for a general presentation. yet, there's a lot of faith there, and i'm not sure it's well placed. evolution actually has a very low success rate, as evidenced by the plethora of evolutionary dead ends. one of the prime strategies that organisms use is reproducing by the dozens or hundreds or even thousands. a little good luck would probably help, and it would be hard - if not impossible - to create that in a lab. what i'm getting at is that it's predictable that these experiments will produce a lot of "dead" "organisms", unless some kind of escape route is consistently presented - or will simply lead to stasis, if the hegelian plot is too lenient. demonstrating the ability for metals to evolve is not the same thing as simulating useful evolution.
he also *seems* to be ignoring the idea of sexual reproduction, which is something that is probably absolutely required for any kind of serious evolution.
worse, it may also be lamarckian, if he's assuming organisms will adapt on the spot to meet pressures (i can't tell if that's what he's getting at or not, but i think it might be). i mean, putting a handful of these things in a box and assuming they'll just change to fit the environment, then pass on those traits, without external forces to battle against? both teleological and lamarckian...
i think it's a really interesting idea, though, i just think maybe he should have a talk with a biologist in strategizing - or maybe the presentation was absurdly over-simplified. i couldn't find an update (this is from two years ago).
ok. he acknowledges there's no dna. no dna means no mutagenesis, which means no evolution. at best, he's using the idea of "evolution" figuratively and is just talking about molecules that have the ability to *adapt* - meaning he's constructing something that is meant to operate using a lamarckian mechanism. that just entrenches the teleology.
but details are sort of scant. i'm speculating.
although. wait. i'm being too literal. there could be some other mechanism to carry a "genome". it doesn't have to exactly simulate dna. and it almost sounds like he's expecting that to appear, spontaneously. and, why not? you'd just need to simulate it a few katrillion times, i guess.
still lamarckian, though.
still teleological...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20906-lifelike-cells-are-made-of-metal.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lee_cronin_making_matter_come_alive.html
it's not a new idea. i think it traces back to asimov. but it's neat to see it actualized.
i know he's trying to avoid a teleological discussion, but by focusing entirely on competition he's actually being teleological; whether working with chaos or pure random bullshit luck, an inherent aspect of evolution has to be *chance*.
i agree that it's a certainty that non-carbon life exists; again, that's not a new idea. the thing is that nasa isn't looking for living things, it's looking for dead things in the form of oil...
he has a teleological trap here, and now i see why he circled around it. it's not going to be enough to simply put life in a box and apply external pressure in some kind of hegelian plot. life isn't competing against itself so much as it's competing against other life forms, and against randomness. there's not a contradiction there between competition and chance, it's that the chance drives the competition. that could conceivably be corrected by creating ever more elaborate challenges for the life to evolve to conquer. it's reasonable that he oversimplified the point for a general presentation. yet, there's a lot of faith there, and i'm not sure it's well placed. evolution actually has a very low success rate, as evidenced by the plethora of evolutionary dead ends. one of the prime strategies that organisms use is reproducing by the dozens or hundreds or even thousands. a little good luck would probably help, and it would be hard - if not impossible - to create that in a lab. what i'm getting at is that it's predictable that these experiments will produce a lot of "dead" "organisms", unless some kind of escape route is consistently presented - or will simply lead to stasis, if the hegelian plot is too lenient. demonstrating the ability for metals to evolve is not the same thing as simulating useful evolution.
he also *seems* to be ignoring the idea of sexual reproduction, which is something that is probably absolutely required for any kind of serious evolution.
worse, it may also be lamarckian, if he's assuming organisms will adapt on the spot to meet pressures (i can't tell if that's what he's getting at or not, but i think it might be). i mean, putting a handful of these things in a box and assuming they'll just change to fit the environment, then pass on those traits, without external forces to battle against? both teleological and lamarckian...
i think it's a really interesting idea, though, i just think maybe he should have a talk with a biologist in strategizing - or maybe the presentation was absurdly over-simplified. i couldn't find an update (this is from two years ago).
ok. he acknowledges there's no dna. no dna means no mutagenesis, which means no evolution. at best, he's using the idea of "evolution" figuratively and is just talking about molecules that have the ability to *adapt* - meaning he's constructing something that is meant to operate using a lamarckian mechanism. that just entrenches the teleology.
but details are sort of scant. i'm speculating.
although. wait. i'm being too literal. there could be some other mechanism to carry a "genome". it doesn't have to exactly simulate dna. and it almost sounds like he's expecting that to appear, spontaneously. and, why not? you'd just need to simulate it a few katrillion times, i guess.
still lamarckian, though.
still teleological...
Sunday, October 27, 2013
categorizing this stuff (and this is going to take a long time....i'll finish up to before nov 2011 tonight and then try and do about a month per week until i catch up) is getting me thinking about a few things.
it's inflation. i agree. this mess we see around us. but that doesn't mean we should abolish the existing currency system. as problematic as inflation is, serious scarcity in currency is something that cannot have anything but a violent end. so long as population growth is positive, we need to have inflation; if we can start reversing population growth, maybe i'll start agreeing more with deflationary currency models, but that's a different question. i don't want to fight over scraps of gold.
the question is more about how to control inflation, and people are at this inherent disadvantage due to the monied class having control over it. it's as nightmarish from a class analysis perspective as it is from a social darwinist perspective. i lack the naivete required to believe that a state under the people's control can fix it.
so, fuck it. abolish currency. i'll come back to this prescription repeatedly, but it doesn't make it easier to live in it's constructs so long as it exists - or come up with an algorithm for it's destruction.
i know the philips curve is wrong, but i sort of yearn for that sort of simplicity. for a few decades there, it seemed like everybody understood this perfectly. such simple, causal laws. if only it were that simple....
...but yes. it's inflation. it's monetary. this is the dominant, primary cause of the broken economy. and fixing things in the short run requires addressing that, albeit not in the ways you hear the libertarian right suggest.
a convergence in opinions as to cause, a divergence in opinions as to the way forwards.
something else that comes off as ridiculous: the credit rating fiasco of late 2011. talk about an extortion scheme. yikes.
it's inflation. i agree. this mess we see around us. but that doesn't mean we should abolish the existing currency system. as problematic as inflation is, serious scarcity in currency is something that cannot have anything but a violent end. so long as population growth is positive, we need to have inflation; if we can start reversing population growth, maybe i'll start agreeing more with deflationary currency models, but that's a different question. i don't want to fight over scraps of gold.
the question is more about how to control inflation, and people are at this inherent disadvantage due to the monied class having control over it. it's as nightmarish from a class analysis perspective as it is from a social darwinist perspective. i lack the naivete required to believe that a state under the people's control can fix it.
so, fuck it. abolish currency. i'll come back to this prescription repeatedly, but it doesn't make it easier to live in it's constructs so long as it exists - or come up with an algorithm for it's destruction.
i know the philips curve is wrong, but i sort of yearn for that sort of simplicity. for a few decades there, it seemed like everybody understood this perfectly. such simple, causal laws. if only it were that simple....
...but yes. it's inflation. it's monetary. this is the dominant, primary cause of the broken economy. and fixing things in the short run requires addressing that, albeit not in the ways you hear the libertarian right suggest.
a convergence in opinions as to cause, a divergence in opinions as to the way forwards.
something else that comes off as ridiculous: the credit rating fiasco of late 2011. talk about an extortion scheme. yikes.
as others have pointed out, the wheel bug has a venomous bite. the mantis had a flight response under the realization that it couldn't really fight against it. this wasn't a fair fight - less like cock fighting and more like feeding a mouse to a snake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JvoFWtBbZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JvoFWtBbZQ
part of the reason i just moved to the area is that there's a strong potential to build sustainable local communities in the areas that have been abandoned by industry. this sounds like the kind of area i was thinking of - a residential area that has been partially abandoned and has left behind spaces for squatting and growing in a relative vacuum of capital. i fully understood that such a thing would be quashed, but hopefully not before some experiments could be carried out and a movement could create some momentum to move into further tazs. if the momentum can continue to grow, the tazs will become harder and harder to quash.
the key here is demonstrating that a life outside of slavery is, indeed, possible. i have faith that, once people realize that, they will free themselves from their own chains. i further believe that once people taste freedom they'll have a hard time giving it up.
i see a mass of empty houses and mass of homeless people and suggest the obvious; the landowner sees the same thing and concludes that the empty houses are decreasing his profit, and should consequently be torn down. this isn't an economic system, it's organized psychopathy.
worse is that it's not even a smart investment. buying up the land and turning it into a park, or condos, doesn't solve any of the economic "problems" that exist in the area. it just eliminates a source of affordable housing, further exacerbating the existing social problems. i'd expect the park to be full of squatters and that they'll have to be removed by force. on top of that, whatever is built will lack a market until production returns, which it won't. the result is simply more empty houses.
i could look at it on the bright side. this is going to piss people off. but, i realize the futility of fighting the class war head on.
i have to hope that landowners are, on average, more intelligent than this one and this isn't a trend that will pick up. if it is, however, the result is likely to be a mass of angry homeless people, and that gets me to a second best option in the end.
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/10/140-acre-forest-about-materialize-middle-detroit/7371/
the key here is demonstrating that a life outside of slavery is, indeed, possible. i have faith that, once people realize that, they will free themselves from their own chains. i further believe that once people taste freedom they'll have a hard time giving it up.
i see a mass of empty houses and mass of homeless people and suggest the obvious; the landowner sees the same thing and concludes that the empty houses are decreasing his profit, and should consequently be torn down. this isn't an economic system, it's organized psychopathy.
worse is that it's not even a smart investment. buying up the land and turning it into a park, or condos, doesn't solve any of the economic "problems" that exist in the area. it just eliminates a source of affordable housing, further exacerbating the existing social problems. i'd expect the park to be full of squatters and that they'll have to be removed by force. on top of that, whatever is built will lack a market until production returns, which it won't. the result is simply more empty houses.
i could look at it on the bright side. this is going to piss people off. but, i realize the futility of fighting the class war head on.
i have to hope that landowners are, on average, more intelligent than this one and this isn't a trend that will pick up. if it is, however, the result is likely to be a mass of angry homeless people, and that gets me to a second best option in the end.
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/10/140-acre-forest-about-materialize-middle-detroit/7371/
Saturday, October 26, 2013
i don't like the term "islamophobia". the issue here is racism; conflating race with religion is......racist. just because somebody has brown skin doesn't mean that they're dumb enough to believe somebody flew into heaven on a chariot. and, honestly? i don't really have any problem with the idea of using the state to promote secularism at the expense of religiosity. it's when these policies attack secular people that happen to not be white that i tend to get upset.
so, let's be clear, here. the problem is not attacking islam. islam is every bit as horrific as christianity, even worse in some ways. it wouldn't be fair for me to be more lenient toward islam than i am towards christianity. that would itself be sort of racist.
the problem here is racism, as it is directed towards people that come from cultures where islam is statistically dominant - and that racism includes the assumption that ethnicity implies religiosity.
so, let's be clear, here. the problem is not attacking islam. islam is every bit as horrific as christianity, even worse in some ways. it wouldn't be fair for me to be more lenient toward islam than i am towards christianity. that would itself be sort of racist.
the problem here is racism, as it is directed towards people that come from cultures where islam is statistically dominant - and that racism includes the assumption that ethnicity implies religiosity.
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baron christian heinrich philip von westphalen
baron christian heinrich philip von westphalen
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- confidential secretary of charles william ferdinand, duke of brunswick-wolfenbüttel.
- real power behind the ducal throne.
- one of the prime "german" military planners in the seven years war.
- wrote an important history of the seven years war.
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- birth name: hirshchel ha-levi marx.
- born into a rabbinical family. converted his entire family to lutheranism for social reasons; is thought to have been atheist.
- was involved in various "liberal societies" that were opposed to monarchism.
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demo #15: permission
see, i was never very rebellious. no, honestly, i wasn't. i just sort of didn't care. it was really never a question of rebelling against authority because the mere idea of authority was clearly preposterous. so, it was sort of more like i found myself laughing at the idea that other people thought they had some kind of "authority" over me....even as i found myself in logical agreement with those supposed "authorities" 95 times out of 100.....
i probably would have rebelled a little harder if my upbringing was more strict. it wasn't, though. authority was just something that never really existed, except as a rough set of largely rational suggestions.
you know those charlie brown episodes where adults are all squeaky and weird sounding? that's what i was thinking. although, again, the downward spiral appears as an embarrassingly strong influence. it's sort of ironic to write a song like this based on lines from some other person's songs. thankfully, we don't need to rely on the ingenuity of teenagers to keep the world spinning.
the backing vocals are my little sister. she was pretty little at the time, too. 12, even. also ironic: i told her what to do and what to say. i at least got *that* irony at the time, though.
i still like the bridge section, though.
recorded in december, 1996. remastered on oct 26, 2013.
i probably would have rebelled a little harder if my upbringing was more strict. it wasn't, though. authority was just something that never really existed, except as a rough set of largely rational suggestions.
you know those charlie brown episodes where adults are all squeaky and weird sounding? that's what i was thinking. although, again, the downward spiral appears as an embarrassingly strong influence. it's sort of ironic to write a song like this based on lines from some other person's songs. thankfully, we don't need to rely on the ingenuity of teenagers to keep the world spinning.
the backing vocals are my little sister. she was pretty little at the time, too. 12, even. also ironic: i told her what to do and what to say. i at least got *that* irony at the time, though.
i still like the bridge section, though.
recorded in december, 1996. remastered on oct 26, 2013.
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