demo #8: boogeyman / depressed

listening to this all these years later has been sort of interesting. my influences on this track are really blatantly obvious...

it's actually a pop song. honestly. it's also maybe the only song in this collection where i give my age away clearly. this couldn't have been written by an adult.

the instrumental at the end is also something i spent many hours playing, by myself, and is also much older than 1996.

recorded in oct, 1996. remastered on oct 12, 2013.

demo #7: phased out / blue

this is actually two tracks, but one sort of functions as an intro to the other. sort of.

the instrumental beginning is something i used to play for hours at a time in my room by myself as a sort of calming mechanism. it's much older than this demo....

the second part is, lyrically, an obvious homage. again: i was 15. on the other hand, i think it captures my idiosyncratic sense of humour quite well. musically, it's a noisy, messy and yet catchy thing - one of my favourites in this group of tracks.

recorded in october, 1996. remastered on oct 12, 2013.

out of ideas for the shower

From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: the initial landlord

i've tried the things i know how to do and they haven't been successful.

i think i've narrowed it down to the drain, but don't know how to fix it beyond that. i don't know if it can be fixed without pulling it out.

i need to reiterate that it gets worse with each shower because the grout is slowly dissolving. at first it was only leaking near the toilet. now it's leaking near the front, and dangerously close to the kitchen. so, there's a factor of time involved in fixing it.

j

not exactly a smoking gun. but this general idea is not new, and it's probably mostly right.
http://uk.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11201273.htm

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/11/budg-o11.html
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/5580/
http://www.nature.com/news/diamond-drizzle-forecast-for-saturn-and-jupiter-1.13925?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/11/worse_than_nixon_committee_to_protect
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/10/desert_fury_egypt_sinai
https://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_GreatUnwind_policybrief_RosenbergKahl.pdf
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/truth-in-the-age-of-niallism/280507/

what is the synthetic oil made from?
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-arizona-solar-hours-sun.html

i applaud the move towards empiricism, but i think the question they need to be asking is about whether the idea still makes sense in a globalized economy focused on cheap labour.
http://mitne.ws/GTmJb4

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-device-self-biased-solar-hydrogen-microbial.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=beeing-there-the-search-for-pesticides-effect-on-declining-bee-colonies-moves-to-the-fields&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://www.physicstoday.org/daily_edition/politics_and_policy/a_muted_milestone_for_the_national_ignition_facility\

this article made me laugh. it's just base tribalism, playing off the different abrahamic frauds against each other. what's she trying to do, start a jihad?

perhaps she should have spent some time analyzing how power creates and cultures christianity, rather than play right into the division strategy. yet, when your brain has already been conquered by religion, such abstractions may remain out of reach.

http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/10/islamophobia-or-anti-muslim-sentiment-uncovering-roots-anti-muslim-discourse

so, you know you're not free, and you're struggling to be free....

....but what would you do if you *were* free?

it was always about containing russia and china. it's not a shift in policy so much as the launch of a new objective. once assad is removed from power, the americans will have control over all of the former soviet allies in the region (iraq, libya, syria). i think they're going to stop with syria, though. i don't think invading iran is possible....or at least it isn't at the moment....

the next stage is africa, and it's going to be more violent as the proxies are more developed. the americans will want to contain the conflict. how long before china figures out that their better strategy is escalation?

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19349-old-game-new-obsession-new-enemy-now-its-china

the other message inbox. just checked it for the first time in a while...

some spam. expected. but the kind of messages that randoms send off out of nowhere, like, i just don't get it. just trying to flip it around, like, could i ever ever ever see myself just randomly suggesting a bdsm hookup to a total stranger over facebook? not that i'm into that in the first place (definitely not), but the sheer gall required to actually make that request is just.....

maybe it's just more evidence that i am not a member of your species.

some of them are sort of cute and funny. no, i don't think i'm going to iran any time soon, but i appreciate the compliment.

most of them, though, are just......i don't understand how people can actually have the nerve for this.....