6.13.2011
6.12.2011
Post 010: What the Blog Will actually be about for the class.
Today, I thought I heard a moped, but realized it was just an airplane as it flew overhead.
For some reason, it made we want to taste whiskey.
Toiling in the sun
to tear down a tent
Last Word: "For God's Sake, there's a naked woman inside!"
Sadly Still Breathing,
-- Owsley
For some reason, it made we want to taste whiskey.
Toiling in the sun
to tear down a tent
Last Word: "For God's Sake, there's a naked woman inside!"
Sadly Still Breathing,
-- Owsley
Post 008: Really, I also think Andy Kaufman did a decent amount of LSD.
This blog will introduce you to the idea of infinity.
That's for all of you other people who quit watching Family Guy recently, but wanted someone to spoil the finale just enough to watch it online.
From a summer bungalo in Madison, WI
Celebrating Christmas Vacation,
stacking things in an odd and unsteady...
(end transmission)
...shhk.. Crackle!
Last Word:
"Please Remove All Cellophane and Vibrators From Your Pockets."
I need to go to bed or else I'll end up getting some sleep."
-- L.W.
P.S. Oh, it was actually, liek, the one right before the season finale, but the one after it wasn't really it, since it was a already a short movie: eightiessitcomsituationhumourfuntimeskit:
Seth Rogen (Voicing the now deceased Seth McFarlane)
addressing Death (Played by
Michael Richards
imitating a now deceased Norm McDonald)
as a green jellybean
and
Paul Dano
as a guy who raps to
reggae rimixes of
The Beatles
I wonder if Jonah Hill reads my blog...
/dreamboi.
No seriously ... Nostalgia needs sleep.
-- L
"8."
Look at it sideways. There you go. Here's a fun fact:Leonardo DaVinci is Stewie Griffin's...uh, he is him?
That's for all of you other people who quit watching Family Guy recently, but wanted someone to spoil the finale just enough to watch it online.
From a summer bungalo in Madison, WI
Celebrating Christmas Vacation,
stacking things in an odd and unsteady...
(end transmission)
...shhk.. Crackle!
Last Word:
"Please Remove All Cellophane and Vibrators From Your Pockets."
I need to go to bed or else I'll end up getting some sleep."
-- L.W.
P.S. Oh, it was actually, liek, the one right before the season finale, but the one after it wasn't really it, since it was a already a short movie: eightiessitcomsituationhumourfuntimeskit:
with
Seth Rogen (Voicing the now deceased Seth McFarlane)
addressing Death (Played by
Michael Richards
imitating a now deceased Norm McDonald)
featDave Chapelle
as a green jellybean
and
Paul Dano
as a guy who raps to
reggae rimixes of
The Beatles
I wonder if Jonah Hill reads my blog...
/dreamboi.
No seriously ... Nostalgia needs sleep.
-- L
Post 009: Ambidexterity, a blog. Today's Subject:
P.E. 2331
{Futurian's_caption: C.E. 23}
>>>_: Can no longer use links...
>>>_: Efficiency protocals failure in this months previous six check ups.
>>: ALL EXISTENCE IS LOST
In the coming tides of autistic hipsters, melancholy, satrical, whimsical movies, and sweetly setting stars, there exists one man, a salty, bearded sea captain who dared to venture out into (and inside?) the the great alone. He trusted that his fellow conspirators would agree, "the rest is not to be read." But his Diary instead became the display of the ghoulish masquerade that marauded its pale shadow across the walls of the burning gallery. These are the blogs of the man who knew it all in an age where he would do nothing:
Ambidexterity:
A Blog.
All the Actors must be ambidextorous. Put away the liquids.
LAST WORD: Sadness.
New Blog name: NeuDirektor's.
A Movie Nerd's Quest
for the perfect review.
Everybody gets an A.
Enjoy the sweet sadness
Goodbye, Reader...my thoughts are almost done.
Only when I give it a review, otherwise...
use an aggregator and do some research such as:
watching clips
engaging in *thoughtful* dialogue
enraptured in reality
Enjoying that goddamned sadness
--
L.W.
{Futurian's_caption: C.E. 23}
>>>_: Can no longer use links...
>>>_: Efficiency protocals failure in this months previous six check ups.
>>: ALL EXISTENCE IS LOST
In the coming tides of autistic hipsters, melancholy, satrical, whimsical movies, and sweetly setting stars, there exists one man, a salty, bearded sea captain who dared to venture out into (and inside?) the the great alone. He trusted that his fellow conspirators would agree, "the rest is not to be read." But his Diary instead became the display of the ghoulish masquerade that marauded its pale shadow across the walls of the burning gallery. These are the blogs of the man who knew it all in an age where he would do nothing:
Ambidexterity:
A Blog.
All the Actors must be ambidextorous. Put away the liquids.
LAST WORD: Sadness.
New Blog name: NeuDirektor's.
A Movie Nerd's Quest
for the perfect review.
Everybody gets an A.
Enjoy the sweet sadness
Goodbye, Reader...my thoughts are almost done.
Only when I give it a review, otherwise...
use an aggregator and do some research such as:
watching clips
engaging in *thoughtful* dialogue
enraptured in reality
Enjoying that goddamned sadness
--
L.W.
6.09.2011
Post 007: Letting a Dead Dog Be Beaten
Do you have a #Dawg who looks tired all the time? Is he too blind to walk properly? Can he get up at all, or are his hips and joints all discombobulated from the generations of selective breeding s/he and his/her ancestors suffered? Maybe you should look into hiring a professional killer.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen. Your local veterinarian can take care of your suffering pup in a jiffy. This article
That's right, ladies and gentlemen. Your local veterinarian can take care of your suffering pup in a jiffy. This article
When Should You Put Your Dog Down?
from Slate's Magazine onlines. (Do more on this one)
Maybe Change name to
Information Wasteland
Grotesquely Obtuse Internet Commentary
from Your Number One Source for Nationalist News
and Brought to you by the Man With No Opinions,
Mr. L.W. Owsley.
Sigh,
Went gun shopping today. Seems the easiest way.
-- L.W.
Post 006 - New Epi of South Park is Up, 1336 600613
For all you altBROS who are looking to get into Tweenwave (See:Dubstep). This episode, is easily the best of the season, unless you ask me again, in which case I would say it was the one where all the boys measure their penises and post the results publicly.
This 1 says a lot of meaningful stuff about perception, generations, and Bob Dylan.
Still shitting all over everything, @TreyParker (and @MattStone) say a big and important "fuck you" to everything with this one. Based on the seemingly self-referential content of the episode, which ends with a segment very similar in tone to the bank vault episode of #FamilyGuy (sorry to compare, #fanbois) where Brian eats fresh poo from Stewie's diaper and reveals his secret desire to 'commit' suicide.
In case anybody missed me comparing FG and South Park, here's another one, with some contrasting. The only major complaint I have about how SP has been advancing is the increasingly inconsistent voice acting. I say this primarily of the voices down by Trey Parker, who seems to be growing disconnected from his work on the show, in a creative sense and a personal sense. I'm sure it also has to do with losing various cast members, creating new characters, etc. Over on Family Guy, I think we are seeing the decline of the series in animation quality and (somehow) further deterioration of good jokes using good material. I can, with the utmost sincerity, say that I think this has to with how things are being run over at a Post-MacFarlane studio headquarters.
This is @Carnifex answering the question this thread poses on the #KingdomofLoathing forums.
Is #ironicleetspeak ever funny?
And that's also the last word.
The Anarchist
-- L.W.
This 1 says a lot of meaningful stuff about perception, generations, and Bob Dylan.
Still shitting all over everything, @TreyParker (and @MattStone) say a big and important "fuck you" to everything with this one. Based on the seemingly self-referential content of the episode, which ends with a segment very similar in tone to the bank vault episode of #FamilyGuy (sorry to compare, #fanbois) where Brian eats fresh poo from Stewie's diaper and reveals his secret desire to 'commit' suicide.
In case anybody missed me comparing FG and South Park, here's another one, with some contrasting. The only major complaint I have about how SP has been advancing is the increasingly inconsistent voice acting. I say this primarily of the voices down by Trey Parker, who seems to be growing disconnected from his work on the show, in a creative sense and a personal sense. I'm sure it also has to do with losing various cast members, creating new characters, etc. Over on Family Guy, I think we are seeing the decline of the series in animation quality and (somehow) further deterioration of good jokes using good material. I can, with the utmost sincerity, say that I think this has to with how things are being run over at a Post-MacFarlane studio headquarters.
This is @Carnifex answering the question this thread poses on the #KingdomofLoathing forums.
Is #ironicleetspeak ever funny?
It's not funny per se, but it has its uses.When you see it, you immediately know the contents of the thread and/or post. I use it to give posts a certain tone; I don't think it's ever been funny in itself.
Word.
And that's also the last word.
Love,
The Anarchist
-- L.W.
Post 005: Programming with Python, pt. 01
Remember this shit?
Anyway, here's today's Post:
Ever think you wanted to explore the world of computers? Ever want to write some poetry? You're in luck. Right now we have two very special websites at the low low price of min./max +/-four hours of your time a night.
http://www.delicious.com/
http://www.facebook.com/
do not fuck with that shit. you kno wut I'm sayin? cuz that's all that I'm sayin is do not fuck with that shit.
This is what I meant to link to you, though:
>>> "Go ahead, hop down this bunny hole"
No way, BRO!
Okay, yeah.
Here.
This is a guide to learning one of the best languages out there for beginning programmers. In very explicit instructions, it will guide you through the obstacle course that is untrained, amateur nerds who want a hobby to make them seem ALT. (Sorry, the #HRO mimickry thing isn't vibing quite right. "No that's cool, man. Just ride the chillwave all the way to #Carlesand.")
<Carlspeak>
<Hey isn't this from Animorphs?>
<What?>
<Thoughtspeak, the method of speaking telepathically while temporarily transformed into another species. Also, it was the language developed by the Andalites, a sentient race of strange centaur-like beings who...>
<I guess I should just read the book, huh?
<Oh, stop that.>
<Stop What?>
<Now you're just acting like Garrison Keillor.>
<Who's that?>
<A guy on talk...ah, would you cut it out?>
<Cut wut out?>
<The thoughtspeak>
"Absolutely not."
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"Don't be coy"
"Well, can Garrison Keillor use thoughtspeak?"
"Well...no, uh...no I guess not."
*Sound effect
"Well, I think that proves my point"
"What, that the Simpsons did it?"
"No"
"Heh?"
"What?"
"Yeah"
"No, South Park did it."
"Oh."
Fun fact:
I wanted to name my dog
CHANGE SUBJECT BACK...
I feel that the Pythonwiki beginners guide introduces those of us with almost-sortofa-virgin-whomighthavefingeredachickonetime.com fingers to a language that has incredible ease-of-use, plenty of utility, and other #CoolStuff. Not only in the sense of developing strong skills and understanding of the language, but also in understanding how computer nerd communities should share information. Freely, but in an organized fashion.
uh, #Goosestep!
dat uh. Goostep!
Take it to dat
Take it to dat
Uh.
anyone?
no?
Hip-Hop:
MCing,
Beatboxing,
and Street Art
& Confused
Dejected,
Jaded,
Richard Linklater. Keanu Reeves
A Scanner Darkly Scanners
Philip K. Dick David Cronenberg
did 'Crash', really?
Oh yeah, that one.
James Spader
Last Word:
http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1562127/internets+thinks/
(moar Hitler)
-- Owsley
Anyway, here's today's Post:
Ever think you wanted to explore the world of computers? Ever want to write some poetry? You're in luck. Right now we have two very special websites at the low low price of min./max +/-four hours of your time a night.
http://www.delicious.com/
http://www.facebook.com/
do not fuck with that shit. you kno wut I'm sayin? cuz that's all that I'm sayin is do not fuck with that shit.
This is what I meant to link to you, though:
No way, BRO!
Okay, yeah.
Here.
This is a guide to learning one of the best languages out there for beginning programmers. In very explicit instructions, it will guide you through the obstacle course that is untrained, amateur nerds who want a hobby to make them seem ALT. (Sorry, the #HRO mimickry thing isn't vibing quite right. "No that's cool, man. Just ride the chillwave all the way to #Carlesand.")
<Carlspeak>
<Hey isn't this from Animorphs?>
<What?>
<Thoughtspeak, the method of speaking telepathically while temporarily transformed into another species. Also, it was the language developed by the Andalites, a sentient race of strange centaur-like beings who...>
<I guess I should just read the book, huh?
<Oh, stop that.>
<Stop What?>
<Now you're just acting like Garrison Keillor.>
<Who's that?>
<A guy on talk...ah, would you cut it out?>
<Cut wut out?>
<The thoughtspeak>
"Absolutely not."
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"Don't be coy"
"Well, can Garrison Keillor use thoughtspeak?"
"Well...no, uh...no I guess not."
*Sound effect
"Well, I think that proves my point"
"What, that the Simpsons did it?"
"No"
"Heh?"
"What?"
"Yeah"
"No, South Park did it."
"Oh."
Fun fact:
I wanted to name my dog
Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill
but he only answered to
Sampson.
Here's a cool article from Slate magazine by Elizabeth Weingarten about the growing number of directors who felt that they could Xpress themselves by making garage-studio films with consumer-grade equpiment and are now making it big in The Hills.CHANGE SUBJECT BACK...
I feel that the Pythonwiki beginners guide introduces those of us with almost-sortofa-virgin-whomighthavefingeredachickonetime.com fingers to a language that has incredible ease-of-use, plenty of utility, and other #CoolStuff. Not only in the sense of developing strong skills and understanding of the language, but also in understanding how computer nerd communities should share information. Freely, but in an organized fashion.
 | ||
| LOL, @AdolphHitler is so ttly becoming a Parody Retcon, soon it'll be metaALT to like him and where r old hoodies to dat |
uh, #Goosestep!
dat uh. Goostep!
Take it to dat
Take it to dat
Uh.
anyone?
no?
Hip-Hop:
MCing,
Beatboxing,
and Street Art
& Confused
Dejected,
Jaded,
Richard Linklater. Keanu Reeves
A Scanner Darkly Scanners
Philip K. Dick David Cronenberg
did 'Crash', really?
Oh yeah, that one.
James Spader
Last Word:
http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1562127/internets+thinks/
(moar Hitler)
-- Owsley
6.08.2011
Post 004: MLA Format?
So, I was eating a pack of sandwiches while waiting--gun in hand--for someone.
Suddenly, I came across this blog post by @AmandaPalmer, an artist known for her work in various projects, including the truly dynamic duo that records and performs under the moniker #TheDresdenDolls. The artist had this to say about a recent arrest she was the victim of in Amsterdam:
She also said this, which really hits my #SweetSadness spot:
As you can see from this #Footie, the poor girl got stopped by a Damsterland lady-cop (Mandy swearz it wuz a dude) for performing the most annoying song (which makes it one of the best) that we can remember from #TheViolentFemmes' self-titled debut.
Amanda, who obviously has some ALT ideas that have shaped her the post-feminist ALTgurl attitudes she holds toward authority figures, still took the incident well and gave some sound advice for those of us living within the confines of society.
And to the kid, @RyanAnas who got all artsy with the Sharpie?
I can use the back-light on my laptop to trace graffiti stencils from the Internet too, BRO.
But, seriously. Mad Doodlage on dat #T-Shir, dawg.
Question:
Anyone else catch this track by Jamie xx of The xx? Yeah, found it @Carles' post on Monday.
Real Question:
What is buzz? (Why) is it important? How does this relate to content?
Idea for Next Post: Stream of Consciousness and Blogging
Final Word: Tabs
You know it's bad when you been #Browsing so badly that you open a new window to google a way to "search tabs."
Suddenly, I came across this blog post by @AmandaPalmer, an artist known for her work in various projects, including the truly dynamic duo that records and performs under the moniker #TheDresdenDolls. The artist had this to say about a recent arrest she was the victim of in Amsterdam:
"the last time i got arrested and put in a holding cell was twenty years ago. i was 15, and me and my best friend...made up a reggae-sounding freedom song about how we didn’t deserve to be locked up and sang in(sic) on repeat at the tops of our lungs while a drunk chick in the next holding cell screamed relentlessly at the cops to let her out. it felt bad-ass."
She also said this, which really hits my #SweetSadness spot:
"it was a real sorry. and a fake one."
As you can see from this #Footie, the poor girl got stopped by a Damsterland lady-cop (Mandy swearz it wuz a dude) for performing the most annoying song (which makes it one of the best) that we can remember from #TheViolentFemmes' self-titled debut.
 |
| If you don't have it, get it. |
"back then, and it was just as unpleasant now…but at least back then i had my friend. we kind of liked being in the holding cell…we made up a reggae-sounding freedom song about how we didn’t deserve to be locked up and sang in on repeat at the tops of our lungs while a drunk chick in the next holding cell screamed relentlessly at the cops to let her out. it felt bad-ass."
Amanda, who obviously has some ALT ideas that have shaped her the post-feminist ALTgurl attitudes she holds toward authority figures, still took the incident well and gave some sound advice for those of us living within the confines of society.
"don’t argue with cops. ever. ever. especially in front of their countrymen."
And to the kid, @RyanAnas who got all artsy with the Sharpie?
I can use the back-light on my laptop to trace graffiti stencils from the Internet too, BRO.
But, seriously. Mad Doodlage on dat #T-Shir, dawg.
Question:
Anyone else catch this track by Jamie xx of The xx? Yeah, found it @Carles' post on Monday.
Real Question:
What is buzz? (Why) is it important? How does this relate to content?
Idea for Next Post: Stream of Consciousness and Blogging
Final Word: Tabs
You know it's bad when you been #Browsing so badly that you open a new window to google a way to "search tabs."
6.07.2011
Post 003: Pop-Culture and Mental Illness@Howard_Hughes
Just brushed my teeth, wiped my pits with a wet cloth, and put on a fading Simpsons T-shirt. I've got a quarter tank of gas, twenty minutes to make it to class and a certain jaded affectation that I just can't shake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwQDSUbZSu0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwQDSUbZSu0
Post 002: Andy Kaufman Was a Hipster, Too
Hello World. The time is 4:54 p.m. It was 4:22, but I started deleting my email and, well....
Sans-segue, here's today's Post.
Well...I obviously had to review some open tabs, check my #Iphone, and turn off the dubstep to finally sit down and focus. Actually, it's 9:32 p.m. now. How did that happen? Huh, well, whatever. Uh, wait, what? I guess this a digression.
What I just introduced to you is a #TVTropes hyperlink. It is like a bomb that I just told you is a bomb after you already activated it. Maybe not, maybe you got street smarts tough enough for the Internet, to roam it freely at night and not have to have some yellow trenchcoat-wearing crooner working in a lobby lounge have to pull you around by your arm and keep you close beside him. Some girls are too stupid to listen the first time, though. Their the ones I don't feel bad for when their fingers get blown off. I guess this is a (other form of digression), just blowing stuff away, like the wind rushing through the neglected tunnels of the Information superhighway. It is dirty #Industry. It is a reorganization of everything that came before it. Fuck the Media Planning for the Postindustrial Society of 1974. Monopolies are only natural when a portion of the system amasses this much capital.
Hyperlink again.
Tough Questions for Ben Gibbard | SPIN.com
#Thoughts: Always remember Chekov's Gun when writing fiction.
Well, I was eating some leftover vermicelli that I had sitting next to a jug of wine and sat down on my used sofa to watch a Jeanne-Pierre Jeunet film when I pulled out my computer and started #BrowsingBooks/Blogsstuffwhitepeoplelike.com@claner-ing at #HipsterRunoff.com
Sans-segue, here's today's Post.
 | ||||
| I hurd u liek outsider art. | Yeah, I love Crispin Glover's books. |
Well...I obviously had to review some open tabs, check my #Iphone, and turn off the dubstep to finally sit down and focus. Actually, it's 9:32 p.m. now. How did that happen? Huh, well, whatever. Uh, wait, what? I guess this a digression.
What I just introduced to you is a #TVTropes hyperlink. It is like a bomb that I just told you is a bomb after you already activated it. Maybe not, maybe you got street smarts tough enough for the Internet, to roam it freely at night and not have to have some yellow trenchcoat-wearing crooner working in a lobby lounge have to pull you around by your arm and keep you close beside him. Some girls are too stupid to listen the first time, though. Their the ones I don't feel bad for when their fingers get blown off. I guess this is a (other form of digression), just blowing stuff away, like the wind rushing through the neglected tunnels of the Information superhighway. It is dirty #Industry. It is a reorganization of everything that came before it. Fuck the Media Planning for the Postindustrial Society of 1974. Monopolies are only natural when a portion of the system amasses this much capital.
Hyperlink again.
Tough Questions for Ben Gibbard | SPIN.com
#Thoughts: Always remember Chekov's Gun when writing fiction.
Well, I was eating some leftover vermicelli that I had sitting next to a jug of wine and sat down on my used sofa to watch a Jeanne-Pierre Jeunet film when I pulled out my computer and started #BrowsingBooks/Blogsstuffwhitepeoplelike.com@claner-ing at #HipsterRunoff.com
"Who is this, why are you in my dream?" -- "City of Lost Children" by Jeanne-Pierre Jeunet
I find it very beautiful. It reminds me of the Hindu concept of Nataraja, if I was thinking about it while high on a mongy combination of Ketamine and mescaline and, being the @Hemingway-weary NewMod that I am, found myself incapable of not relating it to Benjamin Button, Fight Club, @David Fincher, That #Facebook Movie, Seven, Memento, The Following, and eventually...@BenGibbard.
I wonder if Ben GIbabrd #Reads/#has_read_on_a_lonely_night/@HipsterRunoff?
Yes.
Questions: Yo' teach, can our contentz b NSFW? J-K, I'ma clean this up, mayB
Scrubbing this godammned
mancave with ethyl alcohol,
mancave with ethyl alcohol,
-- Owsley
P.S. Next: How to clean a house in eleven easy steps. My friend also totally got tickets to see @JustinVernon
Post 001: Zomg, a blog, lolwut?
Today, I was assigned a simple task for my English Composition course at the local college:
to start a blog and write in it. (so said Confucius.)
My immediate reaction was to reach violently into my frontal lobe--massaging my #egoboner along the way--in order to pull it out. Doing so prevented me from having to question this seemingly stupid exercise of writing such small format material for no one but my college professor and maybe a few narcoleptic otaku hypernerds who have taken their late-night session exactly twenty-two web search queries too far.
"Who am I right now?" I thought, "Hank fucking Moody?"
Then I opened up my Apple Macintosh laptop with all the self-aware irony I could mustache...er, muster, and stumbled around, through, and down the rabbit-holes of cyberspace to try to find blogs maintained by people for whom I already had an appreciation. After finding that some of my favorite writers, film critics, and techie revolutionaries have taken the time to make posts on blogs of their own, I decided it can't be all bad. Right?
I found Roger Ebert's blog enojyable and satisfyingly simple. It covers a wide range of topics and a nice, clean UI that navigates almost as naturally as the central nervous system. One feature I'd like to try to implement in my own blog is the short preview of his (I want to believe he writes it all himself) posts with a link at the bottom of the box to view the full article. Hopefully I can crack the old typing muscles and get to work on that.
B, for every Roger Ebert post that introduces me to some new independent internet filmmaker like Krishna Shenoi,
{I had seen his fanvid for Inception, which I remember liking IRL, but failing to contribute anything but another view count to on YouTube. Even though the Internet is a vacuous world of masturbatory self-expression, at least it introduces us to (and possible even produces) great minds and artists like this dude, who makes such wonderfully Surreal shit as this at the age of 17, if that's really how old he is.}
there is a blog like this by Chuck Palahniuk, who is probably to #ALT/#Anarchist for the Internet. There are also those like this one by Jasper Bark, an author I admire for his imagination and social satire, but doesn't seem to give a two sheckels to a nickel about his blog after updating it with his latest business. I guess he still writes some pretty sweet stuff, even when it's not in a book. A lot of these resemble shameless self-promotion. Maybe that's all anything is on the internet anymore. Everyone is just selling their personal brand. We've retreated back to the animal kingdom, but now it's being played out like chess on a circuit board. Come on people, this is the fucking 10's, right? Can't we at least pretend like there's something more to life than #InformationAndTechnology?
Are blogs merely timesinks that can be boiled down to temporary, unimportant distractions when you need to "get back to work on books"? We'll explore that more neurotically in a later post on whether or not blogs are dead. This post on why blogs are a good thing has encouraged me a little bit; it says a lot about how we use the information we with here on planet Internet. I'll also be spending the first few days playing with posts to see what I want to get out of this--I mean--what I want the reader to get out of it, I mean, uh.... I guess we'll see how it goes.
#Schedule:
First day of film class tomorrow, so I can't make the Freemason's meeting. I guess we'll see how that goes, to
#The Last Word:
Like black and white film and 90's punk rock? click this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijUCUV6VX8Q&feature=related
Okay, no, it actually goes to this
Cute little avatarguy on Yahoo! Answers
"You ask about ego but then add greed, instinct, etc. etc. My ego stems from what hangs between my legs." - <Move on>, user of the Internet and speaker of sacred truths.
#Meant to See, but Didn't:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/pomwonderfulpresentsthegreatestmovieeversold/
Ah, Sony Pictures Classics is indeed the shit. Plus Big Boi says something pretty profound and telling of the times. Could be a powerful and honest documentary with some interest Statments/Questions about the economy and--just maybe--cavemankind.
#Assignment: Consider format and central focus.
#Thoughts/LOLwut?/Statements: Red Dawn was the first movie to be given a PG-13 rating. That's to be expected; what with all the McCarthyism.
From a desk in the back room,
in the midst of a war
-- L.W.
to start a blog and write in it. (so said Confucius.)
"Who am I right now?" I thought, "Hank fucking Moody?"
Then I opened up my Apple Macintosh laptop with all the self-aware irony I could mustache...er, muster, and stumbled around, through, and down the rabbit-holes of cyberspace to try to find blogs maintained by people for whom I already had an appreciation. After finding that some of my favorite writers, film critics, and techie revolutionaries have taken the time to make posts on blogs of their own, I decided it can't be all bad. Right?
I found Roger Ebert's blog enojyable and satisfyingly simple. It covers a wide range of topics and a nice, clean UI that navigates almost as naturally as the central nervous system. One feature I'd like to try to implement in my own blog is the short preview of his (I want to believe he writes it all himself) posts with a link at the bottom of the box to view the full article. Hopefully I can crack the old typing muscles and get to work on that.
B, for every Roger Ebert post that introduces me to some new independent internet filmmaker like Krishna Shenoi,
{I had seen his fanvid for Inception, which I remember liking IRL, but failing to contribute anything but another view count to on YouTube. Even though the Internet is a vacuous world of masturbatory self-expression, at least it introduces us to (and possible even produces) great minds and artists like this dude, who makes such wonderfully Surreal shit as this at the age of 17, if that's really how old he is.}
there is a blog like this by Chuck Palahniuk, who is probably to #ALT/#Anarchist for the Internet. There are also those like this one by Jasper Bark, an author I admire for his imagination and social satire, but doesn't seem to give a two sheckels to a nickel about his blog after updating it with his latest business. I guess he still writes some pretty sweet stuff, even when it's not in a book. A lot of these resemble shameless self-promotion. Maybe that's all anything is on the internet anymore. Everyone is just selling their personal brand. We've retreated back to the animal kingdom, but now it's being played out like chess on a circuit board. Come on people, this is the fucking 10's, right? Can't we at least pretend like there's something more to life than #InformationAndTechnology?
Are blogs merely timesinks that can be boiled down to temporary, unimportant distractions when you need to "get back to work on books"? We'll explore that more neurotically in a later post on whether or not blogs are dead. This post on why blogs are a good thing has encouraged me a little bit; it says a lot about how we use the information we with here on planet Internet. I'll also be spending the first few days playing with posts to see what I want to get out of this--I mean--what I want the reader to get out of it, I mean, uh.... I guess we'll see how it goes.
#Schedule:
First day of film class tomorrow, so I can't make the Freemason's meeting. I guess we'll see how that goes, to
#The Last Word:
Like black and white film and 90's punk rock? click this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijUCUV6VX8Q&feature=related
Okay, no, it actually goes to this
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"You ask about ego but then add greed, instinct, etc. etc. My ego stems from what hangs between my legs." - <Move on>, user of the Internet and speaker of sacred truths.
#Meant to See, but Didn't:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/pomwonderfulpresentsthegreatestmovieeversold/
Ah, Sony Pictures Classics is indeed the shit. Plus Big Boi says something pretty profound and telling of the times. Could be a powerful and honest documentary with some interest Statments/Questions about the economy and--just maybe--cavemankind.
#Assignment: Consider format and central focus.
#Thoughts/LOLwut?/Statements: Red Dawn was the first movie to be given a PG-13 rating. That's to be expected; what with all the McCarthyism.
From a desk in the back room,
in the midst of a war
-- L.W.
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