Went to a great DJ show on Friday night. We got there sort of late, but in time to hear Bonobo, Kid Koala, and Amon Tobin.
I mostly came to hear Kid Koala, who was amazing. There was a camera trained on his turntables, and the image was projected onto a screen so that everyone could watch him scratch. I was really impressed by how danceable his set was, since the album that I have is sort of wacky and abstract. At one point he yelled out to the crowd, "You ready to get silly?"
Funny transitions during his set: Radiohead-->LL Cool J, the Cure--->Bjork--->Cypress Hill.
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03:23:40 PM,
Monday 29 March 2004
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If you could pick one person to be your sole movie-watching companion for all time, who would you pick? (I'd pick my homie Abby, because she has excellent taste which coincides with my own, and is very perceptive and good to talk with afterwards.)
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03:16:21 PM,
Friday 26 March 2004
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If I said you're awesome like a song by Weezer, would you hold it against me?
Seriously, I'm asking.
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07:54:43 PM,
Thursday 25 March 2004
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Anybody know any good new(ish) rock songs in waltz time? The Elliott Smith one is already on my list.
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07:17:14 PM,
Thursday 25 March 2004
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Tom Waits and rainstorms go together like...
...like...
shit.
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06:58:39 PM,
Thursday 25 March 2004
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Overheard: "We're going to kick the living shit out of the contractor. For fun."
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05:05:49 PM,
Thursday 25 March 2004
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Brief and excellent Al Franken interview in the NY Times.
Q. Why do liberals like you, Al Franken, hate America?
A. Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way. You love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world. That's why we liberals want America to do the right thing. We know America is the hope of the world, and we love it and want it to do well. We also want it to do good.
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01:00:48 PM,
Thursday 25 March 2004
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Last night's Chapelle Show had a junkie muppet sketch that was off the hizzle, fershizzle.
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11:49:13 AM,
Thursday 25 March 2004
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My coworkers find it surprising that I like the Grateful Dead. I found it surprising too.
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12:24:52 PM,
Wednesday 24 March 2004
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Donald Rumsfeld School of Kung Fu.
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12:12:48 PM,
Wednesday 24 March 2004
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Overheard: "I'm out like trout."
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07:46:52 PM,
Tuesday 23 March 2004
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Weird dreams featuring divination by means of birds (herons mostly) and also make-outs with a kid I knew in high school. (In a basement, near a sink, no less. There should have been fingers pointing from off-camera, like in those "The Federated" ads from the 80s, and the voice of Shadoe Stevens booming, "THIS REPRESENTS YOUR UNCONSCIOUS MIND.") I woke up with a Pavement song in my head. Hm.
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01:55:41 PM,
Tuesday 23 March 2004
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Somehow it's easier to spare someone else's feelings than it is to spare my own. Which is good, because in doing the former I often end up doing the latter as well.
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03:43:48 PM,
Monday 22 March 2004
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Saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I laughed, I cried, I delighted in the wacked-out narrative structure. I think I find it easier to enjoy a romantic story when there's more to it than romance.
A link to the script, which opens totally differently (and worse) that the actual movie, and of course has hecka dialogue that was left out. I wonder if Kaufman wrote lots of extra dialogue to help realize the characters, and then it just wasn't necessary once the actors (all excellent) got ahold of the lines? I'd like to see the deleted scenes once this comes out on DVD. Also, I need to see everything that Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Ellen Kuras have done. (Guess that means I've got a lot of Bjork videos and Spike Lee movies ahead of me.)
P.S.: I loved the potato people.
The whole text of the poem that the title's lifted from. (By Pope, Alexander.) I haven't read it all yet, but it seems to key in well with the plot as a whole, especially as rendered in the original screenplay.
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01:09:39 PM,
Monday 22 March 2004
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The radio in the Philipino grocery across the street was playing "Kiss at the End of the Rainbow". Also, they were out of litchi gummies! The horror! So I got melon instead.
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06:58:13 PM,
Thursday 18 March 2004
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New word around the office is chingar, e.g. "That copier is bien chingado, dude."
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05:09:19 PM,
Thursday 18 March 2004
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Graffiti from Baghdad, in Slate. My favorite:
SADDAM IS A WORD THAT MEANS A DISEASE THAT HITS DONKEYS
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11:55:12 AM,
Thursday 18 March 2004
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch: awesome, especially the Symposium reference.
Getting more work done on my tattoo: awesome.
Staring at this screen until I want to pass out, or scream, or both: by no means is it awesome.
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05:50:01 PM,
Tuesday 16 March 2004
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My epitaph will read: She loved litchi gummies not wisely, but too well.
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06:02:15 PM,
Friday 12 March 2004
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Via my brother: I'm Rick James, bitch." (Chapelle Show quotes from the Rick James episode.)
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12:03:14 PM,
Friday 12 March 2004
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Whoever made the coffee this morning is a saint. It's so bitter, I feel like I'm at my aunts' house.
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11:38:33 AM,
Friday 12 March 2004
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The Amazing Sumana has an article in today's Salon. It is hella good and insightful. You should read it!
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12:10:30 PM,
Wednesday 10 March 2004
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Via Moss, for the suckers who don't read his blog: Calvin and Hobbes Extensive Strip Search.
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07:59:13 PM,
Tuesday 9 March 2004
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I am getting so totally ROADSIDE DINOSAURS HERE excited about the road trip Dames and I are doing this summer.
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04:50:14 PM,
Friday 5 March 2004
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Hee.
New Study Links Homophobia with Homosexual Arousal.
Via Respectful of Otters, who says it's too perfect. I agree, but still. Hee.
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01:21:48 PM,
Friday 5 March 2004
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Yo La Tengo's instrumental cover of "Blitzkreig Bop" might be the best thing ever.
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04:07:57 PM,
Thursday 4 March 2004
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So I've been wondering for quite a while now about how people come to believe in hierarchies that set one group of people above another (i.e. racism, sexism, all that stuff). It's clear to me how these ideas could be advantageous to the individuals who hold them (as well as to whatever power structures "seek" self-perpetuation). I have this idea that these beliefs are encouraged as children develop -- that is, the things that adults and peers encourage or discourage in a child feed into these beliefs, and as we grow we take refuge in whatever societal idea will prop up our egos. Basically, the not at all original idea that psychological damage creates and perpetuates societal fucked-upness.
This has been clattering around my head for a while. I think it started maybe a year and a half ago, when I started examining my own privilege and realized how unaware I am (was?) of it. It's ramped up lately in part because I've been trying to deal with my the bog of my un- and semi-conscious mind. What really set me off, however, was this excellent post at Alas, A Blogon the relationship between rape and our culture's ideas about masculinity.
This also relates to class reproduction theories. Speaking of which, I recently heard about a study of how class influences parenting styles. First chapter of the book here.
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01:55:44 PM,
Thursday 4 March 2004
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"You might consider 'Voting Rocks!'"
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03:27:57 PM,
Wednesday 3 March 2004
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Is it possible that you have not heard of Nietzsche's Diet Plan? Because that would be a shame.
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03:21:50 PM,
Wednesday 3 March 2004
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Yes you are a feminist. Better than I could say it.
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01:17:18 PM,
Wednesday 3 March 2004
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Lovable, scaly old T-Rex.
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11:37:02 AM,
Wednesday 3 March 2004
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My dialect: 48% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.
Via feministe.
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03:19:06 PM,
Monday 1 March 2004
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Lizzie and I gripe about Angel:
glossomania: doing the demon-parasite once with cordy was bad enough. now on repeat -- i mean, it just seems like an annoying way to use every female character as a symbol. an object, instead of a subject.
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trickseyJump: i just don't know why female characters start out so cool and then several seasons later morph into this irritating tease of "i could be wicked cool; but i'm not. ha ha!"
trickseyJump: with regards to Angel, we've seen this happen to both Cordy and Fred. gah!
glossomania: yeah
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glossomania: going off what you're saying, i guess my point is that male characters on the female-hero show got a chance to develop and deepen, and female characters on the male-hero show get a chance to... have their bodies taken over by demons? and wear tight clothes?
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02:38:11 PM,
Friday 27 February 2004
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Things that have made me smile like mad in the past 24 hours:
*post-yoga endorphins
*new work by my favorite stickerer: I'M AN AVANT GARDE ARTIST <3
*"Teenage Riot"
*a tiny tiny scampering dog! I think it was one of these!
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01:08:06 PM,
Friday 27 February 2004
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Which reminds me of one of my favorite strangers. In downtown San Francisco there are at least two street evangelists who carry signs around. The first is an older man whose sign has a kinda of complicated (but well-designed!) screed against "fornication". The second is a younger man who walks up and down Market Street with a sign reading "JESUS LOVES YOU". That's it.
Every time I see him I smile, and when he sees me he smiles back. It makes me really glad to see Christian evangelists working with a message of hope and love. That's the only message that ever worked on me.
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04:35:46 PM,
Wednesday 25 February 2004
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Last Friday I swung by City Hall to check out the big to-do. There wasn't a line (and a few days later, the County Clerk began to grant licenses by appointment only) but the Civic Center Plaza was swarming with news teams and there was a small crowd of anti- and pro-SSM protesters holding signs. Most of the anti-SSM signs had stuff like HELL and DAMNATION written on them. My favorite pro-SSM sign read:
JESUS LOVES YOU
even if you oppose gay marriage.
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04:31:24 PM,
Wednesday 25 February 2004
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