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May 30, 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianese
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May 28, 2005
i watched metropolis today. it's an old (1927) black and white silent movie that has been ripped off over and over again since then. the story is about a city with a uber class that lives above ground and a worker class that lives below ground and that runs the machines that run the city above. the city below revolts and you've probably all watched something similar so you know where it goes from there. it's very interesting as far as the effects and such.. especially for 1927.
i would suggest watching it, but it is very dull and drawn out. it is entertaining though.
Posted by eustace at 12:38 AM | Comments (3)
May 26, 2005
to ammend my reviews:
SOAD Mesmerize - quite good, a little rough lyrically, sonically pretty devastating (in a good way). the word in the wind is that the second one will be even better.
Audioslave Out of Exile - the more i listen to it the more i like it. my complaints remain the same, though they don't affect my opinion so much anymore. i'd actually prefer to just listen to tom, tim, and brad play.. or maybe if tom (the nightwatchman) and/or tim sang. sorry chris..
Posted by eustace at 10:28 PM | Comments (1)
why is every house i want in england? why are they all over 300,000 quid?
Posted by eustace at 10:26 PM | Comments (1)
jordi's back
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May 24, 2005
adventures with k**k
today's returns for the shopping faithful:
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Gorillaz - Demon Days (bonus DVD edition)
Posted by eustace at 9:40 PM | Comments (2)
May 17, 2005
adventures with k**k
produced:
System of a Down - Mesmerize (cd)
System of a Down - Toxicity (vinyl)
Posted by eustace at 10:45 PM | Comments (6)
May 14, 2005
i got my Numark PT-01 Portable Turntable today after work... i's so excited.
Posted by eustace at 12:23 AM | Comments (0)
May 12, 2005
The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality, and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are. The "antirealist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even the intelligibility of the notion of objective inquiry. One response to this confidence has been a retreat from the discipline required by dedication to the ideal of correctness to a quite different sort of discipline, which is imposed by pursuit of an alternative ideal of sincerity. Rather than seeking primarily to arrive at accurate representations of a common world, the individual turns toward trying to provide honest representations of himself. Convinced that reality has no inherent nature, which he might hope to identify as the truth about things, he devotes himself to being true to his own nature. It is as though he decides that since it makes no sense to try to be true to the facts, he must therefore try instead to be true to himself.
But it is preposterous to imagine that we ourselves are determinate, and hence susceptible both to correct and to incorrect descriptions, while supposing that ascription of determinacy to anything else has be exposed as a mistake. As conscious beings, we exist only in response to other things, and we cannot know ourselves at all without knowing them. Moreover, there is nothing in theory, and certainly nothing in experience, to support the extraordinary judgment that it is the truth about himself that is easiest for a person to know. Facts about ourselves are not peculiarly solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial - notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.
taken from "On Bullshit" by Harry G. Frankfurt
Posted by eustace at 3:34 PM | Comments (0)
sincerity is bullshit
Posted by eustace at 6:11 AM | Comments (2)
May 11, 2005
beans with cheese and rum, fried eggs, and toast... best breakfast ever.
i have to revise something i wrote awhile ago about the use of New Order's "Blue Monday" in a Mars bar commercial. this wasn't the first time the boy's licensed this song. in 1988 they actually re-recorded it for use in a Sun-Kist commercial, though the commercial actually ended up using a Quincy Jones remix of the song. as far as who owns what, New Order's record deal was with the late factory records who had a "the artists own everything" policy.
Posted by eustace at 5:14 PM | Comments (0)
May 8, 2005
saw System of a Down on SNL last night. not to bad, but not grrrreat. seams that the guitar playing and singer were not as tight as they could've been. very nice to see them playing live though.
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May 5, 2005
ok, if i am gonna go to Cuba, this should have been the week. guess who was playing an open air concert this week. Audioslave. i never get to see anything cool like that.
Posted by eustace at 11:54 PM | Comments (0)
oh my, this month just gets better and better for announcements.
December 9 2005 Disney is releasing the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. this appears to be the first in a series of Narnia movies. JOY.
June will bring us a new foo fighters album and i believe the second system of a down album
and this month brings the first system of a down album and a new audioslave album
Posted by eustace at 10:17 PM | Comments (6)
May 4, 2005
from the SOAD website:
System of a Down has been confirmed as the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" on Saturday, May 7. This will be the band's first-ever appearance on the show, and they'll perform two songs - "B.Y.O.B." and "Chop Suey." Johnny Knoxville will be hosting, so be sure and tune into your local NBC station.
kick ass!!
Posted by eustace at 10:50 PM | Comments (1)
times are interesting, summer offers so many ideas and possibilities. gives you the itch to do something drastic.... or not so much.
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May 1, 2005
snippity snippity SNAP!!
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