Apathy

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// | // .-=""=-. | unmitigated v\ -|--, /v---|---|- |\ // .'\__/ \_\ | irrelevant / \\ || / // \ || || | \ // /__/ \__/ \__.oo | anti-news /___\\ ||_/ //___\ || ||__| V/ ._/___\__/__\__(____/ | episodic / \\|| // \|| || | // /__|/ \|__\ ` | orchard / V' // ' ' // ______________________|_____________________//________________// //////////////////// what? / mp3 / old / email / feed / links // ________________________________________// ////////////////////////////////////////// __________________________________________________________ | | 02/26/2000 | Created by love, crunchy science filling | |__________________________________________________________| | | asked to | | ask a | "Do you believe in corn?" | question | | | | | | | Welcome to the Sunny World of Corn - Learn about | | corn, from corn. | sure am | | tasty | "Hi, y’all. This is Kernel Corn Cob here. I’m mighty | | pleased to make your acquaintance. Of course, your | | family and mine are almost kin - well, as much as | | humans and vegetables can be." | | | | First person education tickles me. | | | | | indian | | dreams | How corn came to the earth [the real story] | | | | | puffed | | poppy corn | Jollytime's Extra Pun site includes Blast off with | | BOB - "if fun had a flavor, this would be it!" | | | | | 3d corn | | | Stalks of corn play baseball. It's animated. Go. | | | | | not as | | scary as it | Why Creamed Corn Kid Left Wisconsion [sic] | sounds | | | | again with | | the fanfic? | You Had Better Eat Your Corn Kraut... | from this | | | Is the correct response "What?" or "Wow!" | | | | | fwip! | | | Before we trail off the edge of the world here, any | | list of corn links is incomplete without Mitchell, | | South Dakota - Home of the World's Only Corn Palace! | | | | | fictional | | etymology | grubly - n. 1. (Slang) That which is better than | | goodly. [Derived from using goodly as an adjective | | meaning "better than good".] | | | | Okay, so I just made that up. In actuality it was | | picked up by freak accident from old sn00t. Do not | | worry, it has nothing to do with grubs! | | | | | you don't | | have to | Reminder to self: Create teleportation machine that | read this | can reach Chicago before next Saturday. | | | | Also, watch new featured UBuzz show: Black Heart | | Procession this weekend. | | | | Reading this junk I can really tell it's a Friday. | | And I'm tired. There may not be a post this | | weekend. *zonk* | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 02/25/2000 | Videotaping the revolution for later viewing | |__________________________________________________________| | | gate way | | | If you have a hankering for poppy rock muzak, do not | | miss Audio Rocket's Buddy Revelles mp3 page - a few | | more tracks are available below in the mp3 section | | today. | sign | | everyone up | Plenty more interesting sounds are available on | | Audio Rocket, notably The Drennons and The Ladybug | | Transistor. | | | | | things I | | should have | Pandemonium Magazine | seen a | | long time | Lost at Sea | ago | | | both from Sebastian Stirling's hip new log | | | | | an | | affirmation | Thanks to Pitas I've cleaned up my act, grown a full | | head of hair, lost 25 pounds, and located me some | | true happiness. | | | | Then I spun around really fast, got the hiccups, and | | hicced it all right back out. | direct | | disgust | Hiccup lover's web site [yes, really] | | | | | pitaville | | | How long has Lystworthy looked that slick? | | | | Considered Harmful is pointed and grubly. | | | | Mooselessness still rumbles with the best of 'em. | | Tim's current batch of links rock. I promise not to | | steal any, though they sure look tasty. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | | | meta | Still fully reading yesterday's linkset. This has | | something to do with that whole synaesthesia thing | | the cow yammered about way back when. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 02/24/2000 | Seven and thirty blackbirds baked in a carrot cake | |__________________________________________________________| the | | anaerobic | Much thinking lately about how much music affects my | workout | state of mind. Mood, if you will; it's not a huge | | difference, but spinning the right tunes heightens | | certain perceptions and thought processes. Of | | course, it's all probably a placebo, but the sugar | | pill sure is tasty. | | | | | into the | | blue | Listener’s Participation in The Musical Experience | hereafter | | | "...[It] is impossible to separate the visceral, | | emotional impact of music from the technical | | assembly of its sounds." | | | | | beware of | | the | Musical Semiotics in the 1990s | bigwordism | | | "In order to clarify this model of how expressive | | meanings are tied to musical structures, Hatten also | | relies upon Peirce's notion of the diagrammatic, a | | structural iconism in which similarity rests in the | | structure of oppositions rather than properties." | | | | | this sounds | | like angry | Perceptions of Emotion in Music: Physical and | music | Neurological Factors | | | | "The present study, conducted from June 1990 through | | May 1991, was designed to examine the effects of the | | impact of the physical characteristics of music... | | on perceptions of eight groups of emotions." | | | | | only | | kidding | Study: Perception Of Rock Music Depends On Age | | | | How do ya like that, oldsters? | | | | | *blink* | | | AI and music perception | | | | | extrovert | | | The machines never died. | | | | Frodus is frightening. Frighteningly good! | | | | | mp3 time | | | On that note, finally getting back into the trio mp3 | | groove this week, with a lot of grinding rock and | | roll and a few of my favorite folky mellow Sebadoh | | songs. I strongly recommend those two even if the | | rest of the stuff scares you. | | | | | genehack | | | RJ's Perl Obfuscator might come in handy if my code | | isn't *cough* already obfuscated enough. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 02/23/2000 | "Don stepped outside. It felt good to be alone." | |__________________________________________________________| | | torture | | | David Pajo on those Slint bootlegs. | | | | The interview ends with: "After all there's still a | | song from the Spiderland sessions that no one's | | heard before..." | | | | AUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! | | | | | yelling is | | hilarious | The Pokey drought has me desperate. | | | | THE OBJECT WAS ROUND AND A DARK GREEN IN COLOR BUT | | BRIGHT | | | | THEN I LOOKED AT MY WATCH AND NOTICED THAT IT HAD | | STOP RUNNING IT IS A SELF WINDING ROLEX IT HAS NO | | BATTERY. | | | | WAS NOT CONSUMING ANYTYPE OF ALCOHOL OR DRUGS | | | | I SAID "HEY,GET THE CAMERAS!' | | | | | seeking a | | piece of | UFO sighting and bad prose query: | the moon | "passed silently overhead" | | | | | won't be | | back here | This last year has been fruitful. I have gained | though we | about 10 points in the sanity test - up to 76% now. | may meet | | again | Note: This is obviously not a sanity test. Hi Mom! | | | | Magritte flickers in and out of focus. | | | | | rocketpita | | | Everybody seems to like k10k, but Funkbone feels | | like a different type of media. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 02/22/2000 | Ahoy avast alas | |__________________________________________________________| do not | | drown in | Or was that "a lass"? | rum | | | It brings the salty smell of the sea to my nostrils. | arr | | | "Did you see it? Then, you surely believe it. | | Can you smell it? Now, you can surely believe it." | | | | | thanks | | bunches to | Amorphic Robot Works - breaking the laws of | judith | credulity one machine at a time. I would really | | like to see this in person, but the image gallery | | will have to do for now. [Images are large, hi-res, | | and worth every second of download time.] | | | | Super crazy Quicktime VR as well. Do not fail to | | try some of them. My jaw is agape. | wordless | | | They detail exactly how sound is used to control the | | machines via MIDI. | | | | | doctorate | | in progress | Virtual Nursing College is not useful for remotely | | controlling anything. | | | | | instantly | | towards | Currently at work, I am playing a vast and sweeping | space | game of "which one of these is not like the other?" | travel | | | Normally I would link first to CTW's very nice site | | which has a great collection of games, but they just | | popped open a nice big advertisement window for Tide | | detergent... | | | | | picking up | | the release | It's a good thing there are smart people out there | pieces | on the record release date tip. | | | | Nick pokes me with a carefully sharpened stick and | | gestures in the direction of the Brainwashed, | | AltPress, and Fester listings. | | | | Westy sez try CMJ which is the closest to what I was | | looking for yet. Plus it's clean lookin'! | | [smacking self in forehead] | silly me | | | After this rather oversightful analysis, mayhap | | release dates are just too ethereal to pin down. | | Each listing has some which are way off compared to | | the others. | | | | | math rific | | | Also, Mr. Homes points out today what's so | | incredible about Shellac's Terraform opening track - | | that switch on the hi-hat beat really throws the | | entire repeating measure into a completely different | | groove. My jaw still drops and the room rotates a | | different direction every time. You folks need to | | hear it, and since Shellac was on the way in the | | trio exploration anyway... the whole munchy song is | | available. | | | | Shellac - Didn't We Deserve a Look At You The Way | | You Really Are.mp3 [11.2mb] | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 02/21/2000 | Fading fast by duct and reflex | |__________________________________________________________| | | sody pop | | | This William H. Jones, Inventor of Mountain Dew page | | has some nifty old-style bottles of the stuff. | taxi fuel | | | Mountain Dew Bottles.com is really rough to | | navigate, but an interesting subject so I forge | | onward. Javascript and frames ahoy. | crazy | | stacks | The author of the site has a huge collection of old | | Dew bottles. | nostalgia | | wasn't | It turns out there was a host of different named | around back | bottles from different bottling companies in the Tip | then | Corporation until Pepsi bought the rights to the | | soda and tried to conglomerate the advertisments | | with these old 1965 signs. I had no idea Mountain | | Dew was ever advertised with the slogan "It'll | | Tickle Yore Innards" and a hillbilly for a mascot. | gimme a | | button | Skip ahead to the picture gallery for all sorts of | | other oddness. | | | | | bleh | | | My home machine was (unbeknownst to me) broken for | | most of Sunday, and Yahoo Mail is down. Being | | unconnected is not all bad. Over... | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 02/20/2000 | Some days the local representative fails | |__________________________________________________________| | | blip | | | Drat. No understanding on any of the upcoming | | ideas. I made some progress on a few so I should be | | able to get back on target for the pod next week. | | | | Now, a look at record release dates. Or, last week. | | | | | stone | | walking | Ice Magazine's release date page doesn't have a | | terribly great indies list, but looks full on the | | jazz and mainstream label side of things. | | | | | highly | | advanced | Billboard's dates have been chunked out into sub- | culture | pages, but still seem to be from the same source. | | | | | assimilated | | by the | Go's Wall of Sound reports Peter Searcy is releasing | machines | a solo rekkid! | | | | | staring the | | cheese in | CDnow's release dates are viewable by genre. Sort | the face | of. They list a bunch of things that aren't really | | new. I don't want to eliminate the middleman here. | | | | | intense | | yuck | MTV's listing is extremely weak - like you couldn't | | already guess that. | | | | | aha | | | A+A upcoming releases covers good distance. | | | | | get to the | | point dork | Why all this babbling? I'm considering starting up | | a release site (not in with this junk) for | | conglomerating independant releases since it's no | | longer being brought and the rocket isn't convicted. | | | summoning | | work | Unless someone can direct me to a site which | | provides this service in a compact, easy to use | | form... I do believe some sort of centralization | | needs to happen. Yes? No? Look out for the scary | | monkey people! | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | post csh | | review | RF can't be all bad. They linked to The War Against | | Silence - a music review site which I've not seen. | | This Glenn fellow has a nifty method of stringing | | reviews together into a coherent piece. | | | | On that note, new Aiding and Abetting review set. | | Bowery Electric gets the pan, the new Paul Newman | | gets a thumbs up even though Pillowfight thought it | | was sterile. | | | | | bass attack | | and | Pillowfight interviews Johnathon Ford, Unwed Sailor | conversion | [previously master bassist for Roadside Monument] | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | hey hey | | stupid | Note to insane readership who actually read this far | cartoons! | on a Sunday: Brak Show premiere on Cartoon Network | | happens tonight. | | | | This link may or may not take you to Brak's | | dissertation on the subject. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | eh? | This is the log of a faceless entity. Me. I wander | | around the web, and point out what are most likely | | completely useless things for you to visit. It's | | where I have been, what I learned there, and what I | | plan to figure out in the future. All in the palm | | of your hand. | | | the daily | Technically speaking, this is a "weblog". There are | surfing | many weblogs. You can probably find one that suits | tools | your tastes pretty closely in the morass below, but | | if not, use the pitas system to track yourself. | | | contact | Dan Fitch dgfitch@yahoo.com / ICQ 363803 | |__________________________________________________________| /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// old archives: dots are interstitial weekly posts useless sky: staring at old links . legos and robots: designing electrical companions and other nonsense . grid puzzles: waste time with boxes and their brethren . chip music: listen to the sound of the FUUUUUTURE . lewis carroll: charles dodgson wrote some happy tales . opinionation: how do you do, capitalism? how do you? ........ defunct rock: amf, grammatrain, jawbox, poor old lu, roadside .. ascii games: to quote salon, @ <- you are here . voicemail: automated telephone systems . bach and tone: the endlessly rising canon of links . eigenspace: eigen wha? ... /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// possible subjects: feel free to suggest or help out falling pod: zoooooming through the earth's crust . occam's razor: computational reflection . bad art: clean up old gallery . demoart: art disks, ansi conversion, zoomscope . 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Arbitrary | | numerical scales are not real helpful, eh? | | | 9.3 | A Minor Forest - Cocktail Party.mp3 [6.3mb] | 2.7 | A Minor Forest - Discoier.mp3 [7.0mb] | 6.1 | Neutrino - Sure Are Shiny.mp3 [3.4mb] | 8.2 | Neutrino - Bring On The Super Desserts.mp3 [4.6mb] | 1.8 | 33.3 - Miles.mp3 [5.9mb] | 2.4 | 33.3 - Rancho Diablo.mp3 [7.8mb] | 5.2 | Silkworm - Empty Elevator Shaft.mp3 [3.5mb] | 5.6 | Silkworm - Waiting on a Train.mp3 [3.5mb] | | | 8.3 | Arcwelder - Captain Allen.mp3 [3.2mb] | 6.3 | Arcwelder - Finish My Song.mp3 [4.5mb] | 8.9 | MxPx - Sometimes You Have To Ask Yrself.mp3 [2.4mb] | 8.6 | MxPx - Let It Happen.mp3 [3.2mb] | 0.6 | Low - Lullaby.mp3 [7.8mb] | 1.3 | Low - Over the Ocean.mp3 [3.2mb] | 2.9 | Ativin - Riding and Roaming.mp3 [4.1mb] | 3.2 | Ativin - Cy.mp3 [5.6mb] | | | 5.8 | Hugh - Ruby Cruiser.mp3 [2.8mb] | 7.1 | Hugh - Little A.mp3 [3.6mb] | 3.2 | Codeine - Cave-in.mp3 [3.3mb] | 4.8 | Codeine - Cigarette Machine.mp3 [4.4mb] | 6.3 | Jawbox - Consolation Prize.mp3 [3.5mb] | 8.8 | Jawbox - Tools and Chrome.mp3 [2.5mb] | 4.2 | Starflyer 59 - Wasting Your Whole Life.mp3 [4.9mb] | 3.5 | Starflyer 59 - All The Time.mp3 [2.8mb] | | | ?.? | Shellac - Didn't We Deserve a Look...mp3 [11.2mb] | 9.2 | Shellac - A Minute.mp3 [3.3mb] | 9.9 | Frodus - Deviant Recovery Network.mp3 [1.5mb] | 9.6 | Frodus - Invisible Time Lines.mp3 [2.8mb] | 7.2 | Trans Am - Extreme Measures.mp3 [4.1mb] | 4.7 | Trans Am - Home Security.mp3 [4.7mb] | 2.8 | Sebadoh - Total Peace.mp3 [2.7mb] | 3.9 | Sebadoh - Not a Friend.mp3 [2.7mb] | | | 4.6 | Grammatrain - Need.mp3 [5.9mb] | 9.8 | Grammatrain - Jerky Love Song.mp3 [0.6mb] | 7.2 | Roadside Monument - OJ House Auction.mp3 [6.5mb] | 9.3 | Roadside - Trophies for Optometry.mp3 [5.3mb] | 3.8 | Buddyrevelles - I'll Sell You a Picture.mp3 [4.8mb] | 3.3 | Buddyrevelles - Port Riga.mp3 [4.4mb] | 0.8 | Labradford - Everlast.mp3 [4.1mb] | 1.1 | Labradford - S.mp3 [5.6mb] | | | |__________________________________________________________| ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////