Apathy

+-------------------[Silver tongues ring false - 05/21/2000]-=-- | Follow along with the up and coming literary master, or | something: Stefan "Insane" Hamilton and his minimal / | dissociative / absurd poetry. | | Noticed his stuff first in Dru Jay's Subtext zine. | Excerpt: | | this poem A castle | is my sand | harness to standing in the dust expanse | reality and of helion dreaming fish | fill in out of water | the _____ ... | | Subtext 1 [PDF] for more. | | | +----------------------------/--/-------[Augh, I can't see!]-=-- | UR Gear - That's a funny thing to stick on yr head. | it's | sucking my But on the other hand, even though I was a bit scared of | brain out! T's Revelators, might get a pair. They're 3D glasses | [that can fit over my normal rims], with LCD shutters | flickering back and forth as you look at the monitor. | This would have to be the perfect companion to my Big-Ass | BAM! Monitor. [technical term] | | The game I want it for most would likely be Thief, the | otoh, Dark Project in which one sneaks about attempting to | descent relieve the rich of their prized possessions. Surround | would sound, 3D glasses; all we need now is the Soul | sicken Encapsulator. | | | +-------------------------[Washing and polishing the digits]-=-- | Spent some time staring at shiny over-design things and | dizzy dips s00pr-cool abstract reflect-y majobbers done in Bryce. | | | +----------------------------/--/-[Okay, alright, uhh, meta]-=-- | Kaepita says: | o v e r i n "i thought that dumb monkey had a weird pita. then i came | s e c u r across this pita" | e m e ? | I beg to differ! Dumb Monkey is a much wackier, crazier | pita than this boring chunk of confusion. Example: The | monkies enjoy professional sports! [gasps from the | gallery] | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "I was made with a silver tongue / makes the truth come | feel it all undone / "A" you're little, but still you're grand / | but you're making me feel like a two inch man." | - Hugh, "Little A" | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +------------------------[Jumping bypass beans - 05/20/2000]-=-- | Muchos graçias, Judith o' the Calamondin: this is cool. | | Tune in to WNYC's New Sounds programme tonight (Saturday | the 20th) at 11pm EST for various electronic and otherwise | interpreted arrangements of Bach. Give Windows Media | Player a try, WNYC comes in incredibly clear over my DSL. | | Plus, there is quite an archive available of past | programmes. Unfortunately, these are not nearly as high | in quality, at only 16 Kbps. Still, recommended | listening: 4/9, 4/11, 5/9, 5/15 | | Ahh heck, I'm going to be digging through as much of it as | possible before getting sick of RealAudio. And I | certainly plan on tuning in nightly to see if this | genre-hopping show crosses more fascinating territory. | | | +----------------------------/--/-------[Grossly disgusting]-=-- | Thanks Captain Bovine and The Brain, Stinkymeat made my | day. Go further on a strong stomach. | | Day 11 is my favorite, for the neighbour excuses. Can you | believe he had the guts to do this experiment, not on his | own land, but on someone else's? | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "I think the best thing we can do is talk about what we | think, about what we consider to be the politics of making | music." | - Efrim from GYBE, this interview | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +--------[Knowing bases like an alcoholic haze - 05/18/2000]-=-- | Any returns from the transmogrified tricklethrough? | | Hello, and happy Friday if you are reading these words on | Friday. Two important things happening: | | 1. Vacationing over Memorial Day. I would love to have a | NOW HIRING guest logger who does not normally do such things take | over for a week or so, starting this next Thursday. It | won't get you any fame or notoriety, but it'll be fun. | Interested? Mail me. | | 2. Sigur Rós Live in RealMedia! If you are feeling at all | give it adventurous, please do yrself a favor and enjoy this. If | time loving this makes me a wimp, a wimp am I. | | /--/--------------[Limp onward]-=-- | Now then, brace yourself; don't be afraid to skip | sections, there's a ton of interesting things today, I | think. Maybe not. | | | +---------------------------[For more musical entertainment]-=-- | The Downbeat.org - downtempo music information | | "Our goal is to change your mindset on music." | | Audio section tis good for afternoon chillin'. Normally | don't listen to much of this [can't stand typical drum n' | bass], but it seems a decent change of pace for my toes. | | /--/-----[Wait, this is better]-=-- | Squidfactory Radio is running 5 swell Shoutcast streams, | a reflog including a downtempo one. I recommend the indie rock | find though. Really like the fact that the Squid streams tell | you the actual song title. No silly browser pane like | Live365. | | Sacrilege note: I do not like Stereolab. | i r dumb | | +----------------------------/--/------[Partisan completion]-=-- | Clint "Faeaaani" Mitchell dropped in due to his EQ world | encrusted being broken and found me a partisan picture or two: | with Polearm Conservation -- very interesting page itself. | knowledge | | +----------------------------/--/-----[He played with Miles]-=-- | John McLaughlin - Spheres of Influence | fusion | fears John Sez: "So, I believe absolutely and implicitly in | music. I'm thrilled and very hopeful about its future." | | Suffer under the MAHAMIDI files! | BWAHAHA | | +-------------------------[It is a good day... for science!]-=-- | The Einstein reading is on hold for a bit, but The | GO HERE Dummies' Guide to Special Relativity [popups] looks like | REALLY an excellent primer. Thanks Dr. Berk and Please Pass the | Science -- The Cardhouse rocks j00! | | | +------------------------[Ripped from the headlines, or not]-=-- | Bookmark dump! WHOOOOOSH | | | Stolen from B-Tron: | Bus Shelters of the Ukraine - OH WheooaoOAIOW! | [sounds of frantic image downloading erupt] | | | Take Our Word For It - etymology zine | I endorse this site even though it tastes smarmy! | | | It'd be rough finding a site less funny than Comedy.com. | bleh | | Genochoice: Scary beyond description. | kuro5hin | | For much later: Neil Young Tab Page | More for chords than tab. I'm slow deciphering them. | | | +----------------------------/--/-----------------[Unlinked]-=-- | Reminder to self: Cappuccino makes you sick and flighty. | Stop buying it. | | I made up a [bad/stupid/surreal] joke while under the | influence of caffeine: | | "So, the cappuccino walks into a bar, right... and the | bartender is a cow. The cow says, 'What'll it be | pardner?' and the cappuccino sneers real snotty-like. | 'Gimme a glass of milk.' And the cow goes, 'At least I've | got the stomachs for it.' HAW HAW HAW!" | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "Consider yourself | love those The punchline in my new gag. . ' | marxist Thank you very much! .-- ,=#]. ' . ' | punks You've given all of us ' .- || ' . ' | A fantastic laugh." || ' | - Boy Sets Fire, '' | "Twelve Step Hammer Program" | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------------------------/--/-[about:blink - 05/18/2000]-=-- | Swiftly, a comics day! | | Took a break from GR and finally got to read Scott | because McCloud's Understanding Comics through in one sitting. It | was a blast and a half. | | For some truly amazing comic art, visit Deus Ex Machina. | the look, Yes, there are robots; the main emphasis seems to be | the feel sucking me into it, permanently. | | Find more top-notch online comics at Scott's top 10 links. | | /--/----------------------[DIY]-=-- | Ampersand's How-to Guide to Comics looks like a good | bookmark'd starting point from ground zero on up. | | Gene Fama's Process includes a great section on coloring | is color using Photoshop. More like that at the Ampersand site. | the next Also see Comic Colors.com. | step? | | +----------------------------/--/------[Fitch comics update]-=-- | It's the return of Kentucky, the plank with a glue-on eye. | original A question of creation and self, or just word-play. | content | Let me know if I'm wasting my time. | gasp | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- | "...Into the FIFTH DIMENSION! Into a world beyond human | comprehension! Into a world where TIME HAS NO MEANING!" | | - Bill Watterson in Calvin and Hobbes | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +------[Broken spine and my mother needs a hug - 05/16/2000]-=-- | Managed to lose track of a bunch of things, but will dig | cache and rescue the lost; later. Now, things on top of | the non-communal Fitch-brain. | | | +----------------------------/--/------[Classical potboiler]-=-- | Still obsessed with the Mahler #1. Just amazing the way | this he managed to appropriate classics, shove them into a | symphony nasty corroded pot with his harmonies, and pull out a | causes me wondrous work of art that moves. | to live | One. A review. | Two. Downloadable music, see it all on the main index. | Three. An analysis. | | Actually, two needs more of a push than the other simple | way cool links. It's from The Classical Music Pages, part of a | student conductor's project to enlighten the universe. | While by no means comprehensive, the main epochs should | give you a few you haven't heard to explore. Short mp3 | excerpts available on many of the pieces. | | | +----------------------------/--/--------------------[Jerks]-=-- | Slashdot quickied the dog, but termed the pictures inane. | distinct I am proud to say I heard about this somewhere else, as I | lack am fully weaned. Was going to make more snide comments | about this, but Sam graced me with a chat so I will | restrain. The drawings are not inane. Sam is a nice guy. | | | +----------------------------/--/--[More glacial heartbeats]-=-- | Shifting back and forth between Mahler and more recent | swells of orchestral pastiche works like GYBE and the other | sound push Constellation ilk. Now the shoegazing beauty of Sigur Rós | me down fits right in; Jos the singer bows his guitar, which | accounts for some of the sliding grace. Plus, the Almost | Cool Music Revue points out an EP coming to the US! | | Since I came in on shoegazing from all the wrong angles, | the Slowdive link sounds like something I need to hear. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | Aftur með gaddaviír sem rifur upp gamalt gróið sár | brought to Er orðinn ryðguð sál rafmagnið búið | tears Mig langar að skera og rista sjálfan mig á hol | singing En þori það ekki frekar slekk ég á mér | along with | an unknown Aleinn á ný... | language - Sigur Rós - Ný Batterí | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------------------["The landlord is dead" - 05/16/2000]-=-- | Toadex of the ever obscure Dagmar Chili sent some of the | "click here completed panels for his comic entry in the contest. They | for follow in the wake of the comic obsession of late. | laughs" | gets me one, two, three - I love a tree. | every time | | +---------------------------[Repurposed links self-populate]-=-- | Didja know that Pete at Browse-0-Tronic found the magnific | meaning to Theory of Everything way before that Gorjuss dude? I | post the recommend both as sources for interesting bits, and the | theory link ToE certainly qualifies as a brain-kick. | for a week | | +----------------------------/--/--------[Threatening words]-=-- | asdf.com [and their funny email story ...] | asfd.com has furniture | | deepleap.com deapleap.com deapleep.com deepleep.com | | Did anyone else think Mafia cement shoes the first time | they saw Deap Leap? That's probably just me. [Aside: | While it looks very handy for those of us who browse from | diverse machines, it's fairly useless in IE since the | Reload button does not function. Netscape crashes as soon | as I visit a page with it, so I wait.] | | /--/-----------[The real thing]-=-- | From the subversion box: Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey | | | +----------------------------[Speaking of which... sUbVeRt!]-=-- | Reminder to self: Stop.... | reading Apathy! Hahahahaha | poking self with pointy things | fertilizing the lawn with motor oil | Signs Kill People | eating babies | | guacamole has self-defense mechanisms; it is green and | slimy. this should tell us not to eat the guacamole. | perhaps it has some more evolving to do. | i'm confused | | What does this do? | | why are you doing this? | | Reminder to self: Stop entering in personal information on | website registration forms. Thanks, David Harris 342 Wake | Harvest Lawn of the Maries St. #42 365.871.4589 | ss#234-98-8906 dl#ca b45321456 | | Poof! I'm a flower! | | YOU never did the KENOSHA, kid | | /--/---------------[Commentary]-=-- | I hope that wasn't your real SSN, David Harris. Perhaps I | going meta will give you a call later to-day and ask if I should | on your censor it. It'd be truly hilarious if someone else posted | dali it for you. Or maybe not. | | That Kenosha Kid segment in Gravity's Rainbow. Oh man. | you have? You have no idea; the language could not twist like that. | no idea! | For your confusion: I have no idea why anyone reads this | sorry page. You might just want to go somewhere else. | | Thanks for participating, there are many more fun entries | if baffled that are too long to quote fully here. I am always | learning. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | Shut the hell up about the | "Everyone Is Cool Revolution" already. | - Mark "Western Homes" Donahue | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +--------------[Eating only carrots and apples - 05/15/2000]-=-- | A long weekend of desertion. | | The Sigur Rós "single" Ný Batterý is 24 minutes of bliss. | thanks be UK people will have an easier time finding it on Fat Cat. | to digraphs | They do have excerpted sounds available, but I still hate | get this RealAudio. Luckily, a lone mp3 peeks out from the bottom | mp3 of the page. | | Might have to go to the Bad Taste source. | | [Look over there, it's Don Knotts!]-=-- | Audio-bot! | | Collaborative, metababy-style band information site. | everyone | jump into I was going to do something like this a year ago. Never | the pool at did. Didn't think of including a mp3 file center though. | the same This is rad. Is it supposed to be Northwest-centric? I | time have no idea. | | | +----------------------------/--/--------------[More comics]-=-- | No progress drawing, but I found some more comics in the | current vein. Both of these today are from local Madison | students who I do not know. I will list my picks for | each. | | /--/--------[Semi-non-sequitur]-=-- | Charlie Monkey [popups/etc] is a disjointed take on | the formula Charlie the Sock Monkey, his robot pal, and other | for unrelated subplots. | confusion | An exposition about Telemarketers | | Dry Hands und die Polka Haus are both hilarious | | The stroke of ungenius: In Three-Dee | | /--/-------[Slacker art sphere]-=-- | White Bread and Toast is a more rigid strip which relies | a weak on the same basic layout of the two main characters and | kneed clever dialogue twists. | analogy | Time Travel #1 More Time Travel #2 Heaven Attention Span | Something New Halloween #5 Pants Million Dollar Idea My | Pet Robot Culture | | The Auf Deutsch! to German Translation one-two punch. | | | +----------------------------/--/-----------------[Wordplay]-=-- | par·ti·san (also par·ti·zan) | swerving n. | past puns | to A weapon having a blade with lateral projections mounted | definition on the end of a long shaft, used chiefly in the 16th and | 17th centuries. | | ... | | Current challenge: Find a picture of this configuration. | | Pictures of every weapon -- except the partisan. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[Meta]-=-- | As expected, not much other than reading accomplished. | so | apologetic Last week held the fire of robots, dogs, other comics, | drawings of robots, chooks, Tenacious D, and the | preliminary links for my reading of Gravity's Rainbow. | | I'll get to changing the subversion tomorrow, you guerilla | freaks. Make your own message of the day. | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- Back to top +----------------------------/--/-------------[Older things]-=-- | This is the hand/drawn listing. Full pita listing. | | comp conc: Computers and consciousness | / mp3 normalizing: Mess with mp3s | ///// silly queries: How not to find this page | /// useless sky: Staring at old links | / legos and robots: Designing electrical nonsense | / grid puzzles: Waste time with boxes + 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: Eventually all things die | // 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 tangents]-=-- | Feel free to suggest or help out. | | vinyl stuffing: the long playing past | WFMU hunt: scavenge a radio site | sound and fury: chanting and composing in mobs | buddies: personal perception and the net | team battles: the packet wars | demoart: art disks, ansi conversion, zoomscopes | stupid cartoons: sg, c+c, r+s, brak | collage: photographic and non-digital | | /--/------------[Side projects]-=-- | pita wrapper: perl posting app for pitas | bad art: clean up old gallery | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- The link section has been disabled until I can come up with something more interesting. Please feel free to try the portal if desperate for escape. Also, the mp3 portion of my babbling is gone. If you hunger for music, please visit mt and let me know. +----------------------------/--/---[Explanation in C minor]-=-- | This is the log of a faceless entity. I wander around the | web, and point out what are most likely completely useless | things for you to visit. If you know me in real life, | then you will probably hate this. Where I have been, what | I learned there, and what I plan to figure out in the | future. Ahh, the healing power of links. | | Technically this is a "web log". You can find many more | of these in the links section, but if none fit your tastes | you can always follow the monkey and get an easily updated | site with Pitas. | | /--/---------------[Disclaimer]-=-- | There are no guarantees. This site is not affiliated with | anything else I do. If you have been linked or mentioned | and would like to be removed, just let me know. 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