Saturday, October 19, 2002

Claus, I saw Vanilla sky for the first time the other week and enjoyed it immensely. I might have missed the boat on this but was it based on Phillip K. Dick's 'UBIK'? If not, it sure seemed like it. Did I hear right that it was mentioned a while ago that there was The Conet Project on the soundtrack?
posted by chriszanf , 1:33 PM Þ 

"Mr Bashir has avoided arrest partly because the government has no anti-terrorism laws under which he could be picked up with no evidence."

hmmmmmmmmm; no arest without police state.

The Age
posted by Irdial , 11:27 AM Þ 

(where the hell have you been, Claus?) I feel like singing!

Do unlock the door
you're acting like a child
when you said it yourself
we are at war
how dare you turn at me now
right when I need you most

I wish I could have seen their faces
when they heard the news
now that's the sort of smack
that leaves a bruise

the victory
is ours at last
I beat them at their own dirty game
they pervert the words of Godly men
for their own selfish gain

I took their wrong
and I took their lies
and I made them right
I made them right

oh look who it is
it's my supportive wife
and she thinks she's going to squeal

"hey where do you think you're going?
don't you walk away from me
you put down that telephone
you're not calling anyone
you put down that telephone
you're not calling anyone
you put down that telephone
you're not calling anyone
you're not calling anyone"
posted by Mikkel , 4:42 AM Þ 

Hi there ladies and gents
I just got my PMG4867DP. Just watched the 'Vanilla Sky' DVD on it. A fantastic flick, I nearly puked from sensory overload in the club scene. This is what movies can do, and should do. I will do with no less. Did anyone see the Spanish flick it was a remake of?

Remember now: Post hard – Post often
posted by Claus Eggers , 2:48 AM Þ 

When I first saw the haircut videos, I initially thought that it was some sort of fetish video site.
Hey, there's stranger things on the internet.

You know, I had no idea about the senate resolution that Barlow speaks of. Show how much actual, real important news gets out there, huh?

The latest issue of National Geographic is really good (the one with "Skin" on the cover). It has this huge in-depth report on "Weapons of Mass Destruction" that is amazingly non-biased. It is also incredibly sobering and frightening. The cold war's legacy is a scary thing and will bite us in the ass one of these days... the article speaks of americans as the *worst* threat, and highlights that Bush actively pulled out of several weapons treaties because you know, war is in the air. Or something.
Recommended reading, for sure.
posted by Barrie , 12:42 AM Þ 
Friday, October 18, 2002

you think THOSE haircuts are weird?



This dude hangs around the brooklyn freakart scene and does these noiseart/haircut performances. free haircuts for the audience that are contact mic'd and amped up. i think i might get one tonight as he will be hanging around the DUMBO arts festival.

check him out: http://www.chaircut.com
posted by Josh Carr , 9:24 PM Þ 

Another music in a different Kitchen.
posted by Irdial , 7:40 PM Þ 



i want to go, but i have work. and i only just started this job...
posted by alex_tea , 5:10 PM Þ 

D notice in effect.
posted by Irdial , 4:57 PM Þ 

posted by Alun , 2:27 PM Þ 



And many more....Dubya sucks.
In the old days...
Fresh Dubya...

I know he's an easy target, but he's also the one pushing for war. Does anybody believe he's the right man for the job? And why has war become the job?

Blair, at the moment, is guilty of the same 'crime' as Bush. Both are having trouble (or lack of success) at home. And the remedy? Point, gesticulating frantically, shouting 'Look over there!!!!!! Look, look!!!!!' Where boys? 'Over there....somewhere!!!! Look!' Whilst behind their metaphorical backs they are picking your pockets of everything from basic liberties to taxes to natural resources... Sometimes this shit is really depressing.
posted by Alun , 1:23 PM Þ 

"We're also accepting rather blandly American support for a brutal military dictatorship in Pakistan which really *does* have nuclear weapons as well as the means to deliver them quite a distance. Why are we not disarming Pakistan? Why, for that matter, are we not disarming France? Or, perish the thought, ourselves?"

EFF Founder John Perry Barlow
posted by Irdial , 11:55 AM Þ 

What what what?!?

As per usual any attempt by me to update Quicktime on a PC with Mozilla ends up in a round of frustrating click-throughs and nothing happening...I shall have to pretend I'm in THX 1138 and go and hang around the Barbican tomorrow instead.
posted by captain davros , 10:24 AM Þ 

[10/18/2002 8:54:10 AM | Irdial Discs]
No No No!

ha ha ha ha - it's a girl thing... and by the way Woody for President in the us! Thank you for the Dead man walking link.
posted by Alison , 10:18 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 8:54 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 8:52 AM Þ 
Thursday, October 17, 2002

Dead Man Walkin!
posted by Irdial , 11:31 PM Þ 

"Scholars in the ancient library are thought to have produced the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament; edited Homer's works; and found that Helios, the sun -- not Earth -- was the center of our galaxy."

So says Salon
posted by Irdial , 2:18 PM Þ 
posted by chriszanf , 2:07 PM Þ 

The Direct Marketing sector regards the telephone as one of its most successful tools. Consumers experience telemarketing from a completely different point of view: more than 92% perceive commercial telephone calls as a violation of privacy.
Telemarketers make use of a telescript - a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. The EGBG Counterscript attempts to redress that balance.
posted by chriszanf , 1:58 PM Þ 

Iranian director hands back award
Iranian film director Bahman Qobadi has handed back a prize awarded to him at the Chicago Film Festival after the US authorities failed to issue him a visa to collect it. ...... ..... Mr Qobadi - who won the prestigious award for the film The Songs of My Motherland - said he was refused a visa despite the fact that he had filed his application four months ago and has travelled to Dubai twice for interviews at the US embassy.
posted by Alun , 10:59 AM Þ 

massage a la 2001



(shamelessly taken from http://www.b3ta.com/)

More!
posted by Mikkel , 8:52 AM Þ 
posted by Mikkel , 7:12 AM Þ 
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
posted by mary13 , 7:29 PM Þ 

"How difficult can that be?"
"As difficult as communication to an idiot."
posted by Irdial , 5:15 PM Þ 

http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/neubauten/phew.html
posted by Irdial , 3:26 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 2:22 PM Þ 

The Map of the Free World 2002:
posted by Irdial , 2:11 PM Þ 

http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/15/1034561150956.html

"The British press has dubbed the Bali bombings Australia's own September 11. But in the US, Australia is hardly rating a mention.

But readers of the Miami Herald online would be in the dark about Australia's death toll now believed to be the majority of the 183 confirmed dead. The online paper refers to two Americans killed and three injured in the blast.

As for the rest: "Most of the dead are foreigners," the article stated."
posted by Mikkel , 2:05 PM Þ 
Tuesday, October 15, 2002

WOW!!!!!!
Love that prog!
Just watched the fastest 2001 ever (and saw it all in memory)
Shot 1, bone in the air, 3 sec
Shot 2, man reflected in glowing orb; HAL, 1min 15 sec
End
Now just click the button and watch another film...
posted by Alun , 3:56 PM Þ 

Akin, time to make 'Odessey Space A, 1002'

Somebody beat you to it, Alun. However, you can chop it up anyway you want... which makes Kevin and Jennifer McCoy a step ahead of Anne McGuire.

201: a space algorithm


http://www.mccoyspace.com/201.html
201: A Space Algorithm is an online software program which provides methods of re-editing Kubrick's science-fiction classic. Running time is compressed or expanded, juxtapositions are generated synthetically, and shot selection becomes a collaboration between you and the computer.

check out their other projects, too...
posted by Josh Carr , 3:30 PM Þ 

Meet me here today...
posted by Irdial , 10:48 AM Þ 

"Government's secret Celldar project will allow surveillance of anyone, at any time and anywhere there is a phone signal"

The Guardian
posted by Irdial , 10:28 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 10:25 AM Þ 

"I used to think that when actors died on telly, they really died. But since I still got the concept of actors, I figured that the people who made the movies just gave the actors everything they wanted for a week, on the condition that they could kill them on film at the end.

When I found out years later that this formed the basis for snuff films, I was outraged that they'd stolen my idea."

"When I was young I met a man who said "BS" in almost every sentence. I asked my dad what BS meant. He told me it meant "Bachelor of Storytelling". It wasn't until several years later that I learned it meant bullshit."

"When I was about five, I used to call pine cones "pine corns", and I thought they were edible, but the green ones on the tree weren't ripe, and the ones on the ground were too dirty to eat."

http://www.iusedtobelieve.com/
posted by Irdial , 10:10 AM Þ 

so then my car goes "GUAHGLAG SPURTING OIL ALL OVER THE PLACE HURR GUHH" and I'm all like "shit, I hate spending shitloads of money on repairs when I have no money to speak of, and I hate being completely and utterly dependant on it at the same time."

so yeah.
posted by Barrie , 7:05 AM Þ 
Monday, October 14, 2002
posted by chriszanf , 10:23 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 6:05 PM Þ 

[...]Let us, therefore, start with the smallest things about him.

He knows more, for one thing, than you could learn in the movies. In the movies, shooters routinely perform feats of marksmanship that are completely impossible in reality. They throw heavy rifles to their shoulders and snap off long-distance shots and people drop. They shoot from the hip, they hold the gun sideways, they shoot while somersaulting or flying through the air. That doesn't happen in the real world. So he's not a punk jerk who's couch-potatoed his life away in front of the VCR while cultivating zits, rejection and grievances. He knows a little something. He's not shooting from the hip or holding the gun sideways. He's not cracking out rounds and watching them hit and splash up dirt and debris.[...]

Washinton Post
posted by Irdial , 4:51 PM Þ 

Akin, time to make 'Odessey Space A, 1002'
posted by Alun , 2:23 PM Þ 

Also, heard from some gimp commentator (non-BBC, on the phone) on Radio 5 last night...
"October the 12th is the new September the 11th".




And I forgot to say congratulations to Jimmy Carter, a decent man doing his best.
posted by Alun , 11:08 AM Þ 

"One shot, one kill".

And from the Observer...
Robert Barrkman, president of Phoenix-based Robar, makers of a powerful RC-50 'counter-sniper' rifle, recently told Jane's International Defense Review that 'the proliferation of the sniper weapons is one of the few growth areas for small-arms makers'.

The Robar RC-50 is capable of piercing an armoured vehicle or a helicopter a mile away. The company has sold 20,000 of the $5,000 civilian-adapted versions. Tactical Shooter, a magazine designed for police and military snipers, said in a recent article that 'the real future of tactical shooting, like it or not, is at the civilian level'.


How to dodge the bullets

The Washington Post yesterday offered readers advice on precautions they should take:

· When outside at night, walk briskly and in irregular patterns, because it's more difficult to shoot a moving target.

· Always gravitate to the shadowy or darker areas of a parking lot or other open area. Most of the victims in the recent sniper attacks were shot during the day or in areas lit at night.

· If you must be stationary while outside, look for cover.

· If you hear a gunshot, drop to the ground and get behind cover. If you're near your car, put the engine and wheel between you and the shooter. Then look for the closest protective cover, zig-zagging as you go.


"One slaughter, one strict gun law"

Are gun laws the only civil (sic) liberty that the American government won't limit?
posted by Alun , 10:56 AM Þ 
posted by Mikkel , 8:06 AM Þ 
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