Saturday, August 23, 2003
posted by Irdial , 2:42 AM Þ 
Friday, August 22, 2003

7 days,
an "in place upgrade",
and 11,005 emails later...
posted by Irdial , 9:32 PM Þ 

posted by Alun , 7:52 PM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 12:48 PM Þ 

where in devon are you going

To be honest, I have no idea! It's about 30 minutes from Exeter, so maybe it's even Cornwall. Haven't been there before. It's my sister's parents-in law, who have a small farm in the middle of nowhere. They are such nice people... We'll try and go in September or October for the best sky-watching conditions.

that pure, deep, gut-wrenching ecstatic bliss that lies way down in curdled memories of infant wonder
So beautiful, these feelings, like a satori moment almost... you forget your age, forget your conditioned behaviour, and suddenly the world is both irrelevant and totally there....
posted by Alun , 10:31 AM Þ 

posted by Mess Noone , 9:34 AM Þ 

Barrie, I just noticed Loveless is for sale at Insound on 180g Vinyl, so you may be able to find it at your local store...
posted by alex_tea , 9:33 AM Þ 
Thursday, August 21, 2003

Whauw! Finally software that gets my piss boiling.
posted by Claus Eggers , 9:45 PM Þ 

Please read Zadie Smiths books, dear blogdialers
posted by Alison , 8:29 PM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 2:50 PM Þ 

Alun, where in devon are you going ? .... many times, particularly on bitterly cold winter nights, I've stopped in the middle of dartmoor & gazed up, filling with the feeling that is the closest approximation to that pure, deep, gut-wrenching ecstatic bliss that lies way down in curdled memories of infant wonder ... new years eve, if it's clear, is amazing ; you can see the fireworks going off in all the towns & villages for miles around
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 12:08 PM Þ 

posted by Mess Noone , 11:34 AM Þ 

It would be interseting to know if the fogscreen could be used open to the air or if it would blow away could be good in retsaurants too choose your environment to match your food. Overlapping screens would be interesting. Something for my future maybe
posted by meau meau , 11:13 AM Þ 

We have one of these....


It's beautiful. It's also stuck in the attic since central London is Not Good for starwatching. In Sweden we saw everything... Mars, Venus, rings of Saturn, Milky Way, and Oh! the Moon!... only the night cold stopped us. Soon we'll be off to Devon and Wales to visit friends and there the skies will be dark... and hopefully cloudless!
It's an incredibly childlike feeling looking through a telescope. Like reading about dinosaurs, or jumping in puddles...

I remember seeing the moon turn blood red one night...
posted by Alun , 10:09 AM Þ 

You can buy this at the Atlantis Bookshop on Museum St, Bloomsbury, London. And also at Fulgur's new site. They have also put up a load of old articles on Spare on the site, which are essential reading.
posted by Mess Noone , 9:50 AM Þ 

Mars Orbiter Camera Target Request Site

Geekalicious. Check the instructions, and if you are still game, I am impressed.

I wish I had a telescope. Mars is bright red and shining in the South Eastern sky right now. Incredible. Has anyone peeked at it through a 'scope yet? You must tell me about it!
posted by mary13 , 6:58 AM Þ 





He looks surprisingly like myself, which spooked me at first.
posted by Barrie , 4:08 AM Þ 

Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare

Whoa. Any idea where I can pick this up, if at all? I'm really into this kind of stuff, and the bookstore in town that sells things of this subject burned down a few months ago.
Nevermind

As far as power goes, we in Alberta have bucket-fucking-loads of it. We sell it to the US because it's cheap. There's only one trunk for each province we sit next to, and those handle only a smidgen of what we make. Likewise in Ontario, most of the power is sold to the US, and much trouble to divert was had. So, in Alberta, the companies (newly privatized hooray for capitalism!) gouge the consumer at home and then make gobs of money selling cheap power to the States. Isn't that grand.
posted by Barrie , 12:18 AM Þ 
Wednesday, August 20, 2003

The blackout last thursday was pretty wild here in NYC. I walked down my 33 flights of stairs to a street full of pedestrians making their ways home in the gorgeously hot weather. People took the streets over from the cars as our foot power got us a hell of alot farther, a hell of alot faster. I walked my 5.6 miles home across the roadway of the manhattan bridge with thousands of others. And there were stars to be seen over NYC for the first time in a LONG while that night. All told, an interesting experience.

More interesting:

POWER OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB IN WHITE HOUSE --- The Tale of The Brits Who Swiped 800 Jobs From New York, Carted Off $90 Million, Then Tonight, Turned Off Our Lights
posted by Josh Carr , 9:15 PM Þ 

...AOS, etc.
posted by Mess Noone , 3:00 PM Þ 

posted by Mess Noone , 2:58 PM Þ 

posted by meau meau , 12:48 PM Þ 

posted by meau meau , 12:38 PM Þ 
Tuesday, August 19, 2003

David Blaine; mentally strong or just mental?
posted by Alun , 9:44 PM Þ 

That fog screen would be awesome in a club. I'm so bored of these new clubs opening up with boasts about how fucking new and state of the art their space is and then they have a lighting rig straight out of the seventies. disco lights are so boring.

Maybe I should design club interiors, that could be fun...
posted by alex_tea , 7:08 PM Þ 

A friend has posted up some pictures he took of the Banksy exhibition from a couple of weeks back.

Pictures 16 - 24
posted by chriszanf , 5:08 PM Þ 

posted by meau meau , 3:46 PM Þ 

posted by Mess Noone , 3:01 PM Þ 

A little fiction from my weekend
Det er så synd for ham...
Ingen sex uden glidecreme, ingen kærlighed uden had, ingen rigtige venner...
Gad vide om han kommer kravlende ?
- jeg tror det næppe...
posted by Alison , 10:56 AM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 9:56 AM Þ 

Ben: I don't know how to get blogger to show email addresses but you can reach me at coa at vectorx dot org. The Youngs recordings would be totally appreciated, thanks!! Also "Julius 1" was strange and interesting.
Been feeling okay. Thanx for your thoughts Blogdians. Gave blood today but the arm I used first did not want to bleed, so I had to use the other arm. Now I look like a pincushion (big swabs taped to venupunctures).
posted by Barrie , 2:31 AM Þ 
Monday, August 18, 2003
posted by chriszanf , 4:55 PM Þ 
posted by meau meau , 3:39 PM Þ 

Doctor slang

Musical accompaniment to this weekend's stair-sanding marathon: Loren Mazzacane Connors esp. with Suzanne Langille (his wife) and Kath Bloom.
I don't have much of his, so if anyone can recommend a couple of his (30 or 40) albums it'd go down a treat this end.
Also much Muslimgauze.


Ah, DIY.
Ah, Ibuleve gel.
posted by Alun , 2:43 PM Þ 
posted by Ben , 12:12 PM Þ 

barrie - i received the richard youngs programme/recording on cdr the other day - i remember you mentioned him a while back. email me your address and i'll post you a copy - might help cheer you up. might.
posted by Ben , 12:06 PM Þ 
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