vhs

i've been burning a lot of dvds lately, since i generally tend to get more work done downstairs in front of the tv than i do upstairs within the distraction microcosm that is me by myself in my room, and i've found that the most preferable way of setting up the disc is to make it play just like an early vhs cassette--sure, this is in part because our dvd player barely works and has no remote so we can't select anything in a menu, but still, if i really wanted to, i could just pop it into my ps2--for i feel simplicity is best: it plays the film when i put in the disc and it stops playback when it's over.

bungle

since discovering a week or two ago that secret chiefs 3, one of my most-listened bands during my community college years and one of the few bands i've tried to see live (several times but have been unable to due to location), is coming to town this thursday, i've been re-exploring them and to a fuller extent, their composer's former band, mr. bungle.

vermeer's a boss

about a year ago this inspired the name of my "an open window" project

new favorite director:

david cronenberg

YOU GOT TO FUNKIFIZE

i've been working on this badass funk mix since before finals. have gone through several different versions so far, but i think i finished it tonight. track list after the jump.

yay

GOOGLE REDIRECT VIRUS, WOOHOO!!!

kubrick + tolkien + the beatles

as told by kevin smith:

occupy

i've gained a lot more respect for the movement after watching this documentary. vanguard does a great job; i saw their doc on oxycontin, which is also very good, about a year ago.

i like this novel:

truth:

thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=message_to_cops
thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=overrated_sandwiches
thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=nom_lioness

today:

like 12 hours of nonstop indian classical. ravi shankar all day, bitches.
his daughter anoushka is pretty kickass too.

oh yeah, done with finals btw.

i like this novel:

i like this novel:

i like this album:

lolwtf

american psycho

i need to return some videotapes.

tonight:

kaki king, coffee, and the Unending Struggle of writing a Good Paper.

hit it and quit it

this octavia butler class has brought me to understand two things: that george clinton of parliament-funkadelic is a crazy motherfunker and that i am entirely incapable of writing a good or otherwise intriguing research paper. writing papers jus ain't mah thang.

edit: untrue; self-deprecation is "mah thang." this pape' ain't that bad.

11:11 11/11/11

was pretty sweet. i really enjoy the fact that for me, plans are entirely unnecessary. when a good day is going to happen, it just happens. it can't be forced, and it shouldn't be expected.

today:

it's totally a Ramble On kind of day.