1. little radio's summercamp: the best party in town!
2. my beloved little sister's two week los angeles romp!
3. the woxy.com vintage channel!
4. first fridays at the natural history museum with autolux & deerhoof!
5. radars to the sky, airborne toxic event, & the happy hollows at the troubadour!
6. the beauty of the deep sea (requires log in)
7. professional ladders
8. stuff on my lohan
9. the love of one's life
Thursday, May 31
Wednesday, May 30
random nancery
it still kills me that alan couldn't simply come out to me.
ground control to major tom?
i already knew.
i didn't care.
ground control to major tom?
i already knew.
i didn't care.
Tuesday, May 29
Thursday, May 24
Tuesday, May 22
kenneth patchen, fellow ohioan
As we are so wonderfully done with each other
We can walk into our separate sleep
On floors of music where the milkwhite cloak of childhood lies
O my lady, my fairest dear, my sweetest, loveliest one
Your lips have splashed my dull house with the speech of flowers
My hands are hallowed where they touched over your
soft curving.
It is good to be weary from that brilliant work
It is being God to feel your breathing under me
A waterglass on the bureau fills with morning...
Don’t let anyone in to wake us.
We can walk into our separate sleep
On floors of music where the milkwhite cloak of childhood lies
O my lady, my fairest dear, my sweetest, loveliest one
Your lips have splashed my dull house with the speech of flowers
My hands are hallowed where they touched over your
soft curving.
It is good to be weary from that brilliant work
It is being God to feel your breathing under me
A waterglass on the bureau fills with morning...
Don’t let anyone in to wake us.
Friday, May 18
forty lashes
i posted this video because i am in love with prince poppycock. i like my gents in wigs. there is something about a barechested man in powder. eff.
i think my coffee was spiked with horny.
Tuesday, May 8
the hills are alive with the sound of fire
coming home tonight from hawthorne i could see the ominous plume. the smoke is traipsing its way downtown & beyond.
my house is five degrees warmer than usual. the helicopters, they circle.
i believe that civic arsonists should be expelled from the city. they should be exiles. why should they have the right to enjoy a city they tried to destroy? especially when the area is the largest park in america, adjacent to the zoo, the recently revitalized observatory, & the site of our wedding?
i live in rome.
i am going to take a walk down the street to peer up vermont to los feliz blvd. & see how bad this is.
sleeping tonight is going to be awful. the air quality is so poor & our apartment is thick like new orleans in summer to walk through.
anyone up for a beer at safari sam's? they are half priced on tuesdays now as it locals night with local bands.
my house is five degrees warmer than usual. the helicopters, they circle.
i believe that civic arsonists should be expelled from the city. they should be exiles. why should they have the right to enjoy a city they tried to destroy? especially when the area is the largest park in america, adjacent to the zoo, the recently revitalized observatory, & the site of our wedding?
i live in rome.
i am going to take a walk down the street to peer up vermont to los feliz blvd. & see how bad this is.
sleeping tonight is going to be awful. the air quality is so poor & our apartment is thick like new orleans in summer to walk through.
anyone up for a beer at safari sam's? they are half priced on tuesdays now as it locals night with local bands.
the heart of rock n' roll
i haven't felt like taking the time to string words along, although things in los angeles have been gaining speed & hue.
i suppose that i could offer a summary of my weekend, as it was quite varied in activity!
friday night seamus & i attended one of the opening concerts for the silverlake film festival at the newly remodeled & vastly improved echo plex. the lineup was sharp: sea wolf (who we missed!), the bird & the bee, the little ones, & dengue fever! solid performances all around, although i must say i am super partial to the cambodian psychedelia of "the fever" as it forever causes a swank 60s lounge blossom brightly in my mind's eye, sweetly smoky opium den in the back room.
we met the majority of radars to the sky there & enjoyed libations & free ASCAP schwag like rhythm eggs, earplugs, & filter mags. the incomparable joe fielder was there, too, along with mr. kevin bronson & some gents from kxlu. there was much excellent conversation on coachella, stagecoach, & the local state of music, how los angeles bands are once again hitting a great stride.
we snuck out just before the end of dengue fever to avoid any crowd & headed back to our place with regina & her friend from boston. there we shared drinks & very small exchanges in farsi. a good evening.
on cinco de drinko, seamus & i enjoyed margaritas at the house, cleaning as we sipped. we decided that we would see spiderman 3 at the arclight & perhaps catch some lunch at citizen smith. well, we were smote by the smith as it was closed (although it has a giant banner on the outside saying "LUNCH") and instead opted for a sports bar called big wangs whose mascot is a 'roid filled chicken with a tat.
we watched some of the nba playoffs - you did know that i like sports, right? - and proceeded to have several three dollar calzadores margaritas in beer steins. :)
i don't review movies. i don't care to, but i will say that i found spiderman 3 to be overpacked with villains. i liked the second much better. a positive: the special effects were amazing. topher grace as venom was ridiculous. he weighs 85 lbs & no amount of black space goo is going to make him intimidating. i don't want to get into a big discussion about comic books. i am just offering my humble opinion. (by the by, seamus didn't like it as much either and he is a comic king).
after we stopped at amoeba where i purchased the new 120 days album. we brought it home, popped it in, and marvelled as we prepared ourselves for dinner at taiyo sushi on franklin. our friend anna was celebrating her birthday in their private party room & the next day her and her lovely man left for france! oh, lucky ones!
we didn't follow them to akbar for much much swervage, but instead went up to the hill to party at our friends' place the hollywood castle. yes, a castle. check out the myspace page. flickr search it, too. it's amazing. moat? check. drawbridge? check. views of downtown los angeles & the hollywood hills? check. period furniture? check. turrets with torches? you betcha.
i will have photos, soon. needless to say, whenever we go up there we have a great time. this time there was some sort of bizarre japanese film in which an alien gets hooked on coke by an evil little street nymph who breaks into his apartment. during the interludes, scantily clad women danced to bad synth. i want this film. if you know anything about it, please let me know.
we were home just before sunrise.
& for brevity's sake, i will just say that sunday we were in a music video for our friends' band the airborne toxic event & the playback looked great. they shot it at our local dive bar, the white horse, & after we all dined together in celebration.
wow, i hope that wasn't too boring. i have performed my civic duty.
i suppose that i could offer a summary of my weekend, as it was quite varied in activity!
friday night seamus & i attended one of the opening concerts for the silverlake film festival at the newly remodeled & vastly improved echo plex. the lineup was sharp: sea wolf (who we missed!), the bird & the bee, the little ones, & dengue fever! solid performances all around, although i must say i am super partial to the cambodian psychedelia of "the fever" as it forever causes a swank 60s lounge blossom brightly in my mind's eye, sweetly smoky opium den in the back room.
we met the majority of radars to the sky there & enjoyed libations & free ASCAP schwag like rhythm eggs, earplugs, & filter mags. the incomparable joe fielder was there, too, along with mr. kevin bronson & some gents from kxlu. there was much excellent conversation on coachella, stagecoach, & the local state of music, how los angeles bands are once again hitting a great stride.
we snuck out just before the end of dengue fever to avoid any crowd & headed back to our place with regina & her friend from boston. there we shared drinks & very small exchanges in farsi. a good evening.
on cinco de drinko, seamus & i enjoyed margaritas at the house, cleaning as we sipped. we decided that we would see spiderman 3 at the arclight & perhaps catch some lunch at citizen smith. well, we were smote by the smith as it was closed (although it has a giant banner on the outside saying "LUNCH") and instead opted for a sports bar called big wangs whose mascot is a 'roid filled chicken with a tat.
we watched some of the nba playoffs - you did know that i like sports, right? - and proceeded to have several three dollar calzadores margaritas in beer steins. :)
i don't review movies. i don't care to, but i will say that i found spiderman 3 to be overpacked with villains. i liked the second much better. a positive: the special effects were amazing. topher grace as venom was ridiculous. he weighs 85 lbs & no amount of black space goo is going to make him intimidating. i don't want to get into a big discussion about comic books. i am just offering my humble opinion. (by the by, seamus didn't like it as much either and he is a comic king).
after we stopped at amoeba where i purchased the new 120 days album. we brought it home, popped it in, and marvelled as we prepared ourselves for dinner at taiyo sushi on franklin. our friend anna was celebrating her birthday in their private party room & the next day her and her lovely man left for france! oh, lucky ones!
we didn't follow them to akbar for much much swervage, but instead went up to the hill to party at our friends' place the hollywood castle. yes, a castle. check out the myspace page. flickr search it, too. it's amazing. moat? check. drawbridge? check. views of downtown los angeles & the hollywood hills? check. period furniture? check. turrets with torches? you betcha.
i will have photos, soon. needless to say, whenever we go up there we have a great time. this time there was some sort of bizarre japanese film in which an alien gets hooked on coke by an evil little street nymph who breaks into his apartment. during the interludes, scantily clad women danced to bad synth. i want this film. if you know anything about it, please let me know.
we were home just before sunrise.
& for brevity's sake, i will just say that sunday we were in a music video for our friends' band the airborne toxic event & the playback looked great. they shot it at our local dive bar, the white horse, & after we all dined together in celebration.
wow, i hope that wasn't too boring. i have performed my civic duty.
Thursday, May 3
habeas schmabeas
i know that i have been waxing political as of late in my bulletins & blogs, but i cannot help it. we are living in a turnstyle time.
when i am forty, the world will have changed drastically. from the looks of south america and the renationalizing of gas & telecom companies, there will be a new hybrid breed of capitalism. the gap between the economies of china & the states will have either lengthened or closed (due to outright merger) at the expense of our local economies.
when i am sixty there will be a generation of americans my age who fought in the iraq war & are missing limbs, suffering from ptsd, etc. it will be a strange time.
so, listen to this edition of this american life. it is free to download & discusses gitmo & habeas corpus. it is important to be informed to how the people we have "elected" are running the so-called show. i had to stop listening to the program at one point because i was so upset.
just think of how it is going to take us as a community to fill in the grave george bush, jr. has been digging for america.
[also, i found out about this cool site www.densho.org that has an archive of all the internment camp papers from japanese communities during wwii. check it out.]
The right of habeas corpus has been a part of our country's legal tradition longer than we've actually been a country. It means that our government has to explain why it's holding a person in custody. But now, the War on Terror has nixed many of the rules we used to think of as fundamental. At Guantanamo Bay, our government initially claimed that prisoners should not be covered by habeas—or even by the Geneva Conventions—because they're the most fearsome enemies we have. But is that true? Is it a camp full of terrorists, or a camp full of our mistakes?
Prologue.
Joseph Margulies, a lawyer for one of the detainees at Guantanamo, explains how the detention facility there was created to be an ideal interrogation facility. Any possible comfort, such as water or natural light, is controlled entirely by the interrogators. (3 minutes)
Act One.There's No U.S. in Habeas.
Jack Hitt explains how President Bush's War on Terror changed the rules for prisoners of war and how it is that under those rules, it'd be possible that someone whose classified file declares that they pose no threat to the United States could still be locked up indefinitely—potentially forever!—at Guantanamo. (24 minutes).
Act Two. September 11th, 1660.
Habeas corpus began in England. And recently, 175 members of the British parliament filed a "friend of the court" brief in one of the U.S. Supreme Court cases on habeas and Guantanamo—apparently, the first time in Supreme Court history that's happened. In their brief, the members of Parliament warn about the danger of suspending habeas: "During the British Civil War, the British created their own version of Guantanamo Bay and dispatched undesirable prisoners to garrisons off the mainland, beyond the reach of habeas corpus relief." In London, reporter Jon Ronson, author of Them: Adventures with Extremists, goes in search of what happened. (6 minutes)
Act Three. We Interrogate the Detainees.
Although more than 200 prisoners from the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay have been released, few of them have ever been interviewed on radio or on television in America. Jack Hitt conducts rare and surprising interviews with two former Guantanamo detainees about life in Guantanamo. (20 minutes)
Song: "The Clash," Know Your Rights
when i am forty, the world will have changed drastically. from the looks of south america and the renationalizing of gas & telecom companies, there will be a new hybrid breed of capitalism. the gap between the economies of china & the states will have either lengthened or closed (due to outright merger) at the expense of our local economies.
when i am sixty there will be a generation of americans my age who fought in the iraq war & are missing limbs, suffering from ptsd, etc. it will be a strange time.
so, listen to this edition of this american life. it is free to download & discusses gitmo & habeas corpus. it is important to be informed to how the people we have "elected" are running the so-called show. i had to stop listening to the program at one point because i was so upset.
just think of how it is going to take us as a community to fill in the grave george bush, jr. has been digging for america.
[also, i found out about this cool site www.densho.org that has an archive of all the internment camp papers from japanese communities during wwii. check it out.]
The right of habeas corpus has been a part of our country's legal tradition longer than we've actually been a country. It means that our government has to explain why it's holding a person in custody. But now, the War on Terror has nixed many of the rules we used to think of as fundamental. At Guantanamo Bay, our government initially claimed that prisoners should not be covered by habeas—or even by the Geneva Conventions—because they're the most fearsome enemies we have. But is that true? Is it a camp full of terrorists, or a camp full of our mistakes?
Prologue.
Joseph Margulies, a lawyer for one of the detainees at Guantanamo, explains how the detention facility there was created to be an ideal interrogation facility. Any possible comfort, such as water or natural light, is controlled entirely by the interrogators. (3 minutes)
Act One.There's No U.S. in Habeas.
Jack Hitt explains how President Bush's War on Terror changed the rules for prisoners of war and how it is that under those rules, it'd be possible that someone whose classified file declares that they pose no threat to the United States could still be locked up indefinitely—potentially forever!—at Guantanamo. (24 minutes).
Act Two. September 11th, 1660.
Habeas corpus began in England. And recently, 175 members of the British parliament filed a "friend of the court" brief in one of the U.S. Supreme Court cases on habeas and Guantanamo—apparently, the first time in Supreme Court history that's happened. In their brief, the members of Parliament warn about the danger of suspending habeas: "During the British Civil War, the British created their own version of Guantanamo Bay and dispatched undesirable prisoners to garrisons off the mainland, beyond the reach of habeas corpus relief." In London, reporter Jon Ronson, author of Them: Adventures with Extremists, goes in search of what happened. (6 minutes)
Act Three. We Interrogate the Detainees.
Although more than 200 prisoners from the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay have been released, few of them have ever been interviewed on radio or on television in America. Jack Hitt conducts rare and surprising interviews with two former Guantanamo detainees about life in Guantanamo. (20 minutes)
Song: "The Clash," Know Your Rights
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