Paras - Suzanna, the woman I am meeting in Vienna, wants to know what train station we are arriving at - do you have any idea?

Kazu Makino's knees are too sharp as well!! (If anyone can tell me where I got the knees are too sharp reference from you get a prize!... Well coupons to marble slab creamery at any rate.)

The Week in Pictures

I don't have a clue who that person is, but in that picture she's a bit man-jaw for me.

I'll tell you who I'D hit though... Blonde Redhead's Kazu Makino, that's who. She blew me a kiss at the end of the show! *swoon* And I'm not making this up (Julie can back me up!), she really DID. Her voice alone brings me to helpless tears. What a beautiful and graceful feminine creature bestown upon this undeserving world.



Afterwards, Clarko, Julie and I hit up Steel Wheels. As we were leaving, the following verbal exchange occured between me and about 5 or 6 bad-ass lookin black dudes standing outside:

bad-ass dudes: YO MAN, you got any WEEEEED?!!
me: no but look at that tiny-ass bunny rabbit.
bad-ass dudes: ...uh what?
me: no, serious- that's like the tinniest baby bunny I've ever seen!
bad-ass dudes: ...
bad-ass dudes: yeah, he just chillin, I guess.
me: sheeeeyit that rabbit is TIIIINEEEEYYY!
bad-ass dudes: ...
bad-ass dudes: ...
bad-ass dudes: ...yeah, I guess he is pretty small...

what does NYC/DFA think is cool?

2004 Top 10 List
Tim Sweeney (Beats in Space)

1. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs - Fat Cat
2. All 4 Moxie Releases from 2004
3. DMX Krew - The Collapse Of The Wave Function Volume LP - Rephlex
4. The Emperor Machine - Aimee Tallulah Is Hypnotized - DC
5. Le Dust Sucker - Le Dust Sucker - Plong!
6. Glass Candy - Life After Sundown - Troubleman Unlimited
7. Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday - DFA
8. Love Is All - Make Out. Fall Out. Make Up - What's Your Rupture
9. Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love - Modular
10. Recloose - Cardiology (Isolée Remix) - Playhouse

11. Spektrum - Enter The… Spektrum - Playhouse
12. Optimo - How To Kill The DJ Part 2 - Tigersushi
13. J.O.Y. - Sunplus - DFA
14. Pixeltan - Get Up/Say What - DFA
15. LCD Soundsystem - Yeah - DFA
16. Abe Duque - What Happened? - Abe Duque
17. Black Devil - Disco Club (Reissue) - Rephlex
18. In Flagranti - Nonchalant - Codek
19. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike - Memphis Industries
20. !!! - Louden Up Now - Warp
21. Mu - Paris Hilton - Output
22. Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love (Carl Craig Edit) - Mute

off of the top ten list from NYU RADIO
original source

phew. thesis complesis.


“For a long time – at least six decades - photographs have laid down the tracks of how important conflicts are judged and remembered. The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.”
-Susan Sontag


Photographic images have not only become the most important records of our modern history but they have also become the most prevalent. We are constantly bombarded by a never-ending stream of images from a multiplicity of sources, where the boundaries between art, advertising, and journalism are often thin and porous. Especially in a digital age where every person is not only an image capturer but also an image producer/manipulator the modern eye requires sophisticated strategies to filter and discern through the overwhelming wealth of visual information. What has instead emerged is a crude and insatiable appetite for pornographic imagery – not necessarily in terms of being sexually lewd, but more so in terms of revealing what is normally unseen. This is particularly true of the most famous photography documenting war, which is often vivid, violent and shocking. It is important to recognize that not only are these the most remembered images but they are also revered as being the most “truthful” and accurate encapsulations of violent conflict. Pornographic depictions of war have been raised to this objective status firstly because objectivity is simply imbued in the photographic process itself. The photograph is regarded as a documenting medium because it is an artefact of technology, assumed to be produced with only a limited degree of human interference – with regards to both the subject (in war photography, subjects are assumed to be unposed) as well as in the (chemical) development of the image. Secondly, borrowing again from Sontag, the authenticity of an image is directly associated with the level of its constructedness - consider that the most celebrated images of war are often incidentally captured, discovered as found objects, or the Sontag’s examples from Abu Ghraib, simply never meant to be displayed. Lastly, because of these images are related by their violent and sexual content it is important to consider Laura Mulvey’s concepts of “(Male) Gaze” and control, particularly in that the pervasiveness of these images may be a direct product of the male perspective. Instead of drawing simply to Mulvey’s notion that these images cater to the scatological male appetite, the production of these images may more importantly serve, for men, as a mechanism of control over the discourse of violence. The emotional sympathy drawn from the shocking imagery then becomes the barricade to challenging the accuracy of these depictions. In addition though these images have become important reminders of the atrocities of war these kinds of images have also imbedded severe gaps in the records of our “memory museum”.

Well, I already did Novak this week, so here comes

O'REILLY!!!

The bind moggles...

Another message brought to you by the institute of tardy notifications:

Jere and I are heading out to Twin Lakes again this weekend. Anyone is free to join us. We leave Saturday at 5 when I get off work, camp out overnight, spend the day at the lake, and come back Sunday night. Let me know if you're interested in coming.

yo i'd hit it if her puss was sharp as a razor blade.
yeah you heards me. there, i said it. you all would too. every last one of you.
she's the bee-otch's knees, is what she is!

Oh yeah before I forget. Eric, I wouldn't hit Rachel Bilson, her knees are too sharp!!

-Strictly for my ninjas