I think Jesse wanted the best of all worlds:
Operation Project Bleeding Ears Party '99 !!!1!

Sure I guess we can run with PROJECT:BLEEDING EARS until we can think of a better one.

I hate emoticons, but you have left me with no choice, Jesse.


:o


I am INCREDIBLY JEALOUS.

The Line Up
R.E.M. / The Cure / The Flaming Lips U.F.O. Show / Death Cab For Cutie / Modest Mouse / M.I.A. / Flight Of The Conchords / Rodrigo Y Gabriela / Michael Franti & Spearhead / The Breeders / Built To Spill / The Hives / Tegan & Sara / Ghostland Observatory / Ozomatli / The New Pornographers / Blue Scholars / The National / The Kooks / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Cold War Kids / Beirut / Rogue Wave / Okkervil River / Fleet Foxes / Kinski / Mates of State / Sera Cahoone / Crudo (featuring Mike Patton & Dan The Automator) / Battles / Destroyer / Dyme Def / The Blakes / Pela / Jamie Lidell / The Cops / Dengue Fever / Siberian / Say Hi / White Rabbits / David Bazan / The Little Ones / "Awesome" / Dead Confederate / The Heavenly States / 65daysofstatic / Grand Archives / Vince Mira with the Roy Kay Trio / Joshua Morrison / Throw Me The Statue / J. Tillman / The Shaky Hands / Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down / Matt Costa / The Cave Singers

All of that, plus a week of climbing before hand at Skaha. everything is falling into place.

how about PROJECT BLEEDING EARS PARTY!!!?

Wow, I wish I had noticed the multiple posts I made complaining about someone else's poor programming. Now I feel like an idiot.

I did find the existence of a "Department of Religious Affairs" interesting (albeit no more Orwellian than the Ministry of Fitness or the Ministry of Learning.) Not quite sure if, globally, such a government agency is the exception and not the rule, though.

Seems pretty brazen to try to redefine a major religion. (Not that that's stopped powerful people before, though.)

(Also, well done, Jess.)

I find it interesting that Jess' post indicates that it is TURKEY conducting this re-write:

"Turkey is preparing to publish a document that represents a revolutionary reinterpretation of Islam - and a controversial and radical modernisation of the religion.

The country's powerful Department of Religious Affairs has commissioned a team of theologians at Ankara University to carry out a fundamental revision of the Hadith, the second most sacred text in Islam after the Koran. "

...

"According to Fadi Hakura, an expert on Turkey from Chatham House in London, Turkey is doing nothing less than recreating Islam - changing it from a religion whose rules must be obeyed, to one designed to serve the needs of people in a modern secular democracy.

He says that to achieve it, the state is fashioning a new Islam.

"This is kind of akin to the Christian Reformation," he says.

"Not exactly the same, but if you think, it's changing the theological foundations of [the] religion. "

Fadi Hakura believes that until now secularist Turkey has been intent on creating a new politics for Islam.

Now, he says, "they are trying to fashion a new Islam." "

this is a new twist (for me) on the whole state-religion thing...

If you want to make something sound cool don't use (blank) party. Instead use Operation or Project. For example Operation: Echo, Project: Euphoria, Operation: Bleeding ears, Project: Cool vibe, and so and so forth.

Hey, I made a link that works!

Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts

I am so incredibly jealous of you, Jesse...

some of my friends went to Sasquatch last year and said it was AWESOME.
so, so, SO jealous...
alas, one needs money to do fun things like that.



and yes, count me in on the listening party too... whatever name it's got.