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11:55 pm
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catchup Th-Sun
Muppets, savage music, the shining, axes, and bookquakes. ( Thursday through Sunday )
Current Music: Resonance
Tags: carolina theatre, colony, durham, film, film2008, ihsp, ihsp2008, mucha, nevermore, pour house, r.o.d., raleigh, reads, retrofantasma, shows
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08:25 am
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daily scorpion: the heroic trio
( the heroic trio )
Current Music: GRAILS, _Take Refuge In Clean Living_
Tags: r.o.d., scorpions
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11:31 pm
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i can haz buckethead!
( sorry - no, not sorry, and reading is apparently really weird to some people )
Current Music: Buckethead, _Cyborg Slunks_
Tags: buckethead, lincoln theatre, r.o.d., raleigh, that 1 guy
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09:13 pm
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Cayce-inspired messenger bags
( but there's still logos, she'd still be allergic to these. Oh, the irony. )
Current Music: documentary
Tags: r.o.d.
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10:17 am
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Because only the elite READ, apparently....
( politics )
Current Music: Legendary Pink Dots, _Plutonium Blonde_
Tags: politics, r.o.d.
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09:49 pm
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Polysics or Die!
In the same vein as the kaiju (Japanese monster movies&anime influenced) Japanese band Peelander-Z, who I describe as a cross between the Power Rangers and Melt Banana, come the Polysics (biggest influence: Devo) on a North American tour.
Local relevance: Peelander-Z, Local 506, next Monday; Polysics, Disco Rodeo, 4 Nov.
Current Music: Coverville
Tags: r.o.d.
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11:50 pm
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bibliomancy roundup
( bibliomancy roundup )
Current Music: _The Picture of Dorian Grey_ (1945) score
Tags: bibliomancy, book of thoth, crowley, r.o.d., ua
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12:46 am
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day in review: music, paper, papermusic
Wednesday:
* opened my mail from the day before and found the posters for the HASTAC Conference,
* email first thing announcing the completion and release of the CT-Collective project Paper Music that I contributed the "Tarot Talking" piece for,
* accomplished useful work,
* M and I went to the first RTP 2.0 gathering of tech-type people in the Triangle [1] over in Durham, caught up with friends I haven't seen in a long time,
* I went to a private party afterward, talked Mieville and Barker for a while,
* opened my mail from today to find the rare action figure of Yomiko Readman finally arrived today.
Of *course* it did.
[1] I hate name tags. The next time someone hands me a sticky "My Name Is..." tag to write on and slap on my shirt, I'm considering writing in "...Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
Current Music: FH
Tags: music, r.o.d., subscape annex
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11:14 pm
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Voldemort, Yomiko, waffles, and saplings
( Voldemort, Yomiko, waffles, and saplings. Really. )
Current Music: Tom Waits, _Orphans_
Tags: durham, r.o.d., show
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04:03 pm
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weekend catchup
I have spent my time this weekend catching up with friends in from out of town, seeing films with M and / or said friends [1], and completely rearranging the library, the office space, and the upstairs bedroom. The office has much cleared out [2], three new bookshelf units in the library [3], and the upstairs bedroom has most of the books [4] cleared out and looks less like Yomiko moved in there. I also set Laughing Boy, the Cenobite jester lounge singer, up in the office [5] so he's visible to anyone with the temerity to walk down the upstairs hallway. I tried to put one of the shelves in the studio but wasn't happy with it so I replaced everything as it was. As a consequence of essentially completing a long-standing major task that's taken several weekends over the last year, I am loathe to start other projects.
[1] More later, likely.
[2] Much of the much were books that should have returned to the library and hadn't yet. The rest of the much (the non-book items) are stashed in the library closet.
[3] I'm not enamored of the bookshelf units I'm currently using. To be honest they're ugly. But they're ridiculously inexpensive, rapid to deploy, and are in mass quantities at local hardware megastore. Nicer shelves would be nicer, but I haven't yet and if I wait for that to happen it will be a while.
[4] Three bookshelves, plus a hundred or two, remain. By comparison that's sparse.
[5] He moved out of the library with many of the books during the repairs at that time.
Current Music: Nothing. Yes, really.
Tags: catchup, r.o.d.
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08:29 am
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rule #n
The proper response to clearing four books off the to-read stack should not be "order more from Amazon" or even "spreeshop@local used bookstores", it should be "notice there's thirty-plus left and choose a fifth".
Current Music: Chain-Tape Collective, _CT-East_
Tags: r.o.d.
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05:15 pm
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paper is always with us
Back on Sunday I mentioned I'd had an epiphany regarding a music project, and I'd go into it later.
( this is later )
Current Music: one of the Lamprey/Ourobouros sets
Tags: aar, r.o.d.
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07:39 pm
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books books books books books - or at least pictures of them
Two links of library por - that is to say "informational photographs for the refined and discerning bibliophile".
First, the nonist's gallery, thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) woodwardiocom for posting it.
Second, photographs of books by abelardo morell, as noticed in this recent metafilter post.
And now I'm off to read the new installment of Read or Die.
Current Music: nutrimento electroacoustico, _Tilak_
Tags: r.o.d.
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06:04 pm
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Faerie's [1] annual biowarfare testing and dinner with the Paper Sisters
Whatever I'm allergic to pollen-wise bloomed overnight Wednesday night. Should look for daily pollen stats by type and see what appeared on the charts after dark Wednesday and by morning Thursday. I made the mistake of rubbing my left eye on the way home from work and am now doing an excellent lo-tech Picard-as-Borg imitation.
R.O.D. the TV Vol 6 DVD arrived yesterday afternoon, so we watched it before I went out to Chapel Hill for the Gogol Bordello show. Vol. 6 was good, and darker than I expected. Vol. 7, last three eps of the second and so far final season, is scheduled for release the third week of June. Yes, already pre-ordered.
[1] read LKH's new Meredith Gentry book last week, go figure.
Current Music: Will, _Deja-Vu_
Tags: r.o.d.
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10:11 am
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randomness: R.O.D., cheesecake, Revengers Tragedy
Yesterday read a bit, then my recent amazon order came in to regrow my to-read pile heights. Actually, what came in was mostly AV: the Read or Die soundtrack album that I promptly ripped to iTunes, Gypsy 83 which I've been meaning to see since I heard it was being filmed, Neil Gaiman's A Short Film About John Bolton, and The Revengers Tragedy.
Went to dinner at Cheesecake Factory with M and starchyld, wherein I discovered their definition of dessert is a slice the size of a small cake. Their crowding has dropped significantly now, after a couple of years: seating at 6pm on a weekday only took fifteen minutes. Shortly after they opened and for several months, that wait was an hour, hour and a half (we'd walk in, ask, then walk out and usually go to PF Changs next door).
Came home and waded through some forums, worked on removing some grime from the great room floor upstairs (this is taking a while), then watched The Revengers Tragedy. An adaptation of Thomas Middleton's seventeenth-century play to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool directed by Alex Cox (Repo Man, Straight to Hell, Sid and Nancy, Walker), I don't know how I missed hearing about this film for three years until last week. The Revengers Tragedy has Christopher Eccleston (the army squad leader in _28 Days Later_, and the new Dr. Who), Eddie Izzard, and Derek Jacobi, this film reminds me of _A Clockwork Orange_ and _Titus_. Not as good as either, but still watchable as a bleak black comedy. Links:
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286921/
official: http://www.revengerstragedy.com/
original play: http://www.tech.org/~cleary/reven.html
Current Music: Brainwashed.com netradio
Tags: r.o.d., revenger's tragedy
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11:17 am
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badgerhaus, playstation to MIDI success, meet Sis, impending uncaffeination
Was feeling a little off Saturday so stayed in. Since LJ was down, I focused on other items I wanted to deal with.
Badgerhaus evening was great, nice crowd. People seemed surprised by the new sofa. zombiepops made an amazing black bean and chicken soup (recipe? does it exist?) andd we ordered Capital Creations pizza as extra.
z_kungfu brought over his Madcatz brand playstation2 wireless controller that happens to work perfectly with the playstation2-to-USB adapter on my Macintosh, so he offered to swap his for my Logitech that works perfectly with a playstation2 but not at all with the USB adapter. (For backstory, read previous entry on this topic.) Now I can use a playstation2 controller to generate MIDI. What I need now is a second receiving station that matches the first, so I can use the Madcatz playstation2 controller to send controller signals to two locations at once. (Also, to pay the shareware fee for junxion before the demo period runs out.)
Ran the first Read or Die [1] for people. (Hi, Sis.)
aklikins suggested that my ongoing reading list from long observation was odd enough and with high enough turnover that I should start another blog solely devoted to reviews of books as I go through them. Bad badger! No new projects.
Out of coffee, must leave the house today to restock. Plus clean the house as we have four guests driving in either very late tonight or tomorrow morning.
[1] The OVA 3-episode. Now that I have sixteen of the twenty-six episodes of the followup and at-least-at-first-tangentially-related TV show, can start running that for people in the evenings.
Current Music: netradio
Tags: r.o.d.
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10:29 am
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remarkable men and paper masters
Recently: read John Shirley's Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Works, which was disappointing mostly because of my advance expectations. After reading Kaczynski's brilliant and scholarly new biography of Crowley (Perdurabo) I was prepared for another biography. What I got in Shirley's book was more of a hagiography: informative and instructional but not unbiased. Excellent overview of Gurdjieff's teachings, though, and Shirley's an excellent writer. Kept spotting parallels others have probably made more of over the decades than I'm going to bother, so I'll stop now.
Volumes 3 and 4 of Read or Die: TV arrived yesterday, so M insisted on watching all 8 eps in one sitting last evening. Now to wait for mid-February for Vol. 5's release date.
Current Music: live365.com "Swirly Girl Channel" etherealgoth netradio
Tags: gurdjieff, r.o.d.
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08:29 am
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Hi, Sis (R.O.D. - Read Or Die)
After reading about this anime from Teresa on Making Light, I told a coworker about it. Being a huge anime fan she immediately bought it and then loaned it to me this week. Watched it Wednesday night (ended up watching it twice, it's short) [1]. R.O.D. (Read Or Die) (other review) a Japanese OVA anime about the super-powered special operations unit of the British Royal Library. Go back and read that sentence again. (Memo: never ever keep a library book past the due date.) While we watched it M alternately snickered at me and the screen when she wasn't weirded out at the cognitive dissonance of having a cute female Japanese librarian/substitute teacher act like me (as pertains to infojunkie and bibliophile behavior: on some days there's a strong overlap between my and the main character's obsessions.)
I've personally reconciled the cognitive dissonance by deciding Yomiko Readman is the kid sister I didn't know I have. Hi, Sis. (Oh, and Sis? The library is the last door on the left, mind the guardian. The library bathroom is the scorpions' den, so you might want to go out to the hall bathroom if you need one. [2])
[1] The irony of watching the R.O.D. DVD, then an hour later realizing I was sitting listening to a concert held in a used bookstore/coffeeshop immediately after, was, as they say, palpable.
[2] Reading that parenthetical bit was a reality check on how odd my life is from an outsider's point of view: none of that sentence is fictional or even exaggerated.
Current Music: Cure, _Mixed Up_
Tags: r.o.d.
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