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A what? A 'new post'? What?
I randomly wrote a thing for a 100-word fiction competition on bOING bOING. The theme was 'Found in Space". I chose literal over clever.
Here it is:
The Captain lay sprawled next to a blackened metal door wheezing and quietly bleeding to death. His right arm lay wedged between the wounded door and the bulkhead. An impressionist’s bright red ( Read more... ) -
Testing Out Grooveshark and Introducing you to HUM.
So HUM are one of those legendary bands who make brilliant records, get dropped from a label or disband prematurely and retain a rabid and tiny fanbase that proseletize about them to whomever is prepared to listen. HUM are an example of that rabid cult following being right.
Pre-Web2.0 it was tough to get a hold of their material which was out of ( Read more... ) -
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5 SONG RANDOM RULES.
Because I am bored and inspired by Dan and Brigit and Tristan.
1. Hangedup - A Different Kind of Function (from Clatter for Control)
This is one of the albums bought during my intense-interest-in-constellation-records phase. Clatter for control is one of the punkest records I've ever heard - totally anarchic sonic punches meted ( Read more... ) -
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MOVIES I WILL NOT BE SEEING THIS YEAR OR IN ANY SUBSEQUENT YEAR:
Sex in the City. -
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ALL-TIME TOP FIVE FOR OL' TWELVEY CARDS:
Dizayum, that's a tough ask. But I'll have a bash eh? Its not like its binding.
1) Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
2) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven
3) Henryk Gorecki - 3rd Movement from Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
4) Joanna Newsom - Sawdust & Diamonds
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Writer's Block: Anthropomorphic buddies
"Have you ever named or befriended an inanimate object? What did you call it?
Well, let me ask you this, is a vagina an inanimate object??
And: how messed up would it be to give it a male name?
But yeah, probably I did name inanimate objects as a child. The best example isn't my own, but a kid I knew*. She named a tree that she loved to climb in the ( Read more... )
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