Recently, I've been listening to the band Sparklehorse. The name by itself brings up images of a cheesy kind of little-girl fantasy world. Save for the fantasy world part, nothing could be further from the truth.

Sparklehorse's music is counfoundingly evocative, with lyrics that create a kind of stream-of-conciousness dream state, but the dreams ( Read more... )

COLUMN 1 ( Read more... )

Civilization is

entropy in drag.

How to do anything:

1. Think IT out clearly.

2. Choose to do IT.

3. Take action until IT is achieved.

David Maslanka is a leading composer for wind bands, writing the most imaginative and singular music played today. The UW wind ensemble performs his works frequently. Each of his works has a broad and symbolic theme wending through the entire composition (or, a "big dream" as Maslanka likes to call it) and each composition is produced by merging ( Read more... )

Lots of thoughts tonight. Trying to correlate them all ( Read more... )

Some of you already know about this, but I've dicovered my gestalt double. This man, who lives in California, has probably the most similar-looking face to my own that I'll ever see in my lifetime.

Unfortunately, he's a heartless murderer who has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for killing his wife and unborn child. I am referring, of ( Read more... )

I can't get enough of this website.

Following are some excerpts from Charlton Heston's diary (of a speech he made to the NRA):

Hello, members of the National Rifle Association, and welcome to this event. My name is Charlton Heston, and I was also in The Ten Commandments. I could kill any one of you right now.

When I was younger, I wrestled a ( Read more... )

On Capitol Hill stands a Coke machine.

Here is a photograph:


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I've always wanted to try this idea, but it requires an enormous amount of cooperation on the parts of the partygoers. Plus, the partygoers must really enjoy spending time together. God willing, this party will get a pilot run in the next 60 years.

So, guidelines:

Partygoers decide on a location and date block for the party. The location should be ( Read more... )