so i've moved out into the wilds of dc with one of my co-workers. it's kind of a shady temporary deal. but it's a swell rent-controlled apartment in southwest.

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those who would accuse me of ignoring my livejournal will have this huge meme/list polluting their friends list. now i have done my duty ( Read more... )

cool artists are releasing new music this summer.

• 05.04.04 eyvind kang - viriginal co ordinates (featuring mike patton!)
  
• 05.15.04 secret chiefs 3 - the book of horizons
  
• 06.08.04 chumbawamba - un
  
• 06.29.04 neurosis - the eye of every storm
  
• 07.13.04 trevor dunn's trio convulsant - sister phantom owl fish

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that's right. i went running this morning. didn't sleep good so i got up and ran a mile. and just when i didn't think i could go any further a crow overtook me, flying over my right side. desire or memory? gave me the strength to carry on like wotan. {read more books!}

and my package came from elixa.com today. earlier than i thought. now i can get ( Read more... )

obligatory news link about the wizard of oz ( Read more... )

so i finished the age of manipulation by wilson bryan key, phd. this feels like an accomplisment, even though it's really just a book. it convinced me to quit smoking though. or it something. even if the reader doesn't credit %100 of the subliminal content the book exposes, the notion that americans are living in the most heavily propagandized ( Read more... )

IF I WAS THE RULER OF THE WORLD
I WOULD HAVE A GROUP OF COURTIER TECHNOCRATS
EXACTING TAXES AND VIRGINS
THEY WOULD BE BOUND BY THEIR AMBITIONS
CULLING THE MASSES
DIRECTING FATE
BY PAIN OF DEATH
THERE WILL BE HYMS COMPOSED FOR ME
BEASTS SLAIN
GARGLING THEIR TRIBUTES
DROWNED IN THE CACKLING
OF A BLACK PYRE

AMBROSE BIERCE

it seems as though the world has slipped out of control. the thin veneer of lies is starting to chip away on this raggedy old world, to reveal... more lies hidden underneath. of course as we deconstruct the aristotelean logic that supports the teetering babel-structure of our civilization, the difference between truth and lie, "to be or not to be ( Read more... )

so i am the minister of cake. when i first started my current job, they told me i would have to do a "birthday thing" once a month for people's birthdays. of course there was no february birthdays so i didn't think of it all month. then today is of course my ceo's birthday. it was a genuine baked goods emergency and i took to the streets in quest ( Read more... )