It's the hope that you would save me from this darkness

We rose up slowly... as if we didn't belong to the outside world any longer... like swimmers in a shadowy dream... who didn't need to breath...

ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Il me semble que je serais toujours bien là où je ne suis pas

"Eso [vacaciones] es para los que tienen que ir a una fábrica a diario. La idea de viajar a una isla remota y exótica pertenece a una generación que cree que tiene que escapar de su realidad. ¿Para qué iba a querer huir de mi mundo si lo he creado a mi medida?". A pesar de su cerrada defensa de la modernidad, en ese universo privado -en el que no puede entrar ni el servicio, a no ser que sea expresamente llamado-, Lagerfeld disfruta de placeres antiguos y ascéticos. Sin móvil, sin ordenador, con mucho papel.

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/ultimo/superviviente/elpepusoceps/20091101elpepspor_10/Tes

Her eyes are as vacuum as the sea

It was English musician, sound designer and conceptualist Brian Eno who first officially coined the phrase “ambient”. In the sleeve notes to his 1978 opus Ambient 1: Music For Airports he defines it as music "designed to induce calm and space to think". Eno's concept of ambience is music that can be either actively listened to or used as background, depending on whether the listener chooses to pay attention or not. It’s been a highly influential if not entirely original idea; at best informing the resurgence of electronic ambient via the dance world, at worst being taken to its passive extreme by many new age composers.

http://www.ambientmusicguide.com/pages/history.php

Once again: how did we come to this?

As of March, 2000, THEY represent about 95 to 98 percent of the total Earth population. YOU KNOW IT. YOU FEEL IT.
THEY have been growing in numbers since a "spiritual hurricane" swept up this planet from 1993 to the present day. YOU are a SURVIVOR of this situation. YOU KNOW IT. YOU REMEMBER IT.
THEY live in two different realities at the same time : THE STAGE and THE BACKSTAGE. You live in one. YOU KNOW IT.
THEY read your mind all the time, and manipulate language and synchronicity to keep what you call "your life" under their control. YOU KNOW IT.
THEY try to bend your belief system through falacies, false dichotomies and false premises, in order to sell you distorted ideas about their SECOND reality, which is presently only a reality-to-be to you. YOU KNOW IT.
THEY sell a dreamworld that doesn't exist, which is quite different from their REAL second reality (the so-called BACKSTAGE), and force you to deliriously fantasize about it. YOU KNOW IT.
THEY create DELIRIOUS RULES and sell you free access to their BACKSTAGE if you follow these sick rules. YOU KNOW IT.
THEY try to describe your day-to-day reality in a distorted way, using their sick beliefs to convince you. YOU KNOW IT.
THEY try to turn what you do in your ordinary "life" - for good or for bad - against you. YOU KNOW IT.
THEY manipulate every aspect of your "life", from your innermost fears, to the future your heart truly wishes to live, to the tiny details of your day-to-day routine (for instance, the decision you will take to have your coffee with sugar, sweeter or none of them). YOU KNOW IT.
THEY try to turn your thoughts against you. YOU KNOW IT.
THEY may even manipulate facts and change realities in the "society" you may think you live, in case you try to change, "improve" or "fix" things in your STAGE-WORLD reality. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY ARE CHARACTERS. YOU ARE NOT.
THEY LIVE. DO YOU ?

http://www.geocities.com/freeyourbrain

La rana Obama

¡Esa luz mediterránea!

I need to stop analyzing my life and start living it

You can spend minutes,
hours,
days,
weeks
or even months
over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.
(TUPAC)

Para fortalecer el propio destino con los ajenos

Finally, don’t be so cautious that you miss the magic of escaping your comfort zone and mingling with local people and staying in their homes. The risks are minimal compared with the wonders of spending time in a small village. So take a gap year, or volunteer in a village or a slum. And even if everything goes wrong and you are robbed and catch malaria, shrug it off — those are precisely the kinds of authentic interactions with local cultures that, in retrospect, enrich a journey and life itself.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

For she loves you for all that you are not

Rare Tim Buckley Live LP With Unreleased Songs Due in August (RS)

I can remember the worst time

Consider an experiment by researchers at Maastricht University in the Netherlands who gave subjects a series of 20 electric shocks. Some subjects knew they would receive an intense shock on every trial. Others knew they would receive 17 mild shocks and 3 intense shocks, but they didn’t know on which of the 20 trials the intense shocks would come. The results showed that subjects who thought there was a small chance of receiving an intense shock were more afraid — they sweated more profusely, their hearts beat faster — than subjects who knew for sure that they’d receive an intense shock.

That’s because people feel worse when something bad might occur than when something bad will occur. Most of us aren’t losing sleep and sucking down Marlboros because the Dow is going to fall another thousand points, but because we don’t know whether it will fall or not — and human beings find uncertainty more painful than the things they’re uncertain about.

(...) Why would we prefer to know the worst than to suspect it? Because when we get bad news we weep for a while, and then get busy making the best of it. We change our behavior, we change our attitudes. We raise our consciousness and lower our standards. We find our bootstraps and tug. But we can’t come to terms with circumstances whose terms we don’t yet know. An uncertain future leaves us stranded in an unhappy present with nothing to do but wait.

http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/what-you-dont-know-makes-you-nervous/?em

I've seen your evil ways

The Jonas Brothers are a flagship weapon in the culture wars. They feign conservative social values while romping around the bizarre hyper-sexual Disney meta-verse where young kids dress like Madonna and Mick Jagger and live the rock n' roll lifestyle, promising to America's young, malleable minds a life of glamor and cool that can never be obtained, while diverting these child automatons from healthy creative engagement, imaginative play, and intelligent thought.

The ubiquity of the Jonas Brothers is so enormous that parents are left with little choice but to submit or ostracise their child. The Jonas Brothers, Hannah Montana and The Cheetah Girls (The Pussycat Dolls for teens) are the only mainstream option for preteens to participate in rock culture and though I am focusing on the way this is damaging to young girls, let it be said that Disney's hyper-sexed musical offerings and the confusing sexual message they carry are no less dangerous to young boys.

Disney is selling sex to kids, pretending they're not, and making a fortune while forcing their audience into cultural bankruptcy.

http://classicalgeektheatre.blogspot.com/2009/03/regarding-jonas-brothers.html

Just how stupid and easily pleased do they presume we are?

1. Kutcher's win was a triumph for the little guy. Um, wrong. Kutcher ain't no little guy. To state the obvious, he's a genetically blessed professional performer (before he was an actor, he was a Calvin Klein model). He had a prime-time TV sitcom that ran for eight seasons on Fox and remains in syndication in dozens of countries around the world, was the creator and star of MTV's "Punk'd," and is a multimillionaire reality-TV mini mogul (e.g., "Beauty and the Geek"). As Dr. Michal Ann Strahilevitz, professor of marketing at Golden Gate University, put it in a comment on AdAge.com: "Ashton Kutcher is not famous for his Twittering, but for his TV shows. If he had never been on TV, he would not have a huge Twitter following. ... If Oprah and Ashton stopped all TV appearances and just moved to Twitter as their only method of communicating with their followers, I am pretty darn sure their Twitter followers would start to drop off."


2. In Kutcher's words (in his streaming video announcement of his win): "One man can have a voice that's as loud as an entire media company."
Um, wrong. As a CNN employee in New York wryly e-mailed me, "Last I checked, CNN is still on the air 24 hours a day around the globe." Yeah, turns out that's true. See, in addition to its assorted semi-useful Twitter streams, CNN is available on TVs in not only 93 million U.S. households, but in more than 200 countries. Just because Ashton Kutcher and CNN both use a free tool, Twitter, to promote themselves doesn't mean they have "voice" parity, for chrissakes. If access to cheap or free digital megaphones were all that mattered, Estonian spammers would be more powerful than God.

http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=136238

I've been here all my life even though I haven't

It’s not just being awake in the middle of the night and being anonymous. It’s being awake in the middle of the night with yourself. Without your support, without your buffers, as we call them. Your comfort things, you’re laying down. He didn’t even have his TV stations. He was trapped. He didn’t have his stuff, he didn’t have his bedroom, he didn’t have his booze, he didn’t have his stuff, [and] he didn’t have his world. It’s just a shock of consciousness where all of a sudden you’re stuck with yourself. You’re stuck with yourself. That’s sort of what Scarlett had, too. “I’m stuck with myself. I don’t have my husband. He’s off shooting this thing. I have my friends, I’m calling somebody on the phone here and they don’t get it. I’m stuck with myself. And there’s nobody here that knows me. There’s nobody here that cares about me. So who am I when I don’t have all my posse, my stuff with me?” That’s what it is. When you go to a foreign country, truly foreign, there is a major shock of consciousness that comes on you when you see that, “Oh God, it’s just me here.” There’s nobody, no neighbors, no friends, no phone calls - just room service.

http://movies.about.com/cs/lostintranslation/a/lostbillint_2.htm

Comprenderlo todo es perdonarlo todo

On the other hand, what's the point of a good movie about memory if you don't leave a few things up for grabs? As Leonard himself tells Teddy fairly early on, "Memory's unreliable ... Memory's not perfect. It's not even that good. Ask the police; eyewitness testimony is unreliable ... Memory can change the shape of a room or the color of a car. It's an interpretation, not a record. Memories can be changed or distorted, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts." This is the very heart of the film. "Memento" is a movie largely about memory -- the ways in which it defines identity, how it's necessary to determine moral behavior and yet how terribly unreliable it is, despite its crucial role in our experience of the world.


http://archive.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2001/06/28/memento_analysis/print.html

Your face is as mean as your life has been

A successful strategy for preventing vandalism, say the book's authors, is to fix the problems when they are small. Repair the broken windows within a short time, say, a day or a week, and the tendency is that vandals are much less likely to break more windows or do further damage. Clean up the sidewalk every day, and the tendency is for litter not to accumulate (or for the rate of littering to be much less). Problems do not escalate and thus respectable residents do not flee a neighborhood.

The theory thus makes two major claims: that further petty crime and low-level anti-social behavior will be deterred, and that major crime will, as a result, be prevented. Criticism of the theory has tended to focus only on the latter claim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows

How do you live with that? You don't

The less control people have over their lives, the more likely they are to try and regain control through mental gymnastics," said Galinsky. "Feelings of control are so important to people that a lack of control is inherently threatening. While some misperceptions can be bad or lead one astray, they're extremely common and most likely satisfy a deep and enduring psychological need".



http://www.physorg.com/news142174136.html

Radiohead sucks -or so they tell me

What it boils down to is this: with Radiohead, it's all about proving something. Apparently Thom Yorke has something akin to Small Man Syndrome, except in his case it's more like Small Incredibly Fucking Creepy Disfigured Gnome Syndrome. First of all, he had to prove that an ethereal fetus-fairy with an heroically obtuse haircut could make it onto the pop-charts. He did so, of course, with "Creep," a song so affectingly pathetic that it could make even someone as nerdy as you feel like you had someone to laugh at. It found a substantial audience among teenage girls who needed someone to feel sorry for, teenage boys who wanted to nail said teenage girls (or who were captivated by those exiting two seconds before the chorus where it sounds like Johnny Greenwood drops his guitar), and denim-jacketed indie-loving radio DJs who are always in search of the "Next Bleak Thing." As for the album that spawned this single, “Pablo Honey”, let’s just say that even with the current Radiohead craze in full effect, no revisionist guitar-band historians have dared to step up and claim that it was any good. It’s best to just pretend it didn’t exist.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/radiohead-sucks.php

So, as an afterthought: the core audience of their seemingly 'brain-washed-cult' following seems to be socially awkward emo kids who will never, ever get laid. Sorry, but if need be, I'll find another cult to join. And no, it won't be "The Mars Volta bandwagon" either. Fuck, don't even get me started on those fucktards.

http://thetwominuteshate.blogspot.com/2005/11/radiohead-sux.html

One Last Thing

Because they have been so abused and ignored by society, many geeks have gone underground. You may actually know some and just haven't noticed them. They often feel resentful, and misunderstood, and it is important to realize this as you grow closer to them. Don't ever try to force the issue, or make crazy demands that he choose between his computer and you. Remember, his computer has been there for him his whole life; you are a new interloper he hasn't quite grasped yet.

http://ifaq.wap.org/sex/geekguide.html

5 year madness

Chief John J. Moslow
Amherst Palice Department
500 John James Audubon Parkway
Amherst, New York 14228
(716) 659-1322

"I, Jeremy M. Perkins do hereby state and depose that the following statement is given of my own free will and accord.
[...] My Mom was in the kitchen painting. She paints on glass as a hobby. When I got out of the shower I saw that my Mom was on the phone in the kitchen. I went into the kitchen and took a pointed knife around 12 inches long with a brown handle. I got this from a drawer to the left of the sink. We have about 10 of these knives, they may be steak knives. I held the knife in mi right hand behind my back and she hung up the phone. I tried to slit my wrists after the shower with a utility knife but I wouldn't die so I decided to do my Mom in instead. I pushed her into her bedroom downstairs and stabbed her in her chest and right arm. She was screaming no don't, Jeremy no don't. I stabbed her about 4-5 times before she fell down. I was using a cross stabbing motion while she was standing. I then stubbed her about 10 more times in the stomach after she fell to the ground. I knew she was a goner. I then tried te cut her right eyeball out but it would not come out. I believed her eyes were evil."

My name and my spirit are both corrupted

— Do you believe in feelings and emotions?
— Well, no, I don't, but er... I have them. I wish... I wish I didn't.
— What, you'd like to get rid of all them altogether, would you?
— Ah... Would be a good idea, yeah.
— Why, do you think you'd be happier? But happiness is a feeling too, isn't it?
— Ah... no, just, you know, just a feeling of doing right, you know, just getting by.

ANDY WARHOL INTERVIEWED