Happy Mortal

This is the type of story that gives me the chutzpah to face the recession in my own little corner. Not because it necessarily helps increase the numbers in my bank account, but because it embodies some of the local principles I think we will need as we move forward . . .

The amazon beats and 21st c scat combined nicely with each layer of dischordant guitar loops, vocal loops, and synth textures.

This is why Merriweather Post Pavillion is not just great music, it is ground breaking music. It offers new ways to wait for the future.

Here's a time-lapse video of Will, Tim H. and I painting together. We did this while all the fires were burning and everything smelled like Mordor. I think it influenced our subconscious.

"Don't worry Honey, Daddy became a thistle, under which a pack of stanky weasels made their nest!" Death is the road to aweful. On the other hand, perhaps death does help to create a road to awe . . .

Sufjan Steven's new X-mas album Natalie Dylan auctions off her virginity etc . . .

What to do with all this snow?

Two thousand years from now, will billions look to Iraq's constitution as a foundational document, while the U.S constitution is only remembered by a few as that which provided its form?

Requiring a woman to adopt an "understanding" attitude in order to approach a text saturated with male aggression is to perpetuate male aggression. For it forces her, as a first step, to submit by placing "him" first. In the case of a discourse about rape, this is violence against her.

"You were too busy steering the conversation toward the Lord to hear the voice of the spirit saying, "Shut the fuck up." You thought it must be the devil trying to make you go astray Besides, it couldn't have been the Lord because you don't believe he talks that way.