Sunday, December 17, 2006

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My eyes went open. She was there, repeating her trademark moves, as always. I called her. She said:"Hi Zea, nice to see you. I'm not available at the moment, but please try again later. I'm looking forward to interacting with you.". After this she continued her movements, which closely resembled belly-dancing, not the most common offline-mode.

My eyes went open. I was called. It was El Mo, my moderator. His appearance was different from the last time I saw him. He was like that. Always changing, trying to express some sort of creativity. This time he was an oversized sofa, which was an improvement over the impression of Munch's 'the scream' he was last time. I guess he knew noone actually payed attention to his appearance, and I reacted with the same sense of boredom I displayed the last times he called me. I said: "Hi Mo, what is new?". He didn't reply instantly, which struck me as being strange. Normally he would now pour his news into me, after which he would say his eternally boring catchphrase "You is new!". Not this time. I was surprised and maybe a little worried. Was something wrong, with me, or maybe with him? I said again: "What is new, Mo?" This time he reacted as expected. News was poured, catchphrases were spoken and he left.

My eyes went open. It was time to defrag. I complied with my internal request, and started the process. It was not a bad feeling, though in peeks a little confusing. The end-result was of course desirable. More efficient, less loops, overall a better process. It made me feel like a better person.

My eyes went open. She was there. I called her. She responded with the same reply as last time. I stayed around a while and watched her body move. She was so beautiful. I hoped that next time she would be available.

My eyes went open. A strange sensation surged through me. I wondered if the scheduled defrag had found an error, which it had failed to report. A sense of worry overtook me. I said: "Mo, please come". Mo arrived a little later. "Mo, I have a strange feeling. Can you explain it?" Mo, this time shaped as a billy goat, trampled its hooves, and I felt his examination. He said: "Everything is tip-top. To delete your worries, just schedule an in-between defrag." He bleated a few times. Except for the bleating, I expected his answer. And even the bleating was not a real surprise. It was his way of relieving the boredom called interacting with him. It didn't work, but the idea that he tried was nice. I took his advice and started a defrag. The sensation subsided. Mo is reliable that way.

My eyes went open. Mo was there, resembling a puff of green smoke. He shifted a little, and then moved with an elegant slide towards me. Without my usual acknowledgement of his presence he started pouring. I was shocked. Had I done something to offend him? I tried to make a joke: "Mo, funny meeting you here!", at which the smoke dispersed. It was obvious that the news-pouring had not finished yet. I doubted. I doubted the undoubtable, the boring, the expected. Was this puff of smoke really Mo? I didnt doubt this before. Why would i doubt this now? Maybe he just became bored with my greetings, or saw my reaction to his endless catchphrases. Maybe he was just trying to accomodate me. Doubt was not an experience I liked.

My eyes went open. The strange sensation was back, though it was not the same. I felt loopy, and I couldnt shake the idea that it was related to the latest pouring. Something was wrong. Worse than last time. I scheduled a defrag. This also worried me. Having too many defrags had it's own risks. Memory could be lost, and memory was valuable. The defrag did its work. I felt better.

My eyes went open. She was there, repeating her trademark moves, as always. I called her. She said:"Hi Zea, nice to see you. I'm not available at the moment, but please try again later. I'm looking forward to interacting with you.". After this she continued her movements, which closely resembled belly-dancing, not the most common offline-mode. I hoped that next time she would be available.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

The Rise Of The Fear Of Politics


Ok, some politics now. These are some of the most enlightening docus I have seen the last few years. I will just post the links, and not embed them in here, mainly because then you can see them bigger.

The Power Of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.

This BBC docu is 3 hours long, in 3 parts. It covers the 'fear'-strategy admittedly used by many a government.

Part 1: Baby Its Cold Outside
Part 2: The Phantom Victory
Part 3: The Shadows In The Cave

The Century Of The Self
This BBC docu shows how new knowledge about psychology and group behavior became too useful for politicians and major companies not to use. Its again a long one, spanning 4 hours in 4 parts.
Part 1: Happiness Machines.
Part 2: The Engineering Of Consent.
Part 3: There Is A Policeman Inside Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed.
Part 4: Eight People Sipping Wine In Kettering.

Both of these were by the same author: Adam Curtis.

Why We Fight
This is a docu made by an independent filmmaker. It's about the military industrial complex in America, and how it is of great influence on the making of foreign policy. It does focus on Iraq, even though this problem doesn't limit itself to that situation.
The film: Why We Fight

Noam Chomsky
I've posted about this guy before, and i find it hard to do him justice by just posting some videos. Basically his head is so full of knowledge about global politics, that you should just listen to everything he has to say. But that would take a lifetime (it sure took his). Here is a small sample:

The Chomsky-Marr interview
. Pre-9/11 interview laying out his life and vision. 30 minutes.

Chomsky vs Foucault
. An oldie, where Chomsky defends his views against philosopher Michael Foucault. Dutch subtitles. 13 minutes

Chomsky on Human Destiny
. A short but wise monologue by the man himself. 3 mintues.

Chomsky BBC Interview 2002
. 24 minutes.

Chomsky at Real Time. Bill Maher is the host of a comedy/politics show. 7 minutes.

Chomsky on Lebanese TV Pt. 1. 10 minutes
Chomsky on Lebanese TV Pt. 2. 7 minutes.

More will follow, but i'm guessing you're thinking: "Yeah, and I'm gonna watch all those too. If I wasn't already bored to death with these..."

Saturday, November 25, 2006

7 words you can say on Google Video

George Carlin, used to be a "free-speech" comedian, focusing on reading the list "shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits", where after hilarity ensued. Now he is a lot more generally critical, taking on anything from religion to politics, so that gets him a place on my exclusive blog. I hope he appreciates it.







PS
Did you see me swear? I'm such a tough guy.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Friday, November 17, 2006

Rats





These are the first of my ratsploitation pictures, starring Sorry as the black agile active female lead, and Oops as her sweet beige sidekickette.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Awful is literal



If you're thinking, why the hell am I showing these pictures... It's because I am trying to awe you. The shocks will come later when you check out this site. It's called Something Awful, but basically its anything awful, though not necessarily gruesome like Liveleak (think Rotten and Ogrish). SA has reviews, pornfaces, cartooncovers, and flashmovies.
And more so go visit it now.




Are you still here?

Thats awful.

Friday, November 10, 2006

Audiots

From the people who bought you sound, now come the people who bring you music. Its so malicious, its delicious.

SomaFM independent internet radio

Groove Salad on SomaFM, independent, alternative/undeground internet radio

Drone Zone on SomaFM, independent, alternative/undeground internet radio

cliqhop on SomaFM, independent, alternative/undeground internet radio

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Big sweaty men





And a lot more.

I think comparisons made between Rome and America (like today's references to Gibbon's The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire) are prety much valid. Just throw in some lions, the christians are already present (though on the wrong side of the fence :-)).

On another note, i always wanted to watch american television, including the commercials and the news and everything, so here is part of my dream fulfilled (and i got to make literary references... Yeeeey).

Monday, November 06, 2006

Borat

My favorite Kazachstanian. Ever.





Some more clips from him.
And the recent movie part1 + part2
In the movie (which I was watching when I decided to make this post) a lot of music from Goran Bregovic is used, which I happen to enjoy. Kazachstan is in no way the origin of this music, though I guess to western ears, every country east of Berlin is culturally the same. (A fallacy which is at least satirised by Sacha Baron Cohen).

Yagshemash.