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February 29, 2004


	ancient order: oklahoma 2005 Posted by xtop at 11:57 PM \| Comments (0)

February 27, 2004


	scenes from downtown Posted by xtop at 12:08 AM \| Comments (0)

February 26, 2004


	william melvin hicks Bill Hicks Bootleg Archive (be sure to check out Filling Up the Hump, Hicks' last full, live show.) Death of a Comedian Comedian as Confidence Man Last Laugh (John Lahr's 10 years posthumous profile) The Silence of Bill Hicks (Lahr excerpt/Hicks letter on Letterman excerpt) Untangling Bill Hicks' Legacy Harvey Pekar on Hicks and Letterman... Posted by xtop at 11:52 PM \| Comments (0)

February 24, 2004


	grey tuesday Posted by xtop at 08:11 AM \| Comments (0)

February 23, 2004


	this about sums up my monday A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world. The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure... Posted by xtop at 11:19 AM \| Comments (0)

February 20, 2004


	the ibogaine cure "Patrick was one of the worst opiate addicts, worst heroin addicts that I have ever enountered in my life," says Dr. Mash. His arms still bear the scars of years of heroin addiction, and he knows only too well what happened when the flow of drugs into those arms was interrupted. "When you're going through withdrawal, you're sweating, you're shaking, you're freezing, you're hot, it feels like your spine is being smashed... Posted by xtop at 05:28 PM \| Comments (0)


	kc: mardi gras this goes off at 5pm at Yjs. I don't even like the Lips as much as everyone else seems to, but I'll be there just for the weird spectacle of our old-lady mayor giving a key to the city to the perceived saviors of sound. Mayor Kay Barnes declares Feb 24 Flaming Lips Day In Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes will give the Keys to the City to members of the popular... Posted by xtop at 02:47 PM \| Comments (2)

February 18, 2004


	luck: pressed because no matter how many times i've read it over the years, this is still one of the greatest stories ever: Inside the director's booth, a wave of fear was slowly crashing over the producers. The broadcast pace of Press Your Luck required evenly-spaced commercial breaks, timed to coincide with a player eventually hitting a Whammy. The player would go bankrupt, the action would stop, and host Peter Tomarken could take a... Posted by xtop at 04:33 PM \| Comments (2)

February 16, 2004


	everyone vs. everyone Close observers of Amazon.com noticed something peculiar this week: the company's Canadian site had suddenly revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews on the United States site under signatures like "a reader from New York." The weeklong glitch, which Amazon fixed after outed reviewers complained, provided a rare glimpse at how writers and readers are wielding the online reviews as a tool to promote or pan... Posted by xtop at 01:21 PM \| Comments (1)

February 15, 2004


	1924 August 12 "Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot allegedly sentenced Pep 'The Cat-Murdering Dog' to a life sentence at Eastern State. Pep allegedly murdered the governors wifes cherished cat. Prison records reflect that Pep was assigned an inmate number (no. C2559), which is seen in his mug shot. However, the reason for Peps incarceration remains a subject of some debate. A newspaper article reported that the governor donated his own dog to the prison to... Posted by xtop at 06:16 PM \| Comments (0)


	instrumental transcommunication Instrumental Tanscommunication (ITC) means that the messages coming from beyond will be received and/or stored by use of technical means. ITC is the use of tape recorder, TVs, radios, computers, telephones, and other technical devices with the intent to get meaningful information from beyond in such forms as voices, images, and text. EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) experimenting produced the first ITC contacts using a tape recorder and a simple microphone. Later on... Posted by xtop at 12:51 AM \| Comments (0)

February 13, 2004


	bongwater, brian eno, spalding gray courtesy of Vinz' obsession with the perfect band, Bongwater. Kramer of selfsame explains the 'Too Much Sleep' album in perfect terms: During this time we did one of our first gigs, for a series called LOW CULTURE-HIGH ART at the Museum of Modern Art, that took place over several weeks at the rate of one installment per week. One week prior to our performance, I sat next to Spalding Gray in a... Posted by xtop at 12:53 PM \| Comments (0)


	the grey album "Special interests, including the major labels, have turned copyright law into a weapon," said Downhill Battle co-founder Holmes Wilson. "If Danger Mouse had requested permission and offered to pay royalties, EMI still would have said no and the public would never have been able to enjoy this critically acclaimed work. Artists are being forced to break the law to innovate." Someone went and made me realize, again, that the only way... Posted by xtop at 10:24 AM \| Comments (1)

February 12, 2004


	doyle v. joyce Roddy Doyle, the Booker prize winner and the bard of raucous Dublin demotic, chose a Joyce birthday celebration to slam the epic story of one day in the life of Leopold Bloom as overrated, overlong and unmoving. "Ulysses could have done with a good editor," Doyle told a stunned audience in New York gathered to celebrate the great man who is credited with inventing the modern novel. "You know people are always... Posted by xtop at 11:09 PM \| Comments (1)

February 10, 2004


	look ma, no logic Cause when it rains, it pours. This comment was logged a few hours ago, under the wily alias WishToRemainUnknown: The name Fox Logic is a copyright name of TechSonic Network. This artical should be taken down and renamed or writer will be charged for stealing the name. http://www.techsonic.net/policy.htm Read the bottom of the page. And Fox Logic is the name of the TSN search engine. If you go here you'll see someone... Posted by xtop at 10:12 PM \| Comments (5)


	look ma, no shame My first plagiarist. Literally, I'm almost speechless. Obviously not enough so that it stopped me from depositing some flash-bang snark (though it's so swallowed by awe that it's not particularly witty or pride-inducing). But really, if you're gonna steal shit, steal it from reputable sources. But when you swipe verbiage from the mouths of faceless wanks on the inertnet, you've successfully devolved about as far down as you can go. But don't... Posted by xtop at 12:42 AM \| Comments (7)

February 06, 2004


	snowbound "Hi, Dave? Yeah, I can't get out of my parking lot at all. I've dug holes straight through the ice with my tires and my engine is starting to melt. I tried cardboard under the tires, shovelling snow away and pushing it. Nothing's working. I can't even back up and park because I'm within a few feet of ramming into my neighbor's car. So yeah, I'm not gonna make it in to... Posted by xtop at 11:17 AM \| Comments (4)


	mom's seasonal opinion Posted by xtop at 08:36 AM \| Comments (1)

February 05, 2004


	head "The head fell on the severed surface of the neck and I did not therefor have to take it up in my hands, as all the newspapers have vied with each other in repeating; I was not obliged even to touch it in order to set it upright. Chance served me well for the observation, which I wished to make. "Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the... Posted by xtop at 11:53 PM


	Just leave us alone and well destroy ourselves. "On Jan. 18, 2001, Adult Video News reported on the so-called 'Cambria List.' Paul Cambria, a longtime attorney for the porn industry, was involved in the list's preparation. The list is controversial within the industry and interpretations differ on how it was meant to be applied. Some in the industry say it represents guidelines for the box-covers of adult videos, not for the sex acts they depict. Nevertheless, there is wide agreement that the Cambria List shows how the adult industry is seeking to be more careful, fearing a potential crackdown on pornography by the Bush administration." Posted by xtop at 10:47 PM


	ira glass on work "There are people who are fundamentally lazy, who only get anything done because they put themselves under dreadful deadline pressure. Those people are all my brothers."... Posted by xtop at 12:05 AM

February 03, 2004


	el hombre alto Angus Scrimm, the villain of the Phantasm films and creepy interrogator formerly of Alias, was born Lawrence Rory Guy in Kansas and went on to be a journalist and liner note writer for Capitol records. Scrimm lived the double life of a horror cult favorite while up on the fifth floor, cranking out salaried copy for classical and jazz albums and even winning a Grammy in 1974. Here's a couple choice bits (actually the only notes I could find on the inertnet): Posted by xtop at 01:19 AM \| Comments (0)

February 01, 2004


	fraction version two themattfractiondotcom. new. shiny.... Posted by xtop at 09:46 PM \| Comments (2)


	Houdini & Doyle Houdini had "often expressed the belief that Lady Doyle was not a valid medium." Doyle replied to Houdini's statements by diagnosing an "abnormal frame of mind" that he called "Houdinitis," one symptom of which was the belief "that manual dexterity bears some relation to brain capacity." Posted by xtop at 03:25 PM \| Comments (0)


	aesthetic apparatus fucking off to bed now.... Posted by xtop at 04:10 AM \| Comments (1)


	the voynich hoax No one has worked out whether Voynichese is a code, an idiosyncratic translation of a known tongue, or gibberish. The text contains some features that are not seen in any language. The most common words are often repeated two or three times, for example the equivalent of English using 'and and and' giving weight to the hoax theory. On the other hand, some aspects, such as the pattern of word... Posted by xtop at 12:08 AM

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