feelthedarkness

not to panic you, but any chance of a stolen ID?

I love these two articles by David Foster Wallace very much. The first on US Fiction writers, and television as a concept (written ahead of the great rebirth of TV), and the second a profile of David Lynch. One of the two really clarified my feelings on video games as a medium, though I'm forgetting which article (haha, it's been a few years)! I think the TV where he gets into the differences in the act of watching. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/E+unibus+pluram:+television+and+U.S.+fiction.-a013952319 http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhpremiere.html

I feel like I must have posted about this before, but one of my favorite things about Second Life is that it was an obsession of Chris Marker, who I think is one of the world's great filmmakers. He passed away in 2012 at the age of 91, but not before completing a personal museum/installation space, and a few films inside Second Life. He was a member of the underground french resistance during World War 2, famous leftist, present and documenting some major global upheavals, like the conclusion of the Algerian War (La Joli Mai), went to Cuba and interviewed Castro in 61 (Cuba Si) fall of the Berlin Wall (Berlin 1990), and what Pauline Kael said was one of the best science fiction films ever made (Le Jetee(also the work 12 Monkeys is based on)), but his final film, or at least closest to final, was Ouvroir a journey through his second life space, including a theater to watch a few of his shorts. http://chrismarker.org/chris-marker/ouvroir-the-movie-by-chris-marker/

This is KILLING ME: https://vine.co/v/ejgZueJYqbl

i thought it was funny! our future lies in the guts of a Petman, who open their bodies to house soldiers, fusing mind and steel body.

I would not disagree with misogyny informing any beliefs, as it is something we're immersed in, but I think there are worthwhile differences in something like Crumb or GG Allin. While gross they're also intended to be received as a kind of pure unfettered id, and looking into that bleakness/addressing the modern condition, has a value, where your pop stars (or at least Swift as a product of the Nashville machine (more than Cyrus or Rhianna) project a kind of wholesomeness that I think is more sinister. The former is basically screaming "i want to fuck" where the latter pushes the subconscious marketing desire for that, but presents as though it doesn't. edit 1: like the former is the inevitable result of living with the marketing barrage of the latter. edit 2: no disrespect anybody not interested in consuming that stuff! I definitely talk about this a lot with my music centric pals, and generally come down on the side of not wanting anything to do with even the more historic transgressive stuff (Whitehouse, Brainbombs, etc)

oh man, if we're taking a full detour here, I'll throw my nearly 40 year old hat in the ring for Miley, (though I got to thumbs down the twerking business (dubious racial reasons)) based on the strength of this: (sidebar: being in The Roots is the best job in America)

unless something has changed it is illegal to sell automatic weapons (title 2 weapons) to civilians without specific law enforcement or military credentials. Some of this obviously varies by state, but there are still "pre-ban" weapons. like ak-47s or whatever made before 1989 which were grandfathered in.

Yeah, I populated my machine with like a million asian fonts files from a language pack due to buying records from Japan.

I really want to get to the TNC book! I love his writing, Books read since last post: 1) Farabeuf or Chronicles of an Instant - Salvador Elizondo: First time translation of this 60s Mexican surrealist horror cult "classic". Short novel about real life surgical innovator has his involvement in subversive chinese activities, erotic torture, and obsession. Really hypnotic and creepy. Kind of reads like Eco doing a novelization of Flower of Flesh and Blood. Shameless half-self plug/full disclosure zone: Translated/published by some good pals, and I work on their covers. 2) Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James: 1976 unrest and crime story in Jamaica. Rasta Goodfellas? I'm about 30% through it, and it is totally electric. Brutal and violent, but very compelling. Electric prose. Each chapter is like a confessional by one of the many many characters, and he does an amazing job establishing a voice for each one, from ghetto boy shooters, to rolling stone reports, to CIA string pullers. Long listed for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, which has yet to fail me as a place to find books. Exactly my taste. 3) Story for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki: Beautiful and sad story of a young japanese girl who's home life sucks, gets bullied, but connects with her radical feminist Buddhist monk grandmother. Interest frame story told by somebody reading the girl's diary. 4) Telex from Cuba - Rachel Kushner: Stories told from the viewpoints of several people on the eve of Castro's uprising in Cuba, from united fruit company workers to local kids. Two books into her career (this and Flamethrowers) and I think Rachel Kushner is one of my favorite modern writers.

If that nasty gov't is stealing all your data your PC is a lesser target, given that the phone companies are already well documented as cooperating with data sharing.

All sexy charisma nighties to replaced with horsehair shirts.

I also think that speaks to a limited experience, because there are ample cases of well off POC having trouble. The first thing I thought of was the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, the Harvard professor outside his own home.

That's cool! Lots of cool stuff here! All of the bands I've been in have been bellowing racket that nobody wants to hear, but posting in the TV thread I was reminded of this silliness a friend and I wrote and recorded in an afternoon for the 20th Anniversary of our annual 24 hour nerd-a-thon. I dragged out my mostly functional Juno 60, and the goal was a bit of an Andrew WK meets the amount of chiptune sound we could muster with no warning, or the ability of either of us to figure out how to make drums with Famitracker in the allotted time. https://soundcloud.com/feelthedarkness/torture-room-20-years-of-getting-it-on

Haha, Thanks Patrick and Mangela! Good stuff!

A friend sold me on this the week before last by saying it was an eastern european developed game, and felt like STALKER but without violence. I can't wait to get into it.

i'm sure this happens everywhere, but I remember in the 90s around metro NY "speakers that fell off a truck" were everywhere. Dudes did just what Bjorn said. Selling "high end" stereo speakers out of a van, usually in a Circuit City or Media Play parking lot. Actually, I just remembered I HAVE A PAIR at my parents that a friend bought back then! Also, like Dewar I've tried to pay full, or prerelease price for games where I want to support the person involved, and wait for sales for the maybe stuff from the big dawgs, like Far Cry 4. I also concede this is super privileged but there aren't TOO many studios/people I'm that invested in.

Also, in two weeks we're have our 23rd annual ~24 hour nerd-a-thon party. party games, board games, and movies. I need a MAIN EVENT film. Ideally something totally bombastic/ridiculous/not on Netflix. We usually try to do HK or other asian stuff. We've done Tokyo Shock features. Maybe Dead Ball? the current slate is: Hard to Be a God Korkusuz aka 'Turkish Rambo' (part of the recent Turkish Feature segment) Fateful Findings (can't wait to see the latest Neil Breen) ROAR (this is a maybe. I saw the Alamo rerelease and it was terrifying and almost impossible to believe, but not great) True Legend (never saw this one, but can't argue with the master Yoo Ping Yuen)

I'm loving Mr. Robot! It's a tiny element, but I love the filmic treatment they use for the title cards.

quintessential Breckon: "I was so filled with JOY! ...it was pathetic."

This is cool, and I'm going to pick up this ball and run with it. 2 WoW things: 1) The first time we downed (vanilla) Rag as a guild, which was built from semi-private punx and gamer pals, and the culmination of all that early WoW magic and painful learning. 2) The opening of AQ40. This was my single favorite WoW thing through Wrath. Our server was the only PvP server in the top 10, and we were #2 by SECONDS, and that was only because people were slamming the server to PVP at the gate opening, where the #1 server didn't have to deal with that bizness. There was a temporary truce between the biggest guilds to not PVP when everyone realized we could win it, but this was pre-arena, so there was a group of hardcore world PVPers who took the stance "we don't want you guys getting better gear and becoming harder to kill" and they made it there mission to cause as much friction as possible.

holy moly

I definitely recognize the weirdness that is "i had over 500 apps and when i reduced the number below 500 the sidebar database didn't update" seems legit, but also I feel like 500 apps is a LOT. if i had my full steam library installed which i often feel is sort of silly in its excess it wouldn't be half the limit.

i appreciate that to support his argument he references another article he wrote.

I worked it out as well. We were together for about 5 or 6 years when she started a PHD program, and there was some worry about the future, so I stayed in NY. It's been about 6 or 7 years, but we're moving back in together in two months. It can be done if you want it to! We had a good foundation, and we're both sort of solitary people so the situation played to our inclinations. You might need to work on your phone skills though.