Sunday, June 28, 2009

Modern Discourse, long diatribe, forewarned

Just joined facebook. Here's what happened in a two week period that's fucked my head up moreso than usual.

#1 Opened while still fresh out the bar to talk to a girl definitely my junior (but within acceptable age difference, shut up). No direct contact as far as i can tell other than added to a "friend" list nearing the thousands, still not sure how facebook works. Fingers crossed she's into me!

#2 "Friended" without an approval process by people who were never my friends but "know" me through high school, college, randomness, etc.

#3 Subjected to updates of ex-girlfriends on their current status when it wasn't a concern, goal, nor passing interest to know what's going on in their lives.

Just now, asked to send contact info for a ten year high school reunion by disclosure #2, bum bum! things become compounded.

So many issues at once, never came up with the courage to delete myspace, though i've regretted/attempt deleted/wanted to remove my account and the majority of aspects of it for years but can't because of:

a: the idea that this is how we communicate now. evolution of social discourse. fear of being out of the loop, out of touch, fighting progress because i'm not hip

b: vanity: someone somewhere outside of us is paying attention to my drunken rants/opinions/prose on things that don't/can't/will never matter

c: addendum: i'm clever and important but no one knows it yet and will need a bloggable history of my life for future generations to make sense of how important/cool/googleable i am after i croak and they realize what a mistake it was they didn't pay atteniton to me sooner.

there is so much wrong on so many levels.

is myspace/facebook/twitter really a positive addition? especially considering that it's evolving so quickly into less cognizant variations so quickly? we should start a site that let's you post single words so that six months from now we'll make money off a stream of conscience book of the stream of concious from the collective conscience. it will be unreadable, meaningless in a directly informative way, but will get plenty of blog hype and 2nd page fodder for local newspapers usually providing free advertising for local business.

oh the aspiration!

chunks seems excited about twitter from the aspect that now it doesn't matter, but in the future you'll be able to look at posts to see exactly what was going on at that point in time over a grand scope. social experiment yes, communication no?

let's log the failure to communicate clearly in a format that prohibits from communicating clearly?

reposting other's ideas/art/music/contributions in lieu of working on creating your own. feels like the well is running dry and we're feeding on ourselves instead of finding a way out. i've done it a million times, sharing something with friends as a common memory/check this out type of deal, but feel 99.9% of the time it's passing on something someone else has done instead of us creating something to share with each other. i'm uncomfortable with that for some reason.

the same reason family guy is hated for it's pop culture references. it's the easy way out. hey you know about this, i know about this, let's bond over the fact we all know about this.

that equals the key component for a misery party akin to a high school reunion. oh shit! speak of the devil.

ten years later. let's be forced to think about what we have/haven't accomplished. let's revisit the juvenile notions of popularity/superiority and who we think we are. and let's all do it with people we haven't talked to in years because we didn't care about/hated/or grew apart from the people we haven't kept in touch with for good reason whether we can explain those reasons or not.

in day to day life, i enjoy where i'm at. long way to go, plenty of misteps, complete failures, and regrets, but ecstatic to still be inolved in a large group comparitively of interesting, thoughtful, and intelligent people whom all keep in contact well after the fact.

we're a rare breed. and it's become glaringly obvious, exciting, and upsetting all at once. why haven't we done more? if we're extraordinary as we've always felt why haven't we done extraordinary things, why are we still talking about things we're going to do, wish we did, are stopping ourselves from doing?

i've forced my opinion on plenty, but there's a common veign amongst us that spurts when we get together, but goes dry when left on our own. how do we stop this and get shit pumping again?

i don't want to give a shit about a high school reunion and own up that no one is ever gonna figure it out, but i definitely don't want to be bothered by a high school reunion because we haven't lived up to our own expectations.

whatever we thought they were.

fuck.






and if it's long the rest here.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

J.B. M.J.





and if it's long the rest here.

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man










This is a really great, upsetting, beautiful, strange thing. its on netflixs instant. i recommend everyone check it out.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

A Serious Bummer



MJ dies today, and i am sad. Sadder than i should be. For most people our age, MJ was the first music we can remember liking- i remember singing his praises on the swing in the second grade. My mom taped a long video retrospective on him in the early 90's that survived well into the the Danger Dome.

Besides being immensely talented, MJ had this weird magical overgrown child thing going on that made his early and middle work extra-special and fun for a kid. Unfortunatley for him this translated into being a profoundly strange adult with serious problems. Oh well. That's the price you pay for being the king of pop.

When we were all at the beach a couple of weeks ago, we played the "who should have died young" game, and MJ was universally agreed to have been better off if he'd kicked it in the late 80's. Even considering his diminished, often embarassing image over the last 20 years, i now regret saying that. He died today, and I feel loss.

Maybe it has more to do with the death of childhood than of MJ himself. He'll always be a huge part of my memories growing up, and seeing him go means letting a part of that go. It's time i guess. I'm twenty-six goddamn years old.









and if it's long the rest here.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Monday, June 22, 2009



Sunday, June 21, 2009

Chop'n'n'n

In lieu of a past/present post we have to dig up all the time, i've had a dormant blog for a while that could house the mediashare posts Lee has been so kind as to set up.

Danger Crew expansion son'n'n'n.

Chop'n'n'n

Directions for confused's after the bump...


make a folder of the album you'd like to share on your desktop.

right click and select "compress to XXXXXX.rar and email"

cancel when requested to email.

logged into the mediashare account, select upload files.

choose the .rar you just made. it looks like a stack of books.

press the green start upload bar.

press the BLUE "upload to new folder"

name it under "New Folder Name" and click Save and Continue

after it reaches 100% click MY FILES

find the one you made, to the right click SHARE

Select Embed in Website

Copy and paste "html code" into post for new album.

Not as hard as the number of steps make it seem. You'll figure it out.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Friday, June 19, 2009

Schwartzman wants to help the peoples.



Rick tried for the steez, now in a reversal his life is getting played.

B.T.W. How's that job search coming buddy?

p.s. it helps if you actually send out resume's and go to real interviews with people that have the potential to hire you.

Hope the bahamas are snazzy.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Dinosaur Jr. video in Augusta

Saw this dinosaur jr video on pitchfork. cool write up, and most definitely includes downtown augusta. pavillion, monument, and ellis by the old parking garage stomping grounds amongst others. sweet little surprise.





and if it's long the rest here.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

stumbled upon this show its pretty funny



Thursday, June 11, 2009

So I have an idea

I started a danger crew mediafire page so that we can all share our music with each other easier.
the user name is dangercrew@gmail.com and the password is dangercrew. i figured this way we can all upload albums we think others might enjoy and what not.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Welfare

Shepard Fairey: "Just because you’ve reached a certain level of success, that doesn’t mean you’ve become corrupted by the system. It’s a very unhealthy idea that people have, that it’s underground vs. the mainstream, that you’re either keeping it real or selling out. I mean, there’s good and bad in every arena. It’s funny, some people, the reason they’re in the underground is because they’re lazy and don’t make things happen for themselves. They shit-talk about everything, but they don’t do anything; they have this cool, rebellious, outsider persona that they inhabit, but it doesn’t actually have anything constructive about it, and they’re just, “Yeah, I’m underground, keeping it real.”

"And then there’s people in the mainstream who work within the system, if that’s what you want to call it, that have great intentions, and then there are those people who abuse their power and are assholes. There are different types of people, good and bad, in every situation. So for me, the idea is that you don’t just go up the ladder and transition to a new point; you can fully move between every place in terms of success and culture, and work with the things that are the most constructive in every area. And people are going to say to me now—just because over the arc of my career, I’ve reached a certain point where I can make a living from art, and I’ve been able to do album covers for bands like Led Zeppelin—that means I sold out, or I don’t have the same ideals I once had. That’s ridiculous. But that is a big problem with success. They don’t see how they can get from where they are to that. So continuing with street art and all the things that have that punk-rock, do-it-yourself ethos that made me who I am just allows people to see how that evolution can occur, how to empower themselves, and that’s incredibly important."

I don't have the whole story, i don't dislike Justin and Paul to hate on them as people, but in regards to Welfare alot of shit I experienced personally seemed out of place.

Peter's in town and it got me thinking again, and I couldn't ever put it into words.

Not trying to reflect or insist peter's opinion in any way, solely my own, but this lifted from a shepard fairey interview sums up everything that confused me as to why welfare never got past the point it has, and in varying ways why alot of us haven't gotten past the points we have. don't get me wrong, i'm pointing a finger directly at myself (a'hm, red, a'hm).

kisses.

and if it's long the rest here.

Monday, June 8, 2009

In a galaxy even farther away....

A little bit back Rick and I were talking about reboots and reimaginings, and i mentioned that maybe star wars could benefit from one. Rick seemed less than open to this idea, dismissing it offhand- "Lucas will never let it happen. They're too deep." I suggested that Lucas wouldn't live forever, and i think Rick got sad and changed the subject.

IO9 has some simple suggestions for rebooting star wars. Most of it's pretty simple stuff, taken from the success of Batman Begins and Star Trek, and sadly they don't say anything about Lucas dying (though there is something about him being in the poorhouse). I think a Star Wars reboot, done right, would be sublime.




Goodbye Rashida Jones...



there's a bunch of these. all awesome. plus aubrey plaza is hot.


and if it's long the rest here.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Who else owes it all to Conan?

I started watching Late Night around the same time I started staying up late; i guess i was 12 or 13. Conan had been on maybe a year or so at that point, and most of the critics at the time seemed to think he was piss-poor, but to young chunky he was awesome. The whole show didn't feel like it belonged on network TV- it was weird, funny, and akward, and i stayed up most nights to watch it. To this day i think i'm the only person who remembers "Time Travel Week."

Anyway, i was glad to see Conan get the bump up to the Tonight Show, so here is the first episode for any who may have missed it. It's an instant classic.



Any thoughts? I was glad to see Andy back- i had seen some internet bitching about how he 'doesn't fit' but i think that's complete shit- andy's always been perfect as conan's sidekick. btw, that universal tram tour was the standout bit to me.