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Mar. 5th, 2008 | 12:00 pm
Meaning is meaningless and less unless...
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all ages show
Mar. 3rd, 2008 | 09:27 pm
Last night, I saw From the Depths – a hardcore punk rock band that was epic sort of like One Eyed God Prophecy. I think one guitarist was the guy with huge, nappy locks from Requiem and other CrimethInc bands. The other guitarist sounded ace with a lot of chugga parts, and he also had vocals like the guy from Antischism. The main vocalist was a female, and she sang pretty almost like an opera singer for most of the set. My acquaintance or friend, whichever he thinks of me as, played bass, and he talked about how some members of the community had gone to the city council to get a street named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; and I thought that was kind of a civilized mode of resistance whose objective is purely symbolic. He also announced the central North Carolina Direct Action Campout that will discuss the irrelevant Democratic and Republican National Committees among other things over a two day period, so if anyone wants to go to that, make a comment; and I’ll give you the details.
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Amazingly awful religious art (1452 views)
Mar. 3rd, 2008 | 12:45 am
location: VBS (Vincent Black Shadow)
DangerMike posted this on February 18th, 2008 @ 8:03:23 pm
| No Love Lost posted this on February 18th, 2008 @ 8:05:46 pm |
| i don't get what it's trying to say. i mean, that wans't exactly how it played out was it. i seem to remember a lot more tears and dying and stabs to the side from soldiers. |
| ipitcher posted this on February 18th, 2008 @ 8:06:47 pm |
| This was later, though. The Fightin' Jesus. |
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William Blake's Cain and Abel
Feb. 25th, 2008 | 12:12 pm
music: Springtime of the Movements
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Feb. 25th, 2008 | 11:58 am
I was thinking that I should stop posting obscure movies here and see if anyone replies to MySpace blogs. Speaking of MySpace, does anyone have a Facebook? I'd still post movies like Vagabond, The Outlaw Jose Wales, and The Interrogation of Michael Crowe.
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Most Wanted trailer
Feb. 22nd, 2008 | 03:17 pm
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The Western Tradition
Feb. 19th, 2008 | 06:57 pm
I like this episode of The Western Tradition:
25. The Renaissance and the Age of Discovery
Renaissance humanists made man "the measure of all things." Europe was possessed by a new passion for knowledge.
25. The Renaissance and the Age of Discovery
Renaissance humanists made man "the measure of all things." Europe was possessed by a new passion for knowledge.
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movies post script
Feb. 18th, 2008 | 11:45 am
music: The Luther Blissett Enigma (A Radio Novella)
Red Dragon also showed where Fredy Perlman got his back cover illustration for his Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! — William Blake. Anger Management was painful to get through, but ... but ... BUT ... ... you'll just have to see it for yourself.
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movies
Feb. 17th, 2008 | 12:51 pm
music: Peter, Paul and Mary
Stripes is a funny movie. Most Wanted is a good low-budget movie. Red Dragon was pretty good. Anger Management isn't bad like I thought it would be. I caught Conspiracy Theory on TV. Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge is ridiculous.
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single
Feb. 16th, 2008 | 03:26 pm
mood: 
amused
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Underground Resistance (Detroit techno)
Feb. 13th, 2008 | 01:13 pm
"Sometimes I Feel Like" (6 minutes and 16 seconds)Link | Leave a comment {6} | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
V for Vagrant and other passionate media
Feb. 9th, 2008 | 03:08 pm
So, I'm online. Might as well update. I saw Vagabond, which was originally called, "without roof or law" in French. It's pretty great. I won't make a comment because you should watch it instead. There are some weird people in the movie, and I'd like to know who they were.
I also saw The Outlaw Josie Wales, and it was also good. It went well with the southern culture class that I have to take and the southern culture class that isn't as bad as I imagined. Josie Wales (Clint Eastwood) was probably a Scotch-Irish (Celtic).
If you want some nice music, then check out dublab and download Alessi and Nobody's Plug Research. Also, Jeff Hanson's Son CD goes well with Alessi. If you want to hear some songs, then follow the link and try to find some. I guess that's all I haz or all I should share. Take care.
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(no subject)
Jan. 25th, 2008 | 07:55 pm
Hi,
I'm sorry for not having time to keep up with your journal.
I'm using Safari on Windows. I like it.
Sincerely,
Cody Hugh Umland
I'm sorry for not having time to keep up with your journal.
I'm using Safari on Windows. I like it.
Sincerely,
Cody Hugh Umland
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Serbija-Croatian and the Information Age
Jan. 18th, 2008 | 01:29 pm
Kasi (Ki-kos) (Greetings)- a=ah
- e=a
- i=e
- j=yuh
- w=v (Budveiser)
- no "u"
- e=e or eh (industries,
thier, Pete, Bet) - a=a or ah
Metric System
- 1 mile equals 1.6 kilometers.
- 10 miles equal 16 kilometers
- Washington DC is 9,000 kilometers from Croatia.
- 9,000 kilometers are 6,500 miles.
- That's an eighteen hour plane ride.
KeyTrain dot com wrote, "the following paragraph, taken from a business article, discusses. [. . .]
'The Information Age is profoundly transforming our world. Just as the Industrial Revolution changed the face of the land and the nature of the workplace—replacing farms, woodlands and meadows with cities, factories and office buildings—the Information Age is bringing an equally comprehensive, radical and even more rapid metamorphosis to the way we work and live. These changes mean that each of us face many challenges.'"
So, we're experiencing an Information Revolution that will turn out even worse than the Industrial and Agriculture Revolutions.
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Letters #1, Total Destruction #4, and more pop culture
Jan. 14th, 2008 | 01:48 pm
"nobody is more militant in the workplace than an ex-soldier; they absolutely refuse all discipline, work is unreal to them after the army. [. . .]" (p3 Letters #1, "A Plague on Both Your Houses: Against the 'Iraqi Resistance'" by Frêre Dupont)
"our activities are [. . .] a set of choices from the array of what exists. [. . .]" (p11 Letters #1, "Impotent")
"technically speaking, the old system of division of labour is thrown overboard by machinery. [. . .]" (p15 Letters #1, "Discussion", Marx Capital Vol 1, Ch 15)
"Having a history of activism, I have a tendency to [. . .] treat people and relationships as means to an end. This political tendency of mine is completely at odds with creating relationships beyond measure.
"'I know we're not on the same page about everything, but I don't want us to be. I need affinity, not duplicity...' – my friend M" (p4 Total Destruction #4 "marxism in the first person")
"The radical, who opposes this system and thereby jeopardizes their position within it, is far more dangerous to them than the bosses who pay them, and they do not hesitate to make a martyr of him." (p6 TD #4 "The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group" by Sam Moss) "their" and "them" refer to "a relatively large majority of the American working class", "the masses, capitalist minded", "the people, called the masses", "and the broad masses" as opposed to "the radical organizations", "revolutionary groups", and "The communist-minded". Not just making a martyr but they will also demand the termination.
"all the conservatism of the working class today only reflects the still massive strength of capitalism, and that this material power cannot be cast out of existence by propaganda but by a material power greater than that of capital." (ibid) Capital's material strength is the following: "living standards", "bits of private property", "the bosses' right to a 'fair profit'", "living conditions", and "the leisure to follow their pursuits, such as baseball and movies". ("their", again, refers to "a relatively large majority of the American working class".)
"all groups [. . .] believe that all that is lacking for revolution is a group with the 'correct Marxist line'; [. . .] in a word, they exaggerate the importance of ideas. [. . .]" (p7TD #4 "The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group")
"slacking is likely the closest we'll ever get to heaven..." (p12 TD #4 "Notes On Attacking the Cult of Personal Agency")
"Only the material conditions of revolution will push people to communist positions. [. . .]" (p13 TD #4 "Towards a Critique of the Monsieur Dupont Project")
10,000 BC looks like a good movie to see on the big screen although there weren't any woolly mammoths and saber tooth tigers back then.
The Converse commercial was a little bad ass. It asked why are we sitting in this so-called democracy, waiting to die on our couches.
"our activities are [. . .] a set of choices from the array of what exists. [. . .]" (p11 Letters #1, "Impotent")
"technically speaking, the old system of division of labour is thrown overboard by machinery. [. . .]" (p15 Letters #1, "Discussion", Marx Capital Vol 1, Ch 15)
"Having a history of activism, I have a tendency to [. . .] treat people and relationships as means to an end. This political tendency of mine is completely at odds with creating relationships beyond measure.
"'I know we're not on the same page about everything, but I don't want us to be. I need affinity, not duplicity...' – my friend M" (p4 Total Destruction #4 "marxism in the first person")
"The radical, who opposes this system and thereby jeopardizes their position within it, is far more dangerous to them than the bosses who pay them, and they do not hesitate to make a martyr of him." (p6 TD #4 "The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group" by Sam Moss) "their" and "them" refer to "a relatively large majority of the American working class", "the masses, capitalist minded", "the people, called the masses", "and the broad masses" as opposed to "the radical organizations", "revolutionary groups", and "The communist-minded". Not just making a martyr but they will also demand the termination.
"all the conservatism of the working class today only reflects the still massive strength of capitalism, and that this material power cannot be cast out of existence by propaganda but by a material power greater than that of capital." (ibid) Capital's material strength is the following: "living standards", "bits of private property", "the bosses' right to a 'fair profit'", "living conditions", and "the leisure to follow their pursuits, such as baseball and movies". ("their", again, refers to "a relatively large majority of the American working class".)
"all groups [. . .] believe that all that is lacking for revolution is a group with the 'correct Marxist line'; [. . .] in a word, they exaggerate the importance of ideas. [. . .]" (p7TD #4 "The Impotence of the Revolutionary Group")
"slacking is likely the closest we'll ever get to heaven..." (p12 TD #4 "Notes On Attacking the Cult of Personal Agency")
"Only the material conditions of revolution will push people to communist positions. [. . .]" (p13 TD #4 "Towards a Critique of the Monsieur Dupont Project")
10,000 BC looks like a good movie to see on the big screen although there weren't any woolly mammoths and saber tooth tigers back then.
The Converse commercial was a little bad ass. It asked why are we sitting in this so-called democracy, waiting to die on our couches.
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movies, a commercial, and a video game
Jan. 7th, 2008 | 11:27 am
I just saw The Interrogation of Michael Crowe. It was good.
I love that Toyota commercial that takes place in World of Warcraft.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed looks like a must-have because it's awesome and it adds to the story.
Cloverfield looks good.
I love that Toyota commercial that takes place in World of Warcraft.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed looks like a must-have because it's awesome and it adds to the story.
Cloverfield looks good.
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notes from The Princes of Jargon
Dec. 28th, 2007 | 11:17 am
AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LES PRINCES DU JARGON
UN FACTEUR NÈGLIGÈ AUX ORIGINES DE L'ARGOT DES CLASSES DANGEREUSES
THE PRINCES OF JARGON
A NEGLECTED FACTOR AT THE ORIGINS OF DANGEROUS-CLASS SLANG
BY ALICE BECKER-HO
TRANSLATED BY JOHN MCHALE
Prince was a Gypsy word for a familiar face and a sixteenth century English slang word for a notorious thief. The dangerous class is the underworld, "the murkier elements of society". (17) Gypsies were in France in 1419. (ix) "relations [. . .] have existed between Gypsies and dangerous classes ever since the end of medieval society." (19) Coquillards were "the most dangerous class of the fifteenth century", (ix) "the most famous gang", and laid Burgundy to waste until arrested. "large gangs comprising several hundred members each whose sole occupation was looting, theft and robbery with violence" appeared in France from the mid-1400s to the early 1500s. (19)
The jargon of this period is the basis of French slang. (19) Slang is often a code that outlaws use to speak to each other without being understood by the law, (x) "always specific to corporations of wandering tradesmen: [. . .] respectable as well as [. . .] outlawed". (25) "An argot fourishes in any region vulnerable to the influence of foreign languages ..." (25) Slang "is, according to Gabriel Tarde (La Criminalitè comparèe, 1886), 'the unmistakable sign of a stateless cosmopolitanism'." (155)
The Princes of Jargon isn't a ridiculous scholastic report written by the likes of university professors who know nothing about renegade vernacular and think they're covering all bases when they lock in to the bubblegum slang of their adolescent children. (11) Ms Becker-Ho was a Situationist and knows a little bit about the dangerous class.
UN FACTEUR NÈGLIGÈ AUX ORIGINES DE L'ARGOT DES CLASSES DANGEREUSES
THE PRINCES OF JARGON
A NEGLECTED FACTOR AT THE ORIGINS OF DANGEROUS-CLASS SLANG
BY ALICE BECKER-HO
TRANSLATED BY JOHN MCHALE
Prince was a Gypsy word for a familiar face and a sixteenth century English slang word for a notorious thief. The dangerous class is the underworld, "the murkier elements of society". (17) Gypsies were in France in 1419. (ix) "relations [. . .] have existed between Gypsies and dangerous classes ever since the end of medieval society." (19) Coquillards were "the most dangerous class of the fifteenth century", (ix) "the most famous gang", and laid Burgundy to waste until arrested. "large gangs comprising several hundred members each whose sole occupation was looting, theft and robbery with violence" appeared in France from the mid-1400s to the early 1500s. (19)
The jargon of this period is the basis of French slang. (19) Slang is often a code that outlaws use to speak to each other without being understood by the law, (x) "always specific to corporations of wandering tradesmen: [. . .] respectable as well as [. . .] outlawed". (25) "An argot fourishes in any region vulnerable to the influence of foreign languages ..." (25) Slang "is, according to Gabriel Tarde (La Criminalitè comparèe, 1886), 'the unmistakable sign of a stateless cosmopolitanism'." (155)
The Princes of Jargon isn't a ridiculous scholastic report written by the likes of university professors who know nothing about renegade vernacular and think they're covering all bases when they lock in to the bubblegum slang of their adolescent children. (11) Ms Becker-Ho was a Situationist and knows a little bit about the dangerous class.
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Autonomia: Post-Political Politics
Dec. 25th, 2007 | 02:28 pm
This is the paper version of the book that a couple people have posted – Autonomia: Post-Political Politics (on the Italian movement from 1980). In case you missed the Autonomia PDFs, they are there. Have a holly, jolly Christmas.
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movies
Dec. 23rd, 2007 | 04:27 am
This is a personal note that I'm making public in case anyone is also interested in getting some movies about destroying the society of alienating school and work.
- Solidarity South Pacific (DVDr) (four films including The Coconut Revolution – a document about an indigenous people who fight against a multinational mining company [Panguna copper mine] and government forces [PNG]. The guerrillas relay the belief that they fight to defend their independence and preserve the local environment on the island of Bougainville. It is a 50 minute or so film. Incredibly inspiring and
great to show at benefitsrelated to native solidarity.) $5 via a blank money order sent to Black Powder Press / PO Box 162478 / Sacramento, CA 95816. Update: Black Powder Press is unresponsive. Find another source. - The Angry Brigade Documentary (1974) + Persons Unknown Documentary (1980) (DVDr) $5 via Black Powder Press; I also recommend, if you haven't read it, a review of a book on The Angry Brigade.
- Das Netz (The Net) (DVDr) (german documentary with english subtitles on the Unibomber) $5 via Black Powder Press
- The Snowbowl Effect: When Recreation And Culture Collide – a documentary about businesses trying to build a ski resort on the land of thirteen tribes. $20 via AK Press
- Can Dialectics Break Bricks? by René Viénet – a 1973 Situationist film, deals with the working class of socialist countries and their dialogue with the bureaucrats – $5 DVDr from Black Powder Press (french w/ english subtitles)
- Fuck The System and Takin' It Down! – anarchist uprisings set to music – $15 from Green Anarchy
- Society of the Spectacle $12 from Green Anarchy
- Anarchy in Spain – squats, CNT museum and interviews – $12 from Green Anarchy
- We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire by Guy Debord (1978) $13 from Super Happy Fun!
- Contre Le Cinema – three films (including Critique of Separation) by Debord – available for thirteen dollars from Super Happy Fun!
- La Commune (2001) – the riveting story of the French revolutionary proletarian group established by Parisian citizens in 1871, as rebellion against the National Assembly – available from Amazon for about $40 (more or less) (doesn't include shipping, "used & new" videos are cheaper)
- Culloden (1964) a made-for-TV movie by the BBC – pretends to document, like a news story, a battle that took place about 200 years ago in Britain between them and Scotland – bundled with The War Game on Amazon for about thirty dollars
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Xavier: Renegade Angel
Nov. 23rd, 2007 | 07:00 pm
music: Radiohead, DJ Shadow, and Black Eyes
Xavier comes to the rescue of a curious youngster who gets in over his heart trying to impress his father. Things nearly blowup in their faces, but Xavier employes some quick think and tasty treats to avert catastrophe.