check out this clip from smallville, the tale of superman, set as wb teenage drama. oh the laughter. hmm, actually, you can read some reviews of the pilot on aicn.
How To Deconstruct Almost Anything
The essential paradigm of cyberspace is creating partially situated identities out of actual or potential social reality in terms of canonical forms of human contact, thus renormalizing the phenomenology of narrative space and requiring the naturalization of the intersubjective cognitive strategy, and thereby resolving the dialectics of metaphorical thoughts, each problematic to the other, collectively redefining and reifying the paradigm of the parable of the model of the metaphor.
interesting post speculating on some internet content player which cites some that are doing well, vs some that aren’t and in relation to what kind of strategy a company needs to survive and be successful online.
from a stavesacres writeup:
Regarding the album title, Salomon remarks, “People do what they believe, and when what they believe is absolute, that belief takes complete control. I believe in gravity absolutely, so I’m controlled in such a way that I’ll do whatever its laws demand I do. The question is do I believe in God absolutely? When we wrote this record, I was going through significant personal trials. I had to ask myself whether I was going to quit or have the faith to see it through, and if I was going to see it through, would I see it through to the end no matter what? If the album has a theme, it’s a challenge to consider what in life do you consider absolute and what should that mean?”
* note, you will be bound by the laws of gravity even if you believe absolutely that it doesn’t exist. corollary: just because you believe doesn’t make it true.
actually, i should probably add that, i am in agreement that belief is very powerful, but this power on a local level does not in any have any relation to a sort of objective reality, and seems to me, to rather imply the very opposite (because each person has a different worldview, and if belief is all that matters… subjective reality leads inevitably to conflict)… but i am bothered by the primacy of existence that’s placed by objective reality when it can only be understood through perception (but can not avoid being filtered through a priori understanding). i’m rambling again. time for a nice cold glass of koolaid.
Boston Globe Online / Nation | World / His time to soar with U2 – definitely not healthy, but pretty damn awesome all the same.
speaking of live performances and unhealthiness, i was at the disneyland house of blues last night with some friends, one of the band’s was driving by braille, a local emoish type band, the killingtons, and the main act, stavesacre, this hxc band (now this is a fun subculture to explore) .
anyway, since i don’t get out enough, i don’t think i really have a frame of reference to really judge whether anyone was any good or not (that judgement really being a sorta domain specific and culture specific thing i guess). driving by braille sounds like what altrock is nowadays i guess. the killingtons came on right before stavesacre. some of their songs were really cool, and they had this progressive rock thing going, which was neat. also, they get bonus points for dedicating their last song to this pair of obnoxious assholes up front (stavesacre fans, apparently?) who were like heckling them for the whole set. anyway, as they lead into the song, the lead singer hocks this huge loogie on ’em, which up until that point was the funniest thing i saw that night.
<ramble>hmm, i guess i don’t want to be mean or cynical so i don’t know if i should say that seeing the very same audience members all having numinous epiphanies to stavesacre was funny or sad. actually, i this was one of the things i was bothered at the u2 show about… that there are these people who are sharing this experience, which is great, but still being assholes … and also i guess, something related that i don’t have anything against and not really bothered by, but i guess somewhat uneasy about once i realized it in myself, but in the temporariness of the transposition… there’s something false and illusionary about it all i guess. but that’s the way with everything i guess.</ramble>
anyway, from my perspective, stavesacre wasn’t all that. the mix was way too muddy for my tastes, so most of it just sounded like noise. about halfway through the set, they played a really great ballad, gold and silver, and then the song after it had some actual bass line movement which was nice. hmm, and then they lost me again for a while until the last two songs. but then again, i really don’t have a frame of reference, and judging from the crowd, i don’t seem to be part of the “target audience” anyway.
so, after some prodding for a friend, it looks like i’m gonna be up north on the weekend of june 16th. i don’t think i’ve ever been in san francisco before. looks like fun.
robgalbraith.com: Selecting a CompactFlash card for a photojournalist’s digital camera – this is a really interesting article for those interesting in compactflash, etc.
so, along the way i got slightly interested in the swordfish contest that wb has, where they’re giving away stuff. so, i took a look at the swordfish forums @ rottentomatoes. anyway, turns out that not all the keycodes are available so there’s no way to get the last keycode. no doubt there’ll be a new version they’ll post up after the movie comes out… also, i posted the pass.dat file so no one has to hunt for those stupid passwords. i’m sure that the url for the contest is embedded somewhere in the swf file, but i haven’t reinstalled my copy of ultraedit, and um, i guess honestly i could care less. heheh. ahh, the powers of procrastination.