December 2011
Happy New Year
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“I’ve always been taken aback by the assumption that my vision is fundamentally dystopian. I suspect that the people who say I’m dystopian must be living completely sheltered and fortunate lives. The world is filled with much nastier places than my inventions, places that the denizens of the Sprawl would find it punishment to be relocated to, and a lot of those places seem to be steadily getting worse.”
—William Gibson
“The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did in Blade Runner was to put urban archaeology in every frame. It hadn’t been obvious to mainstream American science fiction that cities are like compost heaps—just layers and layers of stuff. In cities, the past and the present and the future can all be totally adjacent.”
—William Gibson
Play
Pathétique Sonata: I. Grave – Allegro di molto e con brio
Ludwig van Beethoven
The first movement of Beethoven’s Pathétique piano sonata, performed by Tom Pascale.
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“A well-balanced person is someone with a drink in each hand.”
—Billy Connolly
Twilight
- johnholdun: the only problem was that her name was bella and not john holdun
Silent Night
I made a Christmas song for you.
Radio Gnome & You Can't Kill Me
Gong
Radio Gnome and You Can’t Kill Me by Gong.
Play
Sacrificial
dB Soundworks
Sacrificial, from the soundtrack to The Binding of Isaac by Danny Baranowsky.
Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy →
blog.frankchimero.com
I’ve been thinking about Louis CK lately. I’m a fan of his show on FX, and I’m so happy his recent adventure in distributing his newest comedy special himself has been a rousing success. But my thoughts are going elsewhere to wonder why he has blown up in popularity in the past couple years, and why his comedy seems to resonate with these times. It always feels like there’s a comedian willing to address contemporary concerns with insight and honesty for each moment in time. All the greats had their focus: Richard Pryor and Chris Rock had race, George Carlin had absurdity, and I think Louis has hit on some sort of subterranean undercurrent of emotion that I didn’t realize might be swelling until I listened more closely: shame…
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Frog
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I’ve made a lot of music this year. Some of it you might have heard; some of it is waiting to be heard. Most of it is garbage that will (hopefully) never be heard, but I’ve learned a hell of a lot from making that garbage.
Here’s one of my favourites that you might have heard. I call it Frog.
My grandmother was immutable →
mrspeaker.net
She persisted with her interrogation of the single line of code, buried inside the very first program she had ever seen: how could “X” be “X plus one”? It just didn’t make sense to her. If X is 0 then X is 0.
“Okay well please have a happy rest of the year and more happy years after that. And please even have been happy in your past. What?”
—Louis CK
