<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/firstbook2000/story/0,6194,405144,00.html">guardian unlimited books | special reports | five minutes with mark z danielewski</a> the RA clips are not there anymore 23LinksdanielWed, March 05, 2003publishnow stoofing 1 million customers almost dailyI just wrote the best thing I've ever written, into Blogger of all places, and Blogger bombed and I lost it. My only consolations for this short bus maneuver are 1. I had no idea it was going to be the best thing I'd ever written when I started (and now, without a record, I'll never know if it really was) and 2. This has happened to a LOT of other people. Mental note: somehow stop using Blogger entirely. Also, if Ev ever tries to say they are not running IIS on M$ machines, <a href="http://www.dashes.com/anil/index.php?archives/003780.php" title="He doesn't quite say it though: ~As for the brilliant analysis that it was due to M$ software, I'm sure you're very educated on these things but...well, you're wrong.~">he is lying</a>. {I was going to grab a screenshot of the IIS error I got, but I forgot. Something about overloading the server. Hmm.} 22MinutiadanielWed, March 05, 2003publish<a href="http://the-inbetween.com/dump/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=107">the-inbetween.com [ quick note ]</a> 21LinksdanielWed, March 05, 2003publish<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-iraq-pope-peace.html?ex=1047531600&en=527fa6dd943a3074&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND">pope urges world to avoid 'dramatic conflict'</a> 20LinksdanielWed, March 05, 2003publish<a href="http://www.felbers.net/mt/archives/001499.html">fanatical apathy: as seen in the ankara picayune</a> 19LinksdanielWed, March 05, 2003publish<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030304_651.html">abcnews.com : lawyer arrested for wearing a 'peace' t-shirt</a> 18LinksdanielWed, March 05, 2003publishto hell in a handbasket...carry me. {self-censored} how's this for bipolar: i wrote that last entry, turned around and recorded live on the mic on my laptop my newest song, sent it off to Scott, listened to the new <a href="http://www.christianpornmachine.com">CPM</a> demos, and was otherwise feeling much, much better. then {}, and now i'm alone and {} {}, no music can save me now. it had been pulling my head just above the water all week; quite a few times already; of course week is relative; i just don't know anymore; i want to smash my guitar into little tiny pieces and forget about it forevermore don't move, people. i am convinced if there is one thing people were not meant to be it is geographically/socially mobile. stay in one spot. have friends that last for years. piss in the same can. drink the same beers. travel but always come back and have a slideshow and get drunk in the comfort and safety of your own home so glamorous. so stupid. so interesting. so tiring so cool. so pathetic. so adventurous. so angry so angry over nothing17MinutiadanielTue, March 04, 2003publishrecordingjust a little vent here. u may have noticed that i haven't recorded for some time. i go around arlington and i sometimes mention my CD--that was SIX years ago now. unbelievable. i got the Korg last year and dumped down some real rough demos, threw them on my mp3.com page, but i haven't even had a chance to clean them up and get them over the IUMA, where i'll be moving my music page. but let alone actually getting a project together--i've metioned three different ones on the pages of this site over the past couple years, and they are still in the stew of my mind, ready to be plopped out like another catholic baby any second now. but they don't, because i don't do it, and that is for a few reasons: 01. I filled up the korg's hard drive. i deleted a bunch of tunes i didn't care about saving the tracks for, but at this point the thing is packed and i need to backup and delete some tunes i'm not going to mess with for a while. so the end of last summer i bought a 70 clam old-as-shit CDRW that's supposedly compat with the korg. only thing is the thing has never worked. not even detecting a CDR in the thing. fucking Ebay. never again. i avoid that site now like the plague. so here i sit unable to cut a new song without deleting something permanently. or i need to mosey on over to korg's site and buy me a brand new 250 clam internal CDRW. do we do this less than two months before we move to Sarajevo? so hard to say--on one hand i hate to have something like that shipped over there. on the other i hate to have it moved over there. Problem is, I keep writing. I just finished another keeper today. I wrote 3 not-really-keepers-but-not-throwaways--b-sides--in the last 3 weeks. Only there's no easy way to get them out there. U have to be at a particular open mic to hear any new stuff, and then maybe only once. 02. I've realized I hate producing my own stuff. I need someone to produce the tracks. By the time I've done a rough cut of the thing, I'm sick of the track, I'm sick of my playing, I'm sick of my own singing. I need a producer-slash-advocate to help add a set of ears, some experience, and some energy to the mix. 03. I'm stuck in the grown-up-American bullshit that I can't blow another 3 grand on another project. A--it's frivolous and B--the first project never sold out its 500 copy printing. (And C--I don't even want the first project out there anymore.) But none of those are good reasons to deprive myself one of the most creatively satisfying experiences I've known. Bottom line--I'm afraid. I'm afraid of what other people would think, have thought, are thinking. I'm afraid of your thoughts, your opinions. I seek your praise and your love and your adoration and your admiration but I fear even more your hate and your condescension and your laughter ...and I fear absolutely the most, to the point of a frozen death stuck here in my tracks, not that going into the studio for the sake of going into the studio and for no other return than that would break the Miller family bank, but that the world would say, "What a waste," and "Look at that poor boy," and "What was he thinking." I fear that once again nobody will care about the thing that is produced, that the Immediacy, yes, even that, will vanish, completely washed over by the imminent unrecognizability, the lostness of it all, the only people being the few that I give it to and the few that actually buy it--my most proudest project of all. Stacked up in the not-so-metaphorical garage of failure once again.16MinutiadanielTue, March 04, 2003publishboboroshiandkynz<a href="http://boboroshiandkynz.com/">boboroshi and kynz</a> are an ambient/electronic outfit, one-half of which is my friend John Athayde. I've been listening to their mp3's for over 30 minutes so far, and still have over 30 minutes left--and that's just what they have for free <a href="http://boboroshiandkynz.com/sound/">on their website</a>! At any rate--highly recommended! Really good...I'm jealously impressed! I've been meaning to put together a project like this for some time and it just has never materialized...of course <a href="http://boboroshi.com">John</a> in his prolificness is on it. All my electronic-music peps in the UK, you want to check this out, every tune... 15MusicdanielTue, March 04, 2003publishHakim BeyI might be a little slow, but I'm not that slow. Two months ago <a href="http://http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/">Steve</a> sent me some links to articles on his site. I checked them out and they were a bit too heady for reading at that particular time, for whatever reason (maybe I was <a onclick="javascript:alert('Drunk, for you Americans');">pissed</a>, I don't know). Well the email got buried below about 200 others, and I just now got back to the articles. And wow. First up are excerpts from Hakim Bey, who probably many of you know about, but I had no clue. The bits Steve has quoted are really great, and I've added that book to my wishlist. The reading queue is impossibly long at this point, but someday, someday. Just what I have to mirror here:<blockquote>The first and most innocent-seeming obstacle to any Immediatist project will be the 'busyness' or 'need to make a living' faced by each of its associates. However there is no real innocence here - only our profound ignorance of the ways in which capitalism itself is organised to prevent all genuine conviviality. No sooner have a group of friends begun to visualise immediate goals realizable only through solidarity and cooperation, when suddenly one of them will be offered a 'good' job in Cincinatti or teaching English in Taiwan - or else have to move back to California to care for a dying parent - or else they'll lose the 'good' job they already have and be reduced to a state of misery which precludes their very enjoyment of the group's project or goals [ie they'll become 'depressed']. At the most mundane-seeming level, the group will fail to agree on a day of the week for meetings because everyone is 'busy'. But this is not mundane. It's sheer cosmic evil. We whip ourselves into froths of indignation over 'oppression' and 'unjust laws' when in fact these abstractions have little impact on our daily lives - while that which really makes us miserable goes unnoticed, written off to 'busyness' or 'distraction' or even to the nature of reality itself ["well, I can't live without a job"]. Yes, perhaps it's true we can't 'live' without a job - although I hope we're grown-up enough to know the difference between life and the accumulation of a bunch of fucking gadgets. Still, we must constantly remind ourselves [since our culture won't do it for us] that this monster called WORK remains the precise and exact target of our rebellious wrath, the one single most oppressive reality we face [and we must also learn to recognise Work when it's disguised as 'leisure']. To be 'too busy' for the Immediatist project is to miss the very essence of Immediatism. To struggle to come together every Monday night [or whatever], in the teeth of the gale of busyness, or family, or invitations to stupid parties - that struggle is already Immediatism itself. Succeed in actually physically meeting face-to-face with a group which is not your spouse-and-kids, or 'the guys from my job', or your 12-step programme - and you have already achieved virtually everything Immediatism yearns for. An actual project will arise almost spontaneously out of this successful slap-in-the-face of the social norm of alienated boredom. Outwardly, of course, the project will seem to be the group's purpose, its motive for coming together - but in fact the opposite is true. We're not kidding or indulging in hyperbole when we insist the meeting face-to-face is already 'the revolution'. Attain it and the creativity part comes naturally; like the Kingdom of heaven it will be added unto you. Of course it will be horribly difficult. The rat-bastard capitalist scum who are telling you to "reach out and touch someone" with a telephone or "be there!" [where? alone in front of a goddam television??] - these lovecrafty suckers are trying to turn you into a scrunched-up blood-drained pathetic crippled little cog in the death-machine of the human soul. Fight them - by meeting with friends, not to consume or produce, but to enjoy friendship - and you will have triumphed [at least for a moment] over the most pernicious conspiracy in EuroAmerican society today.</blockquote><blockquote> If busyness and fissipation are the first potential failures of Immediatism, we cannot say that its triumph should be equated with 'success'. The second major threat to our project can quite simply be described as the tragic success of the project itself. Let's say we have overcome physical alienation and have actually met, developed our project, and created something. Unless we keep it an absolute secret - which is probably impossible and in any case would constitute a somewhat poisonous selfishness - other people will hear of it [other people from hell, to paraphrase the existentialists] - and among those other people, some will be agents [conscious or unconscious, it doesn't matter] of too-Late Capitalism. The Spectacle is above all empty. It fuels itself by the constant gulping down of everyone's creative powers and ideas. It's more desperate for your 'radical subjectivity' than any vampire or cop for your blood. It wants your creativity much more even than you want it yourself. It would die unless you desired it, and you will only desire it if it seems to offer you the very desires you dreamed, alone in your lonely genius, disguised and sold back to you as commodities. Suddenly it will appear to you [as if a demon had whispered it in your ear] that the Immediatist art you've created is so good, so fresh, so original, so strong compared to all the 'crap' on the market - so pure - that you could water it down and sell it, and make a living at it, so you could all knock off WORK, buy a farm in the country, and do art together for ever after. And perhaps it's true. You could... after all, you're geniuses. But it'd be better to fly to Hawaii and throw yourself into a live volcano. Sure, you could have success; you could even have 15 seconds on the evening news - or a documentary made on your life. Yes indeedy.</blockquote>But check out the rest at <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/immediatism.html">smallritual dot org</a>. Also <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-keywords=Hakim%20Bey&search-type=ss&bq=1/103-8557930-2747830">Check him out on Amazon</a> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=IMMEDIATISM+Hakim+Bey">Google him</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-keywords=Peter%20Lamborn%20Wilson&search-type=ss&bq=1/103-8557930-2747830">Check out books he's written under a different name</a> ...just check him out... The second bit on Steve's site is <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/manifesto.html">manifesto</a>, a series of quotes from different sources, including Bey's TAZ.14ElsewheredanielTue, March 04, 2003publish<a href="http://www.thecarharttstore.co.uk/people.htm">thecarharttstore dot co dot uk people</a> 13LinksdanielTue, March 04, 2003publish<a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personalities/accidental_strength.shtml">the morning news - accidental strength</a> 12LinksdanielTue, March 04, 2003publish<a href="http://www.stephenvoss.com/"><img src="http://www.stephenvoss.com/photo/travel/new_jersey/nj1s.jpg" border="0"> <img src="http://www.stephenvoss.com/photo/doc/d2s.jpg" border="0"> stephen voss, portland oregon photographer and web designer</a> 11LinksdanielTue, March 04, 2003publish<a href="http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000018.php">war blogging: announcing the "index of evil"</a> 10LinksdanielTue, March 04, 2003publish<a href="http://www.cnn.com/POLL/results/368431.content.html">ahh yes the moral fiber of your average cnn reader</a> 9LinksdanielTue, March 04, 2003publish<a href="http://www.xanadu.com/">Project Xanadu</a> 8LinksdanielMon, March 03, 2003publish<a href="http://ted.hyperland.com/">Ted Nelson Home Page</a> 7LinksdanielMon, March 03, 2003publish<a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1032-990685.html?tag=lh">'Reassurance' a key word as Google grows | CNET News.com</a> Matt Webb, author of the <a href="http://interconnected.org/home/">Interconnected</a> blog, quoted in this article. 6LinksdanielMon, March 03, 2003publish<a href="http://www.dpsu.com/newsroom.html">DPSU Newsroom</a> Cheered by a rowdy mascot, Dr Pepper/Seven Up executives announced the creation of Raging Cow, a new milk-based product served cold in single servings, with an array of five alluring flavors. see??!! 5LinksdanielMon, March 03, 2003publish<a href="http://www.ragingcow.com/#week1">Raging Cow: Pasteurize This!</a> wrong. just plain wrong. this is Dr. Pepper's new milk brand. yes. u heard me. sick. 4LinksdanielMon, March 03, 2003publish<a href="http://movies.go.com/movies/G/guruofsexthe_2001/index.html">The Guru on Movies.com</a> highly recommended! 3LinksdanielMon, March 03, 2003publishJosh JoplinLast night after playing the Whitlow's open mic, I went next door to see <a href="http://rotoscope.com/">John Athayde</a> play IOTA. He played an absolutely stand-up-knock-down set, perhaps the cleanest I've heard from him. He was opening for someone I'd never heard of, although I had heard his single... <img src="http://joshjoplin.com/images/future7.jpg"> <a href="http://joshjoplin.com">Josh Joplin</a> ...He looked pretty much like he does in this picture--at least on stage, the <a href="http://www.driko.org/smallpics/philcollins.jpg">Sussudio-era Phil Collins</a> thing (aside: as opposed to the <a href="http://www.fiese-scheitel.de/fiese-scheitel3.data/Komponenten/Bilder/promis4/phil_collins.jpg">70's Phil</a>). Before and after his performance, though, he was sporting serious <a href="http://www.soundnet.com/5224843.jpg" title="but without the gold">Run DMC</a> threads--a blue <a href="http://german.about.com/library/media/sound/words_a.mp3" title="mp3 in case u didn't notice--u will love it!">Adidas</a> <a href="http://arctic.weblogger.com.br/img/agasalho%20adidas.jpg" title="sort of like this but blue">track suit</a> and a <a href="http://www.hats.com/isroot/Hats/SiteImages/Items/G401851BC03.jpg" title="something like this but not quite this">hat</a>. He was awesome. He gave me both his CD's for 9 clams. I highly recommend his latest, which is actually not the one with his big single, <a href="http://www.joshjoplin.com/allfiles/images/sounds/camera1.mp3">Camera One (mp3)</a>, on it; but check out some of these lyrics: From <a href="http://joshjoplin.com/lyrics/trampoline.htm">Trampoline</a> on that latest record, The Future That Was<blockquote>Some people wish they could be like Moses And get their information from burning bushes Well I tried but the neighbors complained I set their lawns aflame </blockquote>Or the <a href="http://joshjoplin.com/lyrics/thefuturethatwas.htm">title track</a> from the same:<blockquote>Jesus the world is falling to pieces Will you come back and be our hero and release us? And if so, will you get your own show? And we'll be saved and well behaved And you'll be famous</blockquote>Also check out <a href="http://joshjoplin.com/lyrics/iamnottheonlycowboy.htm">I Am Not The Only Cowboy</a> (...in this one-horse metaphor) or <a href="http://joshjoplin.com/lyrics/thewonderfulones.htm">The Wonderful Ones</a>. Coolest things were his little stories he told between songs, like a true troubadour. He spoke against the war with a non-affronting wit. The very last song of the night? <a href="http://www.arlo.net/lyrics/this-land.shtml">This Land is Your Land</a>, we, the audience, singing along, of course.2MusicdanielMon, March 03, 2003publishdown and out in the magic kingdomif checking out <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2003/02/24/perspectives.html">this interview with Cory</a> at O'Reilly doesn't make you want to read his book, not much, including the fact you can download it for free, will.<blockquote>...the recording industry has a story of, "We do two really important roles. One is to make music available and the other is to compensate artists." But one of the things we know is that 80 percent of all of the music ever released isn't for sale anywhere in the world. And another thing we know is that 97 percent of the artists signed to a recording contract earn less than &#36;600 per year off of it. So Napster doesn't have a better track record at compensating artists, but it sure as shit had a better track record of making music available.</blockquote> 1ElsewheredanielMon, March 03, 2003publish