rotoscope<a title="..::||| ROTOSCOPE | Modern Rock from Washington DC |||::.." href="http://www.rotoscope.com">rotoscope has a new site out</a>, including fab pics of the new lineup and a few shots from yours truly as well.417ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-30T21:22:58-05:00publishwatch for the spread of IKEA<a title="The Onion | IKEA Claims Another 10,000 Lifestyles" href="http://onion.com/news/index.php?issue=4017&n=1">The Onion | IKEA Claims Another 10,000 Lifestyles</a>416ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-29T13:17:37-05:00publishref: ir and thebottlecap<a title="Thinking about software licensing for a small ISV and the issue of open source" href="http://www.bricklin.com/licensingthinking.htm">Thinking about software licensing for a small ISV and the issue of open source</a>414ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-28T18:25:55-05:00publishref: swim<a title=": : Speak Up > Tech Tuesday: Conceptualize, Organize, and Diagram : :" href="http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/001924.html">: : Speak Up > Tech Tuesday: Conceptualize, Organize, and Diagram : :</a>413ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-28T17:41:08-05:00publishn-ten<a title="N-TEN : About N-TEN" href="http://www.nten.org/about">N-TEN : About N-TEN</a> <a href="http://nten.typepad.com/">blog</a>410ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-27T16:56:01-05:00publishyes<a title="JohnKerryIsADoucheBagButImVotingForHimAnyway.com" href="http://johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com/">John Kerry Is A DoucheBag But Im Voting For Him Anyway dot com</a>409ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-27T16:43:15-05:00publishArtist Relocation Program<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0404260287apr27,1,6154636.story?coll=chi-leisuretempo-hed">Home is where the art is: Paducah, Ky., transforms a run-down neighborhood by luring artists with gallery, studio and living space</a> user name = ajreader pass = access <blockquote>Paducah, Kentucky wants artists. And they'll help you move there if you are one. Paducah's Artist Relocation Program has exerted the same magnetic pull on others who've dreamed of living, working and, most importantly, owning in a neighborhood of like-minded residents. In 2 1/2 years, nearly 40 people have moved here to transform a beat-up area of homes known as Lower Town into a blossoming art colony.</blockquote> {will probly make notes here in the future} via <a href="http://julievw.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_julievw_archive.html#108307755352382815">julievw</a>408ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-27T12:37:41-05:00publishah memories<a title="Lost Habits (Ftrain.com)" href="http://www.ftrain.com/MadonnaCollection.html">Lost Habits (Ftrain.com)</a> <blockquote>"It was in Rolling Stone," I explained. "It was this woman, it said, 'I feel naked without my Swatch'. And she was naked. Except for her Swatch."</blockquote> I think I remember that ad. I think I'm going to get a Swatch to replace my watch that was stolen. Just for special occasions. ...also, I had a stack of Madonna postcards I bought at the NJ shore...407ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-27T12:15:32-05:00publishlinford detweiler<a title="Looking Closer Interview with Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine" href="http://promontoryartists.org/lookingcloser/overtherhineinterview.htm">Looking Closer Interview with Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine</a> <blockquote>The mystery at the heart of so many creative people is that we're trying to make sense of the story that we've been handed and the story that we�re helping to write with our lives. We write to try to figure out what we believe is true, and to try to make sense of what's happened...those difficult things make us who we are....Whatever pain was part of Karin's journey has made Karin who she is. And she wouldn't sing what she does if she had no abandonment.</blockquote>406QuotableDaniel2004-04-27T03:27:54-05:00publishrandom<a title="opus / about opus / weblog: view entry" href="http://www.opuszine.com/about/weblog.html?entryID=925">opus / about opus / weblog: view entry</a> Same day, same title...(diff subject matter)...as <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2004_04.xml&id=392">my entry last friday</a>. Decent site/blog as well.405ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-27T03:13:57-05:00publishMichael Wilson<a title="MICHAEL WILSON | photographer" href="http://www.michaelwilsonphotographer.com/">Michael Wilson -- photographer <img src="images/2004_04/33.jpg" border="2" style="border-color:#ccc;" /></a> This is the guy who shoots for OtR. His portfolio is a regular who's who of American music. His images are striking (as anyone who follows OtR knows).404ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-27T02:55:00-05:00publishbitsI made a card for my dad's birthday. Here's a picture of myself I made for it (you have to clickit--this is a thumb): <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/media/2004_dadbd/images/solar_battery2.jpg"><img src="images/2004_04/solar_battery2.jpg" width="115" height="122" border="2" style="border-color:#ccc" /></a> ... the peps in TX are (in general, of course) nicer than anywhere else i've lived. def nicer than FL. when they ask you how you are doing they mean it. when you ask them they give an honest answer. the blue licence plates match my car much better than the orange FL one. i've never had two plates before. ... saturday night: it's the middle of a beautiful night. the temps dropped today and right now it is perfectly cold. a confident rain just started dropping. i sit reading some amazing hypergraphicnarrative, sipping red hook, IMing and talking on my cell with a VIP, the occasional spirit, just three items of furniture, vast areas of nothing, one small photograph from a friend in the middle of the wall, bright eyes pouring out of laptop speakers... life is good. ... got a new phone today. thank you LORD. also saving a lot compared to my old plan. yeah! better! more! for! less! it's fucking America! ... right vs. wrong: honesty vs. lying, love vs. hate, love *and* honesty vs. manipulation, faithfulness vs. betrayal, patience vs. anger, peace vs. violence, generosity vs. greed, acceptance vs. judgement. this is in response to some people who say i don't believe in right and wrong. these were just a few things off the top of my head. please stop saying i don't believe in right and wrong just because i won't stand on a hill and point my finger at everyone i think is doing "wrong." no, instead i mourn with those hurt by their actions.396MinutiaDaniel2004-04-26T18:16:02-05:00publishnotes: some clearer description of IR's intent/position for future white paperMost of the models for cultural dissemination (my term for the process from post-creation to consumption--printing, marketing, distribution, and the actual commerce act itself) revolve around a method of making very large margins on a few artists. Those margins are used to sustain the model, which commits resources to R&D and marketing for many "gambles." When a gamble doesn't pay off within an established time frame it is dropped. When a gamble pays off additional resources are used to try and reproduce the event. All these techniques revolve around a mass market and mass media. 1. The ethics of treating artists like market objects, assumed risks which are sustained or dropped based on market response, is questionable. {No more comment on this ATM.} 2. The world wide web has introduced new paradigms into society for the dissemination of first knowledge and then culture. These paradigms have led to the realization of alternative sustainment models for any kind of knowledge or cultural creator. These models may or may not work directly with the WWW, but do share its characteristics--flattened hierarchies, viral marketing, the exploitation of multiple microrevenue sources (as opposed to a single large revenue source). In Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, the character Tyler Durden says "We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact." There is a large and growing segment of society today that is finding meaning not through fame or wealth, but through the small satisfactions of doing important work with their lives. True artists, they do their work--be it programming, writing, performing, or simply making a damn fine cup of espresso--for both a greater good and an inner, personal compensation. IR seeks to serve this community with tools and information that facilitate its ability to create and reproduce. Tyler follows up his observation by saying, "So don't fuck with us." Something is definitely happening. See also: <a href="http://www.theyblinked.com/2004_04_18_theyblinked_archive.html#108257474370616809">Dan Hughes</a>:<blockquote>I was reflecting for a moment today about the importance of the creative work that so many of my friends are priveleging amidst all of the mundane, rote, difficult things that are required just to live. Despite the opportunities to make more money, the discouragement that goes with disclosing your passions in such visible ways and the, seemingly inexhaustible, opportunity for distraction from those things that we christen of highest value many are persevering and creating lives and work of beauty and authenticity; critique and vision.</blockquote>403CommentDaniel2004-04-26T17:34:01-05:00publishtoo funny<a title="Dilbert Comic Strip Archive - Dilbert.com - The Official Dilbert Website by Scott Adams - Dilbert, Dogbert and Coworkers!" href="http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20040425.html">Dilbert Comic Strip Archive - Dilbert.com!</a> when I say "bought," I mean downloaded.402ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-26T00:51:14-05:00publishfrom Fanatical Apathy<blockquote>At a party last night, I argued pleasantly with a man who believes that Ralph Nader has every right to run for president. I agree in principle, but I still think that Ralph running now is a bit like someone proposing a sweeping redecorating and reupholstering project. On the Titanic. After it hit the iceberg.</blockquote> <a title="Fanatical Apathy: Los Angeles Diary" href="http://www.felbers.net/mt/archives/001773.html">Adam Felber</a>401QuotableDaniel2004-04-26T00:36:01-05:00publishfrom consumptive.org<blockquote>i'm pretty good at knowing what's wrong, but lousy at coming up with any solutions. growing up the world was fucked, the cold war and all that. i remember doing atomic bomb drills, hiding under the desk, duck and cover, and wondering why they never taught us what to do after that. but at least it was something to hang onto, i mean that was *it*. these days up is down and backwards is forwards. ethics is pretty great at being right all the time, but maybe right isn't necessarily always opposed to wrong. my poor head is heavy and aching and too slow to keep up with all the results of the subjectivites that plague humanity (or is it the other way around?). so when you don't see something here for a few days, the point is to go read those political sites, those news sites, those troubled and worried websites. i try, from time to time, to bring you the word from the bigger picture, the way things are - i.e. the uncanny and the surreal. those night dreams, those day dreams, that haunt and delight us, that shift our attentions sublime. but sometimes it's all too much, sometimes you have to take time out and feed the fire with what is rather ominiously called these days, and quite appropriately stylish and vulgar, "the facts on the ground." truth is worse than fiction. it's a shame that both aren't always unreal.</blockquote> <a title="consumptive.org" href="http://consumptive.org/weblog/blog.html">James Luckett</a>400QuotableDaniel2004-04-25T23:24:38-05:00publishnewsmapfor everyone but particularly dan: <a href="http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/">http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/</a> <blockquote>Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of...Google News...display the enormous amount of information gathered by {}...provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.blackbeltjones.com/work/mt/archives/000949.html">via</a> <a href="http://www.blackbeltjones.com/work/">blackbeltjones</a> 399ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-25T03:46:31-05:00publishSpiders<a href="http://www.e-sheep.com/spiders/">Spiders</a> at <a href="http://www.e-sheep.com/">e-sheep</a> via <a href="http://angermann2.com/category/swarming/">angermann2.com/.../swarming</a> <blockquote>...an alternate history of the afghan/US conflict: Gore has been elected president and instead of sending the military into Afghanistan, Gore insteads creates an open source military consisting of millions of robot spiders controlled by American computer users sitting in front of their personal computers at home.</blockquote> that's the plot, which is interesting enough, but the hypergraphic storytelling is phenom. seriously. get past the first page...<a href="http://www.e-sheep.com/spiders/">the storytelling gets better, more inventive and literate as it goes...</a>398ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-25T03:41:23-05:00publishreminders of eastern europe<a title="The Morning News - Letters from Edinburgh: Bulgarian Rhapsody" href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personalities/letters_from_edinburgh_bulgarian_rhapsody.php">The Morning News - Letters from Edinburgh: Bulgarian Rhapsody</a>: Claire Miccio, who is living in Edinburgh for a year, jets to Sofia to meet a friend, explores the city in all its relative weirdness, and learns to speak, or at least gesture, a new language... I guess just like It's Better To Have Loved and Lost Than To Never Have Loved At All, It's Better to Have Visited Eastern Europe And Been Spit Back Stateside Like So Much Useless Saliva Than to Never Have Been To Eastern Europe At All. This article struck a chord with some of my experiences...very funny moments... <blockquote>Among Boulevard Vitosha�s shops, mosques, and churches are plenty of caf�s where you can catch Bulgarians enjoying their usual breakfast of cigarettes and the world�s vilest coffee.</blockquote> <blockquote> Lulls in conversation, verbal and physical, are rare between Petya and her friends...</blockquote> Many other brilliant turns-of-phrase and tiny bits that require context. <a title="The Morning News - Letters from Edinburgh: Bulgarian Rhapsody" href="http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personalities/letters_from_edinburgh_bulgarian_rhapsody.php">Read it</a>.397ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-24T22:01:57-05:00publishlotsa lotsa lotsa good stuffwe love repeated made-up adverbs. just love them! ... <a href="http://www.glitteringgenerality.com/default.aspx?date=2004-04-21"><img src="images/2004_04/win2mac3_copy2.jpg" border="2" style="border-color:#ccc" /> evangelism, dogma, rhetoric, and believing</a> ... currently listening to: <a href="http://thebots.net/FuzzyMath.htm">fuzzymath</a> (bushwack2 is also good) ... {people will reject you if you don't respond to rejection the way they think you should: people will reject you if you've become hardened to rejection and it doesn't bother you anymore. people will reject you for responding emotionally to rejection. i think we as people are just destined to reject each other. we love the hate. i'm just wondering if over the years we become hard--does this explain nasty old people? rejected by parents, rejected by spouses, rejected by bosses, rejected by pastors...does it just get to the point where it doesn't bother us, to the detriment of our ability to love and be open to love?} ... currently listening to: <a href="http://music.metafilter.com/index.php?q=f&f=%2FBeatallica">beatallica -- hey dude</a> (they're all good for at least one listen) (dan this is for you FOR SURE--ha ha--LOVE it! ref our beatles conversation last night and your undying love for Mr. Lars Hetfield) (<a href="http://www.beatallica.com/">beatallica.com</a>) (<a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/wearetheworld/04-04-08.shtml">featured on pitchfork</a>) (<a href="http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/">bittorrent</a> it from the beatallica site or <a href="http://waxy.org/bt/">here</a> if you can) now: <a href="http://www.broke-ass.com/">double black album</a>, DJ Cheap Cologne's unauthorized reworking of Metallica's Black Album with Jay-Z's Black Album. it's a metallica twofer today! ... also mentioned last night: <a href="http://www.bookofjoe.com/bookofjoe/2004/04/exclusive_foota.html">Exclusive footage: Bob Dylan's 1965 interview, in which he reveals - 39 years before the fact - that he will sell out to Victoria's Secret</a> only a top 5 guy like dylan could pull that shit off. ;) ... <a href="http://www.culturedeluxe.co.uk/download.htm">London Booted</a> 25 years on - London calls once again. ... <a href="http://www.decemberists.com">the decemberists</a> june 21 at <a href="http://www.trees.com/">trees</a>. don't let me forget. ... <a href="http://www.notam02.no/9/">9 beet stretch</a>: <a href="http://interconnected.org/home/2004/04/19/leif_inges_9_beet">says Matt Webb</a>:<blockquote>Beethoven's 9th symphony timestretched to 24 hours. Each movement lasts about 5 hours. 2 minute crescendos now build over 20 minutes. It's slow. The performance is a sleepover. I listened to the first four movements on my train ride from New York to San Diego (for Etcon, this year). My power ran out, but I'd listened to the 5th before. Over that length of time, you can't pay attention. The music affects your consciousness without you noticing, shapes your thoughts. It's impossible to pinpoint anything about the sound itself, only your own cognitive state.</blockquote> i don't have the harddrive space to grab this yet...if someone does and wants to burn it on (a few couple) cdr's for me, feel free! :) this is a <a href="http://www.freemanifesta.org/dir.html">sal</a> thing. it was on npr...didn't know. did i mention sal emailed me about IR? i was pretty excited. we'll c. ... ...more next time!393ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-24T20:43:29-05:00publishFiction > Denny's 01 > draft > bitThe events and characters depicted in this work are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. There is this couple at Denny's all the time, and from what I can make of them, the guy is Kara's dad. I just don't get what the attraction is. He is a very regular old overweight guy. He's a nondescript businessman, although he can afford things. She is a fairly young professional looking blonde woman. I haven't had the heart to tell Kara: I figure she either already knows, or I could be wrong. Either way, it's not worth it. I just don't get it. Car salesmen, middle managers, cruise ship directors? How is it these guys score these extra-marital women? I was telling Natasha: they're greasy. Then Natasha reminds me that only greasy guys would do something like that. Then I remember I was greasy. When grease burns, first it creates huge clouds of horrid-smelling smoke, then it leaves a thick black crust behind. The smoke will set off fire alarms and make the baby cry; but if you open the windows and crank up the fan on the air conditioning, it will go away. The carbonic residue will stain and reach a rock-like consistency; but if you scrub the pan with enough soap and steel wool, that grease crust will become history. I feel like I've been put in the sink to soak for a while. The funny thing is, Kara's dad and his lover pray all the time. They hold hands across the table and she shuts her eyes and he prays. I don't know about what--about her job, about her mother, about her elective surgery--I really don't know. But they pray. I can only assume his sensitive spiritual side is what attracted her in the first place.388FictionDaniel2004-04-24T16:39:33-05:00publishgood ideas in the IR veinall to do with music: <a title="musicplasma : the music visual search engine" href="http://www.musicplasma.com/">musicplasma : the music visual search engine</a> <a href="http://www.musicmobs.org/">musicmobs.com :: music intelligence</a> <a href="http://irate.sourceforge.net/">irate.sourceforge.net</a>395ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-24T16:14:54-05:00publishconspiracy theory<a title="Eric's Archived Thoughts" href="http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/200404.html#d13t1143">Eric's Archived Thoughts: Conspiracy Theory</a> Some of you may be too young to remember the name Bill Watterson...394ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-24T15:53:01-05:00publishit's friday i'm in lovemakin' me miss the FL <a href="http://img33.photobucket.com/albums/v98/shannonodonnell/the_girls.jpg">crew</a>, <a href="http://shannononoccassion.blogspot.com">you</a> are. <a href="http://img33.photobucket.com/albums/v98/shannonodonnell/Odonnellteam.jpg">that pic</a> is all time. <a href="http://img31.photobucket.com/albums/v92/Skatersurferbum/whitmeheathererica.jpg">whit</a>! woah guy! and don't think that i'm not TOTALLY JEALOUS that you guys are getting to see Over the Rhine in FL!! WTF? i move away and they immediately play there? my friend Jason <a href="http://jayrob.net/clutchtime.wmv">riding his motorcycle at 150mph</a> (683K wmv). hosted on a site i helped him set up (for which he generously compensated me). don't download it unless you know him, bandwidth and all...should be ok, but... i think i am a vampire. i only get started after dark, and the sun bothers me. please, clouds, stick around! in TX i've probly gotta get my own back (no offense), but in FL, where things do tend to get out of hand with more frequency (must be the sun), it's nice to know i have a handful of tough blokes <a href="http://img31.photobucket.com/albums/v92/Skatersurferbum/Tj.jpg">like this one</a> backin' me up. TO THOSE WHO WOULD ACCUSE ME: read <a href="http://gamalielsdesk.blogspot.com/">Gamaliel's Desk ("An advice column for aspiring Pharisees")</a>, it is perfect for you.<blockquote>The Bible plainly states that we should "mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them," in Romans 16:17. So we should avoid those who seek to unite all faiths under a single, unified cause because they are really causing division by sowing false doctrine. No matter how many they attract or how great their following, when we separate ourselves from them we are being obedient to our biblical mandate to avoid them. When we divide ourselves from them we are not causing the divisions but are only responding to the division that they have created by holding to false doctrine. Clearly, it is they who are the ones holding to the false doctrines, not us. ...I realize this may sound harsh to some people but that is only because they can't stand good sound preaching. If they could, then they would not be cozying up to heretics...</blockquote>speaking of ways i'm evil: <a href="http://www.aprilwinchell.com/multimedia/media/mp3/CrystalBernard.mp3">the ecumenical movement</a> (990k mp3)<blockquote>they always talk about the golden rule and the sermon on the mount but whether you've ever been born again doesn't even seem to count</blockquote><a href="http://www.aprilwinchell.com/multimedia/media/mp3/WetDreams.mp3">premature ejaculation</a> (690k mp3)<blockquote>"...the penis of the husband actually passes within his wife's body." "Gee is that what happens when people get married?" "That's right." "...It's true that to waste the seed deliberately, to do anything knowingly to make it come, is a very grave sin."</blockquote>(from <a href="http://www.aprilwinchell.com/multimedia/">april winchell's multimedia page</a>. check out the rest of the Terrifying Christian Recordings.) these are two of my favorite bible verses: <a href="http://biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&passage=Ezekiel+4%3A9-15&version=NIV">Ezekiel 4</a> and <a href="http://biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&passage=Jeremiah+2%3A24&version=NIV">Jeremiah 2</a> (former via <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/">steve</a> latter via <a href="http://ellensjourney.org/stranger/">LN</a>). these are the ones i wanted to put on <a href="http://islandwatersports.com/">IWS</a>'s 'verse of the day' whiteboard SO BAD. but i chickened out. {third eye blind is a guilty pleasure band for me. i'm not even going to bother with the links, but they have a few complete mp3's avail on their site for download. two of them had no ID3 info and one had wrong ID3 info! none of them had the band name in the filename. just goes to show. i've said this before, again i'm not going to bother trying to find it in my archives, but musicians: don't do this. attach metadata to your work!} here at DJDC HQ we love cats (particularly cats possessed by aliens): <img src="images/2004_04/2004_04_23_cat03.jpg" width="330" height="247" /> <s>IR planning meetings</s> late friday life debriefing: speedballs at new amsterdam. <img src="images/2004_04/2004_04_23_newamsterdam01.jpg" width="330" height="247" /> big brother is watching you. but we're not too concerned. <img src="images/2004_04/2004_04_23_newamsterdam02.jpg" height="330" width="247" /> a glass of <a href="http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/rate_results/222/2508/">maredsous</a> (not to be confused with <a href="http://www.maredsous.be/">monks who make cheese</a>) and two long island iced teas on a table i covet. <img src="images/2004_04/2004_04_23_newamsterdam03.jpg" width="330" height="247" /> of course. <img src="images/2004_04/2004_04_23_newamsterdam05.jpg" width="330" height="247" />392MinutiaDaniel2004-04-23T23:13:06-05:00publishFiction > Denny's 00 > draft > bitThe events and characters depicted in this work are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. There was a man there, alone as I, but speaking animatedly into his cell phone earpiece. I don't know what it is about cell phone earpieces, but they immediately connote power. I guess that important people have a lot of other important people to talk to, and they must speak with them with such frequency and vigor that they require an earpiece. Like cops, the radio microphone strapped to their shoulder, they reach up and squeeze the button and you know you're in trouble. There's some serious shit behind that mike. I particularly like the cell phone earpiece-mike combos that stick out in front of one's face like a pop singer and have the hang-up button on the ear. The person taps their ear when they pick up or hang up the phone like they are signaling the runner at first to steal second. "Hello?" they shout. And then the Very Important Conversation begins. I listened to my Denny's copatron for some time and it became apparent he was speaking with his lover. The huge gold ring around his left hand comical as he argued and apologized to some unseen blonde on the other side of the phone. I wondered if he was out of town on business talking to his lover back home or if he was home talking to his lover he met while away on business. It was like he was on an imaginary date. Instead of sitting on the other side of the table from him, enjoying a Grand Slam Hold The Bacon, she was sitting on the other side of the earpiece from him, wondering when he was going to ditch his loser wife and flinching when he reached up and tapped his ear and ended their virtual rendezvous.387FictionDaniel2004-04-23T16:33:59-05:00publishfakeisthenewreal<a title="fake is the new real" href="http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/">fake is the new real</a> also via veer384ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-22T15:13:05-05:00publishcarl de keyzer<a href="http://www.carldekeyzer.com/">http://www.carldekeyzer.com/</a> (flash, although the best use of I've ever seen) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=De%20Keyzer%2C%20Carl/102-8146040-5472944">books</a> via <a href="http://www.veer.com/ideas">veer</a>383ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-22T14:40:33-05:00publishdo the faithful sigh because they are so fewWhat would you say if you knew what I was thinking? Maybe you do but you know not to dig too deep What if I knew what you needed for sure? I've seen in your eyes you need more Much more. And I could be happy and you could be miserable I'll grab a metaphor out of the air The Cuyahoga river on fire What can you say, the impossible happens. What can you settle for, what can you live without? I remember the night I first darkened your door And I swore that I loved you My heart was pure You could be happy and I could be miserable I'll grab a metaphor out of the air The Cuyahoga {<a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/media/adam_again-river_on_fire.mp3">river on fire</a>} My open window, a dream in the dark {{My fingers, your face A spark, a trace}} --Adam Again {7.2M mp3} {{minutes before I left SA, not knowing I would not return}} I sang this song my last public performance, my last performance in FL. I played it tonight at 12:30 with my window open, my voice having not been raised in weeks, my hands finding familiar ground on the fingerboard, playing with soft, random notes, just enough for the melody to float over, out through the window to sit in the ivy on the sill, for the birds who will visit it early in the morning.391MinutiaDaniel2004-04-22T12:08:54-05:00publishover there -- real world notes<a href="http://seizureofpower.blogspot.com/">Mr. Henderson</a> and <a href="http://ellensjourney.org">LN</a> and everyone else I know over there, sorry if I can't read about it or see pictures of the places I have been but never said goodbye to. Just can't yet.390MinutiaDaniel2004-04-22T12:07:39-05:00publishFiction > Over There > draft > bitThe events and characters depicted in this work are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. I miss Over There horribly. I see pictures of the city and tears well up in my eyes. I read stories and my heart aches. I had just made Over There my home when I was forced to leave. I thought I was going to be coming back in six short weeks, but I will probably never return. I may go back someday, to say a proper goodbye to a town that has my heart. It is a town of mysterious beauty, culture, in which some amazing people reside. But it is also a town that will chew you up and spit you out like so much tobacco. People say it is cursed, that the land is destined to be at war every decade, or ever-other decade...whatever. I would agree that it is cursed, it was for me at least, but it is something more obtuse than just the people's proclivity for killing each other. There is a great paradox at work there, like it is the focus point of the entire world's paradox, that between good and evil, light and darkness, beauty and depravity. If you are prepared, the good, light, and beauty are stunning. If you are not prepared, the evil, darkness, and depravity will swallow you whole. Whenever I read stories about the last war that occurred there, I am amazed that the entire population that were victimized by the horrors would not have changed. I would think that after fighting for your family's survival for years and years you would never dream of being unfaithful to them, of abandoning them for some hot young thing that crossed your path, that you would pursue another woman, or another man, and leave what you fought so hard to preserve against a vile enemy determined to destroy it. ... There is no perfect place. There is no perfect family waiting at the end of the jetway. There is no lover who says only the right things. The gene pool is fucked. The Beautiful People think they are superior, but it all really just depends on where you set the bar. They might be clearing that bar and you might be failing every time, but I have a feeling that the bar we should be trying for is in a different stadium altogether. There is no perfect place. But Over There was pretty close.389FictionDaniel2004-04-22T12:02:39-05:00publish... ...You know I'm not really done <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2004_03.xml&id=316">with this</a>. This space is still sort-of on pause. You know I'm in Dallas. I may have a couple more bits I'd thrown together during 2am Denny's outings in Deerfield. But otherwise it's blah blah blah. I still have a lot of work to do, some of it will spill into this space but not a lot. So go read the recently revived and as always brilliant <a href="http://interconnected.org/home/">interconnected.org by Matt Webb</a> (thanks to RSS I had never given up, but had forgotten about it, and then surprise, there it is again, like a gift) for <a href="http://interconnected.org/home/2003/12/19/in_the_image_of_the_city">bits like this</a>: <blockquote>...a whole vocabulary for those emergent properties of human wiring and social habitation...It's going to be enormously useful in thinking about how people learn to find their way around websites (and semantic spaces of all kinds), how we relate to space in general, and, more, how that space is collaboratively created...</blockquote> Go and look at these <a href="http://www.queergranny.com/403perpetua.shtml">haunting and beautiful photos by Matthew Perpetua</a>. They will move you through a dark night. I recommend listening to Rufus' <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/media/06%20Go%20Or%20Go%20Ahead.mp3">Go or Go Ahead</a> (7.2M mp3) (and the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000C7PSW/qid=1082611901/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/102-8146040-5472944?v=glance&s=music&n=507846">whole record</a> if possible) while flipping through the images. <img src="images/2004_04/fluxphotos_20.jpg" /> img (c) Matthew Perpetua Update. I forgot: Listen to <a href="http://southfm.com">southfm</a>. Paco if you stumble upon this space before I see you next Tuesday drop me a line. Watch the <a href="http://www.intothematrix.com/">Animatrix</a>.378MinutiaDaniel2004-04-22T01:48:52-05:00publishanother interesting job opening"Director of Adult Services" Killer. <a href="index.php?file=2004_02.xml&id=211">Perfect job for Johnny</a>.377MinutiaDaniel2004-04-21T13:09:02-05:00publishabandoned placesHave had this in my 'to blog' folder for about 4 months. This guy has the photographic experience of my dreams and the catalog to back it up. <img src="images/2004_04/aban_places_luik0021.jpg" width="330" height="223" border="2" style="border-color:#ccc;" /> <a title="" href="http://www.abandoned-places.com/">abandoned-places.com</a> <img src="images/2004_04/aban_places_ro-clothes02.jpg" width="330" height="217" border="2" style="border-color:#ccc;" /> I'll just let the link and samples be its own comment. img's (c) Henk van Rensbergen373ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-21T00:34:11-05:00publishJabberwocky<a href="http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/Jabberwocky/">Jabberwocky</a> <a href="http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/Jabberwocky/info.htm">Jabberwocky info</a> <a href="http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/Jabberwocky/demo.htm">Jabberwocky demo</a> <a href="http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/">urban-atmospheres.net</a> <a title="Intel Research Laboratory at Berkeley" href="http://www.intel-research.net/berkeley/index.asp">Intel Research Laboratory at Berkeley</a> via <a href="http://www.theyblinked.com/2004_04_11_theyblinked_archive.html#108208454242338794">theyblinked</a> we need this in our community here. shall we have a <a href="http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/Jabberwocky/download.htm">download</a> and install party sometime?371ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-20T16:05:46-05:00publishemails from maggieYou may have noticed the excellent fiction from <a href="http://www.thefreakinhott.com/">Maggie</a> around here lately. If we're lucky, there will be more postings from the amazing duo famous for stylish fashion choices, amazing nights of lunacy in little known strip clubs and karaoke bars around south Florida, and of course for rocking our socks off with some frequency. What you may not know is that some of Maggie's most original literary output is in her everyday communiques. What follows is a short email exchange between Maggie and myself. Blockquotes are Maggie:<blockquote><a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2004_04.xml&id=327">Great shot of you in your new pad</a>, by the way. Your bed looks like an island surrounded by a sea of wood. Is it an all-purpose piece of furniture? You know, coffee table, dining room table, pantry, laundry hamper, couch? Just tell people you're a minimalist. Chicks dig minimalists, you know. So long as you're not wearing a beret. So are you settling in okay? Got a few regular hangouts and a Dallas crew to frequent them with? What I'm really getting at is: 1. Have you had any Ross Perot sightings? 2. Did you find out who shot J.R.? 3. Is everything really bigger there? Boobies too? 4. Have you purchased a cowboy hat yet? The ten gallon foam ones don't count. And, most importantly: 5. Have you had sex with all of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders yet? Inquiring minds want to know. And if you haven't done or seen any of the above, just make some shit up. I won't know the difference. And for an additional fee, I'll get the gossip mill running here about how you nailed those cheerleaders. </blockquote> 1. No but I'm sure he's peered down at me through oversized binoculars from some high perch above the city from where he watches all the people spend money that will eventually find its way into his bank accounts. 2. No but there is this dead body out behind the dumpster in the alley...maybe it's him? 3. No sadly everything is the same size. 4. No but it's kinda inevitable isn't it? I saw a huge Western Wear outlet and thought of Aaron. 5. It's actually part of the "Welcome to Dallas" package...they all come (heheh) over one night and just have at you. Really helps make you feel at home in a new city, you know? ...You and Aaron featured in dream of mine last night: we were on tour and I was singing harmony...we had these very tight harmony things going on choruses...it rocked. <blockquote>Weird dreams, huh? Here's where it gets even weirder: Friday night, I had one dream where {} came up to me and told me that he was giving Aaron and me $250,000 to buy a touring van, do our record, and merchandise for a tour. Then, the NEXT night, I had a dream that I found a bank deposit bag with no ID in it in front of my house that had $22,500 dollars in it, and my best friend from high school (who's now married and expecting her first child) was with me when I found it, so I told her to take half the money because she had a baby on the way, and when she asked what I was going to do with my half, I said "What do you think?! I'm buying a touring van!" Then I woke up immediately after that. So I tell Aaron the story, and he stops me in the middle to tell me about how he had a dream that same night that some guy at the dog track sold him a really nice $40,000 touring van for like $500 and when we were driving home in it, I screamed for him to stop the van so he could see that there was a whole bunch of amps and guitars and drums and stuff in the back of the van. And now you're even having dreams about this too! Weird, wild stuff this universe is. Did that sentence make me sound like Yoda? So we went and saw Helen play at a Borders bookstore in Ft. Lauderdale on Friday. She went over very, very well. Held everyone's attention for 90 minutes! Aaron, Brent and Pete and I went to a sushi karaoke place afterwards, where I did I red-hot version of "Material Girl" and a japanese guy went up and did a Ricky Martin medley a'la William Hung. It was a smokin' good time. Especially when we were in the parking lot before we left, and Aaron chased me around with his pants half-down trying to pee on me while I was screaming and trying not to bust my ass in five inch heels. Brent and Pete agreed that should be the premise for our first music video. As I was the designated driver, I had a carload of idiots all hopped up on sake to contend with for that long drive home to Delray. Too bad SOMEBODY had to move to Dallas so he couldn't be there for the food, folks and fun. Hmm? Hmm? Got together with anyone musically (or biblically, wink wink) out there yet? Playing well with others? Following directions? Raising your hand to be recognized before speaking? Keeping your hands and feet to yourself? Oh yeah, that reminds me - there's a new hot piece of ass waitress at Dada. I believe I saw her wearing glasses at one point during the night. Oh wait - what do you care? You up and moved to Texas, so no hot glasses-wearing new waitresses for you, mister!</blockquote> ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS: I had better be your drummer on tour! I'm making sure I can drop everything for this imminent day. My drumset returns home in a month or two. I wasn't actually playing drums in my dream, only cowbell (WTF?) (and the singing of course, which was the clutch part). But I've had daydreams of playing my kit behind the freakin' hott. Will have to get a big assed cowbell for it. Can I put some of our email exchange on the site then? There are some nuggets here! The Aaron trying to pee on Maggie is definately in the first vid. Oh yeah. <blockquote>Feel free to publish anything you want from any of our email exchanges - except for the one about how I got double teamed by Gary Coleman and Charles Nelson Reilly. Some things have to remain sacred. So do you see people walking around with guns on their hip or anything? Open carry laws are awesome - I'd carry a flamethrower with a sticker that said "The Hottinator" on it, and then scorch everyone who was committing crimes of fashion. Men wearing Guy Harvey t-shirts with khaki dockers shorts and docksiders would be the first to go. Then I'd go after the girls wearing dark lip liner with light pink gloss. Could I have a "wrath"... or a "reign"? I can never decide these things. Oh well. Of course you can go on tour with us, but I feel compelled to warn you that Aaron drives in the nude. Bring a towel to sit on when it's your turn to drive. The up-side is that you could spend literally hours playing ring toss "with" him and a box of glazed donuts. Mmmm....donuts. I've been eating these stupid Healthy Choice frozen things for lunch, and they're just not cutting it. I'll probably end up in the drive-thru at Burger King so I can shovel warm 99 cent tollhouse cookies into my mouth like a piranha. You know they sell warm tollhouse cookies there, don't you - filled with ooey-gooey chocolatey goodness? I was thinking of petitioning them to stop selling them, as they stand only to contribute to my jigglyness, but I just love them too much to say goodbye. You should take some pictures of what it looks like outside the window of your apartment. And a shot of a chinese guy wearing a cowboy hat. Wouldn't it be weird if you looked out your window right now and there was a chinese guy wearing a cowboy hat? If his name is Harry Wang, tell him Aaron says hello. I just had a terrifying image of you and Aaron and I singing harmonies to "Puff the Magic Dragon" - Peter, Paul, and Mary style. I get to be Paul! Do you have a turtleneck and an autoharp? Come to think of it, you're a little too tall to be Mary, though. Maybe we could call ourselves Peter, Paul and Wookie?</blockquote> Here's pics out the window, best I could do. Looking right: <img src="images/2004_04/window_r.jpg" border="2" style="border-color:#ccc" /> And left. As you can see there is mostly another big building just like mine across the way: <img src="images/2004_04/window_l.jpg" border="2" style="border-color:#ccc" /> I'll be on the lookout for chinamen beneath large cowboy hats, but no dice yet, so here's some Texas spirit for ya: <img src="images/2004_04/texas01.jpg" /> Here's a big ferris wheel across from my place. Apparently it only runs for 1 month a year, though, for the state fair. I've dubbed it the Dallas Eye: <img src="images/2004_04/texas02.jpg" border="2" style="border-color:#ccc" /> And here's a picture of a huge hotdog with aliens on the bun: <img src="images/2004_04/hotdog.jpg" border="2" style="border-color:#ccc" /> 372MinutiaDaniel2004-04-20T01:01:17-05:00publishUntitled - ConclusionI watched as his shadow crept across my bedroom wall, across the floor, to the foot of my bed. The breeze coming through my now-opened window smelled of ozone, and the sound of static zings popped in my ears as he climbed the footboard of my bed. He wriggled up beside me like a house gecko, nestling his head into the crook of my shoulder. He touched his lips to my collarbone and hummed softly, sending the vibrations of his breath through my skeleton. My blood ran like melted butter through my veins, so smoothly in fact, that I didn�t notice that my heart was slowing to a dull hiccup. He was ready to take me. I remember thinking that it was too late to tell him that I had changed my mind. My arms flailed to the mirrored headboard above me, shattering silver across the room, the shards catching the moonlight as they danced towards the floor. I struggled to pull my hands back out from the broken glass. I freed one hand, then another, as I sprung on top of him, slinging my now half-gold blood across his face. I gathered a handful of the shards, and pressed them like a shiny snowball between my palms. He let out a cry as I ground it into his chest with my bleeding hands, and watched him turn to silver. I could see my reflection coming into focus in his heart as my blood turned back to red. I slept through the night and woke up to life.370FictionMaggie2004-04-19T13:02:51-05:00publishSOLIn a daily email of job openings I subscribe to, there was listed "SOL Instructor." I would be a perfect SOL Instructor.369MinutiaDaniel2004-04-19T12:58:36-05:00publishmmm mmthat's some <a href="http://www.veenvop.com/flash_1.html">sweet smellin' coffee</a> (flash)366ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-17T19:43:05-05:00publishno titleIt may be asked, "How can you believe in God yet not entirely believe in His word? John 1 says, 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.'" I would love to speak of the philisophical and historical elements into which this question leads, but I I do not have the space in this blog to explore all of that. I can, and in fact my faith has been strengthed by the delinking of the two. I know this is perhaps impossible for some to understand. One may claim that my beliefs "make things a little more convenient," but I assure you, they make my life thoroughly less convenient. I am rejected by both the world and the church, and circle the wagons with a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=legion+of+doom+site%3Awww.theyblinked.com">lonely</a> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=legion+of+doom+site%3Amonkhouse.blogspot.com">few</a> undivided by <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=sacred+secular+site%3Awww.the-next-wave.org">such</a> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=sacred+vs.+secular">binaries</a>. ...Answers without questions are powerless. Beliefs that attempt to answer all of life's questions crumble when life asks a question they are unable to answer. ...The example of love that I understand through Christ as presented through scripture was not one pretexted in agreement, culturally or doctrinally. Christ, of all people (based on what I believe of him to be the only person in history to know the Truth), had license to judge and deal impatiently with humanity. Yet scripture presents a man who manifested those characteristics only when dealing with those who claimed authority in issues of doctrine, and who surrounded himself with the very questioning seekers that established authority would reject. There is even a case (<a href="http://biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=MATT+15&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=on&showxref=on">Matthew 15</a>:21-28) where he himself claimed authority and exclusion based on cultural and racial boundaries but was overcome by desperation and humility. (There is <a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0001772/stories/2003/10/31/theSmallestPersonInAllTheWorld.html">a beautiful interpretation of that passage at RLP</a>.) ...We live in a hard world antithetical to our soft hearts, we worship in houses of wood and stone to gods of charismatic words and powerful paper; but we seek desperately, live through distressful experiences of rape and betrayal and judgement and rejection, yet cling to a hope, sometimes manifest in a pure faith, that God will yet not abandon or forget us. (<a href="http://biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?language=english&version=NIV&passage=deut+4%3A27-31&x=6&y=8">Based on Deut 4</a>; see also <a href="http://biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=HEB+11:13&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=on&showxref=on">Heb 11</a>.) Update: Later, it was pointed out to me that what the original hypothetical question suggests is a reading of the verse like this:<blockquote>In the beginning was the Bible, and the Bible was with God and the Bible was God. The Bible was with God in the beginning.</blockquote>365CommentDaniel2004-04-17T16:14:57-05:00publishthe freakin' hot: feeling the love in more ways than one<a title="New Times Broward-Palm Beach | newtimesbpb.com | Music | Sayitloud | What Is the Ultimate "Let's Get It On" Song?,,By Audra ..." href="http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2004-04-15/sayitloud.html/1/index.html">New Times Broward-Palm Beach -- Music -- Sayitloud -- What Is the Ultimate "Let's Get It On" Song?</a>362ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-16T16:41:50-05:00publish{}I think that in all relationships there is an initial negotiation of expectations, desires, likes, dislikes, and natural tendencies. At some point there is then a decision to love despite all of those things. And that choice is a very noble thing. The opposite choice--to abandon, reject, hate based on those aformentioned natural occurances--is very ignoble. While there is certainly instances of that choice being more intentional and perhaps intentionally permanent, the reality is we then negotiate that decision every day, maybe even every moment of the day. The execution of a meaningful life, of a Christ-like life, is to make the noble choice in both the vague and profound interactions and intersections of exisdance.358MinutiaDaniel2004-04-15T13:26:01-05:00publish365 Days Project<a title="365 Days Project" href="http://www.otisfodder.com/365days.html">365 Days Project</a> Sorry it's too late for the mp3s, but there are some great pictures and liner notes still there...I actually came across this site while it was going on and downloaded a couple mp3s, but I didn't like them and so didn't return (I had some obscure memory of blogging it anyway but can't find evidence of that)...I wish I had stuck it out a bit as there are very interesting artifacts there. <a href="http://www.web-laun.ch/pieceoBlog/index.php?p=852">And if you never heard this tune</a>, it is pretty amazing...check out the track list of songs used. ...and I never knew that was really DJ Food who did that track. I've actually had this idea in relation to artifacts and CC licensed material. Could one create a mix CD of CC songs and give it away for free w/o asking permission?357ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-15T02:27:54-05:00publishA9<a title="A9.com > Search Technologies" href="http://a9.com/"><img src="http://a9.com/-/images/beta-a9-logo.gif" border="0" /> A9.com > Search Technologies</a> <a href="http://a9.com/-/company/whatsCool.jsp">A9.com > Company > What's New & Cool</a> <a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/000575.php">commentary on battellemedia.com/</a> via real world via <a href="http://theyblinked.com">dan</a> via <a href="http://boingboing.net/">boingboing</a> i feel like we're partying like it's 1997...search! it's search! let's throw millions of dollars upon it! also of geek interest: they're using jsp.356ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-14T18:13:37-05:00publishfaqfaq Q: Is there a faq section on your site? A: No. <a title="GUI Galaxy" href="http://www.guigalaxy.com/">inspired by</a>355MinutiaDaniel2004-04-14T16:55:19-05:00publishhelloooooo<a href="http://julievw.blogspot.com/">julievw</a> is cool. julievw touches base now and again and it is very nice. i tried to reply to the last shout out, though, and my mail got returned to me (i was trying a webtv email account?). as you can see, i'm really speaking just to julievw and asking you to send me another email at daniel at integrationresearch dot org, or off the contact form...but i thought i'd link awhile too, since it was about time.350AnnouncementsDaniel2004-04-13T02:01:04-05:00publishbecome a christian: love god, hate people!<blockquote><a title="icon01.jpg (JPEG Image, 254x152 pixels)" href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/icon01.jpg">What a happy coincidence. God hates the same people I do.</a></blockquote><blockquote>"you shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free." Jesus is quoted as having said in the gospel of John. "Yeah, but only if you interpret it exactly as I do," says the saved one.</blockquote><a href="http://withadot.blogspot.com/archives/2004_04_04_withadot_archive.html#108136877204089808">withadot</a>348ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-12T13:51:48-05:00publishdesign links archive<a title="Daring Fireball: Independent Days" href="http://daringfireball.net/2003/07/independent_days">Daring Fireball: Independent Days</a> ... <a href="http://www.v-2.org/displayArticle.php?article_num=546">v-2 Organisation -- Compassion and the crafting of user experience</a><blockquote>It turns out to be fairly difficult to earn a decent living in this world, without turning your labors to things which are destructive, or at best wasteful. Most human beings, in fact, aren't really ever faced with this choice; in a sense, having the option to do something actively productive with your working life is itself a reasonable definition of privilege. Which is why I think of myself as having gotten astoundingly lucky when information architecture came along, and through that discipline, my eventual and all-consuming interest in thoughtful mediation between human users and the technological artifacts they employ.</blockquote> ... <a href="http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/cssnopreloadrollovers/">Fast rollovers, no preload needed</a> <a href="http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html">Color scheme</a> ... <a href="http://www.xulplanet.com/ndeakin/article/199?show=c#comments">good description of RDF</a> ... <a href="http://www.nedbatchelder.com/text/metadata-is-nothing-new.html">Ned Batchelder: Metadata is nothing new</a> ... Can I just say that <a href="http://www.macromedia.com">Macromedia's website</a> is an <a href="http://diveintoaccessibility.org/">accessibility</a> nightmare? ... not sure if I already posted this: <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html">Joel on Software - Bionic Office</a> ... not design-related, but gonna put it here anyway. lessig's new book is CC licensed, and <a href="http://free-culture.org/remixes/">there are a bunch of formats available now</a>, check out the <a href="http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/">flash "pre-mix"</a> (not actual material from the book) and the <a href="http://www.turnstyle.org/FreeCulture/">audio book</a>!344ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-11T19:20:28-05:00publishKarin Bergquist<blockquote>It's a really healthy point when you can start looking back on your life and embracing everything--the screw-ups, the huge mistakes, the questions-- and then just accepting the fact that you probably aren't ever going to have all the answers in your life. And you don't have to really, as long as you care and you nurture the gift of curiosity.</blockquote><a href="http://www.grassrootsmusic.com/feature/rhine">Grassroots Music :: Grassroots Magazine Feature :: OtR interview</a>339QuotableDaniel2004-04-11T17:45:45-05:00publishmaking leta<a title="{fray} hope - making leta" href="http://www.fray.com/hope/leta/">{fray} hope - making leta</a> text from the amazing posts over at <a href="http://dooce.com">dooce</a>334ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-11T10:18:12-05:00publishtheyblinked<blockquote>one of the most important things that the religions of the book forget is that they began in speech. that they were practiced. that their authority was enacted. religions of the book get side tracked into the unique didactics of the sign of language on a tanned hide or a tight mesh of reeds. this sign-language is over time enshrined to the extent that the event that enabled the language that became encased in the sign held together as a text is left a faint whisper under the rumble of the imperial procession of those whose lives now play out within the economy of the keepers of the books.</blockquote><a href="http://www.theyblinked.com/2004_04_04_theyblinked_archive.html#108128428508199843">#</a>333QuotableDaniel2004-04-11T10:15:01-05:00publishjoho quotes<a title="JOHO - March 26, 2004" href="http://www.hyperorg.com/backissues/joho-mar26-04.html#friendster">from Mr. Weinberger</a>: <blockquote>the worst idea of our age: The world is precise, so our ambiguity about it is a failure.</blockquote> and... <blockquote>The slope I went down in changing my mind wasn't very slippery. In fact, it was rocky and I got scraped going down it. I deserved the bruising: I was a jerk who refused to see the loving relationships that were before my eyes. So, I look at my old self standing at the top of the hill, and I'm ashamed. And I say: Thank goodness for the slope.</blockquote>332QuotableDaniel2004-04-10T00:34:12-05:00publishRhythm Science by Paul D. Miller<a title=">> Rhythm Science by Paul D. Miller <<" href="http://www.rhythmscience.com/">>> Rhythm Science by Paul D. Miller <<</a> aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid <blockquote>Once you get into the flow of things, you're always haunted by the way that things could have turned out. This outcome, that conclusion. You get my drift. The uncertainty is what holds the story together, and that's what I'm going to talk about.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/archives/000290.html">shaviro.com</a>: <blockquote>What Rhythm Science really is, is a manifesto: the first important avant-garde artistic manifesto of the twenty-first century. It's a utopian book, in that it focuses, with hope, on the maximal potentialities of the remix in postmodern, network culture. I find it bracing and refreshing, because of how it provides a corrective to my own tendencies to be pessimistic about how those potentialities will most likely be captured, co-opted, and crushed by giant corporations... The design of the Rhythm Science book also needs to be mentioned, because it is both innovative and beautiful. The book is designed to mimic both a vinyl record and a CD, with a hole in the center; pages of collage (abstract images, vector graphics, and quotations sampled from the text) alternate with pages of actual text, and the pages themselves differ in texture, sometimes rough and sometimes smooth. There's also a CD that comes along with the book, in which Spooky/Miller mixes electronic sounds with voice recordings of great modernist authors...As an object, therefore, the book eschews linearity and embraces the audio-tactile aesthetic...</blockquote> via <a href="http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org/">PLSJ</a>331ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-08T20:21:16-05:00publishi thought i had blogged this but maybe i only *thought* about blogging it<a title="Colgate Money Shot (Ftrain.com)" href="http://www.ftrain.com/first_toothpaste.html#ExtendedInterview">Ftrain.com -- Colgate Money Shot</a> <blockquote>This all happened months ago, and the toothpaste-spraying made it a funny story that I told to a few people, but what kept with me was the statement, "I'm just really stupid." I couldn't get it out of my head. He didn't have a rationale. He didn't excuse his behavior. He wasn't looking to get out of the consequences. He just took it, right on the chin, and knew he'd have to put it right - not weasel out or explain it silver-tongued, but earn back some respect. I had to admire it, the willingness to face himself down, to admit what a piece of shit he could be, which is, I think, the sign of a worthwhile person.</blockquote>330ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-08T15:10:28-05:00publishveen on music<a title="Jeffrey Veen: How I stopped buying CDs and started loving music" href="http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000515.html">Jeffrey Veen: How I stopped buying CDs and started loving music</a> <blockquote>Could it be possible that we may not need the labels? That maybe music fans and artists can find their own ways of connecting with each other? And maybe, instead of a few hundred millionaires, we might have thousands and thousands of musicians making a decent living? Could that be possible?</blockquote>329ElsewhereDaniel2004-04-07T18:31:34-05:00publishUntitled - Almost DoneI woke up in my bed, refreshed for the first time�ever...a truly foreign sensation, not being incensed with spite at the rising sun. I could see all of the tiny dust particles floating in its rays as they mingled to their resting places. It was so peacefully quiet. I listened to the sound of the air entering my lungs, holding it captive until I exhaled, jettisoning the little dust particles to the other side of my room. I heard a flock of canaries flying up outside my window. I stood up from bed, closed the curtains, and got ready for the day. As I walked downtown, the canaries followed. And as I went from shop to shop, they waited for me outside the door. They no longer sang, they screamed in my ear. I didn�t care, I walked on. I knew sooner or later he would appear before me to get to the bottom of this. I didn�t care, I walked on. 328FictionMaggie2004-04-07T15:45:43-05:00publishdanielsjourney -- now with 80% less carbs!<img src="images/2004_04/apt01i.jpg" border="2" width="247" height="330" style="border-color: #ccc;" /> My only piece of furniture, and the most essential--the bed--is like a little island in my studio loft apartment. It reminds me of children who create forts on their beds, importing all the items needed for a day of ernest play, then setting sail on the sea of their room, out over the waters of possibility not to see land again until dinner time. <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/images/2004_03/parties/">Pictures from the party the Freakin' Hott threw for me</a>. The brief: I now live in Dallas. I am *legally* divorced. Loving the dry air and the mexican food, the latter is, however, tearing me up a bit. I was dancing in my loft this morning to Maroon 5 and realized that I am pathetically out of shape. Very odd feelings starting my life over, essentially...although I guess all we ever really have are our experiences, beliefs, knowledge, and if we're lucky enough money to make rent and a decent community of honest people around us. And I still have all that. I have *revenue* tattooed across my forehead. If you can help me, this *is* a cry for help. My opportunities/ideas are as follows: <ul><li><a href="http://integrationresearch.org">IR</a> is at a critical stage in its early development. We have a piece of cultural/social software, a library management tool which facilitates the sharing of cultural artifacts within communities, which we are looking to implement within existing affinity groups--churches, civic organizations, other nonprofits, academic organizations, loose-knit cultural communities--to help them facilitate the community building inherit in our cultural similarities and sharing. There are other things on the back burners, but this is our main focus. *We need resources* to sustain our vision. If you are involved in, or know of, a group that could *possibly* be interested in this type of thing, please let me know!<li>I am currently trying to round up <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/design">web design/development</a> work. If you, or anyone you know, are looking for someone to help them in their online presence, please refer me!<li>Artistic work...this is the most abstract. My goals for 2004 are to have a music manager, a literary agent, and to have my photographic catalog and other assundries available through a simple ecommerce system on the site. I'm fairly realistic about my sustainability options in this category, but want to give it as much of a go as possible. If any of the <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/art">music</a> or writing on this site interests you, your help in the endless networking involved in this kind of work is much appreciated. Keep spreading the word!<li>I may be looking for 9-5 work in Dallas in my areas of interest and expertise. I'm looking for creative organizations that would have a place for both my creative and technical abilities and challenge me with fulfilling, important work.</ul>*Please* hit "contact" on the sidebar and drop me a line if you have even a drop of info that could help me in my pursuit to pay rent *and* live meaningfully! (Soon the *just pay rent* call will go out.) *Update: I have given thanks to [insert your omniscient being of choice here] every day for about a month straight for amazing weather, both back in FL and now here in TX. I mentioned today that I complain so much during bad weather that I had better make note of all these great days... Check out, and purchase if you are so able (while I'm still getting my artistic work together for sale), kindred Nordic spirit <a href="http://www.acutecut.com/arkiv/001308.php">Rasmus Rasmussen's '16 Lives' photoproject</a>...<a href="http://www.acutecut.com/img/16lives_web.jpg">view it here</a>, <a href="http://www.cafeshops.com/acuteshop04,acuteshop">purchase here</a>. *Update2: Noticed after I posted it how incredibly affordable Rasmus' work is! Will probably be picking one up for myself. Do go check it out. *Big thanks* to whoever has an open WiFi connection within range of my apartment!!!! This is really tops. Track me down and I'll go in on the costs with you (or just continue reaping the large amounts of good vibes and karma). <a href="http://www.rearviewwindow.com/blog/archives/000610.html">Last night</a>.327MinutiaDaniel2004-04-07T13:17:18-05:00publishmore red lion pics<a title="DM & FH @ RLP 3/19/04" href="http://www.ajealousyissue.net/dm/">DM & FH @ RLP 3/19/04 <img src="images/2004_03/fd12_i.jpg" width="330" height="282" border="2" style="border-color:#ccc;" /></a> The best pics yet from the FH/DMB show at the Red Lion, via <a href="http://www.ournationofthoughtlessness.com/">Matt Bubar</a> (domain not operational ATM?) If you're wondering who's been posting this amazing fiction as of late, it is that looker on the left. Rock jestures rock.326ImaginingDaniel2004-04-05T16:55:18-05:00publishUntitled - Part FiveHe spit me out onto the highway, splattering me across the country. Faces were empty. Sunlight pricked my skin to redness. I never slept. And the train never left my side. My foot never touched the gas pedal, or the brake. My arms lay at my sides and my head was slung towards the window, eyes fixed on the train. It sang down the rail, hypnotizing me for hundreds of miles. It plucked the rails like two giant strings, warbling and twanging through my head, the cars keeping rhythm with their shifts and bangs. Canaries collected on the front bumper of my car like love bugs in the Georgia summer, too busy with desire to keep a watchful eye. Swirling through the atmosphere, blissfully satiated, they died in love. But I was the one who killed them. I was well beyond hurting, and had moved quickly towards indifference. Every miserable day of my existence leading up to that point couldn�t compare to how utterly empty I was now. All I wanted was anything. It didn�t even have to be beautiful. It didn�t even have to be him. 325FictionMaggie2004-04-05T13:56:06-05:00publish