Gallery Opening <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/IRGallery_opening1-4.2.jpg" /> <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/IRGallery_opening1-3.1.jpg" /> <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/IRGallery_opening1-1.2.jpg" /> <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/IRGallery_opening1-2.1.jpg" /> <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/IRGallery_opening1-2.2.jpg" /> <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/IRGallery_opening1-3.2.jpg" /> <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/IRGallery_opening1-3.3.jpg" /> <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/IRGallery_opening1-4.1.jpg" /> <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/IRGallery_opening1-4.3.jpg" /> <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/IRGallery_opening1-1.3.jpg" /> <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/IRGallery_opening1-1.1.jpg" /> 16005203 ImaginingDaniel2004-08-23T12:51:27stageNow ain't the time for your tears...<a href="index.php?file=2004_08.xml&id=15233047">continued from</a>. <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/zzzzaxxxx01.jpg" /> David <a href="http://monkhouse.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_monkhouse_archive.html#109250852577188000">mused</a>:<blockquote>Do the sum total of one's interests and hobbies equate to an "identity?" Maybe not twenty years ago. But now, our interests and hobbies have become much more sophiscated and nuanced--with magazines, role models, mass consumption, 24 hour media, communal and solitary expressions. These interests become linked to our fashion sense, our values, and perspective. We no longer identify; we advertise our identity.</blockquote> From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/026263287X/qid=1092634395/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-9126044-0387335?v=glance&s=books">rhythm science</a> by <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/blog/index.php?file=2003_01_06.xml&id=150">paul miller</a>:<img src="http://mitpress.mit.edu/images/products/books/026263287X-f33.jpg" alt="" align="right" /><blockquote>The term "vector" comes from geometry and refers to a line of fixed length and direction but no fixed position. Consider the way ideas move through our minds and bodies. There is no fixed position. There's only the improvisational nature of recall. Thought vector: the relationship between a geometry and a geography of information...by extension, one could think more abstractly of a vector as a relation between a determinate and an indeterminate property... The idiot as processing device, slave to the moment, outside of time because for him there is only the moment of thought. No past, no present, no future. The idiot is a zombie, a character straight out of Thriller, one of Michael Jackson's chorus line of decaying bodies moving into y'all's neighborhood. Watch the idiots dance to rhythms they do not feel or understand...The person without qualities who cannot say "I." The person whom others speak through, who has no central identity save what he or she knows... Roam the interstices of globalization as a ghost in the machine as we fast-forward past the middle passage and into the hyperlinks of a database culture whose archives routed and dissolved into almost every format of memory...Plastic, fluid memories run into circuitry and focus our attention on a world where we download ourselves daily. This is a word game of the nonconscious... There's always more than one map to the territory: You just have to intuit the terrain...Unpack the meanings, unstuff the fragments and the logic remains the same: the part speaks for the whole, the whole is an extension of the part...But what happens when the memories filter through the machines we use to process culture and become software--a constantly updated, always turbulent terrain more powerful than the machine through which it runs?</blockquote> Again from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0829814566/qid=1092629692/sr=8-8/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i8_xgl14/102-9126044-0387335?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Sacred Journey</a>:<blockquote>We are all trapeze artists; to get from one side to the other we have to be willing to let go of the trapeze we are holding, <img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/dylan.jpg" align="right" />and hang for a few moments in suspended animation before we grasp the next support on our wild ride into the unknown.</blockquote> I just finished hanging <a href="http://www.integrationresearch.org/gallery/archives/2004/08/daniel_miller_artifacts.html">my work</a> for this weekend's show. As I sat down at the computer, daunted by the amount of work I have yet to do, eyes completely bloodshot, Bob Dylan's <a href="http://bobdylan.com/songs/hattie.html">Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll</a> was playing on the stereo. <hr /> William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger At a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin'. And the cops were called in and his weapon took from him As they rode him in custody down to the station And booked William Zanzinger for first-degree murder. But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears, Take the rag away from your face. Now ain't the time for your tears. William Zanzinger, who at twenty-four years Owns a tobacco farm of six hundred acres With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him And high office relations in the politics of Maryland, Reacted to his deed with a shrug of his shoulders And swear words and sneering, and his tongue it was snarling, In a matter of minutes on bail was out walking. But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears, Take the rag away from your face. Now ain't the time for your tears. Hattie Carroll was a maid of the kitchen. She was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten children Who carried the dishes and took out the garbage And never sat once at the head of the table And didn't even talk to the people at the table Who just cleaned up all the food from the table And emptied the ashtrays on a whole other level, Got killed by a blow, lay slain by a cane That sailed through the air and came down through the room, Doomed and determined to destroy all the gentle. And she never done nothing to William Zanzinger. But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears, Take the rag away from your face. Now ain't the time for your tears. In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel To show that all's equal and that the courts are on the level And that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuaded And that even the nobles get properly handled Once that the cops have chased after and caught 'em And that the ladder of law has no top and no bottom, Stared at the person who killed for no reason Who just happened to be feelin' that way without warnin'. And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguished, And handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance, William Zanzinger with a six-month sentence. Oh, but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears, Bury the rag deep in your face For now's the time for your tears.<hr /> I don't know what I'm trying to say with this post either. You may live an honest life. You may intentionally tell complete lies to manipulate others for your means (all the while accusing others of being compulsive liars--beware! the compulsive liar accuser). You may allow your mind, and more importantly your heart, the winding trails it desires to skip upon. You may seek comfort and priviledge above all things. To the latter in either case (and they seem to cohabitate nicely), all I can say is: I'm sorry for you and yours, and may you be on your way. The the former in either (and they do seem to go hand in hand), all I can say is: Yay.16005202CommentDaniel2004-08-18T12:51:27stage Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling...Three entries in one day. Yoi. <a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000912.html">title quote</a> <a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000911.html"><img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/zzzzazzdggg85.jpg" /></a> I've been resonating with <a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com">Hugh's</a> <a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000876.html">thoughts on creativity</a> from the day he started posting (I originally blogged it <a href="http://integrationresearch.org/node/view/32">here</a> {which oddly got picked up <a href="http://www.coolios.net/archives/2004_08.php#6088">here</a>, which is cool}). Hugh's posts come during a time when I spend a lot of cycles thinking about calling, destiny, and time--considering the next few months and next few years, and narrowing my focus, deciding if something must be done, when it will fit into this timetable, which, oh yeah, also has to account for paying rent and buying food. I wrote about calling in my personal journal:<blockquote>Calling is the only word that transcends this modern/postmodern/postwhateverthefuck boundary. It is the only word that wields power, that trumps the suspicion, denies the doubt, buries the naysayers. But why must we trump their words and attitudes anyway?</blockquote><a href="http://www.theyblinked.com/blog/2004/07/no-one-believes-in-calling-anymore.html">Dan has also been writing about calling</a>...<blockquote>calling makes a demand for what cannot be adequately proffered to an audience: your life.</blockquote>I've been re-reading <a href="http://mikeriddell.co.nz">Mike Riddell's</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0829814566/qid=1092629692/sr=8-8/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i8_xgl14/102-9126044-0387335?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Sacred Journey</a> for the third time (aside: it seems most of Riddell's work is being published in the US now by <a href="http://www.pilgrimpress.com">Pilgrim Press</a>!) From {}: <blockquote>The way forward almost always lies through hardship rather than around it. It is unfortunate that so much of the message given by our contemporary Western societies seems to suggest otherwise. We are constantly being sold the line that success in life consists in accumulating and protecting. The art of leaving requires exactly the opposite: releasing and emptying. It is something which is best learned by navigating the experience.</blockquote> My mom wrote me in an email today some quotes from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0824519957/qid=1092630163/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-9126044-0387335?v=glance&s=books">Richard Rohr</a>...<blockquote>...[people say] "I don't want to learn another way to look at things." They act as though they have God all figured out. These people betray a need for control at all costs; unfortunately the cost is high indeed."</blockquote> I don't know what I'm trying to say with this post. People don't understand many <a href="http://integrationresearch.org">things</a> I'm doing, and often they don't understand me. People don't know how I'm surviving, and much more often I don't either. <a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000910.html"><img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/zzzzazzdggg84.jpg" /></a>15233047CommentDaniel2004-08-15T10:55:44stageFollow me down the rabbit hole<a href="http://www.southlandtales.com/index.html"><img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/southland_tales.jpg" /></a> Was reading <a href="http://www.craigclevenger.com/">craigclevenger.com</a>, the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931561486/ref=wl_it_dp/102-9126044-0387335?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=I2J0EQMQGIYXJW&v=glance&colid=1IE1ZRAEO5E1F">The Contortionist's Handbook</a>, which has been optioned for a film. I had known that Donnie Darko writer-director Richard Kelly was slated to direct it (from chuckpalahniuk.net), and you can read Craig's story of that on his site. What I found from that was <a href="http://www.richard-kelly.net/">richard-kelly.net</a>, from which I found out about <a href="http://www.southlandtales.com/index.html">Southland Tales</a>, Richard's next movie, which begins shooting this fall...Kevin Smith is somehow involved in this film as well. I also found <a href="http://www.ruinedeye.com/cd/index.htm">Cellar Door</a>, which is a collection of info on Donnie Darko, and on <a href="http://www.ruinedeye.com/cd/dscenes/dsee4.htm">this page about the deleted scenes</a>, I found out about another scene hidden on the DVD.15155437ElsewhereDaniel2004-08-15T03:30:43stagestarvingeyes.com<a href="http://bushgame.com"><img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/minibanner.gif"></a> <a href="http://emogame.com/emogamemarch/index2004.htm"><img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/emogame.gif"></a> All on <a href="http://starvingeyes.com">starvingeyes.com</a> See also: <a href="http://www.somethingdirectory.com/">how to be: emo</a>.15015736ElsewhereDaniel2004-08-15T01:51:26stagef*** new york/i love new york (same sentiment)<img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/fuckny.jpg" /> this is one of those things you can't tell from the title or the screenshot image, but this thing is funny! <a href="http://danielsjourney.com/media/fucknewyork.mov">fuck new york</a> (9M mov video) from/also on <a href="http://www.scissorkick.com/2004/08/video-fuck-new-york.html">scissorkick</a> same idea, different delivery: <a href="http://a.parsons.edu/~jk/thesis/archives/iloveny.mov">i love new york</a> (.mov)11194629ElsewhereDaniel2004-08-11T07:41:30stagemp3's etc.<a href="http://danielsjourney.com/media/David%20Cross%20-%20Pandering%20to%20the%20Locals.mp3">David Cross - Pandering to the Locals</a> more at <a href="http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_tofuhut_archive.html#1091603224564063">tofu hut</a> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002JUXB0.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" border="0" /><a href="http://danielsjourney.com/media/bjork-pleasure_radio1rip.mp3">bjork - The Pleasure is all Mine</a>, from her forthcoming album, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002JUXB0/qid=1092066082/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-9126044-0387335">Medulla</a>. from <a href="http://www.opacodex.com/archives/001244.html">opacodex.com</a>. <a href="http://www.opacodex.com/archives/001243.html">there's more</a>. <a href="http://www.opacodex.com/archives/001240.html">and more</a>. <a href="http://www.stereogum.com/archives/000775.html">and even more</a> (� another track from Medulla).<blockquote>"<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=6184996&rnd=1090830463328&has-player=unknown">Instruments are so over</a>," says Bjork of her new, purely vocal album, Medulla, due out late August/early September. "I think this was probably the most intuitive album I've done," she continues. "I had to use ingredients that I trusted, like my voice, my muscles, my bones. I couldn't really use all the other stuff." Rahzel of the Roots -- known as "the Human Beatbox" -- supplies the percussive bass line for a majority of the songs, and the album also features collaborations with Inuit throat-singer Tanya Tagaq and former Faith No More frontman Mike Patton. The sound is primitive, full of brooding menace on "Where Is the Line" and soaring, breathy romance on "The Pleasure Is All Mine." Following Medulla's release, Bjork will continue working in the studio rather than go on tour. "Every album I've done, the minute that it's done, I feel really lubricated and, like, 'Wow, now I can write an album in five minutes,'" she says. "And I just want to find out if that's just a fantasy or if it's true."</blockquote> <img src="http://www.dominorecordco.com/resources/images/adedem/adedem_vid_12.jpg" align="right" /><a href="http://www.adem.tv/">adem</a>, adem, adem. i had DL'd an mp3 months and months ago, LOVED it, and now i can't find it :( but the good news is you can find a couple tracks on <a href="http://www.scissorkick.com/2004/08/mp3-adem.html">scissorkick</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002CHK0E/qid=1092065862/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-9126044-0387335?v=glance&s=music">buy the record in the states</a>. another mp3 at <a href="http://www.stayfun.co.uk/recommends/adem.asp">stayfun.co.uk</a> ah! that was the one i had! i got it from <a href="http://www.dominorecordco.com/artist.php?artist=167">here</a>, which also has another mp3 for DLing. also: <a href="http://www.dominorecordco.com/videos.php?video=142">video</a><blockquote>everybody needs some help sometimes</blockquote> <img src="http://www.soundsfamilyre.com/soundsfamilyre/ss/IMG/003_small.jpg" align="left" style="border: 0px 0px 0px 0px;" /><a href="http://www.sufjan.com/">sufjan</a>, <a href="http://www.soundsfamilyre.com/soundsfamilyre/ss/">sufjan</a>, <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/spinning/episodes/03052004">sufjan stevens</a>. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001F7U9S/qid=1092066665/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-9126044-0387335?v=glance&s=music">his latest on amazon</a>. <a href="http://www.soundsfamilyre.com/soundsfamilyre/ss/IMG/Sufjan-Uncut_LP_ReviewApr04.jpg">#</a>:<blockquote>...it's plain Stevens is far too awkward a talent to be trapped in the confessional...he's more at home in a much broader, weirder and, ultimately, more compelling church</a></blockquote>in the UK he's on <a href="http://www.roughtraderecords.com/">rough trade</a>. <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/media/Sufjan%20Stevens%20-%20The%20Dress%20Looks%20Nice%20On%20You.mp3">here's a track</a> i originally dl'd off <a href="http://tofuhut.blogspot.com">tofuhut</a>. not to beat the polyphonic spree meme to death, but check <a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/p/polyphonic-spree/together-were-heavy.shtml">this pitchfork review</a> of the new record for jems like:<blockquote>I can't help but think of their 20+ members as the direct offspring of the Jesus Christ Superstar movie cast. Whereas the film shows a schoolbus full of lax-groomed hippies driving to Israel to perform their songs amidst desert ruins, The Polyphonic Spree pack their bohemian mass into tour buses and bring their robe-clad Godspeed You Prozac Emperor sound to the dingy, beer-reeking venues of America...anyone who's found themselves amidst the band's live audience can tell you how difficult it is to keep your indie cynic shield intact and not get drunk on whatever jolly substance the band's audio Kool-Aid is heavily laced with.</blockquote>and check this story out: <a href="http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/04-08/10.shtml#story2">Polyphonic Spree Drummer Brian Teasley Makes the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List</a> (sub: "Godspeed You Black Emperor laugh it up from underground shoebomb facility") (via <a href="http://a.wholelottanothing.org/archives.blah/007966">a.wholelottanothing</a>) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000A1HSG/qid=1092171377/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-9126044-0387335?v=glance&s=music"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000A1HSG.01._PE6_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" /></a><blockquote>Did you leave the darkness without me? You're always miles ahead... And you're standing in tomorrow On the runway</blockquote><a href="http://promontoryartists.org/lookingcloser/music/befriended.htm">#</a> ..and an mp3 avail. <a href="http://www.theinnocencemission.com/befriended.htm">here</a>.09100841MusicDaniel2004-08-09T09:52:49stageir gallery opening show<center><a href="http://www.integrationresearch.org/gallery/archives/000629.html"><img src="http://integrationresearch.org/gallery/images/ir%20gallery%20postcard%20back.psd.png" align="center" /></a> <a href="http://integrationresearch.org/gallery/images/ir%20gallery%20postcard%20front.psd.BIG2.jpg"><img src="http://integrationresearch.org/gallery/images/ir%20gallery%20postcard%20front3.jpg" /></a></center>02020341AnnouncementsDaniel2004-08-02T02:02:27stageold school<img src="http://danielsjourney.com/blog/files/2004/08/jesussaves2.gif" /> just had to ping that emerging church blogosphere one more time didn't i? the newsreader is off and shall not be turned on until i'm done with everything. d-day approaches.02011850MinutiaDaniel2004-08-02T01:17:21stageArt NightMy kidneys and my car's shocks are just about done with Dallas roads. I'm performing tonight at <a href="http://www.artnight.blogspot.com/">art night</a>. CD's and tshirts will be avail. They are also avail here if you like. CD's $5 clams, tshirts $7.50. Just use the Paypal link on the sidebar and specify what you want and a shipping address. You can also get the tshirt from cafepress <a href="http://www.cafeshops.com/amer_dream">here</a>. The ones I'm selling direct are black and have "Daniel Miller Band" on the back.01141137AnnouncementsDaniel2004-08-01T01:46:33stage