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Not much to say today. I got up early (7:40 am, gasp!) and hit the LCD like a brain trainwreck. Here are my discoveries of the morn.

1. Spring Cleaning project considerations
2. Paintings of this
3. 100% Environmentally Friendly in 366 days
4. Liam Sullivan, Betch!
5. Shakerleg

Oy heah, and just for stopping by you get a free Wombat:















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Google Reader eats time

So now that I subscribe to all these cool sites and blogs via RSS and Google consolidates them in an easy to read/navigate format, I never have to leave the computer!!! I just finished reading 1000 new posts. It was fun. My eyes may fall out of my head.

The yield from this Web-farming?
1.The Green 11
2.Wall Stairs
3.Creepy Installation Art by Chiharu
4.TSA Gangstaz take themselves seriously
5.Supercities
6.NYC Graffiti Guide
7.Nokia Morph nanotech concept
8.A pretty llama!
9.MORE reasons to hate Comcast
10.HA!
P.S. Throwback!

Vinyl Toys

And all this compiling before dinner...

What do YT (You Think/Yours Truly/Yuppie Thug/Why-tea)? I love me some musics. In the particular order that random moments of interest have placed them:

CD's to hear:
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - (eponymous); Extra Width
Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze; QOTSA
Common - Resurrection
Cake - Pressure Chief
Juliana Theory - Love
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets; Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy); Another Green World
Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember; Cupid & Psyche 85
Gang of Four - Songs of the Free; Hard
The New Cars: It's Alive
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?; Runt: The Ballad of; A Wizard, A True Star; Hermit of Mink Hollow
Tom Cochrane - Mad Mad World; No Stranger
Mogwai - Young Team; Mr. Beast
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven; Yanqui U.X.O.
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Gastr del Sol - Camoufleur; The Serpentine Similar
Downtown Science (eponymous)
Scientifik?
The Clash - Sandanista!
Bob Moses - When Elephants Dream of Music; Love Animal
MMW - It's a Jungle in Here
Sex Mob - Dime Grind Palace; Solid Sender
Steven Bernstein - Diaspora Soul; Diaspora Hollywood
Sun Ra - Sound of Joy; The Nubians of Plutonia; Atlantis; Solar Myth Approach, Heliocentric Worlds; Unity; Lanquidity;
John Lurie - African Swim & Manny & Lo
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear; Rip, Rig & Panic; Domino; The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man
The Lounge Lizards - Voice of Chunk
The Stooges - Raw Power; (eponymous); Fun House
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life; The Idiot; Brick by Brick
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams; Back in the USA
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth...; The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place; All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

New Writers

I've just discovered a music writer and journalist named Simon Reynolds out of Good Britain. He seems to be, at a glance, an astute observer of the undercurrents and underpinnings of the R&D end of modern music. I have slung a strand on over to it from the Spyder Web.

"But faux-black was once no problem at all; it was what you did, as a matter of course, to be pop, if you were white; the terms of entry. (Okay, there's exceptions, country/folk/showbiz sources, and "that voice", but by and large, it's true, for the 1960s at least, Pop in the moving-forward sense was black voices/moves/rhythms and white people putting on black voices/moves/rhythms, seemingly without a pang or a doubt that this was anything but the most natural thing in the world to do.)

So what SFJ is mourning here really is the loss of nerve--of gall, even--that enabled white rockers and poppers in the 60s to front. That white negro leap of courage. Faking it, basically, but in the process creating a new self that became your authentic self; a postracial superself."
- Simon Reynolds, 10.16.07 on his Blissblog

Listed as his inspirations, the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

So very easy for my mind to wander in this virtual world. Three hours later, I now return to report that OiNK.cd is dead. And this article is interesting: Indie is dead.