USED UNIVERSE: "this is your brain. and this is your brain on trampoline."

...number 4 in a series of works called "USED UNIVERSE"

DIY music videos using household items and the like:
video for the animal collective song grass made in my kitchen

twenty second abstraction feat. resolution: the walkmen iPod.
some subtle hint there in the first one as to what it is exactly... second one is a straight giveaway.

post titled: hometown anti-hero.
post subtitled:after primarily being exposed to european media -who often demonised her, it suddenly hit me: oh, duh- i'm in amanda knox territory now...
over the past year-plus whatever post-google has been fascinated by the amanda 'foxy knoxy' knox story - it is just a fascinating murder mystery, but on my first morning back in seattle as i jetlaggedly groped my way to voxx on eastlake before sunrise i was kind blown away by the current issue of local alternative newspaper the stranger and its beautiful black and white cover photo by amanda's college friend madison paxton in which amanda's freckles are clearly in focus...

meanwhile, thousands of miles away in new york city...


Hinterland
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Windy Hill Mill

Hinterland
a dress/movement/sound installation
choreography: Jennifer Gonzales and Coco Karol
music: Valerie Kuehne, Graham Hawthorne, Asako Fujimoto, J.S. Bach, wooden clogs.

Friday December 11th
doors at 8:30
Hinterland at 9
Windy Hill Mill at 10

The Petri Space
114 Forrest Street (at Flushing), 11206
4th fl, buzzer #15
L train to Morgan
wine, beer, spirits, paper slippers

Punch Drunk loophole

"At least several hundred mile-junkies discovered that a free shipping offer on presidential and Native American $1 coins, sold at face value by the U.S. Mint, amounted to printing free frequent-flier miles. Mileage lovers ordered more than $1 million in coins until the Mint started identifying them and cutting them off.
Coin buyers charged the purchases, sold in boxes of 250 coins, to a credit card that offers frequent-flier mile awards, then took the shipments straight to the bank. They then used the coins they deposited to pay their credit-card bills. Their only cost: the car trip to make the deposit." found on the Wall Street Journal

today
more twitter, less blog

everything not in its right place.
Douglas Copeland talks with Kai Ryssdal about his new novel "Generation A" on Marketplace... oh, you creepathon crackberry future!
"I think we've just had to absorb too much too quickly. I've asked people who are much older than myself, I'm 47, which seemed more startling at the time, the introduction of television or the introduction of the Internet. And everybody goes slamdunk the Internet. I remember the 70s that all we really did in society is we went from rotary phones to bush-button phones, and that was it for the decade. And then the 80s came and we had music videos. And then the 90s and the Internet. We have absorbed so much in the last, not even five years, three years, it's crazy. It's almost like we want a year out to absorb it all, but we can't. And it's probably going to get thicker and faster. And again, that's where stories come in, it's a way of finding new ways of looking at ourselves, and finding new ways of surviving psychically during all this change and turmoil."

breaking news
Amanda Knox has been found guilty of looking like a Hemingway (exhibit A Mariel Hemingway, exhibit B Dree Hemingway, Hillary may step in to intervene...
Meredith Kercher trial italy verdict foxy knoxy

google search: "dear Jeff Bridges"
results: an old message board from jeff-bridges.com which seems to be written by mostly European fans... terribly funny stuff, really.

disclaimer: post-google loves jeff bridges, too.

post titled: sane in winter.
me: oh, and Houston...
paul: ?
me: we have a (silly little) problem.
one of the My So-Called Life DVDs is missing, -you seen it?

not rod stewart either.
note: google translate translated "die jungen Wilden" as "the young turks"
which would be fine except it was in a sentance about the German
National Football team... and (correct me if I'm wrong, but) as far as I know only Özöl is of Turkish origin.