this is a messy one, but...
i'd say I'm happy that i finally have the ability to access the world wide internuts in my own chair in my own home in my free time, after two and a half years of not having it, but i feel like i have managed to spend my time doing alot of other stuff.
that stuff i did other than the internet may have been as fruitless as if I had had the internet, but more than anything I am happy to be able to talk regularly with my friends thousands of miles away, the same way i talk to ryan outside of a convenience store drinking beers on the street, or at the local train exit which we have turned into our outdoor bar.
getting information and hearing new music every day is great, and my time may even have been spent more wisely had the internet been accessible to me, but i don't want to wallow in regret.
needless to say i am glad i can put stuff up and talk to you guys as if i wasn't thousands of miles away from you all.
that said the best thing i can come up with to post is something you are all probably tired of hearing about, or have already seen.. the other night i went to a screening of Zeitgeist #2 or Zeitgeist Addendum (the most recent version, looks like there's 13 parts) that my friend Shawn put on (on what is known now as "Z Day") for a bunch of people in a small cafe who otherwise may not have seen it. I'm not sure how attuned Japanese people are to the Zeitgeist thing, and there were only about 15 people in the room..
But it was inspiring to see it. I won't post the video up because it would be preaching to the choir, so you can find it on youtube if you want to..
BUT I was looking at givemesomethingtoread, which Keith had posted, and found an article on Brewster Kahle (some millionaire genius), who started a great site filled with old PSA films, science class documentaries, filmstrips, etc. called archive.org which i first heard about after seeing this Panda Bear video for "Take Pills"
that stuff i did other than the internet may have been as fruitless as if I had had the internet, but more than anything I am happy to be able to talk regularly with my friends thousands of miles away, the same way i talk to ryan outside of a convenience store drinking beers on the street, or at the local train exit which we have turned into our outdoor bar.
getting information and hearing new music every day is great, and my time may even have been spent more wisely had the internet been accessible to me, but i don't want to wallow in regret.
needless to say i am glad i can put stuff up and talk to you guys as if i wasn't thousands of miles away from you all.
that said the best thing i can come up with to post is something you are all probably tired of hearing about, or have already seen.. the other night i went to a screening of Zeitgeist #2 or Zeitgeist Addendum (the most recent version, looks like there's 13 parts) that my friend Shawn put on (on what is known now as "Z Day") for a bunch of people in a small cafe who otherwise may not have seen it. I'm not sure how attuned Japanese people are to the Zeitgeist thing, and there were only about 15 people in the room..
But it was inspiring to see it. I won't post the video up because it would be preaching to the choir, so you can find it on youtube if you want to..
BUT I was looking at givemesomethingtoread, which Keith had posted, and found an article on Brewster Kahle (some millionaire genius), who started a great site filled with old PSA films, science class documentaries, filmstrips, etc. called archive.org which i first heard about after seeing this Panda Bear video for "Take Pills"
The video is comprisde of clips from a PSA film called "Drugs are like that" which came out in the 70's and is greeeeat..
Jared, you played the Panda Bear album for me last summer, during our bratwurst celebration.. Would you, or anyone, happen to know if the songs Animal Collective collaborated on with Vashti Bunyann were ever released?
posted by Robert Scabbage at
1:28 AM
3 Comments:
Those Zeitgeist movies are interesting to watch... I remember enjoying the religion one. But some of the 9/11 stuff is entirely circumstantial and not too convincing.
Yes, the astrology-based pagan holidays turning into Christian holy-days was super interesting.
I kinda tuned out after that.
yeah, i know.. well, i would say the newest one is worth watching, just for the utopian theories about us someday in the future never having to do a day of work again in our lives... even if it's total horseapples, I still like the feeling that hope gives me, it's addictive.. much like horseapples
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