So, just to throw it out there straight away, I am not what you would call a Music Afficionado. Don’t get me wrong, I love music. All kinds of music. I like to think I have a pretty damn wide spectrum for musical appreciation – from country, to pop, metal, reggae, techno, trance, tribal, new age, classical, dub, dubstep, *quotation mark* dubstep *quotation mark* and everything in between, around and through. It’s just that, within the music, I guess I’m pretty simple. When I listen to metal, I like a simple, bassy riff. With classical, I like sweeping violins and smart, smooth piano. I like catchy choruses and trippy mind-melts. But I’m certainly not someone who knows their shit, nor knows the vocabulary for the musical world. I like post-Black Metallica. I like Savage Garden. I think the Beatles are eternal songwriters, but others have done better versions of their music. And I fucking hate Nirvana. Continued…
Posted in Uncategorized.
By Drew McMahon
– 2012/01/20
So I’m late in putting together an album list. So what? Just because it’s 2012 doesn’t mean you have to stop listening to music released last year. Now’s the time to re-listen to the stunning recordings that were released last year, and sit in the corner and count the days to the next Animal Collective album is released…or is that just me?
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Posted in Author, Music, Tom Dougherty.
Tagged with 2011, andy stott, best of, bnjmn, gang gang dance, girls, jay-z, kanye west, los campesinos!, Music, my beautiful dark twisted fantasy, oneohtrix point never, ravedeath, sandwell district, the field, the weeknd, tim hecker, watch the throne, zomby.
By Tom Dougherty
– 2012/01/15
Whoever you think you presently are. Thank you.
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Posted in David van Aalst, Opinion, rant.
Tagged with entropy, original.
By David van Aalst
– 2011/12/26
Appropriately the last post on this oft-forgotten blog was by Drew declaring his personal failure during the last NaNoWriMo. Tonight I was inspired to jot down a few thoughts I’ve had in the past few days as I’ve started the experience myself.
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Posted in David van Aalst, NaNoWriMo, rant.
Tagged with NaNoWriMo.
By David van Aalst
– 2011/11/03
THERE IS NO PICTURE FOR THIS POST.
I CANNOT BE BOTHERED. AND MAYBE THERE’S LIKE, SOME DEEPER MEANING…
OR WHATEVER… NOPE. JUST DIDN’T THINK A PICTURE WAS NECESSARY
I am about to post my first attempt at the NaNoWriMo challenge (you don’t know what that is? You think this is the sort of blog where the poster isn’t too lazy to post a link? Google it.)…(no seriously do. It may well be the best interblogalisal charity gig ever.)
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Posted in Uncategorized.
By Drew McMahon
– 2011/10/08
UNIT DESIGNATION: H3-2786-DS
MODEL: Borealis Robotics: Adiuvare series 7.
DIRECTIVES:
- PRIMARY: Site Maintenance.
- SECONDARY: <404>
OPERATIONAL STATUS: Operational (fair).
//SC note: due to the strain on facility services operational standards have been temporarily lowered.
// Units able to perform primary directives to regulatory standards will remain operational.
<compiler; delay=false; action=log/core>
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</compiler>
SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS:
Primary Memory Core Integrity: 87%
Secondary Memory Core 1 Integrity: 17%
Secondary Memory Core 2 Integrity: 3%
Locomotion Systems: ACTIVE
Haptic sensors: ACTIVE
Optic Sensory Receptors: ACTIVE
Vocal Recognition: INACTIVE
Maintenance Tool Suite:
- Precision Plasma Saw: OK
- Hardpoint adjustment kit: OK
- Flame retardant delivery system: OK
- Fusion Welder: OK
- Diagnostic kit: 0|< //..-. — .-. -.-. . / — …- . .-. .-. .. -.. .
See /maintenance/bin/<unit number> for more diagnostic reports.
Operational report 26/8/2027.
0500 – ACTIVATE
0510 – SlEF D1AGN0S1C5 Comp__e = PASS
0511 – <recieving tasks>
0511 – item 1: //run/illumination-fixture-repair ||
print(“tHeeee cuRTaINS were b-b-b- 01100010011011000111010101100101“)
0600 – item 1: COMPLETE… //..-. — .-. -.-. . / — …- . .-. .-. .. -.. .
//UNEXPECTED END OF FILE
Posted in Hollister, Site Control System, Thomas Banks.
By Boon
– 2011/08/31
Site name: Hollister
Site number: 0359035
Employee: 8842169
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Posted in David van Aalst, Hollister, Site Control System.
Tagged with 0359035, byron graves, hollister, scs.
By David van Aalst
– 2011/08/30
Site Control System
Planet: Delta Gorno
Coordinates: 290.8 : 026.9
Site name: Hollister
Site number: 0359035
Population: 456,301
Commenced: 2027 Status: Open
Latest available data: 26 Aug 2027
Additional information
No additional information available at this time.
Nearest alternative sites
3065413 Halwyth
3045783 Robin
3054595 Alice
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Posted in Hollister, Site Control System.
Tagged with 0359035, hollister, scs.
By scs
– 2011/08/30
And without further ado, here’s the next in our list of our favourite films ever.
Apocalypse Now Redux
It’s extremely long. There’re bits that don’t make sense. Marlon Brando is fat. Laurence Fishburne is very young. Martin Sheen was drunk. Dennis Hopper was awesome. Robert Duval says one of the most famous lines in cinema history. Harrison Ford plays a bit part. It was all made with no help with CGI. The helicopters were on loan and occasionally had to go back to a war. The music is amazing. They do nothing most of the film but cruise up a river. It almost didn’t get made. It’s based on a Joseph Conrad short story. And somehow: it is not only the greatest war movie ever made, I would nominate it as the greatest movie ever made.
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Posted in Film, List, Tom Dougherty.
Tagged with across the universe, almost famous, apocalypse now, best films, clerks, favourite films, into the wild, requiem for a dream, singing in the rain, taxi driver, tom, tom dougherty.
By Tom Dougherty
– 2011/08/29
I hate it when we do this. In all fairness, however, it must be done. I am on the verge of punching somebody in the face next time I hear the phrase “my favourite film of all time’.
I planned to scrutnise every film I love to the point where each had its own list of pros and cons, and use this information to chronicle my ten favourite films. But for obvious reasons, this snowballed and I developed a headache trying to remember, arrange and perfect a microscopic portion of a virtually endless catalogue. Eventually, I figured that the movies that come straight to mind when I ponder this question are going to rate very highly regardless.
I apologise for not discussing why some of these films make me feel the way they do – they just do. It all got too difficult for me. They affect me in ways that no other films do, and merely being a part of this list is enough explanation as to why I love them. So here it is, after minimal amounts of headbanging and more “oh! but…’ moments that I care to admit: Ten Films Sarah Loves (and will still love for always).
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Posted in Film, List, Opinion, rant, Review, Sarah van Aalst.
Tagged with top10.
By Sarah van Aalst
– 2011/08/22
