3 old but relevant songs:

Monster Magnet -- Powertrip
Refused --Summerholidays Vs. Punkroutine
Pennywise -- The Unknown Road

one new book, and two old:

Steppenwolf
Days of War, Nights of Love
Walden

And this time i'm listening.

"Now let me tell you the Kaballah of reason, madness and absurdity: In our world, madness lies below reason. In the higher world, the positions are reversed ( Read more... )

Ditched the conference today and headed out to Akaroa, but I made a cool philo/logic contact in Dunedin before I left anyway.


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Christchurch is pretty damn awesome. It's been called the most English city outside of England, and it's also listed as a "sister city" to Seattle. (Canterbury University looks a lot like the Evergreen State College) I mean, the center of downtown is a huge motherloving cathedral with it's own square and everything, which is if course where the ( Read more... )

The stars are out tonight.

And for the moment, I'm content just to watch.

Somehow I knew Academics had to be good for something. You know, even though I knew about it and regarded it with a kind of uncritical respect, (Peace.... Good....Democrats say so....) after actually *reading* the Russell-Einstein manifesto, I'm really convinced it's the most important document ever written. Forget your home country's constitution ( Read more... )

Adoshem S'votai tif'tach. Ufi Yagid Tehilatecha.

Listen. I'm hopeful, don't get me wrong. But there's way too much hype, and there's only so much one administration is going to be able to accomplish in four years. The fact is it's really out of his control. That's right, it really doesn't matter who's at 1600 Pennsylvania, the factors involved in managing a country, not to mention foreign policy ( Read more... )

Apparently he wasn't allowed to film them or something.

By the way, if you somehow missed Screaming Trees' Sweet Oblivion until now like I did, do yourself a favor and pick it up.

"Insurmountable" peaks may offer the clearest vantage points.