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21st November 20077th September 2007
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"While we are talking about communication, allow me to add something. It is my firm beleif, and I sa this as a dictum, that all these tools now at our disposal, these things part of this explosive evolution of means of communication, mean we are now heading for an era of solitude. Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal -- be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever -- human solitude will increase in direct proportion. It might sound paradoxical, but it is not. It might appear that these things remove us from our isolation, but isolation is very different from solitude. When you are caught in a snowdrift in South Dakota, fifty miles from the next town, your isolation can be overcome with a mere cellular phone. But solitude is something more existential".
- Wern 6th September 2007
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You're obsessed with chickens, aren't you?
You might be right. Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in this world. In Even Dwarfs Started Small we observed some chickens trying to cannibalize each other. And in a couple of my films, Signs of Life and Kaspar Hauser, I show how you can taunt chickens by hypnotizing them. Years ago I was searching for the biggest rooster I could find and heard about a guy in Petaluma, California, who had owned a rooster called Weirdo that weighted thirty pounds. Sadly Weirdo had passed away, but his offspring were alive and guess what? They were even bigger. I went out there and found Ralph, son of Weirdo, who weighed an amazing thirty-two pounds! Then I found Frank, a special breed of miniature horse that stood less than two feel high. I told Frank's owner I wanted to film Ralph chasing Frank -- with a midget riding him -- around the biggest sequoia tree in the world, thirty meters in circumference. It would have been amazing because the horse and the midget together were still smaller than Ralph, the rooster. But unfortunately Frank's owner refused. he said it would make Frank, the horse, look stupid. From: "Herzog on Herzog" Edited by Paul Cronin 30th August 200719th August 200717th August 200729th June 2007
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"What is truly unique about human evolution, as opposed to chimpanzee or wolf evolution, is that a large part of the environment shaping it has been cultural. Therefore, construction of a special environment is what culture does to the behavioral genes. Members of past generations who used their culture to best advantage… enjoyed the greatest Darwinian advantage. During prehistory their genes multiplied, changing brain circuitry and behavior traits bit by bit to construct human nature as it exists today. Historical accident played a role in the assembly, and there were many particular expressions of the epigenetic rules that proved self-destructive. But by and large, natural selection, sustained and averaged over long periods of time, was the driving force of human evolution. Human nature is adaptive, or at least was at the time of its genetic origin...
The general biological imagery of the origin of human nature has repelled some writers including a few of the most discerning scholors in the social sciences and hunanities. THey are, I am sure, mistaken. They misundrestand gene-cutlre coevolution, confusing it with rigid determinism, the discredited idea that genes dictate particular forms of culture. I believe reasonable concerns can be dispelled by the following argument. Genes do not specific elaborate conventions such as totemism, elder councils, and religious ceremonies. To the best of my knowledge no serious scientist or humanities scholoar has ever suggested such a thing. Instead, complexes of gene-based epigenetic rules predispose people to invent and adopt such conventions. If the epigenetic rules are opwerful enough, they cause the behaviors they affect to evolve convergently across a geat many societies. The conventions--evolved by culture, biased by epigenetic rules--are then spoken of as the cultural universals. Rare cultural forms are also possible under the same scenario. The whole matter can be expressed another way by reverting to the imagery of developmental genetics. The norm of reaction of the underwriting genes is greatly narrowed in the case of a cultural universal; in other words, there are few if any environments available to human beings in which the cultural convention does not arise. In contrast, genes that spawn many rare conventions in resoponse to changing environments, thus expanding cultural diversity, are those with broader norms of reaction" - E.O. Wilson 20th June 2007
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"As Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, significant changes in bodily comportment were gardually taking place. Private spaces were increasingly demarcated. By the eighteenth century, toilets were referred to with descretion. Siblings, boarders, and other unmarried people were no longer routinely sent to sleep in the same bed. Handkerchiefs, rather than hands, were used to blow noses, and utensils, rather than snotty fingers, to eat food. Even painters took more care to reproduce the individual physiognomies of their sitters. Violence was shunned. A demeanor of silent, reverntial contemplation at musical concerts was adopted." - Joanna Bourke in her review of "The Invention of Human Rights" by historian Lynn Hunt in May '07 issue of Harpers
"Their alphabet has twenty-four letters. Both the first and the twenty-fourth letter are "A". The alphabet existed before the creation of the universe. Each letter emanated from the previous letter and praised it, until the entire alphabet became swollen with pride. The letters lined up on either side of "L", the middle letter, as enemy camps facing each other, until the letters realized that without cooperation there could be no languate, and they all grapsed hands." Mandaeans, by Eliot Weiberger in the May '07 Harpers 3rd May 2007
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 The Blue People of Kentucky: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyperry3/Blue_ Tomorrow I'm playing a show at the San Jose Works Art gallery (w/ Brian Wakefield's Experience and French Quarter) at 12 N. 1st street. Look HERE for more info. Laterz. 15th April 20071st April 200717th March 20078th March 2007
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http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
"Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American. On Wikipedia, many of the dates are provided in the anti-Christian "C.E." instead of "A.D.", which Conservapedia uses". But do they also have comfortable organically grown cotton Tees? HA! 15th February 2007
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Today somebody in my class said "janital" instead of "janitor" because they were trying to be PC. Today I also decided I want to be a morningologist. You should too. It's easy. If you haven't already heard T-pain's "Buy you a drink" you should hear it. It's better than DJ UNK and Lil' Scrappy combined. Also this made me laugh a lot today. Especially at 6 seconds in. Don't watch the whole thing. SEST LAH VYE!
7th February 20076th February 20076th January 2007
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"Early in the morning, fog rises here and there from the forests of hemlock, cedar, and spruce. It is as if certain stands are burning, except that the fog moves much more slowly than smoke. On the far side of one mountain, a dense white column billows forth like a slow-motion geyser that levels off into an airborne river flowing into a sea of clouds. I've begun to notice currents everywhere, a universe of eddies and gyres. Phytoplankton ride the same ocean currents that carried the Floatees to Sitka. Zooplankton follow the phytoplankton. Fish follow the zooplankton. Sea lions, whales, and people follow the fish. When, at the end of their upriver journey, salmon spawn and die en masse, their carcasses--distrubuted by bears, eagles and other scavengers--fertilize the forests that make the fog, which falls as rain, which changes the ocean's salinity. All deep water travels along what oceanographers call the "conveyor belt," which begins with warm water from the Gult Stream draining nito the North Atlantic, where evaporation increases salinity and makes it sink to the ocean floor, where it creeps south into the Antarctic circumpolar stream. After a thousand years--a millenium!--the conveyor belt ends here, in the North Pacific, where the ancient water wells up, carrying nutrients with it. Oceanographers learned much of this from studying radioactive isotopes released into the sea as fallout from nuclear tests. I'm becoming a devout driftologist. The only essential difference between rock, water, air, life, galaxies, economies, civiliazations, plastics--I decide, standing on the Malapina's deck, totally sober, watching the fog make pretty shapes above the trees--is the rate of flow".
- Donovan Hohn 5th January 20074th January 200724th December 2006
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Ho, Ho, Sideline Ho, Youse a ho, youse a ho, sideline ho
[Verse 1:] When you called his phone, did he pick it up Noooooooooo, cause we was makin love. Did you meet his moms have you met his kids noo ooh o did you know my kid is his Noo ooh o. [Chorus:] Get your shit togehter youre makin a foolof yourself, it don't matter if he spends the night his home is somewhere else Ain't you tired of being on the side line, tired of getting yours after i gets mine baby second place don't get a prize when you gone relize you wasting your time baby ain't you tired of him leaving you broken whip and he rolling and ain't you tired of when you need a little change and he lie about what he holdin, ain't you tired of spending all the holidays alone, tired of being his little sideline ho Do he take you out, do he foot your bills, noo ooh o, cause I know what his balance is have you been to his church, do he ask you to pray, nooo ooh o cause sundays Family day [Chorus] [Bridge x2:] Do you got benefits, no, credit cards, no, house keys, no, then youse a sideline ho, do you get pillow talk, no, held at night, no, if you don't make his breakfast then youse a sideline ho [Chorus] [x3:] Youse a ho, Youse a ho, sideline ho 13th December 2006
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Gary Snyder Day.
"two conditions, gravity & a livable temperature range between freezing & boiling have given us fluids and flesh. the trees we climb & the ground we walk on have given us five fingers & toes. the "place" gave us far-seeing eyes, the streams and breezes gave us versatile tongues & wholly ears. the land gave us a stride, the lake a dive" "roots, stems, and branches are all equally scratchy. no hierarchy, no equality. no occult & exoteric, no gifted kinds & slow achievers. no wild and tame, no bound and free, no natural and artificial. each totally its own frail self. even though connected all which ways, even because connected all which ways" "the world is our consciousness. it surrounds us" 5th December 2006
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i've spent the last 1 and a 1/2 hours reading
the same two pages. i don't get it. i don't think i am stupid, but sometimes i think i am stupid. sometimes i get scared that i'm pursuing the wrong life path. i want to be good at what i do, i don't want to be one of those professors who doesn't really know what they are talking about. it takes a certain amount of smarts to succeed in academia and i'm not sure whether i qualify. i guess i have the next 5 to 6 years to find out. of course it will probably be too late by then...having goals can be messy. 4th December 200628th November 200615th November 2006
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To the left
To the left To the left To the left To the left To the left Everything you own in the box to the left In the closet that's my stuff - Yes If I bought it nigga please don't touch And keep talking that mess, that's fine But could you walk and talk at the same time And It's my mine name that is on that Jag So remove your bags let me call you a cab Standing in the front yard telling me How I'm such a fool - Talking about How I'll never ever find a man like you You got me twisted You must not know about me You must not know about me I could have another you in a minute matter fact he'll be here in a minute - baby You must not know about me You must not know about me I can have another you by tomorrow So don't you ever for a second get to thinking you're irreplaceable So go ahead and get gone And call up on that chick and see if she is home Oops, I bet ya thought that I didn't know What did you think I was putting you out for? Cause you was untrue Rolling her around in the car that I bought you Baby you dropped them keys hurry up before your taxi leaves Standing in the front yard telling me How I am such a fool - Talking about How I'll never ever find a man like you You got me twisted You must not know about me You must not know about me I could have another you in a minute matter fact he'll be here in a minute - baby [ these lyrics found on www.completealbumlyrics.com ] You must not know about me You must not know about me I will have another you by tomorrow So don't you ever for a second get to thinking you're irreplaceable So since I�m not your everything How about I'll be nothing Nothing at all to you Baby I wont shead a tear for you I won't lose a wink of sleep Cause the truth of the matter is Replacing you is so easy To the left To the left To the left To the left To the left To the left Everything you own in the box to the left To the left To the left Don't you ever for a second get to thinking you're irreplaceable You must not know about me You must not know about me I could have another you in a minute matter fact he'll be be here in a minute - baby You must not know about me You must not know about me I can have another you by tomorrow Don't you ever for a second get to thinking you're irreplaceable You must not know about me You must not know about me I could have another you in a minute matter fact he'll be be here in a minute - baby You must not know about me You must not know about me I can have another you by tomorrow Don't you ever for a second get to thinking you're irreplaceable 9th November 20065th November 2006
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"Evolution rarely throws out anything. Structures are trans-
formed, modified, co-opted for other functions, or "tweaked" in another direction-descent with modification, as Darwin called it. Thus, the frontal fins of fish became the front limbs of land animals, which over time turned into hoofs, paws, wings, hands, and flippers. Occasionally, a structure loses all function and becomes superfluous, but this is a gradual process, often ending in rudimentary traits rather than disappearance. We find tiny vestiges of leg bones under the skin of whales and remnants of a pelvis in snakes". - Frans de Waal |
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