Okay, guys, this time, youre going to get two of these entries in a row. like a crusty veteran of life in the twilight of his/her years im GOING GREY in a few days, and i dont think youll ever see the pallor return again to my name here on sg. ill explain tomorrow. but in the meantime, some selects from my life. roll tape.
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peter swire is a law professor who concentrates heavily on database security and the protection of privacy in the digital era. he speaks - as do many in his field - that las vegas may provide a metaphor for the modern-day terrorist-vulnerable state. as anyone who has seen oceans 11 or read bringing down the house knows, some of the worlds most brilliant swindlers are constantly trying to raid sin citys kitty with any number of criminal schemes. small wonder, then, why many security firms have made las vegas their home, and that some consider las vegas, like us, a city under the threat of constant attack and imminent destruction vis-a-vis an enterprising high rollers form of asymmetric warfare.
he also refers to the former logo of the (supposedly abandoned) Total Information Awareness program helmed by DARPA, headed by retired admiral and iran-contra liar john poindexter (note: during the time they were getting the project off the ground, some intrepid reporter posted his home address and private home line publically. i only wish i could have heard his answering machine messages after this.) the logo shows the eye of the pyramid glancing down on iraq and afghanistan, the twin recalcitrant inventions of 20th century colonial mapmaking. the slogan is latin for knowledge is power. power has two words to describe it in Latin. the one here translates best into political control.
something for you conspiracy theorists to nosh on.
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some who have migraine headaches may never know that there is another level to headache pain that can cripple you. theyre called cluster headaches, and they can last up to weeks on end. they are entirely debilitating, but thankfully, there is a medicine that was specifically created to treat headaches such as these: LSD-25.
when sandoz pharmeceuticals initially synthesized the LSD molecules, they were intending to create headache remedies, and as you can tell, they synthesized about 25 of them. after many of these drugs were made illegal once timothy leary started on his messianic ego-death trip, research into these and many other potential clinical uses for these medicines stopped. it is only now that researchers are winning begrudging acquiescence from the FDA and DEA to pick up the thread dropped many years ago by paranoid cold war establishment types. some of this research, im told, is funded by a man whose wife suffered from cluster headaches before taking LSD.
thanks to dr. john halpern for much of this information.
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some who read my scopolamine and south america post on chemical halo know that ive been very interested in zero-gravity environments as of late. a while back at work, i discovered that some of the fight sequences in the matrix sequels were filmed in zero-g. then, i learned of a new airplane service which charters parabolic flights that simulate, for very brief seconds at a time, a zero-g environment (boing-boing readers have been reading, i know, the lovely if EXTREMELY self-absorbed Xeni Jardins me-me-me accounts of her experience). as it turns out, this very same company were the ones creating the zero-g atmospheres for the wachowski brothers.
so now im obsessed. i need to bring a zero-g environment to the playa. fuck chartering planes; i want a free-standing structure in the outer playa, with a dome-glass ceiling that looks out onto the sky, where people can enter and float alongside blinking LEDs, glitter and colored mists and gases while they listen to coils at the heart of it all and dark psychedelia. some may tell me this is impossible, but hey, einstein figured out general relativity whist working as a clerk. the wright brothers discovered the secrets of flight and trumped in the process the grandest minds of their time, who were also working on the same project. why not me?
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so just recently, jordana lesesne got back in touch with me. some of you who are former baltimore-pittsburgh ravers may remember her as 1.8.7, or joe lesesne, the guy who once took on moby on alt.rave many years ago. she caused quite a stir when he changed his sex and became a woman. i ended up doing a piece on her for the philadelphia city paper at that point. she moved to london not too soon after, my guess being that things got pretty bad for her here.
so shes releasing a new lp, numerology, her first in five years. ive been thinking of maybe doing an sg interview on her. the idea of handing any piece of writing ive worked on - for FREE - to sean and missy to own FOREVER, for THEM to profit over, quite frankly DISGUSTS me, which is why ive never done it. it would be more of a favor to jordana, since i think there are many on this site who could learn from her experience. granted, its a personal thing for her, but i think as an artist, we all have to draw from our personal experience, especially if we choose to become public figures
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so yet another one of my new projects is creating a press kit for a burner friend of mine here at the brewery named monika reti. she has a business called hipcooks, and she has been doing very well to teach sophisticated, well-heeled types here in la how to cook. one thing she likes to do is bring out creme brulees and teach her students how to lightly heat them using blowtorches.
she refuses to dole out measuring instructions and exact instructions to her pupils, instead giving them the whys of why they need to be mindful of why theyre doing what theyre doing. the la weekly is including her in their best of 2004 classes, and shes been on blind date, speed dating and cocktails.
now since Im ALWAYS the one to put the cart before the horse, i see big things in store for her. ill be editing her cookbook and devising ways to get this thing published and to get her more exposure on daytime tv as well as locally. nowadays, chefs are quickly becoming celebrities in their own right, and the idea of managing and marketing their career for fun and profit may allow me the fiscal freedom to make my interactive fiction MY WAY.
plus, im all about free food.
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finally, im taking off next week to sf for the decompression(tm). thats right, sf burners, im coming to park in your space, smoke your pot and pick your brain! the person Im staying with, robin hood, is a nine-year burner who has as much to say as i do about her life.
this weekend, at abundant sugar, from thursday to saturday (672A moulton avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90031 for all mapquest sorts), a dance troupe is staging a performance based on surveillance. ive seen then rehearsing, and it looks quite promising. ill post on the calendar once i get more info.
^%$&^^%&$^&^&^
peter swire is a law professor who concentrates heavily on database security and the protection of privacy in the digital era. he speaks - as do many in his field - that las vegas may provide a metaphor for the modern-day terrorist-vulnerable state. as anyone who has seen oceans 11 or read bringing down the house knows, some of the worlds most brilliant swindlers are constantly trying to raid sin citys kitty with any number of criminal schemes. small wonder, then, why many security firms have made las vegas their home, and that some consider las vegas, like us, a city under the threat of constant attack and imminent destruction vis-a-vis an enterprising high rollers form of asymmetric warfare.
he also refers to the former logo of the (supposedly abandoned) Total Information Awareness program helmed by DARPA, headed by retired admiral and iran-contra liar john poindexter (note: during the time they were getting the project off the ground, some intrepid reporter posted his home address and private home line publically. i only wish i could have heard his answering machine messages after this.) the logo shows the eye of the pyramid glancing down on iraq and afghanistan, the twin recalcitrant inventions of 20th century colonial mapmaking. the slogan is latin for knowledge is power. power has two words to describe it in Latin. the one here translates best into political control.
something for you conspiracy theorists to nosh on.
&^%^%&^%
some who have migraine headaches may never know that there is another level to headache pain that can cripple you. theyre called cluster headaches, and they can last up to weeks on end. they are entirely debilitating, but thankfully, there is a medicine that was specifically created to treat headaches such as these: LSD-25.
when sandoz pharmeceuticals initially synthesized the LSD molecules, they were intending to create headache remedies, and as you can tell, they synthesized about 25 of them. after many of these drugs were made illegal once timothy leary started on his messianic ego-death trip, research into these and many other potential clinical uses for these medicines stopped. it is only now that researchers are winning begrudging acquiescence from the FDA and DEA to pick up the thread dropped many years ago by paranoid cold war establishment types. some of this research, im told, is funded by a man whose wife suffered from cluster headaches before taking LSD.
thanks to dr. john halpern for much of this information.
^%$&&%$^
some who read my scopolamine and south america post on chemical halo know that ive been very interested in zero-gravity environments as of late. a while back at work, i discovered that some of the fight sequences in the matrix sequels were filmed in zero-g. then, i learned of a new airplane service which charters parabolic flights that simulate, for very brief seconds at a time, a zero-g environment (boing-boing readers have been reading, i know, the lovely if EXTREMELY self-absorbed Xeni Jardins me-me-me accounts of her experience). as it turns out, this very same company were the ones creating the zero-g atmospheres for the wachowski brothers.
so now im obsessed. i need to bring a zero-g environment to the playa. fuck chartering planes; i want a free-standing structure in the outer playa, with a dome-glass ceiling that looks out onto the sky, where people can enter and float alongside blinking LEDs, glitter and colored mists and gases while they listen to coils at the heart of it all and dark psychedelia. some may tell me this is impossible, but hey, einstein figured out general relativity whist working as a clerk. the wright brothers discovered the secrets of flight and trumped in the process the grandest minds of their time, who were also working on the same project. why not me?
$%^%$%^%
so just recently, jordana lesesne got back in touch with me. some of you who are former baltimore-pittsburgh ravers may remember her as 1.8.7, or joe lesesne, the guy who once took on moby on alt.rave many years ago. she caused quite a stir when he changed his sex and became a woman. i ended up doing a piece on her for the philadelphia city paper at that point. she moved to london not too soon after, my guess being that things got pretty bad for her here.
so shes releasing a new lp, numerology, her first in five years. ive been thinking of maybe doing an sg interview on her. the idea of handing any piece of writing ive worked on - for FREE - to sean and missy to own FOREVER, for THEM to profit over, quite frankly DISGUSTS me, which is why ive never done it. it would be more of a favor to jordana, since i think there are many on this site who could learn from her experience. granted, its a personal thing for her, but i think as an artist, we all have to draw from our personal experience, especially if we choose to become public figures
$&^%^%^&^%&^%
so yet another one of my new projects is creating a press kit for a burner friend of mine here at the brewery named monika reti. she has a business called hipcooks, and she has been doing very well to teach sophisticated, well-heeled types here in la how to cook. one thing she likes to do is bring out creme brulees and teach her students how to lightly heat them using blowtorches.
she refuses to dole out measuring instructions and exact instructions to her pupils, instead giving them the whys of why they need to be mindful of why theyre doing what theyre doing. the la weekly is including her in their best of 2004 classes, and shes been on blind date, speed dating and cocktails.
now since Im ALWAYS the one to put the cart before the horse, i see big things in store for her. ill be editing her cookbook and devising ways to get this thing published and to get her more exposure on daytime tv as well as locally. nowadays, chefs are quickly becoming celebrities in their own right, and the idea of managing and marketing their career for fun and profit may allow me the fiscal freedom to make my interactive fiction MY WAY.
plus, im all about free food.
&^%%^&^%*
finally, im taking off next week to sf for the decompression(tm). thats right, sf burners, im coming to park in your space, smoke your pot and pick your brain! the person Im staying with, robin hood, is a nine-year burner who has as much to say as i do about her life.
this weekend, at abundant sugar, from thursday to saturday (672A moulton avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90031 for all mapquest sorts), a dance troupe is staging a performance based on surveillance. ive seen then rehearsing, and it looks quite promising. ill post on the calendar once i get more info.
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Next time we should all go out after...Ciao Coolness
Are you still turning grey?
Not before your time I trust.
anywho, i was glad to help out, good times.
and the tweaker/vrenna shit, totlaly! i've got a few tracks that he did with will oldham and i fucking love them, i'd really like to hear the rest of his work.