moaning is music
10.18.2009
nowhere feels like home
smoke only menthols (one at a time) alone in the morning when no one else is out
go into the woods and stand on one foot
sit on hardwood floors with an unnaturally straightened back
eat food in silence
listen only to cassettes in the car with no heat on
piss outside naked without touching
read in places you've never been before
sleep without a pillow
go to iceland to work on an organic farm
smoke only menthols (one at a time) alone in the morning when no one else is out
go into the woods and stand on one foot
sit on hardwood floors with an unnaturally straightened back
eat food in silence
listen only to cassettes in the car with no heat on
piss outside naked without touching
read in places you've never been before
sleep without a pillow
7.08.2009
if only!
You tell em.
via Nate Silver:
It's not likely that Sotomayor is downing bottles of Cristal and snorting coke in the bathroom every Friday at Hotel Gansevoort, or having four-martini lunches with the Sex and the City girls at Bryant Park.
You tell em.
3.31.2009
1.20.2009
12.09.2008
Top 10 Albums of 2008
Paavoharju - Laulu Kukista Laakson
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Sigur Ros - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
The Music Tapes - For Clouds and Tornadoes
Why? - Alopecia
Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
El Guincho - Alegranza
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Portishead - Third
Honorable Mention:
Final Fantasy - Spectrum, 14th Century/Pays to Please
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Paavoharju - Laulu Kukista Laakson
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Sigur Ros - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
The Music Tapes - For Clouds and Tornadoes
Why? - Alopecia
Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
El Guincho - Alegranza
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Portishead - Third
Honorable Mention:
Final Fantasy - Spectrum, 14th Century/Pays to Please
11.18.2008
on the prop 8 protests
I think what is happening is susceptible to enormous distortion by the right and the media. there may be isolated incidents of inappropriate responses, but a strong backlash is not necessarily the wrong approach.
I don't think churches should be attacked, but these issues have to be brought into the open, called on for what they are, and dealt with in an honest fashion.
says Andrew Sullivan:
Gingrich On Prop 8 Protests: "Gay And Secular Fascism ... Prepared To Use Violence"
Media Matters reports on a Fox News discussion between Bil O'Reilly and Newt Gingrich on protests against the California gay marriage ban:
O'REILLY: OK, now, the culture war. I know you've been flying around the country, and you're doing stuff. In the last three or four days, this is really nasty stuff. I mean, you know, hyper -- we're gonna show you some of the video. A woman getting a cross smashed out of her hand. We had a church in Michigan invaded by gay activists. We're gonna show you the video on Monday of that -- we have exclusively. We had a guy in Sacramento fired from his job. We had boycotts called on restaurants.
I mean, it is getting out of control, very few days after the election. How do you assess that?
GINGRICH: Look, I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion. And I think if you believe in historic Christianity, you have to confront the fact. And, frank -- for that matter, if you believe in the historic version of Islam or the historic version of Judaism, you have to confront the reality that these secular extremists are determined to impose on you acceptance of a series of values that are antithetical, they're the opposite, of what you're taught in Sunday school.
I think what is happening is susceptible to enormous distortion by the right and the media. there may be isolated incidents of inappropriate responses, but a strong backlash is not necessarily the wrong approach.
"Long inculcation in attitudes of cringing meekness has taken taken its toll among homosexuals, combined with a feeling, still widely prevalent, that reasonable, logical gentlemanly and ladylike persuasion and presentation of reasonable logical argument, could not fail to win over those who would deny us our equality and our right to be homosexual and to live as homosexuals without disadvantage. There was--and is--a feeling that given any fair chance to undertake dialogue with such opponents, we would be able to impress them with the basic rightness of our position and bring them into agreement with it.
Unfortunately, by the approach alone we will not prevail, because most people operate not rot rationally but emotionally on questions of sex in general, and homosexuality in particular, just as they do on racial questions. It is thus necessary for us to adopt a strongly positive approach, a militant one. It is for us to take the initiative, the offensive--not the defensive--in matters affecting us. It is time that we began to move from endless talk to firm, vigorous action.
We ARE right; those who oppose us are both factually and morally wrong. We are the true authorities on homosexuality, whether we are accepted as such or not. We must DEMAND our rights, boldly, not beg cringingly for mere privileges, and not be satisfied with crumbs tossed to us."-franklin kameny on homophile militancy, 1965
I don't think churches should be attacked, but these issues have to be brought into the open, called on for what they are, and dealt with in an honest fashion.
says Andrew Sullivan:
I strongly support civility in this struggle. Religious services and practices should be scrupulously respected. But when a church, like the Mormon church, makes a concerted effort to enter the public square and strip a small minority of basic civil rights, it is simply preposterous for them then to argue that the Mormon church cannot be criticized and protested because they are a religion.Battle stations!
I have never done anything - nor would I do anything - to impede or restrict the civil rights of Mormons. I respect their right to freedom of conscience and religion. In fact, it is one of my strongest convictions. But when they use their money and power to target my family, to break it up, to demean it and marginalize it, to strip me and my husband of our civil rights, then they have started a war.
And I am not a pacifist.
11.03.2008
voting will kill you
Meanwhile the meaning of being human, the uniqueness of each individual, of each community, of each bioregion the fulfilled lives we shall have when humans stop groveling in front of talismanic State-Stamped Bank notes, all that is forgotten, brushed aside as the concerns of dreamers, heretics, tramps, "dysfunctional persons," in short, as the stuff of losers. Only Real Politiks counts. Winners want Power!
To balance the budget, reduce the deficit, to have "honest politicians" (sic), to expand the realm of wagedom, to have a united country all marching in unison to the rhythms of the punch clock and the ruler's speeches! A country united by the belief in its greatness! Jobs for all, responsible government, Law and Order! These should be your dreams, these should be your concern!
Grow up and get a job you say! Yes, for you to grow up means to learn how to build your own chains, to fasten other people's chains onto yourself and your own chains onto other people. Which is why your reply to a debate or a rant which concerns freedom is always: Get a job. Who can blame you? It took half of your life to learn to keep a job and the other half to love it.
But for me rowing up means a lot. It means undoing the chains put on me by previous generations. It means getting to know my limits and learning from those previous generations, their wisdom, their mistakes, their false assumptions. For me growing means getting out of one's parents place, getting out of the jail house of the State, breaking the long leash of Capital, so that i can grow without being stunted by coercion and false promises.
Doesn't the idea of government imply the immaturity of the governed? How can you mature if some thing keeps you in a state of perpetual immaturity? How can you try your hands at things when somebody else does it for you?
But these ideas are not entertained by those who preach the gospel of authority. Do as you are told, it's as simple as that. But if I have any brain, any spirit, any shred of integrity left, it is not simple to do as I am told.
When I am told to deny and forget the majority of my authentic desires, when I am told and forced to participate in empire-building, fortune accumulation and biological meltdown, when I am told to accept that abstractions like the Economy, the Leader, the Well-Being of the Nation, Humanity, History, etc., etc., ad nauseam, that those are ideas that have mode importance and more meaning than my own fucking life, then something is wrong! It's not that simple.
(adapted from minus tides, 2001)
disclaimer: I didn't write write this and do not condone political complacency. moaning is music™ officially endorses Pigassus the Almighty for the Office of the Presidency of the United States of America in 2008.
Everyday, even in the remotest places, the citizenry of this nation is being bombarded with patriotic rhetoric like the meaning of being [American], the uniqueness of this country, the paradise we'll all live in if we only vote and give money to one of the political rackets on the stage.
Meanwhile the meaning of being human, the uniqueness of each individual, of each community, of each bioregion the fulfilled lives we shall have when humans stop groveling in front of talismanic State-Stamped Bank notes, all that is forgotten, brushed aside as the concerns of dreamers, heretics, tramps, "dysfunctional persons," in short, as the stuff of losers. Only Real Politiks counts. Winners want Power!
To balance the budget, reduce the deficit, to have "honest politicians" (sic), to expand the realm of wagedom, to have a united country all marching in unison to the rhythms of the punch clock and the ruler's speeches! A country united by the belief in its greatness! Jobs for all, responsible government, Law and Order! These should be your dreams, these should be your concern!
Grow up and get a job you say! Yes, for you to grow up means to learn how to build your own chains, to fasten other people's chains onto yourself and your own chains onto other people. Which is why your reply to a debate or a rant which concerns freedom is always: Get a job. Who can blame you? It took half of your life to learn to keep a job and the other half to love it.
But for me rowing up means a lot. It means undoing the chains put on me by previous generations. It means getting to know my limits and learning from those previous generations, their wisdom, their mistakes, their false assumptions. For me growing means getting out of one's parents place, getting out of the jail house of the State, breaking the long leash of Capital, so that i can grow without being stunted by coercion and false promises.
Doesn't the idea of government imply the immaturity of the governed? How can you mature if some thing keeps you in a state of perpetual immaturity? How can you try your hands at things when somebody else does it for you?
But these ideas are not entertained by those who preach the gospel of authority. Do as you are told, it's as simple as that. But if I have any brain, any spirit, any shred of integrity left, it is not simple to do as I am told.
When I am told to deny and forget the majority of my authentic desires, when I am told and forced to participate in empire-building, fortune accumulation and biological meltdown, when I am told to accept that abstractions like the Economy, the Leader, the Well-Being of the Nation, Humanity, History, etc., etc., ad nauseam, that those are ideas that have mode importance and more meaning than my own fucking life, then something is wrong! It's not that simple.
(adapted from minus tides, 2001)
disclaimer: I didn't write write this and do not condone political complacency. moaning is music™ officially endorses Pigassus the Almighty for the Office of the Presidency of the United States of America in 2008.
