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August 15
(not my photo, I was a mile back on the lawn) I Saw radiohead 2 days ago. It was a beautiful time especially being outside under the moon. It was comparable to being a child on christmas morning, but better. The sound at the comcast center or tweeter center was so crisp and clear. They played a lot from Kid A and the new album. I kind of wish they played more from ok computer. The light show was amazing, I was in a trance the whole time. The highlights for me were Thom’s red pants, exit music (for a film), 15 step, I might be wrong, Paranoid Android, Karma Police, and Idioteque, which closed the show.  Actually everything was amazing. The End. Set List: ReckonerOptimisticThere There15 StepKid ANudeAll I NeedThe GloamingThe National AnthemVideotapeJigsaw Falling Into PlaceThe BendsFaust Arp - Thom & Johnny only, with acousticsWeird Fishes / ArpeggiEverything In Its Right PlaceExit Music (For A Film)Bodysnatchers….encore 1House of CardsI Might Be WrongParanoid AndroidWolf At The DoorHow To Disappear Completely….encore 2Cymbal Rush - Thom solo on pianoKarma PoliceIdioteque

(not my photo, I was a mile back on the lawn)

I Saw radiohead 2 days ago. It was a beautiful time especially being outside under the moon. It was comparable to being a child on christmas morning, but better. The sound at the comcast center or tweeter center was so crisp and clear. They played a lot from Kid A and the new album. I kind of wish they played more from ok computer. The light show was amazing, I was in a trance the whole time. The highlights for me were Thom’s red pants, exit music (for a film), 15 step, I might be wrong, Paranoid Android, Karma Police, and Idioteque, which closed the show.  Actually everything was amazing. The End.

Set List:

Reckoner
Optimistic
There There
15 Step
Kid A
Nude
All I Need
The Gloaming
The National Anthem
Videotape
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
The Bends
Faust Arp - Thom & Johnny only, with acoustics
Weird Fishes / Arpeggi
Everything In Its Right Place
Exit Music (For A Film)
Bodysnatchers
….encore 1
House of Cards
I Might Be Wrong
Paranoid Android
Wolf At The Door
How To Disappear Completely
….encore 2
Cymbal Rush - Thom solo on piano
Karma Police
Idioteque

August 11
“ August is the month when wars start. It’s when water dries up and the spirit begins to wither. Insomniacs pull down their shades and lock themselves in their rooms in August. Lifelong friends have fist fights. People feel like they’re going to burst. Sometimes they do.People move in September. School starts. Somehow the pulse revives. People begin to think about lighting fires for winter. Finally, August lets go like the leaves from the trees.  Al Aronowitz, August Blues
August 10
August 1
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(Fleet Foxes- Mykonos)

If neil young, my morning jacket, crosby, stills & nash, beach boys, simon and garfunkel, and animal collective had a love child. Oh man I am in love.

July 16
Ocean Sand, BahamasImage taken October 29, 2000 Though the above image may resemble a new age painting straight out of an art gallery in Venice Beach, California, it is in fact a satellite image of the sands and seaweed in the Bahamas. The image was taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) instrument aboard the Landsat 7 satellite. Tides and ocean currents in the Bahamas sculpted the sand and seaweed beds into these multicolored, fluted patterns in much the same way that winds sculpted the vast sand dunes in the Sahara Desert. (via Earth as Art)

Ocean Sand, Bahamas
Image taken October 29, 2000

Though the above image may resemble a new age painting straight out of an art gallery in Venice Beach, California, it is in fact a satellite image of the sands and seaweed in the Bahamas. The image was taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) instrument aboard the Landsat 7 satellite. Tides and ocean currents in the Bahamas sculpted the sand and seaweed beds into these multicolored, fluted patterns in much the same way that winds sculpted the vast sand dunes in the Sahara Desert. (via Earth as Art)

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There are very few urban design solutions that address housing the inevitable tide of displaced people that could arise as oceans swell under global warming. Certainly none are as spectacular as this one. The Lilypad, by Architect Vincent Callebaut, is a concept for a completely self-sufficient floating city intended to provide shelter for future climate change refugees. The intent of the concept itself is laudable, but it is Callebaut’s phenomenal design that has captured our imagination. The intent of the concept itself is laudable, but it is Callebaut’s phenomenal design and imagination that take it much further down the archeology-meets-ark route, and created Lilypads: floating eco-cities. Each 50,000-person pad is a designed as a zero-emission floating home that uses solar, wind, tidal and biomass power to generate energy for its inhabitants. Plus it’s got a titanium dioxide skin that helps it tackle rising atmospheric CO2. It’s a fantasy right now, but rising sea levels may one day tempt builders to take on mega structures like this. (via Inhabitat)
There are very few urban design solutions that address housing the inevitable tide of displaced people that could arise as oceans swell under global warming. Certainly none are as spectacular as this one. The Lilypad, by Architect Vincent Callebaut, is a concept for a completely self-sufficient floating city intended to provide shelter for future climate change refugees. The intent of the concept itself is laudable, but it is Callebaut’s phenomenal design that has captured our imagination. The intent of the concept itself is laudable, but it is Callebaut’s phenomenal design and imagination that take it much further down the archeology-meets-ark route, and created Lilypads: floating eco-cities. Each 50,000-person pad is a designed as a zero-emission floating home that uses solar, wind, tidal and biomass power to generate energy for its inhabitants. Plus it’s got a titanium dioxide skin that helps it tackle rising atmospheric CO2. It’s a fantasy right now, but rising sea levels may one day tempt builders to take on mega structures like this. (via Inhabitat)
July 6

Ranier Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“You are so young, so before all beginning, and i want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and to try and love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.”



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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!”


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“ I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. Henry Rollins (via misscedar) (via unicornology)
June 26
“ The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating…and you finish off as an orgasm! George Carlin
June 24

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, Tits!

This past semester I wrote a 15 pager on comedian, social commentator, philosopher George Carlin. It was about the counterculture of the 1960/70, language, etc. I woke up the other morning for work in a complete daze and heard on the tv that he had passed away. I did not know much about him prior to my paper but, by in the end I became a fan mainly due to the fact that my research level had reached stalker status since I knew every little detail about him.

I will remember him as one who was not afraid to point of the absurdities of life and all of the dumb stuff we take seriously. I read the book Napalm, Silly Putty, and Human Nature that asked Carlin: What do you think happens to consciouness after death, and what is your perspective on God?

“I don’t know. Its obviously one of the most fascinating things that we don’t know. I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted defintion of god. But to be and atheist is to also have a belief, and have a syatem, and I don’t know that I like that either. And yet I shrink from the word “agnostic”, because it seems like a handy weigh station to park at. I don’t know. And I’m satisfied not knowing, because it allows me to be filled with speculation, and imagination, about all the possibilities.

I don’t care what happens to me after I die, but I know this. I know that id there’s some sort of moral reckoning, I know I’ll come out clean. I know Iv’e never done a mean thing intentionally to anyone. I know Iv’e only tried to make people feel better, and be more at ease. I don’t mean professionally. I mean in personal relationships. And I know if there’s some sort of reckoning by something, that says, Well, let’s look at your record here, I’m clean. So I’m happy with that. “

And his response to the future of evolution/human race:

“I hope its dramatic and funny. Please God, let it be violent, and let it be funny. Thats all I ask”

Adios Motherfucker! you will be missed!

June 19
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The swimming song covered by vetiver

(A summer appropriate song)

June 14
If I could go anywhere in the world I would go to Palau. I want to swim in Jelly fish lake. The marine lake got isolated from the sea millions of years ago yet it has jellyfish, stingrays, and other fish. Since it has been many years they have undergone evolutions that have eliminated their need for defense. So you can swim without getting stung.

If I could go anywhere in the world I would go to Palau.

I want to swim in Jelly fish lake.

The marine lake got isolated from the sea millions of years ago yet it has jellyfish, stingrays, and other fish. Since it has been many years they have undergone evolutions that have eliminated their need for defense. So you can swim without getting stung.

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Stony Brook
Stony Brook
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I videoed my ride to work today. After the six miles of constant bumps every movement in my ass is now painful. Oh the power of exercise! 

Note* around 2:00 I am clinging to the side of the narrow road so I don’t get side swiped by large trucks. I also lost my shoe a couple of times and had to go back. I also stopped to get a water at DD. Other than that I encountered many older woman who seemed so thrilled that I was riding to work.

I think I will stick to photography.

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