Three years ago this saturday I took my baby trappedinabay on our first date. Happy anniversary sweet pea and sorry I am broke! HAR HAR. :)

I'm in yer internets laffin at damp animals!

I'm sure a lot of people have already seen this, and probably saw it live, but I am having a total WTF moment right now. cnn debuts "hologram" on election night.

Help me obama wan kenobi, you're my only hope.

it's pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain that Wolf Blitzer could not actually see Yellin in the studio, her image only appeared in 2 dimensions on screen after it was interpolated into the signal. furthermore, it's not an actual "hologram". here comes the science.

still, a pretty neat effect with a lot of cool technology behind it!!!

As a rule I don't make posts with full mp3s, but today is as good an exception as any. I woke up this morning and thought "did Santa come?" before I remembered that it's real. It's really real. Yesterday by a landslide in the electoral college and a strong 5% majority in the popular vote Barack Obama won the presidency of the United States. That's great. I'm ecstatic! As Luke Russert, son of late news anchor Tim Russert, said last night "I got a text message from a childhood friend that said 'It's our turn now'." This campaign has reflected fundamental changes that are taking place in the way we do things in America, from the way we view race to the way we communicate and organize. I could be happier, though. We've elected yet another man who mistakenly believes in the supernatural. We've got a long way to go there. Barack also does not support marriage for same sex couples. That's almost as misguided as his belief in god. Still, today can be a sort of national holiday, a day when we should all enjoy what we made happen before the hard work starts up again. We've got more work to do now than ever before. Right now though, dance to this song from 1987 by two black men from Chicago who dared to dream that someday we will ALL be free. And that's the refrain we must now sing, the refrain that I call on Obama to change now, to sing out on the mall on Washington in January, in an inauguration at the Lincoln Memorial not the traditional Capitol building. Yes we can? No. YES WE WILL.

Dark Roasted Blend is really one of the most consistently great blogs that I read. DRB is "dedicated to the on-going quest for wisdom and beauty, for all things cool and wonderful in our world, and beyond" and they always deliver on that mission. I've stopped reading Boing Boing entirely (I got steampunk/papercraft fatigue) and DRB is one of the few non-music related blogs that I read now. It's whimsical, entertaining, and I see things there that I don't see elsewhere.

Do you have any recommendations for great blogs?

Recently I started using Google Reader to get the RSS feeds that I used to get primarily through LiveJournal. As I continue to read LJ less and less, and make fewer and fewer posts that aren't friends only or duplicated on my blog (which, by the way, is syndicated for LJ folk here), I've realized there are some people whose posts I never get around to reading. It doesn't mean I don't consider you a friend, it's just that I don't spend nearly as much time on here as I used to. So when I do come around, I want a relatively quick burst of information that I can't get elsewhere. The long and short of this is - if you see yourself being removed from my friends list, don't get upset, it's nothing personal. I'm sure we can keep in touch other ways.

Fyi, posted to my music blog. Here's a LJ feed for future reference, which I think will only work after my next update.

here are links to more really awesome videos of overdubbed "guitar god" shred sessions like this one:



and this one

and photo links to more cute kitty pics

defected presents bob sinclair live at the playboy mansion
ministry of sound pres. anthems 1991-2008
rhythm and sound - see mi yah remixes
Layo & Bushwacka GU 33 Rio!
fabriclive 36 james murphy and pat mahoney
cielo volare mix
defected presents gilles peterson in the house
little louie vega back in the box
blaze found love
balance issue no. 12 lee burridge
larry levan's classic west end records remixes made famous at the legendary paradise garage
ananda project fire flower
aya strange flower
renaissance 3d tom middleton
defected presents def mix classics

she says there's something about detroit

classic soul train style techno tv show from detroit.

all tomorrow's parties (velvet underground cover)
thimble island
transylvanian concubine
antique high heel red doll shoes
fox in the snow (belle & sebastian cover)
wish you were here (pink floyd cover)
Oh, Bring Back the Egg Unbroken
cage in a cave
1816, The Year Without A Summer
Draconian Crackdown
choose me for champion
Saline the salt lake queen
Barracuda (heart cover)
Yellow Cake/Retinu Moons/Infidel medley


encore:
Baby's got back excerpt
trenchmouth
if your kisses can't hold the man you love (vivian ellis/jack yellen/sophie tucker old jazz song cover)

sorry for all the seemingly nonsensical posts last night, i was keeping track of this set list via remote posting. should have just emailed myself but this made more sense at the time. ::shrug::

river of gods - ian mcdonald
extremely loud and incredibly close - jonathan safran foer
blink - malcolm gladwell
freakonomics - steven d. levitt and stephen j. dubner
tech heaven - linda nagata
lullaby - chuck palahniuk
diamond age - neil stephenson
cryptonomicon - neil stephenson
love saves the day (a history of american dance music culture 1970-1979) - tim lawrence
what do you care what other people think? - richard p. feynman
the wasp factory - iain banks
this is your brain on music - daniel j. levitin

currently reading or about to read: house of leaves - mark z. danielewski, choose to be happy - swami chetanananda, the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera (sporadically), white noise by don delillo (sporadically)

take it easy