Inside snug and evil

I was sitting in mcsorley's by e e cummings

I was sitting in mcsorley's. outside it was New York and beautifully snowing.

Inside snug and evil. the slobbering walls filthily push witless creases of screaming warmth chuck pillows are noise funnily swallows swallowing revolvingly pompous a the swallowed mottle with smooth or a but of rapidly goes gobs the and of flecks of and a chatter sobbings intersect with which distinct disks of graceful oath, upsoarings the break on ceiling-flatness

the Bar.tinking luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warm-lyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps plus slush of foam knocked off and a faint piddle-of-drops she says I ploc spittle what the lands thaz me kid in no sir hopping sawdust you kiddo

he's a palping wreaths of badly Yep cigars who jim him why gluey grins topple together eyes pout gestures stickily point made glints squinting who's a wink bum-nothing and money fuzzily mouths take big wobbly foot

steps every goggle cent of it get out ears dribbles soft right old feller belch the chap hic summore eh chuckles skulch. . . .

and I was sitting in the din thinking drinking the ale, which never lets you grow old blinking at the low ceiling my being pleasantly was punctuated by the always retchings of a worthless lamp.

when With a minute terrif iceffort one dirty squeal of soiling light yanKing from bushy obscurity a bald greenish foetal head established It suddenly upon the huge neck around whose unwashed sonorous muscle the filth of a collar hung gently.

(spattered)by this instant of semiluminous nausea A vast wordless nondescript genie of trunk trickled firmly in to one exactly-mutilated ghost of a chair,

a;domeshaped interval of complete plasticity,shoulders, sprouted the extraordinary arms through an angle of ridiculous velocity commenting upon an unclean table.and, whose distended immense Both paws slowly loved a dinted mug

gone Darkness it was so near to me,i ask of shadow won't you have a drink?

(the eternal perpetual question)

Inside snugandevil. i was sitting in mcsorley's It,did not answer.

outside.(it was New York and beautifully, snowing. . . .

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Kinda sums up the feeling I get in pubs in autumn/winter. Hmmm... time for a pint...

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Second Skin

Second skin is a project trying to merge hypnosis, architecture and computer graphics.

Links: Marcos Luytens


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Listen to this!

Top Ten on my online radio courtesy of WFMU

1. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Anenome. Listen to it here, Courtesy of the Push Bin, this track has never left my stereo for the last two weeks.

2. Chemical Brothers - Where Do I Begin? - Listen to it here. from Charlie's set. An old classic, back on my playlist. Also worth listening to from this playlist is the Terry Reid song, Little Axe and Fred Neil.

3. Mouse on Mars - Mykologics. Listen to it here. Nice, smooth tick tock, bit of electronica. Also from one of Charlie's sets. The Bebel Gilberto song right after it is class too.

4. The first thirty minutes of The Shrunken Planet Sept 17th 05. Not that the rest of the show isn't any good, it's just that the first part is excellent. I spread my hands wide apart and say it's this ambient. Perfect for a Saturday morning. Listen to it here. Also an honourable mention to the playlist of October 1st, with the Lavender Diamond track "Rise in the Springtime" accompanying me through my morning yoga. It can be heard about 22 minutes into the set that starts from here. What a voice.

5. Tim Maia - E Necessario. Along with the Tony Bizarro song that follows it, two funky songs picked from the Baille Funk 2 album. Listen to them both here, from the Push Bin playlist.

6. Low - Immune. Well ok anything by Low will do at the moment. This track is from the Airborne Event playlist, hear it here, also Low here, and That's How You Sing Amazing Grace, followed by the Sisters of Mercy. Also worth listening to from this playlist is the Amon Tobin Verbal track. Sunflower can be heard here, from the Karaoke Alarm Clock with Jason Das, which also has a track from Mum. Shots and Ladders from the Andrew Listfield set, and couldn't help noticing a track "Lobby at 5pm" apparently "Recorded in July 2001, in the lobby of 1 World Trade Center. " Venus can be heard here, it is one of my favourites, from the
Karaoke Alarm Clock set.

7. Halicali - Track 03 (Japanese title). Bautiful Japanese pop! Picks me up everytime. Listen to it here, from the People Like Us playlist. I like it and I'm not ashamed to admit it!! Would also like to hang out with the band...

8. Beth Orton - Carmella. This track should be higher up the list, Listen to it here from Mike Lupica's show.

9. The entire Mike Lupica after Xmas party show, listen here

10. Parliament - Little Ole Country Boy. Listen to this crazy, funky, twangy, song here. If there is another song that combines country music and yodelling then I want to know if it's as good as this! From the Charlie playlist but I think I heard it somewhere else first.

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Zombie Alert!

Chilling warning from the onion:

PITTSBURGH—A zombie-preparedness study, commissioned by Pittsburgh Mayor
Tom Murphy and released Monday, indicates that the city could easily succumb to
a devastating zombie attack. Insufficient emergency-management-personnel
training and poorly conceived undead-defense measures have left the city at
great risk for all-out destruction at the hands of the living dead, according to
the Zombie Preparedness Institute.

If zombies were to arrive in the city tomorrow, we'd all be roaming
the earth in search of human brains by Friday

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The Milky Sea

A luminescent area the size of the state of Connecticut was shown to have
occurred in the Indian Ocean. "The circumstances under which milky seas form
is
almost entirely unknown," says Steven Miller, a Naval Research Laboratory
scientist who led the space-based discovery. "Even the source for the light
emission is under debate."

Technovelgy link

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Note to myself

This is a note to myself on how to record any streaming audio, or any music that I play on my PC by sampling the audio through software.

1. Install from my Creative Soundblaster CD the software tools.
2. Once installed I will be looking to play some streaming audio for instance, through Realplayer.
3. Open up the program called AV Rack
4. Go to the button "Select Input Source"
5. Tick the "Stereo Mix" button, move the volume slider to about a third of the way up and close the window
6. Play the streaming (or otherwise) audio. Ensure the volume slider on Realplayer is slid at least half way up.

Try the following steps using only a small sample of the audio until I am satisfied that the volume is exactly right. If not the audio will be too quiet to hear, or distorted.

7. Select the "Save the recorded data to disc" button and save the audio wav, e.g. "Test1"
8. Open up the Creative "Wave Studio"
9. Open the wav file
10. The file is now ready to edit, e.g. to select a sample for converting to mobile phone tune.
11. When ready, or if no cutting is to be done, select the "Save As" option.
12. To save as MP3, drop down the menu marked "Compression" and select "MPEG-layer3".
13. Hey presto, one MP3, converted from streaming audio.
14. Listen to it to make sure the volume setting is ok, otherwise you'll listen to it on your MP£ player, not be happy with the sound, and have to do it over again.


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Is the Sun Binary?

science is on the verge of an amazing discovery - our Sun has a companion star carrying us through a great cycle of stellar influences

Lost Star Book

... although an endorsement by Graham Hancock gives an indication that this is not the astronomical breakthrough I first thought....


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Python vs Alligator - Both Lose!
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Hurricane Corina

25 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina And Its Aftermath

20) "I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school." –First Lady Laura Bush, twice referring to a "Hurricane Corina" while speaking to children and parents in South Haven, Mississippi, Sept. 8, 2005

1) "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." –President Bush, on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina

unlisted : "I don't want to alarm everybody that, you know, New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That's just not happening." –Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), in a press briefing from Baton Rouge, Aug. 30, 2005

unlisted: "Our Nation is prepared, as never before, to deal quickly and capably with the consequences of disasters and other domestic incidents." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, March 9, 2005


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Lava-sledding anybody?

Tom "Pohaku" Stone works to revive
the ancient Hawaiian tradition of
he‘e holua, or lava sledding

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