found through google images - liking what the imagination supplies to this murk, contrary to what certain galleries try to enforce with no-photo policies - stop surfing, stare at this for five minutes (or more) and try to decode the panels
April 2010
Psycho from Texas
Wheeler, 1975
aka
Psycho from Texas (USA reissue title)
The Butcher (UK video title)
The Hurting (USA reissue title)
The Mama's Boy (USA recut version)
Evil + Hate = Killer (undefined)
A friend gave me a VHS of this. Random excellent IMDb review from "Jeff Norris":
License plate on the car and the main actor are from Texas. Where is this taken place? Nobody says anything about that, in a town, and in no time in the middle of nowhere with a run down refinery. My Grandfather was the Bank President and Mr. Phillips best friend. His role was short and sweet to the point and I believe he acted as himself with no lines. He was just like, think about this, and added logic reasons, he should have been asked in the meantime why weeler cashed a check with no I.D. from someone else's account. Sound was what can I say, horrible, chase scene was miles long, so still trying to figure out where they were! I could tell though that the courthouse in El Dorado was noticeable in South Arkansas. More porn on this movie than movies of that nature nowadays. It's alright if your bored! I watched it only for the 2 or 3 minute scene my Grandfather played as the best friend to Mr. Phillips.
iPhone, iPad ethics
My friends who are Apple fans scoff when I suggest that the company is "evil." Everyone knows it is basically benign, they say, and on balance its forward-thinking plans for the next generation of computing outweigh whatever aggressive business tactics it might have to employ on the way up.
As for Steve Jobs using a private police force to break down doors of people who leak his trade secrets--well, that might seem evil in the short run, they say, but whatever it takes to get computing out of cumbersome desktops and into devices we can carry around. That's what's important.
We've had some pretty heated debates about Jobs' plans to use the private cops to kill people and take their organs. He's not going to live forever, the Apple fans say, and since we need his magic to carry us to the next level of computing, fresh body parts for the next 40 years or so are not such a tall order.
What's a few lives against a system of file distribution and sales that even Grandma can understand?
Philip Glass - Modern Love Waltz
Was trying to think of something to send Travis for his tumblr playlist and remembered this home cassette taping of Margaret Leng Tan performing Philip Glass' "Modern Love Waltz" on toy pianos. This led to looking for other versions of the song, which might also affectionately be called the "OCD Tango." Found two on YouTube, which are not as good Leng Tan's.
Leng Tan adapted the tune for two toy pianos, played with brittle relentlessness. The YouTubes are conservatory-ish piano solos, played with attempts at expression and emotion. Wrong, wrong. Of the two, Amy Briggs' is better for being more robotic. Branka Parlic's version recalls Liberace, only boring.
find similar images
This is what google's search algorithm considers similar to the "optidisc" image in the upper left corner. This is the entirety of the first results page, minus captions and borders. Not sure which is preferable--a world conjured by ignorant automata or a "wikipedia world" where someone attempts to makes sense of the noise.