Twitter posts -- reverse chronological order, June - January 2009
"It's too late for kosher corned beef anyhow. I don't mean too late in the evening. I mean too late in our lives." (Dick - We Can Build You) 10:20 PM Jun 30th
catskills trip netted many small insect bites - four day scratchathon 8:35 PM Jun 30th
"just because he's been sitting on his paintings longer than you've been sitting on yours doesn't make him irrelevant" 8:32 PM Jun 30th
food network, sci fi, animal planet, and the michael mann channel 12:54 AM Jun 30th from web
references in Richard Stark novels: Harold Teen comic strips, Ausable Chasm (had to look both up in wikipedia) 11:16 PM Jun 28th from web
was the audio in bruce mcclure's performance today the live, pedal-processed sound of the film projectors? P. says yes; I say i don't know 11:14 PM Jun 28th from web
sweating up a storm here in the large apple 11:08 PM Jun 28th from web
blocked spam/selfhelp/escort followers don't disappear immediately anymore. waah 11:03 PM Jun 28th from web
bumper sticker: "do not breed or buy/while homeless pets die" - the meter's off but not the message, i think 5:44 PM Jun 28th from web
sped up tropical birds, belgian hoovers, backwards beats - you can't go wrong 5:18 PM Jun 24th from web
jamesww thanks for that ardkore rave mix - zomby has good taste in that stuff 5:10 PM Jun 24th from web
that rouge's foam post on zomby is over the top but perhaps overthinking it and the kandinsky illustrations are dated 5:06 PM Jun 24th from web
ALGON (where an ordinary cup of drinking chocolate costs 8,000,000,000 pounds) 5:46 PM Jun 21st from web
watching synthesizer and sequencer demos on YouTube - criminy most of the music is awful 11:17 AM Jun 21st from web
baby falls down well - a world is gripped - iran coverage is displaced 9:46 AM Jun 20th from web
someone said about some recent videos "they're very you" - uh oh 8:45 AM Jun 20th from web
i keep dreaming about apartments and houses I've never lived in - often the same dwellings recur 8:44 AM Jun 20th from web
green revolution surfers unite, you have nothing to lose...period 8:14 AM Jun 20th from web
@hragv why emotionally invested? not talking about americans with family in iran 8:10 AM Jun 20th from web
@hragv except in the case of Iran americans look outside their borders and see...themselves 7:56 PM Jun 19th from web
i am on the internet most of the time so when i make my flaneur-like way around the city I like to be device-free 7:51 PM Jun 19th from web
I have written 100% of my twitter content on a PC (no point to this except to flip off what makes twitter supposedly so special). 7:49 PM Jun 19th from web
@bhoggard paying attention is fine but this has been 24/7 for many bloggers and journos - i think it's weird given the mess here 7:43 AM Jun 19th from web
@bhoggard - I just think it's weird and sort of patronizing that we have deep problems we can't solve and we're obsessing about another land 4:23 PM Jun 18th from web
maybe that artist who did the muster should have mustered some support for the gallery 4:22 PM Jun 17th from web
recently-closed gallery du jour didn't treat an artist friend of mine (a saint) very well. wouldn't know talent if it bit'em etc 4:16 PM Jun 17th from web
maureen dowd is still talking about arugula 4:11 PM Jun 17th from web
they need to get their house in order so we can bomb them 3:49 PM Jun 16th from web
blogger and msm obsession with Iranian affairs borders on unhealthy 3:47 PM Jun 16th from web
using the word FAIL to mean "failure" is teh cliche 2:00 PM Jun 16th from web
in my hood city planners orgasm when they can cut down a mature tree and replace it with a sapling 1:12 PM Jun 4th from web
blurriness and jerkiness in my recent videos isn't from filtering or FX but rather enlarging bad mpegs and accidentally bumping the tripod 4:00 PM Jun 2nd from web
tv-edited Twister cuts out the dinnertable scene at Aunt Meg's where they talk about Paxton the Extreme standing naked before a tornado 9:52 PM Jun 1st from web
"I don't particularly like Newton saying 'Arr' all the time, but that's Disney and Long John Silver for you" 9:47 AM May 31st from web
"After watching it I find myself talk[ing] 'Pirate' for days." 9:46 AM May 31st from web
ginseng salad at HanGawi on 32nd street 5:43 PM May 30th from web
Don Ellis' ring modulated trumpet playing is also something I hadn't thought about in years (maybe w/ reason) 5:40 PM May 30th from web
had forgotten how klutzy the cover art was for Miles Davis' Water Babies 5:39 PM May 30th from web
talked about Conrad Schnitzler at Downtown Music Gallery 5:38 PM May 30th from web
besides BosWash late '60s-predicted megalopolises were ChiPitts and SanSan 9:01 AM May 29th from web
create pseudonym for yourself as artist so your real self can indulge in graphomania about art and art politics w/o risk or perceived reward 8:18 AM May 29th from web
Infant Island 10:26 PM May 28th from web
mark mothersbaugh "Xp28" (music for insomniacs) 9:11 PM May 24th from web
overheard: "i like your purse" "it's my man-bag" 3:12 PM May 24th from web
minus space still doesn't get it -- online "curated exhibitions" of shrunken resized jpegs of various "art world" artworks -- why? why? 5:14 PM May 23rd from web
ladybug hitched ride on my pants for most of my bike trip today about 3 hours ago from web
WYSIWYG art about 22 hours ago from web
Keith Emerson "Godzilla vs Gotengo" (from Godzilla Final Wars soundtrack) - anthemic! about 23 hours ago from web
Arthur: "Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts?" Ash: "Nope. Just me baby... Just me." 9:07 PM May 21st from web
found Mexican horror film that freaked me out as a child, Curse of the Crying Woman, evidently a slight homage to Mario Bava's Black Sunday 7:10 AM May 21st from web
"I do not know what price I shall have to pay for breaking what we alchemists call Silentium" 10:40 PM May 20th from web
What's this mortality con? You trying to push me down the tone scale, baby? (Burroughs) 5:15 PM May 20th from web
armpit deodorant stick is called "Deep Energy" 10:26 AM May 20th from web
every artist in world posts his or her own catalogue raisonné on a blog 8:37 PM May 19th from web
WolframAlpha - total value US mergers 2005 - FAIL 8:31 PM May 19th from web
"i was embarrassed by that big expensively framed print so I self-Lawlered it with a pic of it on a museum loading dock" 9:52 PM May 17th from web
stealth blogging 6:15 PM May 16th from web
Jose Freire, destroyer of collectives 2:05 PM May 16th from web
posts mentioning beige programming ensemble on my pre-2007 blog: 47 1:55 PM May 16th from web
"I gave you 100 dollars of increments of US currency" "I gave you 100 jiao of yuan of renminbi" (I give up) 9:55 PM May 15th from web
renminbi: Wikiped says there is no plural form, Webster's says it is a plural word. "I gave you 100 yuan of renminbi"? Redundant? 9:49 PM May 15th from web
better learn to say renminbi as it is fast becoming the new smackeroo 5:49 PM May 14th from web
With a quirky contrariness as deeply etched in the national character as the fjords carved into its rugged landscape, Norway... (journalese) 9:46 PM May 13th from web
great '70s movie about hijacked subway car remade w/ two of Hollywood's most hacktacular actors 8:35 PM May 13th from web
beatles' "a little help from my friends" used in Hampton Inn commercial 11:42 PM May 12th from web
AbExcremental discussion: http://nastynets.com/?p=1972 9:28 AM May 11th from web
slow lorises rock 10:41 AM May 10th from web
"not your ordinary dust mouse but some malevolent force unleashed upon the Norco testing facility via the cleaning lady's vacuum cleaner" 7:01 PM May 9th from web
Daily Howler: "gigantic events are under way in our world. But so what? Keith Olbermann served us a pleasing dose of Joe the Plumber!" 5:09 PM May 9th from web
as I recall "don't mess with Texas" was a poorly phrased anti-littering campaign 3:16 PM May 9th from web
woman on subway wearing "don't mess with Texas" shirt is not from Texas. (I asked.) 3:14 PM May 9th from web
small mariachi band emerged from the R train at 34th street 3:08 PM May 9th from web
e.b.e. "yesterday," softcore "love 2 B right," saucermen "united worlds: touchdown" 7:30 PM May 7th from web
nature valley, organic valley, uncanny valley, rudy vallee, alida valli (miss tanner in suspiria) 5:35 PM May 7th from web
the "you've won a nintendo wii" song: http://bit.ly/do8rx 5:16 PM May 7th from web
oh dear lord god please apple don't buy twitter 10:50 PM May 5th from web
places recently visited virtually: Aragon (Spain); Yamagata prefecture (Japan); the Peak District (UK) 10:46 PM May 5th from web
asymptote paintings: http://twitpic.com/3u3iz 1:39 PM May 5th from web
raskolnikov, the black destroyer, marshall thompson, pecora, asymptote paintings, demon babies 1:33 PM May 5th from web
"It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses" - Mrs. Patrick Campbell 8:07 AM May 5th from web
dreamed I was hanging out with some famous older writers (all of whom looked like famous older actors) 9:16 AM May 4th from web
jamesww: nice! http://twitter.com/jamesww/status/1683666382 11:20 AM May 3rd from web
trending topics: bat guano, home hiphop, Quinoa, zipatone, actinic keratosis, Ragga Twins, Rhodes stabs, Carcassone 9:24 AM May 2nd from web
hyena-swine flu originated on the island of Dr. Moreau 2:34 PM May 1st from web
"trending topics" (aka, the usual media-driven crap) now appear on sidebar - if bored, watch the hiney vs swine word battle 9:49 AM May 1st from web
the pork industry's preferred name for swine flu are letters and numbers pronounced "hiney" 9:37 AM May 1st from web
pork industry PR clout test: whether media drops "swine flu" in favor of technical virus name (only relevant if story has legs) 1:28 PM Apr 29th from web
company man overheard on subway: "the guy really utilizes his resources" 1:26 PM Apr 29th from web
the key to remaining obscure on twitter is to write posts that are exactly 140 characters and can't be redacted without losing their meaning 9:42 AM Apr 28th from web
new camtasia screen recorder has crosshairs for cropping - oh the hours I could have saved positioning that rectangle 9:34 AM Apr 28th from web
walking the bitmap trail: the manifesto 9:29 AM Apr 28th from web
the art world keeps reconstituting itself with the rise of each new networking software while its reasons to be cohesive keep dropping away 9:27 AM Apr 28th from web
large bathtub daisy animation: http://tinyurl.com/csasrz 10:23 PM Apr 27th from web
tired of businesses trying to network with me based on keywords - i need to be even less topical if that's possible 7:08 PM Apr 27th from web
feel naked without my surgical mask today 1:42 PM Apr 27th from web
eyebeam.org de-linked years of guest-reblogger archives - all that work, thought and history down the chute - brilliant 12:27 PM Apr 27th from web
one should not make "do you play the oboe?" a mandatory field in a software order form 9:56 AM Apr 27th from web
Plaid - "Chirpy" 11:42 PM Apr 26th from web
just saw Christopher Snitchens on CSPAN - ugh - DC insider trash 10:14 PM Apr 26th from web
all art made for the internet is doomed - everyone always says this but I'm starting to believe it 3:04 PM Apr 26th from web
twitter is 4 simulacra - new baudrillard page - jk that would be dumb 10:25 AM Apr 25th from web
thx to rhizome for vvork twitter nod - "managing" the page is about right - i can barely manage to type them 12:18 AM Apr 25th from web
square waves on oscilloscope are used to indicate "interference" (when baby Godzilla telepathically contacts Dad) 1:14 PM Apr 24th from web
clever journalist in "Son of Godzilla" names the giant praying mantis a "GiMantis" 1:11 PM Apr 24th from web
perused the many fine art films offered on hulu.com and chose "Son of Godzilla" 1:08 PM Apr 24th from web
moody blues' "tuesday afternoon" used in Visa card commercial 9:30 PM Apr 19th from web
designed sticker "this exploits children" to slap on bus shelter ads of tykes watching crappy Broadway plays with looks of wonder on faces 7:26 PM Apr 19th from web
Rock to Witch Mountain 7:21 PM Apr 19th from web
goodbye JG Ballard. One book I especially like is Rushing to Paradise, another precursor to Dharma Initiative hippies busting power moves 7:20 PM Apr 19th from web
Dynamix II "Hypnotic 808" 12:31 PM Apr 18th from web
"what do i have to offer the guild: a aktive holy paladin, who shows up prepared whit flask's and food..." 8:39 AM Apr 17th from web
"I've played with this dude in raids..both on his pala and druid and he really sucks." 8:38 AM Apr 17th from web
"Come on...a pala running oom? A feral druid DPS'ing?! And even when he dps's he's like on 2k lollerskates." 8:36 AM Apr 17th from web
"We are not interested in someone who always logs on at raid time, and logs off the minute the raid has ended. We're a social bunch..." 8:35 AM Apr 17th from web
Texas bullet train killed by airline: http://tinyurl.com/82jspu 8:03 AM Apr 17th from web
Texas had a plan for high-speed rail between Dallas and Houston in the '90s - Southwest Airlines' lobbying killed it, as I recall. 7:57 AM Apr 17th from web
silence is the new no but a non-sequitur will do in a pinch 7:07 AM Apr 17th from web
human league "don't you want me" used in mop commercial 11:21 PM Apr 14th from web
If U R in NYC pls come to my music performance/demo Wed.: http://tinyurl.com/d2o4ax 6:35 PM Apr 14th from web
wish people would stop calling the world trade center "ground zero" - it was dumb the first time someone said it 1:12 PM Apr 14th from web
clan of xymox circuit board easter egg: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernelslacker/2934121583/ 4:17 PM Apr 13th from web
"Prince, a renowned appropriation artist..." 11:02 AM Apr 12th from web
"Parallax Test" montage in The Parallax View: pop art in film; photo credits in end titles; precursor of Dharma Initiative mind control film 1 minute ago from web
Wall climbing is a great introduction and the perfect place to hone your skills of strength, balance and not falling off 16 minutes ago from web
swimming with seamonkeys vs yoga with dogs about 5 hours ago from web
Star Trek Generations: Younger than Picard 12:44 PM Apr 9th from web
Ugo Rondinone "Hell Yes" logo still faux self-defacing the NewMu - groupthink made tangible 12:37 PM Apr 9th from web
bought pre-viewed copy of Monkeybone - the sticker says "Family" and the caption says "Get Boned" 12:31 PM Apr 9th from web
AIDS-3d NewMu sculpture would be better if it said OMGWTFBBQ instead of just OMG 10:11 AM Apr 8th from web
@findings - sadie plant notes: http://www.stumptuous.com/comps/plant.html 8:44 AM Apr 8th
Each week Randy Cohen examines the news from an ethical perspective. Today: Madonna and adoption 12:49 PM Apr 7th from web
Their credo is violence...Their God is hate...and they call themselves "The Wild Angels" 12:34 PM Apr 7th from web
address of Light Industry, the film series, is not the same as the address of Industry City, its host org - found out the hard way tonight 8:53 PM Apr 6th from web
"time and those waves are at the disposal of anyone who wants to use them" - frank zappa 3:45 PM Apr 6th from web
Sony RAID configuration for two 160 GB drives in a PC was a really bad idea 12:02 AM Apr 6th from web
told two people about C-Town and those who study it 11:59 PM Apr 5th from web
"it's like production itself has become consumption" has an oddly familiar ring 11:55 PM Apr 5th from web
silence is the new no 9:14 AM Apr 3rd from web
firefox 3 is the new internet explorer 6 8:07 AM Apr 3rd from web
finding hope online 8:44 PM Apr 2nd from web
mark broom "new arrival," joey beltram "Jazz 303" 1:27 AM Apr 2nd from web
the Parallax Test 12:45 AM Mar 31st from web
Cal-Q-Lator "Dr Bradford" 12:06 AM Mar 30th from web
teste "the wipe" with computer graphics by Electronic Farm 12:05 AM Mar 30th from web
laurent garnier "astral dreams," speedy j "R2 D2" 7:10 PM Mar 29th from web
"the street finds its own uses for things" (gibson) --> "black box" casios, beepers (delany) --> makezine (2009) 12:20 AM Mar 29th from web
"Not in Vanaheim," growled the black-haired warrior, "but in Valhalla will you tell your brothers you met Conan of Cimmeria." 11:34 PM Mar 27th from web
"i encourage my students to compose tweets that make readers want to pull their brains out of their own heads" 10:13 PM Mar 27th from web
"i encourage my students to compose a thick tweet that is so compelling that no reader in his or her right mind can avoid clicking the link" 10:11 PM Mar 27th from web
the "gutting the doll" sequence in the opening credits of Coraline is mindblowing - the music is superb - Selick is part insect 10:01 PM Mar 26th from web
still thinking about cowP at blipfest - those floor-undulating bass runs 9:54 PM Mar 26th from web
gez varley - Da Bug - Xtremely minimal funk (well, tech house but very funky) 9:48 PM Mar 26th from web
boingboing: 1/2 steampunk shit, 1/2 "those wacky japanese," 1/2 partially-backed attempt to capitalize on lolcat joke (hat tip pb) 2:23 PM Mar 24th from web
someone on delicious tagged my Club Internet post (w Heather Rasley's photo) as "cuteboys" [corrected, thx jw] 10:11 AM Mar 24th from web
@_io don't go vegetable picking in Sweden 7:53 AM Mar 24th from web
someone on delicious tagged my Club Internet post (w Heather Rasley's photo) as "cuteguys" 8:12 PM Mar 23rd from web
guy I met at IRL panel described himself and his friends as "tumblr nerds" 8:09 PM Mar 23rd from web
"every time I walk by that thing some tourist has his head in its ass" (overheard near Wall Street bull statue) 4:23 PM Mar 23rd from web
recommended Alan Moore/Eddie Campbell "pagan architecture of London" tour to fanboy-hater (From Hell) 4:04 PM Mar 23rd from web
casual slur of "detail-obsessed fanboys" by blogger who admits to only reading classics illustrated is most annoying 4:00 PM Mar 23rd from web
reading about trigonometry, trig palin birth conspiracy 12:17 PM Mar 23rd from web
shorter Helen A. S. Popkin: people read what you write on the internet 9:36 AM Mar 23rd from web
have been on twitter for a year - 757 posts - i have tried not to use it responsibly 9:55 PM Mar 22nd from web
scan of Georg Herold "podium" photo is imminent 2:54 PM Mar 22nd from web
just realized CiM has a myspace w/ tracker self-remix of Hitachi, CiM-ized version of "Popcorn" (!), Reference outtake & excellent "course" 9:21 AM Mar 22nd from web
she's got a cactus crown with a dot dot dot on her brow 9:10 AM Mar 22nd from web
electrosonic - delia derbyshire and brian hodgson of White Noise fame, plus don harper - LP of library music from '72 - not bad 11:22 PM Mar 21st from web
bromantic comedy 1:40 PM Mar 21st from web
carl craig - "chicken noodle soup" ('89 or '90) - scat vocal, ethereal pad, dumb sample about chicken "nootle" soup - perfect 11:37 PM Mar 19th from web
steel drummer playing "jesu joy of man's desiring" 2:58 PM Mar 19th from web
cars' "let's go" used in jeans ad 2:58 PM Mar 19th from web
friend has new blog, page creation, archiving software I am going to beta 8:48 PM Mar 17th from web
Younger than Jung 11:49 PM Mar 16th from web
players don't thank players (the moral ? of weird NYT reminiscence about getting huge bear stearns bonus & being inappropriately thankful) 11:43 PM Mar 16th from web
twitter search doesn't work worth a damn for me 10:18 PM Mar 16th from web
five former employees share their memories of the firm that collapsed a year ago 8:10 PM Mar 16th from web
zooming in on our new financial reality with a clickable map of personal stories about life in uncertain times 8:08 PM Mar 16th from web
new What a Quiet Stiff post (after 13 mo. hiatus) - dogs on a hammock 7:51 AM Mar 16th from web
you don't get to call it a debacle if you caused it 11:32 PM Mar 15th from web
slow goBox, wonky wank, bass twelve 10:36 PM Mar 15th from web
reading Alan Moore Swamp Things in book form 7:27 PM Mar 15th from web
neighborhood sunnis are commemorating Mohammed's birthday - l like the singing outdoors 12:36 PM Mar 15th from web
just wrote a credible house tune 42 minutes ago from web
re-reading something a mean NY art critic wrote about something I wrote - he nailed me but spent half his essay describing a crappy movie 12:00 AM Mar 14th from web
defending kanye west video and song against charges of insipidness and mediocrity 11:56 PM Mar 13th from web
Don't write a book title in twitter w/ author name first; software tries to find the author for you and deletes post if it can't - brilliant 6:16 PM Mar 12th from web
Correction: the show is now being called "Younger than Jesus (Was When He Died, pre-Resurrection)" 3:34 PM Mar 12th from web
though to be younger than Jesus wouldn't that technically mean you were born between 0 and 33 AD? That would make you older than Methuselah 3:31 PM Mar 12th from web
some of my best friends are younger than Jesus 3:29 PM Mar 12th from web
OTJ (older than Jesus) artists can have fun with the show - the excluded class is too large to be meaningfully resentful 3:28 PM Mar 12th from web
"Guys [in prison]'ll have wives or parents losing homes or jobs or who can’t send them $$ anymore. Everybody’s going to be blaming Bernie" 3:15 PM Mar 12th from web
Shockley's sperm bank was in operation from 1980 to 1999 (!) 1:42 PM Mar 12th from web
The Genius Factory: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank (aka Dr Shockley's House of Sperm) - D. Plotz, author 1:40 PM Mar 12th from web
"By This Axe I Rule!" (Robert E. Howard story title) 1:30 PM Mar 12th from web
"guarded by the blued steel and dry powder of a free and armed people" - whoa, poetry 1:02 PM Mar 12th from web
and lo, Jesus was found talking to elder artists and critics, engaging them on points of doctrine, and Mary and Joseph were sore afraid 12:40 PM Mar 12th from web
Looking forward to a couple months' worth of smart cracks about the "Younger than Jesus" show 12:36 PM Mar 12th from web
None of these artists (Leonardo, Picasso etc) are constrained by what they make their work out of, or how they make it. And that’s very new. 12:35 PM Mar 12th from web
rhizome comments: your place to register resentment about changes on the internet 12:28 PM Mar 12th from web
human society degraded to feudal system based on which clan has a Ulanyi embryo (Jablokov) 10:22 AM Mar 12th from web
madoff pleads guilty to 11 felony counts - will serve life sentence in his apartment 10:13 AM Mar 12th from web
he should have The Cheat from homestarrunner on instead
don't really understand Jon Stewart - hosting loudmouth sociopathic thug and famous stock cheat is not "good TV" 3:07 PM Mar 11th from web
teaching mrs tingle was supposed to be called killing mrs tingle but they chickened out 11:57 PM Mar 10th from web
insult freeware 12:20 AM Mar 10th from web
"your links lap my page like bilge water" 12:18 AM Mar 10th from web
how artists survive is a perennial topic - most would rather talk about their work and ideas over that 11:42 PM Mar 9th from web
just realized some of my IRL gifs had a faint green background - replaced them on the server 11:32 PM Mar 9th from web
Atrios: "Please Make It Stop - I don't even know what's in there, but Dowd wrote a column called 'Michelle's Biceps.'" 9:54 AM Mar 9th from web
@petcortright - have avoided Vista (it would really mess up all my music software) - will we be in XP forever? 6:45 AM Mar 9th from web
@artfagcity - 4-8 is the performance (the assembly of the pages from near and far) and at 8 there is a "launch" (party presumably) 3:52 PM Mar 8th from web
@artfagcity - many are performing at IRL from home today and will be in the gallery virtually 3:32 PM Mar 8th from web
post-panel consensus: finding ways to hide your site or slow down its reading is not "democracy" 11:54 AM Mar 8th from web
wanted to scream when nasty nets was namechecked but the moment passed too quickly and I was still deliberating 11:45 AM Mar 8th from web
when Harm was introduced at the IRL panel last night someone screamed (Kevin) 11:42 AM Mar 8th from web
watched Ice Station Zebra in the nude (not really, but supposedly Howard Hughes did that) 10:58 AM Mar 7th from web
♪ once you find out the circumstances then you can-uh go out ♪ 10:04 AM Mar 6th from web
alan moore fries watchmen (in comic form): http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j118/Crassus2/MooreonWatchmen.jpg 10:40 AM Mar 5th from web
robert downey iron man vs tetsuo the iron man 1:01 AM Mar 5th from web
Previous question asked of Alan Moore by dopy Salon interviewer--Moore was kicked out of school and educated himself 10:31 PM Mar 4th from web
"You seem like such an intelligent man.... I just was wondering why you decided to drop out of school and deal acid during your youth" 10:29 PM Mar 4th from web
Waking Life rotoscoping effect used in Charles Schwab commercial
imagining a line of synths that are just dedicated knobs and sliders for really excellent softsynths on small onboard computers 8:53 PM Mar 4th from web
"Dr. Jason Woodrue, aka the Floronic Man, a minor DC villain whom Moore reconceived as a deep-ecology activist turned genocidal lunatic..." 12:35 AM Mar 4th from web
@wizardishungry - it's true, grumpy old men rule our world - bag checks, IDs at the door, no sammiches on airplanes... 12:19 AM Mar 4th from web
kids can't look out subway car front window and see cool advancing tunnel on new PATH cars - all that space is for the driver now 11:16 PM Mar 3rd from web
my cricket namesake retired from coaching Sri Lanka just at the right time 11:30 AM Mar 3rd from web
♪ li-quid dancehall ♪ (by zomby) 6:19 AM Mar 3rd from web
seamonkey composer crashed my laptop - as in had to pull out the battery to reboot - am sad now 5:57 AM Mar 3rd from web
orlingo's text note in .mod file: You can rip samples, "ripping is not a crime" 6:57 PM Mar 2nd from web
found "semtex" by orlingo as a .mod file - am very happy now 8:41 PM Mar 1st from web
JLM Productions' "Can't Understand," 1996 - a gem - alternating 6, 3, 2, 3, 3/3 (round) and back to 6-note pad riffs over DnB rhythm 8:13 PM Mar 1st from web
@wizardishungry - guessing the NASA guy was using shorthand for laymen 5:25 PM Mar 1st from web
NASA scientist calls Pluto's related bodies moons: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/1/697346/-New-Horizons 5:21 PM Mar 1st from web
"The black sheep effect: Judgmental extremity towards ingroup members in inter-and intra-group situations" 5:16 PM Mar 1st from web
Pluto's moons are Charon, Hydra and Nix. 4:08 PM Mar 1st from web
uac's work was a satire of comments on the commercialism of the art world - the "comments" were too deliberately lame to have much bite 12:16 PM Feb 28th from web
re: twitter's simplicity - someone realized the essence of the web isn't "rich media" crapola - and it's working - until someone wrecks it 7:22 AM Feb 28th from web
i may have to use seamonkey as my browser to get the stench of Firefox 3 "hellspawn of Adobe" stupid modernity out of my nostrils 7:11 AM Feb 28th from web
seamonkey composer has transported me back to the year 2000 7:09 AM Feb 28th from web
dreamed someone lectured me on being antisocial for not watching more TV 10:22 AM Feb 27th from web
sally jupiter vs the bowler; ozymandius vs the shoveler, etc 1:50 AM Feb 27th from web
attended Joe McKay's artist talk at Pace Digital Gallery; talked about Octavia Butler afterward 11:38 PM Feb 26th from web
mystery men vs watchmen 8:17 PM Feb 26th from web
a mandate for change is a mandate for smart 8:17 PM Feb 26th from web
Antigua gives out its own knighthood 11:25 AM Feb 26th from web
reply to Sarah Schmerler in the movie Brooklyn DIY http://tinyurl.com/afo227 #brooklyn diy 11:02 AM Feb 26th from web
tarantino got "roaring rampage of revenge" from ad copy for Bury Me an Angel, 1973--as in "Howling Hellcat, Humping a Hot Dog, on a..." 6:39 PM Feb 25th from web
Werewolves on Wheels - biker gang crosses paths with witch and ends up as werewolves 6:35 PM Feb 25th from web
new self-policy for twitter descriptions of ______ (blog): no research, no clickthroughs, cohesive taglines copied & pasted (trial run) 2:47 PM Feb 25th from web
"By this point in the memory-transfer process, Ripi should have been lying limp in his supportmouth, post-lingual, pattern-sucked..." 11:24 PM Feb 24th from web
"optiDisc (large bits) in the basement down an alley that smells like old chinese food and weed" - remix review 11:17 PM Feb 24th from web
people follow you - don't give you time to read what they're up to - and then unfollow - it's weird - this dance makes me uncomfortable 5:30 PM Feb 24th from web
that last was update 666 4:00 PM Feb 24th from web
"i'm done with your trolling" "no you're not, you can't call me a troll, you troll" (the music of art conversation) 3:48 PM Feb 24th from web
want to hear how mumbai is pronounced but windows xp/ie 6 at w*rk doesn't recognize .ogg files 3:41 PM Feb 24th from web
based on the last big boom 'n' bust (late 80s-early 90s) art stayed high when the downturn started, then crashed about 2 years later 12:52 PM Feb 24th from web
webster's online now includes ads ahead of your definitions 7:20 AM Feb 23rd from web
The spots were based on an anatomical feature of Ganymedean Turtles: not actually eyes but reproductive indicators in fertile females 7:17 AM Feb 23rd from web
Where the hell was the Gut access point? It was like trying to find a particular spot on the porcelain while being flushed down the toilet. 10:49 PM Feb 22nd from web
faint chords to mask machine hum 11:40 AM Feb 22nd from web
mutator back from shop, couldn't fix, maybe I just need to reset the midi somehow
interactive piece at 34th Street N/R stop, "Reach," fuses synth tones with jungle creature sounds - always cracks me up 11:01 AM Feb 21st from web
need some good field recordings of really strange jungle birds, frogs, etc - just for listening 10:59 AM Feb 21st from web
"computer-aware artist vs. art-aware artist" - dream_froth2 10:53 AM Feb 21st from web
one avant gardist to another: "if you can't stand the heat get out of The Kitchen" 12:35 AM Feb 21st from web
need some air freshener to clean the bad vibes out of my inbox 11:41 PM Feb 20th from web
maniac activist artist continues home harassment of critic 9:11 PM Feb 20th from web
Twain was among the 1st Americans to own a phone but he wasn’t completely taken with it: “The human voice carries entirely too far as it is”... 9:46 PM Feb 19th from web
I liked the poetry faculty (and people who taught it as literature) much more than the prose team 9:07 PM Feb 19th from web
Casey's afterword about Pancake being a scrappy guy in the UVa fiction dept brought back some of the misery of being an English major there 9:06 PM Feb 19th from web
bought collection of Breece Pancake stories - he was a fiction writing classmate at UVa - wasn't a fan then but will keep open mind 9:00 PM Feb 19th from web
it's been said before but Charles L. Harness is like a good A E Van Vogt - or to be kinder, a more coherent A E Van Vogt 8:55 PM Feb 19th from web
An industrial synth version of Silver Apples' A Pox on You is a very good idea 8:10 PM Feb 19th from web
Death Domain song "Sweater for the Cold War" now stuck in my head 8:09 PM Feb 19th from web
saw dream_froth2 play synthesizers at Death Domain show last night 8:08 PM Feb 19th from web
bad painters only offend wherever their paintings hang, bad activist artists mess with others' time, actively - a sick breed 9:57 AM Feb 19th from web
Vanitas, 2005, a collection of groceries whose "best before" dates expire during the exhibition (classic twitter/vvork material) 11:00 AM Feb 18th from web
don't understand an organic peanut butter maker feeling its product needs salt--at least the whole wheat pita maker ditched corn syrup 9:55 AM Feb 18th from web
the land that flowed with milk & honey, cars & girls & sex & money / a spaceship flew across the sky, inside an astronaut softly cried 1:13 AM Feb 18th from web
this is your brain on cryogens 12:19 AM Feb 17th from web
"On Warp Warp you shoot stupid looking monsters while God-awful tone sequences play over and over and over again"
@artfagcity - i view "end of the internet" stories sourcing "security consultants" skeptically - they literally scare up business 11:29 AM Feb 16th from web
david hemmings dives for the phone
banished from twitter for not thinking about the present and giving a fictional account of the past and future (confuses investors) 7 minutes ago from web
re-read Bruce Sterling's short story "Swarm" - "As usual, you fail to see that intelligence is not a survival trait." about 9 hours ago from web
noise night at the crib: parker, ruez, oval (not very valentiny) about 20 hours ago from web
Formalism as an epithet is a legacy of the '60s generation of (now) tenured radicals who rebranded previous radicals as conservative idiots about 23 hours ago from web
in Battcock's Idea Art, 1973, Les Levine replies to Robert Hughes by hurling capital-f Formalism over and over about 23 hours ago from web
formalism might not be a put-down if you couple it with a word like radical, as in the "radical formalists in 20s Russia" - still dicey about 23 hours ago from web
donald judd's obsession with "specific objects" was the most forceful expression he could make of art-as-art, it wasn't formalism about 23 hours ago from web
barnett newman talked shop about paint application, color, supports, etc but that wasn't what the work was about about 23 hours ago from web
artists who talk about their work as an illustration of color theory, symmetry, etc are bad artists about 24 hours ago from web
we don't call instrumental musicians formalists, we call them musicians. artists who don't tell stories in words can't catch a break about 24 hours ago from web
"You suck--Welcome" about 24 hours ago from web
self-help psych book "I Hate You--Don't Leave Me" reminds me of a certain Rhizome commenter about 24 hours ago from web
koala contemplates tasty bowl of frog legs 8:19 PM Feb 12th from web
not getting any younger...than Jesus 8:18 PM Feb 12th from web
"if the story was set in the South or Mid-West and emphasized a painful lesson that the narrator learned in his or her youth, it was golden" 8:15 PM Feb 12th from web
X champions Y's books for the usual sick reasons--wan scribe of the bourgeois looks for "potent" protege from bad circumstances to lift up 8:11 PM Feb 12th from web
"Critics question if Winged Migration is really a documentary at all since there's so much manipulation of birds and footage" 11:53 PM Feb 11th from web
animal shows anthropomorphize all animals. "jenny the aphid is very sad to see her children eaten by the praying mantis" 2:23 AM Feb 11th from web
i hate "ace of cakes" 2:18 AM Feb 11th from web
chief classical music critic 1:51 AM Feb 10th from web
dreamed a brand: Power Eggs Powdered Eggs. googled and Power Eggs is a form of fish bait 9:42 AM Feb 9th from web
"he was raised white" "what?" "he was raised by white people" (heard on street) 4:02 PM Feb 7th from web
inadvertent stepping on heels of urban meanderthals lost in the intricacies of their handheld apparatuses 3:59 PM Feb 7th from web
NJ plant processing fenugreek seeds caused scary maple syrup smell in Manhattan that I never smelled 4:44 PM Feb 5th from web
my only problem with Firefly so far is Whedon doesn't seem to know the difference between a solar system and a galaxy 2:16 AM Feb 5th from web
@klayperson per artfagcity Bleckner left Facebook (he is still with us on Earth as far as I know) 2:09 AM Feb 5th from web
harlan ellison to lecture attendee walking out: "sorry if it wasn't what you wanted" 11:52 PM Feb 4th from web
sontag is good on the innate surrealism of photography (surreal in its classic sense of a heightened real, not the trick photo kind) 5:58 PM Feb 4th from web
i didn't even know ross bleckner was on facebook and now he's gone 5:56 PM Feb 4th from web
@artfagcity - brooks is funny but wrong - no way those guys are letting Ward Three run the show, hence "bad bank" etc to keep them afloat 1:16 PM Feb 4th from web
d_f2 - bitforms 'cause it opened right after bitstreams at the whitney and aspired to be THE gallery for 3d printer & touchscreen art 12:53 PM Feb 4th from web
am enjoying Firefly on hulu - missed it the first time around and the film was too compressed - am anticipating River in chopsocky mode 11:59 PM Feb 1st from web
sinclair lewis told r. brooks to read criticism of e. gantry the book for improvements that could be made in film version - amazing 2:35 AM Feb 1st from web
PLUS SPACE "Maximal-as-Fuck Art" isn't a gallery and doesn't represent artists. We therefore don't accept submissions. 2:23 AM Feb 1st from web
Orson Welles' The Stranger is underrated (on style points if nothing else--it's edgy and creepy) 9:42 PM Jan 31st from web
TCM late nite 80s cheapie gems: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (finally saw); Sonny Boy (David Carradine in drag throughout) 9:40 PM Jan 31st from web
"de Chirico did backdated self-forgeries to profit from his earlier success and as revenge for critics preferring his early work" 1:50 AM Jan 31st from web
artists work best in series and an exhibition is the culmination of that thought process 1:40 AM Jan 31st from web
isolated examples of work cause anxiety and lack the cohesion necessary to make a judgment as to their value 1:39 AM Jan 31st from web
am suddenly feeling inspired to review a series of blog posts 1:24 AM Jan 31st from web
online mag will publish reviews of "an event, a purposive online exhibition or installation, not isolated examples" of work (blog posts) 1:22 AM Jan 31st from web
"♪ they are invincible / they are immune to all our herbicidal battering ♪" 10:25 AM Jan 30th from web
"sound installation turns around customarily accepted notion of exhibition space as something sealed off from outside world" - no, really? 9:58 AM Jan 30th from web
mixedmetaphorpalooza: "Today’s Wall Street Journal just puts a bow on it by giving us the tick-tock on the hand wringing in Beijing" 9:41 AM Jan 30th from web
"repetition, bombastic cadence, run-on lines, and pushy diction are a rush of secular afflatus, meant to get readers psychically airborne" 9:16 PM Jan 29th from web
shamanism is not spiritualism 9:14 PM Jan 29th from web
"try some love" 9:10 PM Jan 29th from web
blog of unfinished work can't be reviewed 9:10 PM Jan 29th from web
"you leave an open, unmoderated forum where your ideas can be discussed and retreat to your commentless blog" 9:07 PM Jan 29th from web
art-as-art is not formalism 9:05 PM Jan 29th from web
@mcdotname - it probably wasn't Ayoade - haven't seen Man to Man with Dean Learner but I'm laughing just reading that 10:04 PM Jan 28th from web
Underworld: Rise of the Lichens 9:43 PM Jan 28th from web
just saw an ad model on the NetZero homepage that looked like Dean Learner from Garth Marenghi 8:54 PM Jan 28th from web
still arguing about Diana Kingsley's photo nixed from bldg lobby: http://tinyurl.com/coahpc 3:05 PM Jan 28th from web
noticed sudden uptick in formerly cyber-impaired art worlders starting blogs; meanwhile others disappear into Facebook's cozy confines 10:22 AM Jan 28th from web
"you planned all that?" "cops think" (The Racket, 1951) 12:00 AM Jan 28th from web
an 8-year conversation about Rodney Graham: http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/comment/10771/ 11:39 PM Jan 27th from web
someone keeps emailing me to join twitter 4:56 PM Jan 27th from web
"In the '80s series Scarecrow and Mrs. King anytime the television was on Valley of Gwangi was showing. It is said to be an inside joke" 11:00 AM Jan 27th from web
@willsimpson Valley of Gwangi yes! dinosaur-roping cowboys are the essence of the psychotronic 10:58 AM Jan 27th from web
RIP Charles Schneer (producer of many Ray Harryhausen films) 12:57 AM Jan 27th from web
google search in my stats: "how do i get work in vvork"? 4:16 PM Jan 26th from web
As yellow prussiate of soda, sodium ferroCYANIDE is added to ROAD and food grade salt as an anticaking agent 11:41 PM Jan 25th from web
Jolt Cola Ultra (a diet drink with Splenda as its artificial sweetener alongside guarana, ginseng, taurine, and vitamin B complex) - eew 11:36 PM Jan 25th from web
someone referred jokingly to my "good, old blog, the one with comments" - nice, love you too 5:57 PM Jan 25th from web
a good chunk of my old blog's enlarged GIF art is now tastefully fuzzed out in Firefox 3 - I may have to delete as it makes me hurl 5:22 PM Jan 25th from web
I can't say enough how much I love my Firefox 3 zoom view. i want to live in an anti-aliased, Steve Jobs kind of world (/sarcasm) 5:20 PM Jan 25th from web
who developed Firefox 3, by the way, bonobo apes? 5:17 PM Jan 25th from web
firefox 3 now fuzzes out html-enlarged GIFs. Safari is always a good model to follow, I think (/sarcasm) 5:16 PM Jan 25th from web
"schumer harangued the Waco survivors from the podium like an alcoholic high school principal" 12:56 PM Jan 24th from web
gotta go work on my levels 10:13 AM Jan 24th from web
dreamed I was dating a stalker who sent emails that looked like mid-'90s movie emails 10:04 AM Jan 24th from web
melen monk, velocette, tangtron 1:27 AM Jan 24th from web
r. prince: "'complete eventlessness' sounds like cartoon language...like when Susan Sontag describes taking a photograph as a 'soft murder'" 11:23 PM Jan 23rd from web
sontag: "to photograph someone is a sublimated murder--a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time" 11:21 PM Jan 23rd from web
sontag: family photos stand in for extended families just as the latter are collapsing into the "claustrophobic" nuclear unit 9:52 AM Jan 23rd from web
favotter now only searches the "top 950" twitter favorite collections. oh well fun while it lasted 9:39 PM Jan 22nd from web
dreamed a neighbor had a pet tapir. it was yellow with leopard spots and blind in one eye. 5:22 PM Jan 22nd from web
@bhoggard - thanks for listening--yes, those samples hit me the same way. an actual orbit 9090 just sold for 88 bucks on ebay 4:01 PM Jan 22nd from web
nice to see Marvin Candle again (lost season premiere, sorry) 9:32 PM Jan 21st from web
...and the makers need to be hit on the head with a poiuyt 6:48 PM Jan 21st from web
twitter spam is as stupid as blog spam: a bunch of crile and fenerd 6:47 PM Jan 21st from web
need to do a twitter page tracking sculptors, video artists, etc, who start making work for "easel size supports" (i.e. become painters) 3:47 AM Jan 21st from web
pro-blivet: http://tinyurl.com/9se7l9 3:39 AM Jan 21st from web
blivet vs poiuyt 9:00 PM Jan 20th from web
simple jack brokaw interviews Warren Buffett: Obama sez you R his frend, are U his freind? Buffett: yes I'm his very very good frend 10:00 AM Jan 20th from web
"all lovingly affixed to easel sized supports" - another one bites the dust 9:56 AM Jan 20th from web
The Machine destroys the Cogs; Lod destroys The Crystal Mind 12:38 AM Jan 20th from web
art as Dischian "fairy trap" 10:02 PM Jan 19th from web
An electronic version (titled "Yakety Moog") was recorded on the album Switched On Nashville by Gil Trythall 9:11 PM Jan 19th from web
"I'm going door to door to bring you this incredible offer!" "Salesman!" 5:40 PM Jan 19th from web
"We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon" 5:09 PM Jan 18th from web
before all you young kids and your fancy-schmancy "plugins" if you wanted to be an electronic musician you needed...modules (ebay) 4:19 PM Jan 18th from web
digital painter accused me of hiding the digital nature of my art - actually it's the analog side that's hidden 11:23 AM Jan 18th from web
"fruitful/apt" - pull this compound adjective out of my brain, please 11:21 AM Jan 18th from web
film montage (Olson), Duchampian found objects (Moody), Cornellian wunderkammern (Bewersdorf), and semiotic play (Ramocki) - oof 11:21 AM Jan 18th from web
"time for a soft boot" 11:12 AM Jan 18th from web
was sorry I missed Barbara Morgenstern when she came to NY a while back--I love her music 2:16 AM Jan 17th from web
all i want is just one sammich 4:18 PM Jan 16th from web
just learned what those .DS_Store files are, junking up my computer - Thanks, Apple!!!!!!! 12:57 PM Jan 16th from web
thanks, JW, for http://is.gd/B84 - my new mission is reverting to firefox 2 one add-on at a time (shouldn't it be called a subtract-on)? 12:56 PM Jan 16th from web
firefox 3 - typographically "enhanced" history-of-visited-sites dropdown (now with page titles!) - did we ask for that? 12:35 PM Jan 16th from web
i'm keeping Firefox 2 on my 2nd computer (until infected) - wish geeks wouldn't constantly indulge the urge to "improve" - it's sick 12:29 PM Jan 16th from web
ordered (inexpensive) sample kit of synth I already own--I'm too impatient to multi-sample every sound it makes 12:26 PM Jan 16th from web
duh, just realized 東 instead of ? was a firefox 3 alteration 11:05 AM Jan 15th from web
have been making .wav files of turntable scratch sounds--not mine, though 10:26 AM Jan 15th from web
ordered 5 rolls of linen framer's tape from the same co. I've been buying from since 1994 (short prayer of thanks for life continuity) 10:23 AM Jan 15th from web
prognotfrog 10:14 AM Jan 15th from web
These are some of the tasty bookmarks Travis Hallenbeck has saved on Delicious. 9:13 AM Jan 15th from web
@bennett4senate Ultimate Unhipness would challenge Double Happiness to some kind of contest but we would be demolished 11:58 PM Jan 14th from web in reply to bennett4senate
Americans holstered their credit cards 7:07 PM Jan 14th from web
little snitches like you end up in dumpsters all over town (ruscha) 1:19 PM Jan 14th from web
handsome photographs of airline disaster simulations (twitter/vvork-like) 10:23 AM Jan 14th from web
wikipedia "animation" page links to my burnt city goat post--the fr33pers also linked to it (thx jw) 3:20 PM Jan 13th from web
"it's a shame to have to go and terraform mars when we could stay here and terraform earth" (4hero sample) 3:07 PM Jan 13th from web
exothermic driveway salt 2:56 PM Jan 11th from web
dreamed I was posting text on a ten foot tall plasma screen inside a friend's loft 1:39 PM Jan 11th from web
dreamed I was camping with co-workers and a weekend shift guy rappelled into the campsite 1:37 PM Jan 11th from web
broke the Mutator again--the other channel this time--guess the limiter was disguising how much audio was coming in--ugh 9:26 AM Jan 11th from web
dispirited surfers 4:27 PM Jan 10th from web
"old men in rock and roll clothes sitting around talking about the past, if there's anything left to sit on" (frank zappa) 4:19 PM Jan 10th from web
@petcortright you are always welcome to join my collective of ultimate unhipness. I got kicked out too as my name is unrecognizable 2:46 PM Jan 10th from web in reply to petcortright
Orson Scott Card's "Unaccompanied Sonata" - nature-over-nurture fascism in the arts 1:06 AM Jan 10th from web
was arguing with a writer tonight who believed all outsiders can ultimately be co-opted; I disagreed, citing people with repugnant views 1:04 AM Jan 10th from web
a. e. van vogt is an interesting bad writer 1:01 AM Jan 10th from web
they are invincible; they are immune to all our herbicidal battering 12:54 AM Jan 10th from web
by default the Firefox 3 "AwesomeBar" suggests URLs based on what you type - no, that's the AwfulBar 3:49 PM Jan 9th from web
firefox 3 - lingering toolbar instead of non-lingering popup for password remembering - did we ask for that? 10:57 AM Jan 9th from web
firefox 3 "zoom" - did we ask for that? 9:13 AM Jan 9th from web
removing unwanted smears with X-acto knife 9:10 AM Jan 9th from web
television was a baby crawling toward that deathchamber (a. ginsberg 1961) 12:25 PM Jan 8th from web
andy warhol would pirouette in the cemetery to be called admirable 12:23 PM Jan 8th from web
good rats 8:21 PM Jan 7th
emotional bailout 11:53 PM Jan 5th
"If turkey was going for ten cents a pound, I couldn't buy a raffle ticket on a jay bird's ass" (92 in the Shade) 11:44 PM Jan 5th
adding "in bed" to every twitter post would make them better...in bed 11:33 PM Jan 5th
dreamed I was carrying a board game and dice kept falling out 2:42 PM Jan 5th
"lightly invasive" - "our advertisers ripple delicately through your personal belongings" 10:39 AM Jan 4th
the painful aspect of YouTube pet videos is listening to owners talking in silly baby talk to their critters - can't they stop for 5 mins? 5:55 PM Jan 2nd
RIP Donald Westlake - father of The Stepfather and wielder of The Ax 8:54 PM Jan 1st
@khalavera - sorry, those were quotes from a recent rhizome
interview - the interviewer kept repeating the statement about
art being funny
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