whiskers

Hearing the buzzing of June Bugs by my window I remembered that I saw a strange beetle in the parking lot of the Griffith Observatory a week ago. Here it is in all its beguiling glory:

tan dificil

Daily fragments

I’m a failed musician. I’ve come to terms that I may never write a ‘complete’ song having absorbed John Cage’s thoughts on music/sound. Here are some of those fragments now. Enjoy (or not).

Influences : Tom Waits, John Cage, Fugazi, Gang of Four, Electrelane, Crass.

cryptozoology

The talent to be found @ Lincoln High School is quite astonishing. This done with whiteout, black construction paper, black & red pen. Now when you overhear an artist mentioning not having any money to express themselves, you can show them this and show them they are full of shit.

Diatribe end.

Ἀταραξία

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then He is not omnipotent.
Is He able, but not willing? Then He is malevolent.
Is He both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is He neither able nor willing? Then why call Him God?

– Epicurus

¡¡¡ bastidas !!! ¡¡y más!!

Now here is a band that is currently blowing my mind and my circuitboards : BAstidas from Los Angeles.

Here’s a live clip of them playing at SXSW this last year.

Duty of work

Duty of work, originally uploaded by un día sin chile es como un día sin sol.

Inspired by a philosophy paper I’ve been working on. Subject being the self, and the ethical cultivation of the self in the face of nothingness.

watch it now!

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs performing “Wooly Bully” ; one of my ALL-TIME favorite songs. First heard it as a kid in the opening scenes of Splash. Turns out the lead singer is a Chicano from Dallas, Texas thus explaining the iconic count-off of:

“Uno-dos! one-two-tres-quatro!“

And I think we can figure out what “Wooly Bully” means .

More oldies I love after the jump:

on distraction

It’s Sunday afternoon. Breakfast made & eaten. Coffee brewed & drunk. I think about all the things to be done and the things I do to distract myself from doing them :

• emails
• listening to records
• drinking more coffee
• cleaning
• parousing through my small library
• watching Current TV
• browsing ‘ubuntu‘ stuff on the interwebz
• going on some daylight rides (pffft to midnight ridez)
• writing new blog posts

And when I am absolutely free to do whatever I like I more often than not I end up twiddling my thumbs. At a loss as to do what to do. Maybe I need some time management for anarchists.

locker