The Entroporium

Mark and I went last night to Recombinant Labs to check out Monolake and Deadbeat. (Mark loves it when I drop his name in here.) Monolake (aka Robert Henke) is the German inventor of Ableton Live, and he does this terrifically dense rhythmic techno that still has very much a live feel to it. If [...]

Drug-Sniffing Dogs Take A Bite Out Of Jam-Band Cruise; Police tipped off by posts on cruise’s message board Hey, my Burning Man peeps, maybe we should take a Mah Jongg cruise instead this year!

FORT HOOD, TEXAS (Reuters) — A lawyer for Specialist Charles Graner, the accused ringleader in the Iraq prisoner-abuse scandal, said yesterday that leashing inmates was acceptable prisoner control, and compared piling naked prisoners into a pyramid to routines performed by cheerleaders. He compared some of the alleged instances of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison to [...]

[Soundtrack] Decemberists – Leslie Anne Levine.mp3 We were over at Mark’s last night in a Mah Jongg marathon and I mentioned how much I’d been enjoying The Decemberists, a band that I had inexplicably been missing out on. He informed me that one of my favorite songs of theirs, Leslie Anne Levine, is told from [...]

So it’s been a while since I’ve published, and for that I apologize. I spent all New Year’s Day going through the family picture box, so I should have some good silly scans coming up soon. Things seem to be in flux for a lot of people I know — real serious life-changing stuff. I [...]