Les said, the better II

I was under the impression that blogger was down for the last several days. It was and is . . . if you use Safari. bah!
I know you that you never doubted why it is important to counter right wing distortion. I think distortion is a better word than lies. Because liars care what the truth is. If you’re going to lie, you have to think you know what the truth is and then misrepresent it. Bullshitters don’t care a tiny bit about what the truth is. They’ll fake any aspect of anything. They are a greater enemy of the truth than liars. Bullshit is a greater worry. According to On Bullshit

A True Story

I went to a party on Saturday. It was loads of fun. I left for it hella late, as I was napping in the afternoon and expected to wake up before 8:00. In stead I woke up at 9:30 and had to skimp on dinner and was feeling a mite bit stressed as I went looking for this place I had never been. The directions I got were confusing me, but I finally go to the right offramp. The directions told me to go down a dead end street until i got to a “creeping” warehouse and then go up the “creaking” stairs. So I went to down to the dead-end road and got to a warehouse. I saw no street number anywhere and certainly no creaking stairs, so I went around back by the loading area and suddenly it was a lot more creeping. Then I saw an external metal staircase, like a cross between outside stairs and a fire escape. Definitely creaking. There was a door open on the third floor. So I climbed the stairs, and as I got halfway up, it became clear that it was a fire escape, no kind of hybrid at all. These were definitely creaking stairs!
I walked in and asked some gamers if I was in the right place. They seemed surprise my entrance, but it was obviously what the directions called for, right? Yes, I am the crazy person who came in via the fire escape. Cola was with me. She warned that I would look insane if I had the wrong location. I did not fully appreciate the implications of the remark. She is subtle. What I really need is someone to look me in the eye and say, “this plan is crazy! Give me those instructions! You are barking up the wrong tree!”
But I did find the right party, so I guess it worked.
(This post perviously appeared on live journal)

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I did not dye my hair blue. But I might yet anyway. People seemed to like my concert. Apparently, my piece with the voice of Fred Phelps upset people, which is good. I think it’s the direction I want to go in. Less “this bad pundit said this” but rather “look at how ALL of our political discourse reflects these attitudes and maybe we’re participating in it.” So if I want to do more pieces on torture, I would start with the ticking time bomb scenario (there’s a ticking bomb in the city of hypotheicolpolis!) and go from there to reality to evil folks defending it.

So there was a moderately sized crowd mostly of friends and grad students. Tuesday night is a rough night for a concert. And afterwards, we went back to my house for cookies and Jagermeister. It is a bad idea to drink Jagermeister out of a wine glass. I have class in 2 minutes and I really dunno if I want to go.
My dad is here till monday and so if my gf. I feel dead right now.
Charles said something to me about webcasting at the Hemlock. Apparently, my gf’s ex-bf is trying to set that up, so I’ll be talking to him about it. The hard part is finding a server. The webcasting itself is really easy.
I cannot play tuba today. I’m going home to nap.
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rtsp://129.133.2.23/celeste.sdp

For those of you at other parties or on other coasts or continents, the above URL will contain a webcast of my concert, which starts tomorrow at 8:00PM EDT (GMT -5) . . . that’s 5:00PM PDT.
It’s a quicktime stream.

Program

Rush to Excuse

2004

 
Uses the voice of Rush Limbaugh

Coulter Shock

2004

 
Uses the voice of Ann Coulter with Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes and others

Tunings

2004

Lock up your Children

2005

 
Uses the voices of PBS correspondent Terence Smith, Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly, preacher Fred Phelps and others

Intermission

Bell Tolls

2004

Savage Beasts

2005

 
Uses the voices of Michael Savage and Imus in the Morning speaking about Iraq and Palestine, respectively

Beep

2005

Scitilopolitics

2003

 
Movement 1 uses the voice of George W. Bush

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Movement 2 uses the voice of Jessica Feldman reading from a book by Jeffner Allen, Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations (Palo Alto: Institute of Lesbian Studies, 1987)

Meditations for Women

2005

 
Uses the voice of Jean Sirius reading her text “Meditations for Women,” copyright 1981

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Today, I

• bought groceries
• bought beer
• did some sweeping
• went to class
• got car started (it’s idling now, after it has idled for an hour, i’m going to turn it off for half an hour. if it doesn’t restart, then i won’t take it to the airport)

Tomorrow, I must

• Get up at 8:00
• Print programs at 9:00 and get in the paperwork that was due friday but that I got an extension until today for and then forgot
• go to headshop at 10:00 and buy stuff to make hair blue (my classmates say this is a good idea)
• start loading in chapel between 11:00 – noon
• start setting levels as soon as setup happens
• do run through at 4:00
• break from 6:00 – 7:00 ( i hope)
• concert at 8:00
• post concert cookies, snacks, beer and jagermeister (yes, really) at my abode

I just got contact by somebody who wants to use a piece of mine in a documentary. I’m wondering how to respond. Of course I want to, but what questions should I ask and how many coins should I demand (in Braxton’s manner of asking)?

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I just spent a lot of time with angela trying to get my car to start. no good. yes, i know it’s the battery. my car’s electrical system just seems to be incompatible with some other systems. the first time i tried to use my car to start somebody else’s it didn’t work either. yes, i know what i’m doing. so let’s have a car jumping contest. winner gets a ride to wild oats market and a bunch of cookies.

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done

• timing: concert is one hour and 12 minutes is i go through the pieces one after another with as little pause as possible. muahahaha
• Program is written

to do

• today’s small stab at house keeping was not nearly enough. i threw away a bridal bouquet and felt nothing, but a loss of motivation to continue
• must buy blue hair dye and dye hair blue (must dye on monday, cuz i washed my hair today)
• buy groceries for the week and party food
• buy beer (must wait to monday because beer is immoral on sundays)
• get car jumped
• email grad list about concert
• talk to david about webcast

tuesday

• load in at noon, start running through pieces asap to get levels set for speakers and house system. i have major level differences from piece to piece, but i didn’t want to fix them until i’m on the real system – that must get done by 4:00
• cookies must be made. the world needs cookies

thank you list redux

Thank you to Ron Kuivila, Anthony Braxton, Neely Bruce, Alvin Lucier, Ellen Fullman, Jeffner Allen, Jean Sirius, Jessica Feldman, Aaron Siegel, Jascha Narveson, David Jensenius, Ed Hutchins, Media Matters for America, Sandy Brough, Hope McNeil, Deb Shore, Nicole Wilkins, Ed Chiburis, Nancy Albert, the Apple repair guy in the campus computer store, Phillip Schulze, Matt Lagoy, and Xena.

random

I was walking to the lab today and heard all the bells ringing at the catholic church and wondered why. It was for the death of the pope. wow.
Apparently Mercury is in retrograde right now. who knew? everybody is being really nice to me, so i just assumed it wasn’t
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writing my program. Am I missing anybody?

Thank you to Ron Kuivila, Anthony Braxton, Neely Bruce, Alvin Lucier, Ellen Fullman, Jeffner Allen, Jean Sirius, Jessica Feldman, Aaron Sigel, Jascha Narveson, David Jensenius, Ed Hutchins, Media Matters for America, Sandy Burroughs, Hope McNeil, Deb Shore, Nicole Wilkins, the Apple repair guy in the campus computer store, Phillip Schulze, Matt Lagoy

advisor, thesis committee, other professor, tuning teacher, sources of additional text, vocal talent, housemate, concert recording guy, web streaming guy, dad, source for most audio, department secretaries, gf, people who offered advice and or help fixing my hard drive. (need to find out that one guy’s name)
hm, i could add indie media, westboro baptist church (godhatesfags.com) and the white house cuz i also downloaded audio from them . . ..
if you notice a missing name, please inform asap.
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it is not an article of faith for catholics that life begins at conception. abortion is just as controversial in the catholic church as it is in all of american society. not every catholic agrees on the pope with this point any more than every american loved reagan. FURTHERMORE, when the pope says “culture of life” he’s also talking about war, poverty and the death penalty. it doesn’t take much research into the lives of prominent conservative catholics to see how that’s not in 100% agreement either.

also, a lot of catholics use birth control
ahem, when the pope said, not says. When do they start picking a replacement? Who is in the lead? I want to see a controversy leading to a papal schism with a pope and an anti-pope busily excommunicating each other. That would be exciting.
Tag: Pope

Ann Coulter does. She think it’s a war against Islam, which I guess is super clear from her September 12th 2001 (or thereabouts) comments that we should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to christianity. She meant the entire middle east. Her book Treason, of which I’ve read about half, takes periodic breaks from talking about the heroism, patriotism of Joe McCarthy (the anti-communist guy. no, i am not kidding) to talk smack about Allah and the entire Middle East. Hussein was bad because he was from the same region as Usama bin Ladin. she said something about a swamp there. The middle east is a swamp, you see, which needs to be drained and “third world savages” need to be civilized. The whole third world are savages, though. I don’t want to do a Coulter trick and take a quote of context

This insanity is apparently the basis for a lot of foreign policy, which apparently resembles a torture-filled six degrees of separation game, according to a recent article in the Gaurdian. You might know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who might want to hide a ticking time bomb, but anyway, this other guy that that guy knows is a terrorist, so we’ll torture all of you, cuz there might be a bomb there someplace. Afghanistan is apparently a prison state and soon we’ll be a prison planet. Some folks think the comparisons to Nazis are overblown. Maybe they are. Maybe when German read about prison camps in Poland, they thought that comparisons to Napoleon were overblown.
And if Joe McCarthy could have used torture and his way had become the law of the land . . .. Well, no wonder Coulter likes him.
In the mean time, let’s talk about the pope dying, the plight of the brain dead being disconnected from feeding tubes, the latest from the Michael Jackson trial and the horrible indecency on our airwaves.
Tag: Terror

• time pieces – figure out when intermission should go and if anything ought to be cut
• Clean house and room
• write concert program (as in, a printed program)
• buy food to feed self, cola and dad
• buy booze
• buy ingredients for post concert snacks (i’m thinking cookies)
• figure out webcast url and post it
• buy hair dye
• dye hair blue
• email grad student list with concert info
• get car jump started and let it run for a while to recharge battery (shouldn’t the charge have lasted from last time?)
• let people who can’t make 8:00 show know about 4:00 run through (also april 5th)

done

• made pieces MOTU-compatible
• emailed music department about concert
• posted like 50 flyers
• scheduled thesis defense

possible thesis title: Political Voices: Political Engagement Through Text Sound Poetry
thesis paper theoretically due april 15th. i’ve got some books to read for that. yarg
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