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Choreography
Paint by numbers.
Exchange hollow greetings with someone who’ll do the same.
Smile appropriately for the right kinds of people,
with the right kinds of capital, financial or social.Craft your character, rehearse your performance.
See which you sells the best and reinforce habits.
Walk to the altar, read from the prompter,
smile for your picture, and clap like a seal.Is everyone looking at me?
Are they nodding their heads in approval?
Does this convince you? It never convinced me… it never convinced me.Years don’t teach anything if you’re not listening…
or plugging your ears with bargain priced fantasies that are cheap to adopt,
but will surely break down right when you need a real understanding.Choreography. Don’t think critically.
It’s all been figured out for you, and nothing means anything.Is everyone looking at me?
Are they nodding their heads in approval?
Does this convince you? It never convinced me… it never convinced me.
Best Music of the 2000s
Best Cover of the 2000s: Imagine: A Perfect Circle
I went through iTunes tonight to determine my favorite music of the 2000s.
Based on number of tracks played and ratings, here is what what I found.
Top Albums
- Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age (Best track: First It Giveth)
- In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 by Coheed and Cambria (Best track: A Favor House Atlantic)
- FutureSex / LoveSounds by Justin Timberlake (Best track: What Goes Around…/…Comes Around)
- Collision Course by Linkin Park & Jay-Z (Best track: Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You)
- I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love by My Chemical Romance (BT: Skylines and Turnstiles)
- Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by My Chemical Romance (BT: Thank You for the Venom)
- Stadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chili Peppers (BT: Dani California)
- Morning View by Incubus (BT: Wish You Were Here)
- Renegades by Rage Against the Machine (BT: I’m Housin’)
- Blood Mountain by Mastodon (BT: Blood and Thunder [Live])
Live Album of the 2000s
How the West was Won by Led Zeppelin
Live Single of the 2000s
Bold as Love (Live) by John Mayer
Artist of the 2000s:
My Chemical Romance
Best Cover of the 2000s
Imagine by A Perfect Circle
Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Loving the Zune
I love the Zune HD. I love the Zune desktop software – little touches like the below.
This is such good work and it shows the quality of (cool) work that Microsoft is capable of doing.
Icarus
On golden wings I soar above you all
Downward my gaze is cast
Lofty, great, with terrible claw
Yet in the deep, I feel descending sorrow
For one day, I know I will fall
To Pan
| Hymn of Pan (Shelley) | Hymn to Pan (Crowley) |
| From the forests and highlands We come, we come; From the river-girt islands, Where loud waves are dumb, Listening to my sweet pipings. The wind in the reeds and the rushes, The bees on the bells of thyme, The birds on the myrtle bushes, The cicale above in the lime, And the lizards below in the grass, Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, Listening to my sweet pipings. Liquid Peneus was flowing, I sang of the dancing stars, |
Thrill with the lissome lust of the light, O man! My man! Come careering out of the night Of Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea From Sicily and from Arcady! Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards, On a milk-white ass, come over the sea To me, to me, Come with Apollo in bridal dress (Shepherdess and pythoness) Come with Artemis, silken shod, And wash thy white thigh, beautifal God, In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount, The dimpled dawn of the amber fount! Dip the purple of passionate prayer In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare, The soul that startles in eyes of blue To watch thy wantonness weeping through The tangled grove, the gnarled bole Of the living tree that is spirit and soul And body and brain – come over the sea, (Io Pan! Io Pan!) Devil or God, to me, to me, My man! My man! Come with trumpets sounding shrill Over the hill! Come with drums low muttering From the spring! Come with flute and come with pipe! Am I not ripe? I, who wait and writhe and wrestle With air that hath no boughs to nestle My body, weary of empty clasp, Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp - Come, O come! I am numb With the lonely lust of devildom. Thrust the sword through the galling fetter, All-devourer, all begetter; Give me the sign of the Open Eye, And the token erect of thorny thigh, And the word of madness and mystery, O Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan, I am a man: Do as thou wilt, as a great god can, O Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake In the grip of the snake. The eagle slashes with beak and claw; The Gods withdraw; The great beasts come, Io Pan! I am borne To death on the horn Of the Unicorn. I am Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! I am thy mate, I am thy man, Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god, Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod. With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks Through solstice stubborn to equinox. I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend Everlasting, world without end, Mannikin, maiden, maenad, man, In the might of Pan. Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan! |
Going to California
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going To California with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me there’s a girl out there with love in her eyes
and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
never let them tell you that they’all are the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey,
I wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
as the children of the sun began to awake.
Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;
I think I might be sinking.
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I’ll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high.
To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings… la la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin’ to find a woman who’s never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it’s not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.
I want a Duo Dock for my iPhone
I used to love the Powerbook Duo — especially the Dock.
I want now want a Duo Dock for my iPhone.
Context…
I am trying desperately not to bring my laptop to meetings any longer.
In the role I am in now working on code or whatever during a meeting will send the wrong message to the people presenting.
In addition, and more importantly, I can’t afford to miss anything because my wacky code failed.
I tried not bring my laptop to several meetings this week.
Three observations from that exercise…
- Paying attention (not continuous partial attention) does matter (and I call myself a Buddhist)
- I am way behind on work.
- My iPhone is more important than ever (I will glance at it through the meeting — but at least there is no VS on it).
Once I get back to my office at the end of the day, I really just want a bigger screen and keyboard for my iPhone — thus my ask.
Of course, I still need a dev box, but I can just TS (VNC) into a desktop.
Actually, now that I think about it, what about a Duo Dock that was just in a laptop form factor with a keyboard, 13.3 screen and a port for the iPhone to slide into.
Could be something like the Foleo, but not have any onboard OS, etc — just a screen, keyboard and ports (maybe a SSD?).
As a Microsoft shareholder, I wish we developed something like this first that has Windows Mobile on it — I would have to give up my iPhone for that — oh, of course, I would need to have the Zune player software on it.
BTW: One of the things I will say about the Zune — the desktop player rocks — especially when coupled with the Zune Pass (an all you can eat music download service). I often hear new music on the Zune Marketplace and then buy it on ITunes.
[Updated: Just saw a link for http://olo-computer.com/ -- that is hot -- but I think I want the Duo Dock for my office too.]
Song of the Day: Katzenjammer
http://mp3.rhapsody.com/kyuss/wretch/katzenjammer
You cannot beat Kyuss on a Sunday afternoon.
The Return of Led Zeppelin | Listening Post from Wired.com
My Morning Jacket
New album…
Love it…