sometimes just an animated gif is entertainment enough.
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whoever told you it’s easy to find music in NYC doesn’t know the city. you have to refine your bullshit detector to get past the marketing smokescreen that surrounds the city.
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me and julio are building our own schedule, here. our rules are:

1. it has to be near, walking-distance near (we live in the east village, so there’s no excuses)
2. the music has to be good, and even (have a definitive style, and control your dj friends)
3. it has to be free, preferably, or at least $5 weekdays, $10 weekends. but if we have to pay, it has to be unforgettable

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so far, we voted:
monday: the cock: it’s hard to find a good ol’ nasty fun in this sanitized city, but this place has it!
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wednesday: (and I mean, today) Lit: we even met michel gondry there (we weren’t really sure it was him, but once the dj played a lot of songs the guy directed - lame! - it became clear for us he was the real guy)

a lot of emotions I want to share, but I’m not very good with english language. but music is universal, huh? so I decided to share some of the songs I’m most into, five at a time.
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click on the banner below, and you can listen to it. courtesy of soundblox (which I used in zona visser, another project of mine)

800.03, Gab.Gato

this song is so obscure I don’t even have it’s actual name… just 800.03.mp3, and that’s it.
how I feel: a cyborg rechecking its peripherals before a procedure. a subroutine. grey, cold, and monotone. detached and snobby.
also check: the “automatuch”, or something like that. the different voices for different subroutines.
grab it: there’s no way iTMS has it (even google shows meager pages about). and since some other sites offer the mp3, you can download from me too. (control-click on windows, alt-click on a mac)

Aéro Dynamik, Kraftwerk

how I feel: in a happy airport. optimistic. it’s a mantra, you know.
also check: the starry bleeps. the chorus, sinalizing the way.
grab it: iTMS has it, fellas. buy it there, and deDRM it later with jhymn.

In The Future With Machines, FPU

how I feel: a good song for a drag queen to perform. vfull of drama.
also check: the egiptian bg. the lyrics, in fact.
grab it: no digital store around, but cds, still. sorry, folks

Konpyuta, Plastique de Réve

how I feel: archeologists find an ancient document detailing the purposes of computers. historic revisionism, reifying the digital experience. technognosis.
also check: the german/japanese voice. the attention to spell kon-pyu-ta right. like if the desitiny of mankind depends on it.
grab it: nowhere around, so grab it from me. (control-click on windows, alt-click on a mac)

Scorpio, The Fever

how I feel: powerful, but headed to a fall. doomed. scorpio people are short-sighted, you know. feel like placing a bet you can’t cover. pokerface all around.
also check: egyptian bg also. guitars, a thing I don’t usually like, but worked right on it.
grab it: on iTMS. (did I say about jhymn already?)

I can’t talk about how i feel about bush’s reelection… but I can copy & paste what most ressonated with my feelings. this one is from metafilter. there’s other below, ranging from political to spiritual.
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> No, actually it’s a time to wake up and be more
> playful. To have our moods less intertwined with the
> evil being done in the world, less tied to the news
> cycle, and more intertwined with the people around us.
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> It’s a time to bring joy into our everyday lives. We
> should be cooking good foods, playing fun games,
> listening to each other’s struggles and triumphs,
> having great sex, following our dreams, dancing our
> dances, learning new things and enjoying good laughs.
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> That’s a challenge for many of us who have tied our
> identities and emotions directly to what happens in
> the world. We’re the folks who make the news and
> listen to it - we’re the ones who file the lawsuits,
> who organize the grassroots, who educate the ignorant,
> who lobby the bills, and who fight the election
> battles. That’s excellent, very important work. But
> when the day is done, we’ve got to have something else
> in our lives. Something that we, not some ignorant
> voters and bad people, control.

from swayzak, just because you can’t find the lyrics that easily
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you know it makes no difference
whether we talk or not
and it`s much harder going in there sometimes
and jumping down from the top.
but if you talk to me,
i will listen to you
with my eyes, my ears, my heart
till we both reach a state of grace
i will pull you out of the model secrets
till we both trust the coast is clear
information goes to yourself
this information breeding danger
breeding danger

you know it makes no difference
if you remember times that i forgot
sometimes we meet nostalgia
but there`s a need for not
taking consciousness for granted
i need to hear your good self
so don`t expect me to give into it
i don`t want to go back down
my senses worth not one
till we both reach a state of grace
i will pull you out of the model secrets
till we both trust the coast is clear
information gets to yourself
this information breeding danger
breeding danger”

promethea DVD
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I’m used to read comics on my computer (all I have to do is to turn my notebook to the side, and view the pages as a slideshow) and since I installed iDVD, i was dying to try it out.
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so, I decided to make a comics DVD, which means, a slideshow DVD with an entire comic collection. I wanted to make sure the navigation was the same or better than the paper version, so I decided for a comic I didn’t read it yet and I would surely love. alan moore’s promethea seemed like a good bet.
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below are some screenshots of my progress. sadly, I realized I had no more blank DVDs to spare, so I have to wait till I’ll buy a new batch.
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click on each image to view it bigger, with technical notes (another nice feature of flickr). then, roll the mouse over each square to read them.
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DVD cover menu: this one is default from iDVD. since you can’t use more than 12 chapters and I had 31 issues, I organized each 3 issues on one.
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chapter detail: iDVD shows the exact same folders and organization from iPhoto (pictures) and iTunes (music). it’s no good at refreshing, tho, so the best move is to organize all folders & pictures on iPhoto, and then start on iDVD.
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project map: iDVD has a limit of 99 images on each slideshow, so a manga has to be chopped down, for example. it worked fine with american comics, tho.
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disclaimer: I made it for my own consumption, and although I downloaded the entire collection from bittorrent (bad boy) I also own the editions. i guess I don’t have to bother about it, since ABC comics is a small company, and instead of think “ohmygod, those little rascals found another way to rip us off” they’ll probably think “hey, another source of revenue for our collections, and look: it’s cheaper to produce than our trade paperbacks!” (sadly, it only works good on dvd notebooks - you have to rotate the monitor to read it)
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update:sadly, ABC comics is a branch of wildstorm comics, which is an offshot of DC comics, owned by warner. shoud I wait the media conglomerate unleash its minion of ferocious lawyers upon my (literaly) poor soul, or is the plutocratic police state of amerika not done yet?

a guy shoot a bicycle ride on nyc with a camera attached on his helmet, so you can enjoy the thrill of riding a bike on the streets, without giving up your obese-passive-consumer lifestyle.
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(ok, i’m being cranky: the video is cool, only the soundtrack - “welcome to the jungle” doesn’t help).
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in the future, there will be no narrative on videos… only freestyle stuff like this.