Archive for November, 2004
November 15, 2004
Weekend Update

Three things worthy of note happened over the weekend:

  1. I bought an Airport Express yesterday. This has the dual purpose of letting me hook my xbox up to my wireless network, and to play music from my computer through the stereo. It’s tiny, and it just works. Kudos to Apple.
  2. A corollary to #1: Xbox Live is awesome. In the past I was apathetic about online gaming, but I felt like I was missing something important in Halo 2, so I signed up for a two month trial. Let me just say that shooting strangers from the comfort of my couch is tha shiznit.
  3. My old friend and Tulane compatriot, Luis Salom, started a blog.

And, by the way, this novel is not going to be done this November. Maybe by next November!

November 9, 2004
Fallujah

Here are some fascinating, recent pictures of Fallujah:

Eyeballing the Fallujah Kill Zone

Deadweight - Stroking the Moon

Album-of-the-week: 11-9-04

I’d put this band somewhere between Faith No More, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rush, and a string quartet. It’s hard to describe. I’m enjoying it so much, I’m writing this before making it through the album once.

Let me know if you’re interested, and I’ll hook you up with some tracks.

November 8, 2004
Remixes, Inc.

I should have posted this last week, but my pal Heuristics Inc. just released a slew of remixes on his web site. He has a great talent for transforming upbeat songs into gloomfests.

I’m going to listen to them all again right now!

Check ‘em out

Stuff

I’m making slow progress on this novel. If I were going to spread the 50k words out evenly over the month, I should be at 13k words, minimum, right now. Instead, I’m at 4023.

If our baby is born this month (like it probably will), there’s no way this will be done on time, but I’m enjoying the writing, so I will finish it eventually.

I’m posting this mainly so my post-election bitterness won’t be sitting at the top of this page any longer.

Anything interesting going on out there?

November 3, 2004
Bush Wins

This is a nightmare.

Do they have the same Bush in “the red states” that we have here?

I appreciate Conservative ideas. I can bring myself to agree with a lot of them. But none of them can justify voting for this evil man.

I just don’t understand it.

November 2, 2004
bin Laden talks

Read this for some fascinating insight into al-Qaeda objectives.

Aljazeera.Net - Full transcript of bin Ladin’s speech

Obviously it’s hard (impossible!) to feel sympathy for the man behind the 9/11 terror attacks. But that event didn’t come out of nowhere.

Oh brother

“It’s about her lyricism and the lyrical persona and how they articulate certain things that gender and sexuality studies have been trying to grapple with. What we’re talking about here is new notions of sexual consciousness, sexual politics in her rhymes, how she deals with societies based on male domination in her rhymes and societies based on rigid gender categories and constructs.”

– Professor GREG THOMAS telling the New York Daily News about the class Syracuse University will offer on the works of rapper LIL KIM.

 Audio: Driving (Jute Gyte Remix)
project: Dr. Kong
mp3: kong/remix/drkong-driving.mp3 (m3u)

Here’s my latest remixfight entry.

It’s of Jute Gyte’s Songfight entry Driving

My remixfight blurb:

“I wanted to use some particularly silly music to contrast with the serious, aggressive nature of the vocals. I kept the whole thing short because it’s pretty gimmicky.”

I like it, but it is silly.

November 1, 2004
Novel Month

November is National Novel Writing Month.

I signed up for this, because I like the idea of writing a novel. But, I don’t really read much of anything, so it will probably suck!

I will keep you posted.