e) set your _decent mail client to look for localhost, with the ports same as davmail’s settings.

Grab it here.

Why does randomly generated Markov-chain spam make so much (poetic) sense?

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It smells like roasting corn, raw sewage, fish sauce, frying hamburgers and exhaust. Hell of a night all around.
It’s ugly, preposterous and inhuman, interspersed with all-too-rare pockets of serenity and beauty.
” All this nonsense about “the violence is getting worse because they’re trying to influence our election. It sounds like the whooshing of cars, and if you close your eyes, you can delude yourself into believing they’re waves lapping at a beach.

Apparently, he’s blessing the good studio with ganja while they play back the tape.

a long time since one of my friends first got ahold of a dinosaur jr. lp – you’re living all over me. i spun the crap out of that record. it still pops into my head sometimes even without hearing it. brings back the best memories of lazy, hazy days of school’s-out summers, outdoor festivals at thunderbird stadium. ahh.. there’s just something about the thrashy noise wash put right up against the quiet vocals sung for the singer alone.

we didn’t know at the time (we didn’t know much, really), but apparently dj are seen as originators to indie rock.

mp3s of Little Furry Things and The Lung are up on Press Random at the moment.

listening to these now, i can hear the loud instruments being held back in the mix, so the vocals don’t have to be compressed at all, they can just exist in their own quiet little bedroom. there’s a really lo-fi sound overall, leaving lots of gaps in frequencies, and a general fuzziness. i get a melancolic twinge, but a happy one, everytime i listen to it. i’ve been humming this stuff for three days straight now, even the wah-wah’ed guitar wash parts. And that scream!

there is also a huge archive of live shows/bootlegs at freesofree.net. the sound on most of the older recordings is terrible, but there is a load of stuff on there to peruse, and i’ve only just started to poke around.

a breath activated pulsing light clothing, at the royal institute of british architects, Fri Aug 15.

flash video.

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Francis Bacon
Three studies for a Crucifixion
1962

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upon reflection, that leads into a bit of a catch-22, since the subjective reports of the mystical experience exist in the everyday reality to begin with.