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Tuesday, Sep 24, 2002

net minders

the new republic adds a daily weblog while google news gets a new look.

Monday, Sep 23, 2002

spring into action

prague gnostics

Sunday, Sep 22, 2002

wide wails

"The administration isn't targeting Iraq because of 9/11. It's exploiting 9/11 to target Iraq. This new fight isn't logical � it's cultural. It is the latest chapter in the culture wars, the conservative dream of restoring America's sense of Manifest Destiny."

skulldrudgery

"Sept. 4 � Inside a cold, foreboding structure of brown sandstone in New Haven, Conn., lives one of the most heavily shrouded secret societies in American history. Yale�s super-elite Skull and Bones, a 200-year-old organization whose roster is stocked with some of the country�s most prominent families: Bush, Harriman, Phelps, Rockefeller, Taft, and Whitney. Journalist Alexandra Robbins, herself a member of another of Yale�s secret societies, interviewed more than a hundred Bonesmen and writes about the rituals that make up the organization. Read an excerpt from her book �The Secrets of the Tomb� below."

Thursday, Sep 19, 2002

auden clear

"Auden squared his circles the only way New Yorkers can, which is by living in squares and talking in circles. Few writers have ever managed to inhabit so many levels of life. Being everywhere at once while going nowhere in particular is what poets do, and Auden did it. Where journalists write about what people are arguing about in public, and novelists about what they are talking about in private, only poets seem able to show that what people argue about in public is identical to what they talk about in private, that what we are arguing about is the sum of our own guilts, fears, anxieties, hopes. And only a handful of poets show that what people are talking about in public and what they are talking about in private is always a variant of what they say to themselves when they are alone, and that, Auden knew, is simply "I wish I were not.""

Wednesday, Sep 18, 2002

wall st speak

nattering nabob of naderism to rally on wall st

Monday, Sep 16, 2002

in theory

no wavering: theoretical girls

Sunday, Sep 15, 2002

trunk of flunk

spanish indiepop from elefant records.

iraq n' roll

"a secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001."

disc count

ladytrons second album Light and Magic is due out next week. Emperor Norton has a few tracks on real audio.
also on my buylist is this x-ray spex collection.

pot headed

nevada pot legalization initiative on nov. ballot

Monday, Sep 09, 2002

spex wax

SOULWAX

Monday, Sep 02, 2002

private eyes

"But why bother with mere objective accuracy, especially since 'objective' descriptions are going to be hard to come by on such a charged issue? Why not just go with the word Republicans have always used? The simple truth is that 'privatization' has always been the word Republicans themselves used to describe their policy. That is, it was until they rather belatedly realized that their policy was killing them with voters."

la-la land

"We're building the Shangri-La brand," said Liao Chunlei, vice director for the Shangri-La County Ministry of Tourism."

Sunday, Sep 01, 2002

undertow

planet waves magazine

earworms

tiny telephone mp3 index

bookwarm

ibiblio: the public's library and digital archive

it aint me babe

my small contribution to the (way underground) burning woman festival.

tweaked

gotta like twink: toy pianos and a sinister childrens book. take a listen here

pal-ing around

palomar is a cute little indiegirl (and boy) pop band with a bunch of upcoming shows in and around nyc.

spare snare

"New York's Matador Records and the UK's Beggars Group have entered into an agreement wherein Beggars is purchasing a 50% share in Matador Records, and all Matador releases will be marketed through the Beggars Group worldwide."

am i yummy?

someone thought i might like puffy (amiyumi). a little straightforward j-pop for me but it has its moments.

show ups

upcoming show of (some) interest:
"kimya dawson (from The Moldy Peaches) (mercury lounge sept 17)"
of montreal (knitting factory sept 19)
wfmu benefit w/esg (southpaw sept 21)
cub country/ Anders Parker (of Varnaline) (mercury lounge sept 27)
neko case (bowery ballroom sept 29)
catpower (knitting factory oct 3)
the glands/the sunshine fix (mercury lounge oct 10)
doug martsch (bowery ballroom oct 13-15)

songs:ohia (knitting factory oct 23)
as long as im dreaming i might as well throw in:
thrill jockey 10th anniversary show w/sea and the cake and freakwater (bowery ballroom sept 7)
peaches/chick on speed (warsaw oct 11)
acid mothers temple (knitting factory oct 17)
sleater-kinney (irving plaza oct 15-16)
clinic/apples in stereo (irving plaza oct 19)
and im sure there are more like pan american, le tigre, bright eyes or bratmobile but then, who am i kidding?

law schooled

i am the law(yer)

funny ha ha

comedian trailer

base to your fates

"It has become synonymous with the terrorist attacks of September 11 - but what is the origin of the name al-Qaida? Giles Foden on how Bin Laden may have been inspired by Isaac Asimov's Foundation."

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