May 2009
40 posts
“So, in summation: The CIA, with a little help from the Nazis, accidentally helped invent hippies while they were trying to figure out how to brainwash communists. Pour that on your granola and eat it, you zombie pinko bastards!”
Katzenklavier
“A cat piano, or Katzenklavier, is a musical instrument designed by Athanasius Kircher. It consists of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard. Nails would be placed under the keys, causing the cats to cry out in pain when a key was pressed. The cats would be arranged according to the natural tone of their voices.
“The instrument was described by...
“Those who have provoked us will face unimaginable merciless punishment”
– The official (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
At last!
On May 24th, coinciding with Bob Dylan’s birthday, Varg Vikernes (Burzum) was finally released from prison after serving a 16 year sentence for the murder of Øystein Aarseth… and the burning of a couple of churches.
“I’m ready for society — and I have been for many years,” Vikernes told Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet last July.
“CrazyIslander” on an...
Fractal sarcasm
“I am just trying to create an authentic life for myself. I am just trying to fill up my apartment with meaningful items. I am just trying to create authentic art. I am just collecting some cameras from different eras. I am just enjoying a beer, relaxing. I am just collecting old magazines with pictures of nature/old stuff I am just mashing up genres of music. I am just sitting on...
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world
1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small. Nothing should ever become too big to fail. Evolution in economic life helps those with the maximum amount of hidden risks – and hence the most fragile – become the biggest.
2. No socialisation of losses and privatisation of gains. Whatever may need to be bailed out should be nationalised; whatever does not need a bail-out should be...
Getting at nothing something
“This is like a long scroll of paper on which I can write. I need to actually write ideas through” he wrote.
He sat back down and put it in a quote and tried to further remove himself from it. To further fictionalise it.
Then there was a paragraph added after that, describing what he’d just done. After quoting himself and claiming that he’d written it (the whole thing was described...
Bad trip
“I had an apartment on this mountain with your very stereotypical Hill Billies. They were all really good to me, and we use to and still do drink together a lot. There was this one guy that lived on top of the mountain that lived in a shack with no electricity or plumbing. He looked a lot like Charles Manson. Turns out when he was 14, he stabbed his Grandmother, Mother, and sister to death...
“I don’t have to justify myself. I make films and I enjoy very much making...”
– Von Trier
“Intoxicated individuals may act in an unpredictable fashion, driven by their...”
– Wikipedia
Fishes
Here’s a picture of the FBI stealing Ted Kaczynski’s home and a link to the myspace page where I just posted a new song called Fishes. You can download it and read the lyrics and everything!
Enjoy.