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Wednesday, December 31, 2003 happy flappy 2004 Blog? Maybe I'll resolve to blog more in 2004. Not sure we're going to keep going til midnight tonight. Listening to DJ Screw now.... posted at 6:47 PM Thursday, December 18, 2003 now listening to... Smith & Mighty mix on [: D*I*R*T*Y :] Did I tell you about meeting Ray Mighty in Bristol? No? Not much to tell: Hi. How do ya do? We dig your music. Good to meet you. Bye. posted at 8:51 AM Monday, December 15, 2003 stevenberlinjohnson.com: Offloading Your Memories Steven Johnson has written an article for the NY Times called Offloading Your Memories, about, basically, recording every detail of your life and being able to query this vast archive of recorded detail. Anil Dash responded that he had blogged something similar awhile back. Synchronicity for me, as I spent yesterday going through an 'archive' (closet) of old memories. I am a compulsive documenter (though far from compulsively organized about it), so I have loads of photos, negatives, sound recordings, videos in various formats, etc. And I am often ambivalent about this compulsion to collect and keep all this stuff. What Steven and Anil are proposing is far more compulsive than my current collection, and, as I get older, I find that I document less than I used to. Partially because I can't keep up with past documents, so I don't really feel like adding more documents to the already teetering pile of stuff. But, what I like about Steven's idea is the ability to essentially 'Google' that which I've already documented. But, as someone who hadn't even gotten all of his old photographs into albums when along came affordable digital cameras, so that I don't even bother printing the photos... I see trouble. It would be a full-time job to document everything, and that would leave me no time to peruse the archives! I think it's much too soon outa the closet (of junk) for me to be able to process this idea further. (And I even managed to throw some stuff away!) If you need proof of my need to document, here are my photos of early 1980s Austin and touring punk bands, and, from the same site, a list of every show I saw between 1978 and 1986. That hardly brings me to the present! posted at 2:35 PM Friday, December 12, 2003 OK. Not only do I like the cute little tiger, tigeradio also plays some durn good stuff. I'm diggin' Radioactive Man's Fed-Ex to Munchen. At the moment, they're playing VU's Venus in Furs. posted at 9:31 AM Thursday, December 11, 2003 now listening to... Tigersushi radio Some nice toons. Very eclectic. But mostly I just wanted an excuse to use their cute little tiger icon. posted at 10:57 AM Tuesday, December 09, 2003 Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus Holy moly, I can't wait for this movie. Found out about the movie after seeing this photo and doing a search on Wrong-Eyed Jesus. posted at 9:43 AM Monday, December 01, 2003 Winged Migration Finally saw Winged Migration last night. I may have to watch it again, or at least parts of it, because the photography of the birds in flight was so incredible that I just assumed it was some very fancy digital trickery. But it's not. They actually used ultralights and little remote-controlled helicopters to fly alongside the birds. Truly amazing. I didn't find it as long and boring as some folks did, but I think a "making of" would be just as interesting. Oh, well, that's what we get for renting VHS. Now I see the DVD has the "making of" documentary. posted at 2:49 PM Allen Ginsberg in America Spent some of the holiday weekend reading Allen Ginsberg in America, a book that's been sitting beside my bed for the last year. I am thoroughly enjoying it and will have to get out my copies of Howl, Kaddish, and other City Lights books and reread 'em. I think I'd agree with the reviewer Arch-I on Amazon.com (Arch-I has written 77 Amazon reviews and has some good hints. Check 'em out) that it reads like an "expanded New Yorker" article, though I guess that would lump me in with the audience of "amused and knowing squares". OK, I can accept that. The book does make Ginsberg's seem like a charmed existence. I'm sure it wasn't all fun and games, though it's nice to imagine that it was. I heard Ginsberg read in NYC, towards the end of his life. This book makes me wish I'd met him. posted at 9:46 AM