post titled: hometown anti-hero.
post subtitled:after primarily being exposed to european media -who often demonised her, it suddenly hit me: oh, duh- i'm in amanda knox territory now...
over the past year-plus whatever post-google has been fascinated by the amanda 'foxy knoxy' knox story - it is just a fascinating murder mystery, but on my first morning back in seattle as i jetlaggedly groped my way to voxx on eastlake before sunrise i was kind blown away by the current issue of local alternative newspaper the stranger and its beautiful black and white cover photo by amanda's college friend madison paxton in which amanda's freckles are clearly in focus...

meanwhile, thousands of miles away in new york city...


Hinterland
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Windy Hill Mill

Hinterland
a dress/movement/sound installation
choreography: Jennifer Gonzales and Coco Karol
music: Valerie Kuehne, Graham Hawthorne, Asako Fujimoto, J.S. Bach, wooden clogs.

Friday December 11th
doors at 8:30
Hinterland at 9
Windy Hill Mill at 10

The Petri Space
114 Forrest Street (at Flushing), 11206
4th fl, buzzer #15
L train to Morgan
wine, beer, spirits, paper slippers

Punch Drunk loophole

"At least several hundred mile-junkies discovered that a free shipping offer on presidential and Native American $1 coins, sold at face value by the U.S. Mint, amounted to printing free frequent-flier miles. Mileage lovers ordered more than $1 million in coins until the Mint started identifying them and cutting them off.
Coin buyers charged the purchases, sold in boxes of 250 coins, to a credit card that offers frequent-flier mile awards, then took the shipments straight to the bank. They then used the coins they deposited to pay their credit-card bills. Their only cost: the car trip to make the deposit." found on the Wall Street Journal

today
more twitter, less blog

everything not in its right place.
Douglas Copeland talks with Kai Ryssdal about his new novel "Generation A" on Marketplace... oh, you creepathon crackberry future!
"I think we've just had to absorb too much too quickly. I've asked people who are much older than myself, I'm 47, which seemed more startling at the time, the introduction of television or the introduction of the Internet. And everybody goes slamdunk the Internet. I remember the 70s that all we really did in society is we went from rotary phones to bush-button phones, and that was it for the decade. And then the 80s came and we had music videos. And then the 90s and the Internet. We have absorbed so much in the last, not even five years, three years, it's crazy. It's almost like we want a year out to absorb it all, but we can't. And it's probably going to get thicker and faster. And again, that's where stories come in, it's a way of finding new ways of looking at ourselves, and finding new ways of surviving psychically during all this change and turmoil."

breaking news
Amanda Knox has been found guilty of looking like a Hemingway (exhibit A Mariel Hemingway, exhibit B Dree Hemingway, Hillary may step in to intervene...
Meredith Kercher trial italy verdict foxy knoxy

google search: "dear Jeff Bridges"
results: an old message board from jeff-bridges.com which seems to be written by mostly European fans... terribly funny stuff, really.

disclaimer: post-google loves jeff bridges, too.

post titled: sane in winter.
me: oh, and Houston...
paul: ?
me: we have a (silly little) problem.
one of the My So-Called Life DVDs is missing, -you seen it?

not rod stewart either.
note: google translate translated "die jungen Wilden" as "the young turks"
which would be fine except it was in a sentance about the German
National Football team... and (correct me if I'm wrong, but) as far as I know only Özöl is of Turkish origin.

out of town. not online much.

post titled: music for when your mother-in-law visits...
DISCLAIMER: post-google is still feverish from flu and had coffee / ate solid food for the first time in days this morning
since this is all over the internet and people are like "whoa." "omg" post google feels the need to briefly comment on the new lady gaga video bad romance
FILE UNDER: things that make you say "whoa" in the first decade of the 21st century. NOTE: Kylie Minogue-meets-blade-runner-(but a version of Blade Runner directed by... David Cronenberg or whoever did 'the Cell' and ripped off Matthew Barney ) garnished by people who didn"t make the cut for the next 007 movie and/or Dita von Teese myspace freakshow tryouts...
ALSO FILE UNDER: Why art can never compete with marketing, armies of make-up artists, lighting designers, choreographers, cgi guys, and whatever directors.
ALSO ALSO FILE UNDER: bald cat, hairless cat.
oh, and: mainstram American pop has finally officially become early-to-mid 90s eurorpean dance/rave culture.
oh, and and: seems like the weird is is also beiong pushed into the mainstream, ...then what- a normal backlash? Like: tennis and weezer?


the video was directed by Francis Lawrence who described it as a "futuristic version of a Russian bathhouse". hurm.

MORE TO COME as I watch this OVER AND OVER AND OVER...

MIN 4:40-ish there is a MILLA JOVOVICH thing going on, ...by that I mean 5th-element bandage-outfit-meets-Resident Evil.

 
fyi: wolverine and sabretooth are actually brothers...

 
 
 
 
...homework over the weekend. fall of the berlin wall 20th twentieht twentieth anniversary celebration david hassellhoff hasselhoff haselhoff hasselhof

new art work: SuttonBeresCuller at the Lawrimore Project, seattle
and then...
the artwork of ethan jackson

marketplace: Charles Handy - Need work? Trying making your own.
very nice for people like me who can just barely stand the organized workplace and ... after a few months, simply can't handle the office life any longer... clock is ticking, I'm back on the loose again Dec. 14.

there only things on the internet that truly, deeply scare us:
bald hairless bears and custom vagina necklaces aka vulva portrait pendants.
thanks to reddit and Death for the hot tips.
...lordy, lordy, lordy.
sooo: it is the weekend- g'bye!

last month I described having a sort of 'lord of the flies' weekend after a diversion (seeing cyclown circus playing in the window of an art opening at urban art forum on heinrich heine strasse) on my way home from seeing josh tillman (aka j. tillman) play at privatklub. it would"ve otherwise been a quite night, but
I finally thogutht to hunt down the location of that strange abandoned factory on googlemaps, and here it is:
köpenickerstr. 48/49 (i believe) note: collapsed roof (4th floor) and full-size young trees also growing from the roof... this is an amazing location, right on the river, something cool should be done with it before some other bastard company snatches up the plot...

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i was deeply affected by e.t.: the extra-terrestrial as a child, (it was the second movie I ever saw) so somehow that made j.j. abrams' TED talk just that much better.

trickle-down motivation sequence.

The 34-year-old ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ star admitted he has never been happier than since he embarked on his romance with Katy, 25.

He said: "To be honest I haven't stopped smiling. She's a lovely girl and it's going really, really well. In fact I've never felt more settled in all my life. Katy is fantastic. I'm really happy."

Earlier this week Russell – who was first romantically linked to Katy at the MTV Video Music Awards in September – admitted he was ready to settle down and start a family.

He said: "I am ready for children actually. It's been seven years since I took drugs. I've made a film. I don't have to fight so much. I've grown weary of the carousel."

p.s. so. on a parallel note.... I accidentlally ended up... absolute silliness: I was doing some 'research' for a story on Russell Brand and Katy Perry yesterday, and just happened to check her twitter acct. right after she announced that she was giving away tickets to the MTV Europe music awards, which I -thought: "gosh, what the heck" long story short: I picked up the tickets, thing is tonight. siliness...
Beyonce EMA performers including Foo Fighters, Green Day, Jay-Z, Leona Lewis, Shakira, Tokio Hotel and U2. The MTV Europe Music Awards will be hosted by Katy Perry. Jonas Brothers plus Backstreet Boys, Juliette Lewis, Jean Reno, Miranda Cosgrove, Asia Argento, Bar Refaeli, Brody Jenner and Batista Joss Stone o2 world berlin

Post Titled: Death told me about the painter, sculptor and
-well-
artist
Shary Boyle
whose work is just really great.

As we continue to renovate
I went with the girls to the hardware store
where we picked up a lot of free wood for the fire
but as we were on our way home they got sucked into
the make-up section of the local drug store...
for a really long time
which was really boring for me.
So I explored the fragrance setion:
There were all these 'scents'
-"a new fragrance from Kate moss",
kylie minogie,
naomi campbell
christina aguilera
and even avril lavigne...
and they all had one thing in common:
they were awful
I sprayed the testers onto various sections of the 5-foot-long
4x4 I was carrying,
so by the end it was like this huge smelly piece of lumber
additionally I learned that make-up is just
ridiculously expensive.

My dad sent me a link to an article this morning in the NY
Times:
"Germany Looks at Ways to Protect Online Journalism"

to which I replied:

"Journalism itself is rife with pseudo-cannibalitic practices, -we rip quotes rom other articles
or build stories out of sheer anonymous quotes.
Really, our main goal is get "clicks"- aka, to attrack traffic to the site.
Since the best way to make money via online journalism is through advertising,
I think the solution is to just have aggregators link more prominently to the original sources...

Having said that, I still don't think that can 'save' traditional journalism.
Like: no matter how many steroids you feed a horse, a car is still a faster, better means of transportation.
Still... that metaphor isn't quite right... mh. Maybe fire vs. electricity is better...
The metaphor I gave my former roomate- who writes for some pretty hefty publications-
was that traditional jornalism/madss media is basically this big tough overconfident animal,
which is now in denial about being severley wounded and pretty much being eaten alive by insects."
HURM.

NOTE: UPDATE ADDED BELOW SINCE YESTERDAY's Schwyzerdütsch story...

Post Google won't rest until there is nipple equality in america
it is simple, EITHER:
men should not be allowed to
expose their nipples in public and in the media
OR
women SHOULD be allowed to expose their nipples in public
and in the media...
and in the meantime, where do man-boobs fit into
the argument's equasion? Answer: they don't.
A man boob is a boob too, therefore -by current standards-
it's nipple should, so either stop these outlaws or let's work
to change the law.
have to be covered.
The system is broken folks, and it up to us to fix it.

...tits.

Furthermore: Schwyzerdütsch Schwyzerdütsch Schwyzerdütsch Schwyzerdütsch
On a semi- related note, folks, more sad news of racial hatred on the continent of Europe:
I'm not sure how much more of these
villager's white-on-white hate-crimemongering I can take, jeezus, Rodney King, aiaiai:
Swiss... Germans... can't they all just realize that in the
grand scheme of the universe that they're
the same damn thing?
checkit: Alena Gerber
OH, but there is a followup story- in thich Alena Gerber strikes back at t

NPR FRESH AIR INTERVIEW WITH TRACEY MORGAN was really amazing.
After listening to this show for years this was the fist time I can recall ever having heard Terry Gross even falter. Really lovely moment, though...
Do listen:

tracy tracey morgan crying on radio npr interview tina fey 30 rock

geheimkonzert nicht mehr so geheim: robbie williams kostenlose konzert in berlin Max-Schmeling-Halle am 23. Oktober, 2009
indeed, -an unusual post for post-google: Robbie Williams is going to do a secret concert in Berlin, in front of the Max-Schmeling-Halle! obviously it isn't so secret anymore, but Entrance is apparently FREE... his management has confirmed this today. post google is also highly skeptical of the claim that anything might ever be "free" in germany (a country where one pays to use most public restrooms and also for extra condiments at fast food joints)
... nevertheless...
having been in europe for most of the 90s, post google's deep dark secret is that we do have a soft spot for robbie williams (-not so much take that,) and are even considering going to this show.

as of late mediumflow has been one of my most favorite websites to visit when i need a break from websites.
robert pattinson new moon naked shirtless actor star