Kış gelsin, manyak gündem ve delirtgen havalar azalsın, soğukta kafalar daha iyi çalışsın ve kız bloğu modunda "dünya barışı sağlansın" türü vecizelere sebebiyet vermeden beyin ısısını düşürmesini umduğum şarkılardan bir guble: ...Of Sinking Ships - The Last Signal Under Byen - Batteri Generator Sylvain Chauveau & Ensemble Nocturne - Stripped I Might Be Wrong - Lightning Stripes, Then Rain [...]
Please, Dearest Friends, grab a vine and swing on over to the Contrast Podcast jungle post haste, and get ready for more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Yes, this week the CP goes all apeshit on us with an entire episode dedicated to humanity's simian cousins. The apesolutely fantastic selection of tunes is enough to make a monkey out of anyone, and Dearest Tim is, as usual, the masterful organ grinder. So get ready to do the funky gibbon and come join in all the baboonery by downloading the podcast directly [...]
Today I listened to Add N To (X)' 2002 album Loud Like Nature. A year after this came out the band split up. I miss them. Over the course of 5 albums they developed from cold, analogue synth porn fetishists into something deeper and warmer and more psychedelic. I love their use of electronics as rock instrument. Lots of electronic bands "rock", but these guys (OK, two guys and a girl) crafted

As robots become increasingly useful, we've started to see them being deployed in the military arena. Today in Iraq, the first ever squadron of robot warriors are making combat safer for human soldiers in situations that portend an ambush or booby-trap. While one of these machines may look more like a small stripped-down tank than a Terminator or ED-209 , they can be just as lethal. I'm reminded of the sentry gun scene from the Director's cut of Aliens. Together with the surveillance and tactical capabilities of pilotless [...]

What is going on? I'm hurtling through this week, brain afire with the snap-snap-snap of electrified neurons. By sight I've found myself able to feel texture as well as see hue and shape. I was fascinated this afternoon by the irregular, bright green wrinkles of a kale leaf at Granvile Island market. Yesterday my breath was taken away by the luscious nap and sweeping line of a crimson velvet coat that I saw getting out of a car as I drove home from work. Ideas have been frothing forth like the rich, foamy head on a [...]

yes, that is me. halloween 1987, outift made from scratch by my mom if you're in the nyc area tonight, stop by company on e. 10th (at 1st ave) to catch me spinning tonight. it's officially a birthday fete for gal-about-town maureen , but everyone is welcome. not sure what i'll be spinning yet - the bday girl has requested some wrens makeout jams, but i'm tempted to throw down some filthy booty tech as well...we'll see what happens... [...]