Here's a fascinating guide to the ever-changing landscape of subgenres in the world of electronic music. Endless fun. There are over 600 representative loop samples accessable through this thing.
I'm curious about what my readership, friends or strangers, is eating. Especially if you are from a country besides the USA. From the logs I can tell that I have a small number of international readers; I'm especially interested in you.
So if you please, I'd love it if you would write in the comments about what you ate.
Drawn by Joe Matt, author of the interesting-looking Peepshow comic diary. Two-Handed Man has a nice interview.
Language Removal Services offers their unique and secretive technology to those who wish to cast asunder the veil of language and get to the heart of speech. Very strange and hypnotic sounds. Check out their Sampler Gallery. There is some bizarre and fascinating pseudoscience and historical necromancy afoot here, and I intend to get to the bottom of it. They suggest a certain Power in the combination of sampled sounds from a variety of people into a synthesized "Ecstatic Language" These guys have taken recordings of the recent California gubenetorial candidates and processed them, with interesting results. Kindof like Wilhelm Reich's thought....
In an outstanding episode of Nightline, Koppel details the numerous ways that the very freedoms our nation was founded on are being eroded by those who are assigned to protect them.
The entire episode (52mb, mov) is available for streaming, as well as select clips.
Shrewd commentary, links, from Lisa Rein
Unfortunately I missed returning home to the playa this year, but I have been collecting early links to photo galleries from this year's Burning Man.
Burningman.com image server for 2003
Heather Champ's pinhole photos at Harrumph