Archive for April, 2006
Seance, or sad excuse for a drum circle?
Thursday, April 20th, 2006Episode 2 of the Garrett and Amber show
Thursday, April 20th, 2006Amber wakes me up in the morning. Amber makes me ride my bike to watch the sunset.
Kylark : What I Learned In Seattle
Monday, April 17th, 2006Kylark, in her infinite sage-like wisdom, describes what she has learned in her week long visit to the grunge capital.
Can God Be Found
Friday, April 14th, 2006Here’s a sign of Hope for all you anti-Google fanatics.
I was searching for a large log file for the printed message “oh my god”, and when the computer couldn’t find the String I was looking for my boss pointed out the more existential dilemma we were facing in the text editor.
Our Last Hope
Thursday, April 13th, 2006I wrote this today while totally cracked out after too many cups of coffee, 12 hours of work, and two hours sleep. But it really spawned from pulling the “Judgement” card out of a Tarot deck this morning.
Our Last Hope
Nine hundred seagulls later,
the good people of Zion
were saved.
Left alone with locust lunchboxes; a
breathless barrier in seven
plauges; a plug-in
to the post-mortem
majesty mayday.
And yet, everything
worked out
okay.
Yes, each of us will die
in a different way.
And Pharoah may sit
upon our graves,
but if we listen yet to the sanskrit scribe
unfolding a torn scroll:
- “the scarab beetle scurrying,
just scratches the surface of your
immortal soul ”
perhaps we will rise
from the judgement tombs,
these earth born wombs,
each of us hovering six feet over ground,
the holy sound! trumpets blaring!
bombastic and terrible!
See, the last hope leans
astrally undulating
and under udders sagging
the sores of
the reborn;
you think,
what luck to have found yourself
here again,
sucking your mothers
great big boob?
Vietnamese Picnic
Thursday, April 6th, 2006Nornna
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006I found Nora’s videos while randomly browsing through YouTube.com – a new site where anyone can upload short films for the public to view. I’ve been hearing about the site, but when I went looking for certain things I just kept coming across videos by this same person, “Nornna”. I was a bit perplexed by what I was watching, but through some of her fans I gathered that she is in fact a growing celebrity in online video.
You’re going to have to watch some of the movies yourself to understand just how amazing they are: though I warn you, most of them have to do with very mundane things like eating, going to church, shopping – all basic staples for a 24 year old woman living in Wisconsin. But I insist that you browse through a few of them to see the insights they reveal. And don’t worry, they won’t be hard to find: one of the main reasons for her popularity is that she has completely flooded the servers with her clips, with roughly 700 uploaded in three months!!
What I find truly fascinating about Nora is that there is no “art snob” pretentiousness in these daily rituals of hers; she is being completely herself with very little ego involved. This is not some psuedo-Warhol shithead filming himself eating cereal. There is something much more revealing in these. In fact, many of Nornna’s fans attempt to film mundane moments in their own lives but they pale so much in comparsion – often feeling contrived and awkward, and most of all, boring.
But with Nornna, you get a real glimpse of what it is like to live her life and I am envious at how easily she can express it. And on top of that, she’s funny.
Here’s a new one where she talks about her rise in fame:
