5 Amazing Water Droplet Animal ‘Sculptures’

5 Amazing Water Droplet Animal ‘Sculptures’:

Ridiculousness Alert! German Artist and Photographer Markus Reugels — who you may recall from his insane water droplet photographs — just unveiled his latest creation, a “Water Droplet Zoo,” meaning, he spent thousands of hours photographing colored water droplets to come up with ones that abstractly resembled animals.

Make sense? Doesn’t matter, because it’s cramazing — here’s 5 of the photos on display (Click For Full Size):

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2.

3.

4.

5.

#4 might be a liiiiiittle on the abstract side, but whatever, still awesome. Let he who has not spent thousands of hours photographing water droplets cast the first ‘what animal is that?’ stone.

Now THAT'S a great band name!

I hereby claim "Tsar Bomba" as MY idea for a band name:

"Tsar Bomba is the Western name for the RDS-220, the largest, most powerful weapon ever detonated. The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961, in an archipelago in the Arctic Sea. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb had a yield of about 50 megatons. Its detonation released energy equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun for 39 nanoseconds of its detonation. The device was scaled down from its original design of 100 megatons to reduce the resulting nuclear fallout. The Tsar Bomba qualifies as the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity."

Neurosis setlist from 11/4/07

Neurosis played the Logan Square Auditorium on 11/4/07.

Setlist:
Given To The Rising
Hidden Faces
Season In The Sky
Fear And Sickness
To The Wind
Distill
Water Is Not Enough
Burn
The Doorway

MORE OF THIS PLEASE

Daily Kos: Pelosi

work-life balance

The Cult of Mac Blog

The Cult of Mac Blog: "'Among his other activities, Woz collects phone numbers, and his longtime goal has been to acquire a number with seven matching digits... after more months of scheming and waiting, he had it: 888-8888. This was his new cell-phone number, and his greatest philonumerical triumph.

The number proved unusable. It received more than a hundred wrong numbers a day. Given that the number is virtually impossible to misdial, this traffic was baffling. More strange still, there was never anybody talking on the other end of the line. Just silence. Or, not silence really, but dead air, sometimes with the sound of a television in the background, or somebody talking softly in English or Spanish, or bizarre gurgling noises. Woz listened intently.

Then, one day, with the phone pressed to his ear, Woz heard a woman say, at a distance, 'Hey, what are you doing with that?' The receiver was snatched up and slammed down.

Suddenly, it all made sense: the hundreds of calls, the dead air, the gurgling sounds. Babies. They were picking up the receiver and pressing a button at the bottom of the handset. Again and again. It made a noise: 'Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep.'

The children of America were making their first prank call.

And the person who answered the phone was Woz.'"

Rumsfeld's Unstoppable KungFu

POE News: Rumsfeld Fighting Technique

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Boing Boing: Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches

2001 Acura CL 3.2CL Type-S Full Warranty Until 2007

2001 Acura CL 3.2CL Type-S Full Warranty Until 2007


Me would like this car.

real receipt

real receipt
Originally uploaded by Max The Shark.

I got this on my way out the night before Halloween. I didn't have time to go back upstairs and check my balance... but it was fun to think about it.

Me

Me
Originally uploaded by Max The Shark.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Cool Tool: The Singularity is Near

Cool Tool: The Singularity is Near

Wow this looks really weird and cool.

the wombat

listen to the wombat. it makes sense.

http://www.globalcommunity.org/flash/wombat.shtml

pathetic

and obsessed. not good.

250 lbs of silly putty

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/28/what_250_lbs_of_sill.html

a story about a dog - by alex

there was once was a dog named Pinky. She belonged to the librarian
at an English school called Venusa. Pinky lived her life like many
other dogs in Venezuela, confined to a courtyard 24 hours a day.
The librarian, Hans, befriended a girl (who lived with a handsome
fellow named Alex)who was teaching at the school. He asked her to
watch Pinky for a couple of days. She loves animals, and said yes.
However, Hans never had any intention of taking this dog back.
So, for about a week, Pinky lived in the most loving environment she
has ever known, actually being cared for. Unfortunately Pinky was
allowed to 'go' wherever and whenever she wanted to in her courtyard,
so the rigors of apartment living were not for her. Luckily, the girl
Daniela always did whatever was necessary to care for Pinky and her
roomates did not have to do anything they didn't want to.
So Pinky was having a good life, the best week of her life, and she
was learning how to be a good dog and she was learning slowly how not
to be a stupid dog.
Until she was hit by a car yesterday. Now she's dead.

two voices

it was interesting.... i dealt with death in the morning with my dad's family, and consoling my dad - it's never easy to see your dad cry, even when it's understandable mourning. But in the evening i went to a party with the drummer from my mom's old band, and there were a few other pople who performed, including an 82-year old firebrand of a woman who sang beautiful opera. I played bass with my mom, her husband, the drummer and their old guitarist for a good number of songs. I'd never played them before, but have heard them since i was little and was able to pick them up pretty quickly.

HaloScan.com - Comments

HaloScan.com - Comments: "My values are based on one principle: loving others as I love myself, or as Buddha taught, trying to view all beings as having been at one time your own beloved mother. When you strive tolive with this thought uppermost, then you naturally strive to eliminate others' suffering, not create suffering. You do not lie, make war, steal or despise. You don't ravage the earth and its peoples, you don't ignore poverty and pain. You don't strive to enrich yourself or your family and friends at the expense of others toil and sacrifice. You do not try to force anything on anyone. You live mindfully and with compassion. You care. You do not judge.

You do not live this way because you fear retribution in an afterlife. You live this way because it is right."

not bury me with it

for your sake, i really hope that heaven and hell
really exist, but i wouldn't hold my breath.
you wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death?
you wasted life, why not waste the afterlife?
built to spill

tough

bears are tough

yoshimi

i don't know where the sunlight ends
and the starlight begins,
it's all a mystery.
i don't know how a man decides
what's right for his own life,
it's all a mystery.
-the flaming lips

First Draft - Holy Shit!

First Draft - Holy Shit!: "I agree with the troll who said this isn't, exactly, comperable in scale to Civil war casualties. But I also agree with the poster who pointed out that the casual contempt for the lives of our soldiers and their families encoded in that cheery dismissal is disgusting. I've said this elsewhere on this same subject, its a quote from one of Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan books 'Lives don't add as integers, they add as infinities.' Every one of the dead, on both 'sides' of this sideless, incoherent, conflict adds as an infinity of loss to someone. More or less than the Civil war? More or Less than Vietnam? Averaged? By percentages? by time? by heat? I don't care. But add them by sorrow? Add them by love and hope lost, by demolished futures, by weeping children? Then, indeed, this is comperable to the Civil War, to Vietnam, and to all conflicts.

Mission Accomplished, indeed.

aimai"

but now they have grasped great power

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.: "'Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.'

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 11/8/54"

jeebus fucking christ

Update: Father Charged In Murders Of Daughter and Her Classmate - May 11, 2005: "Officials say Hobbs confronted his 8-year old daughter, Laura, for leaving the house after being grounded for allegedly stealing money from her mother.

Hobbs reportedly said the confrontation escalated and he punched his daughter in the face, knocking her down. Her friend, 9-year old Krystal Tobias, pulled a small knife to try to protect Laura. Hobbs says he punched Krystal, took the knife and began stabbing them both.

Officials say Laura was stabbed 11 times, including in both eyes. Krystal was also stabbed several times. Hobbs says he dragged the bodies further into the woods of Beulah Park and cleaned up the alleged murder scene."

i love meta stuff

Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through Friday

music + science = sexy!

Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through Friday

rock

Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through Friday

one for the little guy

Boing Boing: V-TV DAY: WE WON THE BROADCAST FLAG FIGHT!

fun!

Natural Sciences Faculty
Apparently, she's done a lot of research on the mudskipper. I can only think of Ren and Stimpy when i hear that word.

in new york no one can hear you scream.

Alien Loves Predator: In New York, no one can hear you scream.

boing

Boing Boing: Moment of accidentally anal Brazilian university zen

apocalypse soon

t r u t h o u t - Robert S. McNamara | Apocalypse Soon: "Nuclear weapons, with roughly one seventieth of the power of the 1 megaton bomb just described, were twice used by the United States in August 1945. One atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Around 80,000 people died immediately; approximately 200,000 died eventually. Later, a similar size bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. On Nov. 7, 1995, the mayor of Nagasaki recalled his memory of the attack in testimony to the International Court of Justice:

Nagasaki became a city of death where not even the sound of insects could be heard. After a while, countless men, women and children began to gather for a drink of water at the banks of nearby Urakami River, their hair and clothing scorched and their burnt skin hanging off in sheets like rags. Begging for help they died one after another in the water or in heaps on the banks.… Four months after the atomic bombing, 74,000 people were dead, and 75,000 had suffered injuries, that is, two-thirds of the city population had fallen victim to this calamity that came upon Nagasaki like a preview of the Apocalypse."

red vs blue

This Modern World: "I go to Target, I go to Home Depot."

your plastic pal that's fun to be with

Original Hitchhiker's Guide: Radiophonic Blockbuster - createdigitalmusic.com: "Douglas Adams was infamous for 'raising procrastination to an art form.' (Favorite quote: 'I love deadlines. I like the wooshing noise they make as they go past.')"

incredible original

PostSecret

too much coffee

Daily Kos: "In my lifetime I have gone from John F. Kennedy to John F. Kerry, and from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush. If that's the evolution of leadership in this country, in just a few more years we'll all be voting for plants. Which might not be so bad. After all, thanks to their ecological purpose in this world, at least plants try to clean up the air. And that would certainly be an improvement over what we've got now."

looks like nixon

First Draft - Afternoon at the Captions: "Re: Afternoon at the Captions (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, April 28 @ 11:05:43 EDT
I've long advocated that there are enough intact brain cells floating around in his cranium that by mere chance there could be occassions that enough of them connect to allow George W to realize what the hell's he's involved with.

Then, of course, they soon go about their merry random dance allowing George W to mount another assault on our collective sanity.

jimmiraybob"

Robot Maximilian

BYO Android Head : Gizmodo

mirror

Eschaton: "The shallowest people end up blissfully happy and they are so vapid they don't even realize how vapid they are because vapidity is the only trait that comes with its own impermeable obliviousness system."

Photo: Sound-Bar 097 | Sound-Bar Presents album | Robert AyersII | Fotki.com

Photo: Sound-Bar 097 | Sound-Bar Presents album | Robert AyersII | Fotki.com

not entirely true.... my downloading has all but ceased with a local girlfriend.....

The Porn Myth - Naomi Wolf - Cover Story: "“For the first time in human history, the images’ power and allure have supplanted that of real naked women. Today, real naked women are just bad porn.”"

my ripple continues

My comment was mentioned on Gizmodo today, and the editor of CreateDigitalMusic thanks me for the tip on the DJ Kreemy table!
Economy of Scales: Turntable Furniture : Gizmodo

impact on the ether

I made a ripple on the internet today. Check out the comment i left in this article, the fourth one where i mention the DJ Kreemy turntable stand: createdigitalmusic.com :: Dream DJ Furniture

Then, go to this article, where the editor put up a whole new entry about the table, and thanked the anonymous me for reminding him of it!

Neato!

Iowa Underground :: View topic - Culture of Life Trading Cards

Iowa Underground :: View topic - Culture of Life Trading Cards: "'These are the fruits of thirty years of culture war. Hell-bent to get government off our backs, you installed a tyrant infinitely better equipped to suck the joy out of life. Cuckoo to get God back in the schools, you enshrined a god of unappeasable malice. Raging against the snobs, you enthroned a rum bunch of two-fisted boodlers, upper-class twits, and hang-em-high moralists. Ain't irony grand.'

- Tom Frank"

red sparowes

Track Listing:
1. Alone And Unaware, The Landscape Was Transformed In Front Of Our Eyes
2. Buildings Began To Stretch Wide Across The Sky, And The Air Is Filled With A Reddish Glow
3. The Soundless Dawn Came Alive As Cities Began To Mark The Horizon
4. Mechanical Sounds Cascaded Through The City Walls And Everyone Reveled In Their Ignorance
5. A Brief Moment Of Clarity Broke Through The Deafening Hum, But It Was Too Late
6. Our Happiest Days Slowly Began To Turn Into Dust
7. The Collapse Crept up Slowly, Like The Sunlight Through The Shutters, As We Looked Back In Regret

redsparowes.com

christ, the issues iraqi kids are going to have to deal with.....

t r u t h o u t | News Politics

good letter by sen. lautenberg

Eschaton: "They Write Letters "

sign of truth

great sign at the schiavo "protests"

great review of the Neurosis classic through silver in blood

don't crawl - seek his burn of war. When the fallout comes he is fire.

Here's another good review. This is an old album, but timeless.

And here's another really interesting one.

Walmart versus Target - price comparison using a Twenty-Item Checklist

Liquid foundation is fine for makeup, but it won't work for a building, and I've yet to see it work in a relationship.:

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWbillWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

M A S T O D O N : T O U R S: 05/03/05 Bottom Lounge Chicago, IL

shoot the friggin' gangster!

If i see one more goddamned flash animation ad telling me to shoot the fucking gangster, squish the bug or target some goddamned fox, i swear i'm going to come undone.

wisdom found in a car audio FAQ

Honda-Tech.com: Some Car Audio FAQs.: "'The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.'
-Benjamin Franklin

'I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.'
-- Stephen Roberts"

the plan keeps coming back again

Gothamist: Sell Outs: "-Built to Spill @ Irving Plaza May 11th, 12th and 13th"

chultcher of flife

First Draft: "That's Bush's Base, for you (or Bush's al Qaeda in Arabic): venal enough to kill in the name of life, stupid enough to try to rob a gun shop with a box cutter."

defective yeti... so hot right now. defective yeti.

30 hottest things to say follow-up

you boys been drinkin?

Boing Boing: Police lie about drug dogs to rob drivers' rights: "Cops rely on driver ignorance of the fact that evidence will be suppressed if drivers are detained longer than it takes to complete the traffic stop (e.g. write the ticket)."

A Wink and a Fraud

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: A Wink and a Fraud: "And, of course, this is a White House that never makes up facts to suit its purposes or sell its programs. It serves its propaganda baldfaced, with no hint of its real agenda."

I am nerdier than 60% of you

fishman as opera diva

listening to Phish's cover of Dark Side Of The Moon (yes, the entire album).... jon fishman singing Great Gig In The Sky.... laughing tears that this band will never play again.

ummm. ha ha haaaaaaha

Making it big: Kirstie Alley, the new face of Jenny Craig, at the post-premiere party for her new Showtime comedy "Fat Actress."
Have you seen her? she is a landwhale.

Personality Disorder Test

Personality Disorder Test - Personality Test
I don't know about the histrionic part, but they nailed the narcissism.

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	Low
Schizoid:	Low
Schizotypal:	Low
Antisocial:	Moderate
Borderline:	Low
Histrionic:	High
Narcissistic:	High
Avoidant:	Low
Dependent:	Moderate
Obsessive-Compulsive:	Moderate
-- Personality Disorder Test - Take It! --

russ's handle

Mobile PC - Features - The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time: "9. ATARI 2600, 1977
We've got two words to describe the majesty of this device: Yar's Revenge."

did you feed the cat?

Welcome to Bitter Films: "temporary anesthetics"

From the guy that got turned down to do some commercials for something or other. It doesn't take too long to figure out why. Singularly awesome.

long time coming

Treehugger: Quote from R. Grudin's book Time and the Art of Living: "'The future is like a friendly stranger, polite and patient, forever trying to get acquainted with us, forever being rebuffed. If we did simple exercises for thirty minutes a day, we would greatly improve our strength, health, beauty, and life expectancy. If we studied for one hour a day, we could relatively soon learn languages, master wide knowledge, and..

..develop new professions. If we sensibly invested $1 a day, we would in thirty years control substantial wealth. If we did ourselves the almost absurdly simple honor of planning our free time, we would enlarge ourselves into a whole new dimension of freedom. Yet we often fail to do any of these things, so great is our contempt of the future, so massive our ignorance of ourselves. It would be for most of us a highly disagreeable experience to meet, in the flesh, our future selves. Not just for the visual shock of seeing our own spirits animating bent limbs, watery eyes, and sagging jowls; but for the moral shock of meeting individuals whom we have daily and disgracefully wronged.'"

one more time around

I woke the same,
as any other day except a voice was in my head.
It said, "sieze the day,
pull the trigger, drop the blade and watch the rolling heads."
The Day I Tried to Live,
I stole a thousand beggars' change and gave it to the rich.
The Day I Tried to Win,
I dangled from the power lines and left them all astretch.
One more time around, i might do it.
One more time around, i might make it.

The words you say,
never seem to live up to the ones inside your head.
The lives we make,
Never seem to ever get us anywhere but dead.

The Day I Tried to Live,
I wallowed in the blood and mud with all the other pigs.

I woke the same,
as any other day, you know i
should have stayed in bed.

The Day I Tried to Win,
I wallowed in the blood and mud with all the other pigs.
and I loved that i was alive.

The Day I Tried To Live
just like you.

One more time around.

-- Soundgarden

Carrots fungus helps stop cancer

Carrots fungus helps stop cancer: "Carrots fungus helps stop cancer"

Check the first line of this article. That's a LOT of carrots.

Sleaze crisis in Kenya

Sleaze crisis in Kenya: "Sleaze crisis in Kenya prompts withdrawal of US funding"
Like the US has anything against sleaze! I love sleaze!

They keep referring to "sleaze". What do they mean, they never really define it! Just "sleaze".

First Draft

First Draft: "''Max Power, he has the name that you want to touch''"

the saga of Bloodninja

The Saga of Bloodninja
This is some of the funniest shit ever. I am literally laughing out loud at work, and have to stop reading it. It's a guy on old-school instant messgener, not sure the exact era... A sample:

Bloodninja: Wanna cyber?
DirtyKate: K, but don't tell anybody ;-)
DirtyKate: Who are you?
Bloodninja: I've got blond hair, blue eyes, I work out a lot
Bloodninja: And I have a part time job delivering for Papa John's in my Geo Storm.
DirtyKate: You sound sexy.. I bet you want me in the back of your car..
Bloodninja: Maybe some other time. You should call up Papa John's and make an order
DirtyKate: Haha! OK
DirtyKate: Hello! I'd like an extra-EXTRA large pizza just dripping with sauce.
Bloodninja: Well, first they would say, "Hello, this is Papa John's, how may I help you", then they tell you the specials, and then you would make your order. So that's an X-Large. What toppings do you want?
DirtyKate: I want everything, baby!
Bloodninja: Is this a delivery?
DirtyKate: Umm...Yes
DirtyKate: So you're bringing the pizza to my house now? Cause I'm home alone... and I think I'll take a shower...
Bloodninja: Good. It will take about fifteen minutes to cook, and then I'll drive to your house.
**pause**
DirtyKate:I'm almost finished with my shower... Hurry up!
Bloodninja: You can't hurry good pizza.

I haven't laughed like this in a while

Cheston
just click everywhere. multiple strips at each point i think.

Read This Now

Futurismic: Fiction

Really cool near-future sci fi, about perpetual motion machine. It is kinda confusing at first, but stick with it and it clears up (a little).

Mr. Plow

Mr. Plow: "I'm Mr. Plow, and I'm here to say, I'm the velvetest guy in the USA. I got a big plow and I move a lot of things, Like your cow if ya had one... -- M. C. Homer, ``Mr. Plow''"

t r u t h o u t - Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult"

t r u t h o u t - Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult": "Another salvation may be the economy. It's going to go very bad, folks. You know, if you have not sold your stocks and bought property in Italy, you better do it quick."

even the greatest man is but a ripple in the fabric of the universe

Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools: "'Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.' -- Jean Shepherd, 1975"

the first few results from googlism for cascone

I've bolded the fun ones

Googlism for: cascone

cascone is one of
cascone is perhaps best known as david lynch's assistant music editor
cascone is a creator
cascone is a sound designer and composer based in california
cascone is in his fourth season as head coach of the men's tennis team at monmouth university
cascone is in his third season as head coach of the men's tennis team at monmouth university
cascone is from usa
cascone is working to restore electricity in a more pure form to the creation of sound art
cascone is our keynote speaker and performer
cascone is the accomplished artist behind hmc
cascone is internationally recognised as an innovator in experimental electronic music
cascone is a rising star at cnn
cascone is doing a workshop on max/msp in germany
cascone is a 1995 graduate of seton hall university school of law
cascone is one such artist
cascone is among the riders featured in "that is my victory" ads
cascone is a senior designer at interaxis
cascone is just the most recent reinforcement in hoshall's battle against county government
cascone is the man of the moment
cascone is also seeking to acquire other capabilities that will help the company hold down costs or increase revenues
cascone is also well known for being david lynch¹s assistant sound editor for wild at heart and twin peaks
cascone is one of the co
cascone is one of learn the
cascone is operating this service
cascone is also survived by another daughter
cascone is the content manager at ligardening
cascone is ligardening
cascone is interested in pushing software such as max to its limits in order to investigate the "aesthetics of failure
cascone is probably best know to music fans over the age of 30 as the founder of san francisco's pioneering ambient/experimental label silent
cascone is indeed the best reference point for some of the darker and more abstract moments on this disc
cascone is also on the program

nothing is holy

It is really unbelievable just how much pee my body creates after a good workout. I swear, every five minutes i have to go for a full-length snake-drainage like i haven't peed all day, but it's only been five minutes.

impotent and blind

ice grip of fear
traps you like stage-lights

it's like i can't move

insomnia - it's what's for dinner

I have had the hardest time dragging myself into bed since the split. You know it's bad when internet porn loses its attraction. (It can also be good when it does, like when one has a relationship that creates its own porn. But this case is the exact opposite.)

constant velocity is as natural as being at rest

Someone at CNN realized all this fluff about SpongeBob is ree-god-damned-diculous.

Quick Vote
SpongeBob SquarePants is:
- Promoting the acceptance of homosexuality
- Promoting tolerance and diversity
- Absorbent, yellow and porous

don' chase 'em replace 'em

i have to change more than half of my passwords. They contain her initials.

the depth of the chasm is infinite

wrote down some more patent ideas tonight.
Also did some real intricate work juggling my credit card balances around... pretty proud of that. I can get an actual check to cash from CitiBank at 0%, which I'll cash and send to AmEx which should count towards rewards points... should bring me over 50K points.
The Haunted (swedish metal) is really good.

Definitely depressed. Slow burn of depth. Sleep only brings another day to deal with.

gregory's photographic SHUT THE HELL UP

If you are one of the three people who will ever see this blog and happen to need a wedding photographer and don't mind paying a lot for it, take our date of July 9 2005 in Madison. Gregory's Photographic Arts won't give us our deposit back until someone else rebooks that date. And even then, i imagine we'll have to beat it out of them.

Everything old is... still old

Her life doesn't have to change, her momentum is carrying her now.

For me everything changes, future unseen.

spinBlog is crushing your body

Well, that's over with. Can't really tell how i feel about it now. Everything is so imbued with her presence that it will take a long time to be able to not be reminded of her smile and her beauty. I've already cleared her pictures out of my cubicle, which I'm sure will not go unnoticed by some of my closer peeps here. Everything at home is covered with her presence though so that will be harder. Neither of us know if we're making another huge mistake, or if we're wise and courageous for being able to call a spade a spade. Probably somewhere in between.


Why is 95% of a good thing such a bad thing?

Saw (hed)p.e. last night at the House of Blues in Chicago. They're a pretty good band with a rap-metal vibe that doesn't suck, and even though they seem to have lost one of their guitarists they keep it pretty heavy. Their dj looks like he's been living on the street for a while. The music is good and i like most of what the frontman Jahred is saying, but he did a pretty good job of alienating gays and Christians throughout the show. Enough with the tough-man talk, get on with the music.
Strangest thing was, after the show we were hanging out in the Foundation Room, a kind of vip room at the HOB with Matt, Greg, Sean and his girlfriend of nine months Joanna. As we're winding things up Joanna gets up and leaves in a friendly way, and then sean starts talking about how she didn't include in him in their new year's eve plans. I asked him, "wait a minute. did you just end it with her right now?" He said yes and at my request of Are You Serious, he explained that not only did she not include him in her nye plans - she said he was welcome to come along, but that wasn't cool with him - that after nine months, she still didn't call him her boyfriend, and didn't want him calling her his girlfriend. So, i guess the nye thing was the proverbial straw on the camel, but I've never seen a relationship end so abrubtly and almost unnoticeably.
So, that was the strangest part of the night.
The saddest part of the night was afterwards when I removed the last remaining pieces of gear from matt's house. Ah, how things are changing.

500 Server Error
GFY, Assholes!

I thought Chicago was a happening city! There is nothing really going on in this city more than halfway exciting for New year's. WTF? It's all hotel and club parties with C-List DJs (Any DJs I know excluded of course - they are all world-class). Me and the wifey and a hot friend are going to one of the more pretentious clubs, Rive Gauche, since they have open bar till 4 am for $100.

population reduction grindcore metal

It's really unbelieveable. This has sent shockwaves throughout the entire metal community. I for one am going out to down to Jaeger with some buddies, in memory of Dime. It hasn't gotten any better with the passage of the day - some jaeger can't hurt.

Chad Lee's post about Dime. More great pics.

RIP Dime.

He kicked the ass of every day had, and died doing what he loved.

Damageplan was growing on me - i just saw them three weeks ago. Dime was on the upswing of a second peak.

I can't say anything that hasn't already been said, i'll just say FUCK and make sure to drink some Jaeger tonight for Dimebag.

"Keep rippin'" - Dimebag Darrell

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dude... are you fucking kidding me... dimebag - i can't even begin to describe this. I've been watching the story unfold here for the last 20 minutes and i just can't believe it. It's not on the teevee and it's buried on the web... but it's real... GAAAAAAAAH!

I don't know, I dont know, FUUUUCK. And here i was about to go to sleep.

Think of how bright this country could be with all of the money we've wasted. It is dark now, there is a pallor hanging over our souls and it is because we have been failed by our leaders. While I think it's best for President-In-Waiting Kerry to lay low for the time being while Chimp implodes, I hope that he can start a positive campaign soon; I can't take too much more of the dreary malfeasance oozing out of our halls of power. A simple, honest, positive message would be so powerful against the Right and their lies, and would help us start our country on a new road to the light.

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then his is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." --Plato

From MightyGirl

"Your style is played-out like a two-toned down goose,
You couldn't Converse if you had fuckin' React juice.
So hold your corner as I hold this mic up in the air,
I'm eatin' through your crew like Stven King's Langoliers."
-- Pfife of Tribe Called Quest on "Motivators"


That is so awesome and makes me laugh every time.

Who wants to bet on the first "Reality" show that will feature a death - possibly by one contestant of another?

Ratings are their god, I wouldn't put it past them.

Ah, yes. The old blog. Thought I'd dust it off and just try to write alittle bit every day or so. I am definitely intimidated by all the great blogs out there, but as I need to teach myself with song writing, I've just got to start and get some momentum, and see where it goes. It'd be nice to have a kind of diary to remind me of my life.
So. Band practice today, didn't go to Transit afterwards. We were hoping to play with a new drummer, but he couldn't make it. Mark has gotten a little better but he just doesn't have the confidence to go much further.
Ok, that's a good start. Let's see how long I keep this up.

Standing before might
brave and True
Knows no one course is right
Peace crushed by metal
In the Dirt of Failed Men's arrogant power

The Bull of fearful power
Deaf to Truth
Surrounded on all sides
It crumbles from the inside

Closed eyes and dead minds
Grasp for Power and Wealth
...When Light breaks through
Power and Wealth will not save you

-- Dedicated to Rachel Corrie, American, 23, crushed by Israeli bulldozer while peacefully protesting against demolition of Palestinian homes