Sunday, July 3, 2011

Grandaddy Landscape

“…Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you’ll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy, throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that’s offered.”

Friday, December 24, 2010

The austere beauty


He became so obsessed with Euclid's parallel postulate that his father wrote to him: "For God's sake, I beseech you, give it up. Fear it no less than sensual passions because it too may take all your time and deprive you of your health, peace of mind and happiness in life". János, however, persisted in his quest and eventually came to the conclusion that the postulate is independent of the other axioms of geometry and that different consistent geometries can be constructed on its negation. He wrote to his father: "Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe".

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Key Change


Ah! je voudrai voler comme un oiseau daile
Ah! je voudrai voler comme un oiseau daile,
Daile...

10/19 Moby
11/1 Regina Spektor
11/4 David Gray


I wonder if the stars sign
The life that is to be mine
And would they let their light shine
Enough for me to follow
I look up to the heavens
But night has clouded over
No spark of constellation
No vela no orion

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Bury, burn the waste behind you


From 1,000 feet below Lower Harvard Bridge to Nickel and South Shore Railroad Bridge, the channel becomes wider and deeper and the level is controlled by Lake Erie. Downstream of the railroad bridge to the harbor, the depth is held constant by dredging, and the width is maintained by piling along both banks. The surface is covered with the brown oily film observed upstream as far as the Southerly Plant effluent. In addition, large quantities of black heavy oil floating in slicks, sometimes several inches thick, are observed frequently. Debris and trash arc commonly caught up in these slicks forming an unsightly floating mess. Anaerobic action is common as the dissolved oxygen is seldom above a fraction of a part per million. The discharge of cooling water increases the temperature by 10 to 15°F. The "velocity is negligible, and sludge accumulates on the bottom. Animal life does not exist. Only the algae Oscillatoria grows along the piers above the water line. The color changes from gray-brown to rusty brown as the river proceeds downstream. Transparency is less than 0.5 feet in this reach . This entire reach is grossly polluted. [7]

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Part of a series of Hinduism

Lyrically, the song appears to reference Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, whence it is likely the song was named. The lyrics were written by Billy Corgan in reference to his break-up with then-girlfriend Chris Fabian. The song is an exercise in expressing both perspectives of a failed relationship, rather than taking the typical solipsistic approach found in many break-up related songs. The song itself expresses this through ambisexual vocal stylings and musical arrangements, shifting from a soft, relaxed style to crushingly heavy distortion towards the end, finally arriving again at the initial relaxed arrangement to close the song. Corgan says the song "is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security." [3] The song features a prominent piano figure by Mike Mills of R.E.M..

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The Future


And I'm sorry for us
The dinosaurs roam the earth
The sky turns green
Where I end and you begin

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

E D A C G

"If you're bored we'll stop"

"Are you bored?"


Number one champion sound



Just touched down in London town