plsj field notes

Am I weird because I have pubic hair?

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:41:52 -0400

Am I weird because I have pubic hair?: Another example of the mainstreaming of porn?

Sam Dunn & Scott McFadyen on The Hour with George...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:03:00 -0400

Sam Dunn & Scott McFadyen on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

They made the awesome Metal (2005) & Global Metal (2008) documentaries, as well as Iron Maiden: Flight 666 which I haven’t seen but looks good too. (Then again I just wanna be on a plane flown by Bruce Dickinson.)

PMRC's Filthy Fifteen (1985)

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:54:00 -0400

Bring on the metal and oversexed females!

The PMRC released the Filthy Fifteen to the public in 1985. These fifteen songs, according to Tipper Gore, fit the mold of the types of songs that the PMRC would like to see banned. In their original proposal, songs would be rated according to several categories:

V for violence
O for references to the occult
D/A for overuse of drugs/alcohol
X for harsh sexual content

Judas Priest — “Eat Me Alive” — Rated X
Motley Crue —“Bastard” — Rated V
Prince — “Darling Nikki” — Rated X
Sheena Easton — “Sugar Walls” — Rated X
W.A.S.P. — “(Animal) F-U-C-K Like a Beast” — Rated X
Mercyful Fate — “Into the Coven” — Rated O
Vanity — “Strap on Robbie Baby” — Rated X
Def Leppard — “High n’ Dry” — Rated D/A
Twisted Sister — “We’re Not Gonna Take It” — Rated V
Madonna — “Dress You Up” — Rated X
Cyndi Lauper — “She Bop” — Rated X
AC/DC — “Let Me Put My Love Into You” — Rated X
Black Sabbath — “Trashed” — Rated D/A
Mary Jane Girls — “In My House” — Rated X
Venom — “Possessed” — Rated O

We

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:04:44 -0400

To the Harbormaster

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:10:01 -0400

I wanted to be sure to reach you;
though my ship was on the way it got caught
in some moorings. I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart. In storms and
at sunset, with the metallic coils of the tide
around my fathomless arms, I am unable
to understand the forms of my vanity
or I am hard alee with my Polish rudder
in my hand and the sun sinking. To
you I offer my hull and the tattered cordage
of my will. The terrible channels where
the wind drives me against the brown lips
of the reeds are not all behind me. Yet
I trust the sanity of my vessel; and
if it sinks it may well be in answer
to the reasoning of the eternal voices,
the waves which have kept me from reaching you.

Frank O’Hara

Photo

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:01:03 -0400

"Here’s my challenge. Right now, put aside 100 hours over this summer. Do it right now, in your head...."

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:40:14 -0400

“Here’s my challenge. Right now, put aside 100 hours over this summer. Do it right now, in your head. Put that time aside. 100 hours. 8 hours a week for the next 12 weeks. One hour a day, or one working day a week. It’s one summer out of your entire life, it’s nothing. Okay, you’ve got that 100 hours? Now for the next two days, go to talks and start conversations with people you don’t know, and choose what to spend your 100 hours on. I guarantee that everyone in this room can produce something or has some special skill, and maybe they’re not even aware of it … Because when you contribute, when you participate in culture, when you’re no longer solving problems, but inventing culture itself, that is when life starts getting interesting.”

- Matt Webb

Black Sheep (New Zealand, 2007) Zombie sheep FTW.

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:44:32 -0400

Black Sheep (New Zealand, 2007)

Zombie sheep FTW.

“Stop! We have reached the limits of what rectal probing...

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:11:01 -0400

“Stop! We have reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us.”

Treehouse of Horror VII

"Beware how you take away hope from any human being."

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:56:49 -0400

“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I find this much more alarming than amusing. via

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:42:42 -0400

I find this much more alarming than amusing.

via

Ha! The comforts of ambient intelligence.

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:28:00 -0400

Ha! The comforts of ambient intelligence.

From Blossoms

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:12:24 -0400

From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the joy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.

From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

Li-Young Lee

Design and Society: Our call for change in design education

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:17:00 -0400

Design and Society: Our call for change in design education:

“[D]esign education is still largely hinged on industrial principles. Students need to be equipped with a broader range of research and communication skills, alongside their more traditional design skills, and encouraged to think more laterally about the sites and spaces where these could be used.”

Some of my conservative designer friends would disagree, but hybridity isn’t the enemy, purity is. I, for one, welcome our new monstruous overlords.

"[W]hen the technology’s limitations prevent us from going straight to the song we want,..."

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:12:04 -0400

“[W]hen the technology’s limitations prevent us from going straight to the song we want, we’re forced to listen to the whole thing, and maybe grow to love certain songs whose beauty reveals itself slowly.”

- On loving the Walkman for what it was, and the iPod for what it is

One day I’d love to own a ‘65 Dodge Dart. They...

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:20:00 -0400

One day I’d love to own a ‘65 Dodge Dart. They remind me of sharks.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Brains: Zombieconomics

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:02:37 -0400

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Brains: Zombieconomics:

“Zombies represent a source of cheap labor and a particularly lucrative source being that they are infinitely undead … In fact, rather than labor, one can view zombies as inexpensive factory tools, which require no maintenance or upgrades.”

And then comes the Zombie Rights Movement.

via

Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride (Solid Gold)

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:36:34 -0400

Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride (Solid Gold)

Animal Death Cut Out Book

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:20:08 -0400

Animal Death Cut Out Book

photo by flaunted via

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:35:00 -0400

photo by flaunted

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