Jun 2005

Jun 1

the killers "mr. brightside"

the chordal and rhythmic structure of this song makes me think of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

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Jun 8

matrical metaspace

I skurffed a random essay through Blogdex about Los Angeles and the way it is depicted in various media. The author in particular talks about the abstracted representation of Los Angeles in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and how strange it is to have been to a real place and find it recreated in a video game. I imagine the emotional impact is quite different than if one had grown up in L.A., where one becomes naturally trained to appreciate the gradations between "real-real," "fake-real," "real-fake," and "fake-fake." (Or maybe it's just me.) I tend to assume that the rest of the world tends to simply dichotomize experiences between "real" and "fake," since that seems to be the most useful distinction.

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Jun 8

radiohead "creep (acoustic)"

Interesting flash animation set to the melancholy strains of Thom Yorke.

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Jun 15

the future is now

As I waxed speculatively the other day about the development of a topographic symbiosis between the virtual and the real, apparently I've missed the boat because it's already here.

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Jun 27

i am a nerd

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