maybe you're right jamie, tho "town center" throws me off. it sounds like there's still some sort of cultural legacy there, and besides there are no town centers here in the american suburbs except for the contrived ones you drive to from your mcmansion

also there are almost no jews in my hometown either and idk if the person was actually jewish. the guy was just nuts in a really american kind of wayfrom what I've read detroit is pretty nuts and different from other postindustrial cities. like rather than having wealthy cores with poor areas in the periphery, you have these isolated wealthy properties floating around throughout the city. but that's still a postindustrial city OLD NEWS I'm talking post-suburban, the dregs of global shit that was already cheap and artificial before it got abandoned. this is the current trend, and unlike postindustrial urban centers aint nobody gonna revitalize shopping malls, big box stores and housing developments

yeah i was more referring to the suburban periphery of these places. Detroit has begun cutting off certain sections of the city from the power grid and there's just rotten plywood covering every orifice of every shitty chipped-paint building and vacant box stores with the name of them weathered into the side where the sign used to sit.

the situation in which this is shocking but totally unsurprising and believable is already a horrifying one

that's in my state, joe paterno was a minor god to college football fans and last I checked a lot of my facebook friends were still convinced of his innocence and blamed the media for him being fired/his eventual death. there are conspiracy theories that the whole thing was a set up to take down Penn State football. now that the ball is rolling a whole bunch of other accusations about the college are popping up, and apparently there's a problem with their famous ice cream too. one of the most popular flavors was Peachy Paterno

It's 5am, I should be working on an assignment that was due yesterday and I haven't started.. eugh motivation.

It's 5am, I should be working on an assignment that was due yesterday and I haven't started.. eugh motivation.

What is it about.

We need to create a piece of art that is an abstract visual representation of a song. Mixed media preferably

that sounds fun

http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

this is interesting

I like changing it so you have to memorize color shape position and audio at the same time, it's really confusing/reminds me of gaming/childhood in some way, getting disoriented = fun

this is legitimately terrible right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq0lYB3iSM

I dare you to watch the whole thing.


Also anybody remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxGkQjiX8Tw


I know someone on GW introduced me to that (I always think steel, maybe sredni, possibly even chef or someone who frequented the youtube/video thread in p911). Anyway I still maintain this is a fantastic video beyond the weirdness at first. His performance is pretty good? I don't know anything about this type of "performance" (??) but... I still think it's really cool and good. And entertaining.

I watched it all and the only thing  terrible is you. Sorry it had to be said.

it's cool if he decided it was great and this was the first time he had ever heard of that song.

I can't stand Van Halen's music, which is a shame, because he was such an original and fun guitarist, and after learning parts of eruption (and later teaching some dude in a metal band that awesome tapping section), it's just like,poop. 80's hair metal sucks (unless it involves Steve vai).

Man, things suck right now, my is she/isn't she girlfriend's off to uni in four/five weeks, so we've gotta split. Yesterday I went to the funeral of a childhood friend (knew him since I was about 2, he died of a brain tumour), my credit card still hasn't been paid off (thanks to manic episodes resulting in buying lots and lots of records/lego/chocolate) and the only thing that's keeping me going right now is the vague hope that the demo I'm working on will be picked up by an independent lable like Riot Season. But even then, I'm unsure that my music is good enough, if not, I'll try and try again, all while living a crappy generic life in a crappy generic job, not able to leave my parent's house again. Serious crippling headaches and pains, and lack of awareness/concentration due to depression and stress, but my doctors know that if i don't keep myself busy with what I'm doing (working on my music when possible, working on my music blog, working exhausting shifts dealing with white van men) then I'll just fall apart, leaving me in a nasty situation where being in constant pain and not sleeping is actually better than the alternative. I regularly give to charity and shop in charity stores (varies from 1-10% of my wages), yet feel I'm not doing enough to help people. I always look out and help other people, but feel that the same doesn't happen to me, and when the lows kick in, it feels that it's all one massive conspiracy to keep me miserable, with everybody from my parents to david cameron, religious leaders to reincarnated dictators.
Over the next two or three years, I'm hoping to put enough money together to do a Masters Degree in something along the lines of art history, culture studies, music journalism. Something where I can write about Frank Zappa basically. I know I write to a high standard and enjoy tackling controversial/new ideas/subjects (my dissertation was about how monsters(demons, devils etc) in fine art represent male violent sexual desires, it was concidered ma/phd quality, and they liked the fact that it was a pretty new/original subject that hasn't really been gone into in depth before), but I don't know if anything will work out.

Sorry for the desperate rant, just sometimes I need to splurt shit out like an arsehole dolphin with a bad case of blue balls. Keep trucking and all that jazz.

peep this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IArxakPsPE0