tonight...

I made a header image. Well, I made three, but they were all pretty stupid. So I went with a more basic approach... And that's all the energy I have at the moment.

am i mistaken? i thought i was invited.

The entire fight over healthcare in the United States gives me a source of never-ending entertainment. As fun as it is, something came up last night while I was eating a chicken satay that I think is important enough to mention here.

Obama is, in some ways, worse than Bush. Sure, he wants to pass this healthcare thing, he has nice and cushy social programs. But is it not just feed for the trough, painting himself a populist while he silently continues the same illegal wars? At least Bush was stupid enough to make an unpopular war the centerpiece of his administration, which caused a lot of anger.

It is also, for lack of a better word, depressing to see the voices that were so critical of Bush become sudden defenders of the status-quo. The arguments, the protests, the anger—they were politicking. Maybe I knew it back then, on some kind of lower-cerebral level, but wouldn't admit it out loud. Hoped for the best. Turns out it's true. There is no such thing as a critical voice anywhere near the American mainstream. When Chomsky goes (he's getting old, sad but true), we're on our own.

In Firefox v5.5b99 on OS X...

...the comment system on blogger doesn't work. So I have to switch to Safari... Bullshit.

wondering

what exactly do we wait for before making decisions?

sorry 'bout the dark.

So. I am online now, debating whether I should go to SU bar for a half hour. What a life this turned out to be. Nothing to write, just didn't want to let this thing die already.

confused

Pretty confused about what to do for my representation section as of right now. But that's natural, as I'm really just starting it. What's disconcerting about that is that I have only 2 1/2 weeks left to write this section, the software section, the regulation section, and the conclusion, revise it, and hand it in as a first draft. That's a lot of writing and work, and I already have about 8,000 words – the limit is 15,000. I may cut out the software section entirely, which will be a pain in the ass, but its the least significant, most hard-to-classify-within-my-framework part and I am really running out of room. And time.

Maybe this was a bad week to start a blog.

resources

I've been watching a lot of documentaries lately.
Some of them come from these places, and you can watch them too! lolerskates!

• theyliewedie.org/anarchism.org's documentaries list. Ones to definitely see: "Surplus - Terrorized into Being a Consumer", and Chomsky's talk on anarchism. Also: 'Manufacturing consent' 'The Corporation' and 'Money as Debt' if you haven't caught those yet. I still need to watch 'Living Utopia' and 'This is what Democracy Looks Like."

• some more conventional/popular ones. i know i got something from here once. maybe sicko?

• A subreddit for documentaries FTW

The Internet Archive of course has a ton of shit, as well. Especially good for finding (usually full) live shows from somewhat obscure bands. They have old against me!, plot to blow up the eiffel tower, and bear vs shark on there, at least.

This page is "spectacle.co.uk." They have the Debord-inspired documentary 'Call it Sleep' which I really like, and some other great things on there as well. They have a fuckton of videos, but they're kind of unorganized. Stick to the 'Catalogue' section to find full-length documentaries. However, only have some videos available... and often they ask you to purchase the films. So what you do is find an interesting one and google that shit. you google the shit out of that shit. make me proud.

dearly,
mghjr

7047

words and the introduction is finished. for now, at least.
tomorrow: begin representation!

one day i'll have a massive. fucking. brain. and a piece of paper to prove it.



ps. - about the link in the post header. tell me one of those doesn't have life on it. come on, at least ONE has to.

I sent out invitations

So I sent out formal blogger invitations to this to a few people. Well, ok, that's lame. You're right. What can I really say.

But really. Hey. I'm going to try to update a good amount, so if anybody's wondering what's going on – I guess you can find out here.

So if anybody calls, just tell them we're dead!

I am starting an online journal. It is a strange thing to do. Foucault – grand fucking master of sociology – says that journals are a technique of the self, a method through which individuals reconfigure discourse/available cultural information in order to bring coherence and clarity to their experiences – to form a meta-narrative of self. And he's fucking FOUCAULT. So I'm going to listen to him.


But this clearly isn't just for me, if it were I'd write it on paper or in .txt files and store it on a super-secure HDD in my closet. Anyway, It seems the dead bald guy is right, because I guess I am using it for day-to-day coherence. Only because so many go by without me knowing what I did, it's pretty scary actually. Maybe I have early-onset alzheimer's.


I used to do this when I was younger - my livejournal stopped getting serious attention, though, about three years ago. So I'm back again, to the internet.


I'm not sure that I'm self-indulgent enough for this any more, though.

And I bet this comes back, in some way, to make me feel idiotic...
...maybe I should really get on changing my profile picture and 'First Name/Last Name' on here.