… and make sure to play it fast and sloppy.
Ahem. I forgot even to listen to music today, let alone post mp3s. Oops.
Can you believe that the guitarist went on to be in the Dream Syndicate?
Consumers “Anti, Anti, Anti” Despite all of the blank generation and anarchy snarl outs, guitarwise it sounds like Black Sabbath on amphetemines. Fuck. It IS Black Sabbath isn’t it?
Consumers “Consumers” If they hadn’t fallen apart so quickly, this could have been their Hey, Hey We’re the Monkees.
Six foot long squid dwell in the deep sea off of the Louisiana coast! The species is previously unknown. The Eye-in-the-Sea camera captured footage of the squid at a depth of 1,600 feet below the surface on August 10th, 2004 during Operation Deep Scope, and the footage is online.
Update: Previously i wrote that the squid is bioluminescent. Squidblog points out that it was the bait used to lure the squid that is bioluminescent, not the squid.
I dunno. I’ve read Juan Cole and The Next Hurrah, and i don’t feel one bit more enlightened. It felt easier to get a handle on the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, but whenever Israel has a stake involved, i want to retreat to the hills and close my eyes. It all becomes too complicated, too subjective.
However, i do understand that the protests are organized by a coalition of Druze and Maronites, two groups with such convoluted theological premises that they must read to be believed. Did i write “believe”? I meant “duly acknowledged.”
I was confused the other day about Maronites and Nestorianism, blending them together in my head, not remembering that Maronites were a schism from Assyrian Church of the East (which apparently wasn’t even Nestorian, but merely sympathetic) over the concept of Monophysitism. I still don’t know quite what to make of those Coptic manuscripts, but I still think the Roman persecution theory is nonsense.
As for the Druze… I’m utterly lost. I remember the name all through the ’70s and early ’80s, and read it most recently in Gonick’s The Cartoon History of the Universe III. All i learned from Gonick is that that particular Muslim (Shiite) splinter (which most Muslims do not consider to be Muslim) is that its founder was an Egyptian caliph in the 11th century named al-Hakim persecuted Jews and Christians (even though his own mother was a Christian) and had his slave Masoud sodomize merchants that didn’t give him a good deal, which started the tradition of Cairo shoppers telling businesses, “Don’t give me a hard time or I’ll bring Masoud.”
Al-Hakim also triggered the First Crusade (which didn’t get launched until 1095) by destroying the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 1009. Oops. I kinda feel that the Christians were just grasping at straws after waiting nearly a century though.
AP wire stories really get on my nerves. I eagerly read this story:
Archaeologists have discovered a group of giant figures scraped into the hills of Peru’s southern coastal desert that are believed to predate the country’s famed Nazca lines.
About 50 figures were etched into the earth over an area roughly 90 square miles near the city of Palpa, 220 miles southeast of Lima, El Comercio newspaper reported.
The drawings — which include human figures as well as animals such as birds, monkeys, and felines — are believed to be created by members of the Paracas culture sometime between 600 and 100 B.C., Johny Islas, the director of the Andean Institute of Archaeological Studies, told the newspaper.
One prominent figure appears to represent a deity commonly depicted on textiles and ceramics from the period, Islas said.
The recently discovered designs predate the country’s famous Nazca lines, which have mystified scientists and were added to the United Nation’s Cultural Heritage list in 1994.
The Nazca lines — which also include pictographs of various animals — cover a 35-mile stretch of desert some 250 miles south of Lima and are one of Peru’s top tourist attractions. The Nazca culture flourished between 50 B.C. and 600 A.D., Islas said.
The lines, thousands of them in all, were made by clearing darker rocks on the desert surface to expose lighter soil underneath.
But some of the details seemed very familiar. Can you imagine why? Because National Geographic already covered this story back in 2002. Sneaky, sneaky AP…