Up the River... again

I spent this past weekend drunk in a tent full of moisture and spiders. Yes, the annual Up the River Party was a bona fide hootenanny this year, despite a whole bunch of bitches who didn't turn out for the festivities. We drank your share, don't worry.

/hi-ho, Thunderbolt! bitch kicks. bitch kicks hard.

/paintlick mountain obscured by the fog.

/Jose, contemplative.

/clarence carter's "strokin'" was blaring as this photograph was taken. seriously.

/the long road back sunday morning, enlivened by haybale acrobatics.

Fucking spiders, though, man. I tell you what.

O Superman

Today's stolen mp3 link: "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson, queen of experimental music a la Brian Eno, [early] Peter Gabriel, John Cage, etc. etc. suffice it to say she's collaborated with everyone at some point. She was also NASA's first (and last) artist-in-residence a few years ago.

This particular song is a bit unnerving/annoying at first, but as the minutes roll by I find it extremely soothing.

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"here cooome the plaaanes... "

WORTHLESS TRIVIA: The background "beat" of this song is sampled at the beginning of the Clinic's "Cement Mixer".

Words

or, incredible song from Low. ..

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it isn't even my link.

Hooray for embedding

FIRST VIDEO POST EVER

By train from Amsterdam to Den Haag, almost 3 months ago now....

Kinda falls apart at the end, but whatever.

Hot 'n Heavy Link Dump Action

OR "HOW I LEARNED TO MASTER THE ALT-TAB FUNCTION AT MY NEW JOB"

Pay $20 to get a picture of your cat/dog wearing a military uniform. Heh?

This shit's creepy. Links clips of 80s commercials to your keyboard. "e" and "s" are particularly disturbing. REQUIRES AUDIO.

How do you warn humans 10,000 years in the future to stay the hell away from our radioactive waste sites? Call in the anthropologists:
"Any system for marking the WIPP site will have to be colossal in scale. Given the many huge human-made structure in the world today and the many more that are likely to be built in the coming centuries, a marker consisting of a small building or sculpture bearing a standard commemorative plaque is unlikely to be effective... In order to avoid the risk of the WIPP markers being confused with them and ignored (who in the 72nd century is going to bother to have a dedication to some 19th century war hero decoded?), they and their connecting structures have to be conceived of on a scale equivalent to that of the pyramid complexes of Egypt."

Add decorative flair to your bonsai installation.

Here's a semi-in-depth review of "Number stations", i.e. shortwave broadcasts of seemingly random strings of numbers, snippets of music, and amorphous tones throughout the Cold War, almost certainly linked to espionage:
Wikipedia entry
More in-depth article
Samples

Ever wonder how the Italians train for the World Cup?

Coolidge v. Mobb Deep. Castro v. Prince Paul. Shackleton v. Kid Koala. Get your samples here.

Mister Rogers testifies before Congress. No, really. What a cool guy.

NEW!!! SUNDRY WEIRDNESS BROUGHT TO YOU VIA GOOGLE VIDEO!!!!1!
MONKEYS WITH DRUMS!!!!
NUCLEAR TEST AT ENEWATA, HOLY CRAP!!
WHAT THE FUCK??!!!

Land that I love

Any vacation involving copious amounts of liquor, snakes, sharks, motorboats, and detonating watermelons with M80s will get an instant entry on this website.