Farewell Michael. Keep moonwalkin' in heaven.
Have added ads to the site to cover domain fees etc. Will refine over the next week or two.
Myself and friend Thomas had absolutely nothing to do with this.
Enjoy ;)
Just found a haiku I wrote when I was 7 & 1/2 years old - it's not grammatically haiku though.
"Wind. Invisible
arms push me over. It jumps
on me, kicks my face."
Just brilliant.
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No. 1: Glum Buster, a beautiful wee freeware puzzle/platformer game which's taken my brain by force. Very smart, very lateral-thinking but not in a boring 'combine the piece of string with the wooden mallet'-bullsh*t way. All puzzles eventually figure-out-able, which I appreciate. And so smart. So smart.
No. 2: Intelligent Toys 5 is out (actually it's been out for a while, I only just caught up). Beautiful 3-hour set of free IDM/melodic electronica - for me, the "Think" section is easily the best. Check out Wack Spine by Funkarma for an example.
No. 3: small recommend - not for everyone though! All of our Friends are Dead. F'ing MENACING. Creepy/spooky little freeware platformer game which I thoroughly enjoyed, even though when you finish it you have absolutely no idea what just happened other that it felt like a teen goth poetry session gone Right, for a change. Phew.
And finally thought I'd mention a little EBM song by Pola called "Circles". Never heard something so sad and beautiful. You'll have to find it yourself tho'.
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Buddhism, religion, music, tv, cinema, drama, books,
all these abstractions, all amount to so much pomp, as they pump air into life, make it bigger than it
is capable of being sustained as. And particularly mine.
When the balloon deflates, we typically feel disappointed.
One book which doesn't mimick this commitment to obsfucation is Harvey Pekar's
"American Splendor"
The crux of it is a commitment to reflecting reality - all the seedy, normal, concrete facts of a normalised
existence, filtered down into comic book form.
It seems strange that something so ordinary could be in any way uplifting and grounding at the same time.
Perhaps it's the unique intellectualised take that Harvey has on objective reality in a workaday world (he's sort of a working man's thinking man),
maybe it's the fact that his stories, while occasionally depressing, never aggrandise or distill the depression
and ordinariness into something more potent. And that lack of potency is it's selling point. The fact that it
reflects life with all it's drunken blurriness, is what makes it useful.
The lack of memorableness of it's subject matter is strangely what makes the exploration of such rememberable.
I have a mouse for a friend- he's visited the past couple of nights, at the same time, crawling in through the airgap under my kitchen window. I'm not sure whether he (well, could be a she I guess, but I'm going to assume a he) is seeking warmth, or food. He is very cute and can jump rather high in the air if you try and catch him.
I washed everything he touched after he left. You don't fool me, Mr Tiny Rodent. You may be irresistably adorable, but you're also swimming in diseases that I probably don't want.
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UPDATE: 3 times! He must really like me or possibly staying alive.
Just thought I'd pop my head up and say something bout this amazing freeware game Iji, just entered my top 3 list of freeware games, up there with Cave Story and Kyntt Stories. I liked the game so much I ended up putting together an alternative music pack for it. "PassivePack" (the alternative music replacement pack) can be downloaded here and there. Got author's (Daniel's) permission to do it, of course.
Just because.
Incidentally, screw Creative Freedom NZ. If this website is black on your machine, it's just because it's got a random layout generator which switches between four different look-and-feels.
Coming back from town on an empty electric scooter and listening to Cerebral's "Motoroto" dj mix, I looked at the stars whizzing past at 5kph, thought:
It takes extraordinary people to shake us to make us see how small our lives are or have become.
I also believe it can take extraordinary people to show people how vast and real smallness can be.
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Escapism
""Who," writes the distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, "hasn't--sometime--wanted to escape? But from what?" In his fascinating look at the idea of escape, Tuan suggests that all human culture is really a kind of flight, an evasive mechanism, a means of not facing facts: our shelters give us refuge from the weather, our cities give us protection against nature red in tooth and claw, our religion and institutions give us solace against the certainty of death. "A human being," he says wryly, "is an animal who is congenitally indisposed to accept reality as it is." Tuan examines the artifacts of our present civilization to buttress his argument. The cornucopia of the modern supermarket, for instance, with its "dazzling pyramids of fruits and vegetables, its esplanades of meat," which promises ceaseless abundance, and the growth of escape-to-nature ideas, which, he insists, depend on an antithetical escape from nature (nature being, in his definition, "what remains or what can recuperate over time when all humans and their works are removed"). That escape to nature, he suggests, relies on an unfortunate abstraction, one of simplicity. Images of nature, he continues, are often formed from wishful thinking and not from direct experience, and they tend therefore to lack the complexity of reality. Tuan's vigorous essay is provocative, challenging, and a pleasure to read."
Quite enjoying Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t!
After some questionable reflection, have decided to make all my EP's $1 to purchase online, instead of $3.
My hope is that people will consider this donation-able, and support me to make future music.
As always, most of the songs are available for free in 128kbps mono (asides from newer stuff).
This pamphlet explains very adequately the problems that people have with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (M.E, Yuppie Flu, etc), as well as what to expect from a CFS victim: Download in Word document format. Written by Rosamund Vallings of Auckland New Zealand.
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Videoclip for Nameless, senseless now online and viewable at the following places (and more): YouTube, Yahoo, Metacafe and Viddler.
New EP. Jugs-to-position. Have been working on 'pinetree' a long long time.
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