Urban Honking

my life has been cancelled because of work, still may end up in DC, Baltimore, Chapel Hill; either way you should go see jessica and al read because they are terrific and funny and passionate. Or just read about Jessica’s an my night of stories.: Of reds and yellows and “lost boys”, days when Avenue […]

Barring sleet/fire/snow/last-minute meetings i must take–warning: there is a 97% chance of one these things occurring–I will in fact be reading and performing a new feminist time-based piece on the two tiniest-town dates of the Al Burian/ Jessica Hopper summer reading tour. Pride Up Head Down is a semi-autobiographical dance/reading performance about isolation, fistfighting, real-life […]

Jona is posting flickr photos of his European tour with Luckey Dragons, Devendra Banhart, Electrelane (a band which features HIT IT OR QUIT IT #18 contributor MIA CLARKE), C*** Ros**, Sonic Youth, Joanna Newsom, Wolf Eyes and other of America’s modern-day Jodorowsky ensemble cast, including Rahzel (the human beatbox and sixth or seventh wonder of […]

As I told K the other night, so much for pocos pero locos! This is a great piece. You know that whole “Mexican hip-hop takes over” thing? Um, yeah. Anglo crossover? Cultural mingling? The key, as always: songs about ass. At parties and in the marketplace, CULO traverses all borders. Well, some of them, anyway. […]

reading this great old interview with my favorite Marxist theologian/ Punk Planet dun Joel Schalit (now headmaster at tikkun) and if you ignore the overblown intro/annoying conspiratorial questions from the interviewer, you get to the point where Joel, off the cuff, states the following: “America has a very strong egalitarian ethos, despite being anything resembling […]

“Why We (Still) Love the Web” First got on the net as a Phish-head -tape-trading: rec.music.phish -got in an argument about earthquakes, went to a gopher site through dial-up to, eventually, answer the question -#why: random discussion group, community -learning html -myForm.theTexArea.value = “holy shit!” -found a community amogst web-heads 5k web award: -design within […]

Mssr. J. Kun has posted mp3s from a record called “Electric Latin Love Machine,” woo woo, and if you listen to “Samba de Victoria” you might be convinced Richard Hayman is acid house’s lost great-uncle, on a record dating back to–what year is it? Hey, the scholar isn’t telling! Secondly, Lance Chess–a scholar of the […]

Why Simplicity Matters (and Why It’s So Difficult to Achieve) Drive to Sea World got in a major car crash -louder and more physical than you expect -happens quickly and slowly -first thought: cmd-z ->digital tools we use change us: cmd-z became an instinct ->ex: ballerina’s toe shoes deform their feet: tools deform us -Past: […]

Podcasting Panel: Eric Rice ericrice.com audioblog.com What I do: Internet talk-based radio from pre-automatic delivery. Gregory Narain sparkcasting.com beercasting.com (hosting a beercast at the after party) What I do: getting people drunk and getting them to talk Matt May StaccatoMusic.org corante.com/podcasting (podcast about podcasting) What I do: perfect storm of podcasting and creative commons-licensed music […]

Designing for the Sandbox — Peter Merholz peterme@adaptivepath.com photos to web? -Cannon Powershoot S60 -iPhoto -to blog -need hosting -difficult ->flickr -no assumption towards prints -uploadr -Frasier Speers: api ->plugin for iphoto -better than flickr’s own tool -20mb bandwidth limit ->buying an account -api usage-created app resulted in increased usage, resulted in sale -reliquishing control […]