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November 8, 2011

Nanowrimo 2011: kakked.

Filed under: Errata — scrame @ 10:04 pm

I watched the weekend pass, and a few days of this week. Its not gonna happen. I made it about 3000 words, which is about fitting for an earnest newcomer.

Actually, I liked the last thing I started to write. I just don’t want to force myself if I’m not ready for it.

I skipped scriptfrenzy, too. For haikus. Some of them were good, but I was hard pressed to regularly care.

I thought about stuff, I had a few Ideas, even. It was never quite on my schedule, and it seems like it was … forced. Not in a good way. I couldn’t latch on to anything that I cared about, even enough to bullshit for a few thousand more words.

I’m not doing thanksgiving, really, this November is pretty unladen. Outside of work, of course, which is difficult, but not stressful by a yard.

I do feel like I have crossed a new boundary.

I’m just a little too old.

I can’t quite do it anymore. I can’t stay up all night watching old school rap videos on youtube and go to work. I used to spend wednesday nights dj’ing, then would wheel my turntables around on a makeshift dolly to all night yakiniku spots in tokyo, then drag 200 pounds of turntables and records home down a train and a mile walk — including dragging everything up and down a short stair case over a bridge, and up a full staircase at home — to bed down at 6am. All that to get up at 8:30, put on a shirt and tie and read poorly translated kids stories to a gym with 100+ kindergartners.

I don’t have any of those obligations anymore. In fact, much of my current life was me trying to find some kind of stability and sustainability.

Well, I pulled that off, but once again, I am uninspired, or at least would rather not type so much.

I am a very particular kind of burned out.

I have few obligations, and a lot of opportunity, but there is nothing wrong with my status quo.
In fact, it would be hard to beat.
Still, I could do better: I could make more money, move, travel, make families, start a wilderness appreciation club, buy an RV and ; … anything!
But that shits a pain in the ass, really.
I have a job I can do, I’m not over-qualified or underpaid, I’m not with some fly by night start-up, and I’m not over-worked.

I’m also not easily replaced.

It is scary that this is the longest that I’ve ever had a job. It was humorous when I was 24 and had a job for 18 months.

Anyway, this year I would rather drink, play video-games and surf the internet. I’m life constipated, and puking out 1667 words a day on some shit I don’t care about isn’t going to pass it.

-+ Peace +-

October 24, 2011

Nina Simone: For Women.

Filed under: Uncategorized — scrame @ 7:11 pm

Not much to say here. Great performance.

Also, Kwali’s first album had a hidden track, called “Four Women” based on this.

October 16, 2011

saturday

Filed under: Uncategorized — scrame @ 1:29 am

there is a lucidity and purity of being drunk
a golden moment of insight
A crystal clear breathless high
chewing through a pool of tangerines
Thats the bullseye
its easy to overshoot
encrusted with bad decisions
and has another day to try again

September 20, 2011

Silence.

Filed under: "art" — scrame @ 3:28 am

can you sit in silence

without tv or headphones

without relentless flicker

without friends with better ideas

without some opportunity

to tell your brain

to shut up?

September 9, 2011

The History of Seattle.

Filed under: crap — scrame @ 5:55 pm

Hey, whats this place-whoooare you? This is seatlthhth selthh seealththth. Okay. We’re in Seattle. Nice to meet you. We’re going to cut down some trees, got any booze?

June 16, 2011

Top 5 Hip-Hop Tracks.

Filed under: Music — scrame @ 10:02 pm

This is tentative, but I think I nailed down 5 tracks that I really like more than any other. Most of these I have always called a “Top 5″ track, but never tried to make a list.

In absolutely no order:

organized konfusion — invetro
naughty by nature — ghetto bastard
nas — memory lane
ice cube — what can i do
melle mel — the message

(obviously a child of the 90s)

April 3, 2011

In lieu of scriptfrenzy

Filed under: "art",daily,haiku — scrame @ 8:37 pm

Since I think I already owe a script, I didn’t really want to start a new one, and things have been hectic and I didn’t plan for one, @inlandempirical and I launched a daily haiku project:

http://mainichihaiku.tumblr.com/

Tentatively it will be a daily project for april.

January 25, 2011

Tumblr is broken.

Filed under: Technology,culture — scrame @ 1:34 am

Maybe this is old news to folks, but I set up a tumblr (as mentioned before). I tried to queue up a weeks worth of posts, to be posted twice a day during work hours (9 to 5).

Tumblr posted every edited version that I had worked on, waited days between posting, and has now completely lost my queue.

So, adaptable_haiku is officially as dead as it ever was, because there is no point in using tumblr if it can’t track 5 total edits over 11 damn posts.

Working on a reboot, or some better idea. Still annoyed.

Tumblr: good idea, nice interface, worse implementation than fucking friendster.

January 13, 2011

Adaptable Haiku

Filed under: Errata — scrame @ 4:44 pm

New tumblr. Trying to get it far enough ahead that it will run itself for a while.

adaptable_haiku

January 11, 2011

Prose & Concepts — WOTR B-sides.

Filed under: Music — scrame @ 8:49 pm

I heard that Prose & Concepts might have a definitive release coming up, which is a good thing, because their stuff was hard to find when it was contemporary.

From this, I tried to look up a particular remix from an old single, and could not find it on the whole of the internet, so I ripped it. Apologies for some mid-range quality issues, its an old record I got second-hand almost 10 years ago, and have certainly given it a beating on my own.

Weight of the Reign (12″ Remix):

and the second track:
Flow Like a Pro:

I don’t have too much about them, they were a multi racial seattle hip-hop group in the early-mid 90s. They fell apart after one of the members committed suicide, and reformed as “six in the clip” (i think). Seattle music was dominated by grunge at the time, and they never found much traction beyond a small indie following.

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