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The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life.
- Blood Meridian

I don't have fun. Actually, I had fun once. In 1962. I drank a whole bottle of Robitussin cough medicine and went in the back of a 1961 powder-blue Lincoln Continental to a James Brown concert with some Mexican friends of mine. I haven't had fun since. It's not a word I like. It's like Volkswagens or bell-bottoms, or patchouli oil or bean sprouts. It rubs me up the wrong way. I might go out and have an educational and entertaining evening, but I don't have fun.
- Tom Waits

Fuck compose, Fuck melody, Dedicated to no one, Thanks to no one, ART IS OVER
- Juntaro Yamanouchi

lesswrong.com

Mon Sep 28, 2009, 9:48 PM
These days, when I'm not reading children's stories (like Harry Potter or The Wind in the Willows), I'm reading lesswrong.com. It's basically a blog on which a bunch of scientists, mathematicians, and thinkers in general post articles about stuff, dedicating themselves to "refining the art of human reasoning" or something like that. They talk about e.g. formal logic, Baynesean reasoning, scientific reductionism, epistemology, evolutionary biology, and a bunch of other boring shit.

Here's some articles I found interesting:
Joy in the Merely Real
The Fallacy of Gray
Absolute Authority
An Alien God
Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?

Reading this blog is a lot like reading Wikipedia. Every other word is hyperlinked to a previous blog entry discussing a related subject, and by the time you're finished with one you've got seven others open in tabs. I just spend the last hour or so reading stuff from this blog, and actually I don't feel like I wasted that hour or so, as I usually do when I spend that much time sitting in front of the computer. It was like I was reading a book or something.

Good stuff.

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  • Listening to: Venetian Snares
  • Reading: lesswrong.com

Devious Info

  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: L
  • Interests: Emma Watson
  • Favourite movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Requiem for a Dream, No Country for Old Men, The Dark Knight, Eraserhead, Ran
  • Favourite band or musician: Tom Waits, Burial, Björk, Boards of Canada, Alva Noto, Coil, Joy Division, Max Richter
  • Favourite genre of music: trip hop, ambient, idm, jazz, old school industrial
  • Favourite artist: Raoul Hausmann
  • Favourite poet or writer: Beckett, Borges, Cortázar, Eliot, Kafka, Cormac McCarthy, Pynchon, Tzara
  • Favourite style of art: Film
  • Favourite game: Lap tag
  • Favourite cartoon character: Obama
  • Personal Quote: "If I hadn't killed him, something else would have."

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:iconaladdin-sane:
~Aladdin-Sane Oct 24, 2009, 12:59:39 PM
So you've heard about Glitter and Doom, right?

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~lpowell Oct 25, 2009, 9:20:44 PM
Yeah. To be honest I haven't listened to a lot of live albums (Grateful Dead's Live/Dead is one—I've heard the Dead are best live, as opposed to studio), but I might check this one out. Especially if it has some songs I haven't heard yet. (I've also seen some videos of his performances, and he appears to know how to shake things up in terms of arrangement and performance.)
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~Aladdin-Sane Oct 26, 2009, 12:41:21 AM
Certainly he does. I've been listening to the preview incessantly. I think the demands of performance focus him; the album is entirely without the meandering tendency that plagues his albums.

So which records do you have?

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~lpowell Oct 26, 2009, 10:26:44 AM
Waits records? Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Bone Machine, Mule Variations, Alice, and Blood Money. Rain Dogs is my favorite, and it's the one I've listened to the most.
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~paradoxicalshaman Oct 5, 2009, 8:43:33 AM
thanks for the fave and comment on Pleasure... much appreciated :D

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