mushin no shin

Back when I was just a smart teenage nerd with a budding anti-authoritarian streak, The Manhattan Project, a film a about a teenager who builds an atomic bomb, was a natural and instant favorite. Hell, I eventually even sampled the damn thing:
Chaos Dreary
But of course, whatever real merits the movie may have had, I was [...]

Holy shit. Let me tell you how in love I am with the movie Once.
It would be hyperbolic of me to say that it has paralleled my life — but absolutely it tangentially intersected enough to feel like a 90 minute sucker punch to the heart.
I do have to share one particular scene, in [...]

Allright, so I’m drunk blogging again. Shut up, I’m on vacation.
Anyway I just watched The Pursuit of Happiness. Great film, but what’s bugging me is I’m seem to remember some mumblings about it being a good pro-conservative-values film.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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First of course being, “hard-work-triumphs” is not a value exclusive to conservatism, no matter [...]

Sometimes I’m hard pressed for a better way to say nothing and everything.
Chaos Dreary (circa somewhere near 1999)
Heh. It was actually just a challenge project. “60 in 60″ or something like that, 60 bands writing songs exactly 60 seconds long, for one of the spontaneous collaborative compilations from back in the beautiful day before [...]

Well, BeerCamp was fun. At least the parts I remember were fun — I did have a little beer. OK, a lot of beer. Too much beer. Did I mention there was beer? Well, beer AND a ludicrous amount of heat, prompting rapid consumption of said beer.
I think I met a few cool people, and [...]

It’s been a while since I posted any music, so here’s:
Encryptionite (Mediterranean Morphine).
Sort of a light and dancy song — by my standards.
The Shawshank sample I think centers the aim pretty well to target: “I think he did it just to feel normal again — if only for a short while”

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My gear sits piled up in the corner beneath a nearly five year accumulation of dust. It calls me, it cries out to me.
I need to write again. I’m almost there, I think I am at least. But not here, not in this apartment. I need the change of scene. this place is [...]

…My soul is yearning.
One of the primary teachings of Buddhism is that the root of all suffering is desire and attachment. I am currently in a place where I desparately need to remember and apply this teaching. My soul quakes with a desire the likes of which it hasn’t felt in years; this desire goes [...]

I figure it’s about time I dig back into the archives and post a little more music.
I guess it was 93? 94? when I first hooked up with guitarist Jim LeClair. Wait, actually this is easy, hold on a sec — December 5, 1993. It was the day after Frank Zappa died. Jim worked with [...]

Heh, cool. I finally get around to checking out last.fm, and out of curiosity I plugged in the old name, and sure enough:
Minor Procedure - Last.fm
20 Fans, woo-hoo! Rock on. Granted, it’s just the Shai Hulud remix I did, so probably not one of the 20 really knows who I am, and maybe only about [...]