Posted 7/14/2002 12:39:33 AM
red candy -- three in a row

Posted 7/14/2002 12:36:58 AM
just missed the midnight showing of "better off dead" at the inwood. did not want to go alone. could not bring myself to call anyone. odd moment.

Posted 7/14/2002 12:31:02 AM
Bono talking via video at c-stone.

listening to ultraviolet from "achtung baby" as i type this:

You bury your treasure where it can't be found
But your love is a secret that's been passed around.
There is a silence that comes to a house
Where no one can sleep.
I guess it's the price of love; I know it's not cheap.

Posted 7/13/2002 11:45:59 PM
the more i think about the player post below the more i wonder if i really do identify with this model... if player means simply that one chooses from a wide variety of options that is one thing... if it implies a movement away from any form of commitment that is something very different... often a certain humility that inhabits those that live after contingency is seen as a proclivity to not commit, and this is perhaps one of the key challenges of this path, but commitment plays an even more powerful role, i would argue, after contingency than within the absolutism and rigid rationalisms of modernity for now all of life is seen through clusters of relationships with agreements called truth and commitments to enacted values that identify the community and impact the place where the community stands... still musing on this...

Posted 7/13/2002 11:39:04 PM
"so how was c-stone?" i keep being asked.

short answer:
good.

longer answer:
left sunday. drove 15 hours straight. enjoyed the sunset, the pop tarts, the strawberry juice, singing road trip music and the company. got there early monday. very hot. set up camp. heard LOTS of music. created some art. made a D flute. swam in the lake. watched a series of films at the Iranian film festival. caught Ghost World finally. talked with Stan Grenz. used the porta potties. breathed a lot of dust. drank a lot of water. went to a masquerade ball. caught the parties a few nights. worshiped. walked. ate a lot of baloney. got a tan. left saturday. got home sunday morning.

some suggestions for next year:
-a misting tent for naps
-more telephones
-internet access! (wireless network?)
-get a big group to go in on both tent(s) and dorm/hotel room

some disappointments:
-barely saw the people i knew... 27,000 people
-unspoken conversation
-schedule conflicts from the sheer number of bands and events
-did not get to chicago

next year is supposed to be wild. it is the 20th anniversary.

Posted 7/13/2002 11:17:30 PM

players, players everywhere

a genealogy of the player as a cultural phenomenon would be an intriguing study. as a social form the model of interaction characterized by the player seems to have moved quite successfully from the sports arena (players on teams), to the business world (playing the game as metaphor for business legal and far less than legal), to the social-sexual arena in which the term has been nearly subsumed and finally to the realm of the spiritual/ideological. after contingency it seems more and more difficult to simply choose a "single" set of language and practice symbols and this often leads to the postmodern looking much like a redneck at a buffet when it comes to choosing spiritually meaningful metaphors through which to understand themselves and live through. my central concern with the player is that of integrity. as a model of social interaction that of player has not been known for enacting a very sophisticated (if any) sense of trust. there may be integrity at the team or project or current liaison level, but is there not perhaps a more originary posture of integrity that the player model seems to so often miss? i ask this because i find it harder and harder not to inhabit the ideological player model of social-spiritual interaction. my concern is simply that as this model becomes more pervasive across more of our western (and global) cultures of affluence that we challenge the basic selfishness that seems to reside at the center of the player model with an ongoing enactment of integrity--as problematic and fraught with decision and disappointment as this undertaking may be--to show, if it is at all possible, that even after contingency the player can live in a trustworthy manner.

Posted 7/13/2002 06:25:01 PM
interesting use of gnutella: p2p broadcasting project PeerCast allows for the sharing of streams like the sharing of files. this makes personal broadcasting that is very, very difficult to trace a reality. the possibilities for voicing dissent from under repressive regimes is interesting.

Posted 7/11/2002 10:38:41 AM

Posted 7/11/2002 09:36:20 AM
Gnutella advocate/programmer Gene Kan chose to end his life recently. He was 25.

Posted 7/9/2002 12:52:32 PM


still too tired to write anything of substance... so here is a cool graphic from msnbc.

Posted 7/7/2002 09:50:39 AM
forgive me

the blog has been dead because...

i've been in a place without IP, cell coverage or flush toilets for 7 days...

will be back after i shower and sleep for a couple of days...