things that go bump in the night

watcheroftheskies: 801 We Are the 801We Are the Central...

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:22:37 -0400

801

We Are the 801
We Are the Central Shaft

And We Are Here to Let You Take Advantage
Of Our Lack of Craft
Certain Streets Have Certain Corners
Sooner Or Later We’ll Turn Your.

We Are the 801
We Are the Central Shaft

And Thus Throughout Two Years We’ve Crossed the Ocean
In Our Little Craft (Row, Row, Row)
Now We’re On the Telephone
Making Final Arrangements (Ding, Ding)

We Are the 801
We Are the Central Shaft

Looking For a Certain Ratio
Someone Must Have Left It Underneath the Carpet
Looking Up and Down the Radio
Oh, Oh, Nothing There This Time
Looking For a Certain Ratio
Someone Said They Saw It Parking in a Car Lot
Looking Up and Down the Radio
Oh, Oh, Nothing There This Time
Going Back Down to the Rodeo
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Here We Go!

We Are the Table the Captain’s Table Let’s Get It Understood
Let’s Get It Understood
We Are the Losers We Are the Cruisers Let’s Get It Understood
Let’s Get It Understood
We Are the Diners the Final Diners Let’s Get It Understood
Let’s Get It Understood
Most of Us Are Tinkers, Some of Us Tailors
And We’ve Got Candlesticks and Lots of Cocktail Sticks
We Saw the Lovers the Modern Lovers and They Looked Very Good
They Looked As If They Could
We Are the Neighbours the Nosy Neighbours We Think Just Like You Would
We Think Just Like You Should.

(hands down my favorite Eno song)

theduty: bradw: Modernism exhibition at the Oakland...

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:37:58 -0400

theduty:

bradw:

Modernism exhibition at the Oakland museum

++hero factor.

Ladybird

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:52:27 -0400

Ladybird

Beaumont

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:52:08 -0400

Beaumont

see what happens when i am allowed to go to the shelter? i end...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:51:44 -0400

see what happens when i am allowed to go to the shelter? i end up with two new bloodhound/ shepherd mix puppies.. i couldn’t split them up.. just couldn’t do it.

allgrownsup: Remember this gem? This song popped up in my head...

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:59:02 -0400

allgrownsup:

Remember this gem? This song popped up in my head this weekend for some reason.

this always makes me think of you.. maybe you showed it to me for the first time?

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Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:52:01 -0400

the days run away like wild horses.

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:36:32 -0400

the days run away like wild horses.

"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as..."

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:26:59 -0400

“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.”

- George Orwell 1984

shadowboxes! FUN!

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:44:09 -0400

shadowboxes! FUN!

my friend Steve Powers keeping it real out in Coney Island.. via...

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:26:00 -0400

my friend Steve Powers keeping it real out in Coney Island..

via Gothamist

As part of a Creative Time initiative called “Democracy in America: The National Campaign,” artist Steve Powers has turned a former photo booth on Coney Island into “The Waterboarding Thrill Ride,” an animatronic diorama that depicts a prisoner being waterboarded. The Times describes the scene:

If you climb up a few cinderblock steps to the small window, you can look through the bars at a scene meant to invoke a Guantánamo Bay interrogation. A lifesize figure in a dark sweatshirt, the hood drawn low over his face, leans over another figure in an orange jumpsuit, his face covered by a towel and his body strapped down on a tilted surface.
Feed a dollar into a slot, the lights go on, and Black Hood pours water up Orange Jumpsuit’s nose and mouth while Orange Jumpsuit convulses against his restraints for 15 seconds. O.K., kids, who wants more cotton candy!

When asked if the installation is in keeping with the festive spirit of Coney Island, Powers ponders, “What’s more obscene? The official position that waterboarding is not torture, or our official position that it’s a thrill ride?”

He also tells the Times that his initial idea was “for real people to undergo real waterboarding, right there in real time. [Powers] would be the first volunteer, then he’d perform it on the next guy, who’d turn the hose on the next one, and so on.” But at the urging of his wife, he decided to settle on “robot waterboarding.” Which doesn’t impress Coney Island old-timers like Janice Carter, who says the robots are just a big scam: “It’s a gimmick. When they have the sideshow, you see real people. That’s legit. But this here? Uh-uh.”Clearly, this is Christopher Hitchens’s big break.

mmmm Karen

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:40:17 -0400

mmmm Karen

via flickr

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:39:09 -0400

via flickr

hithisisdanielle: (via johnbrissenden) we have volume two and...

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:08:47 -0400

hithisisdanielle:

(via johnbrissenden)

we have volume two and love it.. will be purchasing this one.

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Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:53:43 -0400

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Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:36:55 -0400

my friend Sven sent me this link to National Geographic. The...

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:36:34 -0400

my friend Sven sent me this link to National Geographic. The photographer, David Doubilet has been shooting Toxic Nudibranchs which are sea slugs. really amazing stuff.. i love it when real animals that perhaps people had not seen resemble animals or monsters that people made up with their imagination.

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Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:21:12 -0400