New members of the family

January 28th, 2010

I’ve been working hard on new Mountain Singers songs and it was time the studio had some upgrades. These might be boring but they are much needed.

QSC Amp

QSC RMX 850 amplifier replaces a very low end Alesis RA-100. The RA-100 will now go to the garage to power the CD Player.

EBTECH Hum Eliminator
Ebtech Hum Eliminator

Ever since we moved into our current house I have had a low hum in my system. I know that I should add a ground rod and tie it to the power panel but it is figgin cold outside. This little box should at least help me eliminate the hum from my computer.




Fake Acorn Pimp now a “Watergate” Protege

January 28th, 2010

Great article from NY Times

“I am a journalist,” and “The truth shall set me free.” – James O’Keefe III tweeted shortly after being arrested for planting bugs in Louisiana Democratic Sen Mary Landrieu’s office.

This is the same guy who secretly recorded Acorn employees telling him how to set up a brothel.

Could the Republicans be reopening their “rat-fucking” program from the Nixon era.

Also, there is a local news moment in all of this. Joseph Basel, one of Mr. O’Keefe’s co-defendents, went to college at UofM Morris where he started a conservative newsletter in reaction to what he thought was overwhelming liberal presence on campus.

the Washington Post also has a good article on this.




Schwarzenegger wants to build jails in Mexico

January 28th, 2010

Mexican Jail

So Arnold wants to build jails in Mexico to hold illegal immigrants who commit crimes in California.

Why not? It is a great place to start rebuilding the broken Californian society.

Another thing he could do is privatize the judicial system. Court buildings and employees cost California a hell of a lot of money. He could also bring in private security forces to replace state police. Why should crime cost citizens even a dime? Really when it comes down to it why should society have to get mixed up in crime and justice at all? We are the victims after all.

original article via the Sac Bee




Walking Dead TV Show

January 20th, 2010

Walking Dead
One of my favorite comics of the last couple of years has been the Walking Dead. It looks as though AMC is going to make it into a TV series.




DVDs of 2009

January 2nd, 2010

The BFI has a great list of peoples favorite DVDs that came out in 2009

Many of these films I have never heard of. The ones that I have seen are brilliant.




New song from former Shins singer and Danger Mouse

December 22nd, 2009

I’m not completely sure if the Shins are kaput or just on hiatus. It seems singer James Russell Mercer is teaming up with Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) to form the new band Broken Bells. Here is their first output, The High Road.




New Kick Ass trailer has potty mouthed girl

December 22nd, 2009

NSFW or some homes




2009 in Photos day 2 and David Lynch

December 15th, 2009

2009 in photos continues over at the Boston Globe. Part 2 of 3

also

Wookies give David Lynch a headache




Pot shops, best pictures, Decaf, 3d alphabets and Nano Sci-Fi

December 14th, 2009

What I’m reading/listening to today:

Los Angeles Aims To Close Some Pot Dispensaries – It seems to be one of the only businesses thriving in tough economic times. (via NPR)

The Big Picture : 2009 in photos – The Boston Globe photo blog is consistently the most beautiful and sad site on the web. This is part 1 of 3.

Hackers release Decaf to combat Cofee : Microsoft released a series of tools to Law Enforcement. They called it Cofee. Now hackers have a tool to combat it called Decaf.

Make your own 3d alphabet. No, not on the computer, in real life!!

I started a new book today. Small Miracles by Edward M. Lerner. Published by Tor Books. BTW Tor has an awesome blog site: tor.com

listening to “Neu! – Hallogallo”  http://blip.fm/~hteik




fun with circles

October 7th, 2009

This is fun
circles




New Harvey Pekar webcomic at Smith Mag

August 24th, 2009

Smith Magazine Pekar Project

Smith Mag, home of the 6 Word Memoirs and many great webcomics, has a new series called The Pekar Project. It is a serial webcomic written by legendary Harvey Pekar and illustrated by Tara Seibel, Joseph Remnant, Rick Parker, and Sean Pryor.

The first in the series features a conversation between Harvey and Robert Crumb. Harvey is writing a libretto for an opera and is lementing the lack of support for the avante garde in todays music and art.

This should be a great series.




Isabel’s Lunchbag

August 6th, 2009

Isabel calls him Richard.

Posted via email from geargab’s posterous




Lisa Expands the Garden

July 31st, 2009

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Thirst

July 27th, 2009

Park Chan-wook, the director of Old Boy brings us his new Korean Vampire horror thriller: Thirst

It opens in Minneapolis at the Lagoon Theater on September 4th, 2009!




Warehouse 13 and Lucretia

July 8th, 2009

Rembrandt's Lucretia

Rembrandt’s Lucretia, 1666. Minneapolis Institute of Art

The painting and legend of Lucretia were the historical highlight of the SyFy Network’s premiere of Warehouse 13.  The show is about 2 Secret Service agents who are drafted into a secret organization that hunts down supernatural items and safely stores them in a location know as Warehouse 13.

I thought the show was all right but the topic of Lucretia got me thinking about the painting of her that is at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. I have always found the painting to be haunting and the story behind her rape and suicide horrendous. You can read the history of Lucretia here and here.

The painting used in the television show was not the MIA painting but some unknown one, possibly made up for the plot of the show. The one at the MIA was painted by Rembrandt. The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. also has an earlier version painted by Rembrandt.

In 1992 the MIA and the National Gallery had an exhibit bringing the two paintings together titled “Rembrandt’s Lucretias”. I remember the exhibit being fantastic and a little digging brought me to the text of the exhibit’s brochure.




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