This is what it's come to.
I think Trimpin is pretty darn cool, and I think Kronos are pretty darn cool, so this is pretty darn cool squared.
I did an informational interview with Trimpin about doing an internship in his shop - it was very intriguing, but I couldn't work out the lagistics. I passed the idea along to other iSchoolers, but as in all other things, they lacked the vision to see what an opportunity it would be for one of them.
Friday, May 04, 2007
| Trimpin & Kronos - 4 Cast World Premiere! We'd like to let you know that Peak Performances @ Montclair will be presenting the world premiere of Trimpin & Kronos Quartet's 4 Cast: Unpredictable at Alexander Kasser Theater this Saturday, May 5th at 7:30 PM. This unique and visually stunning piece — which was commissioned by Peak Performances — is unlike anything Kronos has ever done before, and it features the debut of the Jackbox sculpture and several other instruments designed by Trimpin. Seattle-based Trimpin is a MacArthur "Genius" Award-winning sculptor, musician, and composer, most of whose pieces integrate both sculpture and music in some way, and many of which make use of computers to play these instruments. 4 Cast: Unpredictable is a 45-minute work consisting of four sections — Toys, Numbers, Bodies, and Machines. Says Trimpin, "From a young age I developed a fascination for tinkering with toys, found objects, and for listening to the mesmerizing sounds of Morse code broadcast on short-wave radio. The challenge of experimenting with the limitations of what the human body can accomplish is reflected in tonight's performance. Technology is used as a tool by interacting with these musical machines." Tickets are $35, and they can be purchased online at www.peakperfs. Come check it out! 11:26 AM - 0 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment |
Hey, Klaus,
That LAPD of yours has done it again! They totally screwed up the
Simpson case, they regularly shoot and beat people for the crime of
BCWB (Being Citizens While Black) but now they've gone way too far -
imagine, treating a Fox employee like the rest of us America-hating
traitors:
FBI to Investigate Police Violence at LA Immigrant Rights March
In California, the FBI is planning to launch a civil rights
investigation into the Los Angeles police department's use of violent
force to end an immigrant rights march on Tuesday. Police fired 240
rounds of rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters and journalists.
At least 10 civilians – including seven journalists – were taken to a
hospital. One of the injured journalists – Fox TV camerawoman Patti
Ballaz -- is planning to announce today that she is filing a claim
against the city. Video shows police repeatedly hit her with batons
and knocked her to the ground.
I was totally getting into this story on the news yesterday, but I
completely lost my train of thought when they put National Lawyers
Guild reporter Colleen Flynn on the air - what a babe! I looked for
pictures of her, but apparently there is an actress on a popular TV
series by the same name, that's all I could find, was pictures of her.
My wife would probably like to break me of the habit of calling female
actors actresses. But I'm standing my ground. You don't call a female
friend "mister" you call her "mistress!"
Anyway, the actress doesn't hold a candle to the lawyeress... police
state in Los Angeles? None of that matters, show me the babes!
I'm with Tim. It just seems strange. I was totally into the idea of his ashes wandering through space, maybe turning up on some future star trek series like he did on next generation or deep space 9 when he was still alive... or showing up in the intake filters of some real star ship!
but to just go up and come back down again? seems kind of pointless? though wasn't Timothy Leary's ashes on the same flight? for him it makes sense, it would echo the arc of his career and reputation..
Speaking of Star Trek, I was wallowing in some of the worst TV has to offer - a Kim Possible movie on the Disney channel.. there was some kind of talking hairless mole... I immediately recognized Warf's voice coming out of the strange pink thing. A quick review of Michael Dorn's page on the imdb ( http://imdb.On 5/2/07, kdhaisch@aol.
Tim wrote... > OK---this just seems stupid to me. Scattering the ashes > in space would have been fiting....but giving his ashes > a ride and splashdown? Yeh whatever ... why didn't > they include Ted Williams' frozen head? I think you miss the point. Ted Williams was not in the series "Star Trek." Klaus .
See what's free at AOL.com.
"The congressman's case is persuasive, although his remedy may be too radical." I'm sure this guy would have urged caution when Germany invaded Poland. Try to restrain or overthrow Hitler? Oh, too radical. Too radical.
A Case Against Cheney
By Richard Cohen
Wednesday, May 2, 2007; A15
The resolution offered by the gentleman from Ohio reads sensibly. It alleges crimes high and low, misdemeanors galore -- all of them representing an effort to mislead the American people and take them into war. It is Dennis Kucinich's articles of impeachment directed at Dick Cheney. The vice president will, of course, deny being a liar. As long as Kucinich is at it, add that to the articles.
The congressman's case is persuasive, although his remedy may be too radical. He calls for Cheney to be impeached by the House and tried by the Senate, just as Bill Clinton was for what turned out to be neither a high crime nor much of a misdemeanor. What was it, anyway, compared with more than 3,300 American dead?
In his articles of impeachment, Kucinich details the many statements Cheney made that turned out to be factually wrong. For instance, he quotes Cheney as saying, "We know they [the Iraqis] have biological and chemical weapons," which of course, they didn't. Still, that was excusable, since it was early in the game and little contradictory evidence was being presented. As Condi Rice said Sunday, "When George [Tenet] said 'slam dunk,' everybody understood that he believed that the intelligence was strong. We all believed the intelligence was strong."
But in Cheney's case, the slam-dunking went on and on -- way past the point where it was possible anymore to believe him. He continued to insist that Saddam Hussein had high-level contacts with al-Qaeda -- " the evidence is overwhelming," he once said -- while others in the government not only knew that the evidence was not overwhelming but that it hardly existed. It was the same with Cheney's insistence-- not just wrong, but irrefutably so -- that Hussein "has weapons of mass destruction," and "[t]here is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us." The percussive march of these statements is so forceful, one after another after another, that it suggests Cheney wanted war no matter what. If he was lying to himself as well as to the rest of us, that i s only a mitigating circumstance -- sort of an insanity defense.
Kucinich also alleges that Cheney "purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress." That, as the expression goes, is the gravamen of the charge. Kucinich doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of making it stick because Congress is not about to vote impeachment. But no one who reads Kucinich's case against Cheney can fail to conclude that this is a rational, serious accusation. It's possible that each individual charge can be rebutted, but the essence of it is shockingly apparent: We were being manipulated.
It is something of a joke that Washington is now transfixed by l'affaire Wolfowitz. This is the contretemps at the World Bank in which an architect of this misbegotten war stands accused of favoring his girlfriend. Do not be concerned with the details -- this is a parody of a Washington scandal -- but concentrate instead on what else Wolfowitz has done in government and how, now, it is a salary increase awarded to a companion that might do him in. This is tantamount to getting Al Capone for tax evasion.
In the same vein, we tend to focus on single events or statements regarding Iraq (to slam dunk or not to slam dunk, that is the question) and how poor George Tenet, a self-deceived careerist, is misunderstood -- as if he had uttered a statement of principle dramatically resigning over the manipulation of intelligence and it is suspiciously missing from the record. In all this back-and-forth, what gets lost is the immensity of the outrage, the enormousness of the breach of trust, the naive faith some of us had that when it came to the making of war, we'd be told the truth. This was not the case. The harping on weapons of mass destruction was an attempt to scare the American people into supporting a war that need not have been fought.
Kucinich is an odd guy for whom the killer appellation "perennial presidential candidate" is lethally applied. But he is on to something here. It is easy enough to ad hominize him to the margins -- ya know, the skinny guy among the "real" presidential candidates -- but at a given moment, and this is one, he's the only one on that stage who articulates a genuine sense of betrayal. He is not out merely to win the nomination but to hold the Bush administration -- particularly Cheney -- accountable. In this he will fail. What Cheney has done is not impeachable. It is merely unforgivable.
I agree with much of what he has to say - especially revealing is the
comment "contest between rivals within the same league."
That is exactly right, it makes no more sense to say that "Democrats
are good and Republicans are evil" (or the other way around) than to
say "The Mariners are good and Yankees are evil." Even the most
fanatic sports nut isn't that deluded. I hope.
But politicians are a lot like major league athletes - they are
millionaires working to advance the interests of billionaires. The
notion that the "local" sports franchise has anything to do with your
life is a sad delusion - and the same goes for political franchises,
too.
One thing this guy is right about - Hillary Clinton's politics ARE to
the right of the country as a whole. While individuals tend to
contain idiosyncratic mixes of ideological beliefs - some to the right
of Attila the Hun, some to the left of Karl Marx) - on the whole the
masses are way to the left of the ruling class. Only ruling class
ideas are expressed anymore, and the rest of us have forgotten who we
are. Like a bunch of Stockholm hostages, we imagine that we love
Donald Trump and Bill Gates. And their agents, like Donald Rumsfeld
and Hillary Clinton.
In general I wish that people would rediscover who they are - but at
the same time, its a frightening idea, people have been out of touch
with reality so long it would be like throwing a bucket of water into
a vat of hot oil.
On 5/2/07, Andre Kenji de sousa <andrekenjilistas3@
> That´s comming from a reaganite.
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> Conservatives for Hillary?
> As each day passes, it becomes increasingly clear that the Democrats
> will win the White House next year. It's not quite 1932, but it's
> getting close to a sure thing. All the energy is on their side, they
> are raising more money from more contributors, and there is little if
> any enthusiasm for the Republican candidates — even among Republicans.
>
> Of course, one can never rule out the ability of the Democrats to
> seize defeat from the jaws of victory. But sometimes the trend in one
> party's direction is so strong that even the grossest incompetence
> can't keep it from winning. I think 2008 is shaping up as that kind of
> year for the Democrats.
>
> If I am right, conservatives are going to have to make an important
> decision at some point. Do they go down with the sinking Republican
> ship, or do they try to have some meaningful influence on the next
> president by becoming involved in the Democratic race?
>
> I'm sure that the first reaction of most conservatives will be to say
> that any involvement in the Democratic Party is unthinkable. They view
> it as the party of treason and socialism. They could no more involve
> themselves in Democratic politics than a God-fearing Christian would
> consider working with Satan just because it looked like he was going
> to win.
>
> For those of you who feel this way, stop reading. There is nothing
> more in this column for you. But for those conservatives who don't see
> the 2008 election as a race between good and evil, but merely a
> contest between rivals within the same league, I think there is a good
> case for participating in the Democratic nominating process.
>
> Here's why. Although all the Democratic candidates are more liberal
> than all of the Republicans, they are not all equally liberal. Among
> the Democrats, some are more to the right and others more to the left.
> It is a grave mistake to assume, as most conservatives do, that they
> are all equally bad and that it makes no difference whatsoever which
> one is elected.
>
> To right-wingers willing to look beneath what probably sounds to them
> like the same identical views of the Democratic candidates, it is
> pretty clear that Hillary Clinton is the most conservative. John
> Edwards is the most liberal, and Barack Obama is somewhere in between.
>
> The hard-core right-wingers who kept reading past the point I told
> them to stop probably think I've lost my mind by now.
> But remember, I am talking about the politics within the Democratic
> Party, not the nation as a whole. Moreover, at this stage of the
> nominating process, all of the candidates in both parties are
> appealing mainly to their bases. These are well to the left of the
> country among Democrats and well to the right among Republicans.
>
> It is in this context that one must evaluate Sen. Clinton's position.
> Given the views of the Democratic base and the enormous unpopularity
> of the Iraq War, it is a real act of courage for her to steadfastly
> refuse to say her vote for the war was wrong. Of course, like all
> Democrats and most Americans, she opposes the war today and favors a
> rapid pullout.
>
> That is why the easy thing for Sen. Clinton to do would be to just
> thrown in the towel, admit her vote was wrong and move on. And that's
> why it is an act of courage for her to refuse to do so. If
> conservatives weren't so blinded by their hatred for her, this would
> be obvious.
>
> On economics, it is reasonable to assume that Sen. Clinton's policies
> would not be altogether different from Bill Clinton's. This is not a
> bad thing. On trade, his record was outstanding, and on the budget was
> far better than George W. Bush's. While Clinton raised taxes in 1993,
> it should be remembered that he cut them in 1997, including a cut in
> the capital gains tax. On regulatory policy, Clinton was no worse than
> the current administration and probably better on net.
>
> Democrats know all this, which is why our most liberal pundits, like
> Bob Kuttner, are attacking Sen. Clinton for being a clone of her
> husband on economics and criticizing her support for "Rubinomics,
> named after former Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin. Its essential
> elements are a commitment to deficit reduction and globalization —
> which are both anathema to the Democratic Party's liberal base. It
> wants a hard line against imports to save jobs and an expansive fiscal
> policy to pay for a wide range of new social programs.
>
> At some point, politically sophisticated conservatives will have to
> recognize that no Republican can win in 2008 and that their only
> choice is to support the most conservative Democrat for the
> nomination. Call me crazy, but I think that person is Hillary Clinton.
>
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It's as like they share one brain between the two of them
see the 2nd to last paragraph...
>It's as though they're Siamese twins joined at the frontal >lobe."whoa! that IS surprising--i hadn't realized either of them HAD frontal lobes. ----- Original Message -----From: StevoTo: Me BiteSent: Monday, April 30, 2007 5:47 PMSubject: [progressive] This is just creepy - 'Bush is her feed' - Have a barf bag close by!!Bush is her feed'
In 2004, New York magazine reported on a DC dinner party, at which Condoleezza Rice was reportedly overheard saying, "As I was telling my husb–" and then stopping herself abruptly, before saying, "As I was telling President Bush." As the magazine explained it, those who heard her were quite surprised, though the slip seemed "more psychologically telling than incriminating." In other words, no one seriously believes Bush and Rice are romantically involved. But the alleged "husband" gaffe nevertheless points to a relationship that's kind of … creepy. In fact, with this background in mind, consider Newsweek's Marcus Ma analysis on Rice's loyalty to the president (as excerpted from his new biography of Rice).…Rice was drawn to Bush. "First of all, I thought he was wonderful to be around," she recalled, sitting on the couch in her State Department office. "He was warm and funny and easy to be around. I thought he had just an incredibly inquisitive mind … You could barely finish an explanation before he was digging into it."Bush was also a bad boy. And Rice, according to friends and family, had a thing for bad boys. That was why, as a 20-year-old grad student, she preferred her second Fighting Irish football player boyfriend to her first, said Jane Robinett, Rice's best Notre Dame friend: John "Dubie" Dubenetzky, cocky and handsome with wavy blond hair, was less deferential than Wayne Bullock, the sweet fullback who had moved Condi's boxes into Lewis Hall.Rice's friends insisted the attraction to Bush was platonic, but Brenda Hamberry-Green, her Palo Alto hairdresser, who had spent years commiserating with Rice over how hard it was for successful black women to find a good man, noticed a change when Rice started working for Bush. "He fills that need," Hamberry-Green decided. "Bush is her feed."By the time Rice met Bush, he had become a Christian teetotaler and a devoted family man. The two shared a strong religious faith, a belief in American power, similar senses of humor, and a conviction that sports was a metaphor for life. He admired her brains. She valued his instincts. Politically, she liked his "compassionate conservatism" — the philosophy that those who wanted to lift themselves from poverty and ignorance should be given the opportunity. That had been a leitmotif for generations of minister-teachers in the Rice family. Most important, they saw themselves as outsiders: Rice as a function of her race and gender, Bush because he had never fit in as a Texas boy with the Northeastern elitists he came to see as snobs."There was this connective stuff — that was really fully under way by the summer of 1999," said Rice's friend Coit "Chip" Blacker. "There's a funny kind of transfer of energy and ideas that's almost — not random, but unstructured. It's as though they're Siamese twins joined at the frontal lobe."The president reportedly refers to Rice as his "sister," while Rice's stepmother said she "just can't say no to that man."Like I said, creepy. http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport. com/archives/ 10660.html# more-10660
are there any nonspam subscribers to the Alex Carr list anymore?
Alex, are you still there? I believe in you!
When are you going to play Wenatchee again? That last show totally kicked ass. There's a venue I hang out at a lot - Caffe Mela ( http://www.caffemel
They are really nice people, too... well, anyway, keep up the good work, and you spammers should just all move to Florida and go marlin fishing or something
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