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 Free tonight!  (Ignore the price on the flyer.)

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The most fun in a creepy Chinatown basement since the Lo Pan/Pai wedding!

Stephane Halleux: French sculpture artist.

From Marshall Serna (ephemeralone):

"Our dear friends The Prids - David, Mistina, Joey and Maile - and two of their significant others - Kristin and Chris - were in a serious accident early Sunday evening while en route to Los Angeles on tour. A tire blew, they lost control of the van and it rolled several times. David was airlifted from the scene of the crash, he suffered a broken collar bone, broken ribs and has 6 staples in his head. Chris broke his arm, and they are waiting for MRI results to determine if he's sustained a spinal injury. Maile has a broken vertebra and toe and a severe cut with stitches on her knee. Joey broke ribs, Mistina suffered a concussion, and as far as I know Kristin is in similar shape. As of late tonight, everyone but Chris has been released from the hospital, and they are staying at a hotel in Fresno.

A special paypal account has been set up to help out and donate directly to The Prids. And the recent update (9:30 this morning) is that Chris is out of the hospital but David went back in this morning vomiting blood. He's on a morphine drip and stable."

The e-mail address to donate to is: donate@theprids.com.

Update from Mistina via

hifihillary:

 

"A note from Mistina:
Jul 22, 2008 12:27 PM
Subject: We are alive, thanks for your kind wishes and help

Hi Buds. We're all in a hotel in Fresno, friends Marshall and Kiisu are here now and we're about to rent vehicles to transport what we have left in belongings and gear and health back to Portland. Not sure when we'll be back, Thursday or Friday.

I spoke with my friend Nona last night and she posted the following info up. Sitting is ouchie so I'd rather repost than give another account of things.

We've got hospital bills, a van that we still owe money on, a new van to buy and an unknown amount gear to replace... so all of your donations so far and to come, are appreciated more than you know. At the moment we've gotten enough money donated to help with hotel rooms and our gas home, not to mention our amazing friend Anna is renting us a van to transport our gear-scraps home.

Thank you all so much. If I weren't so loopy I would write a motherfuckin thank you that would bring tears to your eyes!! love you all.

ps do you like how I called you buds? Vicadin blows btw... barely works! blah!
xoMistina

from Nona's post:
6 people, EMERGENCY ROOM. One air flight to the hospital. Totaled van with 3 thousand dollars owed on it, towed to an impound. Medical care in a situation such as this is going to total for all 6 pushing over thousands of dollars.

THINK: x rays, cat scans, MRI, blood draws, fracture care, hospital stays, life flight, ambulance, etc. The only two with insurance is Maile and Kristen, and we already know insurance doesn't cover 100 percent of bills.

On top of all of this is their stay at the motel. It is unknown how much of their gear, if any, is salvageable.

Highway patrol kept calling hospital, because they had never seen an accident so bad with all people to survive!
"

Conversation with TalkinBuddy@aol.com, an AIM chatbot:

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Just noticed this on Slashdot; an AppleScript root escalation attack!

% osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"' ;

This returns with "root".

Replace whoami with a real command and you're free to do whatever you want.

Seems to be a bit flaky on some Macs, probably related to the status of the ARDAgent and whether root is enabled or not.

Soooooo, not good.

'Oldest' computer music unveiled

"A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music.

The songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of Manchester."

Audio clip on the BBC site.

Bonus: mp3 clip of the world's oldest recording.  (From 1860, recorded on then write-only media!)

 

In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Bryan Ferry and Jane Birkin
    Nice substitute for Eno.  Ferry's voice sounds older and warmer but not in anyway bad.  Birkin has that British subtle mastery of the syllable that Midwesterners such as myself envy.   Not quite as weird as the original but there is a limit to how far you clean this one up for mass consumption. 

Bamboo Banga - M.I.A.
    The Modern Lovers propelled 40 years into the future and 10000 miles off course.

Across The Ocean - Résistance
    Ever have a dream where you discovered an extra room in your apartment full of wonderful new things that you somehow over looked all these years? That room is France and it's full of music.

23 - Blonde Redhead
    Shoegazer without sounding soft and anemic. 

Can't Be True - Weep
    A bit like A Place To Bury Strangers.  Has a shimmering metallic guitar sawing steel in half that I could listen to all day.

There's No Such Thing As Black Orchids -  Lilys
    The darker side of shoegaze.  Like Blonde Redhead, there are signs of a spine.

Slide - Missy Elliott
    The music sounds exactly like NIN.  Which Missy Elliott proceeds to own.  Trent who?

In Your Sound - In Broken English
    Emerging from the wreckage of Mortham Vlade Art.  Impassioned Scary Monsters era bowiesque vocals over the perfect droning guitar tone.  (So dirty!)  Spoken word monologue under the mix at the end.  That's always good.

Hit - The Jesus & Mary Chain
    The Reids manage to sound both bored as fuck and in absolute existential pain at the same time.  (Not so hard now that I think about it.)  Classic old JAMC buzz and feedback.

Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker
    Guitar so tight, tinny, staccatto and stripped down is could be the forerunner for minimal techno.  I love how Hooker's voice sometimes has grainy crackle like a tube amp breaking up.

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notes on art behind the cut.

normally, I don't post crap like this here but my real site is down and I want to keep this accessible.  i need to get serious about applying to grad school to get my mfa.  if i'm going to associate with neurotic personalities as a career hazard, i choose artists/academics over information technologists. 

no guitar tab and very little glen branca.

Algorithmic edit of Glenn Branca guitar solo.

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