hactivismo news site
Originally written 05.25.2002.
ex-CoDC kids @ hactivismo have a new website “dedicated to reporting on the convergence of technology and human rights”. it’s at http://www.hactivismo.com/news.
05.25.2002 – day
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watched the premier of the new season of big brother last night. that should give some indication of how far i’m going to avoid studying. i’ve never watched big brother before, but i find it really interesting in some ways. i’m always down for voyeurism, but more than that, i think it’s cool to watch a show with decidedly ordinary people. there’s definitely a lot more reality (at least in the uk version) to it than something like mtv’s real world where all the characters seem so much larger-than-life.
one of the people on the show is this really annoying girl from london, and she seems nice enough, but at the same time she’s far from the sharpest knife in the drawer. my initial reaction was, “wow, it’s cool that they’re representing the mentally challenged on this show”. unfortunately that wasn’t the case. she wasn’t mentally challenged. jusr really, really annoying. what’s the worst though, is she has the most horrible, squaking cockney accent. we amused ourselvess for a good while by repeatedly shouting “landan taaaan”, “safe as fsck”, and making referenes to “garage” (that would be pronounced gare-aj ‘yank) and “diamond geezers”. but seriously, if i was the guy who had to monitor her tape all day, i would probably shoot myself. another thing that’s cool/interesting about the show is that you can’t bring in any foreign objects, so all you can really do is interact with the other contestents. this would drive me crazy. marco told me that he once tried to explain the concept of the show to his dad, an ex-deep sea diver, and his dad told him that the show sounded like a holiday compared with spending 20 days in a decompression chamber with four other people. i think that would be an awesome setting for a screenplay or a short story.
last night marco and i wrote a horrible country song which is basically a love-ballad for some girl on an austalian soap opera who marco is obsessed with. the song ended up being more david allen coe (bastard) than johnny cash (punk-as-fsck) and marked the end result of interacting primarily with only boys for six months. every attempt i’ve ever made to be pro-woman will surely be called into question by anyone who hears the song.
spent way too much time replying to an e-mail patrick sent me in an ongoing e-mail discussion regarding drug/prostitution decriminalization. realized halfway through writing the e-mail reply that i have no idea what i’m talking about. the good thing about having discourses with people who are smarter than you is that it forces you to check yourself and consider both sides of the argument before going out and making crazy assertions and trying to win the argument by making seemingly logical, but actually ridiculous claims and general fast-talking.
media check. liked the superchunk art class single so much, i downloaded the entire here’s to shutting up album. the jury is still out. i wish there were more rockers like art class, but it’s still pretty solid. the imagery of the lyrics is awesome from the start, like in Late Century Dream, the vocalist sings “well you never did like the way you rolled stretched out … never knowing how all these oily black threads are tied … ” actually, i kinda take back what i said about rockers. that’s the problem with listening to an album shuffled with other albums. rainy streets is a good, rocking track too.
05.25.2002 – dream
Originally written 05.25.2002.
well, not my dream, it was iain’s, but i was a character in it, so it’s kind of my dream. why is it that i’m always unfaithful in other people’s dreams? first it was me bending over some girl on the kitchen table in rob’s dream. this time it was dream-me pulling dream-laura to spite dream-iain. dream-iain was so angry that he was going to kick my dream-ass and write a dream-mail (dream e-mail = dream-mail, get it? hahaha) to dream-erin to expose my cheatin’ ways. crazy.
quote of the day – “i’m going to take stockwell county to european glory”
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i’m going to take stockwell county to european glory”
– rob before retreating to his room for hours of playing championship manager