Anything giving you fresh inspriation at the moment?

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reeltoreel

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Springtime is always pretty inspiring for me.

Joan Didion's The White Album came along for the right reasons at the right time about a week ago. After being kind of uninspired by the printed word for some time, that was amazing.

The thought of moving to southern California next July from provincial NZ. Could go either way really, but it'll be a chance for a complete mental cleanout/shedding of baggage/new start, etc.

The fact that music was really boring me last month, and now it seems like I'll never run out of fresh things to listen to...

And on the beverage tip, Earl Grey with milk and two sugars is the business. Coffee kicks me off, tea puts things right, y'know?
 
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mistersloane

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Sick Boy said:
Peaches Geldof.

I'm really into the idea of being famous for no reason right now. It's a brilliant concept.
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Check out Elizabeth Taylor, seriously. I used to work in an archive of 20th century magazines, and she was fucking all over every cover, but if you look at her actual output, it's minor, minor in comparison, not in quality but in terms of productivity. But she has to be the most photographed person in history. Andy Warhol ( I know, but bear with me ) is really good on fame for no reason, read his biography by Victor Bockris as well if you get a chance or are interested.

I've personally always been interested in the connection betwen photogrpahic reproduction ( and probably aural reproduction as well, though I'm less clear how ) and time travel.
 
Mr. Tea

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mistersloane said:
Check out Elizabeth Taylor, seriously. I used to work in an archive of 20th century magazines, and she was fucking all over every cover, but if you look at her actual output, it's minor, minor in comparison, not in quality but in terms of productivity. But she has to be the most photographed person in history. Andy Warhol ( I know, but bear with me ) is really good on fame for no reason, read his biography by Victor Bockris as well if you get a chance or are interested.

I've personally always been interested in the connection betwen photogrpahic reproduction ( and probably aural reproduction as well, though I'm less clear how ) and time travel.
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Hate to say this, but wasn't she overtake by Princess Di(e)?
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
On the inspiration tip, ahve been inspired by working out how to use Fruityloops, and studying reggaeton and rnb riddims for programming. Big up to wayne and wax for all his wise words on this front.

Listening to Linda Perhacs last night was also fairly inspirational.
 
Mr. Tea

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mistersloane said:
Interesting one, I doubt it, just given the Princess' life was cruelly cut short, had she lived to a ripe old age then we may have been blessed with that proposition.
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In a way it's a mercy she was killed, she was already showing signs of OMGCELLULITE!!! :eek::eek::eek:
 
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noel emits

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Porn.
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Have you seen youporn.com?

Some* of the amateur stuff on there is really good. I mean call me a perv but I think it's much better if the people seem to be genuinely enjoying themselves and having a laugh rather than these grim faced industry vets or dubiously compliant eastern Europeans.

*I say some, obviously most of it is fairly disturbing or just crap.
 
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nomadologist

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Pierre Joris' lecture on Collage and Post-Collage

[That water site is pretty great. It has one post that very aptly states the assertion Mr. Tea tried to deny that the earth is overpopulated, and that this is to our own detriment: "It was not until 1830 that the earth's population reached 1 billion, yet by 1999 the world population crossed the 6 billion mark.

There is no question that this population expansion has cost the earth both environmentally and ecologically. Our forests are declining, our topsoil is eroding, our deserts are expanding, and our climate is undergoing radical change."]
 
Mr. Tea

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nomadologist said:
[That water site is pretty great. It has one post that very aptly states the assertion Mr. Tea tried to deny that the earth is overpopulated, and that this is to our own detriment: "It was not until 1830 that the earth's population reached 1 billion, yet by 1999 the world population crossed the 6 billion mark.
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Umm...would you care to point out the post where I said this?

If you're thinking of the 'difference between animals and humans' thread, the claim I made there is that humans are very successful: indeed, far too successful for our good. I would very much agree that we are overpopulated, inasmuch as it is having a detrimental effect on our collective quality of life, to say nothing of the wellbeing of other species. All I was saying is that from a purely population-statistics POV, we are 'over-achievers' with regard to our original evolutionary niche.
 
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tate

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Did an hour-long interview with Pharoah Sanders by phone last week in preparation for a freelance piece that I'm writing ... not sure that 'inspiring' is really sufficient to describe it.
 
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nomadologist

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Mr. Tea said:
Umm...would you care to point out the post where I said this?

If you're thinking of the 'difference between animals and humans' thread, the claim I made there is that humans are very successful: indeed, far too successful for our good. I would very much agree that we are overpopulated, inasmuch as it is having a detrimental effect on our collective quality of life, to say nothing of the wellbeing of other species. All I was saying is that from a purely population-statistics POV, we are 'over-achievers' with regard to our original evolutionary niche.
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Well, what you said was in response to my assertion that our brains were MALADAPTIVELY large, so that our reliance on certain functions (mostly functions of our excessively front-brainedness) is actually to our detriment so that we're not more "successful" necessarily than other animals because our population is larger (even though there are many many species with higher populations than humans). I don't know why you would contradict me by agreeing with me.

What you were actually arguing was that we are NOT overachievers, but that our population was the hallmark of our "success" especially compared to other species. From the thread on animals and humans, Mr. Tea, and i QUOTE, says:

The word I have used is 'sucessful', in a very specific and qualified biological sense. Seriously, which species is more successful: humans (pop. 6,500,000,000) or Siberian tigers (pop. a few dozen)?
The only way there could be a 'misstep', from an evolutionary point of view, would be if humans were suddenly faced with a serious risk of extinction, and I certainly can't see that happening any time soon.
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IdleRich

IdleRich

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Just read Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut. Should be right up Zhao's street and applies here I think. For those who haven't read it, basically all humans except a small number who are marooned on one of the Galapagos Islands become infertile and finally extinct. The remaining humans evolve smaller brains and get better at hunting fish. They are too limited in intelligence to argue or worry and thus live an idyllic existence of around thirty years length during which they swim around and eat fish and the slow ones get eaten by sharks.
 
Mr. Tea

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Nomad, I don't think there's a big risk of humanity facing extinction any time soon. Widespread war, deprivation and so on, possibly (if you listen carefully, you can hear gek-opel cackling with glee...), but not extinction. So from an evolutionary point of view only, whereby more individuals = more successful, humans are and will continue to be very successful. Maybe a bit less successful in the near future if we don't get our collective act together, I don't know.

You claimed that I claimed the earth is not overpopulated (by humans), and as you can see I did not say that.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

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"Not so idyllic for some!"
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But they don't worry about it you see, it just happens. It's the happy idiot thing again. Not exactly sure of Vonnegut's stance to be honest but it seems to stem from a disgust with the way humanity is or is going. Bit like Atomised really but without revelling so much in making it unpleasant.
 
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