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there's an art piece i remember enjoying seeing called truisms. it was one of those dot matrix led text displays, like you get in a train carriage or whatever, that was just fed by a massive database of 'truisms'. if you watched for a while, you started to notice how many contradictions there...

hmm... it's trite, but i feel like making the observation that pretty often when something shit happens, you learn something or probabilities alter in a way that ultimately causes something good. i reckon it's how i tend to think of things. i think i get a bit too wound up about misfortunate...

a disappointing 7. http://labs.echonest.com/SixDegrees/index?start=joy+division&end=black+lace was excited by this four initially, then quite pissed off that the crucial connection was just dj spooky. http://labs.echonest.com/SixDegrees/index?start=t+pain&end=yasunao+tone

can't imagine how i came across this now, but i love it. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Serbian_proverbs some of them might be completely novel to english speakers, some are in my opinion much better expressions of the same sentiment.

the excellent list of unusual deaths as a page itself is not as obscure as some, but i think it's fair to say plenty of the facts it contains are. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths er, is it weird that i had to read all of them?

someone told me they have categories of risk. and if you've got the scantiest claim to a trade or profession there's no obligation to look outside it for months and months. i found you can say something actually pretty aspiring and specific (for no real reason) and they will just reinforce your...

from when i was very young: burglar bill. real life innit, the most haunting thing of all? ;) the other janet and alan alberg one with the skeletons, i think there was something about the way they used language that imprinted it on you. a book about the apollo 11 moon mission that i made my...

yes! i would say that's the correct terminology. the only time i've had sleep paralysis i'd got really stoned. every time i started to fall asleep my body would go to sleep so that i had no ability to move anything, but my brain wouldn't. it was horrible so i had to go back up into a properly...

never thought about it before, but of course you're obviously right. makes it sound all the harder! fantastic.

yeah thanks mark, very interesting. this topic made me think of the orb for the first time in years. clearly this is the theme tune for the woebot billiards/OBE experience!

i really liked the ending. i thought i was a lot less fatuous (not to mention trite) than making yet another film where no act is committed without its (predictable) consequences, everybody pays in the end, yada yada. it was a lovely and amusing end to the film, even better for the way the...

another possibly related thing (or so i'm thinking with the benefit of mark's description of that research) is another phenomenon of variant spatial self-image i've experienced. i've found before if i stay up too long at night in front of the computer, i really feel like some kind of homunculus...

liked reading about the kraftwerk experience as well, sounded pretty banging! right right, this is exactly what it makes me think about. while i'm not inclined to be at all dualist/cartesian about mind and body, i can see how the experience of self in the environment might be put together from...

this sounds like a story i'd like to hear :) i assume the billiard table was really there? mine was also definitely grounded in my surroundings. there was no suggestion of the ectoplasmic thread, but i do recall a more prosaic psychological equivalent... like that feeling when you should turn...

hmm, guess i can see the idea with pva, makes me think of peeling it off your fingers at school! will buy some next time i go past a shop and see if it can help my beer-soaked paperclip people record.

nope, sorry, i think bad lieutenant is an entirely solid piece of filmmaking with tons of visual and narrative flair! i don't really understand why it should be seen as some kind of in-joke excluding the director, or alternatively as a complete send up devised by him. i mean i think grizzleb...

for what it's worth, i think every record of any value that's passed through music and video exchange shops (in a dirty state or often just for the sake of it) has been cleaned with normal lighter fluid from the newsagent and one of those yellow fuzzy duster cloths. it does evaporate really...

talking of herzog, his new bad lieutenant remake is a film i would unreservedly recommend to anyone. yeah the trailer makes it look a bit shit if funny, and yeah nicholas cage is responsible for acting like this but: trailers for mainstream cinema reels always make films look shit, and cage...

perhaps this should be for miscellaneous, but only if you subscribe to the destructive humankind-nature false dichotomy or something, maybe. i was reading a page in a copy of the wire written by mark pilkington (of strange attractor magazine) where he mentioned having an out of body experience...

i assumed it was another allergy... i also look like a plague victim at the moment, not for the first time (as well as being allergic to the pollen of every known plant variety reproducing between april and september so far as i can tell). take antihistamine tablets and apply far more than the...