Friday 30 March 2007

..a visit to Le Rabelais Supermarket

After seeing Zotovich down the Cafe Insomnia...I soon became intrigued about the tired old ideas he was peddlin' in his supermarkets. Of course now that Le Rabelais Supermarket has banded together with all the other supermarkets to form the De:Facto World Government, it seems everything and anything that is meaningful can be found on their shelves. Whole cultures are wrapped up, packaged and put on display, India usually finds itself put next to either Jamaica or Mexico; the Church has been reduced to a small 'soul' food section next to the even less popular existentialist deli-counter. Whenever I stroll up and down the endless aisles I can’t help rejoicing in the meaningless of it all even though I know this is against official supermarket policy.

...pots, pans, clouds, cuckoos. Now the supermarkets have realised that people rarely stop investing things with meaning, they've really cornered the market. For while science and religion mistakenly staked their claim on absolute and eternal truths, the supermarkets know that meaning is mostly disposable, and have seen how any old rubbish will do. Once meaning becomes disposable everything inside the supermarket becomes meaningful whereas whatever lays outside remains meaningless. Therefore garbage is those things that are no longer meaningful; clouds in the sky are poor substitutes for the supermarkets' artificial aerosol variety. In an increasingly antiseptic world plastic cuckoos and never used pans carry the day, whilst twice used pots are taken as a sign of perversion...take any sidewalk anthropologist’s word for it...it's strange times that we live in...

Monday 26 March 2007

A word of warning re radio mic batteries...

Hey ED'ers I used my radio mic yesterday with the 'new' batteries that I bought off Bill. One of them died after 1 hour. Not suggesting faulty goods - as such - but recommend you bring a back-up even if you're not shooting the full 4 hours that they're supposed to cover. Not that I could have changed it anyway, in the middle of the druid's ritual. Grrrrr.

Sunday 18 March 2007

Onions




These guys are pals of mine (and at the risk of shamelessly plugging them) if you like what you see/hear, then go to www.mspace.com/onionstheband...

Wednesday 14 March 2007

Wet Pets



And the response:



I'm not sure why, but I find this hilarious.

Saturday 10 March 2007

Hard drive recommendations

Hi - I'm looking at getting a hard drive, and am not sure what to go for. I know Sue suggested Lacie, and getting 500GB, but there are quite a few choices
What difference does firewire or USB make? If anyone can recommend a model that they think is good value for money and sufficient for using for editing it would be great if you could post a reply!
Thanks
P.S for Mac Powerbook G4

Thursday 8 March 2007

Tuesday 6 March 2007

Psychogeographic discovery

Just stumbled across this website for Manchester Area Psychogeographic while doing some virtual flaneuring...

Sunday 4 March 2007

mava song

i couldn't believe it, but there already is a song about us...

thanks everyone for coming! we had a great time!



Saturday 3 March 2007