January 2010
31 posts
Darby Crash: Age 22 Lead singer for The Germs. Died: December 7, 1980
Los Angeles punk band the Germs was formed in April 1977 and quickly became one of the most popular and influential in that area of music. The group disbanded in early 1980 but reformed later that year. A week after their first reunion concert, however, singer Crash died of an intentional heroin overdose. He left a sign on a...
“The act of the mind bending in on itself IS the act of self-awareness — the...”
– Bernadette Roberts, What is Self?
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An Internet Made of Wood
I am sitting my couch at 3:00 AM in the middle of a fresh bout of insomnia and I am having the following thought:
All the technology that all of us deal with all day is not reality. It’s a fiction that we invented and that each of us individually has decided to believe in.
There was a alternative universe that existed before all this technology that has grown up in the last 15 years or so...
“If you feel dirty, insignificant and unloved, then rats are a good role model....”
– Banksy
For anyone who has noticed that the Kidrobot website is a little dull lately…
We switched to a new eCommerce platform and it’s riddled with bugs. Ach. Trying to knock those out one by one first, and hopefully can get a more fun site design up there in a month or two. Redesigning the forums and Kronikle too finally. People think that Kidrobot is such a giant company but really,...
http://consollection.de/ →
A close friend of mine flew into Mumbai about a week ago. He had gone to India to volunteer with a charitable service organization. When he got off the plane he felt like he had food poisoning, so he checked into a hospital. The next morning he was dead.
I was told a story this morning by one of my neighbors:
Her best friend’s husband was driving with their three chidlren in Haiti a few...
Credit goes to Secret Forts for some of the photos I keep stealing.
Tomorrow 12:00 EST. http://black.kidrobot.com →
Interview on Vinylpulse re. Kidrobot move, etc. →
My Green Home
I was going to wait a while to post this, but a very nosy newspaper is doing an article on our home, so I thought I’d put it up it here since the news is going to get out anyway.
I own a carbon net zero home, one of the first LEED certified homes built in the USA.
This basically means that the home is ultra-green and generates substantially more power than it uses — and the extra is...
I am discovering that I go into panic every time somebody I care about does something nice for me. I’m like a broken record playing an old tune. I’m constant vigilant, looking for the tiniest thing that I might upset the balance of people around me.
This vigilance, born out of survival, is probably why I’m so good at creating beautiful things. I am constantly looking at...
