Posted by matt Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:29:30 GMT
I don't know if I would have been able to survive in San Francisco without it. I found two apartments with craigslist, as well as a ton of other stuff. Plus I found loads of entertaining postings on it.
Posted by matt Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:04:22 GMT
JWZ is one of the few people in the world who know a lot about computers and the internet, and "Content" He missed out on Linux, but that's OK, we love him anyway. He runs a nightclub now in the SOMA neighbourhood of SF. It's a v. cool place, and he REALLY tries to hype local musicians, and music he likes. It's not much of the music I like (More like the music Gorester likes) but anyone who's willing to go out on a limb like he did deserves many kudos.
The preceding paragraph is entirely beside the point, which is about the music industry, a subject I'm very interested in for many reasons, two of the biggest are my girlfriend and my room-mate. The record industry is in a fucked up state right now, and nothing displays that more humourously than this quote that JWZ heard Sister Machine Gun say on his stage
Read more...Posted by matt Tue, 04 May 2004 18:15:54 GMT
After hearing platitude after platitude about how Pat Tillman was "at home" and "at peace" and "with God now" Rich Tillman started off his speech at the memorial service for his brother thusly.
"Pat isn't with God,'' he said. "He's fucking dead. He wasn't religious. So thank you for your thoughts, but he's fucking dead.''
I think this is the perfect way to start a eulogy, not sad acceptance, not religious comfort, nothing but sheer unadulterated rage at the unfairness of chance. Whether you're religious or not, the fact that a person isn't there, is not around to talk to, to commiserate with, to change the world for the better, or worse. You can never see, or feel, or hear them again. That makes me angry. Religious people comfort themselves with these platitudes about being "at home" and "with god" to feel better about the gut-wrenching sense of loss.
Wow, after all that, all I really wanted to do was post a pointer to this article. It's about mis-placed hero worship. It's very good. I guess I just outed myself as an atheist there, eh?
Posted by matt Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:49:26 GMT
My New Car My new Hobby My New Dog (actually, this is putto, the cutest ugly dog known to man And this link is just so that IWS will know when it's legal
