2
Sep
As the years trod on towards the failure of the universes thermomechanical functions, closely accompanied by our inevitable doom, it might be worth a moment of our time to think about what we’re doing with it. Our time, that is. It might be interesting to note some things of importance, and contrast them with things that aren’t important at all, to create some perspective.
 Christina Aguilera |
“So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?” |
You see, I often find that the less important something is, the more attention we are willing to devote to it. At least that seems to be the trend, since we pour our love onto insignificant pieces of shit like Brad and Angelina’s millionth adopted child or spend countless hours reading up on the personal life and work of Lindsay Lohan and Paris fucking Hilton. Have they done drugs? Yes, mystery solved now move the fuck on people.
What’s frustrating is that there is virtually a library of knowledge available and digested every day by people about these things that do not matter, as opposed to the things that do matter. What did your congressman last vote on? That doesn’t even take long to find out, but it is less readily available knowledge because it doesn’t capture the imagination, it doesn’t ensorcell the money bags behind the TV screens shoving brand name snacks and carbonated beverages down their fucking throats. Because the ways our lives are governed, and the way the world works, isn’t as interesting to people as watching Lindsay Lohan cry in court.
| “Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.” |  Ivana Trump |
Among the lowest grossing media productions to ever be made are scientific and socio-political documentaries. Very few people watch them, except on History Channel or Discovery when nothing else is on. Who needs to know how a black hole works, or how it isn’t actually a hole at all, when we can go see The Expendables!
This as you might have guessed saddens me greatly. What’s bigger and scarier than a black hole? And they’re also the key to understanding the universe around us, so it shoulld be easy to get people to watch this documentary:
BBC Horizons: Who's afraid of a big black hole?
It turns out people are difficult to keep in your grip. If it’s significant, we ignore it. If it’s trivial, we can’t get enough of it. And people get dumber, and dumber, until the dumb people are actually the ones who run our countries, ruining our economy, sending jobs overseas or simply making them magically disappear.
 Dan Quayle |
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.” |
Now our money’s worthless, there’s a job shortage the likes of which has not been seen since the great depression, when last private businesses and banking interests got free reign to do what ever the fuck they wanted, when will we start noticing? When are we going to start checking in on what our guys in office are actually doing with our fucking time? We only have so much of it, you won’t live forever, and when you die there is now a very real chance the only legacy you’re leaving behind is “the guys who were too stupid to notice an entire country, an entire society, was usurped from under their feet by 1% of the population” and that it was done entirely through prop comedy distraction. All it took was a fucking remote control and something that wasn’t even scripted, just dumbasses on TV, and you didn’t even notice you were being fucked.
| “I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them” |  George Bush |
Stop and check if there’s a politician’s dick up your ass right now. And after you do, get enlightened. I’m not going to ask you to read a book, I’m trying to remain realistic after all. But watch a documentary, please. If you’re going to be governed by commercial programming and media conglomerates anyway, check out one of the only sources of gripping reality still available to us, because trust me, Jersey Shore is neither gripping nor real.
You owe it to your self, and your legacy, and the ones who follow us, to stop being stupid. There are no excuses.
For all you craven Beatles fans out there
The Beatles’ albums came out on CD in 1987, but fans have long complained that the early digital technology used to remaster the recordings left them sounding hollow and thin — and that the official remasters are way overdue. That’s where Purple Chick comes in — a secretive fan (or group of fans) who has been quietly remastering classic discs like Revolver and A Hard Day’s Night, and releasing the digital files for free online. How is this possible? The Beatles’ CDs sound so bad that carefully digitized tracks from pristine vinyl copies are noticeably better — with crisper highs, a fuller soundstage, and more realistic reproduction of instruments and voices. And the Purple Chick editions are superior to the originals in other ways, too: The Sgt. Pepper collection contains the original record in mono and stereo, and four discs’ worth of studio outtakes; the White Album comes in a whopping twelve-disc version, including alternate takes, studio chatter, demos and fascinating jams.
So how do you get this stuff?
Rokked Has The Goods! Beatles Purple Chick Remasters
This livejournal entry really had me astonished. Fucking seriously this is some kickass stuff.
Nobody asked me about this. I love it.
I feel it is my contextual duty to bring you entertainment outside bitchy posts about how everyone but me sucks donkey assholes, and the best way I found to do so is to link outside. I’m a sly weasel, you see.
The better part of my Internet time is spent hopping back and forth through webcomics, cheap sustenance in between more involved graphic novels– which is not to say all the webcomics out there are superficial and detached; just the ones I read. When I find one that really draws me in, it frustrates me to no end that I have to wait two, three, days, a week, a month, for the next goddamn panels. I’d imagine, it happens, that I am not the only one afflicted with a ferocious, lustful appetite for graphic novelties, so while I feel like it, fleeting situation, I ought to direct you to the more digestible offerings I consume.
The Perry Bible Fellowship
While the first time I stumbled on its (then) nondescript archive entirely accidentally, PBF has recently become a net phenom, increasingly hard to avoid if you’re at all into forums and the like. The art needs no presentation. The plot is unexistant. The subtext is disregarded. The only thing that follows through each weekly strip is the humor, and although unarguably off kilter, it hits all the right notes with frivolous and uninhibited passion. Irony abounds. Morbidity is trivialized. The bad guys win, the good guys cheat, scientists are deeply concerned about the size of their penises. This comic is your justification to laugh everytime you feel like you shouldn’t.
http://www.pbfcomics.com
Edible Dirt
To best way to sum up Edible Dirt is distillated cleverness in a shroud of dark humor. It’s pretty hard to break down; every strip consists of one clearly drawn, artistically debateable image, with a witty caption of some sort, sometimes without any text at all. Admittedly, sometimes it misses and falls flat, but it grandiosely makes up for any shortcomings with every outing that has you looking at the screen for several long seconds only to fall back into your chair, reclining in the smug intellectual pride that you’ve “got it.”
http://catmydog.comicgenesis.com/
Fetus X
This is considered a comic in the community although I’m not sure it’s really what I’d call it. The author is a fiercely political bizarro journalist; the kind of guy the audience of this very site would probably like a bunch. Every week he comes out with a million short political, social and cultural posts and one “painting”, digitally conveyed artsy image with amusing poetry and prose mock handwritten over it. The stories start and promptly go nowhere, the content is ludicrously unfamily-friendly and the art is continously interesting. You could be caught reading this book for the pictures.
http://www.fetusx.com/
And that’s it for the Jay-oriented content. I’ll post a bunch more if this garners some kind of attention. Till then, look at the image archives.
-Valkam
21
Oct
A personal IRL friend of mine asked if I could link to his blog, and naturally I said yes. Because I’m such a swell guy.
At first I tried giving him a subdomain redirection on my domain, but since cPanel is being a whore, it’s not up yet. But his site is still there, so go visit it. Now.
24
Mar
A friend of mine has started a hosting site for websites and shell hosting at pretty laughably low prices, you should check it out if you want some good webhosting or cheap and reliable shell hosting. It’s pretty sweet.
30
Sep
Final Fantasy VII 7 Advent Children Sephiroth Figure
Microsoft now offers a comprehensive guide to 1337$p33x. If you want to be cool like all the other 14 year old Counter-Strike players, go check out their guide. 175 0mgzl0l K1cx4$$ l0l.
So this site run by a guy I know (metal site, with music videos and hot goth chicks and all that jazz), is now running a metal music shoutcast. I will be DJing there in an hour maybe, lasting for around 3 hours. You can listen to the radio, and chat with the peeps that run it (amongst them me, under the nickname “hated”), by going here. You can also use your favorite hi-fidelity audio playing software if you wish (Winamp for windows, XMMS for linux, or VideoLAN player for both) by using this link.
If you want to talk to us without using Java, use your favorite IRC client and connect to any EFNet server, and join channel #EOD.
Right now its being streamed at 24kbps because infamy doesn’t know any better. I however will be streaming at 128k. Anyone who likes metal should tune in.
11
Feb
This peculiar and interesting site that goes under the One Commandment; “Thou shalt not procreate”, is one of my favorites because of its blatant disregard for human emotion, and for it’s contempt of the entire human race. The videos are definately worth checking out, especially if you are american and you are still fucking touchy about 9/11.
18
Jan
This site is here because they post alot of shit about my favorite gaming target nowadays, Blizzard. More specifically their carebear take on MMORPGs, World of Warcraft where you can “kill” other players and it will have no consequence. To anyone. Which is fucking pointless.
They also feature a pretty kickass comic strip, which is the main reason for my posting this here.
8
Jan
I just made this category, in which I will randomly spew out links to sites I like, and what better way to start it than this.